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Obsidian and blood volume 3
Language
English
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After the new emperor's coronation war ends in failure Acatl, high priest of the dead in the Mexica empire, must investigate when a captive dies under mysterious and magical circumstances.
Language
English
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Description
Indiana Jones, his sidekick Short Round, and nightclub singer Willie Scott go from high-flying action above the Himalayas to a nail-biting runaway mine car chase and finally a spine-tingling escape from a fortress-like mine in India while on the trail of a sacred stone.
24) Dark tide
Author
Series
Dark tide volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After offering herself to save her brother Finley and secret crush Tomas from capture by Caldella's Witch Queen, Lina Kirk and the witch soon face a terrible choice.
Sixteen-year-old Lina Kirk sacrifices herself to her sinking island's Witch Queen, Eva, to save her brother and her secret crush, but when she and Eva fall in love, everyone is in danger.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As the social fabric of life in rural India disintegrates in the late 1990s, journalist Manav Banerjee moves with his pregnant wife to the town of Orissa in the hope of a better life and the promise of a lucrative career. When speculation mounts that local Australian missionary Graham Staines is illegally proselytizing leprosy patients, Manav agrees to investigate undercover for the newspaper. What he finds is a series of revelations that are difficult...
26) Under my tree
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Language
English
Description
Susanne has a special connection with a tree in the forest near her grandmother's home and every time she visits she notices and learns something new about trees.
27) Redemptor
Author
Series
Raybearer volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"For the first time, an Empress Redemptor sits on Aritsar's throne. To appease the sinister spirits of the dead, Tarisai must now anoint a council of her own, coming into her full power as a Raybearer. She must then descend into the Underworld, a sacrifice to end all future atrocities. Tarisai is determined to survive. Or at least, that's what she tells her increasingly distant circle of friends. Months into her shaky reign as empress, child spirits...
28) Lifeling
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"Lonny is a lifeling. He has the power to heal any living creature and bring it back from the dead. But he pays a price for this gift--by lengthening the creature's life, he shortens his own. So Lonny has to be careful, has to stay hidden in the forest. Because if people knew what he could do, Lonny would be left with no life at all..."
"Twelve-year-old Lonny Quicke and his younger brother finally leave their hidden forest home and venture into the...
29) Romola
Author
Lexile measure
1300L
Language
English
Description
Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years following the expulsion of the powerful Medici family during which the zealous religious reformer Savonarola rose to control the city. At its heart is Romola, the devoted daughter of a blind scholar, married to the clever but ultimately treacherous Tito whose duplicity in both love and politics threatens to destroy everything she values, and she must break away to find her own path in...
30) Given to the sea
Author
Series
Given duet (Mindy McGinnis) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Khosa was born to be fed to the sea, to prevent the kind of wave that once destroyed the Kingdom of Stille. She can't be sacrificed until she produces an heir, but human touch repulses her-- except for the touch of the Indiri. Dara and Donil are the last of the Indiri, a native race with magic that's a force of nature. Witt is leader of the Pietra, the fierce warriors who are now marching on the Kingdom of Stille; to ensure the survival of his people,...
Author
Series
Obsidian and blood volume 01
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Year One-Knife, Tenochtitlan the capital of the Aztecs. Human sacrifice and the magic of the living blood are the only things keeping the sun in the sky and the earth fertile. A priestess disappears from an empty room drenched in blood. It should be a usual investigation for Acatl, High Priest of the Dead, except that his estranged brother is involved, and the more he digs, the deeper he is drawn into the political and magical intrigues of noblemen,...
Author
Series
Malloreon volume 03
Language
English
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Description
Ancient, opposing forces continue the battle for control of all men in their quest across a strange continent and among stranger peoples struggling over the religion of a dead God.
Author
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Gideon Chase receives a cryptic letter after his estranged father's suicide. Now Gideon must team up with an intrepid policewoman to expose a secret international society of Stonehenge cultists, whose ruthless new leader performs human sacrifices to unlock the secret of the stones.
35) Monstrous
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Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Latavia is presented as a human sacrifice to an ancient beast, she is determined to do whatever it takes to survive--even if that includes making a deal with the monster and endangering her crush and family.
"Don't go outside past dark. Come straight home after church. And above all-never, ever, go into Red Wood. These are the rules Latavia's aunt gives her when Latavia arrives in Sanctum, Alabama for the summer. Weird, but...
Author
Series
Ben Hope thrillers volume 2
Language
English
Description
Enlisted by beautiful opera star Leigh Llewell to investigate her brother Oliver's mysterious death, SAS operative Ben Hope finds himself caught up in a centuries-old puzzle. The official line states that Oliver died while investigating Mozart's death, but the facts don't add up.
37) Waterfall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Eureka, a girl whose tears have the power to raise the lost continent of Atlantis and who travels across the ocean with Cat, her family, and Ander, the gorgeous and mysterious Seedbearer who promises to help her, has the chance to save the world but might have to give up everything--even love.
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Language
English
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Carol and Gene Kent's son is in prison. When I Lay My Isaac Down tells their story and shares the transformational power principles they learned about forgiveness and faith.
Dealing with her anger, grief, and shame, Carol could have given up. Instead she tells a highly personal, heartbreaking, and uplifting story that will bolster your faith.
Updated and revised, this edition contains a new chapter about what God has taught Carol since her
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English
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At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat--the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her to befriend Ally Wilson, the deputy ambassador's wife....
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