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"All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery -- magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. Then an act of sabotage...
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Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
4) Silas Marner
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English
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Disappointed in friendship and love, and embittered by a false accusation, weaver Silas Marner retreats from the world with his loom, but soon finds his monastic existence forever changed by the arrival of an orphaned girl, whom he takes in and raises as his own daughter.
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2014.
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English
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"When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash"--
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Bridei Chronicles volume 1
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English
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Fostered by one of the land's most powerful druids, young nobleman Bridei undertakes a series of mysterious tasks, but when he discovers a child seemingly abandoned by the fairie folk, he meets resistance in his determination to save her.
8) Monster baby
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Mr. and Mrs. Oliver are delighted to find a newborn baby on their doorstep one morning, but must learn to adapt when they discover that he is not like other babies.
9) Fever Crumb
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English
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Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought. At age fourteen, she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
10) The Guardian
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Home to Hickory Hollow volume 3
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English
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After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers.
11) Water keep
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(Jeffrey Scott),Farworld volume 1
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Found in the desert as an infant by monks who named him, thirteen-year-old Marcus, who is confined to a wheelchair, knows nothing of his background. He endures the difficulties of his daily life by dreaming of Farworld, a magical place whose pull increases in strength.
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Morrow
Pub. Date
c2001
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English
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Ray Bradbury, America's most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilarating and dangerous places, from dark street comers in unfamiliar cities and towns to the edge of the universe. Now, in an extraordinary flight of the imagination a half-century in the making, he takes us to a most wondrous destination: into the heart of an Eternal Family. They have lived for centuries in a house of legend and mystery in upper Illinois...
15) The black opal
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1993
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English
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Returning to England many years after a murder had taken away her adoptive family, Carmel March searches her memory for the truth behind her past and wonders about the role played by her childhood friend, Lucian.
17) The witch's boy
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HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart's desire.
18) Land keep
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(Jeffrey Scott),Farworld volume 2
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
©2009
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English
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Having discovered that his destiny is tied to that of Farworld, Marcus, despite his growing power over water, struggles with physical pain and inner doubts as, with the help of his companions, he tries to complete the quest to find the other elementals that will help destroy the evil force of the Dark Circle.
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Accidental pirates volume 1
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Brine Seaborne and her friend Peter find themselves in an adventure with pirates, invisible bears, and a seriously evil magician"--
20) Factotum
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(David M.),Monster blood tattoo volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Accused of being a monster instead of human, Rossamünd Bookchild looks to monster-hunter Branden Rose for help, but powerful forces are after them both, believing that Rossamünd holds the secret to perpetual youth.
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