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All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery-magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. Then an act of sabotage...
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American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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When Marie-Grace discovers a baby outside her father's office and a slave catcher claims the boy, she helps place him at a white orphanage where she becomes a volunteer, as her friendship with Cécile grows and she hears rumors of yellow fever.
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Girl of fire and thorns trilogy volume 4
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English
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"After unearthing a conspiracy at court, Red Sparkle Stone, the foundling orphan Empress Elisa has taken under her wing, dares to become a recruit for the Royal Guard-something no woman has done before"--
Red Sparkle Stone is a foundling orphan with an odd name and a veiled past, but she's about to be adopted into the royal family--by Empress Elisa herself. When the empress's greatest rival blocks the adoption, Red is left with no family and no future....
5) Wench
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2021.
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English
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When Tanya's guardian dies, having lost her home and the tavern where she has spent most of her life, she sets out on a perilous quest to petition the queen for help.
Tanya broke up her first fight at 11. By the time she was a teenager she knew everything about the tavern, and she could run it with her eyes closed. She'd never let anyone-- a drunkard or a captain of the queen's guard-- take advantage of her. But when her guardian dies, she might...
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Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
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©2014.
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English
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"When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash"--
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
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2014.
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English
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Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl."
9) Foundling
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Monster blood tattoo volume 1
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English
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Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossamünd sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought. Includes glossaries and maps.
11) Factotum
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Monster blood tattoo volume 3
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Putnam Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Accused of being a monster instead of human, Rossamünd Bookchild looks to monster-hunter Branden Rose for help, but powerful forces are after them both, believing that Rossamünd holds the secret to perpetual youth.
12) The lost city
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Omte origins volume 1
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Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Abandoned as a baby and raised by trolls of mixed blood, Ulla Tulin embarks on a mission to find her parents, meeting handsome Pan Soriano along the way and learning that her mother may be connected to the Omte royal family.
Ulla Tulin was left abandoned in an isolated Kanin city as a baby, taken in by strangers and raised hidden away like many of the trolls of mixed blood. Offered an internship working alongside Pan Soriano at the Mimirin, translating...
13) Always October
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Harper
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Best friends Jake and "Weird Lily" enter the monster-filled land of Always October, made famous in Jake's grandfather's books, to save a foundling who becomes a monster during the full moon.
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Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--
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Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Left at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. as a toddler and home-schooled by a retired nun, twelve-year-old Bicycle rides cross-country to meet a famous cyclist who she hopes will be her first friend.
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Tales of beauty and madness volume 1
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Razorbill
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©2013.
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English
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Raised in luxury as the pampered, adopted heiress of Enrico Vultusino, godfather of the Seven -- the powerful Families that rule magic-ridden New Haven -- Camille knows that she is not really Family. Unlike them, she is a mortal with a past that lies buried in trauma. Then she meets the mysterious Tor and begins to uncover the secrets of her birth ... to find out where she comes from and why her past is threatening her now.
17) The ever after
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Omte origins volume 3
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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In the magical world of the Trylle, Ulla Tulin continues her search for family and discovering of secrets in the legendary First City, but is held hostage by the Alvolk and spends time trying to regain her memories. Nestled along the bluffs of the forested coast lies the secret kingdom of the Omte--a realm filled with wonder ... and as many secrets. The Ever After closes the last trilogy of the long-running Trylle series.
Ulla Tulin's journey to...
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Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Property Jones and her family are in dire straits when they win a drawing for the greatest bookstore in England but the previous owner was hiding something nearly as big as Property's secret.--
The Joneses have just won the Great Montgomery Book Emporium in a contest, and it's every book lover's dream! The pull of a lever calls forth a room full of marvelous wonders-from the Room of Woodland tales with its squirrels and mice, to the rocket ship in...
20) The tiny star
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A star falls to earth where it becomes a baby and is embraced and cared for by the community"--
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