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1) The Gift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evans (The Christmas Box) returns with narrator Nathan Hurst, a frequently traveling, Tourette's-suffering security chief for a retail chain. When Nathan gets snowed in at the Denver airport at Thanksgiving, he offers half his hotel suite to a stranded needy family: recently divorced single mom Addison (a massage therapist), and her two children, Lizzy and Collin. Collin, who has leukemia, cures Nathan's Tourette's with his gift of healing touch....
2) Messenger
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
4) Thornyhold
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gilly inherits a house from her mother's cousin, Geillis. Along with "the witch's house," she inherits her cousin's reputation as a witch and discovers a "power" in the house.
5) Dark magic
Author
Series
Dark series volume 4
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Young Savannah Dubrinsky was a mistress of illusion, a world-famous magician capable of mesmerizing millions. But there was one-Gregori, the Dark One-who held her in terrifying thrall. Whose cold silver eyes and heated sensuality sent shivers of danger, of desire, down her slender spine. With a dark magic all his own, Gregori-the implacable hunter, the legendary healer, the most powerful of Carpathian males-whispered in Savannah's mind that he was...
Author
Series
Shattered realms volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publisher
Pub. Date
[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"A wizard prince in exile, thirsting for revenge, a girl with a curse, striking back against a ruthless king. Together, thew will burn the kingdom to its rotten core."-- P. 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town. It's notable only for Corbin Park, an enormous hunting park, and for Maple Street Cemetery-home to many former residents of Everton. There's also the town legend that Emma Starling...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"Mother Ocean Daughter Sea Strength Unchanging Strengthen Me" The Shari'a are an ancient race. They are un-warlike and they are ruled by their shamanic witches. The Allemanii are more recently arrived in their locale and are both awed and made fearful by the magical powers of the witches. After generations of peaceful coexistence, a cataclysm occurred out of nowhere and the Allemanii turned on their neighbors and hosts, slaughtered most of them and...
11) Bless me, Ultima
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. Ultima is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him as he discovers himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past-a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn, there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world . . . and will nurture...
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A mother struggles to save a daughter from abduction by a pharmaceutical company, seeking to harvest the girl's healing powers. The girl, Amanda Dodson, 5, can even raise people from the dead, problem is the company's harvesting procedures result in the healer's death.
16) Wild Seed
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one -- until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body,...
17) Owlsight
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
One small band of Hawkbrothers and two Valdemaran teenagers with partially trained Gifts stand against the destructive might of a barbarian horde.
18) Cypress point
Author
Language
English
Description
It is not a love that Joelle D'Angelo would ever have chosen. But it is one she can't deny.
Author
Publisher
QW Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Waycross knows bleeding and blistering, the best scientific medicine of 1822. He arrives in the Georgia mountains to bring his modern methods to the superstitious masses. But the local healers, the Winter sisters, claim to treat yellow fever, consumption, and the hell-roarin' trots just as well as he can. Some folks call the sisters herb women; some call them witches. Waycross calls them quacks. But when the threat of rabies--incurable and fatal--comes...
20) Sacred ground
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Description
After an earthquake damages a rich area of California, a sacred cave containing human remains is found dating back at least 1500 years. As archaeologist Erica Tyler races to discover the identity and way of life of the Native American tribe whose artifacts are left there, Jared Black, the member of a Native American Commission, seeks their living descendents.