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Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In this collection of sharply observed essays, Jaya Saxena reflects on--and challenges--the ideas associated with eleven popular stones, including unconditional love (rose quartz), happiness and success (citrine), balance (amethyst), self-care (black tourmaline), purity (pearl), imposter syndrome (pyrite), toxic positivity (carnelian), change (opals), traditional concepts of marriage (diamonds), presentation versus identity (obsidian), and death...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Lizzy and Diesel are back in an all-new wicked adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich and Emmy Award-winning co-author Phoef Sutton. Murdered and mummified nearly a century ago, notorious bootlegger Collier "Peg Leg" Dazzle discovered and re-hid a famous pirate's treasure somewhere along the coast of New England. A vast collection of gold and silver coins and precious gems, the bounty also contains the Stone of Avarice--the...
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1572
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Returning as a zombie after being bumped off by a rival crime boss, Joe Sunday tries to locate a talisman that can grant immortality before every other thug in Los Angeles can find it.
Author
Series
Winter sea volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Firth is a Stormsinger: a woman whose voice can still hurricanes and shatter armadas. Faced with servitude to pirate lord Silvanus Lirr, Mary offers her skills to his arch-rival in exchange for protection - and, more importantly, his help sending Lirr to a watery grave. But her new ally has a vendetta of his own, and Mary's dreams are dark and full of ghistings, spectral creatures who inhabit the ancient forests of her homeland and the figureheads...
6) The talisman
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America--and into another realm.
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Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Armed with talismans, including an enchanted jacket that gets people to do anything, a baseball bat that fixes anything it breaks and a manifestation stone that makes anyone fall in love, Rosie, her older sister Caro and Zeke find their lives intertwined in magical and hilarious ways"--
Author
Publisher
Tuttle
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In a world yearning for stability, a renegade force arrives, spreading chaos amidst the populace in the form of a gruesome plague. This is when the world needs Andong Agimat--an ex-gang leader turned vigilante with superpowers bestowed unto him by his mysterious amulet. He cooperates with the police and helps them keep Manila's underground, steeped-in magic and the supernatural, in check, but the people of Manila live in growing fear as acts of terrorism...
Author
Series
Kiss of the rose princess volume 7
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"High school student Anise Yamamoto is the "Rose Princess" of four handsome knights. On the night of the academy foundation gala, a Rose Knight steals Anise's first kiss! Before Anise can come to terms with this, the Gray Rose has already laid a trap for her and her Rose Knights."--Cover.
12) The Lucky one
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive-- a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know. Learning her name is Beth and where she lives, he shows up at her door, and ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Despite her initial mistrust and the complications in her life, a romance develops between them, giving Logan hope that Beth could...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After returning to Fairyland, September discovers that her stolen shadow has become the Hollow Queen, the new ruler of Fairyland-Below, who's stealing the magic and shadows from Fairyland folk and refusing to give them back.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
High school student Anise Yamamoto is the "Rose Princess" of four handsome Rose Knights. The Gray Rose has revealed himself to be Mutsuki's older brother, whom Mutsuki killed in the past. Mutsuki is slowly regaining his memories, but what do two Dark Stalkers want with Anise, the Rose Princess?
Author
Series
Kiss of the rose princess volume 5
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"High school student Anise Yamamoto is the "Rose Princess" of four handsome Rose Knights. She encountered more Rose Knights when two boys known as the Orange Rose and Lime Rose revealed themeselves to be "Fake Knights" created by her father. But while searching for an Arcana Card at an amusement park, Anise comes face-to-face with another fake-- and this time it's a Rose Princess!" -- P. [4] Cover.
16) Arcadia: a novel
Author
Series
Advent trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Five centuries after a magician flees with a small ring that contains all of the world's magic, fifteen-year-old Gavin is dispatched to the home of his aunt because of his ability to see things that others do not believe exist, a power he must use to stop evil from escaping into the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Anise Yamamoto has been told that if she ever removes the rose choker given to her by her father, a terrible punishment will befall her. Unfortunately she loses that choker when a bat-like being falls from the sky and hits her. Anise is granted four cards representing four knights whom she can summon with a kiss. But now that she has these gorgeous men at her beck and call, what exactly is her quest?! The identity of the Silver Rose is revealed,...
Author
Series
Kiss of the rose princess volume 1
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Anise Yamamoto has been told that if she ever removes the rose choker given to her by her father, a terrible punishment will befall her. Unfortunately she loses that choker when a bat-like being named Ninufa falls from the sky and hits her. Ninufa gives Anise four cards representing four knights whom she can summon with a kiss. But now that she has these gorgeous men at her beck and call, what exactly is her quest?!" --
Author
Series
Kiss of the rose princess volume 8
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
High school student Anise Yamamoto is the "Rose Princess" of four handsome Rose Knights. Anise and her knights are fighting to defeat the Fake Rose Knights, but Kaede is losing to Shiden, the powerful Purple Rose, and faces death. The time has come for Anise to awaken him with a kiss...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Kingdom of Fantasy volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
For the seventh time Geronimo Stilton finds himself in the Kingdom of Fantasy--this time Blossom, Queen of the Fairies, needs him to find the seven enchanted charms before the evil Wizard of the Black Pearl can get to them.
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