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LIBRARY OF SOULS

One of our recommended books is Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

Time is running out for the peculiar children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They’ll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. . . Will Jacob come into his own as the hero his fellow peculiars know him to be? This action-packed adventure features more than 50 all-new peculiar photographs.

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A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER

In this ‘bewitching supernatural romp,’ (Philadelphia Daily News),

Zelazny created the similar tension between two worlds, the real

and the sinister, as he did in his renown Chronicles of Amber

series. Told from the point of view of Jack the Ripper’s dog Snuff,

each of the 31 chapters in A Night in the Lonesome October is a

diary entry for every night of October. Loyally accompanying a

mysterious knife-wielding gentleman named Jack on his midnight

rounds through the murky streets of London,

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THE SCORPION RULES

Greta is a Duchess and Crown Princess—and a

hostage to peace. This is how the game is played: if

you want to rule, you must give one of your children

as a hostage. And you must keep the peace; start a

war and your hostage dies.

Greta will be free if she can survive until her

eighteenth birthday. Until then she is prepared to

die with dignity, if she must. But everything changes

when a new hostage arrives, a boy who refuses to play by the rules,

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UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN

They exist in two different centuries, but their love

defies time.

Cassandra craves drama and adventure, so the last

thing she wants is to spend her summer marooned

with her mother and stepfather in a snooty

Massachusetts shore town. But when a dreamy

stranger shows up on their private beach claiming

it’s his own—and that the year is 1925—she is

swept into a mystery a hundred years in the making.

As she searches for answers in the present, Cassandra discovers a truth that

puts their growing love—and Lawrence’s life—into jeopardy.

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THE MURDSTONE TRILOGY

“A genuinely funny comedy . . . with a Pratchettian mix of gusto and warmth. . . . An assured, even virtuoso performance.”

The Guardian (U.K.)

Award-winning YA author Philip Murdstone is in trouble. His star has waned. The world is leaving him behind. His agent, the beautiful and ruthless Minerva Cinch, convinces him that his only hope is to write a sword-and-sorcery blockbuster. Unfortunately, Philip—allergic to the faintest trace of Tolkien—is utterly unsuited to the task. In a dark hour, a dwarfish stranger comes to his rescue. But the deal he makes with Pocket Wellfair turns out to have Faustian consequences.

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HOUR OF THE BEES

What does it mean to be fully alive? Magic blends with reality in a stunning coming-of-age novel about a girl, a grandfather, wanderlust, and reclaiming your roots.

Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them. . . 

While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina — Carol — is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she’s never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down,

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