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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
-- Harry Potter Years before Sophie and Josh Newman met Nicholas Flamel, two legendary warriors fought together for the first time. Billy the Kid and Scathach the Shadow. Now that lost story can be told . . . Billy the Kid is immortal. And being immortal means following unpredictable paths. With this exclusive eBook, Michael Scott offers readers a never-before-seen short story from the world of the bestselling series the Secrets of the Immortal...
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Series
Miss Peregrine volume 3
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
-- Library of Souls -- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children. They’ll travel from modern-day London...
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Publisher
A Public Space
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In this stunning debut from one of Nigeria's most exciting young writers, the stakes of love meet a society in flux.
These nine stories of queer male intimacy brim with simmering secrecy, ecstasy, loneliness, and love in their depictions of what it means to be gay in contemporary Nigeria. A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn't understand then. A daughter returns home to Lagos after the death...
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English
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Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
"This 1931 novel, now republished as part of the British Library's Crime Classics series, is a cunningly concocted locked-room mystery, a staple of Golden Age detective fiction." -Booklist STARRED review
Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
They were supposed to spend the rest of their lives together… In the wake of her husband’s death, Alice Deaton will do anything to hold her family together. But with life handing her challenge after challenge, will her faith crack under the strain? Or will a kind stranger be able to offer refuge that Alice and her two small children so desperately need?
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Series
Dog diaries volume 3
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Barry der Menschenretter—a.k.a. Barry—the most famous St. Bernard dog in history, tells the story of his life for the first time. Eight-thousand feet above sea level, in the treacherous pass in the Alps between Italy and Switzerland, the monks of the hospice of St. Bernard have, since the 11th century, kept dogs to help them rescue travelers lost in the snow. In time, these dogs became a breed unto themselves, named for the hospice. They are responsible...
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English
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In 1928, when timid ten-year-old Nate learns that his parents have been lost at sea, he joins his father's cousin on a flight to Arabia where they must oversee the death and rebirth of the phoenix, thus beginning his training as a "beastologist."
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Series
Fairy Godmother Academy volume 3
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
For girls who are fans of Harry Potter and have outgrown the Disney Fairies series and the American Girl books, the Fairy Godmother Academy is the perfect series—fantasy books filled with magic and adventure but grounded by contemporary girls and issues. The series boasts an amazing Web site that allows girls to enter the world they visit in the books. There they can do activities both on- and offline, vote for things they'd like to see in the...
71) Moonblood
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Series
Tales of Goldstone Wood volume 3
Publisher
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Language
English
Description
Undertaking a dangerous quest and desperate to redeem himself, Prince Lionheart must enter hidden realms to stop King Vahe from waking the Dragon's children on the Night of Moonblood--and rescue Rose Red, the girl he betrayed.
Author
Series
Corvis Rebaine novels volume 2
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
If death is the only true peace, then there can be only one true peacemaker…the Terror. In the land of Imphallion, one legend is remembered with horror-the Terror of the East. Twice his shadow has fallen across the land. First to conquer it. Then to save it. Both times he brought blood and death as his companions. And both times, he faded into bleak memory…Years later, memories are all Corvis Rebaine has left. The most painful of which is the...