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A volume of six stories and novellas by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions, a too-obvious schoolteacher and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend.
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Little thieves volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Reformed" jewel thief and scam artist Vanja accidentally starts a cult around a Low God, the Scarlet Maiden, who claims Emeric as her virgin sacrifice, and desperate to save the only man she's ever cared for, Vanja seeks a dangerous alternative.
"After accidentally starting a cult and invoking the wrath of the gods, a scam artist must fight to save everyone she has ever loved in this sequel to Margaret Owens YA fantasy Little Thieves. When misfortune...
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Eight days before the summer solstice, a man is butchered in a blood-freezing sacrifice on the ancient site of Stonehenge before a congregation of robed worshippers. Within hours, one of the world's foremost treasure hunters has shot himself in his country mansion, leaving a cryptic letter to his estranged son. Teaming up with an intrepid policewoman, Gideon soon exposes an ancient secret society with a charismatic and ruthless new leader at the helm....
6) Blood vines
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English
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In this bare-knuckled adrenaline ride from New York Times bestselling author Erica Spindler, Alex Clarkson's worst nightmares are about to come true...
A sinister, hooded figure...
When Alexandra Clarkson starts having terrifying visions filled with blood and ceremonial images, she tries to find a rational explanation – maybe her mind is playing tricks on her, resurrecting creepy tableaux from her research on religious ceremonies
7) Ever
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Ella enchanted volume 4
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English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal.
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He is our best hope. He is our last hope. On lonely moor in the northeast of England, the body of a young woman is discovered near the site of a vanished church. In the south, a girl lies buried beneath a Saxon mound. To the southeast, the ruins of a priory hide a human skull. Each is a sacrifice, a summons. And something in the darkness has heard the call. But another is coming: Parker the hunter, the avenger. From the forests of Maine to the deserts...
9) Ledge
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Series
Glacian trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In a place known as the Ledge, a civilization is trapped by a vast chasm and sheer mountain face. Rations are small, living is tough and there is no way for anyone to escape without befalling a deathly drop. What's more, every season the people must present themselves as a human sacrifice to The Glacians--mysterious winged creatures who reside beyond the Ledge. Dawsyn, ax wielder and only remaining member of her family, has so far avoided the annual...
10) Shadow of death
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Apocalypse Cult series volume 3
Thorndike Press large print core
Amy Larson and Hunter Forrest FBI volume 3
Amy Larson and Hunter Forrest volume Book 3
Thorndike Press large print core
Amy Larson and Hunter Forrest FBI volume 3
Amy Larson and Hunter Forrest volume Book 3
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When two hikers go missing within a series of daunting caves outside of Denver, Colorado, FDLE special agent Amy Larson and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, have good reason to suspect foul play. The pair of hikers are only the latest to vanish after a rash of disappearances that's left local law enforcement stumped. But in searching the dank caverns near the Arkansas River, the agents aren't prepared for the horror they uncover: a muddy...
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Wyatt Westlock has returned to her childhood home of Willow Heath, intending to burn it down--until she finds Peter hanging in the basement, a boy whom she considered a friend, semi-immortal and ritually sacrificed every year to keep the ancient forces in the nearby forest at bay.
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Bride of the Water God volume 4
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
171 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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English
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Soah remains on Earth, investigating her husband's curse and searching for the truth behind his first wife's untimely demise, but to save him, Soah must face the elemental gods that force her husband to occupy the form of a young boy during the day.
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Bride of the Water God volume 7
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
185 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"Soah, our heroine, was saved from a strange, sacrificial ritual by Habaek, the young Water God. While Soah has come to appreciate the Water God and his kingdom, the heavenly Suguk, she's also fallen in love with a mysterious man named Mui. What she doesn't know is that Habaek is Mui -- and he's been cursed to appear as a little boy during the day while he lives in his true adult form at night! Will Soah discover that she's torn between two versions...
16) Damsel
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A damsel in distress takes on the dragon herself in this epic twist on classic fantasy-a groundbreaking collaboration between New York Times bestselling author Evelyn Skye and the team behind the upcoming Netflix film Damsel, starring Millie Bobby Brown"--
Elodie never dreamed of a lavish palace or a handsome prince. As she grew up in the famine-stricken realm of Inophe, her deepest wish was to help her people survive each winter. So when a representative...
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Bride of the Water God volume 6
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
180 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Cursed to live in the form of a little boy during the day, only reverting to his true adult self at night, Habaek yearns to treat Soah as a proper husband would. Now he is being pursued by an unknown, shape-shifting tormentor and is led to believe that his previous human bride is still alive.
18) The Wicker man
Pub. Date
[1974]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not what it seems as the devout Christian detective soon uncovers a secret society of wanton lust and pagan blasphemy. Can Howie now stop the cult's ultimate sacrificebefore he himself comes face-to-face with the horror of the Wicker Man?
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Bride of the Water God volume 5
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
187 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"With a jealous admirer and a bitter, powerful mother plotting behind his back, Habaek's controversial decision to return Soah to his magical kingdom has the elemental gods and goddesses in an uproar. Habaek, the moody water god who rescued Soah's village from famine and drought, is also dealing with a curse that turns him into a child during the day and reverts him to his true adult form at night. While some of the inhabitants of his domain are friendly...
20) Sacrifice
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Pub. Date
2008.
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379 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the rocky, wind-swept Shetland Islands, a hundred miles from the northeastern tip of Scotland. Though her husband grew up here, it's the first time he's been back in twenty years. Digging in the peat on their new property, Tora unearths a human body, at first glance a centuries-old bog body, interesting but not uncommon. But realizing that the body is in fact much newer, that the woman's heart has been...
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