Alexandra Bracken
1) Lore
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Every seven years there is a hunt offering mortal descendents of gods the opportunity to claim their divinity by killing any of nine immortals made mortal for one night. Lore Perseous has no desire to participate in the Agon, embittered because her family was killed by a rival who then ascended to godhood. When a childhood friend asks her to help, and a wounded god offers an alliance, Lore overlooks the steep cost of this decision in exchange for...
Author
Series
Darkest minds volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Ruby breaks out of a government-run 'rehabilitation camp' for teens who acquired dangerous powers after surviving a virus that wiped out most American children"--
4) Never fade
Author
Series
Darkest minds volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the second installment of The Darkest Minds trilogy, Ruby joins forces with the revolutionary Children's League to find critical information about the epidemic that has torn both her life and America apart"--
5) Passenger
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Series
Language
English
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IN ONE DEVASTATING NIGHT, VIOLIN PRODIGY ETTA SPENCER LOSES EVERYTHING SHE KNOWS AND LOVES. THRUST INTO AN unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. And she's inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she's never heard of. Until now. Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods--a powerful...
Author
Series
Darkest minds volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Five years after the destruction of the so-called rehabilitation camps that imprisoned her and countless other Psi kids, seventeen-year-old Suzume 'Zu' Kimura must use her powerful voice to fight back and save the friends who were once her protectors"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ruby never asked for the abilities that almost cost her her life. Now she must call upon them on a daily basis, leading dangerous missions to bring down a corrupt government and breaking into the minds of her enemies. Other kids in the Children''s League call Ruby "Leader", but she knows what she really is: a monster. When Ruby is entrusted with an explosive secret, she must embark on her most dangerous mission yet: leaving the Children''s League...
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Language
English
Description
The galaxy is at war. Although the Rebel Alliance has won a few battles against the Empire, hope is fading. The Empire is about to finish building the greatest weapon the galaxy has ever seen-the Death Star. The rebels' only chance to defeat it now lies in the unlikely hands of a princess, a scoundrel, and a farm boy. . . . Acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Bracken delivers a captivating retelling of Star Wars: A New Hope like...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
I've been orphaned by my time. The timeline has changed. My future is gone. Etta Spencer didn't know she was a traveler until the day she emerged both miles and years from her home. Now, robbed of the powerful object that was her only hope of saving her mother, Etta finds herself stranded once more, cut off from Nicholas-the eighteenth century privateer she loves-and her natural time. When Etta inadvertently stumbles into the heart of the Thorns,...
Author
Series
Silver in the bone volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
486 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tamsin and her friends look for a magical object strong enough to trap Lord Death"--
Author
Series
Silver in the bone volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
474 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tamsin Lark goes on a quest to find the infamous ring from Arthurian legend to break her brother's curse"--
Tamsin Lark didn't ask to be a Hollower. As a mortal with no magical talent, she was never meant to break into ancient crypts, or compete with sorceresses and Cunningfolk for the treasures inside. But after her thieving foster father disappeared without so much as a goodbye, it was the only way to keep herself--and her brother, Cabell--alive....
16) Wayfarer
Author
Series
Passenger volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robbed of the powerful object she needed to save her mother, time traveler Etta Spencer is stranded far from home and the privateer she loves before resolving to destroy the astrolabe, a mission that is challenged by a shattering revelation.
17) Brightly woven
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
354 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sydelle Mirabel, an unusually talented weaver, must master her mysterious power and join a young wizard in stopping an imminent war in land.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2015], p2015
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a retelling of the first Star Wars film in which the galaxy's fate lies in the hands of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo.
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
161 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Extraordinary things just don't happen to fourteen-year-old Sydelle Mirabil, a talented weaver who dreams about life outside of her tiny village. But that all changes when a mysterious young wizard named Wayland North appears and asks for Sydelle's help. He's got a shocking secret that could stop a war between kingdoms-if he can reach the capital with the news in time. North needs a navigator who can mend his magical cloaks, and Sydelle is perfect...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When teens mysteriously develop powerful new abilities, they are declared a threat by the government and detained. Sixteen-year-old Ruby, one of the most powerful young people anyone has encountered, escapes her camp and joins a group of runaway teens seeking safe haven. Soon this newfound family realizes that, in a world in which the adults in power have betrayed them, running is not enough and they must wage a resistance, using their collective...