Laini's bookshelf: all en-US Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:00:17 -0800 60 Laini's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Accidental Demons (Accidental Demons #1)]]> 208548068
For the youngest in a long line of witches, demons used to be no big deal. A spell and a quick prick of the finger, and a witch like Ber could summon a demon to do anything she needed—clean a mess, send a message, you name it.

But that was before Ber was diagnosed with diabetes. Now each time she tests her blood sugar, accidental demons are slipping into the human dimension…and causing absolute chaos.

Good thing Ber and her older sister, Maeve, know that every magical problem has a magical solution. They’ll just conjure a low-order demon to monitor her blood sugar! Bonus: they only have to bend one or two teeny, tiny rules. But before they know it, they’ve stumbled into deeper, more mysterious magic than they ever could have predicted. And soon it’s not just Ber’s magic but her entire coven that’s in danger.]]>
384 Clare Edge 1335006974 Laini 5 4.48 2024 Accidental Demons (Accidental Demons #1)
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I absolutely loved this book and wish I had more kiddos in my life to give it to
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Girl Out of Water 29640839
Complicating matters is Lincoln, a one-armed, charismatic skater who pushes Anise to trade her surfboard for a skateboard. As Anise draws closer to Lincoln and takes on the full burden and joy of her cousins, she loses touch with her friends back home � leading her to one terrifying question: will she turn out just like her mom and spend her life leaving behind the ones she loves?]]>
350 Laura Silverman 1492646865 Laini 0 to-read 3.89 2017 Girl Out of Water
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average rating: 3.89
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The Last Will of Moira Leahy 6332451
A lost shadow. Moira Leahy struggled growing up in her prodigious twin’s shadow; Maeve was always more talented, more daring, more fun. In the autumn of the girls� sixteenth year, a secret love tempted Moira, allowing her to have her own taste of adventure, but it also damaged the intimate, intuitive relationship she’d always shared with her sister. Though Moira’s adolescent struggles came to a tragic end nearly a decade ago, her brief flirtation with independence will haunt her sister for years to come.

A lone woman. When Maeve Leahy lost her twin, she left home and buried her fun-loving spirit to become a workaholic professor of languages at a small college in upstate New York. She lives a solitary life now, controlling what she can and ignoring the rest—the recurring nightmares, hallucinations about a child with red hair, the unquiet sounds in her mind, her reflection in the mirror. It doesn’t help that her mother avoids her, her best friend questions her sanity, and her not-quite boyfriend has left the country. But at least her life is ordered. Exactly how she wants it.

A shared past. Until one night at an auction when Maeve wins a keris, a Javanese dagger that reminds her of her lost youth and happier days playing pirates with Moira in their father’s boat. Days later, a book on weaponry is nailed to her office door, followed by the arrival of anonymous notes, including one that invites her to Rome to learn more about the blade and its legendary properties. Opening her heart and mind to possibility, Maeve accepts the invitation and, with it, also opens a window into her past. Ultimately, she will revisit the tragic November night that shaped her and Moira’s destinies—and learn that nothing can be taken at face value—as one sister emerges whole and the other’s score is finally settled.

The Last Will of Moira Leahy is a mesmerizing and romantic consideration of the bonds of family, the impossibility of forgetting, and the value of forgiveness.]]>
304 Therese Walsh 0307461572 Laini 0 3.77 2007 The Last Will of Moira Leahy
author: Therese Walsh
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average rating: 3.77
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Hunting and Gathering 47780
As she recovers Camille learns more about Philibert; about Franck and his guilt for his beloved but fragile grandmother Paulette, who is all he has left in the world; and about herself. And slowly, this curious quartet of misfits all discover the importance of food, friendship and love.]]>
488 Anna Gavalda 159448144X Laini 0 4.15 2004 Hunting and Gathering
author: Anna Gavalda
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average rating: 4.15
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Translated from the French -- I loved this novel about a group of isolated people who find in each other an odd kind of family. Highly recommended!
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<![CDATA[The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)]]> 2118745
But how do you escape when your pursuers can hear your every thought?]]>
479 Patrick Ness 1406310255 Laini 0 3.95 2008 The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
author: Patrick Ness
name: Laini
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2008
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Hard to know how to rate this book. It is amazing and powerful, but so sad it made me angry and made me not want to recommend it to anyone. If you're up for a punch in the stomach. . . here's your book.
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Liar 6380296

Micah will freely admit that she’s a compulsive liar, but that may be the one honest thing she’ll ever tell you. Over the years she’s duped her classmates, her teachers, and even her parents, and she’s always managed to stay one step ahead of her lies. That is, until her boyfriend dies under brutal circumstances and her dishonesty begins to catch up with her. But is it possible to tell the truth when lying comes as naturally as breathing? Taking readers deep into the psyche of a young woman who will say just about anything to convince them—and herself—that she’s finally come clean, Liar is a bone-chilling thriller that will have readers see-sawing between truths and lies right up to the end. Honestly.

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376 Justine Larbalestier 1599903059 Laini 0
No spoilers, but . . . when I first finished this book, I scratched my head a little and thought I *had* it, but I wasn't totally satisfied, and then I thought about it some more, and then the explosion, and I wanted to reread it at once.

The closest comparison I can think of is Life of Pi, in which the reading of the book is enjoyable but a little unsettlingly *off*, and then at the end something is suggested that casts everything else in a new and totally devastating light. So hold on to your brains when you finish this book.

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3.29 2009 Liar
author: Justine Larbalestier
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I think my head just exploded.

No spoilers, but . . . when I first finished this book, I scratched my head a little and thought I *had* it, but I wasn't totally satisfied, and then I thought about it some more, and then the explosion, and I wanted to reread it at once.

The closest comparison I can think of is Life of Pi, in which the reading of the book is enjoyable but a little unsettlingly *off*, and then at the end something is suggested that casts everything else in a new and totally devastating light. So hold on to your brains when you finish this book.

:-)
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<![CDATA[The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)]]> 843804
Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.

With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and four-color interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.
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230 Sherman Alexie 0316013692 Laini 0 4.17 2007 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)
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average rating: 4.17
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Dingo (Newford, #17) 1425469 Dingo is quintessential Charles de Lint, set close to his beloved, invented city of Newford a mixture of darkness and hope, humor and mystery, and the friendship within love.

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213 Charles de Lint 0142408166 Laini 0 3.75 2008 Dingo (Newford, #17)
author: Charles de Lint
name: Laini
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2008
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The Order of Odd-Fish 2584352

From the Hardcover edition.]]>
416 James Kennedy 0385905246 Laini 0 4.01 2008 The Order of Odd-Fish
author: James Kennedy
name: Laini
average rating: 4.01
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<![CDATA[The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)]]> 1902241
This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for acclaimed author Mary Pearson. Set in a near future America, it takes readers on an unforgettable journey through questions of bio-medical ethics and the nature of humanity. Mary Pearson's vividly drawn characters and masterful writing soar to a new level of sophistication.]]>
266 Mary E. Pearson 0805076689 Laini 0 3.69 2008 The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)
author: Mary E. Pearson
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average rating: 3.69
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Story of a Girl 33906 Story of a Girl reminds us of our human capacity for resilience, epiphany and redemption.]]> 192 Sara Zarr 0316014532 Laini 0 3.66 2007 Story of a Girl
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Thirteen Reasons Why 1217100 You can’t stop the future.
You can’t rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why.

Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.]]>
288 Jay Asher 1595141715 Laini 0 4.00 2007 Thirteen Reasons Why
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The Blood of Flowers 348632
Both a sweeping love story and a luminous portrait of a city, The Blood of Flowers is the mesmerizing historical novel of an ill-fated young woman whose gift as a rug designer transforms her life. Illuminated with glorious detail of Persian rug-making, and brilliantly bringing to life the sights sounds and life of 17th-century Isfahan, The Blood of Flowers has captured readers' imaginations everywhere as a timeless tale of one woman's struggle to live a life of her choosing.]]>
368 Anita Amirrezvani 0316065765 Laini 0 3.97 2007 The Blood of Flowers
author: Anita Amirrezvani
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average rating: 3.97
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The Book Thief 19063 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.

By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.

But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

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592 Markus Zusak Laini 0 4.38 2005 The Book Thief
author: Markus Zusak
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average rating: 4.38
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Anahita's Woven Riddle 290640
Anahita, a nomad, learns that her father has promised her hand in marriage to a man she dislikes. Determined to have a say in her own fate, Anahita convinces her father to let her hold a contest, in which potential suitors must correctly answer the riddle she has woven into her wedding carpet. A diplomat, a schoolteacher, a shepherd, and a prince compete in Anahita’s battle of wits, for the heart of this extraordinary girl.

Meghan Nuttall Sayres explores the art of weaving, the rhythms of nomadic life, and the beauty of the Muslim faith in this fascinating debut novel.]]>
288 Meghan Nuttall Sayres 0810954818 Laini 0 3.81 2006 Anahita's Woven Riddle
author: Meghan Nuttall Sayres
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average rating: 3.81
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An Abundance of Katherines 49750 Katherine X just wanted to be friends
Katherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mail
K-19 broke his heart

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.

On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.

Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.]]>
229 John Green 0525476881 Laini 0 3.54 2006 An Abundance of Katherines
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average rating: 3.54
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The Sugar Queen 2200877
Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter is her favorite season, she’s a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mother’s house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night�. Until she finds her closet harboring Della Lee Baker, a local waitress who is one part nemesis—and two parts fairy godmother. With Della Lee’s tough love, Josey’s narrow existence quickly expands. She even bonds with Chloe Finley, a young woman who is hounded by books that inexplicably appear when she needs them—and who has a close connection to Josey’s longtime crush. Soon Josey is living in a world where the color red has startling powers, and passion can make eggs fry in their cartons. And that’s just for starters.

Brimming with warmth, wit, and a sprinkling of magic, here is a spellbinding tale of friendship, love—and the enchanting possibilities of every new day.]]>
276 Sarah Addison Allen 0553805495 Laini 0 3.99 2008 The Sugar Queen
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average rating: 3.99
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<![CDATA[The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)]]> 448873 Instead of Three Wishes, the first book by Megan Whalen Turner. Her second book more than fulfills that promise.

The king's scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for his king, he needs a skillful thief, and he selects Gen from the king's prison. The magus is interested only in the thief's abilities. What Gen is interested in is anyone's guess. Their journey toward the treasure is both dangerous and difficult, lightened only imperceptibly by the tales they tell of the old gods and goddesses.

Megan Whalen Turner weaves Gen's stories and Gen's story together with style and verve in a novel that is filled with intrigue, adventure, and surprise.]]>
280 Megan Whalen Turner 0060824972 Laini 0 3.86 1996 The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
author: Megan Whalen Turner
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average rating: 3.86
book published: 1996
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Something Rising 15174
As Cassie grows up, she takes on the thankless role of family provider by working odd jobs and hustling pool. All the while she keeps her eye on the ultimate prize: wringing suitable justice from past wrongs and freeing herself from her life's inertia.

In this uplifting story, Haven Kimmel reaches deep into the hamstrung souls of her fictional corner of Indiana to create an astonishing work of pure heartbreak.]]>
288 Haven Kimmel 0743247779 Laini 0 3.62 2003 Something Rising
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average rating: 3.62
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The Sound of Butterflies 104467
On his return, Sophie greets her husband at the railway station, and is appalled by the change in him: he is thin, obviously sick, and apparently so traumatised by what he witnessed while he was away, he has been rendered mute. As Thomas struggles to find the words to describe what he's seen, it's unclear whether or not Sophie—and their marriage—will be able to withstand what he has to tell her, for the story that unfolds, the story behind Thomas's silence, is one of great brutality. Like the butterflies Thomas is so obsessed by, the butterflies that he catches and kills, it's a story of men who have been dazzled by surface splendour and wealth, and consequently refuse to acknowledge its underlying cruelty. But when that cruelty ends in murder, the question for Thomas—and Sophie—is whether or not he should be the one to speak out.

Written in rich, sensuous prose, and taking the reader from the demure gentility of Edwardian England to the decadence of Brazil's rubber boom, The Sound of Butterflies is a compelling and noteworthy debut.]]>
352 Rachael King 0330449168 Laini 0 3.40 2007 The Sound of Butterflies
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average rating: 3.40
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The Carpet Makers 171125
This art descends from father to son, since the beginning of time itself.

But one day the empire of the God Emperor vanishes, and strangers begin to arrive from the stars to follow the trace of the hair carpets. What these strangers discover is beyond all belief, more than anything they could have ever imagined...

Brought to the attention of Tor Books by Orson Scott Card, this edition of The Carpet Makers contains a special introduction by Orson Scott Card.]]>
297 Andreas Eschbach 0765314908 Laini 0 4.20 1995 The Carpet Makers
author: Andreas Eschbach
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average rating: 4.20
book published: 1995
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<![CDATA[The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)]]> 127455 Ocean's Eleven, and entirely enthralling...

An orphan's life is harsh � and often short � in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged both death and slavery, only to fall into the hands of an eyeless priest known as Chains � a man who is neither blind nor a priest.

A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains passes his skills on to his carefully selected "family" of orphans � a group known as the Gentlemen Bastards. Under his tutelage, Locke grows to lead the Bastards, delightedly pulling off one outrageous confidence game after another. Soon he is infamous as the Thorn of Camorr, and no wealthy noble is safe from his sting.

Passing themselves off as petty thieves, the brilliant Locke and his tightly knit band of light-fingered brothers have fooled even the criminal underworld's most feared ruler, Capa Barsavi. But there is someone in the shadows more powerful � and more ambitious � than Locke has yet imagined.

Known as the Gray King, he is slowly killing Capa Barsavi's most trusted men � and using Locke as a pawn in his plot to take control of Camorr's underworld. With a bloody coup under way threatening to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the Gray King at his own brutal game � or die trying...

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499 Scott Lynch 0553804677 Laini 0 4.28 2006 The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
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<![CDATA[This Is The Way The World Ends]]> 40295 319 James K. Morrow 0156002086 Laini 0 3.75 1986 This Is The Way The World Ends
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average rating: 3.75
book published: 1986
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Thirteen 40448
Marsalis is one of a new breed. Literally. Genetically engineered by the U.S. government to embody the naked aggression and primal survival skills that centuries of civilization have erased from humankind, Thirteens were intended to be the ultimate military fighting force. The project was scuttled, however, when a fearful public branded the supersoldiers dangerous mutants, dooming the Thirteens to forced exile on Earth’s distant, desolate Mars colony. But Marsalis found a way to slip back–and into a lucrative living as a bounty hunter and hit man before a police sting landed him in prison–a fate worse than Mars, and much more dangerous.

