Hoffman, Alice.
Summary: A young wounded civil war solider is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet falls in love with a blind man, and a mysterious traveler comes to town in the year when summer never arrives. At the center of everyone's life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOFHousman, Ivelisse
Summary: Iselia "Seelie" Graygrove looks just like her twin, Isolde...but as an autistic changeling left in the human world by the fae as an infant, she has always known she is different. Seelie's unpredictable magic makes it hard for her to fit in---and draws her and Isolde into the hunt for a fabled treasure. In a heist gone wrong, the sisters make some unexpected allies and find themselves unraveling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOULandy, Derek
Summary: The thirteenth thrilling novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, SEASONS OF WAR will test the Skeleton Detective and Valkyrie like never before ... War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a forsaken land of magic and grim, unrelenting terror. It is here that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LANHoffman, Alice
Summary: From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, Practical Magic. Find your magic. For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hoffman 2017Hoffman, Alice
Summary: "The prequel to Alice Hoffman's Practival magic, following the lives of Franny and Jet Owens (and their brother Vincent Owens) long before Sally and Gillian wound up on their doorstep"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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Summary: "The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three hundred years, but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger - the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HOFHoffman, Alice
Summary: "The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger-the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOFHoffman, Alice
Summary: "With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she's abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the "Unnamed Arts." Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back. When Maria is abandoned by the man who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hoffman 2020Hoffman, Alice
Summary: One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community, an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction HoffmanHoffman, Alice.
Summary: Presents the story of two sisters who were raised by their elderly aunts in a small New England town, but this is far from your average family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 1995
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Summary: Follows the adventures of sixteen-year-old Thomas, one of thousands of imprisoned youths being trained in combat by warrior monks who becomes aware of his secret destiny after a daring escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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Summary: When the evil Baron Vengeous escapes from prison, Detective Skulduggery Pleasant and his apprentice, Valkyrie Cain, have just two days to recapture him or the Baron's creature, the Grotesquery, may summon the Faceless Ones back to their world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2008
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Summary: Skulduggery and Valkyrie are back in the tenth instalment in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series - an incredible and unexpected treat for the legions of fans around the world. We can't say much but we can say this: Skulduggery and Valkyrie are going to team up with beloved characters from the first 9 books as well as an all-new cast, including new teen co-star Omen Darkly, for an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2017
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Summary: Valkerie. Darquesse. Stephanie. The world ain't big enough for the three of them. The end will come...The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not without its casualties. Following the loss of Valkyrie Cain, Skulduggery Pleasant must use any and all means to track down and stop Darquesse before she turns the world into a charred, lifeless cinder. And so he draws together a team of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2014
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Summary: Skulduggery is gone. All our hopes rest with Valkyrie. The world's weight is on her shoulders, and its fate is in her hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's 2010
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Summary: While Valkyrie is off trying to recover her sister's lost soul, it is up to Omen Darkly to be the hero and save thousands of innocent people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2019
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Summary: Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back in their most gripping story yet, as book 11, Midnight, picks up where Resurrection left off - and runs. For years, Valkyrie Cain has struggled to keep her loved ones safe from harm, plunging into battle - time and time again - by Skulduggery Pleasant's side, and always emerging triumphant. But now the very thing that Valkyrie fights for is in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks 2018
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Summary: The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that's a good thing. The catch? They don't need her any more because they've found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death. And that's a very, very bad thing ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's 2012
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Summary: "Yip! Yip! Hooray! A little magic can save the day! Noodles is so excited for her cousin Curlicue to visit! But when duty calls, the pups have to put their fun plans on hold to help Magnolia. Her two moms are so busy taking care of Magnolia's new baby brother that she feels forgotten. Can Curlicue and the Love Puppies find a way to make sure Magnolia feels loved and included in her family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BRORitter, Kacy
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Cassidy Drake wants nothing more than to race with her best dragon, Ranga, in the annual Great Texas Dragon Race. Her mother was a racing legacy, and growing up on her family's dragon sanctuary ranch, Cassidy lives and breathes dragons. She knows she could win against the exploitative FireCorp team that cares more about corporate greed than caring for the dragons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Wings of Fire meets The Hunger Games in this debut contemporary middle grade fantasy stand-alone about thirteen-year-old Cassidy Drake, who enters the dangerous Great Texas Dragon Race to save her familys dragon sanctuary. Thirteen-year-old Cassidy Drake wants nothing more than to race with her best dragon, Ranga, in the annual Great Texas Dragon Race. Her mother was a racing legacy, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: After escaping from the Sea of Trolls, the apprentice bard Jack plunges into a new series of adventures, traveling underground to Elfland and uncovering the truth about his little sister Lucy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2007
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Summary: "Rhaskos works in the stables. Worth less than a donkey, much less than a horse. But Rhaskos is clever and talented, and beloved of his mother-who has been forced away from her son but is willing to do anything for him. Melisto is a girl. Wealthy, privileged, intended for a stifling marriage and dangerous childbirth. But first she is to spend a season serving Artemis, goddess of the hunt, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "Sylvie and her mother and grandmother are beloved, trusted healers in their French village at the end of the Middle Ages, though some whisper that fifteen-year-old Sylvie and her grand-mère deal in more than herbs and medicines. Perhaps they're a bit . . . witchy? After her grandmother dies, and an attempt to use her untrained magic to heal her mother's grief yields tragic consequences, Sylvie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022