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Author
Series
Edinburgh nights volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Desperate for money to look after her family, Ropa Moyo accepts a job at the magical private hospital Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments, but when her investigation into a coma patient leads her to the Edinburgh Ordinary School for Boys, she learns a long-dormant and malevolent entity has taken hold in this world.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Lamar Jimmerson is the leader of the Gnomon Society, the international fraternal order dedicated to preserving the arcane wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis. Stationed in France in 1917, Jimmerson comes across a little book crammed with Atlantean puzzles, Egyptian riddles, and extended alchemical metaphors. It's the Codex Pappus - the sacred Gnomon text. Soon he is basking in the lore of lost Atlantis, convinced that his mission on earth is to administer...
Author
Series
The Keepers (Ted Sanders) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Horace F. Andrews, Keeper of the fabled Box of Promises, knows that nothing is impossible. After all, he has the ability to see into the future, and his friend Chloe can walk through walls. But before either of them can master their Tan'ji--their talismans of power--a new threat looms over all Keepers, and they must prepare to battle their eternal enemies: the Riven. Far away, drawn by an irresistible summons, a mysterious girl is making her way...
64) Sharpest sting
Author
Series
Elemental Assassin book volume 18
Publisher
Jennifer Estep]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The truth won't set me free--but it will probably get me killed ...As Gin Blanco, aka the assassin the Spider, I'm used to having a target on my back. But ever since I started investigating the secret society known as the Circle, that target seems bigger than ever. Still, I'm trying to relax and enjoy the events leading up to my friends' wedding when I learn that an old enemy has returned to Ashland. And that's the just beginning of my latest nightmare....
Author
Series
Elemental Assassin volume 16
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
If you dont know Gin "the Spider" Blanco, you dont know dangerous female heroines.Irony 101The Spider herself snared in someone elses webAnother week, another few clues trickling in about the Circle, the mysterious group that supposedly runs the citys underworld. Gathering intel on my hidden enemies is a painstaking process, but a more immediate mystery has popped up on my radar: a missing girl. My search for the girl begins on the mean streets of...
66) Bloodlust
Author
Series
Nightshade novels (Michelle Rowen) volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"For those who feast on blood, Jillian Conrad is a fatal attraction. After being injected with a poison that made her blood both irresistible and deadly to vampires, she was used as a pawn to assassinate the vampire king. Now the vampires want her eliminated--Jillian desperately seeks to prevent the formula in her veins from killing her. And she must find a way to help her dhampyr protector, Declan, whose exposure to the poison has split his personality...
67) The testament
Author
Series
Bravo Shaw novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The eighth book in the funny and fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans. Crossroads, noun: 1. A place where two roads cross. 2. A place where bargains can be made. 3. See also "places to avoid." Antimony Price has never done well without a support system. As the youngest of her generation, she has always...
Author
Series
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Mary Jekyll and the rest of the daughters of literature's mad scientists embark on a madcap adventure across Europe to rescue another monstrous girl and stop the Alchemical Society's nefarious plans once and for all. From Paris to Vienna to Budapest, Mary and her friends must make new allies, face old enemies, and finally confront the fearsome, secretive Alchemical Society. It's time for these monstrous gentlewomen to overcome the past and create...
70) The Wicked heir
Author
Series
The Spare Heirs volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When the love of Lady Isabelle Fairlyn's life is betrothed to her twin sister, Isabelle vows to find a suitable replacement before the end of the season. He must be a talented dancer, have a keen fashion sense, and be perfectly dashing in every way. Fallon St. James is the farthest thing from perfectly anything. As head of the secretive Spare Heirs Society, he must stick to the shadows...even as Isabelle's friendship pulls him reluctantly into the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Having tracked his missing sister to the Arkanis Imperial Academy, Zare wins acceptance into a secret society within the school in order to find her, but winds up uncovering a terrifying plot as well.
72) Legendborn
Author
Series
Legendborn volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
"Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn's YA contemporary fantasy reinvents the King Arthur legend and "braids together Southern folk traditions and Black Girl Magic into a searing modern tale of grief, power, and self-discovery" (Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles). After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood...
73) Last strand
Author
Series
Elemental Assassin book volume 19
Publisher
Jennifer Estep]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"I've battled a lot of bad guys in my time, both as Gin Blanco and as the notorious assassin the Spider. But I've never faced off against anyone quite as powerful and deadly as the dastardly leader of the Circle secret society. Just when I finally have a lead on how I can defeat the evil group once and for all, new information comes to light that throws me for a loop. Suddenly, everyone and everything I love is in imminent peril of being destroyed,...
74) 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.
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Language
English
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"1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D'Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identities of the people who killed them, she is highly sought after by widows and investigators alike. Lenna Wickes has come to Paris to find answers about her sister's death, but to do so, she must embrace the...
Author
Series
Young elites volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen. Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. She's turned her back on those who have betrayed her and achieved the ultimate revenge: victory. Her reign as the White Wolf has been a triumphant one, but with each conquest her cruelty only grows. The darkness within her has begun to spiral out of control, threatening to destroy all she's gained. When a new danger appears, Adelina's...
77) Infinity
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When 14-year-old Nick Gautier is almost killed by his best friends, he's saved by a mysterious warrior, and Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters.
78) Divine justice
Author
Series
Camel Club novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In this fourth of the Camel Club series, two bullets silence Oliver Stone's foes. Those assassinations set off a manhunt of enormous proportions by some of the highest officials in government. The Camel Club must fend for itself, all the while protecting their elusive leader, Stone, as he avoids capture by the sometimes uninformed Joe Knox, the man in charge of the hunt.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Over the last few years, prominent people--a retired diplomat, beloved basketball coach, the CEO of an empire--have died in a series of fluke accidents and shocking suicides. There's no apparent connection, no signs of foul play. Behind it all is a powerful group of women, the Sophie Foundation, who meet over wine and cheese to review files of men who behave very, very badly, and then mete out justice. Jessa Hall jumped at the mysterious, exclusive...
Author
Series
Cryptid duology (Lija Fisher) volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
As thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren continues to search for the immortal cryptid, he finds that not only is the resistance getting more dangerous, so are the cryptids.
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