Luckily, his “enhanced� life also seems to be a charmed one. A new chance at freedom beckons, courtesy of the government. All Marsalis has to do is use his superior skills to bring in another fugitive. But this one is no common criminal. He’s another Thirteen–one who’s already shanghaied a space shuttle, butchered its crew, and left a trail of bodies in his wake on a bloody cross-country spree. And like his pursuer, he was bred to fight to the death. Still, there’s no question Marsalis will take the job. Though it will draw him deep into violence, treachery, corruption, and painful confrontation with himself, anything is better than remaining a prisoner. The real question is: can he remain sane–and alive–long enough to succeed?

2007 1st Ed Del Rey 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1]]>
544 Richard K. Morgan 0345485254 Laini 0 3.90 2007 Thirteen
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Feed 169756 Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains.

For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon—a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world—and a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.]]>
308 M.T. Anderson 0763622591 Laini 0 3.55 2002 Feed
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average rating: 3.55
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<![CDATA[The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)]]> 13376
At his coming-of-age party, Matteo Alacrán asks El Patrón's bodyguard, "How old am I?...I know I don't have a birthday like humans, but I was born."

"You were harvested," Tam Lin reminds him. "You were grown in that poor cow for nine months and then you were cut out of her."

To most people around him, Matt is not a boy, but a beast. A room full of chicken litter with roaches for friends and old chicken bones for toys is considered good enough for him. But for El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium—a strip of poppy fields lying between the U.S. and what was once called Mexico—Matt is a guarantee of eternal life. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself for Matt is himself. They share identical DNA.]]>
380 Nancy Farmer 0689852231 Laini 0 4.08 2002 The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
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<![CDATA[Dragon's Keep (Wilde Island Chronicles, #1)]]> 626096
But Rosalind’s flaw cannot be separated from her fate. When she is carried off by the dragon, everything she thought she knew falls apart. The dragon sees beauty in her talon where her mother saw only shame, and Rosalind finally understands what her mother has truly denied her.

Carey has written a stunning portrayal of the complex relationship between a mother and daughter in a lyrical novel sure to thrill readers who love fantasy―and those who don’t.]]>
320 Janet Lee Carey 0152059261 Laini 0 3.65 2007 Dragon's Keep (Wilde Island Chronicles, #1)
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average rating: 3.65
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I Am the Messenger 19057 protect the diamonds
survive the clubs
dig deep through the spades
feel the hearts

Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.

That's when the first ace arrives in the mail.

That's when Ed becomes the messenger.

Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?]]>
357 Markus Zusak Laini 0 4.03 2002 I Am the Messenger
author: Markus Zusak
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average rating: 4.03
book published: 2002
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<![CDATA[Flora Segunda (Flora Trilogy #1)]]> 229033 431 Ysabeau S. Wilce 0152054332 Laini 0 3.68 2007 Flora Segunda (Flora Trilogy #1)
author: Ysabeau S. Wilce
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average rating: 3.68
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The Thief Lord 113304
Befriended by a gang of street children and their mysterious leader, the Thief Lord, they shelter in an old, disused cinema. On their trail is a bungling detective, obsessed with disguises and the health of his pet tortoises. But a greater threat to the boys' new-found freedom is something from a forgotten past � a beautiful magical treasure with the power to spin time itself.]]>
350 Cornelia Funke 1903434777 Laini 0 3.99 2000 The Thief Lord
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average rating: 3.99
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A Company of Swans 963274 374 Eva Ibbotson 0142409405 Laini 0 3.99 1985 A Company of Swans
author: Eva Ibbotson
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average rating: 3.99
book published: 1985
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<![CDATA[The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)]]> 119322
Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want--but what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.]]>
399 Philip Pullman 0679879242 Laini 0 4.02 1995 The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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average rating: 4.02
book published: 1995
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<![CDATA[The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)]]> 119324
Each is searching—Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father—but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, and their destinies are bound together... until they are split apart.]]>
326 Philip Pullman 0679879250 Laini 0 4.12 1997 The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1) 334176 419 Mary Doria Russell 0449912558 Laini 0 4.13 1996 The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
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average rating: 4.13
book published: 1996
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Journey to the River Sea 294442 304 Eva Ibbotson 0142501840 Laini 0 4.20 2001 Journey to the River Sea
author: Eva Ibbotson
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The Historian 10692
Late one night in 1972, as a 16-year-old girl, she discovers a mysterious book and a sheaf of letters in her father's library—a discovery that will have dreadful and far-reaching consequences, and will send her on a journey of mind-boggling danger. While seeking clues to the secrets of her father's past and her mother's puzzling disappearance, she follows a trail from London to Istanbul to Budapest and beyond, and learns that the letters in her possession provide a link to one of the world's darkest and most intoxicating figures. Generation after generation, the legend of Dracula has enticed and eluded both historians and opportunists alike. Now a young girl undertakes the same search that ended in the death and defilement of so many others—in an attempt to save her father from an unspeakable fate.
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704 Elizabeth Kostova 0751537284 Laini 0 3.78 2005 The Historian
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<![CDATA[Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)]]> 8490112
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low.

And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war.

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.

When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?]]>
418 Laini Taylor 0316134023 Laini 5 3.98 2011 Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
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<![CDATA[The Explosionist (Sophie Hunter, Book 1)]]> 2157324 464 Jenny Davidson 0061239755 Laini 0 3.50 2008 The Explosionist (Sophie Hunter, Book 1)
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Zombie Blondes 2470680 A lot of houses were for sale, and the town seemed infected by an unearthly quiet. And then, on Hannah’s first day of classes, she ran into a group of cheerleaders—the most popular girls in school.
The odd thing was that they were nearly identical in blonde, beautiful, and deathly pale.
But Hannah wants desperately to fit in—regardless of what her friend Lukas is telling if she doesn’t watch her back, she’s going to be blonde and popular and dead—just like all the other zombies in this town. . . .]]>
232 Brian James 0312372981 Laini 0 3.07 2008 Zombie Blondes
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average rating: 3.07
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<![CDATA[Zoe's Tale (Old Man's War, #4)]]> 2102600
I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.

Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did � how I did what I had to do � not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes.

It's a story you know. But you don't know it all.]]>
335 John Scalzi 0765316986 Laini 0 3.73 2008 Zoe's Tale (Old Man's War, #4)
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The Gypsy Crown 2075601 The Cat's Eye Shell (The Chain of Charms #4)

Emilia Finch and her cousin Luka are gypsies. For them, that means they live a strongly traditional life, rich with story, music, dance, and magic, governed by the laws of the clan and the ways of the road. To the repressive Puritanical government of 17th century England, however, the gypsies are thieving, fortune-telling vagrants who are most likely allies of the devil.

While the Finches have managed to steer clear of trouble, it finds them when they decide to raise dowry money for one of their daughters, by performing in Kingston square one ill-fated market day. A series of terrible events lands the family in jail, charged with murder. Only Emilia and Luka manage to escape, promising to bring back help and free them.

