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Key to the Past (Celia's Journey, Book 2)


Melissa Gunther - 2011
    This time she has to complete her family tree, but she doesn't have much information to work with. Help comes from an unexpected source, but it's hidden by a series of clues, and Celia soon learns she's not the only one searching. Time is running out, and both her grade and her future hang in the balance - will she find it in time?

Sir Edge


Trevor H. Cooley - 2018
    He has spent centuries without a body, but now he is ready for his return. There is only one obstacle standing in his way. In the sixteen years since their marriage, Justan and Jhonate have gone through many adventures together. During this time, Justan has grown into the name given to him by the Bowl of Souls. He is SIR EDGE. He has the fame and glory that he had dreamt of as a child, but those things mean nothing to him anymore. He is now embroiled in a new conflict and driven by a deep pain within him, a pain fifteen years in the making . . . Join Edge and his bonded on an epic journey that will take them to places both holy and wrought with evil. Ogres and dragons, warriors and wizards are destined to clash, their fates guided by The Bowl of Souls. The Bowl of Souls series. THE MOONRAT SAGA 1. Eye of the Moonrat 2. Messenger of the Dark Prophet 3. Hunt of the Bandham 1.5. Hilt's Pride 4. War of Stardeon 5. Mother of the Moonrat THE JHARRO GROVE SAGA 1. Tarah Woodblade 2. Protector of the Grove 3. Ogre Apprentice 4. The Troll King 5. Priestess of War 6. Behemoth THE DARK PROPHET SAGA 1. Sir Edge 2. Half Breeds (2019)

Cave of the Kobolds


Robert Bevan - 2012
    Cooper gets kicked in the nuts so hard that he shits himself at one point. That's worth a dollar all by itself.

The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories


Joan Aiken - 1985
    A collection of nine fairy tales including: The Last Slice of Rainbow / Clem's Dream / A Leaf in the Shape of a Key / The Queen with Screaming Hair / The Tree that Loved a Girl / Lost - One Pair of Legs / The Voice in the Shell / The Spider in the Bath / Think of a Word.

Book of Mercy


Sherry Roberts - 2011
    It was supposed to be easy. But they hadn't planned on Antigone Brown, a woman who has trouble reading road signs, keeps a stone in her pocket to help her remember right from left, and despairs of ever being a good mother to her unborn child. As she is quick to tell you, she is no hero. But now she will have to face her greatest fear to save the town's books.

Of Snow and Scarlet


Katherine Macdonald - 2021
    But she's drawn to the surrounding forests of Thornwood, and the mysterious white wolf that saved her life as a child. When the wolf reveals himself as the shape-changing Finn, an omega hiding from his former pack, Andesine finds herself in the middle of a conflict that threatens everything she holds dear—her dreams, her family, and the boy she's given her heart to. There is more than one way to lose yourself, and more than one kind of wolf in the woods… NB: This book is suitable for older teens and adults, with some sexual content

In Her Dreams


Joanna Reeder - 2018
    But every night, instead of fantasizing about her own life, she dreams the memories of dead people, reliving their happiest moments… and their most painful experiences.But when Emily begins to have consecutive dreams of Victorian era Lucy, she finally finds an escape from her own friendless waking life. And the dreams get even better when Lucy meets her fiancé’s cousin—a handsome bachelor Emily doesn’t mind seeing every night.But when Emily accidently changes the outcome of one of her dreams, thereby shifting reality, she has to make important decisions about choices and control. And what she believes is right.

Minder


Kate Kaynak - 2010
    Ganzfield is a secret training facility full of people like her, but it's not exactly a nurturing place. Every social interaction carries the threat of mind-control. A stray thought can burn a building to the ground. And people's nightmares don't always stay in their own heads. But it's still better than New Jersey--especially once she meets the man of her dreams...

The Expansion


Christoph Martin - 2017
    The only person Max can trust is his new-found love, beautiful Karis Deen, a scientist with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Except Karis herself holds a dangerous secret that could not only destroy Max, but could change the entire balance of world power.

Rising Shadow


Jacquelyn Wheeler - 2009
    But her plans take an unexpected turn when she discovers that she is a Soterian: a person who develops amazing powers when the balance of good and evil shifts too far in evil's favor. Soon she and the other Soterians are learning to use their powers to prevent California from being plunged into chaos. But they quickly discover that they're up against a much more dangerous enemy than they anticipated. And when Ashlyn meets Kai, a devastatingly gorgeous guitar player, she realizes she must sacrifice more than she ever imagined.

Altitude Rush


Matthew Reilly - 2001
    What do two master thieves do to get across Manhattan in broad daylight when they can’t touch the ground?

Never After


Rebecca Lickiss - 2002
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Almost Damned


Christopher Leibig - 2021
    In Almost Damned, little does Sam know that his most challenging cases are all leading up to one monumental trial, in which he will lay before the Court the visceral complexities of good vs. evil.As Sam navigates his cases in Bennet County, it becomes increasingly apparent that his clients-old and new-are surprisingly interconnected, especially when old clients rise from the dead. Literally. He and his office are besieged by death threats and mysterious invitations, each one a clue that compels him to dig deeper into his own past. With each new discovery, Sam leads himself and his team deeper into a nether world in an attempt to bring redemption to his toughest clients of all-the descendants of the biblical Fallen Angels who have been walking the earth as humans for centuries, unable to find peace.

The White Goblin


Ul De Rico - 1996
    He used his unique skills to tell a tale that has had the lasting power of legend: the overwhelming defeat of the seven goblins of the spectrum who sought to take over the colors of the rainbow. Now almost twenty years later, Ul de Rico offers us the complementary tale of the eighth goblin, the white one, banished by his evil brothers to the colorless wastes of the North. There he has suffered in isolation until the day he learns of his brothers' catastrophe and sets out to enjoy the world of color again. He persuades the colorless Cave Goblins to venture out of their safe homes and follow him into the world where they can enjoy and feed themselves on all the colors of nature. Overcome by greed, they set up huge communities and rob the world of all its colors. In the end all sources are exhausted, and Ul de Rico's visionary paintings show us how a handful of Cave Goblins rediscover color's vital importance to life, and return the world to its blissful origins.

The Red Passport


Katherine Shonk - 2003
    From My Mother's Garden, the parable of an old woman who refuses to accept the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster, to The Young People of Moscow, which describes an extraordinary day in the life of an aging couple selling antiquated Soviet poetry in an underground bazaar, these intricately woven narratives provide unforgettable slices of a Russia that is at once both exotic and disconcertingly familiar.