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781) The midwinter witch
Author
Series
Witch boy (Ostertag) volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
As his extended family gathers for their annual Midwinter Festival magic competition, Aster decides to enter the contest meant for witches, despite the lingering discomfort and hostility of certain family members. Meanwhile, Ariel struggles to accept her new family's love while her estranged aunt attempts to lure her away by poisoning her self-esteem.
Author
Series
City of dragons (Jaimal Yogis) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Grace and her friends are still recovering from the evil attacks plotted by ancient warlord Daijiang when Nate suddenly reappears and whisks Grace away to the Dragon King's lair. There, she learns that Daijiang is searching for a powerful dragon stone that will help him take over the world--and that he has enlisted a terrifyingly fierce beast called Shadowfire to capture Grace. Pursued by the Shadowfire, Grace and her friends must get to Paris and...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents, talented and highly educated, travel from Zambia to Kenya and Canada and beyond with their young family. Always the outsider, and against a backdrop of racism and xenophobia, Sisonke develops her keenly perceptive view of the world. In this sparkling account of a young girl's path to womanhood, Sisonke interweaves her personal...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Rickety Stitch is a walking, talking, singing skeleton, the only animated skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul. He has no idea who he used to be when he was covered in a living, breathing sack of meat and skin. His only clue to his former identity is a song he hears snippets of in his dreams, an epic bard's tale that could also explain the old fog covering the comical fantasy land of Eem... Oh, and his sidekick and only friend...
787) Dollhouse: Season 2
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
As Dollhouse continues to provide its elite clientele with 'actives,' human beings imprinted with the personas of whomever the client wants them to be, its mind-altering technology spins dangerously out of control. Now, an unlikely alliance must attempt to destroy the sinister corporation behind the facade.
788) Abduction
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A young man sets out to discover the truth about his life after discovering his baby picture on a missing persons web site.
789) The rider
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy Brady, once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, is warned that his competition days are over. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland...
Author
Series
Arata, the legend volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]-
Description
"In a world where humans and gods coexist, Arata is the unfortunate successor to the matriarchal Hime Clan -- unfortunate because if he's not cross-dressing to hide his gender one minute, he's fleeing for his life the next! When Arata winds up in the modern world and switches places with a boy named Arata Hinohara, it's a wonder which Arata's actually better off ..."--P. [4] of cover.
791) Lost highway
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Fred Madison is a saxophonist who finds a video tape on his doorstep that shows the interior of his house. He becomes convinced that someone has broken in and calls the police. He finds another videotape showing him killing his wife. The police arrest for murdering his wife. In prison, he inexplicably morphs into a young man named Pete Dayton and begins living a completely different life. When Pete is released, his and Fred's paths begin to cross...
792) Cautiva
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Cristina Quadri's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school and told that she is really Sofia Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's relatively recent past and the nightmare that...
793) The pretender
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
The pretender 2001: Picking up where the television series left off, this movie features even deeper explorations in the show's mythology, including a revealing look back at how Jarod originally escaped from the Centre. But now he must infiltrate the NSA to capture a ruthless assassin who might be a fellow pretender from his past.
The pretender: the island of the haunted: Jarod takes a keen interest in an ancient symbol that may unlock secrets about...
Author
Series
Arata, the legend volume 1
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"In a world where humans and gods coexist, Arata is the unfortunate successor to the matriarchal Hime Clan -- unfortunate because if he's not cross-dressing to hide his gender one minute, he's fleeing for his life the next! When Arata winds up in the modern world and switches places with a boy named Arata Hinohara, it's a wonder which Arata's actually better off ..."--P. [4] of cover
795) Youth in revolt
Pub. Date
2010
Description
While trying to win the heart of a beautiful girl, a teenage boy develops a smooth-talking and rebellious alter ego.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Jefferson Pierce, respected educator and father of two, is also Black Lightning, superpowered protector of Freeland. And he doesn’t fight alone. He is joined by his superpowered daughters, Anissa, aka Thunder, and Jennifer, aka Lightning, as well as his ex-wife, metahuman expert Lynn. Together, the Pierce family combats the ills eroding their city, including a menacing gang that calls itself The 100 and infamous gangster Tobias Whale.
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