Amber Benson
1) Zeroes
Author
Series
Zeroes volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
Don't call them heroes, but these six Californian teens have powers that set them apart. Take Ethan, a.k.a. Scam. He's got a voice inside him that'll say whatever you want to hear, whether it's true or not. Which is handy, except when it isn't -- like when the voice starts gabbing in the middle of a bank robbery. The only people who can help are the other Zeroes, who aren't exactly best friends these days. Enter Nate, a.k.a. Bellwether, the group's...
2) Middlegame
Author
Series
Alchemical journeys volume 1
Formats
Description
"Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Roger and Dodger aren't exactly human, though they don't realize it. They aren't exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his...
4) Swarm
Author
Series
Zeroes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
As they celebrate the opening of their underground nightclub, the Zeroes, six teenagers with unique abilities, learn about the sinister power of Swarm, who uses a crowd's rage to kill--and who loves killing Zeroes.
12) The pandora room
Author
Series
Ben Walker novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In one ancient variation on the myth of Pandora's Box, there were two jars, one for Pandora and one for her sister, Anesidora. One contained all the blessings of the gods, the other all the world's curses. Now, in a subterranean city in Northern Iraq, archaeologist Sophie Durand has discovered a secret chamber covered in writing that confirms that version of the tale--a chamber which contains a single jar. "Weird shit" expert Ben Walker joins Sophie's...
13) Attack surface
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counter-terrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene. Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause...
14) Double agent
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
THIS JUST IN: On the weather front, Category Four Hurricane Kevin took a last-minute left and is headed straight for the Bellissimo Resort and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. In breaking news, Undercover Casino Operative Davis Way has one foot out the evacuation door when fifty million dollars disappear, and in its place, a dead body.
In other news, if forced to ride out the storm on the hotel's thirteenth-floor fortress, Davis won't be alone. Her...
15) Double Mint
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Description
It's convention season at the Bellissimo Resort and Casino, and Davis Way Cole barely notices. It's hard to pay attention when you live in a Jambalaya Junkyard. But when special events coordinator Holder Darby walks off the job just as five hundred Alabama bankers pour in the front door, Davis steps up-or would that be in? Definitely in. Davis steps in it. Not only has the convention director vanished, but a certain Bellissimo guest is missing-one...
16) Double up
Author
Series
Davis Way crime caper volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Fasten your seatbelts for non-stop action as stiff competition blows into town and the resulting turbulence threatens to take down the Bellissimo Resort and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. Super Secret Spy Davis Way Cole, who lives on the twenty-ninth floor of the hotel with her CEO husband and newborn twins, takes it hard. If the casino goes belly up, she won't be a stay-at-home mom because she won't have a home. Not to mention her husband won't...
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
These are tales of witches, wickedness, evil, and cunning. Stories of disruption and subversion by today's women, including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine, and Sherrilyn Kenyon writing in their own bestselling universes. These witches might be monstrous, or they might be heroes, depending on their own definitions. Even the kind hostess with the candy cottage thought of herself as the hero of her own story. After all, a woman's gotta eat.
18) Seasonal Fears
Author
Series
Alchemical journeys volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Seasonal Fears is the extraordinary companion novel to Middlegame. The king of winter and the queen of summer are dead. The fight for their crowns begins! Melanie has a destiny, though it isn't the one everyone assumes it to be. She's delicate; she's fragile; she's dying. Now, truly, is the winter of her soul. Harry doesn't want to believe in destiny, because that means accepting the loss of the one person who gives his life meaning, who brings summer...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Under the Mistletoe: Susan Chandler has devoted her life to helping others while rarely thinking about helping herself. This year the tables will turn when a local radio station takes over her love life after an innocent call from her eight year old son. Whether she likes it or not, Susan is under the mistletoe.
Holiday Wishes: Britney, a rich, spoiled child, and Rachel, an orphan, switch bodies after visiting Santa Claus at the mall. Each girl wakes...
20) Country remedy
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In order for big-city doctor Evan Gibbs to get the job of a lifetime, the workaholic single parent must spend his summer in the mountains of North Carolina setting up a clinic. Arriving in Dunn's Rock with his 10-year-old son, the doctor discovers what is most important to him and learns to enjoy the simple things in life.