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"Sutton going missing is the worst thing to happen to Casey, to their family. She's trying to help find her sister, but Casey is furious. She knows Sutton is manipulative, meanwhile everyone paints a picture of her perfection. People don't look for missing Black girls--or half-Black girls--without believing there is an angel to be saved. When Sutton reappears, Casey knows she should be relieved. Except Sutton isn't the same. She remembers nothing...
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The Shadow Sister Ryana, the very Shadow of Death, is marrying her beloved and joining his gypsy clan. War took her innocence, and now she's determined to rebuild her life. But religious cults are springing up, and the gypsies come under attack. Ryana's best friend in the Sisters, Jelena, has fled to join one of the cults, and the senior Sister asks Ryana to find out why. Too late, Ryana discovers their enemies have a sweet and seductive weapon, one...
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Ryana, a worthless girl-child, is sold to a mysterious woman who takes her to the home of the Shadow Sisters who are prized for their abilities as spies and assassins. She survives years of training in spite of being unconventional: adopting poisonous bats as familiars-something no one else would dare to do; choosing the blow dart as her weapon of choice-a weapon the Sisters don't teach; and relying on intuition rather than logic. As she completes...
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[2022]
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From the bestselling author of Mrs. Rochester's Ghost comes the chilling story of a young woman who returns to her haunted childhood home to unravel the deadly mysteries of her family's past. Ava grew up in a haunted mansion, envied by all her friends. But when her mother died mysteriously there, the thrills of Blackworth Mansion became nightmares. Ava never accepted that her mother perished from natural causes, but no one would believe her. Seventeen...
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Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 3
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Atria Books
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2017
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"Riley's engaging and mesmerizing story of self-discovery and love...can be perfectly read as a stand-alone. This book will appeal to readers of Edwardian novels and Jane Austen-style fiction." —Library Journal (starred review)
"[Lucinda Riley] is a master of plotting...This substantial book is a surprisingly quick and easy read, with engaging characters, a tantalizing glimpse of Edwardian society, and dual storylines...
"[Lucinda Riley] is a master of plotting...This substantial book is a surprisingly quick and easy read, with engaging characters, a tantalizing glimpse of Edwardian society, and dual storylines...
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Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 3
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Atria Books
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2017.
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Star D'Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father--the elusive billionaire, affectionately called Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted from across the four corners of the world. He has left each of them a clue to her true heritage, and Star nervously decides to follow hers, which leads her to an antiquarian bookshop in London, and the start of a whole new world. A hundred years earlier, headstrong and...
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Child killer Gary Brunswick has just been imprisoned for life for the murder of ten-year-old David Foster, but for DCI Kay Harris of Greater Manchester Police, it's cold comfort.
As Senior Investigating Officer Kay has agonised over the case for months, could she have saved the boy? The Foster case, and the death of her sister, Helen, by suicide a year ago, weigh heavily on her.
She finds her sister's diary, believing that Helen meant it...
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After years of struggling with guilt and shame for being associated with a serial killer sitting on death row, a sister comes to grip with the fact that she and all family members of death row inmates are, indeed, victims as well. Although her brother was, indeed, guilty of his crimes and deserved to pay for the lives he took, society placed her into the same category as him and quickly labeled her guilty by association.
Bringing public awareness...
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Harcourt
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c2008
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In eighteenth-century Europe, Anna "Nannerl" Mozart, a musician whose talent and dedication is overshadowed by that of her gifted younger brother, Wolfgang, struggles to win the notice of her father and patrons who might further her career, despite her gender.
12) Dark Craving
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Dangerous is an understatement. Partly because I don't date. Ever. And I never have...Until I meet him. Tall, dark, vampire. And my world spins out of control. For him, I will break all my rules.I know he's hiding something behind those gorgeous, secretive eyes; so how far will I go to ease my craving for him when I'm not sure who I can trust?My strict restraint keeps everyone around me safe. Because I can't get angry. At all. That's when my powers...
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Sisters of shadow and light volume 1
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"The night my sister was born, the stars died and were reborn in her eyes.... Zuhra and Inara have grown up in the Citadel of the Paladins, an abandoned fortress where legendary, magical warriors once lived before disappearing from the world--including their Paladin father the night Inara was born. On that same night, a massive, magical hedge grew and imprisoned them within the citadel. Inara inherited their father's Paladin power; her eyes glow blue...
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• YA fantasy series set in a Studio Ghibli-esque secondary world (like a whimsical AU fantasy industrial Britain) following a 17yo apothecary on a sweeping adventure to save her best friend from a cult of witches. • Author has 30k+ followers on Instagram. • Simultaneous cross-format publication in September 2021. • Books 2 and 3 to follow in 2021/2022.
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Anne of Green Gables meets Diana Wynne Jones in this whimsical fantasy adventure perfect for teen readers.
Each step was like an old familiar song…
Still recovering from the inferno that consumed Kelseth lighthouse, apothecary Lily Knight, powerful witch Alice Blackwell, and their newfound family find refuge in a mysterious mist-wreathed castle to regroup and draw up a plan of action.
Because the shadows are closing in and Hecate Winter, High...
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Lily, Alice, Grace, and Jem are back in the third and final spellbinding instalment in the Sisters of Shadow trilogy by Katherine Livesey! She couldn't work out if it was the world that had changed, or herself… When lightning shatters the darkness into a blazing jigsaw of panic and pain, Lily and her friends realise they've been transported through the jaws of the wild storm right to the gates of Midnight Manor, home of High Priestess of the Shadow...
19) Chasing Shadows
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In CHASING SHADOWS, book one in the Sisters of Shadows and Moonlight Series, you are invited to explore a secret world lying just below the surface of our own-a world where Werewolves, Faeries and Vampires live, love, and die amongst us. The race of man is face to face with the stuff of our fondest dreams and darkest nightmares. Safe havens have sprung up to accommodate this untapped market of magical beings. Open-minded humans or the merely curious...
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Giunti
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2022
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Italiano
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Due sorelle adottive legate da un intenso rapporto fraterno, che per una di loro rischia di diventare soffocante. La morte del padre e un viaggio alla scoperta delle proprie origini sulle tracce di una statuetta e di una donna misteriosa... Segreti e destini magistralmente intrecciati formano l'avvincente trama del terzo straordinario capitolo che Lucinda Riley dedica alla fortunata saga "Le sette sorelle". Titolo originale: The Shadow Sister ©Lucinda...
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