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"Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor--inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch--decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. Has she foreseen her...
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2023.
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"Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil."--
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2023.
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"Niger, West Africa, 2074. When fifteen-year old Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, her world shatters. In a time of mind-blowing technology and seductive mysticism, Ejii embarks on a journey to track down her father's killer. With a newfound friend by her side, Ejii comes face to face with an earth turned inside out—and with her own mystical ability. And then she discovers that her travels across the sands of the Sahara have a deeper purpose"--...
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"An eerie ability is passed from grandmother to grandson - who now must reckon with a new cacophony of voices and sounds, all from the past, overlaying his life in the present - in this stirring new novel from one of the UK's most exciting young writers. Selda Heddle, a famously reclusive composer, is found dead in a snowy field near her Cornish home. She was educated at Agnes's Hospice for Acoustically Gifted Children, which for centuries has offered...
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Last bloodcarver duology volume 1
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Nhika, a young woman hiding in the fringes of society, must use her forbidden healing ability to cure the only witness to a murder.
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Mob psycho 100 volume 13
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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From the creator of One-Punch Man!
The battle for the city is over, with Claw vanquished, and nothing to mark the struggle but the gigantic broccoli sprouting from the rubble. That’s not a misprint, but it’s also the beginning of still more trouble as this “divine tree” begins to attract spiritual devotees to Seasoning City in search of the psychic power at its root! Regardless of his incredible heroism and...
The battle for the city is over, with Claw vanquished, and nothing to mark the struggle but the gigantic broccoli sprouting from the rubble. That’s not a misprint, but it’s also the beginning of still more trouble as this “divine tree” begins to attract spiritual devotees to Seasoning City in search of the psychic power at its root! Regardless of his incredible heroism and...
7) Like thunder
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2023.
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Niger, West Africa, 2077. Welcome back. This second volume is a breathtaking story that sweeps across the sands of the Sahara, flies up to the peaks of the Aïr Mountains, cartwheels into a wild megacity--you get the idea. I am the Desert Magician; I bring water where there is none. This book begins with Dikéogu Obidimkpa slowly losing his mind. Yes, that boy who can bring rain just by thinking about it is having some... issues. Years ago, Dikéogu...
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Forgotten five volume 4
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The Forgotten Five work to stop President Fuerte from using his supernatural army to sabotage Magdalia Palacio's campaign"--
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Waverley family novels volume 1
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Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Sisters Claire and Sydney are the last of their curious family, a family that have always had peculiar gifts that make them outsiders in their small North Carolina town. When Sydney leaves, then later returns home with a young daughter the sisters must deal with their common legacy and each other.
10) After death
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"Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished--including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he--or anyone else--has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John,...
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Holiday House
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2024.
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English
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"12-year-old Alice has a hard time making friends. Maybe it's because she works in a funeral home and receives messages from the dead. While the kids at school taunt her and call her “Alice in Zombieland," Alice England finds refuge at her father’s funeral home, where the dead tell her stories. As she arranges the deceased’s personal mementos, an item will hum with meaning–resonance–and Alice will see the story of their life. When she "meets"...
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Doom's day camp volume 1
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Razorbill
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Doom and his oddball friends--each with their own distinct power--leave the safety of their camp for a daring mission to rescue their parents.
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In the tradition of Camilla Sten and Victor LaValle, Melanie Golding's newest novel is a chilling carnival-set suspense, perfect for fans of Stranger Things. Look into her eyes-she can tell you how you'll die . . . As a child, Faith acquired the ability to see when and how people would die-a "gift" she neither wanted nor could get rid of. After foreseeing a family tragedy and being ostracized, Faith learns to control her visions, and returns to perform...
14) Dazzling
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Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's father died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a man who promises to change their fortunes, but his feet are hovering just a few inches above the ground. He's a spirit, and he promises to bring Treasure's beloved father back to life if she'll do one terrible thing for him first. Ozoemena has an itch in the middle of her back. It's an itch that speaks to her patrilineal destiny,...
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Fantastic Freewheeler volume 1
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Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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On his twelfth birthday, Drew Daniels receives a chunk of alien spacecraft, but when a Martian secretly comes to take the piece back he gives Drew an even more amazing gift in exchange: the power to absorb information through touch.
16) Ghostly game
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Ghostwalkers volume 19
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Gideon "Eagle" Carpenter is used to rolling with the punches life has thrown at him. It's the only thing that's kept him alive. He and his team of GhostWalkers have seen and experienced it all. He does his best to live with all the sins written on his soul. Then he hears the laughter of a woman with the ability to erase--even for a few previous moments--the darkness of his past. Laurel "Rory" Chappel has always been a nomad. She's accustomed to taking...
17) A shimmer of red
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Odessa Jones volume 3
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"With pandemic-fearing city dwellers fleeing to the New Jersey suburbs, Risko Realty-and Odessa Jones-are having their best year ever. Finally on solid financial footing, Odessa is debt-free and looking forward to the future. But she doesn't need second sight to sense her new young co-worker, Anna Lee, is on edge--and straight-up terrified--in spite of her hot sales record and sunny, outgoing attitude. And when Anna is killed in a hit-and-run, Odessa...
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Hierarchy novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"At the elite Catenan Academy, where students are prepared as the future leaders of the Hierarchy empire, the curriculum reveals a layered set of mysteries which turn murderous in this new fantasy by bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington. Vis, the adopted son of Magnus Quintus Ulcisor, a prominent senator within the Hierarchy, is trained to enter the famed Catenan Academy to help Ulciscor learn what the hidden agenda is of the...
19) The night island
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Lost night files volume 2
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English
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"The disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an island of deadly deception in the second novel of the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rivers, bonded by a night they all have no memory of, are dedicated to uncovering the mystery of what really happened to them months ago-an experience that brought out innate psychic abilities...
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HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Español
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"Por la sangre de las mujeres Marte corre una magia que les concede dones especiales. Creciendo en República Dominicana, y luego al migrar a Nueva York, las hermanas Flor, Matilde, Pastora y Camila aprendieron a valerse de ellos, y de la fuerza de su vínculo, para protegerse de las hostilidades del mundo. Pero también, a callarse sus deseos, temores y anhelos más profundos. Por eso, cuando Flor anuncia que va a celebrar un velorio en vida, el...
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