Claire Legrand
1) Furyborn
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"When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will be executed...unless the trials kill her first. One thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a fairy tale to Eliana Ferracora. A bounty hunter for the Undying...
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"Who are the Sawkill Girls? Marion: The newbie. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she's sure she'll never find. Zoey: The pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls. Maybe she's broken--or maybe everyone else is. Val: The queen bee. Gorgeous and privileged, ruthless and regal. Words like silk and eyes like knives; a heart made of secrets and...
3) Extasia
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"In a postapocalyptic world, sixteen-year-old Saint Amity joins a coven and sets out on a quest to summon the Devil in order to protect her village, which is controlled by group of pious elders." --
4) Foxheart
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2016.
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"Twelve-year-old Quicksilver--the self-proclaimed greatest thief in all the Star Lands--must travel back in time to when magic still existed and, with the help of her older self and a dog named Fox, stop the evil Wolf King from hunting witches to extinction"--
5) Kingsbane
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The Gate keeping the angels at bay is falling. To repair it, Rielle Dardenne-- apponted Sun Queen-- must collect the seven hidden castings of the saints. She must also help her prince and love, Audric, protect Celdaria by spying on the angel Corien. Centuries later, Eliana Ferracora grapples with her new reality: She is the Sun Queen, humanity's long-awaited savior. But fear of corruption-- of becoming another Rielle-- keeps Eliana's power dangerous...
6) Lightbringer
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"Queen Rielle, pushed away from everything she loves, turns to Corien and his promises of glory. Meanwhile, whispers from the empirium slowly drive her mad, urging her to open the Gate. Separated from Audric and Ludivine, she embraces the role of Blood Queen and her place by Corien's side, determined to become the monster the world believes her to be. In the future, Eliana arrives in the Empire's capital as a broken shell of herself. Betrayed and...
7) Thornlight
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2021]
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English
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"Centuries and centuries ago, the Vale was split in two in a war between witches...The people of the Vale fight it with discs made of lightning; and with an ancient spell. Brier Skystone is the youngest, most talented lightning harvester the Vale's ever seen. Her twin sister, Thorn, is a sensitive artist who's braver than even she knows. And young Queen Celestyna Hightower is determined to be Mender of the Break, the last of her family to bear the...
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"Every year on St. Walpurga's Eve, Caldella's Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace. An innocent life to be sacrificed on the full moon to keep the island city from sinking. Lina Kirk is convinced her brother is going to be taken this year. To save him, she enlists the help of the mysterious Thomas Lin, the boy she secretly loves, and the only person to ever escape from the palace. Working together they save her brother, but they draw the queen's...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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[2016]
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English
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"Finley Hart is sent to her grandparents' house for the summer, but her anxiety and overwhelmingly sad days continue until she escapes into her writings which soon turn mysteriously real and she realizes she must save this magical world in order to save herself."
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Simon & Schuster BFYR
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[2013]
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English
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Forced to move into a haunted concert hall with her distant father, "The Maestro," and aging grandmother, Nonna, twelve-year-old Olivia and classmate Henry try to lay to rest ghosts tied to the Hall's past before time and money run out.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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[2012]
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English
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Practically-perfect twelve-year-old Victoria Wright must lie, sneak, and break the rules when her investigation of the disappearance of her best--and only--friend, Lawrence, reveals dark secrets about her town and the orphanage run by the reclusive Mrs. Cavendish.
13) Winterspell
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Simon & Shuster BFYR
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[2014]
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English
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To find her abducted father and keep her sister safe from the lecherous politicians of 1899 New York City, seventeen-year-old Clara must journey to the wintry kingdom of Cane, where Anise, queen of the faeries, has ousted the royal family in favor of her own totalitarian, anti-human regime.
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
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2019.
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Español
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"La profecía lo anunció: llegará una Reina de la Sangre para destruir el mundo, y una Reina del Sol para reconstruirlo. No se sabe cuándo, no se sabe quién. Pero sucederá. En dos épocas diferentes y reinos separados, las vidas de Rielle y Eliana están vinculadas por lazos aún más poderosos que la magia. Una de ellas es la Reina de la Sangre; la otra, la Reina del Sol: ambas están destinadas a unir el cielo y la tierra, las almas celestiales...
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Empirium trilogy ; 2
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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"Entre el poder y la pasión... ¿Qué elegiría una reina? Rielle y Eliana deben afrontar que el destino les tenía reservada una misión mucho mayor de la que jamás habrían esperado. Paso a paso, comprenderán que en sus manos se reúne un poder inmenso. ¿Pueden dos simples mortales superar sus pasiones personales y asumir una responsabilidad milenaria? Desgarrada entre las nuevas obligaciones en la corte, su amor por el heredero al trono y su...
16) Terrifying tales
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Guys read ; 6
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Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Eleven masters of suspense have come together to bring you a bone-chilling collection of original ghost stories perfect for sharing around the campfire, reading under the covers with a flashlight, and scaring your friends' pants off"--Front jacket flap.
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Professional Book Nerds
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Emma welcomes back author Claire Legrand to chat about A Crown of Ivy and Glass, writing unlikeable characters, the ballet inspiration behind the story, believing in your creative process, Crimson Peak era Tom Hiddleston, writing romance scenes, and so much more!
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2015
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Be afraid, be very afraid of Terrifying Tales, the sixth volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading.
Eleven masters of suspense—Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Daniel José Older, Dav Pilkey, R.L. Stine, and Rita Williams-Garcia—have come together to bring you a bone-chilling collection of original ghost stories with illustrations by Gris Grimly,
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