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Cinder Spires volume 2
Publisher:
Ace
Pub. Date:
©2023
Language:
English
Description:
"The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defense...
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Language:
English
Description:
"In a grand glass house, there was a girl named Bess whose power would, one day, change the fate of her family . . . Bess Wickham has always felt like a bit of an outcast among her family of extraordinary glassblowers, but then an immense, magical power that's lain dormant in her bloodline begins to emerge. So, when she suspects her family’s business has taken a sinister turn, Bess must find the strength to defeat dark magic and save a certain...
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Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date:
2013
Lexile measure:
510L
Language:
English
Description:
This exciting version of a classic tale follows the story of Cinder, a beautiful and kind girl who is forced to clean the house for her evil stepsisters. When Cinder's stepsisters try to keep her from attending Prince Charming's Grand Ball, her fairy godmother appears and gives her glass slippers with wings. These magical shoes will fly Cinder to the ball and back home at midnight. After a wonderful night with Prince Charming, Cinder's fairy godmother...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
In the winter of 1662, Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen, is on her deathbed. She entrusts an ancient pearl, rumored to have magic power, to her faithful cavalier William Craven for safekeeping. In his grief, William orders the construction of Ashdown Estate in her memory and places the pearl at its center. One hundred and fifty years later, notorious courtesan Lavinia Flyte hears the maids at Ashdown House whisper of a hidden treasure, and bears...
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Series:
Cinders and Sparks volume 3
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Cinders, her talking-dog, Sparks, a horse called Mouse, and Hansel (who accidentally, on purpose, ate some of a witch's gingerbread house) continue their quest to find Fairyland. But, even the bravest questers get hungry, and when the quartet stop at a market for lunch, calamity and chaos ensue. Cinders is, kidnapped by a greedy goblin, Mouse is turned back into a mouse, and Cinders's fairy godmother, Brian, pairs up with Prince Joderick to rescue...
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Publisher:
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
Spanish
Description:
This exciting, Spanish-translated version of a classic tale follows the beautiful and kind Cinder as she is forced to clean the house for her evil stepsisters. When her stepsisters try to sabotage her special night at the ball, her fairy godmother gives her glass slippers with wings to fly her there. Cinder is finally free to be with her prince charming, and her fairy godmother makes sure that her sisters don't interfere with their happiness. Accompanied...
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Lexile measure:
880L
Language:
English
Description:
In a witch's house, nothing is as it seems. When a scarecrow climbs over the garden wall, delivering twelve-year-old orphan Zita Brydgeborn a letter saying she has inherited a distant castle, she jumps at the chance of adventure. But little does she know that she is about to be thrust into a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Blackbird Castle was once home to a powerful dynasty of witches, all of them now dead under mysterious circumstances....
Author:
Publisher:
Titan Comics
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
In the land of Ustrad, King Uthrel sent a mighty warrior to link the flame. That warrior was Herad, a noble knight, but the flame was too strong and he was consumed, reduced to ash. King Uthrel took the quest upon himself, and linked the flame, becoming a mighty Lord of Cinder. Now the time to link the flame has come again, but Uthrel shrinks from his duty having become the skeletal Willow King, ruling over a court of the dead. Rising from the ashes...
10. Cinderella
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Publisher:
Smart Kidz Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
This is a story about Cinderella, a beautiful and kind-hearted daughter who sees her world turn upside down when her beloved mother dies and her father remarries another woman. His second wife was ill-natured, and she had two daughters who were just as unpleasant as their mother. Cinderella was soon to become the servant of her evil step-mother and step-sisters. They made her do all the chores around the house, and she was mockingly named Cinderella,...
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English
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***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** Serial killer Gary Heidnik's name will live on in infamy, and his home, 3520 North Marshall Street in Philadelphia, is a house tainted with the memory of unbelievable horrors. What police found there was an incredible nightmare made real. Four young women had been held captive--some for four months--half-naked and chained. They had been tortured, starved,...
12. Blackstone Manor
Author:
Publisher:
JMS Books LLC
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
Io is a Masonry Gargoyle tasked with looking after old buildings to help maintain a balance, and he's hopelessly in love with his alpha, Cinder. If only he wasn't such a screw up. With Cinder's birthday right around the corner, Io is convinced he has found the perfect gift -- Blackstone Manor, an estate that has captivated Cinder for years. He just needs to find the deed before the house is demolished. Of course, keeping the gift a secret from the...
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Publisher:
Shell Education Publishing
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
This exciting version of a classic tale follows the story of Cinder, a beautiful and kind girl who is forced to clean the house for her evil stepsisters. When Cinder's stepsisters try to keep her from attending Prince Charming's Grand Ball, her fairy godmother appears and gives her glass slippers with wings. These magical shoes will fly Cinder to the ball and back home at midnight. After a wonderful night with Prince Charming, Cinder's fairy godmother...
Author:
Series:
Cinder spires volume 1
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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Description:
"Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace. Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship, Predator. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting...
Author:
Publisher:
Falstaff Books
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
Orphaned siblings Scarlett and Duke Nam have had it rough. Cast aside by society, they've managed to stay afloat as thieves on the streets of Alexandria, Virginia. Things plunge straight to hell when a heist goes wrong and they're on the run from the cops, but after they stumble into a nearby home to escape, something seemingly impossible happens - the house transforms into a spacecraft and leaves the Earth's orbit.Scarlett and Duke awaken to find...
Author:
Publisher:
Catalyst Game Labs
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
IN THE FALCON'S CLAWS… Skye struggles to rise from the ashes of the last Jade Falcon campaign. Tara Campbell's Highlanders are limping back from battles fought all across the Prefecture. And Anastasia Kerensky's Steel Wolves have disappeared again. It's a matter of when-not if-the Falcons will renew their brutal assault, and Skye is unprepared. On the world of Nusakan, Landgrave Jasek Kelswa-Steiner appears to be Skye's only chance for salvation....
Author:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Language:
English
Description:
"Part political thriller, part meditation on social change, part love story, The Children of Harvey Milk tells the epic stories of courageous men and women around the world who came forward to make their voices heard during the struggle for equal rights. Featuring LGBTQ icons from America to Ireland, Britain to New Zealand; Reynolds documents their successes and failures, heartwarming stories of acceptance and heartbreaking stories of ostracism, demonstrating...
20. RoseBlood
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Publisher:
Abrams
Pub. Date:
2017
Lexile measure:
940L
Language:
English
Description:
This YA novel from New York Times bestselling author A. G. Howard marks the beginning of a new era for fans of the Splintered series. Rune Germain moves to a boarding school outside of Paris, only to discover that at this opera-house-turned-music-conservatory, phantoms really do exist. RoseBlood is a Phantom of the Opera-inspired retelling in which Rune's biggest talent-her voice-is also her biggest curse. Fans of Daughter of Smoke and Bone and the...