The only problem is -- how? Emilia believes in the legend of the charms: it is said that the luck of the Rom has turned sour ever since a long-ago gypsy matriarch broke her chain of charms, giving one charm to each of her five children. Since then, the gypsies have been persecuted and the families have dispersed. If they can gather the charms from the families, Emilia thinks, the strong magic of the Rom will somehow bring her family freedom. Luka, on the other hand, is more practical � he wants to enlist the help of the other clans to help the Finches escape.

Emilia and Luka must race through the countryside, navigating a hornets' nest of Rom-hating Puritans, Royalist spies, and traitors, if they are to complete their quest before the magistrate delivers a death sentence�

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400 Kate Forsyth 1423104943 Laini 0 3.81 2007 The Gypsy Crown
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How to Ditch Your Fairy 2927126
Enter: The Plan. At first, teaming up with her archenemy, Fiorenze (who has an all-the-boys-like-you fairy), seems like a great idea. But when Charlie unexpectedly gets her heart’s desire, it isn’t at all how she thought it would be, and she’ll have resort to extraordinary measures to set things right.

From the author of the award-winning Magic or Madness trilogy, How to Ditch Your Fairy is a delightful story of friendship, fairies, and figuring out how to make your own magic.]]>
304 Justine Larbalestier 1599903016 Laini 0 3.35 2008 How to Ditch Your Fairy
author: Justine Larbalestier
name: Laini
average rating: 3.35
book published: 2008
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<![CDATA[Blackbringer (Faeries of Dreamdark, #1)]]> 596963 437 Laini Taylor 0399246304 Laini 5 4.07 2007 Blackbringer (Faeries of Dreamdark, #1)
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average rating: 4.07
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Dream Girl 2464878 But that all changes on Claire’s 15th birthday, when her grandmother, Kiki—former socialite, fashion icon, and permanent fixture at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel—gives her something a little more extraordinary than one of her old cocktail a strange black-and-white onyx cameo on a gold chain. It’s not long before Claire’s world becomes a whole lot clearer. And a whole lot more dangerous.]]> 320 Lauren Mechling 0385735219 Laini 0 3.50 2008 Dream Girl
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<![CDATA[Ottoline and the Yellow Cat (Ottoline, #1)]]> 607513
Ottoline lives in a stylish apartment in Big City with a small hairy creature called Mr Munroe. Together they look after the Brown family's eclectic collections - and dabble in a spot of detective work. So they are the first to the scene of the crime when a string of high society dog-nappings and jewel thefts hits Big City. Ottoline (who luckily has a diploma from the Who-R-U Academy of Disguise) and Mr Munroe go undercover - and expose an ingenious scam masterminded by furry feline crook, the Yellow Cat.]]>
176 Chris Riddell 1405050578 Laini 0 4.12 2007 Ottoline and the Yellow Cat (Ottoline, #1)
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The Humming of Numbers 2317838
Aidan is poised to take his monastic vows—until a girl enters the abbey, one who hums of the number eleven. Aidan has the ability to hear the humming of numbers, a buzzing energy given off by living things. He is captivated and tormented by the mysterious girl, Lana, who has some unusual abilities of her own. How can he become a monk when his mind is filled with impure thoughts?
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Before he can begin to sort his feelings out, the Vikings raid. Only Aidan and Lana can save the village from certain, violent death—and only if they learn to trust in their mysterious talents.
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Joni Sensel’s richly imagined new novel is a compelling blend of fantasy and adventure.
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The Humming of Numbers is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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243 Joni Sensel 0805083278 Laini 0 3.38 2008 The Humming of Numbers
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<![CDATA[The Cabinet of Wonders (The Kronos Chronicles, #1)]]> 2850734 Marie Rutkoski's startling debut novel, the first book in the Kronos Chronicles, about the risks we take to protect those we love, brims with magic, political intrigue, and heroism.

Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it's never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled hair and give her advice. Her best friend can trap lightning inside a glass sphere. Petra also has a father in faraway Prague who is able to move metal with his mind. He has been commissioned by the prince of Bohemia to build the world's finest astronomical clock.

Petra's life is forever changed when, one day, her father returns home � blind. The prince has stolen his eyes, enchanted them, and now wears them. But why? Petra doesn't know, but she knows this: she will go to Prague, sneak into Salamander Castle, and steal her father's eyes back.

Joining forces with Neel, whose fingers extend into invisible ghosts that pick locks and pockets, Petra finds that many people in the castle are not what they seem, and that her father's clock has powers capable of destroying their world.]]>
258 Marie Rutkoski 0374310262 Laini 0 3.94 2008 The Cabinet of Wonders (The Kronos Chronicles, #1)
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Wake (Wake, #1) 1661957
She can't tell anybody about what she does they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control.

Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant.]]>
210 Lisa McMann 1416953574 Laini 0 3.77 2008 Wake (Wake, #1)
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<![CDATA[Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)]]> 13929
But their peace is shattered when Father falls ill and must go to the southern parts to recover, for that is when cousin Cezar arrives. Though he's there to help the girls survive the brutal winter, Jena suspects he has darker motives in store. Meanwhile, Jena's sister has fallen in love with a dangerous creature of the Other Kingdom--an impossible union it's up to Jena to stop.

When Cezar's grip of power begins to tighten, at stake is everything Jena loves: her home, her family, and the Other Kingdom she has come to cherish. To save her world, Jena will be tested in ways she can't imagine--tests of trust, strength, and true love.]]>
407 Juliet Marillier 0375833641 Laini 0 4.10 2006 Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1)
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average rating: 4.10
book published: 2006
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<![CDATA[Cybele's Secret (Wildwood, #2)]]> 963508
But no sooner have they arrived when it becomes clear they may be playing at a dangerous game. A colleague and friend of Paula’s father is found murdered. There are rumors of Cybele’s cult reviving within the very walls of Istanbul. And most telling of all, signs have begun to appear to Paula, urging her to unlock Cybele’s secret.

Meanwhile, Paula doesn’t know who she can trust in Istanbul, and finds herself drawn to two very different men. As time begins to run out, Paula realizes they may all be tied up in the destiny of Cybele’s Gift, and she must solve the puzzle before unknown but deadly enemies catch up to her. . . .]]>
432 Juliet Marillier 037583365X Laini 0 4.09 2007 Cybele's Secret (Wildwood, #2)
author: Juliet Marillier
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average rating: 4.09
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Wild Magic 2395279 256 Cat Weatherill 0141321148 Laini 0 3.79 2007 Wild Magic
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Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow 1210754 isbjorn (polar bear) seeks her out, and promises that her family will become rich if only the Lass will accompany him to his castle, she doesn't hesitate. But the bear is not what he seems, nor is his castle, which is made of ice and inhabited by a silent staff of servants. Only a grueling journey on the backs of the four winds will reveal the truth: the bear is really a prince who's been enchanted by a troll queen, and the Lass must come up with a way to free him before he's forced to marry a troll princess.]]> 336 Jessica Day George 1599901099 Laini 0 3.99 2008 Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
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The Ghosts of Kerfol 3248557
In her classic ghost story "Kerfol," Edith Wharton tells the tale of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her husband, the jealous Yves de Cornault. The elderly lord was found dead on the stairs, apparently savaged by a pack of dogs, though there were no dogs � no live dogs � at Kerfol that day. In this remarkable collection of intertwining short stories, Deborah Noyes takes us back to the haunted manor and tells us Anne de Barrigan's story through the sympathetic eyes of her servant girl. Four more tales slip forward in time, peering in on a young artist, a hard-drinking party girl, a young American couple, and a deaf gardener who now tends the Kerfol estate. All these souls are haunted by the ghosts of Kerfol � the dead dogs, the sensual yet uneasy relationships, and the bitter taste of revenge.]]>
163 Deborah Noyes 0763630004 Laini 0 3.32 2008 The Ghosts of Kerfol
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average rating: 3.32
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The City in the Lake 3328803
Ever since the Prince disappeared, nothing has been right in the Kingdom. Something has disturbed the strange, old magic that whispers around its borders . . . something cunning and powerful. And the disturbance extends to the farthest reaches of the Kingdom, including the idyllic village where Timou is learning to be a mage under her father’s tutelage.

