Kristoff, Jay.
Summary: In this dystopian steampunk fantasy set against a backdrop of feudal Japan, warrior Yukiko captures a supposedly extinct (but crippled) griffin for the Shogun, then learns -- after meeting secretive Kin and the rebel Kage cabal -- of the horrifying extent of the Shogun's crimes, both against her country and her family. Returning to the city, Yukiko is determined to make the Shogun pay -- but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRIGilman, Laura Anne.
Summary: Once, all power in the Vin Lands was held by the prince-mages, who alone could craft spellwines, and selfishly used them to increase their own wealth and influence. But their abuse of power caused a demigod to break the Vine, shattering the power of the mages. Now, fourteen centuries later, it is the humble Vinearts who hold the secret of crafting spells from wines, the source of magic, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILZahn, Timothy.
Summary: Earth had won its war with the Troft because of the Cobras, a guerilla force whose weapons were surgically implanted, invisible to the unsuspecting eye, yet undeniably deadly. The Moreau family were the most famous of the Cobra warriors, but their descendent, Jasmine "Jin" Moreau Broom, is worried about the current attitudes of the Cobra worlds and their leaders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Pub. Enterprises 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAHDyckman, Ame
Summary: In three-and-a-half stories, friends and roommates Bat, Cat and Rat share, joke, and read together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: When half-elf, half-troll Little Fur learns that servants of the troll king aim to destroy her beloved trees, she embarks on an ambitious and dangerous journey into the human world in hopes of saving not only the wilderness she calls home, but the very earth spirit itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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Dahl, Michael.
Summary: When Charlie Hitchcock, the smartest kid at school, gets a note from the school bully, Tyler Yu, demanding a meeting he fears the worst--but it turns out that Tyler wants him to solve the mystery of the missing magician at the Abracadabra Hotel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAHGingrich, Newt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GINBova, Ben
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVDahl, Michael.
Summary: Combines two stories also published separately, Out the rear window and To catch a ghost, in which Charlie Hitchcock and Tyler Yu investigate mysteries at the Abracadabra Hotel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DAHSalyards, Jeff.
Summary: Arkamondos, a young scribe, is hired to chronicle the mysterious mission of a group of Syldoon warriors, the most brutal and frightening warriors in the empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SALDurham, David Anthony
Summary: Leondan Arkan, the powerful ruler of an idyllic empire, hides the dark realities of their prosperity from his four children, until an assassin from the Mein, a race exiled to an ice-locked stronghold in the north, strikes him down and frees his children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DURLeighton, M.
Summary: "When college student Olivia Townsend returned home to help her father run his business, she never imagined a complication like Cash and Nash Davenport--twin brothers different in so many ways but with one thing in common: an uncontrollable desire for Olivia"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEIGraham, Cliff.
Summary: In ancient Israel, at the crossroads of the great trading routes, a man named Benaiah is searching for a fresh start and joins a band of soliders led by a warlord named David. Some are loyal to David, but others are only with him for the promise of captured wealth. Over the course of ten days, from snowy mountain passes to sword-wracked battlefields, Benaiah and his fellow mercenaries must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASoontornvat, Christina
Summary: "Young Plum is shocked to discover that she's been accepted to the Guardian Academy on Lotus Island, an elite school where kids learn how to transform into Guardians, magical creatures who are sworn to protect the natural world. The Guardian masters teach Plum and her friends how to communicate with animals and how to use meditation to strengthen their minds and bodies. All the kids also learn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Summary: Favorite characters and situations from R.A. Salvatore's Dark Elf trilogy return in a series that chronicles a devastating civil war that threatens the Drow civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wizards of the Coast 2002
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Summary: With the hard-won peace and prestige of the New Republic threatened by a mysterious new enemy and his genocidal intentions, Jedi knight Luke Skywalker journeys to his mother's homeworld in a desperate quest to find her people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1996
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Summary: Young Plum is shocked to discover that she's been accepted to the Guardian Academy on Lotus Island, an elite school where kids learn how to transform into Guardians, magical creatures who are sworn to protect the natural world. The Guardian masters teach Plum and her friends how to communicate with animals and how to use meditation to strengthen their minds and bodies. All the kids also learn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: When a traveling bard stumbles into a dragon's den, he is forced to tell it stories or be eaten. When he runs out of stories to tell, he makes a deal: if allowed to leave, he promises to return with more tales of adventure, romance, and bravery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICChamberlin, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAContents: The courage to persevere. Isabel Allende ; Kelly Stone ; Jako ; Cheri Honkala ; Cora Lee Johnson ; Mary Pipher ; Rhea Seddon ; Faith Popcorn ; Michele Lee -- The courage to listen to your heart. Judith Orloff ; Barbara Brennan ; Susan Winston ; Janelle Goetcheus ; Lynne Twist ; Rebecca Black ; Barbara Trent ; Elizabeth Pirruccello Newhall -- The courage to challenge. Anita Roddick ; Kory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help MartinBanks, L. A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANPullman, Philip
Summary: Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PULSan Souci, Robert D.
Summary: Scare-master Robert San Souci serves up ten chilling tales about untraditional haunted houses: a mansion full of pirate treasure, a ghost trapped in a mysterious dollhouse, a boy whose vacation house comes complete with people-eating spiders, and many more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION SANFallon, Jennifer.
Summary: The enslaved Arkady despairs of ever seeing her husband alive again and risks everything to learn the truth about her new owner; while Stellan, in asylum in Caelum, gains the support of the returning Tide Lords.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010