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Roots of chaos volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
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The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction--but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic. Across the dark sea, Tané...
82) Kiss of Frost
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Mythos Academy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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Now in her second year as a warrior-in-training at Mythos Academy, Gwen Frost learns that one of her fellow students is secretly a Reaper who wants her dead.
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"Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty--her family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now she's been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn't return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter. With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, she begins a journey, determined to start over away from Appalachian Ohio. But the icy roads and strangers...
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Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these...
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Last apprentice volume 10
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The tenth book in the internationally best-selling fantasy adventure series that inspired the forthcoming major motion picture -- ) and "anything but tame" (Horn Book). But don't read it after dark!
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Pub. Date
2020
Description
She points the lens of the camera. The artist turns his head slightly. The light catches his brow and his silver-white hair. She snaps. He is lit like a Vermeer.
Ireland. County Wicklow, 1951. A father and son go swimming in the sea. The waves crash. The wind rises. Only one comes back-Colin, aged six. His mother, Eileen, runs to seek help, but this is a tragedy that will haunt them forever. Colin won't speak a word. He is mute and struggling to...
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Jane Benjamin novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
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Jane's a very brave boy. And a very difficult girl. She'll become a remarkable woman, an icon of her century, but that's a long way off. Not my fault, she thinks, dropping a bloody crowbar in the irrigation ditch after Daddy. She steals Momma's Ford and escapes to Depression-era San Francisco, where she fakes her way into work as a newspaper copy boy. Everything's looking up. She's climbing the ladder at the paper, winning validation, skill, and connections...
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This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about-until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy...
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Pub. Date
2017
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With the Queen's men at their feet, Anya must get her friends and family to safety. But the only place they can go, the nomadic rebel village, may not want them. Anya brings with her the deadly task of destroying the ancient power crystal. The challenges she must overtake will force her to face her greatest fears and test her friendships in ways she never before imagined. Join them on their journey, as Anya, Taika, and Gevin reveal the deepest mysteries...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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The son of a Pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school in rural Forrestville, Tennessee, without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self.
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Pub. Date
2013
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"“A breathtaking new epic fantasy series. Morgan Rice does it again! This magical saga reminds me of the best of J.K. Rowling, George R.R. Martin, Rick Riordan, Christopher Paolini and J.R.R. Tolkien. I couldn’t put it down!” -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --The Dallas Examiner {regarding Loved}
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Pub. Date
2015
Description
-- Includes two bonus short stories “There is a weight and grace to (Lord’s) prose that put me in mind of pewter jewelry.”—NPR “This novel is a satisfying exercise in being off-balance, a visceral lesson in how to fall forward and catch yourself in an amazing new place.”—The Seattle Times
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Old Kingdom volume 4
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Award-winning author Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom with a thrilling prequel complete with dark magic, royalty, dangerous action, a strong heroine, and flawless world building. This epic fantasy adventure is destined to be a classic and is perfect for fans of Rae Carson, Kristin Cashore, Scott Westerfeld, and Cassandra Clare.
Clariel is the daughter of one of the most notable families in the Old Kingdom, with blood relations to the
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Madman's daughter trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
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Dr. Moreau's daughter, Juliet, travels to her estranged father's island, only to encounter murder, medical horrors, and a love triangle.
98) Honey Girl
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Pub. Date
2021
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"When becoming an adult means learning to love yourself first. With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate. She's a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn't know...until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern...
99) Loveless
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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This is the funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of Georgia, who doesn't understand why she can't crush and kiss and make out like her friends do. She's surrounded by the narrative that dating + sex = love. It's not until she gets to college that she discovers the A range of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum — coming to understand herself as asexual/aromantic. Disrupting the narrative that she's been told since birth isn't easy — there are many...
100) Pretty Crooked
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Series
Pretty crooked trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Pretty Little Liars meets Heist Society in this exciting and flirtatious book about a high school girl whose innocent game of Robin Hood spirals way out of control. At first, Willa's plan to take from the rich kids at Valley Prep and give to the poor ones seems easy. Her daredevil stunts are thrilling. And keeping secrets helps her play hard-to-get with Aidan Murphy, Prep's most notorious bad boy. But when the cops start investigating and her friends...