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Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mystery volume 19
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The latest in the New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor Mystery Series follows Cork in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking...
2) Messenger
Author
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Author
Language
English
Description
Her beauty saved her - and condemned her. Cilka is just 16-years-old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping...
5) The gift
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
There is no hurt so great that love cannot heal it. Nathan Hurst hated Christmas. For the rest of the world it was a day of joy and celebration; for Nathan it was simply a reminder of the event that destroyed his childhood until a snowstorm, a cancelled flight and an unexpected meeting with a young mother and her very special son would show him that Christmas is indeed the season of miracles.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Already well-versed in the natural healing properties of herbs and oils, Jennie Pickett longs to become a doctor. But the Oregon frontier of the 1870s doesn't approve of such innovations as women attending medical school. To leave grief and guilt behind, as well as support herself and her challenging young son, Jennie cares for an elderly woman using skills she's developed on her own. When her patient dies, Jennie discovers that her heart has become...
9) Lethal game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The sparks of unexpected passion ignite in this electrifying GhostWalker novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. When Malichai Fortunes attacks a problem, he does it full force -- a habit that earns the GhostWalker a painful injury and a forced vacation in San Diego, California. With nothing but physical therapy on the horizon, Malichai is starting to get restless... until a striking blue-eyed blonde makes all his senses...
10) The chosen one
Author
Series
Revenge of magic volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fort and his friends face more perilous ancient magic as they prepare for the final battle to prevent the Old Ones from returning and destroying humanity.
11) Wild seed
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one -- until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body,...
Author
Series
Revenge of magic volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When long-dead magical creatures are discovered all around the world, each with a buried book of magic, the governments of the world want to unlock the power the books, but need the help of kids to harness the magical power"--
Thirteen years ago, books of magic were discovered in various sites around the world alongside the bones of dragons. Only those born after {28}Discovery Day
13) The last dragon
Author
Series
Revenge of magic volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With help from his friends, Fort tries to find and bring the last dragon to the Old Ones in exchange for releasing Fort's father while they continue to seek the books of magic.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 405 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, working as the prison healer. When the Rebel Queen is captured, Kiva is charged with keeping the terminally ill woman alive long enough for her to undergo the Trial by Ordeal: a series of elemental challenges against the torments of air, fire, water, and earth, assigned to only the most dangerous of criminals. Then a coded message...
15) Sun warrior
Author
Series
Tales of a new world volume 2
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Physical Desc
vii, 563 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The battle lines have been drawn and Mari, an Earth Walker and Nik, a Companion, who were once from rival clans now find themselves fighting to save each other and their people from destruction.
Author
Series
Tales of a new world volume 3
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
517 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A world filled with beauty and danger and cruelty... Mari, Nik, and their newly formed Pack are being hunted. Thaddeus and the God of Death will stop at nothing until they are obliterated from the earth. But Mari and Nik have one goal: to reach the plains of the Wind Riders, in order to band together to stop Thaddeus from destroying all that Mari and Nik hold dear. But will the mysterious Wind Riders accept the Pack, or will Mari and Nik and their...
17) Hallowed bones
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sarah Booth Delaney is both a Southern lady and a skilled detective, but her latest case takes her into the murky world of New Orleans where motives for murder, and a list of suspects, are as numerous as the stories of spiritual malfeasance that permeate the air.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas, the US Army marches south to provoke war with ̌Mxico over the disputed ̕Ro Grande boundary. Ximena Salǒm is a gifted Mexican healer who dreams of building a family with the man she loves on the coveted land she calls home. But when Texas Rangers storm her ranch and shoot her husband dead, her dreams are burned to ashes. Vowing to honor her husbands memory and defend her country,...
Author
Series
Numair chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
464 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arram Draper, Varice Kingsford, and Ozorne Tasikhe forge a bond of friendship that sees them through many changes as student mages at Imperial University of Carthak.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Laila desperately wants to become a mother, but each of her previous pregnancies has ended in heartbreak. This time has to be different, so she turns to the Melancons, an old and powerful Harlem family known for their caul, a precious layer of skin that is the secret source of their healing power. When a deal for Laila to acquire a piece of caul falls through, she is heartbroken, but when the child is stillborn, she is overcome with grief and rage....