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2023.
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English
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"Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rulers aren't helping anyone but themselves. Lina, a daughter of failed revolutionaries, has no desire to escape Shantiport. She loves her city and would do anything to save its people. This is, in fact, the plan for her life, made before she was even born. Her brother, Bador, is a small monkey bot with a big attitude and bigger ambitions. He wants a chance...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Harper’s Bazaar • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian • The Kansas City Star • National Post • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews
From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes...
From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unexpected offer threatens the bond between Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi as the two Jedi navigate a dangerous new planet and an uncertain future in the first canon Star Wars novel to take place before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
A Jedi must be a fearless warrior, a guardian of justice, and a scholar in the ways of the Force. But perhaps a Jedi’s most essential...
A Jedi must be a fearless warrior, a guardian of justice, and a scholar in the ways of the Force. But perhaps a Jedi’s most essential...
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Daevabad trilogy volume 3
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English
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Daevabad has fallen. After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander, Dara, must try to repair their fraying alliance and stabilize a fractious, warring people. Nahri and Ali, now safe in Cairo, face difficult choices of their own. As peace grows more elusive and old players return, Nahri, Ali, and Dara come to understand that in order to remake the world, they may need to fight those...
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Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Told from the perspective of characters both beloved and hated, this new compilation of stories set in Daevabad enrich a world already teeming with magic and wonder, inviting readers to explore this kingdom hidden from human eyes.
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This woven kingdom volume 3
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English
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"Determined to escape Cyrus, the mercurial ruler of Tulan, Alizeh, heir to the Jinn throne, realizes Cyrus may be the key to fulfilling her own destiny, while in Ardunia, Kamran finds a magical way to finally get to Tulan and rescue Alizeh"--
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Once upon another time volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Seeking revenge from his loss in the Cursed City, the Golden King starts spreading shadow magic over the kingdoms, and according the fairy queens sacred book, only Lena can defeat him and his dark spells, but first she must prove she is worthy but completing three challenges.
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Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Hundreds of miles away from the techno-utopia of Kathmandu, the all-powerful, all-seeing AI known as Karma has gone silent, leaving the dying city of Chittagong--along with all its remaining residents--to continue its inexorable fall into the sea. Kundo, once a famous artist with the Karma points to prove it, goes searching for his missing wife, only to uncover more inexplicable disappearances. And so Kundo and a group of motley companions embark...
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Jeanie and genie volume 3
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Little Simon
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The new student at Rivertown Elementary, Willow Davis, has a big secret. She is a genie! And the only person who knows that? Her new best friend, Jeanie Bell. Jeanie is starting to learn that she needs to be careful what she wishes for. But she can't stop other people from accidentally making wishes! So when all the art for the school art fair comes to life, will Jeanie and Willow be able to erase the mistake?"--Back of book.
11) The Djinn
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IFC Films
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English
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A mute twelve-year-old, Dylan Jacobs, discovers a mysterious book of spells inside his new apartment. Grieving the loss of his mother, and feeling isolated from everyone except for his father, Dylan performs a ritual that promises to deliver his heart’s desire: to have a voice. But he soon discovers that every gift has a toll when a sinister djinn arrives to collect his soul. Now trapped in his new home with nowhere to hide, Dylan must find a way...
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Jeanie and genie volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Until Willow came along, Jeanie had only read about magin in books. But now that she has a best friend who's a genie, there's a lot more magic in Jeanie's life! And sometimes that magic doesn't go as planned. That's how Jeanie ends up in a book on a quest for a treasure that's being guarded by a dragon. Will Jeanie be able to get out of the book by herself, or can Willow work her magic from afar?
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Jeanie and genie volume 6
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Willow Davis is a genie. And, as a genie, she grants only the most sincere wishes. But something strange is going on because suddenly anytime anyone says "I wish," Willow grants that wish. This means big problems for Jeanie and Willow. Can the girls figure out the problem? Or is there something more...out-of-this-world going on?"--
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English
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"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins--a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Searching for her buried friend after the mines collapse, twelve-year-old Pakistani mica miner Nura finds herself at the Sijj Palace, a luxury hotel for the dangerous and deceitful jinn, where she must discover the truth beneath the glitter or be trapped forever.
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Jeanie and genie volume 4
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Jeanie and Willow pinkie-promise not to make or grant any wishes when they go camping together, but when Willow meets Jeanie's camping friends, the genie-in-training wishes the bossy twins would just go away.
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Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A Palestinian girl travels to the past in a magical quest to save the world"--
"The Thunderbird trilogy is a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure centered on Noor, a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to get four magical bird feathers and save the world. Aided by a djinn cat and girls who look identical to Noor and who each have one of the bird's powers, in this initial volume Noor begins her...
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Jeanie and genie volume 8
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Genie-in-training Willow and her human best friend Jeanie visit a special dinosaur safari exhibit at the zoo, where Willow accidentally grants a wish that turns the dinosaur statues real and the two girls must work to fix their larger-than-life problem.
20) The storyteller
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In a time of drought in the Kingdom of Morocco, a storyteller and a boy weave a tale to thwart a Djinn and his sandstorm from destroying their city.
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