Victoria Schwab
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-- and cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Addie LaRue's life will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art. After nearly 300 years,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
285 pages : illustration ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ever since her near-fatal drowning, Cassidy has been able to pull back the "Veil" that separates the living from the dead and see ghosts, not that she wants to, and she was really looking forward to a ghost-free summer at the beach; however her parents are going to start filming a TV series about the world's most haunted places, starting with Edinburgh with its graveyards, castles, and restless phantoms--and Cass and her personal ghost companion,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"It's been seven years since Kell, Lila, and Holland defeated the evil force known as Osaron. Lila has spent those seven years as captain of a ship, exploring her new magical world and occasionally spying for the Crown. Kell has spent them learning to fight with ordinary weapons now that wielding his magic causes him intense pain. Holland, of course, gave his life to defeat Osaron. But now a shadowy organization called the Hand is plotting against...
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ii, 510 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Kate Harker is a girl who isn?t afraid of the dark. She?s a girl who hunts monsters. And she?s good at it. August Flynn is a monster who can never be human. No matter how much he once yearned for it. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost. Nearly six months after Kate and August were first thrown together, the war between the monsters and the humans is a terrifying reality. In Verity, August has become...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A new threat -- something ancient and evil -- faces the world of Erdas and four young heroes and their spirit animals are determined to stop it as they embark on a desperate journey that takes them deep underground and to the far corners of the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now in Paris with her parents who are filming their TV show about the world's haunted cities, Cassidy Blake (who can see ghosts) and her friend Jacob (who is a ghost) are alert for trouble, especially when the filming takes them into the underground Catacombs, the empire of the dead, where Cassidy accidentally awakens a powerful poltergeist spirit--one whose mystery she must solve before his power in unleashed on the whole city.--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
300 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cassidy Blake and her ghostly friend, Jacob, have survived the ghosts of Edinburgh and Paris, but New Orleans is a haunted city in a class by itself, and that is the current stop for her parents' TV show; but there is something a lot scarier than ghosts here: the Emissary of Death is after Cassidy, and to defeat it she will need the help of the Society of the Black Cat and she will also be faced with a terrible choice--lose one of her two friends,...
8) Gallant
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her mother's journal--which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home--to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home, it doesn't matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways. Olivia knows that Gallant...
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
March 2019.
Edition
First edition ; Standard edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The thrilling, epic tale of the young and arrogant prince Maxim Maresh, long before he became the king of Red London and adoptive father to Kell, the lead of A Darker Shade of Magic! The youthful Maresh is sent to a violent and unmanageable port city on the Blood Coast of Verose, on strict orders from his father, King Nokil Maresh, to cut his military teeth in this lawless landscape. There, he encounters an unruly band of soldiers, a lawless landscape,...
10) This savage song
Author
Series
Monsters of Verity volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 427 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Kate Harker wants to follow in her father?s footsteps and let the monsters roam free and destroy the city. August Flynn is a monster who wants to use his power to protect the innocent and make peace. The city is divided and this unlikely pair may be the only ones who can save it from crumbling to the ground.