The black reckoning

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Tui T. Sutherland

Sunny has always taken the Dragonet Prophecy very seriously. If Pyrrhia's dragons need her, Clay, Tsunami, Glory, and Starflight to end the war, she's ready to try. She even has some good ideas how to do it, if anyone would listen to her. But shattering news from Morrowseer has shaken Sunny's faith in their destiny. Is it possible for anyone to end this terrible war and choose a new SandWing queen? What if everything they've been through was for nothing. Buried secrets, deadly surprises, and an unexpected side to scavengers are all waiting for her in the shifting sands of the desert, where Sunny must decide once and for all: Is her destiny already written? Or can five dragonets change their fate and save the world . . . the way they choose?

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Erin Bow

Otter is a girl of the Shadowed People, a tribe of women, and she is born to be a binder, a woman whose power it is to tie the knots that bind the dead--but she is also destined to remake her world. Otter is a girl of the Shadowed People, a tribe of women, and she is born to be a binder, a woman whose power it is to tie the knots that bind the dead, but she is also destined to remake her world.

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Michael White

In this fascinating, illuminating, and marvelously entertaining volume, eminent science author, editor, educator, and musician Michael White examines eight of the most spectacular breakthroughs of the last four centuries and reveals them to be the mutant offspring of sensational conflicts. From Isaac Newton's clashes with his despised enemy, mathematician Gottfried Liebniz, to Charles Darwin very publicly going head-to-head with Richard Owen over Darwin's "un-Godly and unnatural" theory of evolution to Bill Gates and Larry Ellison's nasty little war to rule cyberspace, here are the battles of brilliant minds and opposing ideologies that dramatically changed our world. - Jacket flap.

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Siobhán Parkinson

To Hal, Fridays are blue, and tangy, like blue lemon sherbert. Olivia thinks he's crazy - Friday is just like Friday, isn't it? Olivia is pretty sure that Hal's mysterious plan to get rid of his not-quite-stepfather, Alec, is even weirder - But things don't go quite as either Hal or Olivia expected.