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123) A skinful of shadows
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1640s during the English Civil War, the twelve-year-old illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic family shares their unique hereditary gift: the capacity to be possessed by ghosts.
124) Empire: Season 3
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows music mogul Lucious Lyon who, after he is diagnosed with ALS, must decide which of his family members should take his place as head of the business.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Regina Cutter is the mother of two grown children and the victim of her husband's midlife crisis.
Out of a marriage, an income, and a place to live, Regina has relocated to Boston's Back Bay, where her psychic aunt has bequeathed her a townhouse—and some paranormal ability.
Adjusting to her new middle-class life and taking on a new job as a police psychic, Reggie is called upon to help prove the innocence of a falsely imprisoned
...126) Stormbird
Author
Series
Wars of the Roses volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After gentle Henry VI takes the throne and a secret truce negotiated with France for a royal bride sparks revolts across England, the rival royal line, the House of York, sees the unrest as an opportunity to oust the ineffectual king.
127) Howards End
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the idealistic Schlegels, and the lower-middle class Basts - illustrate the social and class divisions of early 20th century England.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Benny Catspaw’s perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He’s not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn’t know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he’s never heard of - a seven-foot-tall self-described "bad weather friend" named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world. Spike will take care of...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On the day of their estranged father's wedding, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. Instead of money, what their father gives them is information, a name, which reveals a stunning family secret. In the face of their new reality, the sisters and their adopted brother each set out on journeys that will test their faith in one another, as well as their definitions of freedom.
130) Nooks & crannies
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with five other children and told that one of them will become her heir.
131) The heir
Author
Series
Deravenel family trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
132) Arca
Author
Series
Five queendoms volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Drought of Girls has ended, but the rift it broke open between the Queendoms is not so easily healed. Queen Heliane vows to make her son Paulus the nation's first ruling King or die trying. Scorpican troops amass on the border of Arca, ready to attack. And within Arca itself, its young, unready queen finds her court a nest of vipers and her dreams besieged by a mysterious figure with unknown intentions.
133) The West's awake
Author
Series
Queenstown volume 2
Publisher
Jean Grainger
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Queenstown, Co Cork. Ireland. 1916. Sixteen-year-old Harp Devereaux is growing up in a country in turmoil. Her mother Rose is struggling to navigate single parenthood, run the Cliff House, and stay out of the way of the authorities. The port of Queenstown bustles with activity as people traverse the Atlantic either in search of new lives on foreign shores or returning to old familiar ones in Ireland. The Cliff House is fast gaining a reputation as...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Inheriting a stunning necklace, black sheep Nell is targeted by worldly relatives before turning for support to an ambitious estate lawyer who uncovers the necklace's story in a family love triangle as it unfolded in the manors, palaces and speakeasies visited by her early-20th-century ancestors.
135) King Lear
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The classic Shakespeare play in which an old king prematurely divides his kingdom among his three daughters.
136) One dark throne
Author
Series
Three dark crowns volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Preparing for the queens' sixteenth birthday celebration and navigating the fallout of the Quickening, the sisters reassess their strategic paths to the throne using new understandings of their powers and destinies.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Rosie and Chad Lowan receive life-changing news: Chad's late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. At first, the building and its eclectic tenants couldn't feel more welcoming. But as the Lowans settle into their new home, Rosie starts to suspect that there's more to the Windermere than meets the eye. Why is...
138) The suffering tree
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After she moves to a house that her family has inherited, Tori Burns witnesses a young man crawling out of a grave under a tree and discovers dark secrets about the Slaughter family, who originally owned the land that the house was built on.
139) What she wants
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Earl Hugh Dulonget of Hillcrest was a formidable knight, used to getting what he wanted. This time, he got himself into a bind. His uncle's will had a codicil: He must marry. And Hugh had just insulted his would-be bride by calling her a peasant! How could he win back her esteem--and her hand? Everyone seemed to have advice. Some men-at-arms thought that Hugh could win the fair Willa's love by buying her baubles. The old witch who was her guardian...
140) Three dark crowns
Author
Series
Three dark crowns volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the night of their sixteenth birthday, a set of triplet sisters, each born a queen with her own unique magical power, must fight each other to the death with the last queen standing getting the crown.
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