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Bartimaeus trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
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London is hunting again. Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon, London will feed. In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage -- and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world. --from Amazon.
4) Rat runners
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Four young thieves, one simple mission: Steal a black-leather box from the daughter of a murdered scientist without anyone noticing. But WatchWorld controls London now, and the organization knows everything. Every major street is monitored with heat-sensitive and X-ray cameras. Microphones record voices from hundreds of feet away, and drones watch from the sky. Patrolling the streets are Safe-Guards--part human and part robot, they can see through...
5) Waking Romeo
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 2083, eighteen-year-old Jules Capulet is still reeling from the end of her romance with Romeo--which left him in a coma and her a social outcast--when Heathcliff Ellis arrives from another time, on a mission to revive Romeo and possibly rewrite the future.
Year: 2083. Location: London. It's the end of the world-- literally. Time travel is possible, but only forward. Only a handful of families choose to remain in the "now." Life is far from rosy...
Author
Series
Grim lovelies volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The witches, beasties, goblins, and Royals return in this spellbinding conclusion to New York Times best-selling author Megan Shepherd's Grim Lovelies duology. Ever since she discovered her affinity for magic, seventeen-year-old Anouk has been desperate to become a witch. It's the only way to save her friends who, like Anouk, are beasties: animals enchanted into humans. But unlike Anouk, the other beasties didn't make it out of the battle at Montélimar...
7) Phalaina
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
London, 1881. There's something a little eerie about Manon – she's not like the other girls at the orphanage. Maybe it's her red eyes. Maybe it's her silence. Maybe it's the series of violent deaths that seem to follow her. What we do know: someone is hot on her tail. And there's a lot of money at stake in finding out where exactly she comes from – and what exactly she is. Concurrent to Manon's story are letters to Charles Darwin from Professor...
Author
Series
Light the abyss volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In the last days of the twenty-first century, sea creatures swim through the ruins of London. Trapped in the abyss, humankind wavers between fear and hope--fear of what lurks in the depths around them, and hope that they might one day find a way back to the surface. When sixteen-year-old submersible racer Leyla McQueen is chosen to participate in the prestigious annual marathon, she sees an opportunity to save her father, who has been arrested on...
Author
Series
Light the abyss volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future, teenaged Leyla feels compelled to search for Ari, while seeking to uncover the mystery behind her past.
Leyla McQueen rescued her father from Broadmoor, the illegal government prison-- but his freedom comes at a terrible cost. She is separated from Ari, the boy who has her heart. Across Britain, the fallout from Leyla's actions has escalated tensions between Anthropoid and non-Anthropoid communities. In uncovering the...
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