Katherine Kellgren
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English
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Lady Georgiana Rannoch won't deny that being thirty-fifth in line for the British throne has its advantages. Unfortunately, money isn't one of them. And sometimes making ends meet requires her to investigate a little royal wrongdoing.
While on royal assignment at the allegedly haunted Kensington Palace, Lady Georgiana's services to the Greek princess betrothed to Prince George are complicated by the untimely murder of a society beauty rumored to...
2) Dark witch
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2013.
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English
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"[A] trilogy about the land we're drawn to, the family we learn to cherish, and the people we long to love. With indifferent parents, Iona Sheehan grew up craving devotion and acceptance. From her maternal grandmother, she learned where to find both: a land of lush forests, dazzling lakes, and centuries-old legends. Ireland. County Mayo, to be exact. Where her ancestors' blood and magic have flowed through generations-- and where her destiny awaits....
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Kane chronicles volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Since his mothers death six years ago, Carter Kane has been living out of a suitcase, traveling the globe with his father, the brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane. But while Carters been homeschooled, his younger sister, Sadie, has been living with their grandparents in London. Sadie has just what Carter wants school friends and a chance at a “normal” life. But Carter has just what Sadie longs fortime with their father. After six years of...
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Kane chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Apophis is threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness, and the Kanes are faced with the impossible task of having to destroy him once and for all. The Kanes' only hope is an ancient spell that might turn the serpent's own shadow into a weapon, but the magic has been lost for millennia. Nothing less than the mortal world is at stake when the Kane family fulfills its destiny in this thrilling conclusion to the Kane Chronicles.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Ever since the gods of ancient Egypt were unleashed in the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister Sadie have been in trouble. As descendants of the House of Life, the Kanes have some powers at their command, but the devious gods haven't given them much time to master their skills at Brooklyn House. Now their most threatening enemy yet, the chaos snake Apophis, is rising. If they don't prevent him from breaking free in a few days' time, the world...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Regan Reilly and her fiancé Jack "no relation" Reilly--head of the NYPD Major Case Squad--are getting married! But when Regan arrives at the bridal salon to pick up her gown, she discovers the shop has been broken into, the designers bound and gagged, and her dress missing. Even though it's a week before her wedding, Regan gets on the case. Meanwhile, Jack is determined to solve a perplexing series of bank robberies before their nuptials.
7) Monsters
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Ashes trilogy (Ilsa J. Bick) volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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When her parents died, Alex thought things couldn't get much worse, until the doctors found the monster in her head. She headed into the wilderness as a good-bye, to leave everything behind. But then the end of the world happened, and Alex took the first step down a treacherous road of betrayal and terror and death. Now she discovers a new and horrifying truth. The Change isn't over. The Changed are still evolving. And, they've had help.1
9) After Alice
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English
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"When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford react to Alice's disappearance? In this brilliant work of fiction, Gregory Maguire turns his dazzling imagination to the question of underworlds, undergrounds, underpinnings—and understandings old and new, offering an inventive spin on Carroll's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
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"Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home--a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards, and seldom calls. On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious package from...
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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After his daughter is murdered while on vacation in Rome, NYPD detective Jack Kanon travels to Europe in pursue of the culprit. Teaming up with the Swedish reporter Gabby Larsen, Kanon discovers that his daughter's death was at the hands of the serial killer who taunts the press by sending cryptic postcards to various newspapers.