When Timou’s father journeys to the City to help look for the Prince, but never returns, Timou senses that the disturbance in the Kingdom is linked to her—and to the undiscovered heritage of the mother she never knew. She must leave her village, even if it means confronting powers greater than her own, even though what she finds may challenge everything she knows. Even if it means leaving love behind.
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304 Rachel Neumeier 0375847049 Laini 0 3.71 2008 The City in the Lake
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<![CDATA[The Crimson Thread: A Retelling of Rumpelstiltskin]]> 1932042
The year is 1880, and Bertie, having just arrived in New York with her family, is grateful to be given work as a seamstress in the home of textile tycoon J. P. Wellington. When the Wellington family fortune is threatened, Bertie's father boasts that Bertie will save the business, that she is so skillful she can "practically spin straw into gold."

Amazingly, in the course of one night, Bertie creates exquisite evening gowns--with the help of Ray Stalls, a man from her tenement who uses an old spinning wheel to create dresses that are woven with crimson thread and look as though they are spun with real gold. Indebted to Ray, Bertie asks how she can repay him. When Ray asks for her firstborn child, Bertie agrees, never dreaming that he is serious...]]>
207 Suzanne Weyn 1416959432 Laini 0 3.78 2008 The Crimson Thread: A Retelling of Rumpelstiltskin
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Ever 2204464
Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine has created a stunning new world of flawed gods, unbreakable vows, and ancient omens in this spellbinding story of Kezi, a girl confronted with a terrible destiny. Attempting to thwart her fate, Kezi and her love, Olus—the god of wind and loneliness—embark on a series of dangerous and seemingly impossible quests.]]>
244 Gail Carson Levine 0061229628 Laini 0 3.48 2008 Ever
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average rating: 3.48
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<![CDATA[The Red Necklace (French Revolution, #1)]]> 1948904 And what paths those will be! While Revolution is afoot in France, Sido is being used as the pawn of a fearful villain who goes by the name Count Kalliovski. Some have instead called him the devil, and only Yann, for Sido's sake, will dare to oppose him.]]> 371 Sally Gardner 184255574X Laini 0 3.81 2007 The Red Necklace (French Revolution, #1)
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average rating: 3.81
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<![CDATA[The Remarkable & Very True Story of Lucy & Snowcap]]> 3456058 288 H.M. Bouwman 0761454411 Laini 0 3.60 2008 The Remarkable & Very True Story of Lucy & Snowcap
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average rating: 3.60
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<![CDATA[The Summoning (Darkest Powers, #1)]]> 2800905 Chloe Saunders used to have a relatively normal life.

But now she finds herself in the middle of some really strange situations because:
~She suddenly starts seeing dead people.
~She gets locked up in a group home for unstable teens.
~The group home isn't what it seems.

My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again.

All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost—and the ghost saw me.

Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special home" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems. Don't tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It's up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House... before its skeletons come back to haunt me.
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390 Kelley Armstrong 0061662690 Laini 0 4.03 2008 The Summoning (Darkest Powers, #1)
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average rating: 4.03
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<![CDATA[Wild Talent: A Novel of the Supernatural]]> 4855183
Wild Talent is the strange tale of Jeannie Guthrie, a sixteen-year-old Scottish farm worker who possesses a frightening talent. Believing that she has unintentionally killed her ne'er-do-well cousin, her fear of being sentenced as a witch propels her to flee her home to London. There, Guthrie is befriended by the free-spirited and adventurous Alexandra David, and introduced to Madame Helena Blavatsky's famous salon where she begins to understand the source of her strange powers.]]>
224 Eileen Kernaghan 1897235402 Laini 0 3.81 2008 Wild Talent: A Novel of the Supernatural
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The Seer of Shadows 1223606
The time is 1872. The place is New York City. Horace Carpetine has been raised to believe in science and rationality. So as apprentice to Enoch Middleditch, a society photographer, he thinks of his trade as a scientific art. But when wealthy society matron Mrs. Frederick Von Macht orders a photographic portrait, strange things begin to happen.

Horace's first real photographs reveal a frightful likeness: it's the image of the Von Machts' dead daughter, Eleanora.

Pegg, the Von Machts' black servant girl, then leads him to the truth about who Eleanora really was and how she actually died. Joined in friendship, Pegg and Horace soon realize that his photographs are evoking both Eleanora's image and her ghost. Eleanora returns, a vengeful wraith intent on punishing those who abused her.

Rich in detail, full of the magic of early photography, here is a story about the shadows, visible and invisible, that are always lurking near.]]>
208 Avi 0060000155 Laini 0 3.71 2008 The Seer of Shadows
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Evernight (Evernight, #1) 2722413 Bianca wants to escape.

She's been uprooted from her small hometown and enrolled at Evernight Academy, an eerie Gothic boarding school where the students are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn't fit in.

Then she meets Lucas. He's not the "Evernight type" either, and he likes it that way. Lucas ignores the rules, stands up to the snobs, and warns Bianca to be careful—even when it comes to caring about him.

"I couldn't stand it if they took it out on you," he tells Bianca, "and eventually they would."

But the connection between Bianca and Lucas can't be denied. Bianca will risk anything to be with Lucas, but dark secrets are fated to tear them apart . . . and to make Bianca question everything she's ever believed.]]>
327 Claudia Gray 0061284394 Laini 0 3.66 2008 Evernight (Evernight, #1)
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average rating: 3.66
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<![CDATA[Betrayal on Orbis 2 (The Softwire #2)]]> 2112237 Sci-fi fans will tear through this new adventure as Johnny Turnbull � first human softwire � finds more danger and intrigue on the next ring of Orbis.

On Orbis 2, Johnny Turnbull has a new home and a new job, one that pushes his softwire abilities to painful limits. JT is the only one who can communicate with the Samirans, large aquatic aliens who have cooled the crystals on Orbis for nearly two thousand rotations. But as the Samirans� work rule ostensibly comes to a close, they have grown dangerously agitated, and JT must find out why. What he learns is that the prosperity of Orbis is built on a brutal system of enforced labor � and that everyone seems to have something to hide. Can JT appease the Samirans before their threat is realized? And if he doesn’t, will his friends survive? In this second episode of THE SOFTWIRE, PJ Haarsma takes readers on another lightning-paced, cyber-fueled ride through the amazing universe he introduced in THE SOFTWIRE: VIRUS ON ORBIS 1.]]>
272 P.J. Haarsma 0763627100 Laini 0 4.03 2008 Betrayal on Orbis 2 (The Softwire #2)
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average rating: 4.03
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<![CDATA[Escape the Mask (The Grassland Trilogy, #1)]]> 2705629
Welcome to Grassland, where the only hope of freedom is to go beyond the reach of sinister, silent masters, and the only family you know are your fellow captives. Coriko has never known a world beyond his cell and the fields where he toils all day. He does what he’s told and tries not to anger the Spears, the cruel, masked jailers who guard him and the other child slaves. If he gathers baskets of shards and keeps quiet and orderly, then he can spend time with his cellmate and best friend, Pippa.

