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1) You and me
Author
Language
English
Description
Relates, in rhyming verse, how fate brought two cat best friends together.
Author
Language
English
Description
The first book in Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie mystery series, called "the best mystery of the decade" by Stephen King, finds private investigator Jackson Brodie following three seemingly unconnected family mysteries in Edinburgh Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack. Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making...
3) Soulstruck
Author
Language
English
Description
On Cape Cod seventeen-year-old Rachel desperately wants to get struck by lightning, an act that will reveal her soul mate, as it did for her mother, but complicated relationships with friends and family get in the way.
4) Touch blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
5) Fate
Author
Series
Steel brothers saga volume 13
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The next installment of the New York Times bestselling Steel Brothers Saga.
6) Stepsister
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.
Author
Series
Carve the mark volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When Cyra's father Lazmet Noavek, a soulless tyrant thought to be dead, reclaims the throne, Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are desperate to stop him from igniting a barbaric war.
Author
Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the heart of a seemingly ordinary life, Steven, a reserved individual, has long been disconnected from his lineage. However, destiny has plans of its own.
An unexpected encounter with an elderly visitor on his 16th birthday sets Steven on an unpredictable journey. Pulled towards the enigmatic landscapes of West Yorkshire, he finds himself immersed in a world far removed from the one he knew. As secrets unravel and shadows of his past emerge,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
""You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life--both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King...
10) The immortalists
Author
Language
English
Description
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 out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco. Dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas...
11) Echo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Warrior princess volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Her destiny must be fulfilled ... Ranwen refuses to take orders from anyone-even the Shining Ones, the ancient gods whose power is feared throughout the land. They want her as their Chosen One, destined to save her country from the Saxons. But Branwen doubts she's truly ready to be a leader. Then a messenger from the skies shows her a vision of a bleak and violent future-a future in which Branwen has abandoned her destiny, and those most dear to her...
Author
Series
Seekers return to the wild volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling Seekers series from Erin Hunter continues in the third book in the Return to the Wild story arc. River of Lost Bears is filled with the high-stakes action and heart-pounding adventure that fans of Seekers and the #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series crave.
Kallik, Toklo, Lusa, and Yakone head away from the ice toward warmer territories. As they approach the mountains, Toklo is faced with an impossible choice. Though...
Author
Series
Seekers return to the wild volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Erin Hunter, bestselling author of the Warriors and Survivors series, continues to explore the world of bears and their environment in Seekers, the thrilling ecological adventure saga.
In Return to the Wild #2: The Melting Sea, Kallik has almost reached home. The bears who have become her family--Lusa, Yakone and Toklo-are devastated that they'll have to split up, but polar bears Kallik and Yakone belong on the ice, while the black and brown...
Author
Series
Seekers return to the wild volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Erin Hunter's New York Times bestselling Seekers series continues in the fourth book in the Return to the Wild story arc. With its thrilling blend of action and suspense, this epic animal fantasy is perfect for fans of the #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series.
After a harrowing journey, the four bears finally arrive at Toklo's former home. Toklo is thrilled to be in the mountains, surrounded by warm memories of his cubhood, but his homecoming...
16) Descent
Author
Series
Steel brothers saga volume 15
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The end to his story has already been written ... Brad Steel made a promise to his wife and children -- to create a legacy born from his love for them and his desire to protect them from harm. It was a worthy ambition ... But along the way, something went terribly wrong. Daphne Steel loves her husband beyond measure and will stand by him no matter what, even when it's more than she can deal with. She escapes when she must, still always putting Brad...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller: A lyrical, suspenseful coming-of-age story based on Greek myths of the Amazons, woman warriors living near the Black Sea.
Born out of sorrow in an ancient time of blood and war, Rain is a girl marked by destiny. Her mother, Alina, is the proud queen of a tribe of female warriors, yet she refuses to touch or even look at her only daughter. So Rain draws on the strength and knowledge of her Amazon
...Born out of sorrow in an ancient time of blood and war, Rain is a girl marked by destiny. Her mother, Alina, is the proud queen of a tribe of female warriors, yet she refuses to touch or even look at her only daughter. So Rain draws on the strength and knowledge of her Amazon
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
How can Dane defeat an enemy that's already dead? Dane the Defiant is determined to free his beloved Astrid from her Valkyrie servitude. And he learns of a way -- a dark and dangerous way. He must hunt and kill a savage foe: none other than his former nemesis, Thidrek the Terrifying, who has magically returned from the dead. Thidrek has been sent by the goddess Hel herself, ruler of the Underworld, to find the Ship of the Dead, a cursed vessel built...
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
One girl and her doppelgangers try to stop the end of the world in this YA sci-fi adventure When Hazel Stanczak was born, an interdimensional rift tore open near her family's home, which prompted immediate government attention. They soon learned that if Hazel strayed too far, the rift would become volatile and fling things from other dimensions onto their front lawn -- or it could swallow up their whole town. As a result, Hazel has never left her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
What really happened to Anastasia Romanov? Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn't. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up she discovers that she is in the ancient hut of the witch Baba Yaga, and that some things are worse than being dead. In modern-day Chicago, Anne doesn't...
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