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"The story of Languoreth, Queen of Cadzow, who lived in sixth century Scotland and came of age at a time when invading Anglo-Saxon forces and the rise of Christianity threatened to change her way of life forever. Together with her twin brother Lailoken, destined to be a Wisdom Keeper and eventually known to history as Merlin, she is catapulted into a world of danger and violence. War brings the warriors of Emrys, the Dragon Warrior or Pen Dragon,...
2) Lost Queen
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No princess is guaranteed a happy ending. We have to fight for it.
The Blood Fae infiltrate my lands, seeking to take over the Four Kingdoms. Their high leader wants my brother dead... and because her body is decaying, she wants to wear me as her new second skin.
I'm not in the mood to be turned into a coat, or to bury my brother. I just saved him and united my males. I intend to enjoy this new life of mine and these four handsome, exasperating...
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Faerie path volume 2
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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After discovering her true identity as Princess Tania of the Faerie Realm, a sixteen-year-old British girl returns to the Mortal World, in search of her mother, Queen Titania, who disappeared 500 years ago.
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For fans of books like THE READERS OF BROKEN WHEEL RECOMMEND, a feel-good story of going home again to get things right. Crocker County crowns a new Corn Queen every year, but Jane Willow's the one you would remember. She can't forget Iowa, either. Even though she fled to LA to become a film critic years ago, home was always there behind her. But when a family tragedy happens, she's forced to drive back to Crocker County. The rolling farmlands can't...
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A look at the tragically short life of the only daughter of Britain's King George IV who won the heart of a nation.
As the only child of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick, Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817) was the heiress presumptive to the throne. Her parents' marriage had already broken up by the time she was born. She had a difficult childhood and a turbulent adolescence, but she was popular with the public, who looked to her to...
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Tania has brought the long-lost Queen Titania back to Faerie from the Mortal World of modern London. But when they cross between the worlds, they find only devastation. The Sorcerer King of Lyonesse-ancient enemy of the Faerie Court-has been released from his amber prison. As the wicked sorcerer regains his power, King Oberon, Tania's father, is imprisoned and the Faerie Court is being destroyed. Tania and her true love, Edric, must travel the Realm...
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A lost virgin vampire queen. Two vampire knights sworn to protect her. It's about to get very hot . . . and bloody . . . Ever since her mother was murdered by monsters five years ago, Shara Isador has been on the run. Alone, scared, and exhausted, she's finally cornered in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Out of hope with nowhere else to turn, she's ready to end it all when two men come to her rescue. They say she's a lost queen descended from Isis, and...
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A detailed chronicle of a significant opening battle in the Anglo-Zulu War: "The Zulu attack on Rorke's Drift thrillingly retold" (Richard Holmes).
On January 22, 1879, the British Army in South Africa was swept aside by the seemingly unstoppable Zulu warriors at the Battle of Isandlwana. Nearby, at a remote outpost on the Buffalo River, a single company of the 24th Regiment and a few dozen recuperating hospital patients were passing a hot, monotonous...
9) Fairy Keeper
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Forget cute fairies in pretty dresses. In the world of Aluvia, most fairies are more like irritable, moody insects, and almost everyone views the fairy keeper mark as a gift. But not fourteen-year-old Sierra. She hates being a fairy keeper, but the birthmark is right there on the back of her neck. It shows everyone she was born with the natural ability to attract and even control the tiny fairies whose nectar is amazingly powerful. Fairy nectar can...
10) Red queen
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Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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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...
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Lost Wonderland diaries volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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"When Celia and Tyrus discover the four lost diaries of Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll), they are pulled into Wonderland and must solve riddles and puzzles to stop the Queen of Hearts from opening a door and taking over our world"--
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Andrew Peardew collects things dropped or left behind by others and writing stories about them. He does this as a tribute to the fianc©♭e who died the day he lost one of her keepsakes. When a dying Andrew bequeaths his estate to his assistant, Laura, she begins to bond with new neighbors while attempting to reunite the objects with their owners.
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"Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning...
14) Waking storms
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Lost voices trilogy volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
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As a mermaid versus human war looms on the horizon, Luce falls in love with her sworn enemy Dorian and assumes her rightful role as queen of the mermaids.
15) The lost stone
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Kingdom of Wrenly volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Eight-year-old Lucas, Prince of Wrenly, is eager to explore and Clara, daughter of the queen's seamstress, knows the kingdom well, so they team up to find a lost jewel and visit all of the land's main attractions as they search.
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China Bayles investigates the tragic story of a woman in an old photograph. Annie Laurie was a young widow who'd lost both her husband and her child on the same day. She manages to survive through her lace-making business and finds happiness again only to have a suspicious death overshadow her new life. As China delves into Annie's century-old mystery, she realizes that solving it could have unimaginable repercussions in the here and now.
17) ArchEnemy
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IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
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Virtuous Queen Alyss, who has lost the power of imagination, and her murderous aunt Redd battle for control of Wonderland.
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"The #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to the dazzling London of the Roaring Twenties in a whirlwind tale of corruption, seduction, and debts that have come due. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances...
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Cousins' war volume 5
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"When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth field, he knows he must marry the princess of the enemy house -- Elizabeth of York -- to unify a country divided by years of war. But his bride is still in love with his slain enemy, Richard III -- and her mother and half of England dream of a missing heir, sent into the unknown by the White Queen. While the new monarchy can win power, it cannot win hearts in an England that...
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"A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat--all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this chilling new adventure. The queen is Marie of Roumania: the doubly royal granddaughter to Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia. A famous beauty who was married at seventeen into Roumania's young dynasty, Marie had beguiled the Paris Peace Conference into returning her adopted country's long-lost provinces, single-handedly...