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1) Six of crows
Author
Series
Six of crows volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first.
Author
Series
Six of crows volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone — Season 2 streaming now!
Discover what comes next for Kaz, Jesper, Inej, and Wylan in Crooked Kingdom, the spectacular sequel to Six of Crows.
When you can't beat the odds, change the game.
Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead
Author
Series
Six of crows volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Kaz and his crew find their loyalties tested after pulling off an impossible heist and are forced to fight for their lives when powerful enemies descend on Ketterdam in pursuit of knowledge about a dangerous drug.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"Face your demons ... or feed them. The dashing young king, Nikolai Lantsov, has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war--and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, Nikolai must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha army. Yet with every day a dark magic withing him grows stronger,...
Author
Series
Six of crows volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The capital has fallen. The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. Hidden away, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Darkness never dies. Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. But she can't outrun her past or her destiny for long. The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Can you love the dark when you know what it hides?
Some things aren't supposed to exist outside of our imagination.
Thirteen years ago, monsters emerged from the shadows and plunged Kierse's world into a cataclysmic war of near-total destruction. The New York City she knew so well collapsed practically overnight.
In the wake of that carnage, the Monster Treaty was created. A truce...of sorts.
But tonight, Kierse—a gifted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
As Fjerda's massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm to win this fight, and Zoya Nazyalensky must embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs, meanwhile Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital.
10) Shadow and bone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashed dormant magic not even she know she possessed. Now Alina will enter a world of royalty and intrigue as she trains with the Grisha and falls under the spell of their charismatic leader. He believes Alina can summon a force capable of destroying the Fold and reuniting their country. As the threat to the...
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Series
Queen's thief volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
"Kamet, a secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition and the means to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire. But with a whispered warning the future he envisioned is wrenched away, and he is forced onto a very different path"--
Author
Series
Queen's thief volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Neither accepted nor beloved, Eugenides is the uneasy linchpin of a truce on the Lesser Peninsula, where he has risen to be high king of Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis. As the treacherous Baron Erondites schemes anew and a prophecy appears to foretell the death of the king, the ruthless Mede empire prepares to strike.
Author
Series
Gilded wolves volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a darkly glamorous world The Gilded Wolves is full of mystery, decadence and dangerous but thrilling adventure. Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier, Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. But when the all-powerful society, the Order of Babel,...
14) The thief
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
16) Ninth house
Author
Series
Alex Stern volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
"Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend...
18) Phantom evil
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A secret government unit is formed under the oversight of Adam Harrison, famed paranormal investigator. The six members he's gathered know a little of the otherworldly: each has honed a psychic talent of their own. Jackson Crowe, part English, part Cheyenne, heads the group. Haunted by his experience with an ancestral ghost who saved his life as a child, and the recent murders of two previous teammates, Jackson can't tell if Adam's demoted him or...
Language
English
Description
First published in 1894, this extensive fairy tale anthology was edited by Andrew Lang, a pioneering author and critic. By bringing together folk tales from all over the world and having them translated into English, many for the first time, he was able to create rich and varied collections of stories, opening readers' eyes to a whole world of magical possibility overseas.
Publisher
Rhino Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The Crossroads Guitar Festival, a day-long concert featuring legendary music and collaborations, was held on June 26th, 2010 to benefit the Crossroads Centre in Antigua. This film showcases top guitarists, including Eric Clapton, ZZ Top, Steve Winwood, BB King, Jeff Beck, Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, Buddy Guy, John Mayer, Bill Murray, and more.
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