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1) The plot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written - let alone published - anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Queen Levana is a ruler who uses her "glamour" to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story - a story that has never been told... until now"--
Queen Levana is a ruler who uses her glamour and mind control to gain power, but long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress. the plot contains sexual references and violence. Book #4.
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Super-diplomat Raymond Havilland sets up the kidnapping of Jason Bourne's wife, in order to draw Bourne out of retirement and into a Taiwanese plot to seize Hong Kong and incite China against the West.
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Series
Bright Falls volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love-with all its complications-by debut author Ashley Herring Blake. Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls-nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it's...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this rhyming mash-up of many fairy tales, the reader is invited to follow Rosie down the many possible paths which may lead to a sleeping maiden, a hungry wolf, a girl locked in a tower, or a goose that lays golden eggs--but with some luck, and some smart choices, Rosie may save herself and her fellow fairy tale characters.
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 13
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
While Coryn and his companions journey to a wintery realm where mysterious owls live, the king becomes the target of an assassination plot and it is up to Primrose and Eglantine to save him.
7) Leviathan
Author
Series
Adventuregame comics volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A "choose your own story" graphic novel. In a small medieval coastal town, the residents live in fear of a giant sea creature, the Leviathan, who attacks anyone who lies. Your mission: discover the secrets and defeat the creature before it's too late! How you go about it depends on the choices you make.
Author
Series
Dog Man volume 11
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Piggy is back, and his newest plot is his most diabolical yet. Dog Man and the rest of your favorite characters must join together. What new villains are on the horizon? Where are they all comign from. And who will step forward to save the city when scoundrels sabotage our Supa Buddies?
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Description
Dear Reader, I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to put this book down instantaneously, because of all the books describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, this one might be the unhappiest yet. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumbermill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
"Real life and fairy tales collide in Never After The Thirteenth Fairy book one in the Chronicles of Never After. Nothing ever happens in Filomena Jefferson-Cho's sleepy little California town. But one day, when Filomena is walking home from her favorite bookstore, something finally happens... Filomena is being followed by none other than Jack Stalker, one of the heroes in Never After, a series of fairy tale books she loves. Jack delivers the shocking...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith. "Flung Out of Space" is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, "The Price of Salt," and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this story through Highsmith's eyes -- reimagining the events that inspired her to write the story that would become a foundational piece...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
The lovable trio from the acclaimed Lowriders in Space are back! Lupe Ipala, Elirio Malaria, and El Chavo Octopus are living their dream at last. They're the proud owners of their very own garage. But when their beloved cat Genie goes missing, they need to do everything they can to find him. Little do they know the trail will lead them to the realm of Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of the Underworld, who is keeping Genie prisoner! With cool Spanish...
13) Glass Town
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The entrancing story of the Bront©± sisters' childhood imaginary world. Four children: Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne have invented a world so real and vivid that they can step right into it. But can reality be enough, when fiction is so enticing? And what happens to an imaginary world when its creators grow up? Plots are spiraling, characters are getting wildly out of hand, and a great deal of ink is being spilt... Welcome to Glass Town."--Provided...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young girl might actually be real--especially when the egg hatches overnight. The dragon has immense powers that Grace has yet to understand. And that puts them both...
15) The family plot
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Dahlia Dutton's father is thrilled when the aged and esteemed Augusta Winthrow appears in his office and makes a deal for his company, Music City Salvage, to take over and liquidate her massive family estate in Chattanooga. He gives the job to Dahlia, who gathers a crew and a couple of trucks and heads for the estate--an ancient house, a barn, a carriage house, and a small, overgrown cemetery that Augusta Winthrow left out of the paperwork. She left...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
"When the King's Courier, Lord Tycho, stops in the small town of Briarlock he is quick to befriend Jax and Callyn, but the town has long been an outpost for the anti-magic Truthbringers, and soon they find themselves embroiled in a world of shifting alliances and ancient magic"--
Magic has been banished in the land of Syhl Shallow for as long as best friends Jax and Callyn can remember. They once loved the stories of the powerful magesmiths and mythical...
17) The Witches: The
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
"A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Mickey Haller novels volume 6
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 7
Harry Bosch volume 34
Lincoln lawyer novel)
Lincoln lawyer novel volume 7
Harry Bosch volume 34
Lincoln lawyer novel)
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is charged with murder and can't make the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge. Mickey elects to defend himself and must strategize and build his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles, all the while looking over his shoulder, as an officer of the court...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
While his evil pet cat Klawde, an exiled emperor from across the universe, faces a treasonous plot to overthrow him, Raj has to survive an even more perilous group: the students and parents of the Elba Middle School newspaper club.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
On its publication In 1964, John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold forever changed the landscape of spy fiction. Le Carré combined the inside knowledge of his years in British intelligence with the skills of the best novelists to produce a story as taut as it is twisting, unlike any previously experienced, which transports us back to the shadowy years in the early 1960s when the Berlin Wall went up and the Cold War came to life. When...