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1) Lightlark
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Lightlark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
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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English
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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
Description
"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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 26
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English
Description
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
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Seven Realms novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 22
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English
Description
"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"--
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Black jewels series volume 8
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English
Description
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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Erotic adventures of Sleeping Beauty volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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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Queen of the Tearling volume 3
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English
Description
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.
10) A mirror mended
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Series
Fractured fables volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"'A Mirror Mended' is the next installment in USA today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured Fables series. Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you've rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you've gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a...
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Queen of the Tearling volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Castle Glower volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Roots of chaos volume prequel
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Description
The stunning, standalone prequel to the New York Times bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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
Language
English
Description
"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...
16) Seasonal fears
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Series
Alchemical journeys volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears is the extraordinary companion novel to Middlegame. The king of winter and the queen of summer are dead. The fight for their crowns begins! Melanie has a destiny, though it isn't the one everyone assumes it to be. She's delicate; she's fragile; she's dying. Now, truly, is the winter of her soul. Harry doesn't want to believe in destiny, because that means accepting the loss of...
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Series
Secret projects volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a world of darkness, technology, and nightmares. When their lives suddenly become intertwined in strange ways, can they put aside their differences and work together to uncover the mysteries of their situation and save each other's communities from certain disaster? "--
18) Kill the queen
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Series
Crown of shards volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Gladiator meets Game of Thrones: a royal woman becomes a skilled warrior to destroy her murderous cousin, avenge her family, and save her kingdom in this first entry in a dazzling fantasy epic from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Elemental Assassin series--an enthralling tale that combines magic, murder, intrigue, adventure, and a hint of romance. In a realm where one's magical power determines one's worth, Lady Everleigh's...
19) Iron crowned
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Series
Dark swan volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books
Language
English
Description
Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham searches for the Iron Crown, a legendary object feared by all, to end the war destroying her kingdom, but she must confront unimaginable temptation to control the Crown's vast powers.
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Series
Castle Glower volume 1
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English
Description
Tuesdays at Castle Glower are Princess Celie's favorite days. That's because on Tuesdays the castle adds a new room, a turret, or sometimes even an entire wing. No one ever knows what the castle will do next, and no one--other than Celie, that is--takes the time to map out the new additions.
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