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"From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland, a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic, Illuminati and QAnon, one of the most enduring narratives that defines the United States is simply this: secret groups...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment, six Alexandrians grapple with the ethics of their astronomical abilities while the outside world mobilizes to destroy them, forcing them to decide what they're willing to betray for limitless power and who will be destroyed along the way.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books / Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The single greatest work of art in the world is not in the Louvre or The Met, or in any private collection. In fact, its whereabouts are unknown. Once in a long while, a child is born possessing the rarest of gifts, the innate ability to feel impossible beauty, to recognize priceless works of art. When such a child is discovered, a 250-year-old secret organization called Our World trains them to acquire the greatest works of art through theft, bribery,...
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Series
HMRC trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Suffering from amnesia, Ciara, masquerading as her dead twin, Niamh, who is about to be crowned High Priestess, must fool Niamh's adopted family and friends, the coven and the murky Shadow Cabinet, soon discovering that her past has not forgotten her, including her former lover, a renegade warlock.
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Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Distracted by the charms of toe beans and tummy fur...productivity halted by a fuzzy weight on your lap or keyboard...precious belongings knocked off their shelves...cats are adorable menaces, out to bring humanity to its knees. Is there any way to escape these evil feline clutches?!"--
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Get lost in the newest fantasy from the author of A Hunger of Thorns, on a beguiling journey behind the closed doors of a sinister secret society. Featuring a steamy enemies-to-lovers romance and a fight for the witching world that will get your heart racing. Merry doesn't need a happily-ever-after. Her life in the charming, idyllic town of Candlecott is fine just as it is. Simple, happy, and with absolutely no magic. Magic only ever leads to trouble....
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Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Lottie Pumpkin had always assumed that nobody could be more protected than a princess. That is, until she became one. In the two years that she's known Ellie Wolf, the rebellious princess hiding her identity, Lottie has been anything but safe. And now they're facing the greatest danger yet--Leviathan, the secret organization intent on taking the princess down. When Leviathan forces them to travel to their beloved Rosewood Hall's sister school in...
Author
Series
Assassin's creed volume 9
Publisher
Ubisoft
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Reliving the memories of his ancestor who fought beside Joan of Arc, high-ranking Templar Simon Hathaway slowly uncovers secrets of the past that could dangerously impact his present ... and that of the entire Templar order. An endless conflict. An old wrong. A new revelation. Simon Hathaway, member of the Templar Inner Sanctum, brings a cool head and detached manner to his new role as Head of Abstergo Industry's Historical Research Division. But...
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Series
House of Marionne volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Quell is reluctantly inducted into a magical debutante society of social elites where she must bind with her forbidden magic while evading the assassin who has been tasked with hunting her kind.
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English
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Taking a caretaking job at a nature preserve, Katie gets more than she bargained for when a terrified woman arrives late at night expecting a safe place to hide, and she suddenly doesn't know whom she can trust as she decides how much she'll risk to do the right thing.
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Publisher
WEBTOON Unscrolled
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Cadis Etrama Di Raizel or Rai, as he is known, awakens after 820 years, he discovers a modern world he simply doesn't understand. Once an extremely powerful member of the Nobles, a race of nearly immortal and powerful creatures, Rai decides to start again as a high school student at Ye Ran High School, founded by his former servant Frankenstein, who is somehow still alive after all these centuries. Frankenstein's goal--to help his powerful, vampire-like...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"For weeks after the sinking of the Titanic, Yorick spots his own name among the list of those lost at sea. As an apprentice librarian for the White Star Line, his job was to curate the ship's second-class library. But just as he was about to board to tend to his library throughout the passage, a superior takes his place, leaving Yorick stranded at the dock. The Titanic was not Yorick's first brush with death, but as with every near-miss he manages...
15) Curious tides
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Series
Drowned gods duology volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Teen mage Emory must unravel the truth behind the secret society that may have been involved in her classmates' deaths.
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Series
Spy school the graphic novel volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After being expelled from spy school, twelve-year-old Ben Ripley accepts an offter to join evil crime organization SPYDER, and although he knows he is a key part of their sinister plan he is not sure how to get word to the good guys without being caught.
17) Party crashers
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Series
Bad princesses volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
While attending the Fine and Ancient Institute for the Royal to learn how to become princesses, Dalia and Dominga devise a plan to join a secret society of villains at the Bewitched Academy of the Dreadful.
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the School of Here, an unsettling and peculiar place that is nonetheless familiar to us all. A place full of codes and unspoken rules that are passed down from year to year. At Here, society is highly stratified, the pairs, friend groups, and outcasts are all ruled by a godlike prince. This year--as all other years--things are not at all as they seem. A self-effacing first-year student vanishes into thin air. A persecuted outsider delivers...
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Series
Charlie Hernández volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A young calaca's appearance at school sends Charlie on a quest to investigate suspicious activity in Miami and learn the truth behind the Golden Dooms"--Provided by publisher.
20) Evil genius
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Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 3
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jake McQuade is the smartest kid in the universe, but if he wants to keep his title he will have to figure out a way to defeat the villain who steals his ingestible knowledge capsules.
Jake McQuade's the smartest kid in the universe--or at least he was. But just as his training with the secret agency known as the Consortium is about to start, Jake's jelly beans go missing! And to make matters worse, they (and Jake's genius!) might...