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Author
Series
Ninja librarians volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As an apprentice on a training mission to 1912 England, Dorrie takes a chance that could lead the Strongholders to the Lybrarians' fortress, Petrarch's library.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Waking up in a modern London hospital 200 years after meeting his death on a Napoleonic battlefield, Nick Falcott is indoctrinated into a time-traveling society and returned to the side of a woman he loves to reclaim a vital talisman, a mission that places the fate of the future in his hands.
Author
Series
Fraternitas Aureae Crucis volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"All Grace Gauthier ever wanted was the security of a good marriage, family, and home. Instead, despised by her aristocratic mother's family because of her father's foreign birth, she's taken a 'safe' position as a governess. Now, unprotected and alone in London, accused of the shocking murder of her employer, she has no one to turn to except the mysterious--and possibly dangerous--Lord Ruthveyn."--p. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 10
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Twins Ethan and Ella go on an adventure in Greece, where they learn about the mystery-solving Society of Apollo"--
Author
Series
The wild hunt trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A member of a Church order dedicated to eradicating witches without mercy, Novice Knight Gair begins to hear beautiful, unearthly music and flees for his life in the hopes of contacting a secret collective of Guardians, an effort that is compromised by a deteriorating boundary between worlds.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
To find her best friend Polly who went missing, Maren Montgomery enters into a high-stakes world she never knew existed within her boarding academy, where she is forced to play increasingly dangerous games to win Polly's survival.
89) The Lazarus men
Author
Series
Lazarus men agenda volume 1
Publisher
Warfighter Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gerald LaPlant's life is thrown into chaos after he accidentally witnesses a murder. He is chased across the stars by a powerful man who wants the item he has and a shadow organization for what he knows. Time is running out."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Ninja librarians volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Dorrie and her brother Marcus accidently open a portal to Petrarch's Library where they discover a secret society of warrior librarians who travel in time, protecting the world's greatest thinkers from torture and death for sharing knowledge and ideas.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miracle Springs, North Carolina, is a place of healing. Strangers flock here hoping the natural hot springs, five-star cuisine, and renowned spa can cure their ills. If none of that works, they often find their way to Miracle Books, where, over a fresh-baked "comfort" scone from the Gingerbread House bakery, they exchange their stories with owner Nora Pennington in return for a carefully chosen book. That's Nora's special talent--prescribing the perfect...
93) Very bad people
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Calliope Bolan joins a powerful secret society at her new boarding school, hoping to find answers about her mother's death, but she becomes involved in a dangerous campaign for revenge that threatens her new friendships.
Author
Series
Convergence saga volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother was shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it. As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events. Members of a local werewolf pack are threatened into silence....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After being assigned to her university's prestigious and controversial neo-anthropological studies program, eighteen-year-old deaf student Delaney Meyers-Petrov must learn to channel her ability to slip between worlds--and, along with her capricious TA Colton Price, who seems determined to despise her, must uncover buried institutional secrets.
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 4
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Christopher Rowe is shipwrecked in Devonshire, where children are disappearing and a ghost is suspected, but even Tom and Sally's arrival may not cure his amnesia in time to help.
Author
Series
(David Eric),Reincarnationist Papers volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Evan Michaels is in a new life as a Syrian refugee. When memories of his former lives lead him back to Zurich, headquarters of his fellow reincarnationists, the Cognomina, he must reacquire their trust.
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1666, after four months away, friends Christopher Rowe, Tom, and Sally return to London triumphantly but, guided by coded riddles, face a conspiracy that threatens Christopher, as well as the King himself.
Author
Series
Ashtown burials volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When their parents' seedy old motel burns down on the same night they are visited by a strange man covered in skeleton tattoos, Cyrus, Antigone, and their brother Daniel are introduced to an ancient secret society, and discover that they have an important role in keeping it alive.
100) Lassiter
Author
Series
Black Dagger Brotherhood. Main series volume 21
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A fallen angel finds love with a mysterious female -- who could be his destiny -- or the embodiment of his utter destruction.
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