In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her...
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Author: Carey, Janet Lee.Summary:Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Fuller, AlexandraSummary:This engaging follow-up explores Fuller's parents' childhoods and charts the trajectories of their lives through all the British couple's experiences in war-torn Africa. With the same sharply...
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Author: MacAlister, KatieSummary:
When Captain Octavia Pye discovers people not wearing proper 19th-century fashions aboard her Victorian airship, she wonders if they're pirates. The reality is--they're actually from an alternate...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Science fiction -
Author: Abé, ShanaSummary:
Chosen to be a charity student at a boarding school in World War I England, sixteen-year-old Lora discovers her long, latent magical powers just in time to battle an evil bent on decimating the...
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Author: Schlitz, Laura AmySummary:A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
Genre: Drama, Juvenile fiction -
Author: St. John, LaurenSummary:
In the 1970s St. John lived on a Rhodesian farm that should have been paradise. But the specter of war hung over the land, filling every day with peril and uncertainty.
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Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to...
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Author: Gregory, PhilippaSummary:The duchess--kin to half the crowned heads of Europe and mother of England's White Queen--walks a perilous path through the battle lines of the tumultuous War of the Roses.
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Author: Gregory, PhilippaSummary:Passionately in love with Richard III in spite of her arranged marriage to pretender to the throne Henry Tudor, Princess Elizabeth of York is forced to marry the man who murdered her lover and...
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Author: McKinley, RobinSummary:
Twenty years ago, Robin McKinley dazzled readers with the power of her novel Beauty. Now this extraordinarily gifted novelist returns to the story of Beauty and the Beast with a fresh perspective...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Myths and folk tales -
Author: Quick, AmandaSummary:
The Earl of St. Merryn needs a woman. His intentions are purely practical-he simply wants someone sensible and suitably lovely to pose as his betrothed for a few weeks among polite society. He has...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Author: Gregory, PhilippaSummary:Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the real-life characters behind her Wars of the Roses novels. Gregory and her team describe the extraordinary lives of the heroines of her Cousins...
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Author: Manieri, EvieSummary:
.The conclusion of the epic fantasy Shattered Kingdoms series where rebellion and betrayal threaten to tear apart Shadar She was tainted. Once known as the Mongrel, Lahlil only had one purpose: to...
Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Niffenegger, AudreySummary:
After their English aunt dies, listless American twins Julia and Valentina travel to London to live in their aunt's now empty flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery. There they become embroiled...
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Author: Marais, BiancaSummary:From the author of the beloved Hum If You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest...
Genre: Bildungsromans