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2) The stand-in
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When a mysterious black SUV pulls up next to Gracie Reed, she can't believe that the people inside are Wei Fangli and Sam Yao, Chinese cinema's golden couple. Or that Fangli has a proposal that's about to change everything..."--
3) The humans
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Regarding humans unfavorably upon arriving on Earth, a reluctant extraterrestrial assumes the identity of a Cambridge mathematician before realizing that there's more to the human race than he suspected.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age.
7) Cosmic
Author
Language
English
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Description
Super-sized, eleven-year-old Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space.
Author
Publisher
MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Discovering her brother has committed suicide, a successful yet lonely author with a hit dystopian novel begins responding to texts as her late brother on her phone and becomes more and more untethered from reality.
Author
Series
Ascendance novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
10) Enchantée
Author
Series
Enchantee volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After smallpox takes their parents, seventeen-year-old Camille supports herself and her sister by magically transforming herself into a baroness in the court at Versailles, then faces difficult choices as the French Revolution looms.
11) Never evers
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Mayhem and romance ensue when tweens Mouse and Jack meet on the slopes during a school ski trip"--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Li is the only human left after aliens take over the planet, but she learns to stay alive, with the help of her human-sympathizing father, by assimilating to Abdolorean society, which she must keep a secret at all costs or risk the terrifying consequences of exposure.
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-olds JB Barnes and Sidney Miller meet aboard a scientific research ship after JB is tasked to invite a renowned scientist named Sidney Miller and mistakenly invites a girl with the same name who will do anything toget out of going to summer camp.
Author
Series
Camelot rising (Kiersten White) volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a rescue goes awry and results in the death of something precious, the devastated Guinevere, impersonated by a changeling witch, returns to Camelot to find the greatest threat yet--the real Guinevere's younger sister.
15) Sherwood
Author
Language
English
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Description
Robin of Locksley is dead. Maid Marian doesn't know how she'll go on, but the people of Locksley town, persecuted by the Sheriff of Nottingham, need a protector. And the dreadful Guy of Gisborne, the Sheriff's right hand, wishes to step into Robin's shoes as Lord of Locksley and Marian's fiancé . Who is there to stop them? Marian never meant to tread in Robin's footsteps--never intended to stand as a beacon of hope to those awaiting his triumphant...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square--a place of many memories--she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service...
Author
Series
Rider Woofson volume 2
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Prince Bubbles, the prince of New Sealand, comes to Pawston to recieve an award. Everything goes swimmingly well until Rider and the PI pack realize something smells fishy about their royal vistor"--
Author
Language
English
Description
In the end, has anyone really led a blameless life? Injured in a freak fall, novelist Gerry Andersen is confined to a hospital bed in his glamorous high-rise apartment, dependent on two women he barely knows: his incurious young assistant, and a dull, slow-witted night nurse. Then late one night, the phone rings. The caller claims to be the “real” Aubrey, the alluring title character from his most successful novel, Dream Girl. But there is no...
20) All fixed up
Author
Series
Ciel Halligan novels volume 4
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Ciel Halligan, aura adaptor extraordinaire, has a lot of experience filling in for her clients--as them. A rare genetic quirk gives her the ability to absorb human energy and project it back out in a flawless imitation. She's hard at work, posing as a well-known and celebrated astronaut, about to make a stunning announcement on behalf of the space program... when the photographer documenting the job sees right through her aura. Worse, it soon becomes...
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