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Series
Prison healer novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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"Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, working as the prison healer. When the Rebel Queen is captured, Kiva is charged with keeping the terminally ill woman alive long enough for her to undergo the Trial by Ordeal: a series of elemental challenges against the torments of air, fire, water, and earth, assigned to only the most dangerous of criminals. Then a coded message...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
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"The beguiling story of a young journalist whose investigation of a murder leads her to the most legendary healer in all of Mexico, from one of the most prominent voices of a new generation of Latin American writers. Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the...
Author
Series
Clockwork Dagger novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Healer Octavia Leander and Clockwork Dagger Alonzo Garrett must band together to reach the territory known as the Waste and survive the civil war brewing there if they are to learn the reasons behind Octavia's growing powers and inexplicable transformation.
5) The antidote
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the world of healers, there is no room for magic. There is only knowledge - precious wisdom, painstaking accounts of herbal remedies, and long-practiced techniques handed down from healer to apprentice since the beginning of time. Fee knows this, just as certainly as she knows that her magic must be kept secret. But the crown prince Xavi, Fee's best friend and only source of comfort, is sick. So sick, and so frustratingly incurable, that Fee can...
6) The gift
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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An uplifting tale of hope and faith celebrates the joy of the holiday season and follows a theme of the redemptive power of love.
Author
Series
KGI novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
"Grace Peterson is desperate, in hiding, and on the run after escaping a shadowy group determined to exploit her extraordinary ability to heal others. Her only lifeline--an unerring telepathic ability she shares with her sister--has been severed, leaving her alone and vulnerable. And time is running out."--Provided by publisher.
8) Wild seed
Author
Series
Patternists volume 1
Language
English
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Description
An entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex, Doro fears no one until he meets Anyanwu, who can absorb bullets and make medicine with a kiss, give birth to tribes, and savage anyone who threatens those she loves.
9) Shaman rises
Author
Series
Walker papers volume 9
Language
English
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For over a year, Joanne has been fighting the Master?the world's most abiding evil entity. She's sacrificed family, friendships, even watched potential futures fade away?and now the Master is bringing the final battle to Joanne's beloved Seattle. Lives will be lost as the repercussions of all Joanne's final transformation into her full Shamanic abilities come to her doorstep. Before the end, she'll mourn, rejoice?and surrender everything for the hope...
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A compelling portrait of three people who love each other but can't break through the self-created walls that keep them apart.”—Chicago Sun-Times
His name is Tom Booker. His voice can calm wild horses, his touch can heal broken spirits. And Annie Graves has traveled across a continent to the Booker ranch in Montana, desperate to heal her injured daughter, the
Author
Series
Healer novels volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Skeleton King plots to claim the Fifteen Realms for his own. With armies in disarray and the dead not staying down, Avry's healing powers are needed now more than ever. But now her heart-mate, Kerrick, is missing, and Avry fears he's gone forever.
Author
Series
Sparrow sisters volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sorrel, Nettie and Patience are as colorful as the beach plums on the dunes and as mysterious as the fog that rolls into town at dusk. Patience is the town healer and when a new doctor settles into Granite Point he brings with him a mystery so compelling that Patience is drawn to love him, even as she struggles to mend him. But when Patience Sparrow's herbs and tinctures are believed to be implicated in a local tragedy, Granite Point is consumed by...
Author
Series
Shattered realms volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Adrian sul'Han, known as Ash, is a trained healer with a powerful gift of magic, and a thirst for revenge. Ash is forced into hiding after a series of murders throws the queendom into chaos. Now he's closer than ever to killing the man responsible, the cruel king of Arden. With time running out, Ash faces an excruciating choice: Can he use his powers not to save a life but to take it?
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
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"On the heels of his critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling debut novel, The Returned, Jason Mott delivers a spellbinding tale of love and sacrifice. On an ordinary day, at an air show like that in any small town across the country, a plane crashes into a crowd of spectators. After the dust clears, a thirteen-year-old girl named Ava is found huddled beneath a pocket of rubble with her best friend, Wash. He is injured and bleeding, and...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"1931. Gracelynn Doherty lives peacefully on Tin Mountain, helping her adoptive granny work her cures. Despite whispers that the women are witches, the superstitious locals still seek them out, whether to remedy arthritis or a broken heart. But when evangelist Josiah Bellflower comes to town promising miracle healing, full bellies, and prosperity, his revivals soon hold Tin Mountain in thrall--and Granny in abject fear. Granny recognizes Josiah. Fifty...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five women--including a high school teacher, a pregnant teenager, and a forest-dwelling homeopath--struggle with changes in a near-future America where abortion and assisted fertility have been outlawed and where the homeopath is targeted by a modern-day witch hunt.
Author
Series
Godstone volume 2
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The second book of this epic fantasy saga spins a tale of magic and danger, as a healer finds herself pulled deeper into a web of secrets and world-ending magic"--
18) The Godstone
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Fenra Lowens has been a working Practitioner, using the magic of healing ever since she graduated from the White Court and left the City to live in the Outer Modes. When one of her patients, Arlyn Albainil, is summoned to the City to execute the final testament of a distant cousin, she agrees to help him. Arlyn suspects the White Court wants to access his cousin's Practitioner's vault. Arlyn can't ignore the summons: he knows the vault holds an artifact...
19) Widdershins
Author
Series
Widdershins volume 1
Publisher
Bell Jar Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Jane Chandler is an apprentice healer. From childhood, she and her mother have used herbs to cure the sick. But Jane will soon learn that her sheltered life in a small village is not safe from the troubles of the wider world. From his father's beatings to his uncle's raging sermons, John Sharpe is beset by bad fortune. Fighting through personal tragedy, he finds his purpose: to become a witch-finder and save innocents from the scourge of witchcraft....
Author
Series
Brides of Laurent volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Levi and Audrey are forced to discover just how far they'll go to ensure the safety of the other and the love growing between them"--
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