Amy Landon
1) The Kingdom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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A half-android, half-human girl is accused of murder in Jess Rothenberg's tautly paced YA thriller, The Kingdom, perfect for fans of Westworld and The Lunar Chronicles. "Wildly addictive and beautifully terrifying... Readers will leave this glittering theme park forgetting what is real and what is fairy tale." (Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times-bestselling author of The Belles) Welcome to the Kingdom...where "happily ever after" isn't just a promise...
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Beacon Press
Language
English
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Groundbreaking book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequality In this groundbreaking and timely book, antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility. Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and...
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English
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"Paul Tremblay's terrifying twist to the home invasion novel-inspiration for the upcoming major motion picture from Universal Pictures "Tremblay's personal best. It's that good." - Stephen King Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in...
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Three dark crowns volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Preparing for the queens' sixteenth birthday celebration and navigating the fallout of the Quickening, the sisters reassess their strategic paths to the throne using new understandings of their powers and destinies.
5) Apex
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"Joy must uncover a deadly conspiracy at the heart of Apex City--and lead her fellow Hunters to victory in the final confrontation with the dangerous Othersiders"--
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Series
Fractured fables volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"'A Mirror Mended' is the next installment in USA today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured Fables series. Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you've rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you've gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The author shares her experiences growing up in 1990s Manhattan with a brilliant, manipulative and mentally ill mother who built a farcical, half-true life for the two of them as she dives deep into the cascading effects of decades of lies and deception.--
This gripping and darkly funny memoir “is a testament to the undeniable, indestructible love between a mother and a daughter” (Isaac Mizrahi). Liz Scheier’s mother was a news junkie, a hilarious...