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#Year1st ReadTitleAuthor(s)My Rating 
51 2018 Iron Gold
Red Rising #4
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Pierce Brown  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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Honor and betrayal fuel a caste-shattering revolution in the action-packed new novel from the number one New York Times best-selling author of the Red Rising Trilogy.

Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of Society for good. But new foes will emerge from the shadows to threaten the imperfect victory Darrow and his friends have earned. Pierce Brown expands the size and scope of his impressive Red Rising universe with new characters, enemies, and conflicts among the stars.
52 2014 2018 Julian Chapter
Wonder #1.1
R J Palacio  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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53 2015 2018 Library of Souls
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #3
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Ransom Riggs  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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A BOY WITH
EXTRAORDINARY POWERS.
AN ARMY OF DEADLY MONSTERS.
AN EPIC BATTLE FOR THE
FUTURE OF PECULIARDOM.


The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls.  As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress.  Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children.

They’ll travel from modern-day London to the labyrinthine alleys of Devil’s Acre, the most wretched slum in all of Victorian England.  It’s a place where the fate of peculiar children everywhere will be decided once and for all.  Like its predecessors, Library of Souls blends thrilling fantasy with never-before-published vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.

RANSOM RIGGS grew up in Florida but makes his home in the land of peculiar children - Los Angeles.  He was raised on a steady diet of ghost stories and British comedy, which probably explains the novels he writes.  There's a nonzero chance he's in your house right now, watching you from underneath the bed.  (Go ahead and check.  We'll wait.)  If not, you can always find him on Twitter @ransomriggs.

"The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story."
- John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, on Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
54 2021 Lux
Reckoners #4
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Steven Michael Bohls  
Brandon Sanderson  
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A new team of Reckoners must infiltrate the flying city of Lux to take down the Epic Lifeforce in this audio-exclusive novel from Brandon Sanderson, the best-selling author of The Stormlight Archive and the Mistborn series, and coauthor Steven Michael Bohls.

When the great red star Calamity appeared in the sky, some believed the end had come. They were right.

Calamity created the Epics: humans with incredible powers they didn't deserve.

They could have saved mankind. They could have lifted us into harmony and prosperity. Instead they burned. They slaughtered. They conquered. And then they ruled.

Jax has learned all this the hard way. Orphaned at an early age, he's spent most of his childhood training to be a Reckoner—determined to find the Epics' weaknesses, unlock their secrets, and protect those of us who are left.

But now, the mysterious High Epic Lifeforce has arrived with his flying city, Lux, to plunder what's left of Texas. So Jax and his ragtag team—the few who remain of the once-mighty Texas Reckoners—must take their battle to this floating fortress of riches, and defeat the invincible.

To avenge what has been lost. And rise anew.
55 2018 A Map of Days
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #4
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Ransom Riggs  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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A brave new world.

Unimaginable new dangers.

An adventure that has only just begun.


Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida.  Except now peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in.

But carefree days are quickly interrupted by the discovery of a subterranean bunker and clues to his grandfather Abe's double life as a peculiar operative.  Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited - truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine's time loop.

The stakes are higher than ever as Jacob and his friends are thrust into the untamed landscape of American peculiardom - a world with few ymbrynes, or rules - that none of them understand.

Spectacular new wonders, and terrorrs, await in this brilliant next chapter for Miss Peregrine's peculiar children.

RANSOM RIGGS was orn on a farm in Maryland and grew up in southern Florida.  He studied literature at Kenyon College and film at the University of Souther California.  He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, bestselling author Tehereh Mafi, and their family.
56 2004 2018 Messenger
The Giver Quartet #3
Lois Lowry  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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57 2011 2018 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #1
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Ransom Riggs  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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"A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story."
- John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars

A mysterious island.  An abandonded orphanage.  A strange collection of peculiar photographs.  It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience.  As out story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.  As Jacob explores its decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar.  They may have been dangerous.  They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason.  And somehow - impossible though it seems - they may still be alive.

RANSOM RIGGS is the author of The Sherlock Holmes Handbook and Talking Pictures, a collection of found photographs.  He lives in Los Angeles.  This is his first novel.

