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Eleven-year-old Pearl Moran cannot imagine life without the historic but under-utilized branch of the New York Public Library where she was born (in the Memorial Room) and where her single mother works as the circulation librarian; the other librarians, the neighborhood people, the raccoons, and most of the 41,000 plus books all form the structure and essence of her life--but when someone cuts off the head of the library's statue of Edna St. Vincent...
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Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians is the first adventure in a fantasy series for all ages by the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry gets a bag of sand in the mail-his only inheritance from his father and mother. He soon learns that this is no ordinary bag of sand. It is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians who are taking over the world by spreading misinformation...
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[2019]
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"Supervillain Victor Spoil is facing his most diabolical, fiendish, nefarious archenemy yet -- his local librarian! Hoping that a low-key job at the library will keep him out of supersized trouble, Victor unfortunately discovers that even nerdy librarians can crave total global domination! Their scheme to hypnotize every adult into being happy and useful members of society is one of the most evil, horri -- Victor must decide if the world will be better...
11) Sparrow
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2017.
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Fourteen-year-old Sparrow Cooke of Brooklyn has always been the kind of child who prefers reading books to playing with friends (not that she has many of those) and since fifth grade the one person who seemed to understand her was the school librarian--so when Mrs. Wexler was killed in an accident Sparrow's world came apart, and when she was found on the edge of the school roof everyone assumed that it was a suicide attempt, which Sparrow denies,...
13) The haunted howl
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[2016]
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In their third trip through the enchanted library, Cleo and Evan land in "The Werewolf's Curse" where Evan is promptly bitten by a werewolf, and the two need to find the cure--and the next key--before the full moon rises and Evan becomes stuck in this horror story forever.
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2008
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The girl who cried monster: Lucy is obsessed with monster stories. She tells so many that her family and friends are getting sick of it, especially her brother Randy. So her mom tells her to go to the library with her friend, Aaron, to fill up her time during summer. Lucy finds the librarian, Mr. Mortman, somewhat eccentric. But she cannot quite put her finger on it.
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