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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When a middle-aged man returns to his childhood home in Sussex, England, for a funeral he remembers frightening childhood memories relating to the neighbor girl who promised to protect him from the darkness unleashed by a suicide at the pond at the end of their street.
Author
Language
English
Description
From bestselling author and international sensation Paulo Coelho, a novel set in a small village about a young, poor barmaid whose wager with the devil leads to a spiritual transformation.
A stranger arrives at the remote village of Viscos, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil?
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Series
Sword of truth volume 4
Language
English
Description
Richard Cypher, war wizard and wielder of the Sword of Truth must battle the power-mad Emperor Jagang who returns with his multitude of demonic underlings. To defeat the evil Janang and eliminate the sorcerous plague infecting the world, Richard must find the Temple of the Winds.
4) The outcast
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Exiled from the Pure Ones, Nyroc flies alone to the great tree, and in order to prove his worthhe flies to The Beyond the Beyond seeking a legendary relic.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Okiku has wandered the world for centuries, freeing the innocent ghosts of the murdered-dead and taking the lives of killers with the vengeance they are due, but when she meets Tark she knows the moody teen with the series of intricate tattoos is not a monster and needs to be freed from the demonic malevolence that clings to him.
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Soren and Coryn read the ancient legends of Ga'Hoole in order to find a way to prevent the victory of evil in their present world.
7) It: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 70
Language
English
Description
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'hoole volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Primrose and Eglantine uncover a plot by Nyra to kill Coryn and Soren and set out to warn them.
11) To be a king
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Hoole gathers an army of free owls to battle against hagfiends and traitorous lords who are uniting to defeat the new king who has been born in the shadows of a sacred volcano; and Soren, Coryn, and the Band read the final legend in the private library of Ezylryb.
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
See how the Lords of the Underworld saga began with the first four sizzling stories by New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter. They dared to open Pandora's Box, and now must carry an eternal curse. The saga begins in a remote fortress in Budapest, where six immortal warriors, each more dangerously seductive than the last, are bound by an ancient curse none has been able to break. Journey through this dark and sensual world, where the line...
13) The branch
Author
Publisher
WordFire Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Original, irreverent, and thought-provoking--for fans of Chrisopher Moore. It is 2047. The true Messiah has come in the form of a grifter, a scoundrel--who has no idea that he fulfills all four Biblical signs that foretold him. Jeremiah the B, the last possible descendant of the line of David, finds himself in an epic struggle with an underworld boss distinctly similar to a certain Prince of Darkness. As they reveal their low-life selves, you'll wonder...
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Soren and Coryn read the ancient legends of Ga'Hoole in order to find a way to prevent the victory of evil in their present world.
15) The journey
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Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger make a harrowing journey to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree--a mythical place where an order of owls rises each night to perform noble deeds--seeking help to fight the evil afoot in the owl world.
16) Flunked
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When petty thief Gilly, who lives with five younger brothers and sisters in a run-down boot, gets caught stealing, she is sentenced to three months at Fairy Tale Reform School, where all of the teachers are former villains, including the Big Bad Wolf, the Evil Queen, and Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother.
17) The burning
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Soren and the rest of the band of owls in the great tree must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms in order to prepare for the deadly attack against them, but St. Aggie has fallen to the Pure Ones and without Soren and his allies, their enemies will prevail.
18) The hatchling
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'hoole volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nyroc, son of the evil Kludd and Nyra, is forced to fufill his dead father's destiny and oppress all of owldom, but when doubt grows in Nyroc's heart he must make an ultimate decision between good and evil.
19) Iron flame
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 2
Language
English
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"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate what can be accepted and what must be condemned in order to evaluate being and morality in African cultural and social contexts. These studies of...
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