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1) Fates
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The Leader Who Rules Chaos, Rules the Realms . . . Two years ago Loki, god of mischief and chaos, destroyed a large chunk of Chicago's financial district and then vanished into thin air. He still has not been found. Odin, ruler of the Nine Realms, is desperate. To find Loki, he sends his son Thor on a dangerous quest to consult the all-seeing Norns. But Thor needs humanity's help . . . Loki's former lover, veterinarian Amy Lewis, is carrying all of...
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English
Description
"From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes,...
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Series
Dark stars volume 2
Language
English
Description
One past. Two girls. Infinite futures. Stolen Time. As far as Ash knows, Dorothy has disappeared. The stowaway from 1913, the girl who Ash maybe--possibly--could've loved: she's gone. But what Ash doesn't know is that the girl he fell in love with has become Quinn Fox--the very same person who is fated to kill him. As Ash and his friends watch New Seattle fall to crime and decay, Quinn struggles to keep her hold on the bloodthirsty Black Cirkus. The...
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Series
Carve the mark volume 2
Language
English
Description
The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates, once determined, are inescapable.Akos is in love with Cyra, in spite of his fate: he will die in service to Cyra's family. And when Cyra's father, Lazmet Noavek - a soulless tyrant, thought to be dead - reclaims the Shotet throne, Akos believes his end is closer than ever.As Lazmet ignites a barbaric war, Cyra and Akos are desperate...
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Series
Three dark crowns volume 4
Language
English
Description
While Arsinoe searches for a cure to Jules's legion curse, Mirabella abandons the rebel army for Katharine, but the dead queens urge caution in trusting her, and as allegiances switch, the fate of Fennbirn Island will be determined.
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Language
English
Description
Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, this is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation trying to find their...
7) Map of Fates
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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“A Da Vinci Code–style thriller for teens? Yes please.”—TeenVogue.com
Two weeks.
That’s how long it took for Avery West’s ordinary life to change forever. In two weeks, she discovered she was heiress to a powerful secret society known as the Circle, learned her mother was taken hostage by the Circle’s enemies, and fell for a boy she's not allowed to love, just as she found...
Two weeks.
That’s how long it took for Avery West’s ordinary life to change forever. In two weeks, she discovered she was heiress to a powerful secret society known as the Circle, learned her mother was taken hostage by the Circle’s enemies, and fell for a boy she's not allowed to love, just as she found...
8) Three Fates
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes an unforgettable tale of luck and love in which the fortunes of three siblings depend on a simple twist of fate.
When the RMS Lusitania sank in 1915, one survivor became a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief. But the man still kept the small silver statue he lifted, saving it as a reminder of his past and a family heirloom for future generations. A century...
When the RMS Lusitania sank in 1915, one survivor became a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief. But the man still kept the small silver statue he lifted, saving it as a reminder of his past and a family heirloom for future generations. A century...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Abel, the most advanced robot in the galaxy, must save teenaged soldier Noemi by resurrecting her into a human-mech hybrid, a decision which will have consequences throughout the galaxy and may just turn the tide in the war between Genesis and Earth"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Crack open your spell book and enter the world of the illustrious Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary. There's been a murder on campus, and it's up to the students of Galileo to solve it. Follow 18 authors and 18 students as they puzzle out the clues and find the guilty party.
Professor of Magical History Septimius Dropwort has just been murdered, and now everyone at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary is a suspect.
A...
Professor of Magical History Septimius Dropwort has just been murdered, and now everyone at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary is a suspect.
A...
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English
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Description
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved....
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Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and the four women who kept his perilous confidence. The world would not look upon his like again. John Wilkes Booth--driven son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden flower girl, whose misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
"A bold, wise, magical, and authentic novel about youthful infatuation and its legacy. Hannah Pittard's beautifully confident prose is sure to make readers look back on their own teenage years with fresh wonder."
—Vendela Vida, author of The Lovers
Already acclaimed for her short fiction—a McSweeney's Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award winner whose work was selected by Salman Rushdie for inclusion in 2008 Best American
...14) Charming Blue
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Welcome to the fractious fairy tale world of Kristine Grayson, where the bumpy road to happily ever after is paved with surprises...
He lived through ages with the curse of attracting women...who end up dead...
One upon a time, he was the most handsome of princes, destined for great things. But now he's a lonely legend, hobbled by a dark history. With too many dead in his wake, Bluebeard escapes the
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sleeping Beauty has sworn off kissing...
Emma awakens to an entirely different world than the one she lived in a thousand years ago, and although she's the real Sleeping Beauty, her life is no fairy tale. After parting ways with her supposed Prince Charming, she's determined to be a normal girl—she hides her magic and swears off kissing strange men.
But her gorgeous boss Michael knows there 's something unusual about
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Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Under Haru's tutelage, Zeha's skills grow by leaps and bounds. But when his sword breaks from the strain of fighting the Beom, he goes looking for a replacement in the last place he expected--a history museum! Following Haru's advice, he picks up a rusty relic blade and finds that it suits him perfectly, as if it has always belonged to him... Even with a powerful new weapon, the odds are stacked against Zeha, as the Beom's onslaught grows into a...
17) 7fates: Chakho,1
Author
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"One day, Zeha wakes up in a hospital bed with a nasty wound on his chest and no memory of what happened. Before he can get his bearings, a city detective reveals that he was found collapsed on Inwang Mountain, the sole survivor of a grisly mass murder. This was only the beginning. The Beom, monstrous entities from another world, stalk the streets, mauling and devouring anyone they can find. When Zeha learns that he is somehow at the center of it...
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Told from more than a dozen alternating viewpoints, this spellbinding collection of stories follows eighteen students at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary as they each try to solve the murder of a professor, discovering that magic doesn't always play by the rules.
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Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 25
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
During a secret trip to the Immortal Marketplace, Clotho, one of the three Fates, risks revealing her identity and if that were not enough, she must face up to an old mistake she made several years ago that could mess up a mortal's whole life.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Who was first to make it to the North Pole? Wade into the debate while examining the fascinating but lesser-known moments and figures of the race, including pilot Umberto Nobile flying a hydrogen-filled semi-rigid airship over the Pole in 1926, then crashing on a second trip, unleashing an international rescue operation.
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