But without warning, the children’s orderly lives begin to change—slowly at first, with the arrival of a pair of siblings who speak Coriko and Pippa’s language. Soon after, violent events shake up the quiet world of Grassland, and Coriko must find the strength to grasp his freedom. Full of heartstopping action, Escape the Mask introduces Coriko, Pippa, and their friends—and begins the journey of The Grassland Trilogy .

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224 David Ward 0810994771 Laini 0 3.62 2001 Escape the Mask (The Grassland Trilogy, #1)
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average rating: 3.62
book published: 2001
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Pretty Monsters: Stories 2939570 Spiderwick Chronicles fame. Now teens can have their world rocked, too!]]> 389 Kelly Link 0670010901 Laini 0 3.92 2008 Pretty Monsters: Stories
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average rating: 3.92
book published: 2008
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The Swan Kingdom 2124206
Alexandra has more gifts than even she realizes as she is confronted with magic, murder, and the strongest of evil forces. She is unflinchly brave and clever as she struggles to reclaim what she knows is rightfully hers.

This new voice in fantasy weaves a tale rich in visual detail, peppered with a formidable destructive force, and sweetened with familial and romantic love.]]>
258 Zoë Marriott 0763634816 Laini 0 3.78 2007 The Swan Kingdom
author: Zoë Marriott
name: Laini
average rating: 3.78
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<![CDATA[Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo, #2)]]> 1871863 Orphan Rossamund Bookchild has been sworn into the Emperor's service his duty is to light the lamps along the Emperor's highways and protect travelers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. But he's found it no easier to fit in with the lamplighters than he did with the foundlings always too small and too meek and his loneliness continues no matter how hard he tries to succeed.

But when a haughty young girl, a member of a suspiciously regarded society of all-women teratologists monster hunters is forced upon the lamplighters for training, Rossamund is no longer the most despised soul around. As Rossamund begins to make new friends in the dangerous world of the Half-Continent, he also seems to make more enemies, finding himself pushed toward a destiny that he could never have imagined.

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702 D.M. Cornish 0399246398 Laini 0 4.23 2007 Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo, #2)
author: D.M. Cornish
name: Laini
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2007
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The Unnameables 3422254 336 Ellen Booraem 0152063684 Laini 0 3.38 2008 The Unnameables
author: Ellen Booraem
name: Laini
average rating: 3.38
book published: 2008
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Masterpiece 2884758 Ěý
In Shakespeare’s Secret Elise Broach showed her keen ability to weave storytelling with history and suspense, and Masterpiece is yet another example of her talent. This time around it’s an irresistible miniature world, fascinating art history, all wrapped up in a special friendship� something for everyone to enjoy.
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292 Elise Broach 0805082700 Laini 0 3.92 2008 Masterpiece
author: Elise Broach
name: Laini
average rating: 3.92
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<![CDATA[The Girl Who Could Fly (Piper McCloud, #1)]]> 2090640
Piper McCloud can fly. Just like that. Easy as pie.
Sure, she hasn’t mastered reverse propulsion and her loops are kind of sloppy, but she’s real good at loop-the-loops.
Problem is, the good folk of Lowland County are afraid of Piper. And her ma is at her wit’s end. So it seems only fitting that she leave her parents� farm to attend a top-secret, maximum-security school for kids with exceptional abilities.
School is great at first with a bunch of new friends whose skills range from super-strength to super-genius. (Plus all the homemade apple pie she can eat!) But Piper is special, even among the special. And there are consequences.
Consequences too dire to talk about. Too crazy to consider. And too dangerous to ignore.
At turns exhilarating and terrifying, Victoria Forester’s debut novel is an unforgettable story of defiance and courage about an irrepressible heroine who can, who will, who must...fly.]]>
328 Victoria Forester 0312374623 Laini 0 4.10 2008 The Girl Who Could Fly (Piper McCloud, #1)
author: Victoria Forester
name: Laini
average rating: 4.10
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Impossible (Impossible, #1) 3188580
A beautifully wrought modern fairy tale from master storyteller and award-winning author Nancy Werlin. Inspired by the classic folk ballad "Scarborough Fair," this is a wonderfully riveting and haunting novel of suspense, romance, and fantasy.]]>
384 Nancy Werlin 0803730020 Laini 0 3.66 2008 Impossible (Impossible, #1)
author: Nancy Werlin
name: Laini
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Robe of Skulls (Tales from the Five Kingdoms, #1)]]> 2451090 200 Vivian French 0744583616 Laini 0 3.77 2007 The Robe of Skulls (Tales from the Five Kingdoms, #1)
author: Vivian French
name: Laini
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)]]> 954674
But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days.

When the DHS finally releases them, his injured best friend Darryl does not come out. The city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: "M1k3y" will take down the DHS himself.]]>
382 Cory Doctorow 0765319853 Laini 0 3.93 2008 Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
author: Cory Doctorow
name: Laini
average rating: 3.93
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<![CDATA[The Devouring (The Devouring, #1)]]> 3374819 The Vours: Evil, demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hours of the winter solstice.

When Reggie reads about the Vours in a mysterious old journal, she assumes they are just the musings of an anonymous lunatic. But when her little brother, Henry, begins to act strangely, it's clear that these creatures exist beyond a madwoman's imagination, and Reggie finds out what happens when fears come to life.

To save the people she loves, Reggie must learn to survive in a world of nightmares. Can she devour her own fears before they devour her?

The Devouring is an engrossing tale of terror that will have you wondering: what if your worst fears became your living nightmare?]]>
231 Simon Holt 0316035734 Laini 0 3.94 2008 The Devouring (The Devouring, #1)
author: Simon Holt
name: Laini
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2008
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Airman 2049993
There is only one way to escape Little Saltee, and that is to fly. So Conor passes the solitary months by scratching drawings of flying machines on the prison walls. The months turn into years; but eventually the day comes when Conor must find the courage to trust his revolutionary designs and take to the air.
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424 Eoin Colfer 0141383356 Laini 0 4.15 2007 Airman
author: Eoin Colfer
name: Laini
average rating: 4.15
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Nation 2855034 Daphne, sole survivor of the wreck of the Sweet Judy, almost immediately regrets trying to shoot the native boy. Thank goodness the powder was wet and the gun only produced a spark. She’s certain her father, distant cousin of the Royal family, will come and rescue her but it seems, for now, that all she has for company is the boy and the foul-mouthed ship’s parrot, until other survivors arrive to take refuge on the island. Together, Mau and Daphne discover some remarkable things (including how to milk a pig, and why spitting in beer is a good thing), and start to forge a new nation.

