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Girls of paper and fire series volume 1
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English
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Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for... and the most cruel. But this year, there's a ninth girl... and she's made of fire. Lei is a member of the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. She's forced to go with the royal guards after her golden eyes pique the king's interest. Forced to learn the skills and charm that befit being a king's consort, Lei does the unthinkable--...
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Beyonders volume 2
Language
English
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Jason returns to Lyrian to share life-saving information while Rachel and her companions encounter new enemies and struggle to recruit a vital ally.
3) Wool
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English
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"The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of a community living in an underground silo completely unaware of the fate of the outside world. When the silo's sheriff asks to leave the silo, a series of events unravels the very fabric of their fragile lives. In a world where all commodities are precious and running out, truth and hope may be the most rare ... and the most needed"--
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Beyonders volume 1
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old Jason Walker is transported to a strange world called Lyrian, where he joins Rachel, who was also drawn there from our world, and a few rebels, to piece together the Word that can destroy the malicious wizard emperor, Surroth.
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Beyonders volume 3
Language
English
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Jason and Rachel's adventures and friendships have made Lyrian more of a home to them than they could have imagined, so now, armed with the prophecy of a dying oracle, they are ready to become Lyrian's heroes whatever the cost to themselves.
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Goddess war (Jon Skovron) volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After imperial soldiers kill their father, Sonya relies on her training as a Ranger of Marzanna to try to take down the invading Empire, while her brother, Sebastian uses powerful sorcery to support it.
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Twisted tales (Liz Braswell) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Aladdin is a street rat. There's really no getting around that. Like most, he's just trying to survive another day in impoverished Agrabah. Jasmine is a princess, one who is about to enter into an arranged marriage. All she wants is to escape her fate, to see what lies beyond the palace walls. But everything changes when the sultan's trusted advisor, Jafar, suddenly rises to power. With the help of an ancient lamp, Jafar becomes determined to break...
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The lives and fates of three civilizations separated in time become intertwined as the forces behind an indestructible and massive canal 2,000 miles long and spanning the mid-continent of Earth react to a plot to overthrow the world government, and three teams of scientists find their lives changed beyond belief.
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Girls of paper and fire series volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"In this mesmerizing sequel to the New York Times bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire, Lei and Wren have escaped their oppressive lives in the Hidden Palace, but soon learn that freedom comes with a terrible cost. Lei, the naive country girl who became a royal courtesan, is now known as the Moonchosen, the commoner who managed to do what no one else could. But slaying the cruel Demon King wasn't the end of the plan---it's just the beginning. Now Lei...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A fast-paced thriller that follows a group of Christian survivalists through a stock market crash, an economic collapse, and a second civil war. "Patriots" doesn't just tell what could happen in the near future, it explains exactly how to prepare for such a disaster.
13) Rebel rose
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Queen's council volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Belle and Adam, once known as the Beast, who, soon after their marriage, must take on heavy responsibilities as rulers of Aveyon during the French Revolution.
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English
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In Freedom's Landing, a galactic invasion forced thousands of humans to colonize a new planet. In Freedom's Choice, human Kris Bjornsen and her comrades found new hope for rebellion. Now, in Freedom's Challenge, Kris and her Catteni lover Zainal prepare to face danger and pain, in the final fight for liberty. To safeguard his family & his freedom, Zainal must lead an attack on his own planet.
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Pub. Date
c2001
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English
Description
In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.
16) Bearmouth
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Having lived and worked in Bearmouth mine since age four, Newt accepts everything about the brutal life until mysterious Devlin arrives and dares to ask why, leading Newt and other miners to challenge the system.
17) Poster girl
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English
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"What's right is right. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan--she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked...
18) Arch-conspirator
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. In Arch-Conspirator, Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. "A gut punch of a story. Roth takes everything fragile about love, everything powerful about certain doom, and blooms with it. You'll be holding your breath until the very last word"--Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling...
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Rebel of the sands volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Armed with only her revolver, her wits, and the Demdji powers she's struggling to control, Amani must rally a crew of rebels to take on the bloodthirsty sultan of Miraji and free the imprisoned prince Ahmed.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's captivating new novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman--Evangelina Cisneros--who changed the course of history. A feud rages in Gilded Age New York City between newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. When Grace Harrington lands a job at Hearst's newspaper...
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