Parry, H. G.
Summary: "A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own. It is the Age of Enlightenment -- of new and magical political movements, from the necromancer Robespierre calling for revolution in France to the weather mage Toussaint L'Ouverture leading the slaves of Haiti in their fight for freedom, to the bold new Prime Minister William Pitt weighing the legalization of magic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: An unhappy and overweight adolescent, April Taylor struggles to cope with the desertion and death of her father, the suicide of her mother, her new life with her lesbian sister, and her doubts about her own sexual orientation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Star Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDFeehan, Christine.
Summary: Whether it's fast cars or fast women, Stefano Ferraro gets what he wants. When he's not fodder for the paparazzi, he commands Ferraro family businesses-both legitimate and illegitimate. While their criminal activity is simply a rumor yet to be proven, no one knows the real truth. The Ferraros are a family of shadow riders capable of manipulating light and dark, an ability Stefano thought ran in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: Growing up in a village in the middle of the Egyptian desert, Ash thinks his future holds nothing but sand, sun, a few annoying bullies, and lots of boring chores. On the night before his twelfth birthday, Ash learns that he was born on the same day as Prince Khufu, which makes him eligible to compete to be the prince's shadow, a coveted position as the friend and bodyguard of the boy destined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DURElliott, Joseph
Summary: "Agatha is a Hawk, brave and fierce, who patrols the high walls of her island home. She takes pride in her duties, though some in her clan whisper that she has only been given them to keep her out of the way, because of the condition she was born with. Jaime, thoughtful and anxious, is an Angler, but he hates the sea. To make matters worse, he's been chosen for a duty that has been outlawed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books, a division of Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELLArmstrong, Kelley.
Summary: "Twin sisters Ashyn and Moria must embark on a a dangerous journey when the spirits they're charged with protecting turn vengeful"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARMCard, Orson Scott.
Summary: An urchin is picked off the street by a nun and sent to war school to become a brilliant space-war strategist. He is Bean, so called because of his diminutive stature, the result of an illegal genetic experiment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Starscape 2000
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CARHaddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family"s farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HADHarrison, Kim
Summary: "Petra Grady has known since adolescence that she has no talent for magic-and that's never going to change. But as a sweeper first-class, she's parlayed her rare ability to handle dross--the damaging, magical waste generated by her more talented kin's spellwork--into a decent life working at the mages' university. Except Grady's relatively predictable life is about to be upended. When the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2024
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Summary: Opens Wexler's Shadow campaigns series with a tale of bloody rebellion that will reshape an empire--and a world. Captain Marcus d'Ivoire and Winter Ihernglass see their fortunes rise under the command of military genius Janus bet Vhalnich. But Janus' obsession with the supernatural portends a dire fate for the realm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEXWhite, J. A
Summary: Sixth-graders Cordelia, Agnes, and Benji go on a quest to unravel the secrets of Shadow School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHIHaddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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Summary: "Octavia Zarola would do anything to keep her tiny, close-knit bounty hunting crew together, even if it means accepting a job from Torran Fletcher, a ruthless former general and her sworn enemy. When Torran offers her enough credits to not only keep her crew afloat but also hire someone to fix her ship, Tavi knows that she can't refuse, no matter how much she'd like to. With so much money on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIHCervantes, Jennifer
Summary: Renata Santiago is a godborn, but she is also a bruja: the Mexica blood from her dad's side gives her the ability to manipulate shadows; her mom Pacific, a Maya goddess, gifted her a magical rope that controls time. Ren is also a girl with ordinary hopes and dreams. She is convinced that there is a connection between aliens and the Maya civilization. When an email about an alien sighting in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CERSands, Kevin
Summary: "Callan and four other young criminals are recruited to pull off a difficult heist from the city's most powerful sorcerer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SANSkye, Evelyn.
Summary: Sora can move as silently as a ghost and hurl throwing stars with lethal accuracy. Her gemina, Daemon, can win any physical fight blindfolded and with an arm tied around his back. They are apprentice warriors of the Society of Taigas--marked by the gods to be trained in magic and the fighting arts to protect the kingdom of Kichona. As their graduation approaches, Sora and Daemon look forward to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SKYBowen, Lila.
Summary: "A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death, and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface. Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She's a half-breed who dresses like a boy, raised by folks who don't call her a slave but use her like one. She knows of nothing else. That is, until the day a stranger attacks her. When nothing, not even a sickle to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWWexler, Django.
Summary: Winter Ihernglass poses as a man to enlist in the Vordanai Colonials and must form an allegiance with a new colonel, appointed by the king to restore order, after she is promoted to a command post.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEXAnderson, Kevin J.
Summary: "Twenty years after the elemental conflict that nearly tore apart the cosmos in The Saga of Seven Suns, a new threat emerges from the darkness. The human race must set aside its own inner conflicts to rebuild their alliance with the Ildiran Empire for the survival of the galaxy. In Kevin J. Anderson's The Dark Between the Stars, galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDBennett, Robert Jackson
Summary: In Daretana's most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead--killed, to all appearances, when a tree spontaneously erupted from his body. Even in this canton at the borders of the Empire, where contagions abound and the blood of the Leviathans works strange magical changes, it's a death at once terrifying and impossible. Called in to investigate this mystery is Ana Dolabra, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BENJames, E. L.
Summary: When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind -- until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio Publishing Group 2012
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Summary: Welcome to Chromatacia, where for as long as anyone can remember society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. Social hierachy is based upon one's limited color perception. society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see, and Eddie Russett, a better-than-average red perception wants to move up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOBardugo, Leigh.
Summary: Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARDavidson, Hilary
Summary: "[A] gripping mystery about a sinister murder that everyone wants to stay buried -- except one dogged NYPD detective. Jo Greaver is a model of success. Young and ambitious, she's built a thriving beauty business from nothing. But she has secrets she'll do anything to keep buried. When her blackmailer offers to meet, Jo expects to pay him off -- but gets a bullet instead. Bleeding and in shock,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2020