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Winternight trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
A remarkable young woman blazes her own trail, from the backwoods of Russia to the court of Moscow, in the exhilarating sequel to Katherine Arden's bestselling debut novel, The Bear and the Nightingale. Katherine Arden's enchanting first novel introduced readers to an irresistible heroine. Vasilisa has grown up at the edge of a Russian wilderness, where snowdrifts reach the eaves of her family's wooden house and there is truth in the fairy tales told...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut...
4) The fraud
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English
Description
"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper-and cousin by marriage-of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
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Language
English
Description
Two identical-looking boys--a prince and a pauper--trade clothes and step into each other's lives. While the urchin, Tom Canty, discovers luxury and power, Prince Edward, dressed in rags, roams his kingdom and experiences the cruelties inflicted on the poor by the Tudor monarchy.
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Series
Amish secrets volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Charlotte Dolinsky goes "under cover", dressing Amish in order to find out what happened to her only brother, she doesn't anticipate a growing friendship with a quiet Amish man named Isaac Miller.
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Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 6
Language
English
Description
Enter the world of Geronimo Stilton, where another funny adventure is always right around the corner. Each book is a fast-paced adventure with lively art and a unique format kids 7-10 will love.Who Is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here on Mouse Island, my books are all best-sellers! They are whisker-licking good tales, and that's a promise!__PAWS OFF, CHEDDARFACE!It was the strangest...
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Series
Trixie Belden volume 4
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Not long after her family becomes wealthy, Diana Lynch's long-lost uncle appears and starts ruining her social life, causing Trixie Belden to investigate whether Uncle Monty is an imposter out to steal the Lynch fortune.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Did a collector with a knack for making sensational discoveries really find the first document ever printed in America? Did Adolf Hitler actually pen a revealing multivolume set of diaries? Has Jesus of Nazareth's burial cloth survived the ages? Can the shocking true account of Abraham Lincoln's assassination be found in lost pages from his murderer's diary?Napoleon famously observed that ""history is a set of lies agreed upon,"" and Edward Steers...
15) Blown away
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Series
Storm front volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Writer Cari North thought she knew all there was to know about plot twists--until she stumbled across her ex-fiancé, Lance Morgan, digging a shallow grave in the Louisiana woods. After one horrifying moment of shared recognition, Cari knew her life hinged upon whether she could outrun Lance and the hurricane-spawned tornado that was barreling down on their heels. Just when she thinks she's lost Lance and heads for home, the storm throws in yet another...
16) Scams!: ten stories that explore some of the most outrageous swindlers and tricksters of all time
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Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
17) Scarlet nights
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Series
Edilean series volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In Edilean, Virginia, undercover detective Mike Newland uses Sara Shaw to track down a woman who is one of the most notorious criminals in the United States--and also happens to be the mother of Greg Anders, the man who Sara plans to marry and who leaves her without explanation three weeks before the wedding.
19) Mirage
Author
Series
Mirage (Daud) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Arab American Book Award - Children / Young Adult
Arab American Heritage Month - Young Adults
Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Arab American Heritage Month - Young Adults
Black Authors of Young Adult Books
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"In a world dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel beyond her isolated home."--Amazon.
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