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Trent never meant to kill Jared Roberts when he hit him with that hockey puck. Guilt ridden despite having been unaware of Jared's heart defect, Trent now pushes people away on principle, turning to his Book of Thoughts to make sense of the anger inside. Only when Fallon Little arrives does Trent realize that, while one small action can end a life, one big choice can reclaim one.
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Ember in the ashes volume 2
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English
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Laia is determined to break into Kauf - the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison - to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars' survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom. But dark forces, human and otherworldly, work against Laia and Elias. The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the...
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The first in a series of books about the Pepper family, these imaginative children's stories have delighted readers since their original publication in 1881. This first novel introduces Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie, and Phronsie, the children of their widowed Mamsie, Mrs. Pepper. While very poor, the Peppers live in a supportive little town in their beloved Little Brown House. The family faces many challenges, such as sickness and an overflowing generosity...
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Ember in the ashes volume 1
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English
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"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--
5) Rot & Ruin
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In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.
6) Wildings
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"Rivka, one of the magical elite, embarks on a quest to find her twin brother, Arik, who was sent away when he failed to develop his own magical abilities"--
7) Marrow charm
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The Gate Cycle volume 1
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The Parliament House
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English
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"Azure 'Azzy' Brimvine lives in a world decimated by magic, where humans have retreated underground from the overwhelming dangers of the surface. But Below is no safer than Above. Magic borne plagues continue to eat away at the remaining human cities, a sickness that doesn't merely kill, but creates aberrations from the stricken: people twisted by magic into something dark, dangerous, and powerful. It is an existence of fear and constant dread. When...
8) Legion
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Talon saga volume 4
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Dragon hatchling Ember Hill was never prepared to find love at all?dragons do not suffer human emotions?let alone with a human, and a former dragonslayer at that. With ex-soldier of St. George Garret dying at her feet after sacrificing his freedom and his life to expose the deepest of betrayals, Ember knows only that nothing she was taught by dragon organization Talon is true. About humans, about rogue dragons, about herself...
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Devastated when her parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year old Jackie moves from New York City to Colorado to live with her mother's best friend, who has twelve children, including two boys who start to show an interest in Jackie that goes beyond brotherly.
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Wars of Light and Shadows volume 1
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English
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The stunning first volume in Janny Wurts's epic tale of two half-brothers cursed to life-long enmity. The world of Athera lives in eternal fog, its skies obscured by the malevolent Mistwraith. Only the combined powers of two half-brothers can challenge the Mistwraith's stranglehold: Arithon, Master of Shadow and Lysaer, Lord of Light. Arithon and Lysaer will find that they are inescapably bound inside a pattern of events dictated by their own deepest...
11) Bridge of Clay
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Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
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Legacy of Orisha volume 1
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2018.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
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Saving the world might sound fun, but Mikey is too busy trying to ask out his secret longtime love and graduate with his friends before the high school is once again blown sky-high. So what if there's a glowing blue light and reanimated deer wreaking havoc? Let Mikey's cliquey classmates deal with it. Besides, you don't have to be a superhero to be extraordinary.
14) Spark
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Elemental series (Brigid Kemmerer) volume 2
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English
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Gabriel Merrick plays with fire but he has always had his brothers to rely on.
15) Shadow souls
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Eighteen-year-old Elena Gilbert journeys to the Dark Dimension with Damon and Matt in hopes of rescuing her vampire boyfriend, Stefan Salvatore, from imprisonment, and once again they face the sinister Shinichis.
16) Secret
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Elemental series (Brigid Kemmerer) volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Nick Merrick is trying to enjoy his senior year in high school as much as possible. At the same time he worries about the Elemental Guides who may show up to kill him and his family and about the secret he is keeping from everyone that he is gay.
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"This is Noah Oakman, sixteen, Bowie believer, concise historian, disillusioned swimmer, son, brother, friend. Then Noah gets hypnotized. Now Noah sees changes--inexplicable scars, odd behaviors, rewritten histories--in all those around him. All except his Strange Fascinations"--
18) Carve the mark
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Carve the mark volume 1
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English
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On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favored by fate, everyone develops a currentgift, a unique power meant to shape the future. While most benefit from their currentgifts, Akos and Cyra do not -- their gifts make them vulnerable to others' control. Can they reclaim their gifts, their fates, and their lives, and reset the balance of power in this world? Cyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules the Shotet...
19) Last chance
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Publisher
Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Battling an enemy not of this earth, Chance and Patrick become humanity?s only hope for salvation. The New York Times bestselling author of Orphan X, Gregg Hurwitz, returns to Creek's Cause to follow the Rains brothers as they fight an alien threat that has transformed everyone over the age of 18 into ferocious, zombie-like beings, in this thrilling sequel to The Rains.
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Series
Demon's lexicon trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Sin's world is turned upside down when she has to ally with a demon and his brother to save her beloved Goblin Market from the evil magicians.
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