Lauren Fortgang
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. A weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova's amplifiers.
3) Ninth house
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Series
Alex Stern volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend...
5) Hell bent
Author
Series
Alex Stern volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Galaxy 'Alex' Stern is determined to break Darlington out of hell--even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. But Alex is playing with forces far beyond her control, and when faculty members begin to die off, she knows these aren't just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if Alex is going to survive, she'll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university's very walls."--
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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In the town of Fairfold, where humans and fae exist side by side, a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives awakes after generations of sleep in a glass coffin in the woods, causing Hazel to be swept up in new love, shift her loyalties, feel the fresh sting of betrayal, and to make a secret sacrifice to the faerie king.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, Rachel Hawkins' The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. Paris and Megan Miranda. Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates--a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the...
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English
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Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals, and new enemies emerge to challenge...
Author
Series
Ellery Hathaway novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most everyone assumed Andy had got away with murder--it's always the husband, isn't it?--but the police could never build a strong case against him. For a while, Andy hit rock bottom--he drank too much to numb the pain, was abandoned by all his friends save one, nearly lost his business, and became a pariah in the place he once called home. Now, six years...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At the end of a long winter in well-to-do Ridgedale, New Jersey, the body of an infant is discovered in the woods near the town's prestigious university campus. No one knows who the baby is, or how her body ended up out there. But there is no shortage of opinions. When freelance journalist, and recent Ridgedale transplant, Molly Sanderson is unexpectedly called upon to cover the story for the Ridgedale Reader, it's a risk, given the severe depression...
13) Zero sum game
Author
Series
Cas Russell novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game introduces a math-genius mercenary who finds herself being manipulated by someone possessing unimaginable power…Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she'll take any job for the right price.
As far as Cas knows, she's the only person...
Author
Series
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
119 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the pages of Bardugo's Grisha trilogy comes this illustrated replica of The Lives of Saints, the Istorii Sankt'ya. Featuring tales of saints drawn from the beloved novels and beyond, it includes miracles and martyrdoms from familiar saints like Sankta Lizabeta of the Roses and Sankt Ilya in Chains, to the strange and obscure stories of Sankta Ursula, Sankta Maradi, and the Starless Saint. -- adapted from jacket