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Anne of Green Gables volume 8
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English
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Rilla, Anne Shirley's youngest daughter, discovers the problems and difficulties of coming of age during the terrifying days of World War I.
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Wilderlore volume 1
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English
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Eleven-year-old Barclay Thorne yearns for the quiet life of a mushroom farmer, but after unwittingly bonding with a beast in the forbidden Woods, he must seek Lore Keepers to break the bond and return home.
23) The Wolf's curse
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English
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Accused of witchcraft and shunned by his fearful village, twelve-year-old carpenter's apprentice Gauge allies with another orphan to prove his innocence and capture the magical wolf hounding his every move.
24) Quicksilver
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English
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"Quinn Quicksilver had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of "strange magnetism." It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run, fleeing for his life. During a shoot-out at a dude ranch, he finally meets his destined companions: Bridget Rainking and her grandpa Sparky, a romance novelist with an unusual past. Barreling...
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100 dresses volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Darling Dimple, a young orphan, must use the enchanted dresses to find the ghost that is haunting the castle she calls home.
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Wolves Chronicles volume 2
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English
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Simon, the foundling from the earlier book, The wolves of Willoughy Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting, but he finds himself in the middle of a wicked crew's plan to overthrow good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea.
27) Ark angel
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Alex Rider adventures volume 6
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English
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After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
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100 dresses volume 1
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English
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Darling Dimple, a young orphan, discovers a closet full of magical dresses, each of which gives her the appearance of another person in the castle and that, along with her own magical abilities, helps her protect Princess Mariposa from betrayal as the castle swarms with suitors.
30) Found
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Magic thief volume 3
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English
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Connwaer, the young thief-turned-wizard's apprentice, escapes from prison and follows the call of magic to the distant and mysterious Dragon Mountain on a quest to save Wellmet from Arhionvar, dread magic that can destroy the city.
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English
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"Nicole "Coco" Martin is destined to have it all. As the only child of doting and successful parents, she has been given every opportunity in life. Having inherited her mother's stunning beauty and creativity, along with her father's work ethic and diligence, she has the world at her feet. Her graduation from Columbia is fast approaching, and with it the summer job of her dreams working at a magazine. Between work, leisurely weekends at her family's...
33) Alice by heart
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Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Alice confronts grief, loss, and first love with the help of her favorite book, Alice in Wonderland, as she shelters with other refugees in a London Tube station during World War II. Includes photographs of underground shelters used in the war.
London, 1940. Amidst the rubble of the Blitz, Alice Spencer and her friend, Alfred, are forced to take shelter in an underground tube station. Sick with tuberculosis, Alfred is quarantined,...
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English
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"In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and desperate survivors wear white masks to ward off illness....
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Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"In the backwoods of Ohio, Willard Russell's wife is at death's door, no matter how much he drinks, prays, or sacrifices animals at his "prayer log." Meanwhile, his son Arvin is growing up, form a kid bullied at school into a man who knows when to take action. Around them swirl a nefarious cast of characters--a demented team of serial killers, a spider-eating preacher, and a corrupt local sheriff--all braided into a riveting narrative of the grittiest...
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Series
Odditorium volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
With evil Prince Nightshade hot on their trail, Alastair Grim and his apprentice Grubb and the rest of the crew of the unique mechanical/magical apparatus known as the Odditorium embark on a perilous underwater adventure to the otherworldly realm of Avalon, to find the legendary sword Excalibur, the only weapon capable of penetrating the prince's magical suit of armor.
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English
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"In 1918, as the Great War rages in Europe, the Spanish influenza tears a brutal path across the United States, leaving devastation in its wake. Ordinary life is turned upside down as schools are closed, and all spheres of public life are shut down. Suddenly, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her older brother, Daniel, find themselves orphans of the flu, and are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake....
39) Belladonna
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Series
Belladonna (Grace) volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old orphan Signa Farrow confronts Death--and her own deathly powers--when she investigates the mysterious murder of a relative at the Thorn Grove estate.
Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being-- and each meeting an untimely end. Her remaining relatives are the Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at Thorn Grove, an estate both glittering and gloomy. Its patriarch mourns...
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Bachelors of Battle Creek volume 2
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English
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Left with emotional scars from his time in an orphanage, Rand Sinclair has vowed never to marry. But when he discovers Callie Quinn and a small orphan boy hiding on his ranch, he can't help but open his home to the desperate runaways. Callie has been betrayed by every man she's ever known. While she's grateful for Rand's incredible kindness, she knows it's only a matter of time before he shows his true colors. But she needs this safe haven-maybe the...
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