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1) Shadow Land
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Ben and Shade thought they beat the Shadoweaters.They were wrong.Hiding out in an abandoned farmhouse outside of town, Ben and Shade watch in horror as Casino is overwhelmed by Shadow Eaters, smothering the very town itself in shadow. First the police, then the army fall to this growing, shapeless evil.When Shade goes missing, Ben is left to fend for himself and take on the training of their new recruits. As Ben struggles to work out what to do, the...
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A "novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their...
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The war with Lamia was going badly. Fifty years had passed since Beor's betrayal and things were going from bad to worse. The war was spilling over from the Shadow Lands into other worlds, their fate depended on the outcome of the Shadow Lands and the war that enveloped it. New allies are made, betrayals cut deep, and the death of someone important has shaken the very foundation of the Shadow Lands. Help will come from outside the Shadow Lands in...
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When a dark power rises, only a cursed prince can stand against it. Epic fantasy by New York Times bestselling author Jack Conner.As Volume Two starts, the dark forces have scattered the survivors of the assault by the free kingdoms of the Crescent upon the might of Oksil, and they are regrouping in the black wasteland known as Oksilith. A great bastion of the enemy has been destroyed, but at an unimaginable cost.And there is a worse price yet to...
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This is a journey to a time when the eastern half of what would become known as the United States was being transformed by the settlers there. The western half was still relatively unknown. This story takes an imagined look at the affairs of some of the native tribes that inhabited the northwestern part of this country, primarily the Nez Perce people. I take some historical facts and go back in time from there with a tale of adventure, romance, and...
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The narrator of "Shadow on a Weary Land" imagines the many lives that have been lived over the years on Brown's Ridge-from the teeming wildlife that once roamed the land to Jesse and Frank James, who settled there, to the farmers recently pushed out by the imminent rise of a housing development. These ghosts from the past haunt the narrator and his friends, a group of misfits who realize that their hardscrabble lives are intimately tied to a vanishing...
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A retired foreign service officer and a young state deptartment security officer are hired to protect an Arab-American who may be the target of a terrorist threat. As these two very different men travel together into the intifada, a gigantic terrorist plot unfolds which will change both of their lives forever.
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Central Oregon-the last frontier. Transportation is still by stagecoach and freight wagon. There is a movement afoot for a people's railroad, paid for by the state, to bring the benefits of rails to the area, to make it easier to ship livestock and produce, and to encourage settlement. For years, the competing railroad barons, James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman, have done nothing toward building a line in central Oregon, but now, under the impetus...
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They came and scattered themselves about the plains and prairies of West Texas like seeds thrown into the constant winds. In clusters or in singles they dug in. Depending on rainfall, they flourished or failed.
Maybe the journeyers arrived in the springtime of a good year and saw the beauty of the place, expecting it to last. Maybe it did last for a season or so before a bad dry spell set in. Maybe it was several years before a real drought appeared,...
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Notions of land and agrarian reform are now well entrenched in post-apartheid South Africa. But what this reform actually means for everyday life is not clearly understood, nor the way it will impact on the political economy. In the Shadow of Policy explores the interface between the policy of land and agrarian reform and its implementation; and between the decisions of policy 'experts' and actual livelihood experiences in the fields and homesteads...
12) Shadowlands
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Shadowlands (Kate Brian) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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"Rory, a girl in witness protection, thinks the serial killer she turned in has found her and is killing people around her. But as she investigates, she discovers a dark, disturbing truth about her new hometown"--
13) Shadowland
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The mediator volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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Shadowland is the first book in the thrilling, romantic Mediator series, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot.
Suze is a mediator—a liaison between the living and the dead. In other words, she sees dead people. And they won't leave her alone until she helps them resolve their unfinished business with the living.
But Jesse, the hot ghost haunting her bedroom, doesn't seem
...14) Shadowland
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Immortals (Alyson Noel) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Enter the realm of the Immortals-the #1 New York Times bestselling series that's been acclaimed as breathtaking, mesmerizing, flawless and extraordinary. Ever and Damen have traveled through countless past lives-and fought off the world's darkest enemies-so they could be together forever. But just when their long-awaited destiny is finally within reach, a powerful curse falls upon Damen…one that could destroy everything. Now a single touch of their...
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Julie Rehmeyer felt like she was going to the desert to die. Julie fully expected to be breathing at the end of the tripbut driving into Death Valley felt like giving up, surrendering. Shed spent years battling a mysterious illness so extreme that she often couldnt turn over in her bed. The top specialists in the world were powerless to help, and research on her disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, was at a near standstill. Having exhausted the plausible...
16) The Shadowlands
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Last firehawk volume 5
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Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Tag the owl, Skyla the squirrel, and Blaze the firehawk are searching for the final piece of the magical Ember Stone that will hopefully save Perodia from the evil vulture Thorn, and their quest has led them to the Howling Caves in Valor Wood--but they do not know if the stone will actually be there, or what will be waiting for them when they emerge into the spreading darkness.
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Umbriel Editores ; Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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Alexandra Boyd, una joven estadounidense, viaja a Sofia con la esperanza de que una nueva vida en el extranjero apacigue el dolor que siente por la perdida de su hermano. Poco despues de llegar a esta hermosa ciudad del este de Europa, Alexandra ayuda a una pareja de ancianos a subir a un taxi y se queda accidentalmente con una de sus bolsas. Dentro, hay una caja de madera con un nombre: Stoyan Lazarov. Se trata de una urna con cenizas humanas. Alexandra...
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W. W. Norton & Company
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[2022]
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A "brilliant London historian" (BBC Radio) tells the story of Britain as never before--through its abandoned villages and towns. Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain's eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a cliff by sea storms; the abandoned village...
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Sisters of blood and spirit volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Twin sisters, one living in the Shadow Lands--the realm of the dead-- and one in the land of the living, are called upon to try and save a boy and his friends who have been marked for death by a long-dead serial killer.
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The Goddess of Witches, Queen of Shades and Shadows, and the ever-eternal Dark Muse, Hekate, Fair Queen of the Shadow-Lands, haunts the pages of this poetic devotional, enchanting those who love Her with the charm only this Dark Goddess can bring. Join in the journey as we meet Hekate, Queen of Sorcery, in the realms of Dream and Enchantment, weaving magic through the Worlds, Seen and Unseen. We take flight to the Lands Eternal in this part devotional,...