Justis Bolding
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Brimming with Celtic mythology, action, and danger, Erika Lewis's Kelcie Murphy and The Academy for the Unbreakable Arts introduces readers to a new kind of magical school and a warrior who must choose with which side of an epic battle her destiny will lie. The Otherworld is at war. The Academy for the Unbreakable Arts trains warriors. And Kelcie Murphy - a foster child raised in the human world - is dying to attend. A place at AUA means meeting Scáthach,...
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There's no accounting for Miracles, at least that's what the folks of Glimmer Creek say. Every year, one lucky inhabitant survives danger, and bits of magic cling to them for a lifetime.
Rosie Flynn doesn't know how to get a Miracle but knows for sure they're real. It's the same way she's certain she'll always have her two best friends, Henry and Cam, that she'll be a famous film director someday, and that she and her mama are the perfect team of...
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In Compound Eleven, freedom from tyranny is impossible.
My name is Eve Hamilton, and I've managed the impossible.
I am free.
Until just like that, it is wrenched from my grasp. And this time, the corridors of the dark underground city are even more dangerous than ever before. But my brief taste of freedom has left me with something useful, something powerful, something that terrifies the leaders of Compound Eleven.
And now I have a monster inside.
One...
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In Compound Eleven, the hierarchy of the floors is everything.
My name is Eve Hamilton, and on my floor, we fight.
Which at least is better than the bottom floor, where they toil away in misery.
Only the top floor has any ease in this harsh world; they rule from their gilded offices.
Because four generations ago, Earth was rendered uninhabitable-the sun too hot, the land too barren. Those who remained were forced underground. While not a perfect...
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Millicent Chalmers isn't here to make friends. She's here to win, and she's on track to set a record if-no, when-she wins the state debate tournament for the fourth year in a row. Calm, cool, and always in control, Millie doesn't care what anyone else thinks of her, least of all the sexist bullies bent on destroying her reputation. Taggart Strong couldn't care less about winning debate, much to the consternation of his teammates, school and parents....
6) Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
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Recorded Books, Inc.
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2023
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English
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A fascinating, terrifying look at the rarest books - bound in human skin - and the stories of their creation There are books out there, some shelved unwittingly next to ordinary texts, that are bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom, a medical librarian and a cofounder of the Death Salon, seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy. Dozens of these books...
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It was supposed to be an ordinary day at the pool, but when lifeguard Nick hesitates during a rescue, seventeen-year-old December uses her gift of foreknowledge to save the drowning man instead. The action comes at a cost. Not only will Nick and December fall in love, but she also sees thathis life is now at
risk. The other problem? They're basically strangers.
December embarks on a mission to save Nick's life and to experience what it feels like...
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The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love--and their lives--in this pulse-pounding and viciously funny fiction debut from the GLAAD Award-winning author of Real Queer America.
When the final four women in competition for an aloof, if somewhat sleazy, bachelor’s heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest, they mentally prepare themselves for another week of extreme sleep deprivation, invasive interviews,...