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Pub. Date:
2025
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"Evie Sage didn’t mean to become the right-hand woman to the kingdom’s most terrifying villain. One minute, she was applying for an entry-level position that promised “light paperwork and occasional beheadings,” and the next, she was knee-deep in magical mayhem, murder plots, and an entirely inappropriate crush on her brooding, sharp-jawed, walking disaster of a boss. Now, with a magical prophecy unraveling, assassins showing up in the break...
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English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"With ailing family to support, Evie Sage's employment status isn't just important, it's vital. So when a mishap with Rennedawn's most infamous Villain results in a job offer--naturally, she says yes. No job is perfect, of course, but even less so when you develop a teeny crush on your terrifying, temperamental, and undeniably hot boss. Don't find evil so attractive, Evie. But just when she's getting used to severed heads suspended from the ceiling...
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"Evie Sage has never been happier to be the assistant to The Villain. Who would have thought that working for an outrageously handsome (shhh, bad for his brand) evil overlord would be so rewarding? Still, the business of being bad is demanding, the forces of good are annoyingly persistent, and said forbidding boss is somewhat ... er, out-of-evil-office. But Rennedawn is in grave trouble, and all signs, Kingsley's included, point to catastrophe. Something...
4. Kidnapped
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Points: 2
Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
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Series:
Matthew Scudder volume 15
Publisher:
W. Morrow
Pub. Date:
[2001]
Language:
English
Description:
The city caught its collective breath when upscale couple Byrne and Susan Hollander were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Now, a few days later, the killers themselves have turned up dead behind the locked door of a Brooklyn hellhole -- one apparently slain by his partner in crime who then took his own life. There's something drawing Matthew Scudder to this case that the cops have quickly and eagerly closed: a nagging suspicion that a third...
6. Wanted
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Series:
Storymakers volume 2
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Points: 10
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 700L
Language:
English
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Rexi Hood, the daughter of Robin Hood, must find a way to break the curse that binds her to Princess Dorothea before she becomes a forgotten character.
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Publisher:
Owlkids Books Inc
Pub. Date:
2018
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 450L
Language:
English
Description:
"This is a story about a wisecracker, firecracker, knucklecracking crook named Jack. Jack devises a ploy to rob a bank, with a duck as his unlikely accomplice. This villainous duo bumbles their way through a robbery, in which Jack ends up knocked unconscious, arrested for the crime, and thrown in jail. Meanwhile, the duck makes off like a bandit, escaping with all the dough to live a life of luxury in the tropics. Rhyming text, onomatopoeia, and an...
8. Model Menace
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Publisher:
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date:
2009
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Points: 5
Lexile measure:
770L
Language:
English
Description:
Nancy's friend Sydney, a model, is getting married to a reality-show star, but someone is trying to ruin the wedding and Nancy must uncover the culprit. Even after uncovering the villain, things did not go smoothly. Could Sydney be sabotaging her own wedding due to cold feet? Or does the suspect have an accomplice?
10. Adler
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Publisher:
Titan Comics
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Language:
English
Description:
While Irene Adler and Jane Eyre settled into their new London lodgings, they received a visit from the deceased Professor Moriarty's right-hand man, Colonel Sebastian Moran. However, before he could impart any meaningful information regarding the intentions of Ayesha (She-who-must-be-obeyed), he was assassinated by Ayesha's vampiric henchwoman, Camilla. Soon after Moran's demise, a courier sent by Madame Curie in Paris arrived carrying copies of secret...
11. The magic of Oz
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Series:
Wizard of Oz volume 13
Publisher:
Reilly
Pub. Date:
1965
Language:
English
Description:
At the top of Mount Munch, lives a group of people known as the Hyups. One of their numbers, a Munchkin named Bini Aru, discovered a method of transforming people and objects by merely saying the word "Pyrzqxgl". After Princess Ozma decreed that no one could practice magic in Oz except for Glinda the Good Witch and the Wizard of Oz, Bini wrote down the directions for pronouncing "Pyrzqxgl" and hid them in his magical laboratory. When Bini and his...
Publisher:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2010]
Language:
English
Description:
Peter Parker must continue to conceal his secret identity as Spider-Man, all while handling the pressures of teenage life at home and school. New York City's criminal underworld succumbs to a cataclysmic upheaval as the super-villains try to outmaneuver each other for the top spot. Now, it's all-out gang warfare and Spider-Man is the only hope the good citizens of New York have against Hammerhead, Doctor Octopus and Silvermane.
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Publisher:
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
John Quincy and Louisa Adams's unexpected journey that changed everything. American Phoenix is the sweeping, riveting tale of a grand historic adventure across forbidding oceans and frozen tundra-from the bustling ports and towering birches of Boston to the remote reaches of pre-Soviet Russia, from an exile in arctic St. Petersburg to resurrection and reunion among the gardens of Paris. Upon these varied landscapes this Adams and his Eve must find...