Mona Lisa


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After witnessing the gruesome murder of her entire family, then having to undergo years of pain and suffering, while living with the foster family from hell, Mona Lisa reluctantly accepted her awful fate in life as being the unluckiest human being alive. She thought that she finally caught a major break after falling into the arms of Gator, only to find out that he was a no-good, smooth-talking pimp, who would be sure to keep his foot deep in her ass for as long as time allowed him to. It wasn’t until she mustered up enough courage to break free from the mental shackles Gator placed upon her, then linked up with a blood thirsty, money hungry team of bandits, that she finally realizes her true purpose in life… ‘…Suck the world dry of all its riches and slaughter anyone who tried standing in her way.…’ That was until she met Shakeem, her knight and shining armor. Shakeem was just released from state Prison, and he has only one wthing on his mind …. Revenge!! After serving 3 years in one of Pennsylvania’s most dangerous penitentiaries, he realizes that the only way he’ll ever obtain true success in life is if he takes his mentor, Sonny Black’s advice and contacts his Son Redz, who just happens to be the biggest dope boy down in Memphis. Everything seems to be finally looking up for Shakeem, that is until he meets Mona Lisa …. If there was a such thing as soulmates, Shakeem was convinced that Mona Lisa was most definitely made exclusively for him. It’s as if destiny grew a pair of hands and somehow pulled these two strangers together. Come embark upon this twisted roller coaster filled with love, lies, betrayal, trauma, heartache, death, and survival. Mona Lisa is an action packed, fast paced urban thriller, with tons of twists and turns that’ll keep you guessing and holding onto your breath until the very last page.




Mona-Lisa-Nobody


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Mona Lisa Darkening


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On the vernal equinox, Mona Lisa is taken against her will to NetherHell, the cursed realm of the damned. In this place, she will be torn from both within and without by desire, love, and ecstasy. And when her first love crosses the boundaries of the world to rescue her, she must choose her own destiny?before others choose it for her.




ONLY A GHOST KNOWS


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Amy Fletcher is a skilled Psychic, but her profession hasn't been easy, since she was raised by strict, religious parents who disapproved of her talents. But troubled spirits do not stay silent, and Amy's calling is one she follows with her whole heart. Responding to a frantic call from her closest friend, Amy travels across country to help solve a haunting at the Dandelion Care Home. She unwittingly finds herself being the victim of intrigue, a romance cloaked in deception, and attempted murder. After meeting the home's owner, Mrs. Dorothy "Cruella" Green, whose nickname was well-earned, Amy realizes that she has a hidden agenda putting everyone's lives at risk. Dorothy's desperation to sell her haunted home is thwarted with objects moving, music coming through the walls, and lonesome cries wailing at night. As Amy stubbornly pushes forward to put this ghost to rest, she gets unexpected help from the home's lone employee, the peculiar Jamaican caretaker, Tandi Davis. Only Tandi understands the house's past tragedies and is there to protect those who are dead and alive. Skillfully maneuvering through the spirit world, Amy slowly unravels a mystifying murder which helps her solve the mysteries surrounding the haunted home.





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The Mona Lisa Vanishes


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A “witty thriller” (The New York Times) for middle-grade readers about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world—and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all. SIBERT MEDAL WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Publishers Weekly • School Library Journal • Booklist • Kirkus Reviews • NPR • The New York Public Library • The Chicago Public Library • The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c’est partie! The Mona Lisa, she’s gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves—and detectives—of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa—the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all. Here is a middle-grade nonfiction, with black-and-white illustrations by Brett Helquist throughout, written at the pace of a thriller, shot through with stories of crime and celebrity, genius and beauty.




A Song for Coretta


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THE STORY: On February 6, 2006, people began lining up at dawn outside of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church to pay their respects to the late Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose body lay in state in the small sanctu




Mona Lisa Overdrive


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William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world—lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting—where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled . . . or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think.




Mona Lisa


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The true story of the Mona Lisa - the people behind it, how Leonardo painted it and what it meant to him, and its fortunes in the centuries since. Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again.




Mona Lisa Craving


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Dante, the warrior son of a healer, was cursed by a high priestess to endure a never-ending cycle of life and death. Someone shares one of his past lives. Back then, she was his victim. Today, she is his savior. Her name is Mona Lisa.