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Winner of the 2021 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
Winner of the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
Winner of the Locus Award for Young Adult Fiction
Winner of the Dragon Award Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel
Winner of the Mythopoeic Award for Children's Literature
Winner of the Cóyotl Award for Best Novel
Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't...
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This is book 2 in the By Death series. Death haunts anthropologist Meg Pearce...In her last summer before college, an innocent camping trip ended in a friend's disappearance...and destroyed her life.
She lost everything. Her innocence. Her plans for her future. Her best friend and lover.
Seventeen years later, she returns reluctantly to the same area, hoping to move on. But a gruesome discovery sends her reeling back to that dark time.
Detective...
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Everyone Has a Hidden Talent
For Lucky O'Toole it's murder...solving it.
Surviving in Sin City takes cunning, a pair of five-inch heels, and a wiseass attitude. Lucky has mastered them all and has a pair of legs she uses to kick butt and turn heads.
As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over-the-top destination, mischief is in her job description.
She's good at her job.
She's less good at life. But who has time for a life when...
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When a beautiful woman is found stabbed by a stiletto heel during a big car show at the mega-resort where Lucky O'Toole works at the head of customer relations, Lucky finds the ensuing investigation challenged by the untimely arrival of her long-time love, Teddie.
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Roda isn't afraid of the monsters that roam the wilds of the Aerlands. She's safe in her small town, which is surrounded by a wall of freezing, enchanted mist that keeps the beasts away. So when Roda rescues an injured crow on the instruction of her secret pen pal, Anonymous, whose letters arrive without warning and correctly predict the future, she's surprised to learn she's brought one of the so-called monsters home. Because her crow is really a...
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A unique masterpiece about loss, love, and the world's best bad dog, from award winner Leslie Connor, author of the National Book Award finalist The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle.
This novel sings about loss and love and finding joy in new friendships and a loving family, along with the world's best bad dog. An uplifting middle grade novel about recovery featuring strong female characters, an adorable dog, and the girl who comes to love him.
It's...
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A thoughtful middle-grade debut about a girl from off-the-grid Alaska adjusting to suburban life
Eleven-year-old Rigel Harman loves her life in off-the-grid Alaska. She hunts rabbits, takes correspondence classes through the mail, and plays dominoes with her family in their two-room cabin. She doesn't mind not having electricity or running water-instead, she's got tall trees, fresh streams, and endless sky.
But then her parents divorce, and Rigel...
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Four friends reunite in Montauk to celebrate their thirtieth birthdays, twelve years after one fateful summer, in this novel of friendship and secrets.
Childhood friends Hannah, Maya, Blue and Renee share a bond that feels more like family. Growing up, they had difficult home lives, and the summers they spent together in Montauk were the happiest memories they ever made. Then, the summer after graduation, one terrible night changed everything.
Twelve...
10) Lucky Catch
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Even a Blind Dog Finds a Bone
For Lucky O'Toole, she finds killers.
As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over-the-top destination, murder is a bit outside of her normal.
But, armed with a wicked wit and an even more wicked right-cross, Lucky takes it all in stride.
But tonight taxes even Lucky's formidable skills.
LUCKY CATCH
Lucky's former lover, Teddie, shows up, hat in hand.
A gaggle of egomaniacal chefs appears for a televised...
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Camp Phoenix is a controversial and expensive summer camp program that transfers adults' consciousness into a clone of their childhood selves. On the surface, it's an ordinary summer camp. Twelve-year-old Logan has come to have a relaxing, carefree summer. She wants to ride horses, make new friends, and she loves listening to ghost stories. Sam is a twenty-year-old counselor, taking on the responsibility of the kids' care by day, and riding the rollercoaster...
12) Lucky Score
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If Lucky O'Toole, Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Vegas' primo Strip property, knows one thing-where money goes, trouble follows.
So, when the NFL announces it's moving a team to Vegas, Lucky is left on the fence until the trouble she feared lands in her lap.
Nolan Ponder, one of the key players in the negotiations to get the NFL to Sin City, staggers into the Babylon covered in blood and holding a knife.
With the mountains of money and careers...
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Murder Takes a Holiday
For Lucky O'Toole, living with murder is, well...murder.
As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over-the-top destination, mischief is in her job description, but murder? Not so much...until recently...
LUCKY THE HARD WAY
Facing a murder indictment, Lucky's first love, Teddie, has flown to Macau on the heels of the real killer.
A powerful figure in the Macanese underworld has Lucky's father and his...
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On June 23, 2008, President George W. Bush nominated Ann Dunwoody as a four-star general in the US Army-the first time a woman had ever achieved that rank. The news generated excitement around the world. Now retired after nearly four decades in the Army, Dunwoody shares what she learned along the way, from her first command leading 100 soldiers to her final assignment, in which she led a 60 billion enterprise of over 69,000 employees, including the...
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From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Christy Barritt
Finding a missing girl
depends on a K-9 and his handler.
Erin Lansing will search every inch of the mountains to find her missing teen daughter-even with someone dead-set on stopping her. Teaming up with search-and-rescue K-9 handler Dillon Walker and his dog, Scout, is her only chance at living long enough to see her daughter again. But to save them all, can Dillon and Scout help Erin confront...
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A picture-perfect trip goes horribly wrong in this fast-paced exploration of friendship and the dark side of social media, perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and Andrea Bartz. Everyone wants to be them, but internet fame comes at a price… Two days after arriving in Iceland for a promotional trip, Instagram influencer Alabama Wood goes missing. With no leads, the Icelandic police start their investigation by focusing on the two influencers seemingly...
17) Lucky Enough
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Lucky's story comes full circle in the conclusion of the Lucky O'Toole Vegas Adventures.
Home: A refuge. An escape. Where the heart is.
After a high body count trip through Europe, Lucky O'Toole, the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over the top Strip casino, is home and searching for peace, quiet and a quick fix for a broken heart. She should know better. Her father is failing in his fight to regain his health after taking...
18) Lucky Stiff
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Everyone Has a Hidden Talent
For Lucky O'Toole it's murder...solving it.
Surviving in Sin City takes cunning, a pair of five-inch heels, and a wiseass attitude. Lucky has mastered them all and has a pair of legs she uses to kick butt and turn heads.
As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas's most over-the-top destination, mischief is in her job description.
She's good at her job.
She's less good at life. But who has time for a life when...
19) Lucky Ride
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Who would want to kill a clown?
Lucky O'Toole, Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon Hotel, the primo property on the Las Vegas Strip, isn't in any mood to find out.
For one, it's New Year's Day and Lucky's birthday.
And she hasn't caught her breath after a chase to the death in Hong Kong and Macau.
Her French chef is pushing to set the wedding date.
Her former lover, wounded in the China chase, needs TLC.
A young woman, in town with the rodeo, shows...
20) Chasing Justice
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A former marine learns to love again in this suspenseful, action-packed K-9 search and rescue from debut author Kathleen Donnelly.
After losing her military K-9, former marine Maya Thompson swears she'll never work with dogs again. But when she returns home to Colorado and accepts a job with US Forest Service law enforcement, fate brings K-9 Juniper into her life just as another tragedy unfolds.
Juniper, a beautiful two-year-old Malinois, isn't...