Encompassing themes of death and nationhood, Terry Pratchett’s new novel is, as can be expected, extremely funny, witty and wise. Mau’s ancestors have something to teach us all. Mau just wishes they would shut up about it and let him get on with saving everyone’s lives!]]>
367 Terry Pratchett 0061433012 Laini 0 4.08 2008 Nation
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Laini
average rating: 4.08
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<![CDATA[Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception (Books of Faerie, #1)]]> 3112850
Lament is a dark faerie fantasy that features authentic Celtic faerie lore, plus cover art and interior illustrations by acclaimed faerie artist Julia Jeffrey.]]>
325 Maggie Stiefvater 0738713708 Laini 0 3.69 2008 Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception (Books of Faerie, #1)
author: Maggie Stiefvater
name: Laini
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2008
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The Graveyard Book 2213661
There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.

But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.

A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean.]]>
312 Neil Gaiman 0060530928 Laini 0 4.15 2008 The Graveyard Book
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Laini
average rating: 4.15
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<![CDATA[The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)]]> 40159
Then he drags a naive young guard into the center of the political maelstrom. Poor Costis knows he is the victim of the king's caprice, but his contempt for Eugenides slowly turns to grudging respect. Though struggling against his fate, the newly crowned king is much more than he appears. Soon the corrupt Attolian court will learn that its subtle and dangerous intrigue is no match for Eugenides.]]>
387 Megan Whalen Turner 006083577X Laini 0 4.38 2006 The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)
author: Megan Whalen Turner
name: Laini
average rating: 4.38
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North of Beautiful 3238153
It's hard not to notice Terra Cooper.

She's tall, blond, and has an enviable body. But with one turn of her cheek, all people notice is her unmistakably "flawed" face. Terra secretly plans to leave her stifling small town in the Northwest and escape to an East Coast college, but gets pushed off-course by her controlling father. When an unexpected collision puts Terra directly in Jacob's path, the handsome but quirky Goth boy immediately challenges her assumptions about herself and her life, and she is forced in yet another direction. With her carefully laid plans disrupted, will Terra be able to find her true path?

Written in lively, artful prose, award-winning author Justina Chen Headley has woven together a powerful novel about a fractured family, falling in love, travel, and the meaning of true beauty.]]>
373 Justina Chen 0316025054 Laini 0 3.92 2009 North of Beautiful
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average rating: 3.92
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Fire (Graceling Realm, #2) 6001758 334 Kristin Cashore 0575085118 Laini 0 4.08 2009 Fire (Graceling Realm, #2)
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average rating: 4.08
book published: 2009
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<![CDATA[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)]]> 2429135
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.]]>
480 Stieg Larsson 0670069019 Laini 0 4.17 2005 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)
author: Stieg Larsson
name: Laini
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2005
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<![CDATA[The Sweetheart of Prosper County]]> 6400654 Almost-15-year-old Austin Gray is tired of standing at the curb and watching the parade pass her by. Literally. She decides this is the year she’ll ride on the hood of a shiny pickup truck in the annual parade, waving to the crowd and finally showing the town bully that she’s got what it takes to be the Sweetheart of Prosper County.

ĚýBut far from simply being a beauty contest, becoming Sweetheart involves participation in the Future Farmers of America (FFA), raising an animal, and hunting or fishing. Austin will do almost anything to become Sweetheart, and has the support of her oldest friend, Maribel, her new FFA friends (including the reigning Sweetheart, and a quiet, cute cowboy), an evangelical Elvis impersonator, a mysterious Cajun outcast, and a rooster named Charles Dickens. If only her momma would stop overprotecting her, and start letting Austin live her own life. But Austin can’t move on until Momma moves on, too—and lets the grief of losing Austin’s daddy several years before out into the open.

ĚýHere is a bighearted story that will leave readers agreeing with Austin that sometimes, it’s not what you ride, it’s how you roll.

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212 Jill S. Alexander 0312548567 Laini 0 3.65 2009 The Sweetheart of Prosper County
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average rating: 3.65
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<![CDATA[The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)]]> 40158 Revenge

When Eugenides, the Thief of Eddis, stole Hamiathes's Gift, the Queen of Attolia lost more than a mythical relic. She lost face. Everyone knew that Eugenides had outwitted and escaped her. To restore her reputation and reassert her power, the Queen of Attolia will go to any length and accept any help that is offered... she will risk her country to execute the perfect revenge.

...but

Eugenides can steal anything. And he taunts the Queen of Attolia, moving through her strongholds seemingly at will. So Attolia waits, secure in the knowledge that the Thief will slip, that he will haunt her palace one too many times.

…at what price?

When Eugenides finds his small mountain country at war with Attolia, he must steal a man, he must steal a queen, he must steal peace. But his greatest triumph—and his greatest loss—comes in capturing something that the Queen of Attolia thought she had sacrificed long ago...

Books for the Teen Age 2001 (NYPL) and Bulletin Blue Ribbon Best of 2000 Award.]]>
362 Megan Whalen Turner 0060841826 Laini 0 4.17 2000 The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)
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average rating: 4.17
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<![CDATA[The Sultan's Seal (Kamil Pasha, #1)]]> 540454 366 Jenny White 0393329208 Laini 0 3.39 2006 The Sultan's Seal (Kamil Pasha, #1)
author: Jenny White
name: Laini
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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Tender Morsels 2662169 436 Margo Lanagan 0375848118 Laini 0 3.58 2007 Tender Morsels
author: Margo Lanagan
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average rating: 3.58
book published: 2007
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5 stars for language -- Margo Lanagan can WRITE. I was constantly impressed by the beauty and uniqueness of the prose, while not being sucked out of the story by it. But while I found the story intriguing, poignant, and imaginative, I never had that breathless "what happens next?" feeling or felt truly, deeply invested in the outcome or the characters. Still, it's a lovely book.
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The Mercy of Thin Air 18603 New Orleans, 1920s.
Raziela Nolan is in the throes of a magnificent love affair when she dies in a tragic accident. In an instant, she leaves behind her one true love and her dream of becoming a doctor—but somehow, she still remains. Immediately after her death, Razi chooses to stay between—a realm that exists after life and before whatever lies beyond it.

