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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Evil always seeks a foothold. We must not give it one. The electrifying conclusion to the ... Serpent & Dove series ... Lou has spent her whole life running. Now, after a crushing blow from Morgane, the time has come to go home--and claim what is rightfully hers"--
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Publisher
Bookcraft
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This volume of the Work and the Glory series covers the years from 1841 to 1844. The city of Nauvoo is firmly established, and revelations and blessings continue to pour down on the Saints. But dark forces are at work against the Church, and soon Joseph and Hyrum Smith are martyred at Carthage.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Nadia Comăneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games and went on to collect three gold medals in performances which influenced the sport for generations to come, cementing Nadia's place as a sporting legend. However, as the...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
For twenty years, Channelers--women with a magical ability--have been persecuted in Malam by those without magic. Now, King Aodren wants to end the bloody divide and unite his kingdom. But decades of hatred can't be overcome by issuing decrees, and rumors of a deadly Channeler-made substance are only fueling people's fears. Lirra, a wind Channeler, has every reason to distrust Aodren. Yet when he asks for help uncovering the truth behind the rumors,...
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
It has been nearly seventy years since Hitler's armies won the war, and sixteen-year-old Zara St. James lives in the Shenandoah hills, part of the Eastern American Territories, under the rule of the Nazis--but a resistance movement is growing, and Zara, who dreams of freedom, may be the key to its success.
Publisher
Excel Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
When Benjamin Steed and his family move to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help, Joseph Smith, turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each member of the Steed family must come to terms with their own beliefs in the face of heavy persecution.
Author
Publisher
GM&A Publishing
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Facing The Lion is an inspiring autobiographical account of a young, non-Jewish girl standing up for her beliefs in the face of overwhelming pressure to conform to the Nazi propaganda machines. Simone refuses to accept the Nazi party and her simple acts of defiance lead her to be persecuted by her school and local officials, and ignored by friends. She is put in a harsh reform school until the end of the war.
12) The virgin blue
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Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin—two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to uncover her family’s French ancestry....
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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"The war between witches and Church is an ancient one, and Lou's most dangerous enemies bring a fate worse than fire. Unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is, a choice must be made."-- jacket
Two years ago Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic. Sworn to the Church as a Chasseur, Reid Diggory has lived by one principle: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live....
14) Silence
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Two Catholic missionaries face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan looking for their missing mentor, at a time when Catholicism was outlawed.
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