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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco web-design drone and landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything. Soon he embarks on a complex analysis of the...
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"A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading 'with murderous attention,' must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during...
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"When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need isn't always what we seek. Set in the world of New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree's Bookshops & Bonedust takes us on a journey of high fantasy, first loves, and secondhand books. Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's...
5) Hidden Realm
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Series
Living oracle volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after joining with the oracular bookstore Abernathy's to become an oracle herself, Helena Campbell has a perfect a loving husband, three wonderful children who share her gift, and a calling she loves. But a chance encounter reveals a secret conflict between adepts who wield magic unlike anything she has ever seen and a powerful cabal that wants to rule the world. For a thousand years, the adepts have guarded the way to the realm of Faerie,...
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Lexile measure
600L
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English
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"Gaige's curiousity gets the better of him when he discovers a bookstore on an abandoned street. He steps inside and is immediately enthralled by its antiquarian sights and smells. But one book in particular calls to him. It isn't long before he gets a bad feeling about it, but it's already too late. The store's aged bookseller gives him no alternative: once he touches the book, it's hiswhether he wants it or not. It's bought and paid for and there...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Running from strife in her homeland, Maribella Waters becomes the new owner of the fabled Cozy Quill [Bookshop]. After finding squatters on her property, she employs Asteria Helsdottir, a giant, barbarian warrior woman more accustomed to swinging an axed than opening a book. Together, the odd couple must make a success out of the bookshop -- and survive the dizzying procession of seasonal festivals." -- back cover.
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Tomes and tea novel volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on every table, firelight drifting between the rafters... all complemented by love and good company. Thing is, Reyna works as one of the Queen's private guards, and Kianthe is the most powerful mage in existence. Leaving their lives isn't so easy. But after an assassin takes Reyna hostage, she decides she's thoroughly done risking her life for a self-centered...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
880L
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Since he was six years old, Milo has lived on board the Sesquipedalian, or "Quip," a magical train that uses the power of imagination to travel through both stories and the real world. Aboard the Quip, Milo lives and works with his uncle, Horatio, a book smuggler who trades in rare books. When Horatio takes on a dangerous new job, he needs the help of Tilly Pages, a uniquely gifted bookwanderer. But when Tilly's grandfather and...
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Lexile measure
660L
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English
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This moving story about a magical bookstore explores the way war can shape a family and is perfect for book lovers everywhere, especially fans of Pages & Co., Pax, and Wolf Hollow. It's 1944 Sutton, NY, and Poppy's family owns and runs, Rhyme and Reason, a magical bookshop that caters to people from all different places and time periods. Though her world is ravaged by World War II, customers hail from the past and the future, infusing the shop with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
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English
Description
When twelve-year-old Nick runs away from his uncle's in the middle of a blizzard, he stumbles onto a very opinionated bookstore. He also meets its guardian, the self-proclaimed Evil Wizard Smallbone, who calls Nick his apprentice and won't let him leave, but won't teach him magic, either. It's a good thing the bookstore takes Nick's magical education in hand, because Smallbone's nemesis-the Evil Wizard Fidelou-and his pack of shape-shifting bikers...
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"Kaori lives in a bookstore where the boundaries between the mortal realm and the spirit realm are blurred. She spends her days in peace, selling books to otherworldly beings alongside her adoptive father, a spirit himself. But all of that is disrupted when a self-proclaimed exorcist stumbles into this ghostly utopia. Can Kaori embrace her better nature and help a man who's vowed revenge against all spirits find his way back home?" --
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Kelsey Willoughby doesn't have time to pursue her writing dreams. Imagination doesn't pay the bills, and she's busy saving her beautiful bookshop from the online competition, hotel developers, and the sneaking suspicion that no one reads anymore. Not to mention all those voices telling her she doesn't have talent. But then the vacant lot of weeds next door begins to shimmer. When Kelsey stumbles into a luminous nighttime garden party, larger than...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When Milo, Tilly, Oskar, and Alessia venture into Arthurian legend to find the first bookwanderer--the wizard Merlin--they discover that the magic of bookwandering is not at all what they thought. Together, they must journey into Greek and Roman mythology to bargain with the trickster Loki and find a way to untangle the Alchemist's grip on the world's imagination. And to save Pages & Co. and protect the very foundations of bookwandering, the friends...
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Join Nate and his foul-mouthed, homicidal unicorn as they take on Angels, the Four Horsemen, the Brothers Grimm, and cure St. Louis of a reptile dysfunction (dragon shifters are persisitent), . Get ready to cry with laughter as you learn a very valuable lesson -- things can always get worse. Especially if Nate Temple is driving the car."--Page 4 of cover
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