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1) Dread nation
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Dread nation volume 1
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Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever.In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead.But there are also opportunities—and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained...
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Dread nation volume 2
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The sequel to the New York Times bestselling epic Dread Nation is an unforgettable journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America. After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus...
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Dread nation volume 1
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2018]
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English
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When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
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Twelve-year-old Ophie uses her recent ability to see ghosts to help Clara, a spirit whose life ended suddenly and unjustly, pass on to the other side, but she soon realizes that Daffodil Manor, the place of Clara's untimely death, may hold more secrets than Ophie bargained for.
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"It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided - between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology - otherwise known as Mechomancy - not the traditional mystical arts. Laura disagrees....
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"Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood - but secretly, she pours her dreams and frustrations onto the pages of her notebook like prayers. When she is invited to join her school's slam poetry club, Xiomara doesn't know how she could ever attend without her religious mami finding out. But even so, in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent."--taken from back cover.
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7) Root magic
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"It's 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won't stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year with a bunch of new kids. But the biggest change comes when Jez and Jay turn eleven and their uncle, Doc, tells them he's going to train them in rootwork. Jez and Jay have always...
8) The witchery
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Witchery volume 1
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English
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Logan came to Mesmortes Coven Academy in Haelsford, Florida, to learn to control her powers, but she soon learns she has a role to play in the ancient curse of the hellmouth--whatever the cost to herself and her new friends.
Haelsford, Florida is a Hellmouth. At least, that's what Logan thinks as she arrives to the witchtown to begin the new school year at Mesmortes Coven Academy. She is taken under the wing of the infamous Red Three. Iris is a deathwitch...
9) Labor Day
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In the future, humans enriched with cockroach DNA dominate the planet. The old humans, fast-tracked for extinction, scurry to and from impoverished homes at the beck and call of the new elite, the magnates and managers that control all. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Capitalism thrives as labor unions are outlawed, and, soon, magnates, with antennae quivering, will face down those who do the work. The slow and the weak, the old and the...
11) Stone & Sky
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From across the sea, a shadow rises. A lone survivor may be the kingdom's only hope against annihilation. Orin is a sworn protector. As a stalwart member of the Griffin Guard, he's proud to protect the kingdom against a dreaded nation of orcs. But when the fires of war burn bright from the north, his entire squadron falls to deadly wyvern riders, leaving the devastated Orin bloody and alone. With his squad dead, Orin has his mind set on saving others...
12) Patient Zero
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Step onto the elevator and visit 17 floors of zombie hell, with a fatal stop in Planet Dead! In Austin, TX, Christian Fidal is coming to terms with a car accident that killed his father and placed his little brother in a coma. Chris just wants to leave the real world behind, but is forced by his office crush Trinity and his cousin Hector to go to the hotel's holiday party. What was meant to be a fun night turns into a fight for their lives when a...
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Scared to death
Scared to look
They shook… and that might get them killed!
The nation he once fought for, has fallen. The woman he once loved, is gone. The dead have risen and all Robert Briggs has left is a few bullets and a broken family to protect.
After losing his wife on day one of the outbreak, Robert and his young son, Jordan, have battled their way through the war zone that is Georgia to unite with his brother and elderly mother in Savannah....
14) Promise Land
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"Everybody dies! Young, old, men, women...everybody dies."- Liam Davis (Planet Dead 3) Catherine Briggs survived a zombie outbreak. She survived a bombing and let's not forget the cannibalistic circus, but all that was a cakewalk compared to her new troubles. It's 2020 and Catherine's world has entered a whole new level of hell. Accompanied by two survivors from Atlanta, Catherine has traveled to the cold post-apocalyptic wasteland of New Orleans...
15) Shadow coven
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Witchery volume 2
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After defeating the wolves Jailah, Logan, Iris, and Thalia are ready to pursue their separate studies, but when witches start going missing, and Thalia is convinced her father is responsible, the coven is surrounded by magical and mundane threats and must work together to protect themselves and their magic.
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A writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; and the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until...
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2021.
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From the award-winning author of The Truth of Right Now comes a "lyrical" (PopSugar), grounded fantasy in the vein of Dread Nation that follows a black teen as she finds her place among a family of women gifted with magical abilities. In the Jim Crow South, white supremacy reigns and tensions are high. But Evalene Deschamps has other things to worry about. She has two little sisters to look after, an overworked single mother, and a longtime crush...
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"In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning social historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of six African Americans from the colonial era to the late 20th century, using their stories to illustrate the complex ways in which racial ideologies in this country have changed since the first Africans arrived on the nation's shores hundreds of years ago. The very idea of "blackness," she shows, has changed fundamentally over this period. For Antonio, an enslaved...
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