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Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End. "Stylish supernatural noir with a heart and a thrumming pulse. I devoured it."-Laini Taylor A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above. An exiled augur who sold her...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
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There is a Door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? Here are just a few things on Harry's mind: A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey. A venomous, disgruntled house-elf. Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. The looming terror of the end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams ... and...
3) The trial
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Language
English
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The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Kafka even went so far as to call Dostoyevsky a blood relative. Like Kafka's other novels,...
4) Cloaked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.
5) Wild fire
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Detective John Corey of The lion's game, Plum Island, and Night fall returns in a new novel about a conspiracy to detonate nuclear bombs in two American cities, setting off a world war of unimaginable proportions"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
Dark secrets linking two Alabama families and their Welsh ancestors slowly come to light when seventeen-year-old Sylvie, whose promising ballet career has come to a sudden end, spends a month with a cousin she barely knows in her father's ancestral home.
7) Mastered
Author
Series
The Enforcers volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Surrender Trilogy and the Breathless Trilogy knows what makes readers hot. Now she turns it up in Mastered, the explosive first book in a new series of a desire too dangerous to resist.
What he wants, he takes with no remorse or guilt.
She stood out in his club like a gem, unspoiled and untouched. A lamb among wolves, she clearly didn’t belong. Drawn
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English
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"Worn down by years of war and hardship, girls like Sylvia, Margaret, and Gwendolyn were thrilled when American GI's arrived in Britain with their exotic accents, handsome uniforms and aura of Hollywood glamor. Others, like Rae, who distrusted the Yanks, were eventually won over by their easy charm. So when VE Day finally came, for the 70,000 women who'd become GI brides, it was tinged with sadness--it meant leaving their homeland behind to follow...
9) Fiddle
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Language
English
Description
Fiddling suddenly seemed vitally important, even necessary, for me to learn. Perhaps it had to do with grief for my mom's death, and with the fact that I was just starting to feel the inklings of a midlife crisis coming on. All I knew consciously, though, was that I had to learn it.
After a chance encounter with fiddle music, Vivian Wagner discovered something she never knew she had lacked. The fiddle had reawakened not only her passion for music,...
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English
Description
After being laid off after many years of devoted service for the second time, I knew that God had a plan, and I turned it all over to him. This was a far cry from my reaction to the first layoff. I prayed a lot but was devastated, worried constantly, and my self-esteem was low. God still answered my prayers, and I found another job in the same field the same week my severance pay ended. When I was laid off again after almost eight years, I knew God...
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English
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Who knew accidentally setting fire to a tree would end up being the precursor to a series of what I would call 'unexplainable events.' Well it did. Within the blink of an eye my life went from ordinary to extraordinary. Turns out Hell really does exist, and two of Lucifer's most loyal warriors-Azazel and Balthazar-just happen to be in my hometown. Like you'd expect, the brothers hate each other, constantly bickering and fighting. But after witnessing...
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English
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In part 3, the tables officially turn when Bleu realizes she's the prize and has three men vying for her heart. Who will she choose? Or, better yet, will she even make a choice? Why love one when you can love them all?
After almost losing her life, Bleu realizing how much she took living for granted. With the past behind her, the future looks bright when she realizes that Ellis left her with access to more money than she could ever spend. Suddenly...
13) The Aristocrat
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Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone novel.
The one that got away. Every girl has one, right?
Mine was a charming, British aristocrat who turned my world upside down one summer.
From the moment I first spotted Leo in the distance through my binoculars, I'd been captivated. I certainly never expected to find a man showering outside of the property across the bay in his birthday suit.
Then I noticed his...
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English
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My brother was almost two years older than me. I was born June ’56, while he was born May of ’54. My uncle used to call me *ME TOO* because I always wanted to do everything like my brother, so I ended up with the name *ME TOO*.
In junior high school and high school, I started to beat him in basketball, and in racing, he was faster in the shorter distance and I was faster in a longer distance. Then I became faster in the shortest distance; that’s...
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English
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Even though I knew how the story would end, I couldn't stop reading once I started. Jimmy narrates with attention to detail and with emotional vulnerability. I felt I was right there with him at each step of his journey. Carolyn J. Hansen, writer and creative director; Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico Sacred Heart Attack gives an insider's view of a process filled with tension, fear, and miracle. You can just about feel the slushy cold mixture of iodine and...
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English
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Throughout history, mankind has wondered about its origin - where he came from and how he got here. Where did I come from? is one of the first questions our own children ask us. But the real question should be What are mankinds building blocks? For posteritys sake, the answer is sperm! Rather than giving the female egg all the credit, as is usually the case, lets shine the light on this silent, unsung hero the sperm shall we? So to the question What...
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English
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Growing up, Laura never knew her father or even his last name. Many years later, an encounter with a stranger would drastically impact her life and cause her to question her own identity. Then through a spiraling chain of terrifying events, she learns there's an unknown enemy, who appears to stop at nothing to do her harm. Meanwhile, she carries a painful burden of a dark haunting secret, hidden unforgiveness, and low self-esteem.
Her story begins...
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English
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Will I always be lonely if I end up alone?
You thought you'd be married by now, but you're not. Even though your friends in relationships love to tell you that singleness is a gift, this gift comes with its share of fear, grief, and still-to-be-answered prayers.
Life coach and singer-songwriter Kate Hurley has been there, and now she encourages you to open yourself to new opportunities and relationships of all varieties. Getting Naked Later will...
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English
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Finn: I'm not broken. Yes, I lost my mom. Yes, my dad and brother have some issues. But I'm good-athletic, popular, okay in school. My brother is the broken one. The one who thinks it's me is my best friend's sister. She's always looking at me, and because she's the smartest kid in school-even though she's a year younger than everyone there-she seems to see me. Truth? She scares me. I know I'm not a good person. I carry darkness that would kill my...
20) Russia's Europe
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English
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A startling record of a liberal Journalist's adventure and change of heart behind the Balkan Curtain-the first full inside story of the Soviet peace-time march of empire and its meaning to us.
"In early 1945, when the project was only a gleam in the eye of author and publisher, the working title was Reporter in Search of Peace. Peace did not mean simply armistice, a mere end to the shooting. Everybody somehow knew the war was nearly over, even though...
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