A teenage boy awakens to a pounding headache. He doesn’t know his last name; only his first (Thomas). His memory has been “wiped” and he knows very little. He cannot remember any details from his life, not even his age. He opens his eyes and realizes he is in a pitch black room, yet...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Mystery ’
The Maze Runner
Pickman’s Model
Richard Upton Pickman is an extraordinary artist, especially his paintings, who creates masterpieces of a macabre nature. Demons, devils, monsters, and unimaginable monstrosities feature prominently in his works. For creating such extremely grotesque paintings, Pickman, ostracized form society, has been banned from art clubs, and displaying his paintings. He hasn’t found a single person...
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The Lucky One
Does luck exist? When fighting in Iraq, US Marine Logan Thibault finds a picture of a beautiful woman. He doesn’t know why, but he keeps it in his pocket at all times. Shortly after, Thibault begins a lucky streak, winning poker and surviving countless explosions. Thibault’s luck gets to the level where his fellow...
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He Loves Me Not
Lily Jamison is all alone in the world. As a new student at University of Nevada at Reno, she doesn’t know a single person. Though she’s come to get an education, she is sidetracked by the attention of a mysterious blond man with piercing blue eyes. As she begins falling for him, she receives...
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Timeless
Michele lives alone with her single mom. Her dad left and she never sees her grandparents on account of they had a falling out with her mother. Michele and her mother have a really good life and are really close. She tells her mom everything especially her odd dreams. Every night she dreams of...
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Thirteen Reasons Why
“Hello, boys and girls. Hannah Baker here. Live and in stereo. No return engagements. No encore. And this time, absolutely no requests.I hope you are ready, because I am about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you’re listening to these tapes, you’re one of...
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Holes
“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake” Stanley Yelnats’s whole life has been filled with bad luck. His family believes that they are cursed because of their “no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great grandfather”. Stanley is the target of abuse from students in his school because of his size. Even the teachers will on occasion make rude...
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If I Tell
“…if only I hadn’t gone to that party. I never would’ve seen what I did. Jackson wouldn’t have driven me home. I wouldn’t have started falling for a guy just out of reform school. I could go back to pretending everything was normal. I wouldn’t be keeping a secret that could blow our family...
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The Hollow
Abbey lives in a town called Sleepy Hollow which is named after The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. Abbey has lived in this town her whole life with her best friend Kristen at her side. They did everything together and even had special traditions. One of them was visiting Washington Irving’s grave...
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Scream
“Jeff’s voice was suddenly drowned by a hideous screaming. Not just one voice, but a multitude of voices mingling and colliding, merging and blending in a cacophony of wails and groans, grunts and cries. A million mouths weeping and howling in bone-crunching pain. Agony. As if their skin was being peeled off inch by...
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