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Last Finestra volume 1
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Three weddings. Three funerals. Alessa's gift from the gods is supposed to magnify a partner's magic, not kill every suitor she touches. Now, with only weeks left until a hungry swarm of demons devours everything on her island home, Alessa is running out of time to find a partner and stop the invasion. When a powerful priest convinces the faithful that killing Alessa is the island's only hope, her own soldiers try to assassinate her. Desperate to...
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Series:
Last Finestra volume 2
Publisher:
LYX.audio
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
German
Description:
Drei Verbindungen, drei Beerdigungen - eine letzte Hoffnung Alessa ist die magische Auserwählte ihrer Generation. Doch sie scheint ihre Kräfte, die eigentlich ihr Volk vor einem Angriff schützen sollten, nicht unter Kontrolle zu haben - alle, die sie berührt, sterben. Um niemanden mehr zu gefährden, lebt Alessa daher vollkommen isoliert im Palast. Bis der Leibwächter Dante in ihr Leben tritt. Je mehr Zeit sie miteinander verbringen, desto größer...
Author:
Series:
Last Finestra volume 1
Publisher:
LYX.audio
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
German
Description:
"Es ist schwer zu glauben, dass etwas so wunderschönes so tödlich sein kann, oder?" Alessa ist verzweifelt. Als auserwählte Finestra ist es ihre Bestimmung, mit ihren Kräften das Land vor einem Angriff dämonischer Wesen zu schützen. Doch sie hat ihre magische Gabe nicht unter Kontrolle - alle Menschen, die sie berührt, sterben. Um niemanden mehr zu gefährden, lebt sie daher vollkommen isoliert im Palast. Als auch noch ein Attentat auf sie...
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Black Sun's Daughter volume 3
Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
When you're staring evil in the eye, don't forget to watch your ?/B For the first time in forever, JaynE Heller's life is making sense. Even if she routinely risks her life to destroy demonic parasites that prey on mortals, she now has friends, colleagues, a trusted lover, and newfound confidence in the mission she inherited from her wealthy, mysterious uncle. Her next job might just rob her of all of them. At Grace Memorial Hospital in Chicago, something...
6. Alias Grace
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.
7. The huntress
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English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted... Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina's bravery and cunning will keep her...
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Series:
Dave Robicheaux novel volume 17
Language:
English
Description:
Trouble follows Dave Robicheaux. Swan Peak finds Detective Robicheaux far from his New Iberia roots, attempting to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. He, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell have retreated to stay at an old friend's ranch, hoping to spend their days fishing and enjoying their distance from the harsh, gritty landscape of Louisiana post-Katrina. But the serenity is soon shattered when two college students are found...
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Publisher:
Viz Media
Pub. Date:
[2022]-
Language:
English
Description:
"Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future feels like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn't an empty paradise, it's a...
10. The rose bargain
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Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"London, 1848—For four hundred years, England has been under the control of an immortal fae queen who tricked her way onto the throne. To maintain an illusion of benevolence, Queen Mor grants each of her subjects one opportunity to bargain for their deepest desire. As Ivy Benton prepares to make her debut, she knows that not even a deal with the queen could fix what has gone wrong: Her family’s social standing is in shambles, her sister is a shadow...
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Serafina volume 2
Lexile measure:
870L
Language:
English
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In 1899, when an evil threatens all the humans and animals of the Blue Ridge Mountains, twelve-year-old Serafina, rat catcher for the Biltmore estate and the daughter of a shapeshifting mountain lion, must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that awaits her.
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Series:
All the Stars and Teeth volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"As princess of the island kingdom Visidia, Amora Montara has spent her entire life training to be High Animancer--the master of souls. The rest of the realm can choose their magic, but for Amora, it's never been a choice. To secure her place as heir to the throne, she must prove her mastery of the monarchy's dangerous soul magic. When her demonstration goes awry, Amora is forced to flee. She strikes a deal with Bastian, a mysterious pirate: he'll...
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English
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This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea-if you gazed intently, enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset. About...
15. Let me in
Publisher:
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2011]
Language:
English
Description:
LET ME IN is a haunting and provocative thriller written and directed by Matt Reeves, based on the best-selling Swedish novel Let The Right One In and the highly acclaimed film of the same name. Chloë Grace Moretz stars as Abby, a mysterious 12-year-old who moves in with a man who appears to be her father (Oscar®- nominee Richard Jenkins), next door to Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a social outcast who is viciously bullied at school. In his loneliness,...
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John Bunyan, born in England in 1628, was a well-known Puritan preacher and author. He is most famous for his allegorical work "The Pilgrim's Progress", a story of the Christian pilgrimage toward salvation and widely considered one of the most important works of religious English literature. "The Pilgrim's Progress" was published in 1678, but was written several years earlier during Bunyan's time in prison from 1660 to 1672, when he was sentenced...
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Series:
Vampirates volume 1
Lexile measure:
710L
Language:
English
Description:
When twins Connor and Grace's ship is wrecked in a storm and Connor is rescued by pirates, he believes that Grace has been taken aboard the mythical Vampirate's ship, and he is determined to find her.
18. Black Heart
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Series:
Vampirates volume 4
Pub. Date:
2009
Lexile measure:
640L
Language:
English
Description:
There's a new ship of vampirates roaming the seas, leaving a trail of fear and devastation in its wake. When a high-profile pirate is slain, the Pirate Federation takes decisive action and begins training up a ship of dedicated vampire hunters. The team will be led by newly appointed Captain, Cheng Li and will include pirate prodigy Connor Tempest. Meanwhile, Connor's twin sister Grace enjoys a bittersweet reunion with their mother. Sally Tempest...
19. Oh My Goddess!
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Publisher:
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
Ever since a cosmic phone call brought the four literal young goddesses Belldandy, Urd, Skuld - and, like an occasional vowel, Peorth - to live in college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions! The appearance of the Fifth Goddess has heralded a darker turn in the story - as we are reminded that behind the adorable form of chibi-Hild lies a fearsome demonic intent....
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes the gripping story of a woman who loses everything--her husband, her home, her sense of self and safety, and her freedom. Sydney Wells's perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at forty-nine, she discovers he has failed to include her in his will. With Andrew's vicious daughters in control of his estate, and no home or money,...