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Dark gods volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"The Four Realms-Life, Death, Light, and Darkness-all converge on the city of dusk. For each realm there is a god, and for each god there is an heir. But the gods have withdrawn their favor from the once vibrant and thriving city. And without it, all the realms are dying. Unwilling to stand by and watch the destruction, the four heirs-Risha, a necromancer struggling to keep the peace; Angelica, an elementalist with her eyes set on the throne; Taesia,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Young Cedric is quite happy living with his widowed mother in New York and visiting with his best friend. The Cedric learns that he is Lord Fauntleroy and will one day become an Earl. But in order to claim his title, he will have to leave behind everything he knows to live with his hard-hearted grandfather in England. Can Cedric win over his grandfather? And is he the real Lord Fauntleroy?
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Roaring Twenties mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
"In 1917, Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and heiress to her family's fortune, disappeared. Now, years later, her uncle Oliver Beckett thinks he's found her: a young actress in a vaudeville playhouse is a dead ringer for his missing niece. But when Oliver confronts the girl, he learns he's wrong. Orphaned young, Leah's been acting since she was a toddler. Oliver, never one to miss an opportunity, makes a proposition--with his coaching, Leah can impersonate...
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Eternal sky trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Shattered Pillars is the second book of Bear's The Eternal Sky trilogy andnbsp;the sequel to Range of Ghosts . Set in a world drawn from our own great Asian Steppes, this saga of magic, politics and war sets Re-Temur, the exiled heir to the great Khagan and his friend Sarmarkar, a Wizard of Tsarepheth, against dark forces determined to conquer all the great Empires along the Celedon Road.Elizabeth Bear is an astonishing writer, whose prose draws...
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English
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Malcolm Theodore Puddle is a 21-year shipping clerk from way back East. The Mountain Man's former neighbor, Humboldt Puddle, died and left his crumbling 600-acre ranch to his only living heir just as a greedy and ruthless cattle baron began circling it like a vulture. Smoke is not the pitying kind, but poor, unsuspecting Puddle is walking into a death trap. Any enemy of Smoke's neighbor is his enemy, too, and kill-crazy gunmen are threatening the...
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Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house--and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling--go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer...
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English
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"A restless golden boy and a girl with a troubled past navigate a love story that may be doomed before it even begins, in this irresistible new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and The Lies That Bind. The Kingsley family is American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. In 1968, after Joseph S. Kingsley, Jr. is killed in a tragic accident, his charismatic son...
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English
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Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an office, and he's picky about who he works for, but it doesn't matter. His chops from thirty years with the LAPD speak for themselves. Soon one of Southern California's biggest moguls comes calling. The reclusive billionaire is nearing the end of his life and is haunted by one regret. When he was young, he had a relationship with a Mexican girl, his great...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Inheriting an eerie estate in the Virginia woods, a skeptical man wonders about his family member's suicide and realizes that the house harbors both ghosts and terrible secrets, in a story told through journal entries, scrawled notes, and security footage.What begins as a clever, gothic ghost story soon evolves into a wickedly twisted treasure hunt in The Supernatural Enhancements, Edgar Cantero's wholly original, modern-day adventure.When twentysomething...
11) The Morgans
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English
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"In this explosive new series, William and J.A. Johnstone bring together two of their greatest legends. The Drifter and The Loner. A gunslinging father and prodigal son, united at last, they are the Morgans. And the only thing thicker than a Morgan's blood is a Morgan's bullet . . . Family first. Everybody else dies. There's nothing particularly unusual for a legendary gunman to be summoned to the lawless, bullet-riddled territory of Arizona. But...
12) The unwilling
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Series
Barrier lands volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Unwilling is the story of Judah, a foundling born with a special gift and raised inside Highfall castle along with Gavin, the son and heir to Lord Elban's vast empire. Judah and Gavin share an unnatural bond that is both the key to her survival - and possibly her undoing. As Gavin is groomed for his future role, Judah comes to realize that she has no real position within the kingdom, in fact, no hope at all of ever traveling beyond its castle...
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Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Heirs of Marsan, to save their people, must entrust their lives and the lives of everyone they protect, to someone who shouldn't exist, who cannot be controlled, and who will challenge everything they believe about themselves.
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Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"On the night of December 31, 1989-as the Berlin Wall is coming down, the Soviet Union is inching toward democracy, and anything seems possible-a down-on-his luck musician crashes a party and crosses paths with the accomplished and enigmatic young heir to a fading musical dynasty, forever altering both of their futures"--
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Publisher
W Publishing Group, an Imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Everyday hundreds of adult children become middle-aged orphans when their elderly parents pass away, leaving behind more than just memories. You've heard the horror stories: arguments over stuff, an inheritance lost forever when easily deceived parents are scammed, siblings estranged, an adult heir taken from daily responsibilities for months because of the enormous task of clearing out a childhood home. It doesn't have to be that way. The Estate...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
"The heir to the Land should be strong. Fierce. Ruthless. At least, that’s what Beau's father has been telling him his whole life, since Beau is the exact opposite of what the heir should be. With little control over his future, Beau is kept locked away, just another pawn in his father's quest for ultimate power. That is, until Beau meets a girl who shows him the secrets his father has kept hidden. For the first time, Beau begins to question everything...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
During her duties as a lady's companion, Emily meets her employer's nephew, Lord James Walderhurst. Accepting his marriage proposal, Emily finds solace in the company of Walderhurst's nephew and his glamorous wife, after Lord James leaves to rejoin his regiment. Emily, alone with the Osborns, increasingly comes under their control. She begins to fear for her life.
18) The rancher
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Heir to Skylance Ranch, Cort Brannt could have has pick of any woman in Texas. He has his heart set on his neighbor Odalie Everett, a prima dona singer who has no interest in him. Cort's other neighbor, shy, quiet Maddie Lane, nurses her feelings for Cort, even knowing she has no chance with the handsome rancher. But when a tragic accident happens, it brings all three of them together and changes their lives in unexpected ways.
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English
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Answering a woman's desperate call for help, young Navy widow Helen Devries opens her Whidbey Island home as a refuge to Choi Eunhee. As they bond over common losses and a delicate, potentially devastating secret, their friendship spans the remainder of their lives. After losing her mother, Cassidy Quinn spent her childhood summers with her gran, Helen, at her farmhouse. Nourished by her grandmother's love and encouragement, Cassidy discovers a passion...
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Sophie Broadmoor adores fancy balls, beautiful gowns, and expensive jewelry. Indeed, she enjoys everything the Broadmoor wealth provides and has earned a reputation as the wildest of the Broadmoor cousins. During a trip to England, she falls head over heels for Wesley Hedrick, a wealthy widower who promises her the world. But Wesley's promises never seem to come true, and soon Sophie finds herself in a very compromising situation. Why does it have...