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From highly acclaimed, award-winning author Christopher Meades comes a magical, provocative tale of forbidden love and one girl's struggle for liberation Hanna has never been outside her secluded community of Clearhaven. She has never questioned why her father has four wives or why she has fourteen brothers and sisters. And in only one week, on her eighteenth birthday, Hanna will follow tradition and become the fifth wife of a man more than twice...
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"When Robert Walking Bear's body is found in the Wind River mountains, his death appears to be accidental--except for the fact that he had been hunting for Butch Cassidy's buried loot with a map he had gotten from his grandfather, a map believed to have been drawn by the leader of the Hole in the Wall gang himself. It isn't long before rumors circulate that Robert was murdered by his own cousins to get the map and find the treasure themselves. Despite...
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"Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries"--
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This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I. who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. With her strict African American grandmother as her new guardian, Rachel moves to a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and beauty bring mixed attention her way. Growing up in the 1980s, she learns to swallow her overwhelming grief and to confront her identity as a biracial young...
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"The City's Secrets. Thanks to the Sage's medicine, Mia has recovered, but now she also knows she's in danger of burning out her magic if she doesn't learn how to control it. But where to find a wizard to train her in this mundane world? Mia and Theo follow a legend to Karatope, the city of merchants, where every corner features something new, marvelous, or delicious -- for a price! But what would a wizard be doing here? They hear of a fortune-teller...
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"Mia and Theo's erstwhile new friend Nora was kidnapped by a band of thieves, but with the help of the little lumiferret Tama, the pair managed to find the kidnappers' lair! Unfortunately, the operation ended in disaster when, in a panic, Mia again caused a monstrous cat of darkness to appear. After raging out of control, the beast only disappeared once she lost consciousness. Now, though the worst has been avoided, Mia feels guiltier than ever towards...
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Deep in the forest, Theo has finally found the mysterious Doctor, whose medicine might save Mia's life. In exchange, Theo must find what the Doctor desires most and bring it back to him. Theo agrees without thinking, but how will even figure out this riddle, not to mention find what the Doctor's looking for in this vast, forbidding wood full of fairies and monsters? The clock is ticking and Mia lies in her sickbed, and the unknown enemies who attacked...