Okorafor, Nnedi
Summary: In West Africa in 2070, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: Niger, West Africa, 2077. Welcome back. This second volume is a breathtaking story that sweeps across the sands of the Sahara, flies up to the peaks of the Aïr Mountains, cartwheels into a wild megacity—you get the idea. I am the Desert Magician; I bring water where there is none. This book begins with Dikéogu Obidimkpa slowly losing his mind. Yes, that boy who can bring rain just by thinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PETBlack, Holly
Summary: "The changeling queen, Suren, must venture back into the Court of Teeth with the help of the Prince of Faerie, Oak"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLABlack, Holly
Summary: "A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest that may destroy them both. Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: After her grandfather is assassinated, Ikenna, bent on revenge, pledges herself to the Praetorian Trials where she subjects herself to racism to hide the power that--if found out--would lead to her execution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVElsbai, Hadeer
Summary: In a novel set wholly in a new world, but inspired by modern Egyptian history, two young women--Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants, and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing--find they have far more in common, particularly in their struggle for the rights of women and their ability to fight for it with forbidden elemental magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: "In the midst of a tyrannical regime and political invasion, Dèmi just wants to survive: to avoid the suspicion of the nonmagical Ajes who occupy her ancestral homeland of Ife; to escape the King's brutal genocide of her people--the darker skinned, magic wielding Oluso; and to live peacefully with her secretive mother while learning to control the terrifying blood magic that is her birthright....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOThomas, Aiden
Summary: "Only the most powerful and honorable semidioses get chosen. I'm just a Jade. I'm not a real hero." As each new decade begins, the Sun's power must be replenished so that Sol can keep traveling along the sky and keep the evil Obsidian gods at bay. Ten semidioses between the ages of thirteen and eighteen are selected by Sol himself as the most worthy to compete in The Sunbearer Trials. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC THOMaxwell, Lisa
Summary: In an alternate version of present-day Manhattan, magic is dying, and Esta, a Mageus with a talent for manipulating time, travels back to 1901 to stop the destruction of a book that can possibly restore magic, but in Old New York, Esta must navigate gangs, secret societies, and her feelings for another magician in order to save the future of magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAXSummary: Based on Lev Grossman's best-selling book series, "The Magicians" follows Quentin Coldwater, a highly intelligent but socially withdrawn twenty-something secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child about a magical land called Fillory. Beyond that, Quentin's life is dull until he finds himself admitted to a very secret, exclusive college of magic in Upstate New York,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MagiciansTan, Sue Lynn
Summary: "An enthralling debut fantasy inspired by the legend of Chang'e, the Chinese moon goddess, in which a young woman's quest to free her mother sets her on a dangerous path and pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm. Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celesial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TANJosephson, Kalyn
Summary: Mikira, a seventeen-year-old daughter of a famous horse breeder, takes part in a magical horserace to save her family, and enlists the help of Arielle, a talented, black-market enchanter, and Damien, a young lord involved in a succession battle, who both have their own motives for helping her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JOSMayes, Phil Scott
Summary: Ted Verity doesn't like humans, and for good reason. But as part of an ancient race of divine beings, it's his mission to make their world a better place by weeding out the especially wicked ones. Fully capable of living undetected amongst humanity, he prefers solitude and enjoys a quiet way of life before he's drawn to a corrupt pharmaceutical company whose wanton greed is ruining lives. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2020
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC MAYPau Preto, Nicki
Summary: Seventeen-year-old failed ghost-fighting warrior, Wren, journeys to the haunted wasteland of the Breach to rescue a kidnapped prince and must team up with the very person responsible for the kidnapping.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PAUPeterson, Tracie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PETHuddleston, Emma
Summary: Animals are all related. Some are more closely related than others. Scientists group them based on how they are related. Animal Classification looks at how scientists group animals, from least to most specific.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590.12 HUDBurke, Sue
Summary: Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they claim is a temporary scientific mission. But the Earthlings misunderstand the nature of the Pax settlement and its real leader. Even as Stevland attempts to protect his human tools, a more insidious enemy than the Earthlings makes itself known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUREwing, Amy
Summary: Sera has finally recognized the true power of her Cerulean blood. But in order to return home, she'll need help from Agnes, Leo, and their grandmother, the only person with knowledge about the mysterious island of Braxos, where the Cerulean tether is anchored. Though the journey will be treacherous, Sera will risk anything to see her City again. Meanwhile, the High Priestess's power has reached...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EWILondon, Martha
Summary: Living things are made of cells. Cells help living things grow. Cells looks at how these tiny units of life work and why they are important. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Core, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 571.6 LONHuddleston, Emma
Summary: Living things have different traits. These traits are caused by the genes living things get from their parents. Genetics looks at how genes influence traits and how to find out how likely it is to get a trait.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.5 HUDLondon, Martha
Summary: Plants don't eat food. Instead, they use sunlight to get energy that they can use. Photosynthesis looks at how plants take in water and air and turn them into sugars the plants can use.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO 2021