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1) Red Queen
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Series
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English
Description
Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood -- those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess...
2) Glass sword
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Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 2
Language
English
Description
The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they've always known -- and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul. Mare Barrow's blood is red -- the color of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a...
3) War storm
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Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 4
Language
English
Description
Victory comes at a price. Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Cal's betrayal nearly destroyed her. Now determined to protect her heart--and secure freedom for Reds and newbloods like her--Mare resolves to overthrow the kingdom of Norta once and for all ... starting with the crown on Maven's head. But no battle is won alone, and before the Reds may rise as one, Mare must side with the boy who broke her heart in order to defeat the boy who almost...
4) King's cage
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Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerless without her lightning, tormented by her lethal mistakes. She lives at the mercy of a boy she once loved, a boy made of lies and betrayal. Now a king, Maven Calore continues weaving his dead mother's web in an attempt to maintain control over his country--and his prisoner"--
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English
Description
Mercy Dane, jaded from her past in a troubled foster home, races to Blessings, Georgia to donate blood to save the life of an accident victim, and is surprised when the grateful town opens its arms to her. Police Chief Lon Pittman finds himself drawn to her, and ready to do anything to convince her that home is where their heart is.
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English
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"Sylah dreams of days growing up in the resistance, being told she would spark a revolution that would free the Empire from the red-blooded ruling classes' tyranny. That spark was extinguished the day she watched her family murdered before her eyes. Anoor has been told she's nothing, no one, a disappointment by the only person who matters: her mother, the most powerful ruler in the Empire. But dust always rises in a storm. Hassa moves through the...
Author
Publisher
Océano Gran Travesía
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"El segundo libro de la apasionante trilogía La reina Roja, sigue las aventuras de Mare Barrow en su búsqueda de justicia. La sangre de Mare Barrow es roja, del color de los empobrecidos, la gente común; sin embargo, su capacidad sobrehumana de controlar los relámpagos la ha puesto en la mira de la realeza. Es allí, entre el glamour y la buena vida de la corte, donde Mare carga con el estigma de la abominación, y donde conoce también una amarga...
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Series
Red queen volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they've always known-and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul. Mare Barrow's blood is red-the color of common folk-but her silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but...
Author
Series
[Thóra Gundmundsdottir series] volume 1
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Attorney Thóra Guomundsdóttir and her new partner, Matthew Reich, journey to a remote corner of Iceland to investigate how the murder of a German student may be connected to the victim's interest in witchcraft.
11) The fifth vial
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A suspended Harvard Medical School student is kidnapped and left for dead in Rio de Janeiro, while a terminally ill medical genius works on a potentially world-changing cure, and a Chicago detective struggles to identify a mysterious accident victim.
12) The open curtain
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school research project, he runs across a series of articles in the 1902 New York Times chronicling a vicious murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young and involving the secret Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice. Along with his newly discovered half-brother, Rudd becomes swept up in the psychological and atavistic effects of this violent, antique ritual. As the past and the present become an increasingly...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"This funny and fact-filled picture book is all about blood: where it's found, what it does, how it travels, and why vampires shouldn't drink it. From the four chambers of the heart to the platelets that clot your blood when you scrape your knee, everything you want to know about the cardiovascular system is right inside these pages. Just watch out for thirsty vampires"--
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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Penelope Landlow has grown up with the knowledge that almost anything can be bought or sold -- including body parts. She's the daughter of one of the three crime families that control the black market for organ transplants. Penelope's surrounded by all the suffocating privilege and protection her family can provide, but they can't protect her from the autoimmune disorder that causes her to bruise so easily. Penny is considered too "delicate" to handle...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Doctor X: An eminent scientist aims to solve a murder spree by recreating the crimes in a lab.
The return of Doctor X: New York newspaper reporter Walter Barnett finds himself out of a job after he claims to have found actress Angela Merrova dead in her apartment - only the next day she showed up alive and threatened to sue the paper. Determined to investigate he discovers her involvement with a strange doctor who is an expert on human blood. Barnett...
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