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Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Divided by their society into Wanted and Unwanted at thirteen, estranged twin brothers Aaron and Alex have both run into trouble--as mage of Artime, Alex must defend the island from attack, while Aaron continues to scheme to take over the islands and get rid of the Unwanteds altogether.
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Masked Man possesses a powerful magic potion that turns every book it touches into a portal, and he is recruiting an army of literature's greatest villains! So begins a race through the magical Land of Oz, the fantastical world of Neverland, the madness of Wonderland, and beyond. Can twins Alex and Conner catch up to the Masked Man?"--
63) Ballast
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A double prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival and one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2008, Ballast is a stunningly evocative story of personal catastrophe and communal redemption. In the cold winter light of the Mississippi Delta, three lonely people stumble under the weight of a shared tragedy. Lawrence (Micheal J. Smith, Sr. ) is paralyzed with grief after the loss of his twin brother. Twelve-year-old James (Jimmyron Ross) drifts...
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The Poe brothers aren't ordinary boys. They're identical, inside and out. They can read each other's minds. And their fiendish pranks are legendary. But a mysterious organization is after them, and the boys are in more danger than they know. Can their famous ancestor, Edgar Allan Poe, help them from beyond the grave?"--Page [4] of cover.
66) The Fowl twins
Author
Series
Fowl twins volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old twins Myles and Beckett Fowl enjoy adventure and mayhem while helping a troll escape nefarious forces that want his magic.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just fifteen, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Siblings Sam and Ilsa Kehlmann have spent most of their high school years throwing parties for their friends-and now they've prepared their final blowout, just before graduation. The rules are simple: each twin gets to invite three guests, and the other twin doesn't know who's coming until the partiers show up at the door. With Sam and Ilsa, the sibling revelry is always tempered with a large dose of sibling rivalry, and tonight is no exception. One...
Author
Series
Fluffy bunnies volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
At Camp Whatsitooya, twins Joules and Kevin and new friend Nelson face off against large, rabbit-like creatures from the Mallow Galaxy who thrive on sugar, but are not above hypnotizing and eating human campers.
70) Sisters
Series
Criterion collection volume 89
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Two sisters, joined at birth as Siamese twins, are separated in late adolescence. One is lovely, gentle, kind-- the other is quite mad.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A dark, thrilling short-story collection about twisted minds and vengeful hearts, from a true master of suspense. A detective with a nose for jealousy is on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a bereaved father must decide whether vengeance has a place in the new world order after a pandemic brings about the collapse of society; a woman finally overcomes her intimacy issues through a dark encounter with her Peeping Tom neighbor; a...
72) Dragon fire
Author
Series
Unwanteds quests volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leaving Dev to face the Revinir alone, Thisbe leads a group to Artimé to help Fifer, Aaron, and his allies combat the reckless new head mage, Frieda Stubbs.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"It is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who live on a narrowboat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. Ambitious, intelligent Peggy has been told for most of her life that her job is to bind the books, not read them-but as she folds and gathers pages, her mind wanders to the opposite side of Walton Street,...
74) Together forever
Author
Series
You're invited to a creepover volume 8
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sharing a common nightmare about a sinister boy in an abandoned cabin, the girls in Camp Minnehaha's Bunk 9 are astonished when annoyingly well-behaved Samantha meets the boy in the woods and pursues a romance with him, inciting the jealousy of her twin, Ali.
75) The butler
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The moment the plane touched down at Ministro Pistorini Airport in Buenos Aires, Joachim von Hartmann knew in every fiber of his being that he was home. It was almost as if his heart and soul, and even his body, knew it. He had left as a boy of seventeen, twenty-five years before, when he moved to France with his mother, and new French stepfather. Eight years later, he went to England on a lark, which turned into a worthy career for the past seventeen...
77) Sorrowland
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Vern gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong-not with them, but with her own body...A genre-bending work of Gothic fiction that wrestles with the history of American racism"--
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children ... Jacqueline was her mother's perfect daughter--polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it's because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline. Jillian was her father's perfect daughter--adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would...
79) Return to Roar
Author
Series
Land of Roar volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twins Arthur and Rose can't wait to go back to Roar, the fantasy world they get to through their grandad's attic. Roar is a land of dragons, mermaids, unicorns, ninja wizards and where anything they can imagine can be real. But when they return there's no time for exploring, because a message arrives from their scarecrow enemy, Crowky. WHAT'S IN THE BOX? The Box would always contain the things that scared the twins most - and if Crowky gets hold of...
Author
Series
Quest of the Sunfish volume 2
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Continuing their quest to find their father, twins Annalie and Will Wallace team up with their new friends, Essie and Pod, to decode the clues to his location.
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