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"In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she’s recruited by Russia’s largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she’s in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America’s most famous technology companies. In between her executive management (make offers to promising startups, crush them and copy their features if they refuse); self promotion (check out her latest op-ed...
2) Deeplight
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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The gods are dead. Decades ago, they turned on one another and tore each other apart. When 15-year-old Hark finds the still-beating heart of a terrifying deity, he risks everything to keep it out of the hands of smugglers, military scientists, and a secret fanatical cult so that he can use it to save the life of his best friend, Jelt. But with the heart, Jelt gradually and eerily transforms. How long should Hark stay loyal to his friend when he's...
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Series
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Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (79 pages) : illustrations.
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English
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Monica has the chance of a lifetime: she's been asked to ride with her friends in a parade! But the problem is, the parade is for the Rock Creek football team, and they're Pine Tree Middle School's rivals in the big game. How can she support her school and her friends from Rock Creek, and still ride in the parade?
4) Embassytown
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English
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Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
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Legend of all wolves volume 5
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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"An outsider must prove to the pack where their loyalty lies... Julia Martel was once a spoiled princess surrounded by powerful Shifters. Now she is a prisoner of the Great North Pack, trusted by no one and relegated to the care of the pack's least wolf, the only one who has shown her kindness. As the Omega, Arthur Graysson has always been at the bottom of the Great North's hierarchy. It's where the pack needs him most: as a wolf in the shadows, protecting...
7) Loyalty
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English
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"#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily"--
"Loyalty can save a soul--or destroy one. Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome laborer toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning a lemon grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. When the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy, Franco makes a decision that will change...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake comes an intricate web of love, magic, and rival witch families in New York City. In modern-day Manhattan where we lay our scene, two rival witch families fight to maintain control of their respective criminal empires. On one side of the conflict are the Antonova sisters--each one beautiful, cunning, and ruthless--and their mother, the elusive supplier of premium intoxicants, known only as Baba...
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Series
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Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (86 pages).
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Ben's mother would like him to follow his best friend, Tanner, and join Chief Master Lisa Kleisch's tae kwon do studio, but Ben is loyal to his long-time instructor, Mr. Ronson. Besides, he really does not like what he sees of Lisa Kleisch's joyless technique--and when Tanner admits that he hates it at the new dojang, Ben is more determined than ever to prove that he can win with Mr. Ronson.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
545 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Waverly, Kate, and Amy are a tight-knit trio that's always had Waverly at its center. But now Waverly's cozy bakery is facing financial ruin. Kate's husband is on track to be the next governor, but unsettling questions are brewing in their future. And stay-at-home mom Amy's life is perfect on paper, until a horrific secret threatens to reveal itself. As life's pressures begin to tear the three women apart, Waverly knows she has some big decisions...
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Tales from the box volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
125 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
After Boolar is asked to join a puppet theater, he forgets about the dolls and mice who have been his family, until a crisis helps him regain perspective.
12) Blood will tell
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"From the author of the acclaimed debut No Bad Deed, a twisty novel about the bond between two sisters--and the crimes one covers up to protect the other."--
Schoolteacher and single mom Frankie Barrera has always been fiercely protective of her younger sister Izzy--whether Izzy wants her to be or not. But over the years, Izzy's risky choices have tested Frankie's loyalty. Never so much as on a night five years ago, when a frantic phone call led...
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chato and Novio win a cruise but are disappointed to find that everyone else on board is a dog, and things go from bad to worse when the dogs party themselves sick and it is up to the cats to find help.
14) Dark skies: #2
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Series
Dark Shores volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
480 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lydia is a scholar, but books are her downfall when she meddles in the plots of the most powerful man in the Celendor Empire. Her life in danger, she flees west to the far side of the Endless Seas and finds herself entangled in a foreign war where her burgeoning powers are sought by both sides.
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Series
Burningblade and Silvereye volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xviii, 456 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
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"Gyre finally sees a way to overthrow the all-powerful Twilight Order. But he'll have to gain the alliance of both the ghouls and the human rebels to the south in order to even stand have a chance. And uniting them won't be so simple. His sister Maya is still a soldier of the Order. But after clashing with her brother, she isn't so certain where her loyalties lie. Chasing the origins of a mysterious artifact to a long-lost library, she just might...
16) Lost autumn
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Australia, 1920. Seventeen-year-old Maddie Bright embarks on the voyage of a lifetime when she's chosen to serve on the cross-continent tour of His Royal Highness, the dashing Edward, Prince of Wales. Life on the royal train is luxurious beyond her dreams, and the glamorous, good-hearted friends she makes crack open her world. But glamour often hides all manner of sins. Decades later, Maddie lives alone in Brisbane, whiling away the days. When a...
17) Lone wolf
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three authors combine their talents to celebrate the wildest version of man's best friend--the noble wolf. Each novella revolves around a rugged man and his trusty wolf protector as an opportunity for happily ever afters arise. Filled with sizzling tension and well-drawn characters--animal and human alike--this anthology is sure to resonate with readers looking to answer the call of the wild. Loyal as a wolf--and just as strong and untamed--three...
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English
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"Three grown siblings confront their father's role in their mother's disappearance in this arresting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob. Jane Larkin disappeared without a trace in November 1976. When ten-year-old Miranda arrives home from school that autumn afternoon, finding her mother's pocketbook in its usual spot in the front hall, she assumes her mother will be back any minute. But as the hours tick by, alone...
19) City on fire
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Series
Danny Ryan volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
"Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful modern-day Helen of Troy comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire"--
20) Gilded serpent
Author
Series
Dark Shores volume 3
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
561 pages : map ; 22 cm
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English
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"Their battles ended in victory. Lydia returns to Mudaire to enter training at the healing temple. But instead of fighting to save lives, she's convinced she is doing more harm than good. She delves into the history of the gods only to discover a truth that will change her life forever. His birthright as commander of the Royal Army is finally in his grasp, but Killian feels anything but victorious. Burdened by his past, he embraces the darker side...