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Fleeing her prince, Rosamund discovers the Princess Protection Program, an academy where fairy tale princesses evade unwanted fates and unwanted kisses, and as she adapts to real-world life and forms close friendships, she begins to question the academy's secrets and the possibility of changing her own story.
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"In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground dragon battles and a high-stakes gang war that could tear his family apart. In the city of Drakopolis, dragons and humans have co-existed for centuries. Dragons burn the city's garbage, taxi its busy citizens from place to place, and even compete in vicious underground battles for ganglike kins. But the dragons also compete in legal sports, like the spectacular...
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"Banished from Drakopolis to the desolate frontier town of Glassblower's Gulch, Abel and his family must face a harsh new reality: life without dragons. Far from the lights and lizards of the megacity, Abel's new home effectively bans the great beasts. Anyone caught smuggling dragons is hauled away by the ruthless sheriff and her fearsome deputies. They have the only dragons in town, and they run the dreaded dragon rodeo, which pits those who fall...
5) Proxy
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"Privileged Syd and and his proxy, Knox, are thrown together to overthrow the system"--
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Kylee is ensconsed in the Sky Castle, training with Mem Uku to master the Hollow Tongue and the Ghost Eagle. But political intrigue abounds and court drama seems to seep through the castle's stones like blood from a broken feather. Meanwhile, Brysen is still in the Six Villages, preparing for an attack by the Kartami. The Villages have become Uztar's first line of defense, and refugees are flooding in from the plains. But their arrival lays bare the...
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A taut and harrowing depiction of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the Pentagon, alternating between a boy caught in the chaos and the rescue dog who's attempting to save him.
Twelve-year-old Mikey is doing a school project on the Pentagon, where his father works as a civilian contractor. Mikey has been given special permission to visit his dad's office and do some research on the facility, all for a class report. At first he finds the
...10) Guardian
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"The only way to stop people from getting sick is to get the network back online. That means reversing the very revolution that Syd and Knox began"--
12) Still life
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As an artist demonstrates the strict rules for creating a still life painting, the painting disregards each one as it comes alive and tells its own story.
13) After ever after
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Princess Rana, a fairy tale escapee embracing her new life at the Home Educational Academy, must return to her story to stop a shadowy monster and save her friends after dozens of frog princes and a dangerous threat appear at the academy.
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"From stories of confronting their relationships with Judaism to rom-coms with a side of bagels and lox, It's a Whole Spiel features one story after another that says yes, we are Jewish, but we are also queer, and disabled, and creative, and political, and adventurous, and anything we want to be"--