Tag: closed door
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The Letter For The King by Tonke Dragt: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 1962 Blurb: A young messenger. A secret mission. A kingdom in peril. It is the dead of night. Sixteen-year-old Tiuri must spend hours locked in a chapel in silent contemplation if he is to be knighted the next day. But, as he waits by the light of…
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The Wind and the Wild by Emily McCosh: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2025 Blurb: Living on the edge of the enchanted woods, Niamh often loses herself among the trees in search of food. Though her body bears reminders of a night long ago when monstrous hounds broke from those lands, she has not since glimpsed the fair folk, nor…
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Dust by Kara Swanson: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2020 Blurb: Claire Kenton believes the world is too dark for magic to be real—since her twin brother was stolen away as a child. Now Claire’s desperate search points to London… and a boy who shouldn’t exist. Peter Pan is having a beastly time getting back to…
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Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 1957 Blurb: In 1956, five young men, including Elliot’s husband, Jim, traveled into the jungles of Ecuador to establish communication with the fierce Huaorani Tribe, a people whose only previous response to the outside world had been to attack all strangers. The men’s mission combined modern technology…
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The Correspondent by Virginia Evans: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: Throughout her life Sybil Van Antwerp has used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings around half past ten Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who…
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An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2017 Blurb: With a flick of her paintbrush, Isobel creates stunning portraits for a dangerous set of clients: the fair folk. These immortal creatures cannot bake bread or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and they…
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The Lost Baker of Vienna by Sharon Kurtzman: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2025 Blurb: Vienna, 1946: Chana Rosensweig has endured the horrors of war to find herself, her mother, and younger brother finally free in Vienna. But freedom doesn’t look like they imagined it would, as they struggle to make a living and stay safe. Despite the danger, Chana…
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Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2001 Blurb: The great traction city London has been skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground. But now, the sinister plans of Lord Mayor Mangus Crome can finally unfold. Thaddeus Valentine, London’s Head Historian and adored famous…
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Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2023 Blurb: There’s a princess trapped in a tower. This isn’t her story. Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae…
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Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2013 Blurb: Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule…
