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41) The masked city
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
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Description
"Librarian-spy Irene and her apprentice Kai are back in the second in this "dazzling"* book-filled fantasy series from the author of The Invisible Library. The written word is mightier than the sword--most of the time... Working in an alternate version of Victorian London, Librarian-spy Irene has settled into a routine, collecting important fiction for the mysterious Library and blending in nicely with the local culture. But when her apprentice,...
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 1
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Description
"Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative...
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Series
Order of Black Hollow Lane volume 1
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Description
Twelve-year-old Emmy investigates the connection between her father's disappearance and a secret society at her prestigious English boarding school.
44) The Luck Uglies
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Eleven-year-old Rye O'Chanter and her two friends delve into the secret lore of their village when mysterious creatures of legend reappear on the night of the Black Moon, leading them to the notorious secret society, the Luck Uglies.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. Leo is a police officer who sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers" organization. Leo ends up arresting Mei, only to have Jin break her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. Things...
46) The black circle
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
168 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
"A strange telegram lures fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, deep into Russia and away from the only trustworthy adult they know. Signed with the initials NRR, the telegram launches a race to uncover a treasure stolen by the Nazis and the truth behind the murder of the last Russian royal family. All too soon, the treasure hunt starts to smell like a Lucian trap. But the bait might just be irresistible--what will Amy and Dan...
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Series
Shadow man novels volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Santa Elena in 1985 is a sleepy, sedate town-that is, until unusual crimes start to occur. The body of a dog is left outside a Vietnamese grocery store. An encampment of Mexican strawberry pickers is brutally attacked with mysterious weapons. A wealthy real estate developer is found dead inside the pool of his beach-side house. When rat poison and other clues are found across these crime scenes, Detective Ben Wade and forensic expert Natasha Betencourt...
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Series
McMasters guide to homicide volume 1
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Who hasn't wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you've probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor better) than death. The campus of this "Poison Ivy League" college--its...
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Series
HMRC volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple. At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls--Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle--took the oath to join Her Majesty's Royal Coven, established...
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Series
Mistborn novels volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xii, 507 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Description
For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set--with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders--since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner Wayne find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Conflict between Elendel and the Outer Cities only favors the...
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Series
The Keepers (Ted Sanders) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
662 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
April, who is wearing the powerful Ravenvine, makes a dangerous journey to the Warren, home of the Keepers, as Horace F. Andrews, Keeper of the Box of Promises, and Chloe Burke prepare to do battle with the evil Riven.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After being assigned to her university's prestigious and controversial neo-anthropological studies program, eighteen-year-old deaf student Delaney Meyers-Petrov must learn to channel her ability to slip between worlds--and, along with her capricious TA Colton Price, who seems determined to despise her, must uncover buried institutional secrets.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland, a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic, Illuminati and QAnon, one of the most enduring narratives that defines the United States is simply this: secret groups...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. Leo is a police officer who sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers" organization. Leo ends up arresting Mei, only to have Jin break her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. But...
Author
Series
Black Widow (Margaret Stohl) volume 2
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
438 pages : ill. ; 22 cm
Description
The Black Widow and Red Widow have inherited something from their shared past--a need for vengeance adgainst deceased Ivan Somodorov's network of terror.
Author
Series
League of Seven volume 2
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
333 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Description
Archie Dent and his friends Hachi and Fergus, the first three members of a new League of Seven, a group of heroes who come together to fight the Mangleborn whenever the monsters arise to destroy humanity, undertake separate missions and in the course of their adventures meet potential candidates to join their League, while learning deep-rooted secrets that could destroy the League forever.
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