Justine Eyre
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English
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After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year's Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis's father, a former army Colonel who is already embarrassed by his son's inability to serve in WWII due to his being colorblind. To Maddie's horror, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favor is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed...
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In a witch's house, nothing is as it seems. When a scarecrow climbs over the garden wall, delivering twelve-year-old orphan Zita Brydgeborn a letter saying she has inherited a distant castle, she jumps at the chance of adventure. But little does she know that she is about to be thrust into a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Blackbird Castle was once home to a powerful dynasty of witches, all of them now dead under mysterious circumstances....
3) Passion
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Series
Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 3
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English
Description
Desperate to unlock the curse that condemns her love for Daniel, Luce revisits her past incarnations trying to understand her fate, but Daniel is chasing her throughout the centuries in order to keep her from rewriting their history.
4) Rapture
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Series
Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 4
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English
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While searching for the place where the angels fell to earth to stop Lucifer from erasing the past, Luce and Daniel make a startling discovery about their love.
5) Torment
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Series
Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 2
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English
Description
In a desperate effort to save Luce from the Outcasts --immortals who want her dead, Luce and Daniel are forced to be apart from each other and, as she discovers more about her past lives, she starts to suspect that Daniel may have lied to her about their shared past and that she may have been destined to be with someone else all along.
6) Fallen
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Series
Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 1
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English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Luce, who is suspected of killing her boyfriend, is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.
7) Insurrecto
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English
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"Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte's Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created "a howling wilderness" of the surrounding countryside....
8) Unforgiven
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Series
Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 5
Language
English
Description
Cam is more familiar than most of his fellow angels with Hell, and high school is no easier. Cam aches to see Lilith, the girl of his dreams, pay for the crimes that Cam committed. Thanks to a bet with Lucifer, Cam now has 15 days to make Lilith fall back in love with him. Failure will send Cam straight back to Hell. Here, at last, is Cam's story