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She likes me too in her own curmudgeonly way. His Hooters T-shirt mocked me as he strutted off. Perhaps that was why I had trouble making sense of her words. The signora kept fluttering up the two flights of stairs and into my room, bearing cakes, toast, tea, coffee, cookies and what might have been veal cutlets. Back to top.

 

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The national bestselling author of The Wolfe Widow presents another spine-tingling mystery featuring rare book collector Jordan Bingham and some Ngaio Marsh. Series list: A Book Collector Mystery (5 Books) by Victoria Abbott. A sortable list in reading order and chronological order with publication date, genre.

 
 

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Pretty Little Liars is a series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard. Beginning with ‘s initial novel of the same name, the series follows the lives of four girls— Spencer Hastings , Hanna Marin , Aria Montgomery and Emily Fields. The franchise has been licensed by Amazon. The series is loosely divided into arcs, chronicling the introduction and reveal of each ” A “. Set in the suburbs of Philadelphia , the series follows the lives of four teenage girls nicknamed the Pretty Little Liars or simply the Liars , whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee leader, Alison DiLaurentis.

Three years after her mysterious disappearance, the girls begin receiving intimidating messages from an anonymous character named “A”. Shortly after the messages begin, Alison’s body is discovered buried in her yard. The books progress with the four girls trying to figure out the identity of “A” and facing many dangerous obstacles and twists as they do so. Spencer Hastings : Spencer is a headstrong, intelligent, overachieving girl who comes from the wealthy Hastings family and is usually forced into winning everything.

Hanna Marin : Hanna is the bubbly, strong, and fierce “it-girl” of the group following Alison’s disappearance. She suffers from an eating disorder, about which she received taunts from Alison.

Aria Montgomery : Aria is a quirky and artsy girl who, at the beginning of the books, is trying to find herself. Emily Fields : Emily is considered the jock of the group, being a physical, loyal girl who struggles with her sexuality. Near the end of the series she also struggles with depression and suicidal thoughts.

It is later revealed that the Alison the girls thought they knew was her twin sister, Courtney. She had supposedly been killed at the beginning of the series. However, she is revealed to have been alive and also their tormentor “A” as she was mistaken for her twin sister Courtney, who pretended to be her.

Alison was sent to The Preserve at Addison-Stevens, a rehab facility for mentally ill patients, which she believed was the Liars’ fault, and has been plotting revenge ever since. In the prequel, Courtney-as-Ali started disappearing in the last chapter and getting almost killed numerous times, until the end of the series Vicious when Ali-as-Courtney came out and started becoming friends with her twin “Ali” again after rehab with Tabitha and Iris, two lookalikes of Ali, all in the penultimate chapter.

Courtney DiLaurentis: “Alison”, the one who originally befriended the four girls in the sixth grade, is later revealed to be actually Courtney in the books often referred to by the Liars as Our Ali, or Their Ali. She is the third child to Jessica and Kenneth. The twins were described to be inseparable as children, but Alison started to exhibit a vicious jealousy towards Courtney as they grew up, and the close bond deteriorated completely when she once tried to drown Courtney.

Probably in a psychological phenomenon known as projection, Alison managed to convince, and possibly brainwash, Courtney at home and at school that she indeed was the jealous one. She made her refer to herself as Alison, adamantly, to their parents and teachers, her motive being that her sister would eventually be detained for insanity. Her plan eventually worked, and was sent to The Preserve at Addison-Stevens after a physical argument with Alison.

But years later in a fit of vengeance on a rare visit home, Courtney managed to swindle a plan to trick their parents that Alison was Courtney when it was time to leave, Ali’s claims that she was Ali making her parents believe her even less. Subsequently, Courtney morphs into “Queen Bee Ali” and, out of pure chance, befriends the Liars up until the night of her infamous disappearance when she was killed and buried by the real Alison DiLaurentis and her accomplice Nick Maxwell.

A : A is the main antagonist of the series, being, for the most part, an anonymous character who relentlessly torments many characters, in particular the Liars. However, she is killed when Spencer pushes her off a cliff face and her neck is caught between rocks. However, a new “A” rises, this time even more determined to hurt the Liars.

This A is revealed to be Alison herself who wanted revenge on the Liars for ruining her life and Nick, who is revealed to be her accomplice. The story then jumps 3 years later, when the girls are living their own lives and don’t speak to each other. Aria returns to Rosewood from a 3-year trip to Iceland with her family and comes back much more sophisticated than before she left.

She meets and makes out with a guy in a local bar who is revealed later to be her English teacher, Ezra Fitz. Emily befriends the new girl in town, Maya St. Germain, and soon develops romantic feelings for her, even though Emily has a boyfriend, Ben.

Ben later finds Maya and Emily kissing in the photo booth at a party and dumps beer on them. Hanna is the new popular girl in town alongside the former nerd, Mona Vanderwaal.

However, she and Mona sometimes shoplift though both can clearly afford their steals. Hanna battles the urge to turn back to bulimia, and struggles to manage the stress of keeping her queen bee status. Spencer continues to struggle in her long-standing rivalry with Melissa Hastings, her perfect older sister.

Problems occur when she begins to feel attracted to Melissa’s new boyfriend, Wren Kim. Throughout the story, the liars get messages threatening to reveal their secrets of the present and past, including a terrifying incident the girls refer to as “The Jenna Thing”.

They automatically believe it is their missing friend, Alison, because she is the only one each of them confided in regarding their darkest secrets. However, they are shocked when the police find her corpse buried in the gazebo of her former house.

The book ends with the liars receiving a text at Alison’s funeral saying, “I’m still here, bitches. And I know everything. Toby was framed for the fire by Alison. Emily becomes close with Toby and goes to a big benefit party with him but then later tells him that she thinks she might be gay. Later on, she receives a text that tells her Sean is at Foxy with another girl.

