Showing 1–17 of 17 books

• List: Alex Awards
• Genre: Thriller

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  At All Costs

  By John Gilstrap

  That federal agents happened to be looking for someone else didn't matter once they learned that Jake and his wife, Carolyn, were on their Ten Most Wanted List. By that time, though, the Donovans, with their 13-year-old son, were already on the run and committed to proving that the 16 people whose lives they were accused of taking were viciously murdered by someone else. Gilstrap, the author of Nathan's Run (1995), combines his expertise as an explosives safety expert with political dirty dealing and breakneck pacing to produce a terrific nail-biter that will leave teens clamoring for more.

  • Horror, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 1999
  • ISBN: 9780446607407
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  Bad Monkeys

  By Matt Ruff

  Jane Charlotte earns her living by killing bad people for good reasons in this high-octane, clever thriller of conspiracies, revenge, and secret government agencies.

  • Horror, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2008
  • ISBN: 9780061240423
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  Bellweather Rhapsody

  By Kate Racculia

  High-school students gather at the isolated Bellweather Hotel for a statewide music festival only to be trapped by a blizzard with an arrogant fingerless conductor, drunken chaperones, a missing corpse, and perhaps the ghosts of long-dead newlyweds.

  • Mystery, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2015
  • ISBN: 9780544129917
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  Bones & All

  By Camille DeAngelis

  Sixteen-year-old Maren literally eats the ones who love her, bones and all. When her mother abandons her, Maren sets out to find the father she has never met, hoping he can help her understand why she is a monster.

  • Horror, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2016
  • ISBN: 9781250046505
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  The Book of Lost Things

  By John Connolly

  Stephen King meets the Brothers Grimm in this gruesome fairy tale about a motherless boy transported to a world where the path home leads home through a quest for the Book of Lost Things.

  • Horror, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2007
  • ISBN: 9781442429345
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  City of Thieves

  By David Benioff

  Two teenage boys encounter cannibals, murderers, prostitutes, and assassins as they struggle to complete an impossible task during the freezing Siege of Leningrad in this funny, shocking, and briskly written tome.

  • Horror, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2009
  • ISBN: 9780670018703
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  Confessions

  By Kanae Minato

  Japanese teacher Yuko knows two middle-school students killed her daughter, and nothing in their explanations of why and how will stop her revenge.

  • Mystery, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2015
  • ISBN: 9780316200929
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  Everything I Never Told You

  By Celeste Ng

  Lydia is dead. Is it murder? Suicide? As her family grieves for their perfect teen, they learn how little they really knew Lydia and how many secrets died with her.

  • Mystery, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2015
  • ISBN: 9781594205712
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  Help for the Haunted

  By John Searles

  Sylvie has been dealing with taunting classmates, her erratic older sister and the unsolved murder of her ghost-hunting parents. But perhaps more problematic are the cursed remnants of her parents' work still lingering in the basement.

  • Horror, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2014
  • ISBN: 9780060779634
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  Just After Sunset: Stories

  By Stephen King

  Modern terrors abound—a porta-potty prison, class warfare on an apocalyptic afternoon—in this wickedly compelling collection of macabre, absurd, and gleefully vulgar stories. Scary, dirty fun.

  • Horror, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2009
  • ISBN: 9781416584087
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  Mother, Mother: A Novel

  By Koren Zailckas

  Why did Rose run away? Did Violet really stab her little brother? Is her alcoholic father really having an affair? In this chilling novel about family dysfunction, does mother really know best?

  • Mystery, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2014
  • ISBN: 9780385347235
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  The Radleys

  By Matt Haig

  Struggling with overwork and parenting angst, English village doctor Peter Radley endeavors to hide his family's vampire nature until their daughter's oddly satisfying act of violence reveals the truth, an event that is complicated by the arrival of a practicing vampire family member.

  • Horror, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2011
  • ISBN: 9781439194010
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  The Reapers Are the Angels

  By Alden Bell

  Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free

  • Horror, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2011
  • ISBN: 9780805092431
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  Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel

  By Gail Carriger

  Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.

  • Horror, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2010
  • ISBN: 9780316056632
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  Things We Have in Common

  By Tasha Kavanagh

  Yasmin wants to be close to the most beautiful girl in her school, but surely a freak like her has no chance. Unless, that is, she can save her from the man who was staring at her from the woods.

  • Mystery, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2018
  • ISBN: 9780778326854
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  Those Who Wish Me Dead

  By Michael Koryta

  On the day Jace conquers the highest jump of the quarry, he discovers a murder victim and begins to run for his life.

  • Mystery, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2015
  • ISBN: 9780316122559
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  The Unraveling of Mercy Louis

  By Keija Parssinen

  Mercy, a high school basketball star, lives under the thumb of her grandmother, a fierce believer in Y2K as the apocalypse. The year 1999 alters Mercy's life in a small Texas refinery town and gives her a future beyond it.

  • Mystery, Thriller
  • Alex Awards 2016
  • ISBN: 9780062319098