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"Generations of Montrose women--Augusta, Victoria, Willow--have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when seventeen-year-old Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been withholding a secret from...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Dr. James Mortimer, a man of science, visits Sherlock Holmes, a specialist in crime, in order to retrieve his walking stick. However, Dr. James also has a manuscript and a strange story to tell... The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a longstanding curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Enigmatic sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, prepares to use his considerable mind in solving the case and uncover the...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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When thirteen-year-old Saki Yamamoto unintentionally invokes a death curse, she must enter the dangerous spirit world at the Night Parade and attempt to perform deeds that can break the curse.
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"Darwin, 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down on her hometown, newly orphaned Molly Hook looks to the skies and runs for her life. Inside a duffel bag, she carries a stone heart and a map that will lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer whom she believes cursed her family. Accompanying her are the most unlikely traveling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a Japanese fighter pilot who's abandoned his post. With messages...
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French king Philip the Fair governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family. His sons are weak and their wives adulterous, and his daughter unhappily married to an English king who prefers the company of men. A web of scandal, murder and intrigue is weaving itself around the Iron King, but his downfall comes from an unexpected quarter: bent on the persecution of the rich and powerful Knights Templar, Philip sentences Grand Master...
7) Ring
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Quincunx cycle (Andre Alexis) volume 3
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A fresh take on the romance novel from the Giller Prize-winning author of Fifteen Dogs From their very first meeting, it would seem that Gwen and Tancred were made for one another. Like all good romances, Ring will bring them together. There is, of course, a wrinkle. Gwenhwyfar's mother, Helen Odhiambo Lloyd, upon intuiting that her daughter is in love, gives her a ring. This ring has been passed down from endless generations of mothers to their daughters....
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Deep within the jungles of Borneo flows a legendary river of diamonds …
An ex-Marine on the run from the nightmares of war. An American scientist and his beautiful wife on a desperate journey to save their marriage. An aging native shaman trying to teach his grandson one last, all important, lesson. All are headed up an uncharted river into a confrontation with a mysterious warlord trapped by a deadly...
An ex-Marine on the run from the nightmares of war. An American scientist and his beautiful wife on a desperate journey to save their marriage. An aging native shaman trying to teach his grandson one last, all important, lesson. All are headed up an uncharted river into a confrontation with a mysterious warlord trapped by a deadly...
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Veiled realm volume 1
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"Delphine has been fae-marked from birth, treated as a curse despite the fact the once treacherous fae haven't been sighted in decades-in fact, no one in Delph's village has so much as laid eyes on one of the folk in nearly a century. Right up until a fae turns up on her doorstep, demanding Delph as down payment. No sooner has she set foot in the fae realm, however, then she learns she's no mere collateral in a deal made with the lord that owns her...
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