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"Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor -- inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch -- decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. Has she foreseen...
2) Neverseen
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Keeper of the lost cities volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"Sophie battles the rebels--and recovers dark memories from her past. She must question everything to find a truth that will either save her world--or shatter it"--
4) Cobalt Blue
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Pan Macmillan Australia
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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For 35 years, the United States and Russia each had their own superhero. Three days ago, America's hero died. Today will be bad. In the face of an overwhelming attack, one young woman-unassuming and anonymous-might be America's only hope. Her codename ... COBALT BLUE.
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Odessa Jones volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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When her young co-worker, Anna Lee, is killed in a hit-and-run, realtor Odessa Jones uses special talent, and the help of family, friends and a feisty cat named Juniper, to find answers-and draw out a killer hiding in plain sight.
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Witch cats of Cambridge volume 4
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Polis Books, an imprint of Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"When her ex-boyfriend, who was working on stealth software designed to record and transmit personal data, is murdered, Becca, under scrutiny by the police, enlists a local hacker group to help her expose a killer while introducing her three magical cats to a new addition"--
7) Phantom
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CamCat Publishings, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023].
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English
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"Would you sell your hand for a million dollars? Regan "Roz" Osbourne is broke. Her ex-boyfriend won't take no for an answer, and no one is taking her art work seriously. So when a mysterious stranger offers her a million dollars and safety from her unstable ex in exchange for her left hand, she can't afford to refuse. Immediately following the amputation, she's racked with insufferable phantom limb pain. Desperate for relief, she enrolls in an experimental...
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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment--to get married and have a kid--he may finally be in over his head! As a child, [REDACTED] lived an unremarkable life with his parents, playing war games with his friends and quarreling with his father. It never occurred to young [REDACTED] that the life he'd taken for granted might...
9) Contrarian
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The grand illusion volume 3
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Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In Contrarian, protests against unemployment and poor harvests have become armed riots as the people sink deeper into poverty. They look to a government struggling to emerge from corruption and conspiracy. Recently elected to the Council of Sixty-Six, Steffan Dekkard is the first Councilor who is an Isolate, a man invulnerable to the emotional manipulations and emotional surveillance of empaths--but not the recent bombing of the Council Office Building...
10) Whenever
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Hyperion?]
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Maddie Fynn knew from the moment she laid eyes on Aiden Faraday that their destinies were intertwined. Born with the unique ability to see the exact date a person will die, Maddie is definitely an expert on destinies. She and Aiden have a deathdate exactly one day apart, far off in the future, sixty years from now. So how could it be that they wouldn't be destined to spend all those years together, especially when they fall madly in love. But when...
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Nia's spent her whole life taking a back seat to her older sister, Maeve, who's expected to inherit their mother's Seer powers: the ability to see the future through dreams, passed down to one woman in each generation. But when Nia, a trans girl, starts having visions of the future, she must suppress her powers to protect her relationship with her sister. Soon Nia's dreams become impossible to ignore, and she has no choice but to distance herself...
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases--she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won't...
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HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"Por la sangre de las mujeres Marte corre una magia que les concede dones especiales. Creciendo en República Dominicana, y luego al migrar a Nueva York, las hermanas Flor, Matilde, Pastora y Camila aprendieron a valerse de ellos, y de la fuerza de su vínculo, para protegerse de las hostilidades del mundo. Pero también, a callarse sus deseos, temores y anhelos más profundos. Por eso, cuando Flor anuncia que va a celebrar un velorio en vida, el...
14) The night island
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"The disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an island of deadly deception in the second novel of the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rivers, bonded by a night they all have no memory of, are dedicated to uncovering the mystery of what really happened to them months ago-an experience that brought out innate psychic abilities...
15) Exile
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Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
Description
Sophie is settling in nicely to her new life in Havenfield. She's getting to spend time with rare, precious species-- including the first female Alicorn, who shows herself to Sophie and trusts no one but her. Sophie is tasked with helping to train the magical creature so that the Alicorn can be revealed to the people of the lost cities as a sign of hope. But the secrets buried deep in Sophie's memories remain, and before long she's back in incredible...
16) The variations
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An eerie ability is passed from grandmother to grandson -- who now must reckon with a new cacophony of voices and sounds, all from the past, overlaying his life in the present -- in this stirring new novel from one of the UK's most exciting young writers. Selda Heddle, a famously reclusive composer, is found dead in a snowy field near her Cornish home. She was educated at Agnes's Hospice for Acoustically Gifted Children, which for centuries has offered...
17) Spy x family: 11
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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment--to get married and have a kid--he may finally be in over his head! Threatened by Yor's relationship with Melinda Desmond, Anya gets serious about her own friendship scheme. On the way to a museum field trip, however, she and her class become the target of activists looking to free...
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