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(0)Alaya Dawn Johnson
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Set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she's hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything--not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her side--and history has appeared on her doorstep...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Emily Bird is an African American high school senior in Washington D.C., member of a privileged medical family, on the verge of college and the edge of the drug culture, and not really sure which way she will go--then one day she wakes up in the hospital with no memory of what happened.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In a Brazil of the distant future, June Costa falls in love with Enki, a fellow artist and rebel against the strict limits of the legendary pyramid city of Palmares Três' matriarchal government, knowing that, like all Summer Kings before him, Enki is destined to die.
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"Johnson digs into the lives of those trodden underfoot by the powers that be: from the lives of vampires and those caught in their circle in Hawai'i to a taxonomy of anger put together by Union soldiers in the American Civil War, these stories will grab you and not let you go"--
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The author of Racing the Dark returns to the world of magic wielded by women who understand the dark trade-offs of power and sacrifice.
Lana, the heroine, has become the black angel, a harbinger of destruction unheard of in the islands for five-hundred years. The sleeping volcano of the great city Essel has erupted. In the chaos, the city is reshaping itself and violence threatens from all corners. A rebel movement has formed in the destroyed heart...
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Twisted journeys volume 10
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Graphic Universe
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2009
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English
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Throughout this graphic novel about a student taken into fairyland while on a trip to Scotland's Orkney Islands, the reader makes choices to determine the outcome of the fairies' battle with the Goblin King, as well as the hero's fate.
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"Whoever controls our memories controls the future. Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts-as a means of self-conception-could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life and...
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Scholastic Press
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2023.
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English
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Born in the Library, daughter of a Library god, Freida has spent her whole life exploring its ever-changing tunnels, and communing with its gods--but then she meets Joshua, a Tierran boy desperate to save his people, and Nergüi, disciple of a persecuted minority, and to help them she will risk everything.
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St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books
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2012.
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English
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A summer in the city is overshadowed by fights over a blood-based intoxicant that has inebriated most local vampires, a situation that escalates when Zephyr learns that vampires have started dying after drinking the substance.
10) Feral youth
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Simon Pulse
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2017.
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English
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Follows ten teens who are left alone in the wilderness amid a three-day survival test.
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Welcome to Tremontaine, the prequel to Ellen Kushner's beloved Riverside series that began with Swordspoint! A Duchess whose beauty is matched only by her cunning; her husband's dangerous affair with a handsome scholar; a foreigner in a playground of swordplay and secrets; and a mathematical genius on the brink of revolution-when long-buried lies threaten to come to light, betrayal and treachery know no bounds with stakes this high. Mind your manners...
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Celebrate Wonder Woman's 80th anniversary with this original new saga about Diana Prince.
When a magical threat targets both Washington's elite and its most marginalized, Wonder Woman and the Crimson Avenger unite to mete out justice.
Diana Prince lives a double life. No one would ever suspect the studious anthropologist of secretly being Wonder Woman, gifted with godlike powers from her home in Themyscira. Only a few people-such as Dr. Barbara...
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Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2023]
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English
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"With a breathtaking array of original stories from around the world, P. Djaelai Clark, Amal El Mohtar, Garth Nix, Darcie Little Badger, Sheree Renaee Thomas, and two dozen other fantasy and science fiction geniuses bring a new and exciting twist to one of the most beloved figures in fiction, witches, in never-before-seen works written exclusively for The Book of Witches, compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan and illustrated by award-nominated...
15) Tremontaine
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"A duchess's beauty matched only by her cunning; her husband's dangerous affair with a handsome scholar; a foreigner in a playground of swordplay and secrets; and a mathematical genius on the brink of revolution. Suddenly long-buried lies threaten to come to light and betrayal and treachery run rampant in this story of sparkling wit and political intrigue."--Amazon.com.