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Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a witch's house, nothing is as it seems. When a scarecrow climbs over the garden wall, delivering twelve-year-old orphan Zita Brydgeborn a letter saying she has inherited a distant castle, she jumps at the chance of adventure. But little does she know that she is about to be thrust into a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Blackbird Castle was once home to a powerful dynasty of witches, all of them now dead under mysterious circumstances....
82) Mrs. Osmond
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and The Blue Guitar--a dazzling new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected (and completely stand-alone) territory. Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naive girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Struggling in an unfulfilling marriage after an unhappy childhood, Grace is shocked by her distant parents' double suicide and her inheritance of a lake cabin, where she meets a local fishing guide whose family history is bound to her own.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours." --
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident...
85) The codex
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The mysterious disappearance of treasure hunter and adventurer Maxwell Broadbent--along with his riches--sends his three sons on a search for their father, who has hidden himself and his treasures, in order to claim their inheritance.
Author
Series
This Woven Kingdom volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
495 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight. The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can't put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom--and the world"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
"Lori, the heroine of Aunt Dimity's Death, married to a workaholic attorney, finds herself and Aunt Dimity searching for her missing father-in-law and her pink flannel bunny, only to discover a centuries-old secret about her husband's family."--Amazon.com
Author
Series
Aunt Dimity volume 8
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Accompanying her husband to the Earl of Harrisford's will reading, Lori Shepherd witnesses the Harrisford family erupt in a heated dispute involving burning topiaries, threatening notes, and suspicious maids.
89) Unyielding hope
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the early twentieth century, Lillian Walsh rushes to a reunion after discovering the sister she believed dead is likely alive. But Grace has dreams beyond anything Lillian imagines. Can Lillian set aside her own plans and join her sister in an adventure that will surely change them both?"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inheriting a cocoa plantation in Vinces, Ecuador, that someone will kill for, Puri, after her husband is murdered, assumes his identity to search for the truth of her father's legacy and learn the identity of the enemy who stands in her way of claiming her birthright.
Puri inherited her passion for chocolate from her father. At his death she learns she's inherited a cocoa estate in Vinces, Ecuador. Eager to claim her birthright and filled with hope...
Author
Series
Summer Beach volume 1
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Oak Bluffs, the most exclusive black beach community in the country. Known for its gingerbread Victorian-style houses and modern architectural marvels, this picturesque town hugging the sea is a mecca for the crème de la crème of black society&;where Michelle and Barack Obama vacation and Meghan Markle has shopped for a house for her mom. Black people have lived in this pretty slip of the Vineyard since the 1600s and began buying property...
92) One dark throne
Author
Series
Three Dark Crowns volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Preparing for the queens' sixteenth birthday celebration and navigating the fallout of the Quickening, the sisters reassess their strategic paths to the throne using new understandings of their powers and destinies.
93) Finders keepers
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
423 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Catherine Palmer presents the first novel in another HeartQuest series. Fiery Elizabeth Hayes is determined to preserve Chalmers House, the Victorian mansion next to her growing antiques business. But Zachary Chalmers, heir to the mansion, has very different plans. Together they learn that God has the best plans of all-if we will only surrender to him.
94) The Gilded Cage
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An American farm girl discovers that she's an English heiress, but claiming her fortune leads to danger and intrigue"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 2
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The second Maisie Dobbs mystery
Jacqueline Winspear's marvelous debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from around the world and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature's favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather, its follow-up, finds psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London "between the wars." It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to...
97) Holy chow
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Holy Chow, the next mystery from bestselling author David Rosenfelt, the beloved characters--both human and canine--of this fan favorite series are back on the case with the author's trademark wit and humor. Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter's calling has always been running the Tara Foundation. The dog rescue organization places hundreds of dogs in new homes every year. It's added up to so many dogs and new owners that Andy can't even do the math....
Author
Series
The Ascendance volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
371 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ascendant King Jaron believes that his kingdom, Carthya, is at peace, so he and his bethrothed, Imogen, are sailing home from a trade mission when their ship is attacked by Prozarians, and Jaron and several of his friends are taken prisoner; the Prozarian captain seems to believe he had something to do with his parents' deaths and they also know a great deal about Jaron's long-missing older brother, Darius, the rightful heir to Carthya--who may be...
Author
Series
Magic kitten volume 1-2
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A summer spell: Flame is heir to the Lion throne but though powerful he is not yet strong enough to stand up to the evil uncle who is trying to claim the throne. Flame must hide in the human world as a kitten but can't stay in any place for too long. Flame travels from place to place in various kitten guises using his own special brand of magic to help children who need it along the way. Lisa isn't happy that she has to stay with her aunt in the country...