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Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
In 1352 England, seventeen-year-old Annabel, granddaughter of a knight and a would-be nun, eludes a lecherous bailiff but falls in love with Lord Le Wyse, the ferocious and disfigured man to whom her family owes three years of indentured servitude, in this tale loosely based on Beauty and the Beast.
2) Exhalation
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of...
Author
Series
Hatmakers volume 1
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Cordelia Hatmaker's beloved father fails to return from a sea voyage, she is determined not only to find him, but to discover who is using magic to start a war--and why.
Author
Series
Jane Lawless mysteries volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Pomegranate catalog volume no. A137
Publisher
Pomegranate
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
6) Foundation
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 3
Language
English
Description
Considered one of the great classics in the genre, Isaac Asimov's FOUNDATON trilogy describes the events spanning more than a thousand years and resulting in the creation of an ideal universal ruling corporation. In this initial volume, the Galactic Empire is beginning to die and the ends of the Galaxy are reverting to barbarism. Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists create a colony - the Foundation - to incubate art, science, and technology that...
Author
Series
Hope Harbor volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Actress Katherine Parker is on the cusp of achieving the kind of career success she'd always dreamed of. But a visit to Hope Harbor for some much-needed R&R--and an unexpected partnership with a handsome local coffee shop owner--may cause her to rethink her ambitions and open her heart to a new dream"--
Author
Series
Hatmakers volume 2
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Cordelia Hatmaker has saved England from war, but danger is lurking around every corner, and she must convince the rival Maker families to work together for once--not only to bring her father home, but also to save the very essence of magic itself.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a barrister in 1819 London, William Snopes defends the poor against the powerful--but that changes when a struggling heiress arrives at his door with a mystery surrounding a missing letter from the king's regent and a merchant's brig. As he digs deeper, he learns that the forces arrayed against them are even more powerful than he'd imagined"--
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal and somewhat reluctant 14- year-old boy who is swept into an amazing five-year quest.
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Russian-born shopkeeper Vera Sorokina and Irish-born penny dreadful author Brogan Donnelly join forces to take down a criminal enterprise that is threatening shopkeepers in South London in 1865. Along the way, the two find love and romance as they fight for a chance for their own "happily ever after.""--
19) The last heiress
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of a British manufacturing heiress and an American merchant caught in the turbulent time of the War Between the States.
20) Jessie
Author
Series
Big sky dreams volume 3
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
As a single mom and the sole proprietor of Token Creek's general store, Jessie lives day to day with her hands full and her heart broken. When the husband who abandoned her returns to town claiming he's a man changed by faith, he sets out to prove his commitment and his love.
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