V. C. Andrews
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mayfair Cummings is a beautiful, gifted teenager. But her intelligence makes her the outcast at both home and school. When she catches the eye of both a popular senior and her handsome English teacher, not even her brilliant mind can help her navigate the explosive new relationships she is forming, or a scandal that is brewing"--
Author
Series
Dollanganger family series volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Simon Pulse paperback edition.
Physical Desc
868 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains "Flowers in the Attic" in which four children are locked into the attic of their grandmother's home after the death of their father, and "Petals on the Wind" in which Cathy discovers that she has the power to revenge those childhood years lockedin an attic with her brothers and sister.
Author
Series
De Beers family series volume 5
Publisher
PocketStar Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The truth could not be revealed -- until now ... After the tragic death of her adoptive father, Willow De Beers receives an unexpected gift: a family diary that unlocks all the secrets of her world -- and shatters the life she's known in glitzy Palm Beach, Florida. At last, Willow learns the identity of her real father, and unearths his secret love affair with her real mother. She discovers the reasons for her adoptive mother's cruelty ... and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2001], c1999
Physical Desc
584 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Misty Trapped in the middle of her parents bitter divorce, she hides an unspeakable secret deep inside: she hates them. Now, brought to Doctor Marlowe's therapy group, she's about to meet three other girls who just might understand. Star She may never forgive her parents for the pain they have caused her. But in the safety of this new circle of friends, she will finally face the nightmares of her past, Jade escaping the madness of a hateful courtroom...
Author
Series
Early spring volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After tragedy tears her family apart, Jordan March goes to live with her Great Aunt Frances, and in the shadows of the farmhouse, Jordan discovers her family's hidden secrets.
6) Delia's gift
Author
Series
Delia trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a boating tragedy ended her fairy-tale romance with Adan Bovia, a wealthy politician's son, Delia Yebarra discovers she is carrying Adan's child; living with Adan's powerful father, Delia believes the grandfather has put the safe delivery of his grandchild above his resentments.
7) Broken wings
Author
Series
Broken wings series (V. C. Andrews) volume 1
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three girls from three different worlds with one thing in common--they were born to be wild!
Author
Series
Shadows volume 2
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
April Taylor wasn't a little girl anymore -- but who was she really? The home she shared with her parents and her older sister, Brenda, may have been filled with turmoil, but it was the only home she knew. Now, with nowhere to go in the wake of losing her mother and father, April had to grow up fast as she embarked on an odyssey of heartbreak and betrayal. It was mere chance that led her to the secluded home of a kindly elderly woman and her deaf...
Author
Series
Delia trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delia Yebarra survived a treacherous desert crossing to protect her friend Ignacio from murder charges. Now, the time has come once again to leave her tiny Mexican hometown: Delia's cousin Edward convinces her to return to his world of wealth and privilege in Palm Springs, and soon Delia, a beautiful and popular senior at an exclusive private school, is living the American dream. But Delia will quickly discover that high society has a very dark underside....
Author
Series
Gemini series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since her mother was institutionalized, sixteen-year-old Celeste has been in and out of orphanages. Celeste is overjoyed when Wade and Ami Emerson adopt her. But when she discovers Ami's real reason for adopting her - a reason that involves a sexual tryst with Ami's father-in-law - Celeste is terrified.
11) Midnight flight
Author
Series
Broken wings series (V. C. Andrews) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Phoebe, Teal, and Robin find themselves trapped at Dr. Foreman's School for Girls where the guards are ruthless and Dr. Foreman delights in horrific punishments, causing the girls to join forces and fight back in order to survive.
Author
Series
Heavenstone volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Heavenstone sisters live with their mother and father in a grand old mansion in bluegrass Kentucky. Semantha, the younger and prettier one, is afraid of so many things -- darkness, strange noises, mysterious whispers in the night. But nothing frightens her more than her sister, Cassie. She is older and wiser, and always telling Semantha what to do, what to wear, and how to behave around those wicked boys at school. Semantha has her eye on one...
13) Celeste
Author
Series
Gemini series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a tragic accident claims the life of her twin brother, Noble, Celeste is forced to cut her hair, wear boys' clothing, and take on Noble's identity by her grieving and unstable mother, a woman obsessed with New Age superstitions.
14) April shadows
Author
Series
Shadows volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Her older sister Brenda was tall, athletic, competitive, and sure of herself. But April Taylor was short, sensitive, and overweight -- and she couldn't bounce back from their father's cutting criticisms the way Brenda did. April didn't know why their once-loving dad had become a coldhearted monster, but she was sure it had something to do with her. And she could see how his cruel behavior was tearing away at her gentle mother. But a glimmer of happiness...
15) Broken Flower
Author
Series
Early spring volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the verge of puberty, eleven-year-old Jordan March is sent to live with her spinster great-aunt, after her grandmother accuses her of having an incestuous relationship with her teenaged brother Ian, and stumbles upon a long-buried secret about her family's enigmatic past.
Author
Series
Secrets (V. C. Andrews) volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two Friends As Close As Sisters. One Killer Secret That Will Tear Their Small Town Apart. In the dust and shadows of the attic, they shared everything -- fanciful stories, high school crushes, plans for the future, dreams to travel the world. For Karen, the attic is her escape from the reality of her stepfather's unwanted attention. Together in the eaves of a house with its own murderous history, the best friends concoct a scheme that will put Karen's...
Author
Series
Secrets (V. C. Andrews) volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Up in the attic, that's where Alice's mother used to escape to...and it's where, so Alice has been told, she plotted the murder of her own stepfather. Now, years later, with her mother locked away for life, the attic is where Alice finds comfort in her aloneness, writing poetry and painting pictures. When Alice finally finds the courage to come out of her shell, exchanging her dowdy looks for flattering clothes and makeup, her life completely opens...
18) Secret whispers
Author
Series
Heavenstone volume 2
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the eve of her graduation from an exclusive private school, shy wallflower Semantha Heavenstone is caught in a whirl of scandal and betrayal. Now, she's returned to the grand Kentucky mansion where painful memories of her mother and her older sister, Cassie, are as potent as newly mown bluegrass. It seems no matter where she goes, Semantha is haunted by a voice from the grave -- spiteful, domineering Cassie, whose taunts and manipulations seem...
19) Eye of the storm
Author
Series
Hudson family series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of her beloved Grandmother Hudson, Rain found herself caught in a battle for the vast Hudson family wealth. Marked to inherit millions, Rain faced the fury of her unaccepting mother, her manipulative stepfather, and her cold, vicious Aunt Victoria. But no amount of money can keep Rain's world from crashing down when sudden tragedy strikes. Left helpless after a devastating blow, Rain sinks into despair as her precious dreams are washed...
20) Delia's crossing
Author
Series
Delia trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her parents are killed in a truck accident, Delia Yebarra's life is turned upside down. At fifteen, she leaves the rural Mexican village where she grew up and embarks on a new life in America. Coming to her wealthy aunt Isabella's huge estate in Palm Springs, California, should be a dream come true for a simple country girl like Delia -- so why does it feel like a nightmare?