Julie Berry
1) Lovely war
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English
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The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: "Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?" but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music revealing that War is no match for the...
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Language
English
Description
In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a...
Author
Series
Wishes and Wellingtons volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
340 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Maeve, Tommy, and their best friend Alice embark on an adventure filled with magic, danger and flying carpetbags to rescue Tommy's father and the djinni Mermeros before Mesmeros's fabled wishes fall into the wrong hands.
Author
Series
Wishes and Wellingtons volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
363 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Maeve Merritt, chafing against the rigid rules of her London boarding school, finds her life transformed by the genie she happens upon--and by those who want to steal him.
Author
Series
Wishes and Wellingtons volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
357 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1897 England, while visiting Cambridge University, thirteen-year-old Maeve Merritt and her friends encounter charmed mirrors, meddling thieves, and a lady scholar who does not believe in magic--yet.
11) Cranky right now
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A hilarious ride through the ups and downs of being grumpy, helping kids deal with cranky feelings, frustrating relationships, and things that just make them mad"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Description
191 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Escaping the Splurch Academy infirmary using stolen keys, Cody Mack and friends prepare for Halloween and try to figure out Cody's dreams about a giant beetle that seems to be turning him into a monster.
Author
Series
Splurch Academy for disruptive boys volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
187 pages.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Description
308 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Orphaned at age five, Lucinda, now fifteen, stands with courage against the man who took everything from her, aided by a thief, a clever goat, and a mysterious woman called the Witch of Amaranth, while the prince she knew as a child prepares to marry, unaware that he, too, is in danger.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Description
276 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Young dairymaid Begonia has lost her cow, Alfalfa. So she has set off on a search across the countryside even though she has nothing but a magical map to guide her. Meanwhile, the Emperor has gone missing from the royal palace in a most mysterious manner. Was it murder? Was it magic? It will take all of Begonia's wits to save the empire and get Alfalfa home safely"--