BONUS FEATURES
  • The first chapter of Hollow City, the forthcoming sequel to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
  • An exclusive Q&A with author Ransom Riggs
  • Never-before-seen peculiar photographs!
58 2013 2016 Mitosis
Reckoners #1.5
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Brandon Sanderson  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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Read the e-novella from the #1 New York Times bestselling Recokners series: Steelheart, Firefight, and Calamity!

Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Words of Radiance, coauthor of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn trilogy, presents Mitosis, a short story set in the action-packed world of Steelheart, Firefight, and Calamity: the Reckoners series, exclusively available in the digital format. Epics still plague Newcago, but David and the Reckoners have vowed to fight back.

Praise for the Reckoners Series:

#1 New York Times Bestselling Series

“Another win for Sanderson
. . . he’s simply a brilliant writer. Period.” —Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Name of the Wind

“Action-packed.” —EW.com

“Compelling. . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic reveals he has in store.” —The A.V. Club
59 2010 2011 Mockingjay
The Hunger Games #3
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Suzanne Marie Collins  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.

The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.

Who do they think should pay for the unrest?

Katniss Everdeen.

The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins will have hearts racing, pages turning, and everyone talking about one of the biggest and most talked-about books and authors in recent publishing history!!!!
60 1979 2017 Neverending Story
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Michael Ende  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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The classic talc
of Bastian and the book that
magically comes to life


Bastian Balthazar Bux is shy, awkward, and certainly not heroic.  His only escape is reading books.  When Bastian happens upon an old book called The Neverending Story, he's swept into the magical world of Fantastica - so much that he finds he has actually become a character in the story!  And when he realizes that this mysteriously enchanted world is in great danger, he also discovers that he has been the one chosen to save it.  Can Bastian overcome the barrier between reality and his imagination in order to save Fantastica?
61 2006 2008 New Moon
Twilight #2
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Stephenie Meyer  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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I knew we were both in mortal danger.  Still, in that instant, I felt well.  Whole.  I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again.  My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin.  It was like there had never been any whole in my chest.  I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place.

Legions of readers are hungry for more.
Give in to temptation....

The #1 New York Times Bestseller

"Teens will relish this new adventure and hunger for more."  - Booklist

"New Moon piles on the suspense and romance."  - USA Today

"[A] near genius balance of breathtaking romance and action."  - VOYA

"New Moon will... leave [fans] breathless for the third."  - School Library Journal

THE TWILIGHT SAGA:
Twilight · New Moon · Eclipse · Breaking Dawn
62 2015 2018 Pluto
Wonder #1.2
R J Palacio  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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63 2018 2020 The Poppy War
Poppy War #1
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R F Kuang  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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From audible.com:

A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China’s 20th century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu’s Grace of Kings and N. K. Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy.

When Rin aced the Keju - the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies - it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard - the most elite military school in Nikan - was even more surprising.

But surprises aren’t always good.

Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the South is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power - an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive - and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.

For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away....

Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity...and that it may already be too late.

R.F. Kuang studies modern Chinese history. She has a BA from Georgetown University and is currently a graduate student in the United Kingdom on a Marshall Scholarship. The Poppy War is her debut novel.
64 2021 ReDawn
Skyward #2.2
Janci Patterson  
Brandon Sanderson  
Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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65 1952 2018 The Rolling Stones
Heinlein's Juveniles #6
Robert A Heinlein  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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66 2014 2022 Ruin and Rising
Shadow and Bone #3
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Leigh Bardugo  Rated 2Rated 2Rated 2Rated 2Rated 2
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The capital has fallen. The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.

Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.

Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.

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. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction - and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she’s fighting for. Ruin and Rising is the thrilling final installment in Leigh Bardugo's Grisha Trilogy.
67 2016 2020 Scythe
Arc of the Scythe #1
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Neal Shusterman  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Printz Honor-winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times best-selling Unwind Dystology series.

A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: Humanity has conquered all those things and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life - and they are commanded to do so in order to keep the size of the population under control.

Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe - a role that neither wants. These teens must master the "art" of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.

Scythe is the first novel of a thrilling new series by National Book Award-winning author Neal Shusterman in which Citra and Rowan learn that a perfect world comes only with a heavy price.
68 2012 2022 Shadow and Bone
Shadow and Bone #1
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Leigh Bardugo  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.

Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves her life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha… and the secrets of her heart.
69 2015 2018 Shingaling: A Wonder Story
Wonder #1.3
R J Palacio  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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70 2013 2022 Siege and Storm
Shadow and Bone #2
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Leigh Bardugo  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. But she can't outrun her past or her destiny for long.

The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling's game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her - or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm.

71 2018 2022 Skyward
Skyward #1
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Brandon Sanderson  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

From Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, and the internationally bestselling Mistborn series, comes the first book in an epic new series about a girl who dreams of becoming a pilot in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future.


Spensa's world has been under attack for decades. Now pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa's dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with her father's--a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, leaving Spensa's chances of attending flight school at slim to none.

No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, yet fate works in mysterious ways. Flight school might be a long shot, but she is determined to fly. And an accidental discovery in a long-forgotten cavern might just provide her with a way to claim the stars.

Praise for Skyward:
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

"Startling revelations and stakes-raising implications...
Sanderson plainly had a ball with this nonstop, highflying opener, and readers will too." --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

"With this action-packed trilogy opener, Sanderson offers up a resourceful, fearless heroine and a memorable cast... [and] as the pulse-pounding story intensifies and reveals its secrets, a cliffhanger ending sets things up for the next installment."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"It is impossible to turn the pages fast enough." --Booklist

"Sanderson delivers a cinematic adventure that explores the defining aspects of the individual versus the society... [and] fans of [his] will not be disappointed." --SLJ

Praise for Brandon Sanderson's Reckoners series:
#1 New York Times Bestselling Series


"Another win for Sanderson . . . he's simply a brilliant writer. Period." --Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Name of the Wind

"Action-packed." --EW

"Compelling. . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic reveals he has in store." --AV Club
72 2012 2018 Son
The Giver Quartet #4
Lois Lowry  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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73 2019 2022 Starsight
Skyward #2
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Brandon Sanderson  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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From amazon.com:

The #1 New York Times bestseller!

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the second book in an epic series about a girl with a secret in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future.


All her life, Spensa's dreamed of becoming a pilot and proving herself a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned there were crushing. The rumors of her father's cowardice are true--he deserted his Flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them.

Spensa is sure that there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father that day could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars--and what they revealed to her was terrifying. Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie.

Humankind has always celebrated heros, but who defines what a hero is? Could humanity be the evil the galaxy needs to be protected from? Spensa is determined to find out, but each answer she discovers reveals a dozen new questions: about the war, about her enemies, and even, perhaps, about Spensa herself.

But Spensa also discovered a few other things about herself--and she'll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to.

"Sanderson delivers a cinematic adventure that explores the defining aspects of the individual versus the society. . . . Fans of Sanderson will not be disappointed." --SLJ

"It is impossible to turn the pages fast enough." --Booklist

"He's simply a brilliant writer. Period." --Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times bestseller The Name of the Wind, on Brandon Sanderson.
74 2013 2016 Steelheart
Reckoners #1
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Brandon Sanderson  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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From amazon.com:

The #1 New York Times bestseller from Brandon Sanderson, the author of Oathbringer, coauthor of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn trilogy. And don’t miss the rest of the Reckoners series: Firefight and Calamity.

   How far would you go for revenge if someone killed your father?
   If someone destroyed your city?
   If everything you ever loved was taken from you?
   David Charleston will go to any lengths to stop Steelheart. But to exact revenge in Steelheart’s world, David will need the Reckoners—a shadowy group of rebels bent on maintaining justice.
  And it turns out that the Reckoners might just need David too.
  Look for book two in the Reckoners series, Firefight, available now.

Praise for the Reckoners series

#1 New York Times Bestselling Series

“Another win for Sanderson
. . . he’s simply a brilliant writer. Period.” —Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Name of the Wind

“Action-packed.” —EW.com

“Compelling. . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic reveals he has in store.” —The A.V. Club
75 2021 Sunreach
Skyward #2.1
Janci Patterson  
Brandon Sanderson  
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76 1967 2020 Taran Wanderer
The Chronicles of Prydain #4
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Lloyd Alexander  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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More than 3 million copies of
The Chronicles of Prydain in print!