Hanna is shocked to discover her former boyfriend Sean Ackard ignoring his Virginity Club vows and nearly having sex with Aria. Aria goes to confront the other woman, Meredith, but when she does Meredith tells her that she and Aria’s father are in love. Ella finds out that Byron is having an affair with a student named Meredith Gates and kicks him out, leaving Ella and Aria’s mother-daughter relationship shattered.

Spencer continues to date with her sister Melissa’s now ex-boyfriend Wren and loses her virginity to him. However, Melissa starts to hook-up with him as well and eventually makes sure that he will be out of both of their lives for good. After receiving a text from “A” about Foxy, Hanna realises they are at the party and tells Spencer and Aria. The three believe it to be Toby, but discover Emily has gone home with him after her ex-boyfriend Ben attempted to rape her.

Spencer phones Emily, but the two get cut off. In the car, Emily blurts out many things to Toby, feeling overwhelmed, but he rants about Alison to her and says he is happy she’s dead. Scared, Emily flees from the car and runs home where Toby turns up as well and starts banging on the door shouting that he needs to talk to her. This is when she receives the call from Spencer, but she hangs up after spotting Toby.

Emily tells him she knows what he did to ‘her’, meaning killing Alison, and Toby starts freaking out and begs her to not tell the police. The next day, Toby is found dead on the road leading to Emily’s house and it’s revealed he committed suicide.

It is revealed that Toby was forcing himself on Jenna when they were in middle school and Ali and Spencer were the only ones who knew about it, which is how Alison forced Toby to take the blame.

A traumatised Emily feels responsible for Toby’s suicide as he believed that she knew about him and Jenna. Now homeless, Aria goes to live with her new boyfriend, Sean Ackard. Still seeing Ezra, their relationship is broken up when Sean informs the police, having found out the secret from “A”. Although the charges pressed against Ezra don’t stick, he moves out of Rosewood after being fired from the school.

Emily plans to go to the police to stop “A”, which leads to “A” taking revenge by outing her to the whole school. Emily’s parents threaten to send her away if she does not attend a “de-gaying” program, however, Emily realizes she can’t change who she is.

Spencer is nominated for a Golden Orchid Award for the essay she copied from her sister Melissa, which “A” threatens to expose. Spencer’s family discovers she cheated on her Golden Orchid essay, but keep it quiet to protect their reputation. Spencer comes to believe she might have killed Alison after discovering she suffers from rage-induced blackouts. Hanna and Mona get into a fight, and Hanna seeks comfort with an “uncool” boy named Lucas.

She goes to Mona’s birthday party but gets humiliated, but she receives a text from “A” and recognizes the number.

She intends to reveal the true identity of “A” to the other girls, but is run down by “A” before she can do so. Emily’s parents catch her with Maya at a party and send her to Iowa to live with her strict, religious relatives. She is glad to be safe from “A”, but after Emily is accused of threatening her cousins, she runs away. Emily returns home when she sees her parents on TV, who tell her that they love her and accept her for who she is.

Emily and Maya are reunited, but Trista, a girl who Emily had met and flirted with in Iowa comes to visit, their relationship is shattered, and Emily is saddened further when she sees Trista and Noel hooking up.

After being kicked out of Sean’s house, Aria reluctantly moves in with Byron and Meredith, who announces that she is pregnant and when Byron’s and Ella’s divorce is finalized, they are to be married. Melissa and Spencer grow closer, and Spencer confesses that she kissed Ian, and that he and Alison were secretly dating. When fragments of her memory from the night Alison died are restored, Spencer is horrified when it dawns on her that she may have accidentally killed Alison.

Mona and Hanna’s friendship is restored, and to celebrate Hanna’s recovery, Mona and Spencer plan a party for her. Spencer is surprised to discover that she enjoys Mona’s company, and even more so when Mona tells her that she has been receiving messages from “A”.

Hanna is thrilled that Spencer approves of Mona, and they consider letting her join their clique. Darren Wilden and several other cops are there, and Aria is tempted to tell them about “A”. When Mike realizes that something is troubling his sister, he urges her to tell Darren, and she eventually does. On the night of Hanna’s party, Aria tells Jenna what happened the night she was blinded and apologizes for not stopping Alison, but Jenna reveals that she and Alison had planned it together to get rid of Toby.

Aria asks Jenna about “A”, but Jenna becomes scared and quickly leaves, hinting that she knows who “A” is. Melissa confronts Spencer about seeing Ian behind her back, which Spencer denies, and when she leaves, Spencer and Mona discover another note from “A” and suspect that Melissa killed Alison because she was jealous of her relationship with Ian. They inform the others, and decide to turn Melissa in.

When Hanna says that one in four boys sexually abuse their sister, Emily tells her not to believe everything she hears, which causes Hanna’s memory to return, and she is horrified when she remembers who “A” is: Mona. Spencer is hesitant about turning in Melissa, but Mona comforts her and convinces her otherwise. Moments later, Spencer receives a text from Emily, telling her that Mona is “A”.

When she receives several more from the girls, who are worrying about what Mona will do, Mona realizes that they finally figured it out. While Aria, Emily and Hanna go to the police station to tell Darren that Mona is “A”, Mona drives Spencer to Floating Man’s Quarry, where she explains that she saw what happened on the night of The Jenna Thing, and when Maya moved in, she found Alison’s diary, which contained the girls’ secrets. Using the information to her advantage, she got a new phone and became “A” to get revenge on the girls for blinding Jenna.

Spencer accuses Mona of killing Alison, but Mona says that it was Ian who killed her, as Alison had blackmailed him about their relationship.