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Author
Series
Wayward children volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children ... Jacqueline was her mother's perfect daughter--polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it's because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline. Jillian was her father's perfect daughter--adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would...
63) Skyborn
Author
Series
Seraphim novels (David Dalglish) volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After their parents are killed, twins Kael and Brenna Skyborn become Seraphim, aerial soldiers who use ice, fire, stone, and lightning as their weapons, as they prepare to fight in the brutal civil war occuring on the islands floating above the Endless Ocean.
64) Fireborn
Author
Series
Seraphim novels (David Dalglish) volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The next novel in the Seraphim series following Skyborn from USA Today bestselling author, David Dalglish. Bree and Kael Skyborn have seen their island invaded, their Seraphim disbanded, and their royal family imprisoned. A rebellion grows from the ashes, demanding Bree to be their Phoenix, their symbol against Center's tyranny, and for Kael to find the doomsday prophet Johan and sway his cult to their side. Should they fail, the hope of their rebellion...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Posing as his twin brother to investigate improprieties at one of the family estates, Jason Barrington, a reformed rogue, finds himself drawn to the scandalous Gwendolyn Ellingham, whose sisters are caught up in the viscount's intrigues.
66) Superb and sexy
Author
Series
Publisher
Brava/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In the third novel in a trilogy that began with Smart and Sexy and Strong and Sexy, Brody, the brooding, bad boy pilot of Sky High Air, may have met his match in the person of Maddie, Sky High's wise-cracking, gorgeous concierge, when he discovers that she and her twin sister Leena have gotten themselves into some big-time trouble.
67) The lying game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife.
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Head mage Alexander Stowe and his friends successfully fended off the latest threat to their magical world of Artimé with the help of a surprise ally. But old enemies have secretly been plotting against them. Now Alex must lead his people in a final epic battle, one they can't hope to win alone"--
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The Masked Man possesses a powerful magic potion that turns every book it touches into a portal, and he is recruiting an army of literature's greatest villains! So begins a race through the magical Land of Oz, the fantastical world of Neverland, the madness of Wonderland, and beyond. Can twins Alex and Conner catch up to the Masked Man?"-- Provided by publisher.
70) The alchemyst
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
71) Don't let go
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"With unmatched suspense and emotional insight, Harlan Cob enexplores the big secrets and little lies that can destroy a relationship, a family, and even a town in this powerful new thriller. Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon "Nap" Dumas hasn't been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brother Leo and Leo's girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks -- and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke...
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones-it's both a standalone delight and a treat for longtime fans of the series. When we Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister-whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice-back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world isn't always...
74) Creed's honor
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miller's novel stars Connor Creed, a rancher reluctantly carrying on his uncle's legacy in Lonesome Bend, Colorado. For years he's sacrificed his own dreams to fulfill the promise he made to his uncle. But everything changes when his wild, estranged twin brother re-enters his life--and then there's the beautiful Tricia McCall, who stirs feelings of passion deep within Connor's soul.
75) The storm
Author
Series
Sons of Destiny volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
76) The grammarians
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language by the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport follows the experiences of identical twins whose respective literary careers are upended by their battle to claim an heirloom dictionary.
Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins, share an obsession with words. As adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation begins to push them apart. Their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Regan Arts
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Lex, an impulsive military cadet, and Livia, a pampered Airess, have just found out they are twins, which is against the law in the great City of Indra. Now they are leaving behind the only world they have ever known: for Lex it was the dark world of the Hub below the surface of Indra, where she survived the brutal Orphanage to become an elite member of Indra's Population Control Forces, and for Livia, it was a life of luxury on the sky island of...
78) The wild child
Author
Series
Bride trilogy (Mary Jo Putney) volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Dictionary of Lost Words. "Williams spins an immersive and compelling tale, sweeping us back to the Oxford she painted so expertly in The Dictionary of Lost Words."--Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife It is 1914, and as the war...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of It's Always the Husband comes a riveting new suspense novel about privilege, power, and what happens when we let ambition take control. When twin sisters Rose and Bel Enright enroll in The Odell School, a prestigious New Hampshire boarding school, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. But the sisters could not be more different. The school brings out a rivalry between them that few ever knew existed. And the school itself...
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