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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
260 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
Author
Series
[We set the dark on fire volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband’s household or raise his children. Both paths promise a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class. Daniela Vargas is the school’s top student, but her pedigree is a lie. She must keep the truth hidden or be sent...
Author
Series
The Mirror Visitor volume 2
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
511 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Ophelia is promoted to Vice-storyteller by Farouk, the ancestral Spirit of Pole, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the public spotlight. Her gift--the ability to read the secret history of objects--is now known by all, and there can be no greater threat to the nefarious denizens of her icy adopted home than this. Beneath the golden rafters of Pole's capitol, she discovers that the only person she may be able to trust is Thorn, her...
Author
Series
Winter's Orbit volume 1
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Summoned before the Emperor, Prince Kiem--a famously disappointing minor royal and the Emperor's least favorite grandchild-is commanded to renew the empire's bonds with its newest vassal planet. The prince must marry Count Jainan, the recent widower of another royal prince of the empire. But the Jainan suspects his late husband's death was no accident. And Prince Kiem discovers that Jainan is a suspect himself. But broken bonds between the empire...
Author
Series
The Last Finestra volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three weddings. Three funerals. Alessa's gift from the gods is supposed to magnify a partner's magic, not kill every suitor she touches.
Now, with only weeks left until a hungry swarm of demons devours everything on her island home, Alessa is running out of time to find a partner and stop the invasion. When a powerful priest convinces the faithful that killing Alessa is the island's only hope, her own soldiers try to assassinate her.
Desperate to...
Author
Series
The Mirror Visitor volume 1
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
491 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what's more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her...
Author
Series
The Last Finestra volume 2
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
441 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Six months after saving their island from destruction and almost losing Dante, Alessa is ready to live happily ever after with her former bodyguard. But Dante can't rest, haunted by a conviction that the gods aren't finished with them yet. And without his powers, the next kiss from Alessa could kill him.
Desperate for answers, Dante enlists Alessa and their friends to find the exiled ghiotte in hopes of restoring his powers and combining forces to...
Author
Series
This Woven Kingdom volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the long-lost heir to the Jinn throne, Alizeh has finally found her people--and she might've found her crown. Cyrus, the mercurial ruler of Tulan, has offered her his kingdom in a twisted exchange: one that would begin with their marriage and end with his murder.
Cyrus's dark reputation precedes him; all the world knows of his blood-soaked past. Killing him should be easy--and accepting his offer might be the only way to fulfill her destiny and...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's been hundreds of years since King Arthur's reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered Princess of England, since birth. The only thing they can agree on is that they despise each other.
They're forced to spend the summer together at Camelot in the run-up to their nuptials, and within twenty-four hours, Gwen has discovered Arthur kissing a boy and Arthur...
10) A Drop of Venom
Author
Publisher
Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition ;
Physical Desc
393 pages : 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters--she's been running from them for years, from beasts who roam the jungle to the King's army, who forced her people, the naga, to scatter to the ends of the earth. You might think that the kingdom's famed holy temples atop the floating mountains, where Manisha is now a priestess, would be safe--but you would be wrong.
Seventeen-year-old Pratyush is a famed slayer of monsters, one of the King's most...