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Books with title Spectacles

  • Spectacles

    Ellen Raskin

    Paperback (Trumpet Club, March 15, 1989)
    Little girl discovers how different things look after she gets glasses. Great illustrations!
  • Spectacle

    Jodie Lynn Zdrok

    Hardcover (Tor Teen, Feb. 12, 2019)
    Spectacle is a YA murder mystery from debut author Jodie Lynn Zdrok in which a young reporter must use her supernatural visions to help track down a killer targeting the young women of Paris.Paris, 1887. Sixteen-year-old Nathalie Baudin writes the daily morgue column for Le Petit Journal. Her job is to summarize each day’s new arrivals, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. That is, until the day she has a vision of the newest body, a young woman, being murdered―from the perspective of the murderer himself.When the body of another woman is retrieved from the Seine days later, Paris begins to buzz with rumors that this victim may not be the last. Nathalie's search for answers sends her down a long, twisty road involving her mentally ill aunt, a brilliant but deluded scientist, and eventually into the Parisian Catacombs. As the killer continues to haunt the streets of Paris, it becomes clear that Nathalie's strange new ability may make her the only one who can discover the killer’s identity--and she'll have to do it before she becomes a target herself.
  • Spectacle

    S.J. Pierce

    eBook (Foundations Books Publishing Company, June 4, 2018)
    International Bestselling Author S.J. Pierce delivers an exciting and refreshingly unique story in the Dystopian genre. Hunger Games fans will devour this one...We might be called Savages, but they're the real monsters. Miles of open water separate us from New America, a place we once lived before we were exiled. Welcome to our hell: a nameless island with every terror imaginable. When my father's secret surfaced - that he was one of many aliens who took refuge on Earth - the humans rebelled against us, and the President saw their paranormal abilities as a threat. My father paid the ultimate price. The rest of us were shipped here to fight for our lives against rattlesnakes, boars, and mountain lions. A punishment for our one and only crime - being different. Now I fight against a bitterness and rage I can barely control...So when our Elders call a meeting with me and my friends, we know something big is in the works, and we'll all soon have to make an impossible choice. But when a life of danger and destruction has been all you've ever known, throwing yourself into the fire seems not only natural but necessary. I want to see the President and his conspirators pay.Find out what happens when vengeance and dark intentions collide in this"powerful" and "refreshingly unique" Dystopian series.Binge-read today! Complete series available now...
  • Spectacles

    Raskin

    Paperback (Aladdin, Sept. 30, 1988)
    A nearsighted little girl talks about and shows some of the unusual things she saw before being fitted with glasses.
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  • Spectacle

    Jodie Lynn Zdrok

    eBook (Tor Teen, Feb. 12, 2019)
    Spectacle is a YA murder mystery from debut author Jodie Lynn Zdrok in which a young reporter must use her supernatural visions to help track down a killer targeting the young women of Paris.Paris, 1887. Sixteen-year-old Nathalie Baudin writes the daily morgue column for Le Petit Journal. Her job is to summarize each day’s new arrivals, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. That is, until the day she has a vision of the newest body, a young woman, being murdered—from the perspective of the murderer himself.When the body of another woman is retrieved from the Seine days later, Paris begins to buzz with rumors that this victim may not be the last. Nathalie's search for answers sends her down a long, twisty road involving her mentally ill aunt, a brilliant but deluded scientist, and eventually into the Parisian Catacombs. As the killer continues to haunt the streets of Paris, it becomes clear that Nathalie's strange new ability may make her the only one who can discover the killer’s identity--and she'll have to do it before she becomes a target herself.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
  • Spectacle #1

    Megan Rose Gedris

    language (Oni Press, May 23, 2018)
    Fan-favorite webcomic creator Megan Rose Gedris (Yu+Me Dream) crafts a compelling tale of magic, deception, and wonder in this stunningly illustrated comic about the bond between sisters.Pragmatic engineer Anna works as a psychic in the Samson Brothers Circus, but she doesn't believe in anything supernatural... until her twin sister Kat is murdered and comes back as a very demanding ghost. Sharing a room with her sister was hard, but now they're sharing a body while trying to identify the killer. But how can you solve a mystery when everyone around has their own shady secrets?
  • Spectacle

    Angie McCullagh

    language (, Jan. 27, 2012)
    At six feet tall, Emily Lucas towers over the "normals" in her Seattle high school. When she discovers, thanks to a pediatric endocrinologist and his X-ray machine, she’s still growing and will likely hit six foot three, she struggles with her inability to blend.Emily blames her MIA, giantess mother, Marilyn, for her excessive height and embarks on a mom-quest to find her. So begins a journey that leads Emily to Arizona to meet her birth mother.Then there's Emily's ex-best-friend-gone-wild, Trix. She has an attitude that won’t quit, two non-parents who don’t take care of her as much as she takes care of them, and a tendency to hook up with too many guys in her search for acceptance.When she finds out she has a chance to graduate early and study her passion–fashion design–at The Art Institute, she realizes she needs to pull herself out of her downward spiral and focus on her goal. But she might already be too far gone.Emily and Trix, who have grown apart but whose lives still wind around each other like helices, work separately to figure out how to fit into a world that doesn't much like girls who can't, or won't, conform to what's ordinary.
  • Spectacles

    Ellen Raskin

    Hardcover (Atheneum, March 15, 1970)
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  • Spectacles

    Ellen Raskin

    Hardcover (Atheneum, March 15, 1969)
    Hardback volume; oblong, measures 7.25 x 5.75 inches. embossed pictorial yellow cloth covered boards. Story of a young girl who needs glasses, and her visual fantasy world. Finally, her family gets her glasses and things look normal. A fun picture book for the younger child with illustrations every page. First edition format, later printing.
  • Spectacle

    Zdrok

    Paperback (Tor Teen TR, Feb. 4, 2020)
    Spectacle is a YA murder mystery from debut author Jodie Lynn Zdrok in which a young reporter must use her supernatural visions to help track down a killer targeting the young women of Paris.Paris, 1887. Sixteen-year-old Nathalie Baudin writes the daily morgue column for Le Petit Journal. Her job is to summarize each day’s new arrivals, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. That is, until the day she has a vision of the newest body, a young woman, being murdered―from the perspective of the murderer himself.When the body of another woman is retrieved from the Seine days later, Paris begins to buzz with rumors that this victim may not be the last. Nathalie's search for answers sends her down a long, twisty road involving her mentally ill aunt, a brilliant but deluded scientist, and eventually into the Parisian Catacombs. As the killer continues to haunt the streets of Paris, it becomes clear that Nathalie's strange new ability may make her the only one who can discover the killer’s identity--and she'll have to do it before she becomes a target herself.
  • Spectacles

    Ann Beattie, Winslow Pels

    Hardcover (Workman Pub Co, Sept. 1, 1985)
    A girl finds that she is able to see into the past when she wears her great grandmother's glasses
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  • Spectacles

    Ellen Raskin

    Hardcover (Aladdin, March 15, 1968)
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