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"It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided--between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology--otherwise known as Mechomancy--not the traditional mystical arts. Laura disagrees....
2) Scream Site
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Future investigative reporter Sabrina, fourteen, researches a popular website where people post horror videos, hoping to prove they are not as real as they seem until her sister, a big fan of the site, disappears.
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Star Wars: The High Republic, the New York Times best-selling series, continues. . . . For light and life!
One year after the fall of Starlight Beacon, the galaxy is in chaos. An anarchistic group known as the Nihil has taken over a section of space now known as the Occlusion Zone. Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh and scientist Avon Starros team up in an attempt to find a way through the Nihil Stormwall to save those on the other side.
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When a distress plea goes up from the isolated planet Minfar, Resistance heroes Rey, Poe and Rose hear the call! Together they will face down a First Order battalion, terrifying flying creatures, and a weapon that could change the course of the war!
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An all-new adventure starring Lando Calrissian and L3-37 onboard the Millennium Falcon!
When Lando Calrissian gets caught smuggling on the planet Hynestia, the queen agrees to let him go if he delivers something called the Solstice Globe to the Empire on her behalf. Lando is relieved that his punishment is a simple delivery mission-but he soon discovers things are not as simple as they seem. The queen's daughter, Princess Rinetta, has stowed away...
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The Devils' Pass High School is hosting a quiz contest, which sounds perfect to Evie Allen, who is acknowledged as the smartest kid in eighth grade, (and the youngest, though not the most popular)--but in Devils' Pass, Minnesota, nothing is quite what it seems, and when it turns out that the contest is being run by zombies looking for smart brains it becomes a case for the young monster hunters of the Loyal Order of Helga, AKA Evie and her friends....
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Tiffany Donovan needs cookies for the annual Devils' Pass Middle School Cookie Sale, though she is a little suspicious of the strange woman at the bakery offering them free; still, everybody seems to love the cookies--but when everyone who ate the cookies starts behaving like sleep-walking robots Tiffany remembers that in Devils' Pass there is no such thing as a free cookie.
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When eighth-grader Zach Lopez starts school (where his mother is the newly appointed principal) in Devil's Pass, Minnesota, he expects to be miserable; after all he is a transplant from Los Angeles and the only Puerto Rican in the school--what he does not expect is the sinkhole in the middle of the park with a connection to the "otherside" and a town regularly beset by the monsters who come through it, but he soon learns that Devil's Pass specializes...
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Fourteen-year-old Jeff Allen, cancer survivor, is not sure which problem facing him is more troubling, dealing with a prosthetic leg or replacing the cell phones that were destroyed by the monsters his parents do not believe in; but when he offers to work at Mr Ogilvie's store (for a phone) he encounters the Nosferatu cell phones with a killer app--literally, because it causes people who use it to become raging lunatics with a vampiric thirst for...
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Tiffany Donovan and the other members of the Loyal Order of Helga are surprised to learn that there are other chapters fighting monsters in other towns in Minnesota, most particularly Beaver Falls--but the Loyal Order of Velma in that town does not seem to want their help, and Tiffany must figure out a way for the teams to work together because something is turning the dogs in Beaver Falls into poison werewolves.
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Nothing is ever normal in Devils' Pass, so Zach Lopez is immediately suspicious about a free kitten adoption event, especially since these kittens seem unusually intelligent and capable of affecting the children who adopt them (not in a good way)--and Zach and the rest of Loyal Order of Helga must find a way to defeat the Shadow Cat Queen, a shapeshifter who is looking to take over all the people in Devil's Pass.
12) Vengeance Bound
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The Goddess Test meets Dexter in an edgy, compelling debut about one teen's quest for revenge...no matter how far it takes her.
Amelie Ainsworth is not alone in her head. Bound to a deal of desperation made when she was a child, Amelie's mind houses the Furies-the hawk and the serpent-lingering always, waiting for her to satisfy their bloodlust. After escaping the asylum where she was trapped for years, Amelie knows how to keep the Furies quiet....
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Star Wars Sana Starros volume 1
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Sana Starros stars in her first-ever series! Fresh off of a string of disappointments, Sana returns to her family's ancestral home for some downtime. But family time is far from relaxing for a scoundrel and her family of ne'er-do-wells, especially when Stormtroopers attack during dinner! The Starros clan is on the collision course of a lifetime - and Sana must take on her brother, Phel, or all is lost! But what mysteries from her past are coming home...
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Long before the Clone Wars, the Empire, or the First Order, the Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in a golden age known as the High Republic!Vernestra Rwoh is a new Jedi Knight at age sixteen, but her first real assignment feels an awful lot like babysitting. She's been charged with supervising twelve-year old aspiring inventor Avon Starros on a cruiser headed to the dedication of a wondrous new space station called Starlight Beacon.But soon into their...
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Long before the Clone Wars, the Empire, or the First Order, the Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in a golden age known as the High Republic! Vernestra Rwoh is a new Jedi Knight at age sixteen, but her first real assignment feels an awful lot like babysitting. She's been charged with supervising twelve-year old aspiring inventor Avon Starros on a cruiser headed to the dedication of a wondrous new space station called Starlight Beacon. But soon into...
16) Lando's luck
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When Lando Calrissian gets caught smuggling on the planet Hynestia, the queen agrees to let him go if he delivers something called the Solstice Globe to the Empire on her behalf. Lando is relieved that his punishment is a simple delivery mission-but he soon discovers things are not as simple as they seem. The queen's daughter, Princess Rinetta, has stowed away on the Millennium Falcon and demands Lando and L3-37 take the globe back to its home planet,...
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As a human/god offspring, Zephyr Mourning is destined for a life of servitude but when she uses a forbidden dark power to kill the minor god who murdered her sister she is sent to Tartarus, where she discovers that she may be the Nyx, a dark goddess prophesied to change the balance of power.
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Sana Starros stars in her first-ever series! Fresh off of a string of disappointments, Sana returns to her family's ancestral home for some downtime. But family time is far from relaxing for a scoundrel and her family of ne'er-do-wells, especially when Stormtroopers attack during dinner! The Starros clan is on the collision course of a lifetime - and Sana must take on her brother, Phel, or all is lost! But what mysteries from her past are coming home...
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Black is ... sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson. Black is ... three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds. Black is ... Nic Stone's high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never approve of. Black is ... two girls kissing in Justina Ireland's story set in Maryland. Black is urban and rural, wealthy and...