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Author
Series
Brodie volume 1
Language
English
Description
Private detective Jackson Brodie finds his own need for resolution sparked by three investigations, including that of two sisters who discover a shocking clue to the disappearance of their third sister thirty years earlier.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Language
English
Description
Jane Williams has emerged from an ailing, lonely childhood, but on her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious greeting card arrives specifying that Jane must identify the six types of love before the full moon following her thirtieth birthday or face grave consequences.
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
514 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalayptic world.
6) Cloud atlas
Publisher
Warner Brothers
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (172 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
Author
Series
Chorus of Dragons volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
587 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kihrin D'Mon is a wanted man. Since he destroyed the Stone of Shackles and set demons free across Quur, he has been on the run from the wrath of an entire empire. His attempt to escape brings him into the path of Janel Theranon, a mysterious Joratese woman who claims to know Kihrin. Janel's plea for help pits Kihrin against all manner of dangers: a secret rebellion, a dragon capable of destroying an entire city, and Kihrin's old enemy, the wizard...
8) The Becoming
Author
Series
The dragon heart legacy volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new epic of love and war among gods and humans, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening. The world of magick and the world of man have long been estranged from one another. But some can walk between the two-including Breen Siobhan Kelly. She has just returned to Talamh, with her friend, Marco, who's dazzled and disoriented by this realm-a place filled with dragons and faeries and mermaids (but no WiFi, to his chagrin). In...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As the three bears, Toklo, Lusa, and Kallik, begin their journey home, they encounter new friends and dangerous enemies and must decide who they can trust to help them on their quest.
Author
Series
Seekers volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
At the edge of the Endless Ice, the four bears Ujurak, Toklo, Lusa, and Kallik reach Star Island, where a large group of bears is in trouble but believes Lusa is destined to help bring back the favor of the spirits.
11) Forest of wolves
Author
Series
Seekers return to the wild volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The four bears finally reach Toklo's home in the mountains, but it has come at a price--Yakone is ill and may not survive and Lusa might need to leave her friends behind to discover her own purpose.
12) The immortalists
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The instant New York Times bestseller and celebrated family love story heralded as perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt (People). If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak...
Author
Series
Into the dark volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In this modern retelling of the Persephone myth, Haden Lord, the disgraced prince of the Underrealm, is sent to the mortal world to entice a girl into returning with him to the land of the dead.
Author
Series
Vision of shadows volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2016
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
296 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
For many moons, the warrior cats have lived in peace in their territories around the lake. But a dark shadow looms on the horizon, and the time has come for one young cat to shape his destiny and the fate of all the warrior Clans.
15) The Melting Sea
Author
Series
Seekers return to the wild volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Toklo, Kallik, Lusa, and Yakone trek onward toward the Melting Sea, the site of Kallik's traumatic cubhood--and prepare to be separated for the first time since their journey began"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In her teenage years, lovelorn Jessica Gold cast a spell that went disastrously wrong, and brought her all the wrong kind of attention--as well as a lifetime ban from the World Council of Witches. So no one is more surprised than Jess when, fifteen years later, tall, handsome WCW member Derrick Winters shows up in her quaint little village of West Harbor and claims that Jess is the Chosen One. Not chosen by West Harbor's snobby elite to style them...
17) Just my luck!
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Nancy learns there is a whole list of what's lucky and what isn't, she tries to sort out what she really believes.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (ca. 6 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a childhood tragedy comes back to haunt Professor David Shepherd, he finds himself in possession of knowledge that holds the world in a delicate balance. He uncovers the Book of Names -- an ancient text originating with the biblical Adam, and thought lost to history forever. The book contains the names of each generation's thirty-six righteous souls - the Hidden Ones - by whose merits alone the world continues to exist. Legend holds that if all...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Drawing upon examples from the world of business, sports, culture, cutting-edge psychology and an array of unforgettable characters around the world, the author of The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers looks at the complex and surprising ways in which the weak can defeat the strong, how the small can match up against the giant, and how our goals (often culturally determined) can make a huge difference in our ultimate sense of success.
20) Wanted
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rexi Hood, the daughter of Robin Hood, must find a way to break the curse that binds her to Princess Dorothea before she becomes a forgotten character.