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1) Half lost
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Half bad trilogy volume 3
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English
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On the run again after the decimation of the Alliance of Free Witches and constantly pursued by the Council's Hunters, Nathan Byrn organizes a bold strategy involving the missing half of Gabriel's amulet to save the rebels from total defeat.
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School for Good and Evil volume 2
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English
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When best friends Sophie and Agatha return to a fairy tale world, they find that old enemies are no longer fighting, but a war begins to brew as an enemy arises from within.
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School for Good and Evil volume 1
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English
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Best friends Sophie (princess wannabe) and Agatha (witchy loner) are headed (via kidnapping) to the School for Good and Evil, but their assumed destinies are reversed.
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Presents an adaptation of the classic Little Mermaid fairy tale from the perspective of the sea witch who provides Ariel with human legs in exchange for her voice.
What led Ursula, the sea witch, to become so twisted, scorned, and filled with hatred? Go beyond the traditional story of Disney's The Little Mermaid, and discover what heartbreak made Ursula the manipulator and villain she is.
5) Red rain
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In the aftermath of a hurricane from which she barely escapes while on a small island off the coast of South Carolina, travel writer Lea Sutter impulsively adopts a pair of orphaned twin boys against the wishes of her family before encountering the twins' sinister natures.
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"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
7) Shadowmancer
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When Obadiah Demurral, the power-hungry Vicar of Thorpe, attempts to become a god by dabbling in magic, Raphah (who has come from Africa to get back the artifact stolen from his Temple and sold to Demurral) joins forces with Kate and Thomas to stop him.
8) Sinner
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Wayfarer redemption volume 4
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English
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Overseeing a precarious peace between the three races of Tencendor, Caelum SunSoar, the son of the Starman Axis, struggles with the death of his Icarri sister at the hands of his hated brother Drago, who has been rendered mortal as punishment for his alliance with the monster Gorgrael.
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Walker family volume 2
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English
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A dying convict asks his cellmate to kidnap a girl and torture her to death because her mother blinded him while he was trying to rape her. On his release the cellmate abducts the girl, but she turns out to be as fiery as her mother.
10) Doctor Sleep
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The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless; mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the...
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Series
School for Good and Evil volume 3
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English
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Everything old is new again as Sophie and Agatha fight the past as well as the present to find the perfect end to their fairy tale. Once best friends, now enemies, Sophie and Agatha thought their ending was sealed when they went their separate ways. Agatha was whisked back to Gavaldon with Tedros, and Sophie stayed behind with the beautiful young School Master. But as they settle into their new lives, their story begs to be rewritten, and this time,...
12) Hexed
Author
Series
Iron druid chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Atticus O'Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesn't care much for witches. Still, he's about to make nice with the local coven by signing a mutually beneficial nonaggression treaty when suddenly the witch population in modern-day Tempe, Arizona, quadruples overnight. And the new girls are not just bad, they're badasses with a dark history on the German side of World War II. With a fallen angel feasting on local high school students, a horde of Bacchants...
13) Crusader
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Wayfarer redemption volume 6
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English
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A conclusion to the series that includes Enchanter and Pilgrim finds the three races of battle-torn Tencendor huddling in a magical place created to shield them from the wrath of the TimeKeeper Demons, whose efforts to defeat DragonStar are being aided by a cruel betrayal.
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A centuries-old bust of an evil, demonic man was stolen from a New Orleans grave. Its current owner shows up at Danni Cafferty's antiques shop, but before Danni can buy the statue, it disappears and the owner is found dead. Michael Quinn, a private investigator, believes that the right thing to do is to find and destroy this object weighted with malevolent powers. He and Danni follow it through sultry nights to hidden places in the French Quarter...
15) Wizard and glass
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Dark Tower volume 4
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English
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Roland and his band have narrowly escaped the city of Lud and boarded Blaine, a train that will take them to, of all places, Kansas, where the ghost city of Topeka has been depopulated by a superflu and where, alongside Interstate 70, an emerald palace rises enchantingly. Before Roland and the companions of his ka-tet continue along the Path of the Bean, Roland must tell his companions the tale that defines him both as a man and hero, a long-ago romance...
16) Tricked
Author
Series
Iron druid chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Druid Atticus O'Sullivan has battled vengeful Norse thunder gods before, and with a little help from a Navajo trickster god Coyote,he dupes them into thinking they chopped him up in the Arizona dessert. The Navajo Coyote is not above his own mischief and Atticus is battling for survival from an unlikely source.
17) Throne of glass
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Throne of glass novels volume 1
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English
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After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in...
18) The capture
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 1
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English
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The reader is introduced to Soren, a barn owl and the centerpiece of the series. When Soren is pushed from his family's nest by his older brother, he is rescued from certain death on the forest floor by agents from a mysterious school for orphaned owls, St. Aggie's. When Soren arrives at St. Aggie's, he suspects there is more to the school than meets the eye. He and his new friend, the clever and scrappy Gylfie, find out that St. Aggie's is actually...
19) Fire & blood
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The first volume of a definitive two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros is set centuries before the events of "A Game of Thrones" and answers key questions about the dynasty's origins, conflicts and relationships with dragons.
House Targaryen was the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria, and took up residence on Dragonstone. Rehear tales of the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne. Meet the generations...
20) New spring
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Wheel of time volume Prequel
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English
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For three days battle has raged in the snow around the great city of Tar Valon. In the city, a Foretelling of the future is uttered. On the slopes of Dragonmount, the immense mountain that looms over the city, is born an infant prophesied to change the world. That child must be found before the forces of the Shadow have an opportunity to kill him. Moiraine Damodred, a young Accepted soon to be raised to Aes Sedai, and Lan Mandragoran, a soldier fighting...