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Crescent City (Sarah J. Maas) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Description
"Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion--otherwise known as Crescent City--has to offer. But it all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city--and Bryce's world. Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks only blissful...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: The Book of Genesis depicts them as doing strange things-mating with the daughters of men to spawn giants, for example, and wrestling with Jacob for no apparent reason. In It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra spun a tale of one as a bumbling helper of humans; in Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders told of one who wished to be human. They are angels, of course, and they have fascinated us since recorded history began. In Angels, David...
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Series
Guild hunter volume 16
Language
English
Description
Raphael and Elena are experiencing their first ever year of true peace. No war. No horrors of archangelic power. No nightmares given flesh. Until ... the earth beneath the Refuge begins to tremble, endangering not only angelkind's precious and fragile young, but the very place that has held their most innocent safe for eons. Amid the chaos, Elena's father suffers a violent heart attack that threatens to extinguish their last chance to heal the bonds...
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Archangel Gabriel and his three mischievous Prayer Ambassadors--Shirley, Goodness and Mercy--lend their celestial aid to three needy Christmas cases. Harry Alderwood, 86, prays that his increasingly forgetful wife, Rosalie, will agree to move into assisted living before he dies. Meanwhile, nine-year-old Carter Jackson begs God for a dog, even though his mother and father tell him that they can't afford to keep a pet, while Beth Fischer's mother prays...
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English
Description
The author uses the word of God, science, and true stories of the supernatural to explore the first heaven. He then exposes Satan's diabolical tactics in the second heaven and how they affect each one of us. Finally, he looks at the deep riches of the third heaven and how our hope of that eternal home changes our life on earth
Author
Series
Guild hunter volume 9
Language
English
Description
One of the most vicious archangels in the world has disappeared. No one knows if Lijuan is dead or has chosen to sleep the long sleep of an immortal. But with her lands falling into chaos under a rising tide of vampiric bloodlust, a mysterious and ancient order of angels known as the Luminata calls the entire Cadre together to discuss the fate of her territory
12) Emblaze
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Apparently being the half-angel Grigori doesn't always make you right, and for Violet Eden the decisions between right and wrong are getting harder and harder. Where is the good in having to choose between the life of her best friend and saving humanity? Both sides-- Angels and Exiles-- are racing to decipher an ancient scripture that would allow anyone banished to the Underworld to return. And at the very center: Violet. She only has one chance to...
14) Fallen
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Series
Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
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Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her
Author
Series
Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
It took Luce and her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts, immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students: Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans
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English
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"A heartwarming Christmas novel of romance, hope, and the comforts of home. Harry Mills is a guardian angel on a mission: help twenty-four-year-old Addie Folsom get her life back on track--and, if the right moment strikes, help her find love. Posing as a teacher at a local college in Tacoma, Washington, Harry is up to the task, but not even he can predict the surprises that lay in store. After trying to make it on her own, Addie has returned home...
18) Unforgotten
Author
Publisher
InkLit
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Angels watch over and comfort humanity, but when one angel becomes overwhelmed by the enormity of need and sinks to the ground, who will help it?
20) Entice
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Every day Violet Eden wonders whether she made the right choice. She still doesn't fully understand these powers she's been granted as a half-angel Grigori. And worse, isn't even sure she's capable of using them. Stab someone through the heart? Really? No matter how bad things get, though, Violet doesn't run and she doesn't quit. Even if it means she can never allow herself to love the guy she longs for. Even if it means asking her enemy for help....
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