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81) The fallen hero
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Bloomsbury Children's Books
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2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Determined to prevent the war her brother Alex is provoking, twelve-year-old Faryn Liu and her half-dragon friend, Ren, seek help from the New Order, warriors based in Manhattan's Chinatown, and from the Monkey King.
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The novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another 'fallen leaves', who are linked by their relationships with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart, and also by secrets from the past. Their histories are looked at from two perspectives: that of the ruthless capitalist society of England in which they live, and that of the Christian Socialism of the hero who has been brought up in a Utopian community in America. Collins modelled his description...
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The final and most personal work from Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian Will Durant-discovered thirty-two years after his death-is a message of insight for everyone who has sought meaning in life or the council of a wise friend in navigating life's journey.
From 1968 to 1978, Will Durant made four public allusions to the existence of Fallen Leaves. One, in 1975, hinted at its contents: "a not very serious book that answers the questions...
84) The Fallen
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Detective Brett Jacobs is a good cop. He's honest, hardworking, and intent on bringing down a major criminal organization. But he's soon going to have his limits tested. After he finishes an undercover assignment, resulting in the arrest of a major crime boss, he'll find out just how dirty the bad guys play. His world comes crashing down after an unspeakable tragedy, leaving Jacobs virtually despondent and wondering about his role in the unthinkable...
86) Fallen: Issue #4
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Fallen volume 4
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The tension between the godly crime families is reaching a breaking point. Meanwhile, strange things are happening in the city as gods are regaining some of their power and a killer has set their sights on mortals.
87) Fallen: Issue #3
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Fallen volume 3
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The Shinto god Izanagi has arrived in town to pay his respects to the late Zeus but his presence may signal a rising tension that could lead to an all out gangwar. Meanwhile, Casper is finding that keeping the affairs of the gods out of sight of mortals is getting harder and that his actions have consequences.
88) Fallen: Issue #5
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Fallen volume 5
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The increasing tension has reached a flash point as an all out gangwar between the crime families converges on the Valhalla roadhouse with Casper stuck in the middle of it. Meanwhile, the figure in the shadows that has been orchestrating the whole thing is revealed...enter the Gods of the Nile.
89) Fallen: Issue #6
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Fallen volume 6
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In an epic conclusion, Casper and the other gods have discovered they've been manipulated and pitted against each other so that Osiris can carry out his sinister plot of summoning the other Gods of the Nile to Earth. Can Casper stop him before it's too late?
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It's been years since my mother was in my life.
I healed.
I learned to accept love.
I lived.
That's all done. She was away, and now she's back.
I avoided her for a year and a half, but I couldn't hide anymore.
Mason had an internship in Fallen Crest, so we headed back for the summer.
And when we got there-no one was prepared for what happened.
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A sexy, selfish demon knight. A courageous vampire slayer.The job seemed straightforward enough. Hunt and bring in a Fallen's vampire-turned friend for reconditioning. What vampire slayer Elise Castle didn't expect is for the vampire's friend and boss to be so dangerously seductive.After her Fallen father had left her mother for a woman with money and power, Elise vowed never to get involved with a Fallen. After her cop boyfriend was killed by her...
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This title contains all three volumes of the Fallen Gods Saga in one bundle. It also includes an exclusive Fallen Gods Trilogy cover.
Fallen Gods: Sanctuary 12
FOLLOW HER VOICE
Nine strangers, linked by the inner whisperings of a mysterious little girl. Each must piece together the origins of their other-worldly abilities and the location of the white manor, where they will be reunited, and the questions that have plagued their existence will finally...
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Mason Kade is the dream.
He is the promise.
He's offering what so many would fantasize about, and it's not that I don't want it/him/us.
It's the opposite.
There might be ghosts haunting me, but this man who's my soulmate is asking me for forever.
How can I say no to someone who already gave me my happily ever after?
*The last full-length novel for the Fallen Crest Series!
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There was an eerie silence in the packed courtroom as everyone looked towards the foreman of the jury. "Guilty," he pronounced five times. The third most senior Catholic cleric in the world had been found guilty of sex crimes against children, bringing shame to the Church on a scale never seen before in its history. Investigative journalist Lucie Morris-Marr was the first to break the story that Cardinal George Pell was being investigated by the police....
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An escapee from a Spanish prison hunts for his best friend's killer in New York For more than a year, Kit McKittrick languishes in a Fascist prison, his days spent in darkness and his nights tortured by fear of his limping jailer, whose name he never learns. He escapes Spain with the help of Louie Lepetino, a childhood friend who came with him to fight on behalf of the Republican cause. Back in the United States, Kit heads out West to recover from...
96) The Fallen Ronin
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We survived the destruction of our brothers in Canis Mayor, where both the Alpha and X Legions were laid to waste by Ahmurai. After my rescue by the special forces agent Captain Setzune and her android Rin, we have found a way to return to the Milky Way. I hope we make it back in time. Ahmurai has threatened to destroy humanity as a whole, and we must get there as soon as possible. My fear is we will not make it in time-perhaps never make it at all....
97) A Fallen Hero
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Cato is the only true half-human, half-ghost hybrid in existence. He's powerful and unique with two divine powers instead of one.
The United States government believes he is the key to developing a devastating weapon that will give humankind an advantage when war inevitably erupts between the Human Realm and Avilésor, the Ghost Realm.
After being an unwilling test subject in Project Alpha for two years, Cato and the rest of his "lab-family" survive...
98) Fallen Angels
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FALLEN ANGELS is the fifth poem book written by Toni García Arias, published in paper in due moment by the prestigious Editorial Renacimiento. FALLEN ANGELS is a group of poems about ordinary life themes, like little postcards of everyday life. Among the subjects we can find memoirs of childhood, lack of love, the lost of dear people o the sensation of defeat. The title FALLEN ANGELS refers to all these little sufferings along our lives that...
99) Fallen Tears
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An élite club of shamed angels – the Fallen – welcomes disgraced super-naturals, like me. Defiant and vengeful, we're catalysts in destruction and mayhem, much to our angelic adversaries' dismay. Satisfying the void left in our soulless bodies motivates many Fallen to play with feeble humans. For even though we wield infernal-powers, they have one thing we crave. Souls.
100) Fallen Roads
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Set in the tranquil English village of Fallen Roads, this novel unfolds when a simple sign is put up, 'Land for Sale', a trigger point from which there is no turning back.
Quintessentially English with a village pub, a village newsletter and a host of believable characters, Fallen Roads has everything and leads the reader into the paranormal world of the legendary 'Leaning Man' but not before Noel Falards, a young drifter arrives in the village and...