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Author
Series
Library trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Library of Alexandria died in fire. Others fade away with less drama, ignored, forgotten, left to dust. To the athenaeum though, the great library of which all others are echoes, fires are merely a temporary inconvenience. The only true threat to the library's existence is a book--the one Livira wrote. Livira's book also brought her together with Evar, a young man who was raised in the library itself, and they discovered secrets that no one else...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
As the fairytale detectives race through the Book of Everafter searching for their baby brother, they encounter various characters including the Editor and his army of Revisers, who threaten the children with dire consequences if they continue to change the stories.
44) A tale of magic
Author
Series
Tale of magic volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen risks everything by opposing her kingdom's repression of women, but Madame Weatherberry, seeing her potential, invites her to a school where she hopes to change the world's perception of magic.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
The Reading Group follows the trials and tribulations of a group of women who meet regularly to read and discuss books.Over the course of a year, each of these women become intertwined, both in the books they read and within each other's lives.
Inspired by a shared desire for conversation, a good book and a glass of wine-Clare, Harriet, Nicole, Polly, and Susan undergo startling revelations and transformations despite their differences in background,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Librarian Phoebe O'Dunn deals in stories, but her passion for history has taught her that happy endings are rare. Her life in Knights Bridge, Massachusetts, is safe and uneventful until she discovers the hidden room. Among its secrets is a cache of vintage clothing, including a spectacular gown perfect for a gala masquerade in Boston. In the guise of a princess, Phoebe is captivated by a handsome swashbuckler who's also adopted a more daring persona....
Author
Series
Creature from my closet volume 5
Language
English
Description
The latest creature to emerge from Rob's closet is a cross between the cat from "Cat in the Hat" and Gollum from "The Lord of the Rings." The creature involves Rob in school antics, a train ride, and a mysterious hike.
49) Girlchild
Author
Language
English
Description
Obsessively following the edicts of the Girl Scouts Handbook in spite of her lack of a troop, young Rory longs to escape the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother.
50) Farilane
Author
Series
Rise and fall volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Some truths are dangerous, certain secrets best concealed, and one story never should have been written at all. Being an unwanted twin in the imperial line of succession, Farilane becomes a scholar, an adventurer, and-in a time when reading is forbidden-a hunter of books. Her singular obsession is finding the mythical Book of Brin, a tome not just lost but intentionally buried. Although she is respected and beloved by the Teshlor Knights, not even...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers' room is convinced it's something special. And the committee for France's highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt, agrees. But when the shortlist is announced, there's a problem for editor Violaine Lepage: she has no idea of the author's identity. As the police begin to investigate a series of murders strangely reminiscent of those recounted...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By helping to start a traveling library, she hopes to bring the words of Homer, Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss to far-flung tiny communities where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. Her intentions are honorable, and her rules are firm: due to the limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not returned,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion... and also her job. Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more. Determined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village many miles away. There she buys a van and transforms it into a bookmobile--a mobile bookshop that she drives from neighborhood to neighborhood, changing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First Pocket Star Books paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Romance novels save the day in award-winning author Gwyn Cready's fun and sensual take on modern-day love Can romance novels save the day Snobbish book critic Ellery Sharpe has made the strategic mistake of unleashing her scathing wit on the memoir of the world's leading romance publisher. As damage control, her boss at Vanity Place magazine assigns her the ultimate punishment: write an ode to romance novels, a genre she considers the literary equivalent...
Author
Series
Polly Diamond volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Disappointed that the new class pet is just a hamster, Polly uses her magic book, Spell, to conjure up a more interesting pet--and than has to figure out how to resolve the resulting topsy turvy chaos.
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 1
Language
English
Description
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Anna Lucia Bell expects the worst from her summer vacation in Rockport with her recently divorced parents, but everything changes with the arrival of new friendships and a magical comet that lead Anna to broaden her understanding of herself, love, and friendship.
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