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1) Foxglove
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow must solve a duke's murder and contend with a seemingly all-powerful deity, Fate"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Description
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The...
A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The...
3) Dark stars
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Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Dorothy finds herself completely alone. Roman is dead. The Chronology Protection Agency wants nothing to do with her. The Black Cirkus no longer trusts her...and Ash is gone. Dorothy has seen the evidence with her own eyes, she knows that she was the one who killed Ash. But she still has no idea how, when, or most importantly, why. But the discovery of several missing pages from the Professor's journal drives a narrow sliver of hope into her heart"--...
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Publisher
Jimmy Patterson
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Seventeen-year-old Daphne has spent her entire life honing her body and mind into that of a warrior, hoping to be accepted by the unyielding people of ancient Sparta. But an unexpected encounter with the goddess Artemis---who holds Daphne's brother's fate in her hands---upends the life she's worked so hard to build.
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"A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the...
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Emblem Island volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After changing the fate he has known since birth, twelve-year-old Tor Luna, accompanied by his friends Engle and Melda, must visit the notorious Night Witch to break the curse he now faces.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Set in an unnamed valley--surrounded by other valleys, each twenty years apart in time--a masterful, moving literary speculative novel in which the Conseil determines if a bereaved resident can cross the border to the past or the future on a "mourning tour." One sixteen-year-old Conseil candidate spots two visitors from the future, but is shocked when she recognizes them as the parents of the boy she loves"--
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HarperCollins
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Adam Kindred is in London for a job interview and looking at a bright future. Then he has a chance meeting in a restaurant that results in a series of actions that cost him his family, his money, his very identity. Utterly alone, Adam joins London's underground society of dispossessed and tries to figure out what happened to his life.
12) The love scribe
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Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
While trying to harness her extraordinary gift--the ability to write stories that make others fall in love--Alice is summoned to the estate of the reclusive Madeline Alger and her mysterious library where she is faced with her most challenging assignment yet, one that forces her to confront her own guarded heart.
13) The foretelling
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Growing up the daughter of an Amazon queen who shuns her, Rain rebels against the ways of her tribe through her sister-like relationship with Io and her feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic...
15) Just in case
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Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Convinced that fate is out to get him, fifteen-year-old David Case assumes a new identity in the hope of avoiding what he believes is certain doom.
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Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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"Hannah Martin's life isn't shaping up into much of anything. Since graduating college eight years ago, she has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs ... She takes up residence in her best friend Gabby's guest room. Along with Gabby and Gabby's husband Mark, [she goes] out to a bar where they meet up with some of [their] old friends, including Hannah's high school boyfriend, Ethan. Shortly after midnight, Gabby asks Hannah...
17) Ed King: a novel
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Pub. Date
2011
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When a mild-mannered actuary sleeps with the sexy British au pair who's taking care of his children in Seattle in 1962, he sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions. Their orphaned child, adopted and adored, grow up to be Edward Aaron King, a billionaire Internet tycoon and international celebrity-- who unknowingly hurtles through life toward a fate he may have no power to shape.
18) The look of love
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Born during a Christmas blizzard, Jane Williams receives a rare gift: the ability to see true love. On her twenty-ninth birthday, Jane receives a card from the midwife who delivered her specifying that Jane must identify the six types of love before the full moon following her thirtieth birthday or face grave consequences"--
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France, 1914. Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family's ancestral estate, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major's aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. Betrayal will shatter them both. France, 1942. Raised by her American grandmother in the Hotel Ritz, Marguerite 'Daisy' Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator,...
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Series
Forged in fire and stars volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Ara, fated to be the next Loresmith, a blacksmith serving alongside the ruler of Saetlund, is taken by the long-lost heirs to the throne on a dangerous journey that leads to surprising truths.
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