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Pub. Date
2023.
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It's an ordinary Monday, and harried London literary agent Emma is flying out the door as usual. Preoccupied with work and her ever-growing to-do list, she fails to notice her lovely husband Dan seems bereft, her son can barely meet her eye, and her daughter won't go near her. Even the dog seems sad. She is far too busy, buried deep in her phone: social media alerts pinging, clients messaging with "emergencies", keeping track of a dozen WhatsApp groups...
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Series
Nevermoor volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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Born on an unlucky day that leaves her cursed to die on her eleventh birthday, a young girl named Morrigan Crow hopes to avoid her fate by earning a position in the Wundrous Society and thereby securing a safe home in a magical land called Nevermoor. But first she must compete against hundreds of other children in four very dangerous trials.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood. Main series volume 21
Pub. Date
2023.
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In the next epic installment in J. R. Ward's #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series, a fallen angel finds love with a mysterious female--who could be his destiny...or the embodiment of his utter destruction.
Lassiter, the fallen angel, is too good at the savior business. In his new role overseeing the fates of all vampires, he’s influenced outcomes he shouldn’t have—so the Creator is calling him home. But the angel has...
84) Echo: a novel
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Pub. Date
2015
Description
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
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Blood and Ash volume 1
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"Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy's life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers. The entire kingdom's future rests...
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Castle Knoll files volume 1
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"A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the...
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"What might have been? That tantalizing question propels a woman on a cross-country adventure to reunite with the men she loved and let go, in Danielle Steel's exhilarating new novel. It all starts with a fall from a ladder, in a firehouse in New York City. The firehouse has been converted into a unique Manhattan home and studio where renowned photographer Madison Allen works and lives after raising three children on her own. But the accident, which...
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Series
Seekers (Erin Hunter). Return to the wild volume 5
Seekers return to the wild volume 5
Seekers. Return to the wild volume 5
Seekers return to the wild volume 5
Seekers. Return to the wild volume 5
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"The four bears are determined to reach Great Bear Lake before the longest day gathering, but when Lusa is separated from the others, she faces difficult questions about her future"--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 24
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Each of the Travelers returns home to learn the truth about their origins before being reunited for a final, ineveitable confrontation with Saint Dane, whose efforts to control Halla are destroying its very foundations.
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Series
Children of the Red King volume 8
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Charlie and the Children of the Red King must call upon all of their strength to defeat the darkness and finally learn the fate of Charlie's family, the evil intentions of the Bloors, what has become of Septimus Bloor's will, and the destiny of the Red King's heirs.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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"Mason and Ty were once the very best of friends, like two nerdy sides of the same coin . . . until seventh grade, when Ava Petrakis came along. Now Mason can trace everything bad in his life to that terrible fight they had over the new girl. The one thing he'd give anything for is a do-over. But that can't happen in real life--can it? As a science kid, Mason knows do-overs are impossible, so he can't believe it when he wakes up from a freak accident...
92) Just in case
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fifteen-year-old David Case realizes that Fate has put a target on his back after he saves his baby brother from the edge of a balcony. He assumes a new identity and becomes Justin Case, who ponders teenage philosophic questions and falls in love with an older girl, Agnes Day.
93) Second place
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma―and disrupts the calm of her secluded household.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Prince Alexos, the long-awaited champion of the goddess Athene, follows the course of his destiny through war and loss and a deadly confrontation with his enemy to its end: shipwreck on a magical, fog-shrouded island. There he meets the unforgettable Aria and faces the greatest challenge of his life. Based loosely on Shakespeare's The Tempest"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2013.
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Single mom Shandi Pierce's life takes a turn when an enigmatic geneticist saves her and her 3-year-old genius son from an armed robber.
"At twenty-one, Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Natty, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced Catholic mother and Jewish father. She's got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up in a gas station...
96) You and me
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Relates, in rhyming verse, how fate brought two cat best friends together.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"William and Donna were born on the same day and in the same hospital, but they couldn't be more different. Will grew up in an affluent suburb and struggles to balance what he wants with what will keep his overbearing mother happy. Donna had a difficult childhoodshe was raised by her older sister. She often wonders what her life would be like without her troubled mother around. Throughout their young lives, Will and Donna almost meet many times but...
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Pub. Date
2001
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The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry-possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In "Pastor Dowe at Tecaté," a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his God has no power. In "Call at Corazón," an American husband abandons his alcoholic wife on their...
100) Wrath of the Titans
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Perseus braves the treacherous underworld to rescue his father, Zeus, captured by his son, Ares, and brother Hades who unleash the ancient Titans upon the world.
"...combat sequences that feel like the real thing."--Boston Globe.
"...impressive visual effects..."--Leonard Maltin.
"...imaginative leaps..."--Hollywood Reporter.