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Then there's the fact that she's running for her life from an evil corporation that's trying to kill her and her supernatural friends. First of all, she can't figure out how she feels about a certain antisocial werewolf or his charming brother-who just happens to be a sorcerer. The Reckoning: Chloe Saunders's life is not what you would call normal. Now Chloe's running for her life with three of her supernatural friends-a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch-and they have to find someone who can help them before the Edison Group catches them. She's a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control, which means she can raise the dead without even trying. The Awakening: Chloe Saunders is a living science experiment-not only can she see ghosts, but she was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. before its skeletons come back to haunt her. The question is, whose side are they on? 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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Urn:lcp:bleakhouse00dick_2:lcpdf:02d66672-8f6a-42a4-a99e-8c62230638e1 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bleakhouse00dick_2 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t24b72q79 Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780141904818ĩ780141439723 Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9969 Ocr_module_version 0.0.20 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary O元702656M Openlibrary_edition Bleak House, Penguin Classics by Charles Dickens 9780141439723 Booktopia Books > Fiction > Classic Fiction Book 16.75 eBook 10.99 Bleak House Penguin Classics By: Charles Dickens ( 1 review ) Write a Review About this Book Paperback 1088 Pages Age 18+ Dimensions (cm) 19.8x13.1x4. 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