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"To get what they want most, Zara and Jude search for Emer, an orphaned witch with dark and deadly powers, but when a serial killer targets Emer's clients, the three girls form an uneasy alliance to hunt the killer before they meet the same fate"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears"--
Sade Hussein is starting her third year of high school, this time at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy boarding school. After being home-schooled all her life and feeling like a magnet for misfortune, she's not sure what will happen. What she doesn't expect though is for her roommate Elizabeth to disappear after Sade's first night. Or for people...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Clayton Stumper might be in his twenties, but he dresses like your grandpa and fusses like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists and now finds himself among the last survivors of a fading institution. When the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in Clayton's life, Pippa Allsbrook, passes away, she bestows her final puzzle on him: a promise...
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Seven Sisters volume 8
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English
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1928, Paris.... A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precocious, talented, he flourishes in his new home, and the family show him a life he hadn{u2019}t dreamed possible. But he refuses to speak a word about who is really is. As he grows into a young man, falling in love and taking classes at the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris, he can almost forget the terrors of his past, or the promise he has vowed to...
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Series
Western mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Books, An Imprint on Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1862 Nevada Territory, after finding his foster parents murdered and scalped, twelve-year-old Pinky Pinkerton, son of a railroad detective and a Sioux Indian, inherits a valuable deed and must hide from dangerous Whittlin Walt and his gang of desperados.
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Publisher
TKO Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It has been centuries since the oceans rose and swallowed up all the nations of men. Now only beasts and unseen horrors lurk below the waves, kept in check by one man: Captain Nemo, in his legendary ship the Nautilus. Until one day, young Arona comes onboard his ship, a stowaway from times long past, giving Nemo his first crew member in years. But as he raises the young orphan in his image, she begins to have questions that ask Nemo to dredge up...
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Series
P.K. Pinkerton volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1860s Nevada, master-of-disguise P.K. Pinkerton uncovers a sinister plot when he takes a case that calls for him to shadow his friend and mentor, Poker Face Jace.
Author
Series
P.K. Pinkerton volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"After escaping the ruthless desperados, master-of-disguise P.K. Pinkerton has now set up a Private Eye business in Virginia City and is ready when a young maid named Martha approaches him for help in escaping a killer"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Growing up in an orphanage, Nica's imagination burned with fantastical stories. When she's adopted, Nica thinks she's leaving the orphanage, and her world of otherworldly tales, behind her. That is, until Rigel - as mesmerising and handsome as he is troubled - joins the family. It isn't long before their shared hardships spark something magical between them. But before their fantasies for a brighter future can become reality, they'll have to face...
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Hunters volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"His Crow name was Crazy Wolf. Orphaned after losing his family in an Indian attack, young Cody Hunter found a loving home among the Crow people -- and learned the ancient ways of the Crow trackers. His well-honed skills earned him a place in the U.S. Army as a valued scout. But now, after fifteen years of living his life as Crazy Wolf, Cody is ready to face his painful past. He will return to the place that still gives him nightmares -- and where...
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The Etera Chronicles volume The Age of Shadows Book 9
Publisher
Dragon Wings Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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What If...Dark clouds are forming. The Sarnonn rebels, seduced by Hakani's stories of the comparative ease of life at High Rocks, eye Kthama with jealousy.Akar's abduction of Tehya continues to haunt her, affecting her health and Khon'Tor vows to end the problem of his estranged son once and for all.Meanwhile, crimes from the past, long concealed, are now revealed before the High Council with devastating consequences.Wisdom says there is a time to...
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The Etera Chronicles volume The Age of Shadows Book 3
Publisher
Dragon Wings Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
What if...under the protective care of the Healer, the only mother he has ever known, the Outsider child is now a young man who desires above all to belong. But Oh'Dar is not of the People. And Oh'Dar is not of the Brothers. The blood of brutal Outsiders runs through his veins. What If...tormented, he leaves the safety of Kthama to search for his roots--leaving behind the only family and the only world he has ever known. Seeking the Outsiders as he...
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Series
Shadow House volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Poppy Caldwell is an orphan who keeps seeing a figure standing behind her in the mirror at the group home where she lives, but she does not associate this ghost with the letter that mysteriously appears in her file, claiming to be from a long-lost aunt, and inviting her to Larkspur House--and she is just one of five children who find themselves gathered in this strange house with a deadly past, and apparently no intention of letting the children escape....
16) Paper moon
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Publisher
Four Walls Eight Windows
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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"Addie Pray, eleven, and her father are con artists who travel the South before they join a more sophisticated schemer who plans their ultimate con." *** "The death of eleven-year-old Addie Pray's mother leaves her in the care of Long Boy, a man who may or may not be her biological father, and together they set out to con their way through the Deep South in the middle of the Great Depression."
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Series
The Etera Chronicles volume The Age of Shadows Book 6
Publisher
Dragon Wings Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
What If…Long-held beliefs about their origin, their true relationship with the Sarnonn, and the role of the Ancients are shattered by voices from the past.As Adia deals with the Sarnonn sickness which has spread throughout Kthama, tension builds as Khon'Tor's son demands his place as heir to the leadership of High Rocks.What If…Time is running out, and the High Council must soon decide the course of the People or face inevitable extinction. But...
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Series
The Etera Chronicles volume The Age of Shadows Book 2
Publisher
Dragon Wings Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
She thought the worst was over. She was wrong. What if...recovering from the chieftan's punishment for her defiance, the Healer moves forward raising the Outsider child as best she can. When unforeseen consequences of Khon'Tor's wrath materialize, Adia turns to the People's High Council for help. But instead of receiving mercy and wisdom, she is forced to make a terrible choice—one no woman should ever have to make. Struggling under the cruelty...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1904, the turn of the 20th century, and Samantha Parkington is a nine-year-old orphan living with her rich grandmother. When Samantha sees a friend in need, she makes space to help and a speech worth more than gold! Meet Grandmary, Nellie, Uncle Gard, and more people in Samantha's world while learning what it was like to be a girl in 1904"--
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Series
The Fairmounts volume Book 2
Publisher
Author Academy Elite
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An heiress who's lost her fortune. A whirlwind romance. Abandoned by all she once knew; can she dare to trust this newfound love? It's the turn of the 19th century, and Mary Whitcombe lives in blissful ignorance of the wider world. An orphan born into wealth, her guardian sends her away to a convent, where she grapples with the abrupt transition from opulent living to the austere cloister. But as she matures, Mary's heart discovers its first love...