Nicole Parnell
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
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Kathy's best so far, says an enthusiastic reader of Shivering World. Dr. Graysha Brady-Phillips is suffering from a genetic disease that causes weakness and early death. When she is offered a position on planet Goddard, where the average life span exceeds 150 years, she leaps at the chance. The colonists' radical--and illegal--science just might be her only hope for a cure. Graysha must convince a group of paranoid rebel scientists to trust the daughter...
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"For the first time in American history, a generation is worse off than their parents. With their overthrow of tradition and authority, the Baby Boomers claim to have been humanity's greatest liberators, but their children would happily trade that so-called liberation for a little less debt, the chance to own a home before fifty, and a shot at extracting some commitment from the bosses and romantic partners who view their relationships as temporary....
3) Dragonsworn
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After destroying a power-sucking slake before he killed my friends, I'm feeling stronger and more confident than ever. Donovan and I are together, I'm pulling in more threads than before, and I have new abilities I'm excited to master. So what if I might be flunking Magical Creatures & How to Tame Them-not everything comes easy, right? When I stumble over a dead girl-one of eight Outlings at the Academy-and she's marked with an O and a #7, it's clear...
4) Unraveler
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After defeating the nightlace vine eager to kill every Outling on campus, I'm feeling kinda cocky. But nothing ever goes smoothly for me, does it? Let's start with the good news first: I've not only figured out how to ride an aldakor, but I've also convinced the naiad living in the moat that I can be trusted. You might say I've got an in with magical creatures. And I've found a new best friend who's awesome, even if she's keeping secrets. The bad...
5) Outling
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Magic doesn't exist in the human world. As far as I know. But when I fling a fireball at a bully, my horrified mom dumps me at Crystal Wing Academy, a place straight out of my favorite fantasy books. They tell me I'm an Outling, a wizard born from non-magical parents. Mom's human. Dad? I don't exactly know who he is... One thing I do know is I'm not an Elite-descendants of the original six families who split from the Fae ages ago. At seventeen, their...