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1) The reef
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Marine archeologist Tate Beaumont and scavenger Matthew Lassiter meet and fall in love while diving in the West Indies excavating an undersea wreck. Businessman Silas Van Dyke steals their treasure and destroys their excavation site in his ruthless pursuit of a 16th century amulet called Angeliques's Curse. Penniless, Matthew severs his relationship with Tate so she will pursue her academic career. Eight years later, they reunite to find the amulet...
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Madison Avery novels volume 1
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Spunky teen Madison, though technically dead, uses a stolen amulet to retain the illusion of a body and help her in the struggle between Light and Dark reapers.
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Mark of the thief trilogy volume 1
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When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome.
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Dangerous damsels volume 2
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"Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the teahouse. . . . Miss Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret league of women skilled in the subtle arts. That is to say-although it must never be said-witchcraft. The Wicken League strives to improve the world in small ways. Using magic, they tidy, correct, and manipulate according to their notions of what is proper, entirely unlike those reprobates in the Wisteria Society. When the long-lost amulet...
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Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 1
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Emily and her brother Navin head for Kanalis to find an antidote for the poison that is killing their mother.
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The Keepers (Ted Sanders) volume 1
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Horace F. Andrews, armed with a strange wooden box, and Chloe Burke, wearing a mysterious dragonfly pendant, become entangled in a secret and ancient society striving to protect powerful devices from the evil Riven.
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Mark of the thief trilogy volume 3
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Nicolas Calva has Caesar's magic bulla, the Malice of Mars, and he has hidden the dangerous Jupiter Stone, but he still has to find a way to defeat The Mistress, a dragon who contains the soul of the vestalis Atroxia, and who hates Rome, and save his mother and friends, and maybe even the Empire itself--and he is troubled by his sneaking sympathy for Atroxia, who was unjustly condemned.
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Long ago, in the land of Dartmoor, a magic man created an enchanted charm that granted its possessor incredible power -- at the cost of the wearer's own tenderness and compassion. After the merciless Flint Heart causes much destruction, it is lost among the reeds and rocks of the moor, where a kindly farmer discovers it thousands of years later. With the Flint Heart in his possession, the once adoring father Billy Jago is transformed into a cruel...
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It's been ten years since Morgan Shaw said, "I do" to Adam, her Wall Street banker husband. But rather than days of champagne and flowers, the decade has buried their passion. Now they have a mutual plan for seduction, each wanting to bring the sex back into their sex life...in daring, explosive ways. Also daring is Morgan's latest obsession with the mysterious locked White Star box.
Adam is convinced Morgan's fixation isn't healthy. Especially...
Adam is convinced Morgan's fixation isn't healthy. Especially...
10) My lord eternity
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Accepting Lucien Valin as a tenant in her home, Jocelyn Kingly, shunned by the town due to a past scandal, roams London's streets at night, helping the most wretched, and is unaware that soon she will be the one who needs help.
12) My lord vampire
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Infiltrating London high society to earn the trust of Simone, Lady Gilbert, who possesses an amulet of unimaginable power, vampire Gideon Ravel is unprepared for her beauty and wit until she reveals a secret that is darker than his own.
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"On the brink of execution, 16 year old Ebba den Eeden is unexpectedly elevated from the bunker deep in South Africa's Table Mountain where she has lived all her life, believing--as do all the other teenagers who toil daily to make their food and power the bunker--that the world "Above" is uninhabitable due to a nuclear holocaust. Instead, she is heiress to a massive fortune--one that everyone wants to control. While dealing with the machinations...
15) Legacy of blood
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When Lysander and his barracks are sent to Taras, Italy, to protect a vital trading post threatened by a local uprising, he spies a statue of a figure wearing the Fire of Ares and sets out to discover his connection to the city, hoping to learn more of his mysterious heritage.
17) The fire of Ares
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When slaves rebel in ancient Sparta, twelve-year-old Lysander, guarded by an heirloom amulet, the Fire of Ares, is caught between the Spartan ruling class, with whom he has been training as a warrior since his noble heritage was revealed, and those among whom he was recently laboring as a slave.
20) Jazz and Ella
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"Orlando Adventure tells the story of Jazz, a fourteen year old high school freshman, and his best friend, Ella, who meet on the way to Disney World. A supernatural being gives them each a magic amulet, which the children use to transport themselves to new and different worlds. They meet and deal many situations that cause them to face their fears and even terrors; that suggest ways that situations can be handled; and they see some of the choices...
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