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While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
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Twelve-year-old Lettie Peppercorn's mother has gone away, leaving Lettie with the warning that leaving the house could be deadly. So Lettie has remained inside the run-down White Horse Inn ever since. But when an alchemist named Blustav comes to the inn and claims to know her mother, Lettie and a boy named Noah find themselves on a dangerous adventure in search of the truth.