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Author
Series
City of nightmares duology volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a con goes wrong, nineteen-year-old Ness finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy, in a city where dreaming means waking up as your worst nightmare"--
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A book inspired by the History Network show explores unexplained mysteries, including what the government is hiding in Area 51, and what happened to the Confederacy's nineteen million dollars in gold and silver at the end of the Civil War.
3) Randoms
Author
Series
Randoms volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A twelve-year-old boy is chosen to join a four-person applicant team to work towards membership in the Confederation of United Planets, and stumbles across conspiracies resembling science fiction he's been a fan of his entire life"--
5) Womb City
Author
Publisher
Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When a drug-fueled evening causes her to commit a desperate crime, daring to hope she can keep one last secret, Nelah, as the ghost of her victim hunts down the people she loves, must unravel the political conspiracy they were on the verge of exposing--or risk losing everyone.
6) Youngblood
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-olds Kat Finn and Taylor Sanger, two queer bloodsuckers at an elite vampire-only boarding school, must go up against all of Vampirdom when they uncover a frightening conspiracy on campus.
Author
Series
Shadow novels (Lila Bowen) volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The sequel to Wake of Vultures, where a rich, secret world is hiding beneath the surface. Nettie Lonesome made a leap -- not knowing what she'd become. But now her destiny as the Shadow is calling. A powerful alchemist is leaving a trail of dead across the prairie. And Nettie must face the ultimate challenge: side with her friends and the badge on her chest or take off alone on a dangerous mission that is pulling her inexorably toward the fight...
8) Spellhacker
Author
Language
English
Description
Diz and her friends are in the business of stealing magic, or maz, but when their plan for one more heist blows up in their faces, they find themselves trying to unravel a conspiracy at the very center of the spellplague.
9) Everblaze
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophie's talents are getting stronger and, with the elusive Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she is determined to find her kidnappers but a daring mistake pushes her world to the edge of war, and soon she has exposed a a major conspiracy that could threaten all she loves.
10) The runaway king
Author
Series
Ascendance novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young King Jaron has taken the throne of Carthya, but after enemies attempt to assassinate him, and a neighboring kingdom threatens invasion, he finds that he has no friends in the palace, not even his bride-to-be, princess Amarinda--and his regents think it would be better for Carthya if he just disappeared again.
Author
Series
Balloonmakers volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall. But even to the balloon makers Ellie's time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything-- including her only way home--...
12) Seagarden
Author
Series
Plotting the stars volume 2
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Forced to hide her new-found magic, Myra enrolls in an interplanetary academy exchange program to dig up more about the government's many conspiracies"--
Author
Series
Francis Bacon mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In colonial Morocco, a painter navigates a conspiracy of forgery, corruption, and murder.
Author
Series
Munchem Academy volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Mattie Larimore is sent to reform school he uncovers a creepy conspiracy, led by Headmaster Rooney, to fix all the problem children, including Mattie's brother--for good.
Author
Series
Audacity Jones volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1910, Audacity Jones is an eleven-year-old orphan living a monotonous life at Miss Maisie's School for Wayward Girls, and wondering why nothing exciting ever happens--but when the mysterious Commodore Crutchfield whisks her away to Washington D.C., she finds herself involved in a sinister and dangerous plot against the president of the United States.
Author
Series
Pegasus series (Kate O'Hearn) volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Emily is contending with great changes, including diminished powers, but goes to London to rescue Agent B and others from the CRU, where she makes horrible discoveries about the agency's history.
20) Killer thriller
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Hong Kong to research his latest action thriller, Ian Ludlow stumbles on a deadly Chinese intelligence conspiracy to topple the United States, a scenario taken directly from one of his novels.
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