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"Brisma and Kelly, two young Latinas growing up along Clement Moore Avenue in Queens, would do anything for each other. They keep each other's secrets, hide from their mothers' chancletas, and ward off creepy neighbors. At the beginning of high school, Brisma falls deeply in love with Brian, the local baseball legend. Always the wallflower to the vibrant and alluring Kelly, Brisma is secretly thrilled to be chosen by Brian, to finally have someone...
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Queens of Renthia volume 2
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English
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"Everything has a spirit: the willow tree with leaves that kiss the pond, the stream that feeds the river, the wind that exhales fresh snow ... And those spirits want to kill you. It's the first lesson that every Renthian learns. Not long ago, Daleina used her strength and skill to survive those spirits and assume the royal throne. Since then, the new queen has kept the peace and protected the humans of her land. But now for all her power, she is...
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Three dark crowns volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born--three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to control storms or flames with the snap of her fingers. Katharine is a poisoner, able to ingest the deadliest poisons without harm. And Arsinoe, a naturalist, can control nature. But becoming the Queen Crowned isn't solely a matter of royal birth. Each sister...
4) Desert queen
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2023.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This picture book biography in verse follows the life of beloved Rajasthani drag performer Queen Harish, known as the Whirling Desert Queen of Rajasthan. Lit by an inner fire and propelled by a family tragedy, Harish defied the gender conventions of middle class Indian life, battled discrimination and intimidation, and eventually grew up to dance with Bollywood movie stars and on stages across the world. Jyoti Gopal's rhythmic phrases evoke the particular...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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One of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold transports us once more to a dark and troubled land and embroils us in a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm.
Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet
...6) Lightlark
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Lightlark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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In order to break a curse on her kingdom, Isla Crown, the young ruler of Wilding, must compete in the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play, and to survive she must lie, cheat, and betray--even as love threatens to undo everything.
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2024.
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"A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three companions--a healer, a weaver, and a seer. The men hunting her will kill her--because she is the only one who stands between them and their violent ambition. She is no lady: she is the first queen of Scotland, married to a king called Macbeth. As the net closes in, what unfurls is a tale of passion, forced marriage, bloody massacre, and the harsh realities...
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Throne of glass novels volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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Chaol and Nesryn visit Antica hoping the legendary healers of the Torre Cesme can enable Chaol to walk again, and to persuade the rulers to ally with them to save Erilea.
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Black jewels series volume 8
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English
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The Black Widows see visions that will change the land--and Lady Cassidy--forever even as she makes it her duty to restore the land and people of Shalador and prove her ability to rule.
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Queen of the Tearling volume 3
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English
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The finale to the Tearling trilogy, in which Kelsea is imprisoned by the Red Queen and her guard must find a way to set her free.
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Seven Realms novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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"In the fourth and final novel in the Seven Realms series, Queen Raisa 'ana Marianna and Han Alister join forces to right a thousand-year-old wrong"--
12) Beauty's kingdom
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Erotic adventures of Sleeping Beauty volume 4
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2015.
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English
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When the great queen is reported dead, Beauty and Laurent return to the kingdom they left twenty years before. Beauty agrees to take the throne, but she insists that all erotic servitude be voluntary. Countless eager princes, princesses, lords, ladies, and commoners journey to Beautys realm, where she and her husband usher in a new era of desire, longing, and ecstasy.
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Castle Glower volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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After discovering a giant egg in the magical Castle Glower, Princess Celie agrees to care for the egg and what creature it hatches.
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"Catalina is trying to work out her own life as she leaves her undocumented family behind to enter Harvard. Suffering from bouts of PTSD, she struggles to connect to her new world just as she struggled to make sense of her old one. She infiltrates the subcultures of elite undergrads -- internships and college newspapers, parties and secret societies-and observes them like an anthropologist, but then falls in love, or something like love, with a fellow...
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Queen of the Tearling volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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After Queen Kelsea Glynn stops slaves from being shipped to Mortmesne, the Red Queen sends her ferocious army, backed with dark magic, into Tearling.
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Urban Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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From a murderous Bonnie and Clyde stirring up a hornet’s nest to a drug war and the rise of heroin overdoses, Detectives Michael Acosta and Chris Emerson are tasked with investigating the rash of robberies and brutal murders happening in the borough. Queens is bubbling with heated violence, as rival kingpins vie for power in Erick S. Gray’s intense addition to the bestselling Kingpins Series.
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Roots of chaos volume prequel
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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English
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The stunning, standalone prequel to the New York Times bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"A phenomenal achievement."---Jeffery Deaver "A gem of a whodunit."---Mary Kubica, author of The Good Girl It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone--a single mother who works long hours as a cocktail waitress--wakes to discover her two small children, Frankie Jr. and Cindy, have gone missing. Later that day, Cindy's body is found in a derelict lot a half mile from her home, strangled. Ten days later,...
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Throne of glass novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 42
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English
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"Years in the making, Sarah J. Maas's #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series draws to an epic, unforgettable conclusion. Aelin Galathynius's journey from slave to king's assassin to the queen of a once-great kingdom reaches its heart-rending finale as war erupts across her world. . . Aelin has risked everything to save her people-but at a tremendous cost. Locked within an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her...
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Cycle of oak, yew, ash, and rowan volume 4
Cycle of oak yew ash and rowan volume 4
Book of the oak volume 4
Cycle of oak yew ash and rowan volume 4
Book of the oak volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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