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Now You Access KindlingMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :From bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a standalone fantasy set against a war-ravaged world where kindling warfare?the use of elite, magic-wielding teenage soldiers?has been outlawed. In this rich and evocative novel, seven kindlings search for purpose and identity as they prepare for one final battle. For fans of the classic films Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven.Once, the war was fought with kindlings?elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives.Now, the war is over, and kindlings have been cast adrift?their magic outlawed, their skills outdated, their formidable balar weapons prized only as relics and souvenirs.Violence still plagues the countryside, and memories haunt those who remain. When a village comes under threat of siege, it offers an opportunity for seven kindlings to fight one last time. But war changed these warriors. And to reclaim who they once were, they will have to battle their pasts, .Book Details :Author : Traci Chee

Now You Access The DavenportsMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage Company years ago.Olivia, the beautiful eldest Davenport daughter, is ready to do her duty and marry. . . until charismatic civil rights leader Washington DeWight sweeps into town and sparks fly.Her younger sister, Helen, is more interested in fixing cars than falling in love-unless it's with her sister's betrothed.Amy-Rose, childhood-friend-turned-maid to the Davenport sisters, dreams of opening her own business-and marrying the one man she could never be with, Olivia and Helen's brother, John. But Olivia's best friend, Ruby, also has her sights set on John Davenport, though she can't seem to keep his interest . . . until family pressure has her scheming to win his heart, just as someone else wins hers.Inspired by the real-life story of the Patterson .Book Details :Author : Krystal Marquis

Now You Access Rule of the Aurora King (Artefacts of Ouranos #2)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :?I am not his conquest. I am not his to claim. I am my own castle.? Freed from the golden clutches of the Sun King, Lor now finds herself in the hands of Nadir, the Aurora Prince. Convinced she?s hiding something, he?s willing to do whatever it takes to make her talk. But Lor knows the value of secrets?she?s been keeping them her entire life?and she?s not letting hers go without a fight.When Lor and Nadir team up to search for a lost item that holds the key to her past and her future, she isn?t sure she can trust him. All she knows is she?won?t?fall for another royal fae?s promises again.With the Sun King determined to reclaim her, Lor must keep on the move, but nowhere is safe. Not until she destroys him and the Aurora King. But she soon learns that the future of Ouranos depends on much more than avenging her shattered legacy. ? .Book Details :Author : Nisha J. Tuli

Now You Access Star Crossed: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler's ParisMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German Occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz have become bold acts of defiance. So has forbidden romance for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts, and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families' vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed Caf? de Flore, whose habitues include Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Django Reinhardt, and other luminaries of the Latin Quarter's creative world. For a time, Annette and Jean feel they have eluded the brute might of the relentless Nazis--and more immediately, their parents' threats and demands. But as restrictions on the Jewish community escalate to arrests and deportations, the malevolent forces gathering around the young lovers set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths. Drawn from never-before-published family letters and other .Book Details :Author : Heather Dune Macadam

Now You Access Flawless (Chestnut Springs, #1)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :The rules were simple. Keep my hands off his daughter and stay out of trouble.But now I?m stuck with her. There?s only one bed. And well, rules are made to be broken.I?m the face of professional bull riding?the golden boy. Or at least I was, until it all blew up in my face. Now my agent says I have to clean up my image, so I?m stuck with his ball-busting daughter for the rest of the season as my ?full-time supervision.?But I don?t need a goddamn babysitter, especially one with skin-tight jeans, a sexy smirk, and a mouth she can?t stop running.A mouth I can?t stop thinking about.Because Summer isn?t just another conquest. She sees the man behind the mask, and she doesn?t run?she pulls me closer, even when she shouldn?t.She says this means nothing.I say this means everything.She says there are boundaries we shouldn?t cross. That my reputation can?t take any more hits?and neither can her damaged heart.I say I?m going to steal it anyway. .Book Details :Author : Elsie Silver

Now You Access Ghost BookMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Perfect for fans of Spirited Away , Coco , and Ghosts comes a contemporary fantasy graphic novel about a girl who can see ghosts and befriends a boy who is stuck between the worlds of the living and the dead?an instant classic from the award-winning creator of Pie in the SkyTwelve years ago, the boy and the girl lived. But one was supposed to die.July Chen sees ghosts. But her dad insists ghosts aren?t real. So she pretends they don?t exist. Which is incredibly difficult now as it's Hungry Ghost month, when the Gates of the Underworld open and dangerous ghosts run amok in the living world. When July saves a boy ghost from being devoured by a Hungry Ghost, he becomes her first ever friend. Except William is not a ghost. He?s a wandering soul wavering between life and death. As the new friends embark on an adventure to return William to his body, they unearth a ghastly truth?for William to live, July must die.Inspired by Chinese mythology, this dark yet resoundingly hopeful tale about .Book Details :Author : Remy Lai

Now You Access Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series.Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party--or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, and the Fair Folk.So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, get in the middle of Emily's research, and utterly confound and frustrate her.But as Emily gets .Book Details :Author : Heather Fawcett

Now You Access The Ex TalkMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Shay Goldstein has been a producer at her Seattle public radio station for nearly a decade, and she can't imagine working anywhere else. But lately it's been a constant clash between her and her newest colleague, Dominic Yun, who's fresh off a journalism master's program and convinced he knows everything about public radio.When the struggling station needs a new concept, Shay proposes a show that her boss green-lights with excitement. On The Ex Talk, two exes will deliver relationship advice live, on air. Their boss decides Shay and Dominic are the perfect co-hosts, given how much they already despise each other. Neither loves the idea of lying to listeners, but it's this or unemployment. Their audience gets invested fast, and it's not long before The Ex Talk becomes a must-listen in Seattle and climbs podcast charts.As the show gets bigger, so does their deception, especially when Shay and Dominic start to fall for each other. In an industry that values truth, getting caught could .Book Details :Author : Rachel Lynn Solomon

Now You Access The Finish Line (The Ravenhood, #3)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Secrets and Lies...I?ve lived the entirety of my life wrapped up in subterfuge for one purpose?revenge.Through the years, I lived more as an enigma than a man.For so long, I denied I had a beating heart of my own. Until her. Until she unearthed the starving vessel inside, forced me to acknowledge it, forced me to understand that I?m capable of bleeding the same as any other.For that, we paid. We're still paying.Yet, she demands it still, the useless heart of the ruthless thief and shameless villain she fell for. My fear is, I?m no longer that man.With the lies I?ve told, the life I?ve led, my mistakes are beginning to catch up with me, day by day, one by one. This is my last chance, and I have no intention of losing her again, but as the deception of my past starts to unravel and close in, shedding my humanity may be the only thing that can save us both. Maybe it?s already too late. .Book Details :Author : Kate Stewart

Now You Access Vampires of El NorteMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda.As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters?her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead.Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago.Believing Nena dead, N?stor has been on the run from his grief ever since, moving from ranch to ranch working as a vaquero. But no amount of drink can dispel the night terrors of sharp teeth; no woman can erase his childhood sweetheart from his mind.When the United States attacks Mexico in 1846, the two are brought abruptly together on the road to war: Nena as a curandera, a healer striving to prove her worth to her father so that he does not marry her off to a stranger, and N?stor as a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers .Book Details :Author : Isabel Ca�as