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The Mysterious Misadventures of Clemency Wrigglelworth
Clemency is utterly penniless and entirely alone, until she's taken in by the marvellous Marvels - a madcap family compleately unlike her own. But it's a surprise to them all when she's mysteriously bundled from the house by the frightening Miss Clawe. Concerned about her fate, the Marvels set out to find her. Enlisting the help of some not-quite-genuine Red Indians, it's a calamitous race acr…
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- 9780192733672
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- 315p; bw; pbk
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- 823 LEE T
The Rise of Nine
Until the day I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive. Together, we are much more powerful. But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find the others. . . . I went to Spain to find Seven, and I found even more, including a tenth member of the Garde who escaped from Lorien alive. Ella is younger than the rest of us, but …
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- 9780062194428
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- 360p; bw; pbk
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- i am number four
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- 823 LOR T
Into Thin Air
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon but journalist/mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more--including Krakauer's--in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for Into Thin Air, Krakauer's…
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- 9781447200185
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- 318p; ill; col; pbk
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- 823 KRA I
Stardust
Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier has just arrived from war-torn Europe to find his brother has died in mysterious circumstances. Why would a man with a beautiful wife, a successful movie career, and a heroic past choose to kill himself? Ben enters the uneasy world beneath the glossy shine of the movie business, where politics and the dream factories collide and Communist witch hunts are renderin…
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- 9781439156322
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- 506p; bw; pbk
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- 823 KAN S
The Blue Djinn of Babylon
John and Philippa Gaunt are twelve-year-old twins who recently discovered themselves to be descended from a long tine of djinn (which are commonly called genies). They are now in possession of great magical powers and have just returned from their adventures battling an evil djinn in Cairo and London. When the Solomon Grimoire, which can give its user complete power over all djinn, is reported…
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- 9780439670227
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- 371p; bw; pbk
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- Children of the Lamp
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- 823 KER T
The Cobra King of Kathmandu
From New York Times-bestselling author P. B. Kerr comes the third volume in this exceptional, imaginative adventure series about a twin boy and girl who discover they are djinns, or genies. In the third book of the bestselling Children of the Lamp series, djinn twins, John and Philippa Gaunt, are on the trail of another magical mystery. As they travel from New York to London to Nepal and…
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- 9780439670241
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- 373p; bw; pbk
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- Children of The Lamp
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- 823 KER T
On The Road
On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational …
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- 9780140042597
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- 307p; bw; pbk
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- 823 KER O
Ironweed
Ironweed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the best-known of William Kennedy's three Albany-based novels. Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike; he ran away again after accidentally—and fatally—dropping his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in to…
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- 9780140070200
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- 227p; bw; pbk
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- 823 KEN I
The Woman In The Wall
Anna is more than shy. She is nearly invisible. Most of the time her mother and sister don't see, hear, or pay attention to her. At seven, terrified of the prospect of school, Anna retreats within their enourmous Victorian house, and builds a house of her own : passageways and hidden rooms become her world.
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- 0141301244
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- 185p; bw; pbk
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- 823 KIN T
Passion : A Fallen Novel
Luce would die for Daniel. And she has. Over and over again. Throughout time, Luce and Daniel have found each other, only to be painfully torn apart: Luce dead, Daniel left broken and alone. But perhaps it doesn't need to be that way.... Luce is certain that something - or someone - in a past life can help her in her present one. So she begins the most important journey of this lifetime..…
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- 9780385742009
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- 420p; bw; pbk
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- 823 KAT P
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