From this remarkable vantage point, Razi narrates the stories of her lost love, Andrew, and the relationship of Amy and Scott, a couple whose house she haunts almost seventy-five years later. The Mercy of Thin Air entwines these two fateful and redemptive love stories that echo across three generations. From ambitious, forward-thinking Razi, who illegally slips birth control guides into library books; to hip Web designer Amy, who begins to fall off the edge of grief; to Eugenia, caught between since the Civil War, the characters in this wondrous novel sing with life. Evoking the power of love, memory, and time, The Mercy of Thin Air culminates in a startling finish that will leave readers breathless.]]>
336 Ronlyn Domingue 0743278828 Laini 0 3.84 2005 The Mercy of Thin Air
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average rating: 3.84
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Firebird 1257579 384 R. Garcia y Robertson 0765352133 Laini 0 3.18 2006 Firebird
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average rating: 3.18
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Huh. I'm surprised by the bad reviews of this book. I thought it was charming and very well written, with a uniquely skewed real/fantasy world and great characters. I liked Aria and Roye de Roye, but the secondary characters like the Bone Witch and the Killer of Children were especially memorable. I get what some people are saying about the sex -- to me it was just the use of the word "teenager" that was a little icky. Obviously in the context of the time/place, this kind of sexuality/brutality would not be considered uncommon. I guess it's just distasteful for some people to have to think about it. Anyway, I really enjoyed the read.
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Sacred Scars 2873356
Generations later, Hahp is struggling to survive the wizards' increasingly dangerous classes at the Limòri Academy of Magic. He knows the fragile pact he has forged with his secretive roommate, Gerrard, will not be enough to put an end to the evil. It will take all the students acting together to have any chance of destroying the academy. Building trust, with few chances to speak or plan, will be almost impossible, but there is no choice.]]>
554 Kathleen Duey 0689840950 Laini 0 4.12 2009 Sacred Scars
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average rating: 4.12
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Dreamers of the Day 1276938 Dreamers of the Day. And what is Miss Shanklin's "little story"? Nothing less than the creation of the modern Middle East at the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, where Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell met to decide the fate of the Arab world-and of our own.
A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the Peace Conference convenes, Agnes enters into the company of the historic luminaries who will, in the space of a few days at a hotel in Cairo, invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. As Agnes observes the tumultuous inner workings of nation-building, she is drawn more and more deeply into geopolitical intrigue and toward a personal awakening.
With graceful and effortless prose, Mary Doria Russell illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East through a story that brilliantly elucidates today's headlines. Dreamers of the Day is a memorable and passionate novel.]]>
253 Mary Doria Russell 1400064716 Laini 0 3.60 2008 Dreamers of the Day
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The Last Summer of You and Me 296302 306 Ann Brashares 1594489173 Laini 0 3.60 2007 The Last Summer of You and Me
author: Ann Brashares
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average rating: 3.60
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<![CDATA[The Traveler (Fourth Realm, #1)]]> 80754
A world that exists in the shadows of our own.

A conflict we will never see.

One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom.

Maya is hiding in plain sight in London. The twenty-six-year-old has abandoned the dangerous obligations pressed upon her by her father, and chosen instead to live a normal life. But Maya comes from a long line of people who call themselves Harlequins—a fierce group of warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to protect a select few known as Travelers.

Gabriel and Michael Corrigan are brothers living in Los Angeles. Since childhood, the young men have been shaped by stories that their late father was a Traveler, one of a small band of prophets who have vastly influenced the course of history. Travelers are able to attain pure enlightenment, and have for centuries ushered change into the world. Gabriel and Michael, who may have inherited their father's gifts, have always protected themselves by living “off the Grid”—that is, invisible to the real-life surveillance networks that monitor people in our modern society.

Summoned by her ailing father, Maya is told of the existence of the brothers. The Corrigans are in severe danger, stalked by powerful men known as the Tabula—ruthless mercenaries who have hunted Travelers for generations. This group is determined to inflict order on the world by controlling it, and they view Travelers as an intolerable threat. As Maya races to California to protect the brothers, she is reluctantly pulled back into the cold and solitary Harlequin existence. A colossal battle looms—one that will reveal not only the identities of Gabriel and Michael Corrigan but also a secret history of our time.

Moving from the back alleys of Prague to the heart of Los Angeles, from the high deserts of Arizona to a guarded research facility in New York, The Traveler explores a parallel world that exists alongside our own. John Twelve Hawks' stunningly suspenseful debut is an international publishing sensation that marks the arrival of a major new talent.]]>
464 John Twelve Hawks 1400079292 Laini 0 3.89 2005 The Traveler (Fourth Realm, #1)
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<![CDATA[Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)]]> 16948 The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year, a finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Prize and the winner of the James M. Tiptree Memorial Award. Now, in Children of God, Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today.

The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the Society of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his objections and fear, he cannot escape his past or the future.

Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a moral universe whose boundaries now extend beyond the solar system and whose future lies with children born in a faraway place.

Strikingly original, richly plotted, replete with memorable characters and filled with humanity and humor, Children of God is an unforgettable and uplifting novel that is a potent successor to The Sparrow and a startlingly imaginative adventure for newcomers to Mary Doria Russell’s special literary magic.]]>
451 Mary Doria Russell 044900483X Laini 0 4.07 1998 Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)
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A Thread of Grace 16047 The Sparrow and Children of God.

It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive.

Mary Doria Russell sets her first historical novel against this dramatic background, tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters. Through them, she tells the little-known but true story of the network of Italian citizens who saved the lives of forty-three thousand Jews during the war’s final phase.

The result of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of Grace is an ambitious, engrossing novel of ideas, history, and marvelous characters that will please Russell’s many fans and earn her even more.]]>
442 Mary Doria Russell 0449004139 Laini 0 4.00 2005 A Thread of Grace
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Ice 6321845
Then, on her eighteenth birthday, Cassie comes face-to-face with a polar bear who speaks to her. He tells her that her mother is alive, imprisoned at the ends of the earth. And he can bring her back � if Cassie will agree to be his bride.

That is the beginning of Cassie's own real-life fairy tale, one that sends her on an unbelievable journey across the brutal Arctic, through the Canadian boreal forest, and on the back of the North Wind to the land east of the sun and west of the moon. Before it is over, the world she knows will be swept away, and everything she holds dear will be taken from her � until she discovers the true meaning of love and family in the magical realm of Ice.]]>
308 Sarah Beth Durst 141698643X Laini 0 3.72 2009 Ice
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average rating: 3.72
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Heart of a Shepherd 3490345 176 Rosanne Parry 0375848037 Laini 0 3.83 2009 Heart of a Shepherd
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average rating: 3.83
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Paper Towns 2914097 Who is the real Margo?

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...]]>
305 John Green 0525478183 Laini 0 4.00 2008 Paper Towns
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average rating: 4.00
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The Farwalker’s Quest 3945300 A classic fantasy quest about finding the truth and finding yourself.

Ariel has always been curious, but when she and her best friend Zeke stumble upon a mysterious old telling dart she feels an unexplained need to figure out what it means. Magically flying great distances and only revealing their messages to the intended recipient, telling darts haven't been used for years, and no one knows how they work. So when two strangers show up looking for the dart, Ariel and Zeke realize that their discovery is not only interesting, but very dangerous. The telling dart and the strangers lead them on a journey more perilous and encompassing than either can imagine, and in the process both Zeke and Ariel find their true calling.

The Farwalker's Quest is a beautifully written, well-paced fantasy that fans of The Edge Chronicles and Nancy Farmer's The Sea of Trolls will enjoy.]]>
375 Joni Sensel 1599902729 Laini 0 4.03 2009 The Farwalker’s Quest
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name: Laini
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2009
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<![CDATA[The Steel Remains (A Land Fit for Heroes, #1)]]> 3314369 391 Richard K. Morgan 0575084812 Laini 0 3.73 2008 The Steel Remains (A Land Fit for Heroes, #1)
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name: Laini
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2008
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Love Is Hell 2761829
In these supernatural stories by five of today's hottest writers—Melissa Marr (Wicked Lovely), Scott Westerfeld (Specials), Justine Larbalestier (Magic or Madness), Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere), and Laurie Faria Stolarz (Blue is for Nightmares)—love may be twisted and turned around, but it's more potent than ever on its quest to conquer all.

From two students who let the power of attraction guide them to break the hard-and-fast rules of their world to the girl who falls hard for a good-looking ghost with a score to settle, the clever, quirky characters in this exciting collection will break your heart, then leave you believing in love more than ever.]]>
263 Melissa Marr 0061443042 Laini 0 3.68 2008 Love Is Hell
author: Melissa Marr
name: Laini
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at: 2009/03/15
date added: 2011/12/02
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