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After the Sundering, only a shadow of the old magic remains, and to dally with it is treacherous. The Empire is broken, with every piece vying for power, including the kingdom of Castellane. Kel is an orphan who is unexpectedly swept away to palace life, where he becomes the Sword Catcher. The Sword Catcher is taught to act, talk, and fight like the prince, to be a perfect copy, even if it means dying in the prince's place. Lin is an Ashkari physician...
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Red doesn't remember who she is or where she came from. In fact, her only memory is a terrifying, repeating dream of a threatening shadow and a foggy field. But after many years, she wonders if that's just something she made up. Red does know that she now belongs with Yakaka, the witch who rescued Red when she was a little girl. Full of power and magic, Yakaka travels the world, healing the planet when it calls for her help. Yakaka carries Red between...
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2023.
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"Cornwall, 1730: A young girl known only as Red travels with her father, making a living predicting fortunes using the ancient Cornish method of The Squares of Sevens. Shortly before he dies, her father entrusts Red's care to a gentleman scholar, along with a document containing the secret of The Square of Sevens technique. Raised as a lady amidst the Georgian splendor of Bath, Red and her fortune-telling delight high society. But she cannot ignore...
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Let it be volume 1
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"Nineteen-year-old Leah Jones is struggling to cope after she and her twenty-nine-year-old brother Oliver lose their parents in a horrific car accident. Leah was in the car and is plagued by nightmares, intense grief and numbness-her life as she knew it is over. Oliver hates leaving Leah at a time like this, but the only way he can support them both is if he transfers to Sydney for work. He implores his best friend Axel Nguyen to let her move in with...
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2023.
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"The heart is a battlefield. War has raged for a decade in Lir, and orphaned soldier Talasyn has learned to keep her powers hidden to survive. As the last known Lightweaver on the continent, she can create radiant weapons that cut through the invading Shadowforged warriors' dark magic. But all that changes when she is forced to reveal her abilities on the battlefield to defend herself from the Shadowforged prince himself, Alaric Ossinast. In a clash...
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Michigan State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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First edition.
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268 pages : 24 cm
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English
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"Set in Michigan in the 1920s, it traces the lives of two teenagers, Mercy and Lincoln, who are orphans sent from Massachusetts by a Catholic charity to be placed with families"--
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"In the Spring of 1877, Bridget-sixteen years old and already disillusioned after caring for her alcoholic father-is orphaned while crossing the Kansas prairie. She arrives penniless in Dodge City, and, thanks to the allure of her bright red hair and country-girl beauty, is soon recruited to work at the Buffalo Queen, the only brothel in town run by women. Bridget takes to brothel life instantly, appreciating the good food, good pay, and good friendships...
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"Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl... For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her lumberjack father and running through the wilds where the forest meets the shore, Leah's country life is as natural as the Loblolly pines that rise to greet the Southern sky. When an accident takes her father's life, Leah is wrenched from her small community...
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Candlewick Press
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2023.
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English
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"This is an old story. It is about a girl named Otilla who runs away. It is also about a house in the woods, and a skull who lives there, and a secret the skull has, and the night that Otilla finds out what that secret is."--
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"Twelve-year-old orphan Adia, a kitchen apprentice at the Academy of Shamans who has mysterious powers, embarks on an epic adventure through hidden realms when she discovers the kingdom's emperor is possessed by a demon and he's on his way to the Academy for a visit"--
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Lost legends (Disney Hyperion) volume 1
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Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
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First edition.
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186 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Tangled's Eugene Fitzherbert goes on a life-altering adventure that leads to his transformation into the one and only Flynn Rider"--
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 Blu-ray (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In one of her earliest and most popular roles, the adorable Shirley Temple single-handedly melts the hearts of a gang of hardened gamblers when she is left as an IOU or 'marker' for debt. A jaded head bookie, 'Sorrowful' Jones, winds up playing reluctant papa to the curly-topped waif and soon falls under her spell. Helping Sorrowful with the rigors of instant fatherhood is the beautiful Bangles Carson, a nightclub singer whose racketeer boyfriend...
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Pine Island volume 2
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Holiday House
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English
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The McCready sisters have just settled into their new home on Pine Island when they get word that an unwelcome houseguest is coming to visit for months.
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"From bookfluencer and host of the Bad on paper podcast, a riotous holiday rom-com about four friends in NYC who hold onto their unconventional Christmas tradition even when their paths diverge--but the changes they fear might be exactly what they need... Hannah and Finn have spent every Christmas together since college. Neither has anywhere else to go--Hannah's parents died, and Finn's disowned him when he came out. Their tradition of offbeat holiday...
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2024.
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English
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"August, 1943. Fourteen-year-old Massimo is all alone. Newly orphaned and fleeing from Rome after surviving the American bombing raid that killed his parents, Massimo is attacked by thugs and finds himself bloodied at the base of the Montecassino. It is there in the Benedictine abbey's shadow that a charismatic and cryptic man calling himself Pietro Houdini, the self-proclaimed 'Master Artist and confidante of the Vatican,' rescues Massimo and brings...
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Palm Pictures
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[1999]
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1 DVD (91 min.) : letterbox, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Buddy, a mysterious and powerful hero of the apocalyptic future, must fight his way to Lost Vegas and ditch a tag-along orphan kid if he is ever to become the next King of Rock 'n' Roll. Along the way, they encounter bounty-hunting bowlers, a cannibalistic "Cleaver" family, a Windmill God, and even the Russian army"--Container
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Magnetic Press
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[2022]
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196 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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"A giant baby girl is found and adopted by a local family who bring her back to their village. She grows to become an even bigger giant, learning life's lessons complicated even further by her enormous size and uniqueness. Can she weather a society that faces her with frightened hostility and prejudice to find live and, ultimately, the freedom to be herself? A wondrous, fantastical tale of feminism, difference, love, freedom, and the quest to be oneself"--Amazon....
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
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Center Point Large Print edition.
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294 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"When Ben Moore rode into Wileyville, he was not expecting much. He had won a deed in a poker game and wanted to check out the place for himself. From the start, though, he could tell that he was buying into a pack of troubles by claiming the old Oakley place. When he went out to look it over he was surprised by two things: the relatively good shape the property was in - the buildings needed work, but the structures were good and the surrounding land...
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