Taran is an Assistant Pig-Keeper no longer - he has become a hero.  Now he dreams of winning the hand of the Princess Eilonwy, but how can someone who has spent his wholel ife caring for a pig hope to marry royality?  Taran must find out who he really is.  Eager to find his origins and hoping to find noble roots, Taran sets off with the faithful Gurgi.

The journey takes the companions to the three witches in the Marshes of Morva and through the many realms of Prydain.  At last they reach the mystical Mirror of Llunet, which reveals a person's true identity.  Yet Taran may not be reasdy to face the truth....
77 2018 2020 Thunderhead
Arc of the Scythe #2
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Neal Shusterman  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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From amazon.com:

Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, in the chilling sequel to the Printz Honor Book Scythe from New York Times best seller Neal Shusterman, author of the Unwind dystology.

The Thunderhead cannot interfere in the affairs of the Scythedom. All it can do is observe - it does not like what it sees.

A year has passed since Rowan had gone off grid. Since then, he has become an urban legend, a vigilante snuffing out corrupt scythes in a trial by fire. His story is told in whispers across the continent.

As Scythe Anastasia, Citra gleans with compassion and openly challenges the ideals of the "new order". But when her life is threatened and her methods questioned, it becomes clear that not everyone is open to the change.

Will the Thunderhead intervene?

Or will it simply watch as this perfect world begins to unravel?
78 2019 2020 The Toll
Arc of the Scythe #3
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Neal Shusterman  Rated 2Rated 2Rated 2Rated 2Rated 2
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In the highly anticipated finale to the New York Times best-selling trilogy, dictators, prophets, and tensions rise. In a world that's conquered death, will humanity finally be torn asunder by the immortal beings it created?

Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him?

The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder.
79 2005 2008 Twilight
Twilight #1
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About three things I was absolutely positive.

First, Edward was a vampire.

Second, there was a part of him -
and I didn't know how dominant that part might be -
that thirsted for my blood.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

DEEPLY SEDUCTIVE AND EXTRAORDINARILY SUSPENSFUL,
TWILIGHT IS A LOVE STORY WITH BITE.

A New York Times Editor's Choice
An Amazon "Best Book of the Decade... So Far"
A Teen People "Hot List" pick
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

* "Propelled by suspense and romance in equal parts, [this story] will keep readers madly flipping the pages of Meyer's tantalizing debut."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

* "The novel's danger-factor skyrockets as the excitement of secret love and hushed affection morphs into a terrifying race to stay alive.... Twilight will have readers dying to sink their teeth into it."
- School Library Journal (starred review)

THE TWILIGHT SAGA
Twilight · New Moon · Eclipse · Breaking Dawn
80 2011 The White Tree
Cycle of Arawn #1
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Edward W Robertson  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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Sixteen-year-old Dante wants nothing more than to learn to wield the nether, the magic of his world. After he steals the Cycle of Arawn, the holy book of a century-dead sect that mastered the nether, he's attacked in the streets of Bressel.

Arawn's followers aren't gone after all. In desperation, Dante hires a bodyguard, but all he can afford is an untried and big-mouthed kid named Blays. Through cunning and luck, they fend off their attackers and flee the city.

But there's no escape from the long-simmering religious war that's about to engulf their homeland--a war they'll soon find themselves fighting from within the stronghold of Arawn himself.

The White Tree is an epic fantasy of approximately 500 pages / 150,000 words.
81 2012 2018 Wonder
Wonder #1
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R J Palacio  Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Millions of people have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face—who shows us that kindness brings us together no matter how far apart we are. Read the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement, a major motion picture, and the critically acclaimed graphic novel White Bird.

And don't miss R.J. Palacio's highly anticipated new novel, Pony, available now!


I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.

August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. Beginning from Auggie’s point of view and expanding to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others, the perspectives converge to form a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance. In a world where bullying among young people is an epidemic, this is a refreshing new narrative full of heart and hope.

R.J. Palacio has called her debut novel “a meditation on kindness” —indeed, every reader will come away with a greater appreciation for the simple courage of friendship. Auggie is a hero to root for, a diamond in the rough who proves that you can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.






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