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Half-witch/half-fey Callie McFay, a professor of gothic literature, must protect her friends and colleagues at the Fairwick college from fey and witches alike. To stave off disaster, Callie enlists Duncan Laird, an alluring seductive academic who cultivates her vast magical potential, but to what end?
2) Arcadia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 29
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English
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In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie. One day, while chasing Lytten's cat, Rosie encounters a doorway in his cellar. She steps through and finds herself in an idyllic, pastoral land where Storytellers are revered above all others. There she meets a...
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Alliance vampires volume 07
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English
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Several visiting college students venture into the woods of Transylvania, ignoring the warnings of their professor, Bryan McCallister. When the students disappear, Bryan believes a dark cult is at work, and approaches psychologist Jessica Fraser for assistance. "The search takes them from the forested mountains to dimly lit clubs in New Orleans' French Quarter, where perversion goes beyond sexual to life-threatening. And everywhere, whispering on...
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2013.
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English
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"A can't-miss read for fans of Deborah Harkness and Karen Marie Moning, The Angel Stone weaves a tale of ancient folklore and thrilling fantasy with a passionate love story that transcends time. For Callie McFay, a half-witch/half-fey professor of folklore and Gothic literature, the fight to save the enchanted town of Fairwick, New York, is far from over. After a hostile takeover by the Grove--a sinister group of witches and their cohorts--many of...
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"England, 1959: to eight-year-old Felicity, the fairies in the woods have much more to offer than her everyday life on a dying farm. However, as she becomes rooted in Their world, she learns that all magic has a price. In recompense for a tragedy, Their queen, Elfrida, offers her a gift--and fairy bargains are never what they seem. Now grown and at university, Felicity wants to build a new life for herself. But Elfrida--and Hobb, her constant companion--has...
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Emily Wilde volume 1
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English
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"In the early 1900s, a curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town to study faerie folklore, where she discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on dryadology, the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small...
7) All for you
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English
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"Peaches Alexander is thrilled to receive an unexpected invitation to a weekend party given by the handsome, eligible Duke of Kenneworth. The only problem: Stephen de Piaget, a stuffy medieval studies scholar who seems determined to get in the way. Peaches has absolutely no desire to get involved with Stephen, until a quirk of Fate sends her hurtling through time...Stephen de Piaget has been leading a double life: respectable professor by day, knight-in-training...
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After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers. But in this inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins to swirl. Alice knows things about Brynn, about all of them, that she shouldn't. Bad dreams and night whispers...
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2024.
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English
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"Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua's Women's College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition is lifeblood, and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold. On her first day of class, Laura Sheridan is thrust into an intense academic rivalry with the beautiful and enigmatic Carmilla. Together, they are drawn into the confidence of their demanding poetry professor,...
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[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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620L
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English
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With help from an eccentric professor in giving their imaginations special intensive training, three children succeed in locating the last of the great Whangdoodles and granting his heart's desire.
13) The devourers
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2016.
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English
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"A dreamlike novel about a young historian and a persuasive and beguiling stranger coming together in modern-day Kolkata, India to transcribe an ancient journal. A collection of paper, parchment, and skins, the journal tells of bloodshed, kidnapping, magic and shapeshifting, set against the harsh landscapes of the 17th-Century Mughal Empire. It reveals the story of hunters and prey, lovers and the beloved, and, in the end, the choice to be transformed,...
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[2023]
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English
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"Happy birthday. Let’s go to hell. When nineteen-year-old Eliza enrolls in a UCLA history class—taught by handsome, enigmatic professor Oliver Crowley—she vows to solve the mystery that is her professor, which leads to a terrifying quest full of demons, homunculi, zombie gang bangers, and an obnoxious stepmother. But, can she confront the most frightening creature of all—herself? Eliza and The Alchemist takes readers on a macabre journey...
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