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1) Home
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--
Author
Series
Imperial Radch volume 1
Language
English
Description
Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
3) Weatherwitch
Author
Series
Crowthistle chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
Asrãthiel is a beautiful young woman, the darling of the Weathermaster clan. Yet there is an air of sadness that surrounds this beauty, for Asrãthiel lost her mother to an evil enchantment and her father soon after when grief engulfed him and he set off on a quest to find a way to free his love. While she has want for naught Asrãthiel keenly feels the loss of her parents.
Keener still, Asrãthiel feels the loss of mortal life, for while she loves...
Author
Series
Crowthistle chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Jarred is a young boy who has grown up among his mother's peaceful desert people. While Jarred loves his mother, he longs to know the history of his father, a journeyman who left years earlier, promising to return for his wife and infant son. A broken promise but a token left behind-an amulet for Jarred that he has worn always. Some say it brings more than a bit of good luck his way, for no harm has ever befallen the boy.
When Jarred comes to manhood,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Far from the land of her birth, Moirin sets out across Tatar territory to find Bao, the proud and virile Ch'in fighter who holds the missing half of her diadh-anam, the divine soul-spark of her mother's people. After a long ordeal, she not only succeeds but surrenders to a passion the likes of which she's never known. But the lovers' happiness is short-lived, for Bao is entangled in a complication that soon leads to their betrayal.
6) Key of light
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Series
Language
English
Description
The first in the new Key trilogy follows Malory, a woman gifted with artistic talent, as she races to find the Key of Light--a perilous mission that could either forge her destiny or shatter her life forever.
Author
Series
Staff and the sword volume 3
Language
English
Description
"In the stirring conclusion to THE STAFF AND THE SWORD fantasy epic, after the king's death Illustra faces threats both inside and outside its borders. Will the next king be revealed in time to save their world?"--
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Language
English
Description
On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of her family's small home in Belorussia to find her parents and her husband slaughtered beside her and her infant daughter, Sophie, missing. When her aunt tells her the baby is dead, Lillian emigrates to America. She is working as a seamstress at the Yiddish Theater and enjoying caf society when a cousin arrives and insists that her daughter is still alivein Siberia.Lillian cannot stop dreaming...
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Language
English
Description
"A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition--and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back. Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband's lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge. A year later, Virginia stands trial for murder....
Author
Series
Gabriela Rose novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a recovery agent, she's hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets of any kind. She's reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types. But Gabriela's latest job isn't for some bamboozled billionaire, it's for her own family, whose home is going to be wiped off the map if they can't come up with a lot of money fast....
Author
Series
Symphony of Ages volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st mass market ed.
Physical Desc
717 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Prophecy of the Three--Rhapsody, a talented singer; Achmed, an assassin with unearthly powers; and the giant Grunthor--must find their elusive enemy before his darkness consumes them all.
12) Bowl of heaven
Author
Series
Bowl of heaven volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
412 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by the discovery of an immense bowl-shaped structure in space that leads to hostile alien encounters and profound revelations about humanity's place in the universe.
14) The hero's lot
Author
Series
Staff and the sword volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Falsely accused of terrible crimes, Errol Stone is placed under compulsion and sentenced to undertake a perilous quest. He must succeed . . . or die trying"--
Author
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Heirs of Marsan, to save their people, must entrust their lives and the lives of everyone they protect, to someone who shouldn't exist, who cannot be controlled, and who will challenge everything they believe about themselves.
16) Stardust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In the quiet English hamlet of Wall, Tristran Thorn embarks on a remarkable journey through the world of Faerie to recover a fallen star for his lover, the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester.
17) Bloodfire Quest
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
©2013
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
351 pages : color illustration, color map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to "The Wards of Faerie" places the fate of an innocent young girl in the hands of protectors who embark on a dangerous quest to protect a once-peaceful world from dangerous creatures imprisoned behind an eroding magical barrier.
18) Godkiller
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless gods in the world--but after a great war, the new king outlawed them and now pays "godkillers" to destroy any who try to rise from the shadows. As a child, Kissen saw her family murdered by a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing them and enjoys it. But all this changes when Kissen is tasked with helping a young noble girl with...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
426 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan and an unscrupulous zealot, Zachariah Simon, square off in a dangerous game to find the key to a 500 year-old mystery--a treasure with explosive political significance in the modern world: the lost treasures of the Temple of Jerusalem.
20) Shadow speaker
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In West Africa in 2070, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer.
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