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Author
Series
Bargainer volume 2.5
Publisher
Sourcebooks Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the beginning, there was darkness. Before he met his soulmate, Callypso Lillis, and before he became the Bargainer or the King of Night, he was just Desmond Flynn, the bastard son of a scribe. A boy born to a weak mother in a lowly city, cursed with little magic, and destined to marry a slave. A boy taught to hide his truths from the realm of Night...and from himself. But fate had something else in mind. In an instant, Des loses everything, and...
Author
Series
Monster Hunter International volume 7
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Owen Pitt and the rest of the Monster Hunter International crew are called away to mount a months-long rescue mission in a monster-infested nightmare dimension, Julie Shackleford Owen's wife and descendant of MHI founder Bubba Shackleford is left behind. Her task: hold down the fort and take care of her new baby son, Ray. But then a routine field call brings her face-to-face with an unspeakable evil calling itself Brother Death. Julie is the...
Author
Series
Alamaxa duology volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The world is on fire...but some women can control it. The Daughters of Izdihar-a group of women fighting for the vote and against the patriarchal rule of Parliament-have finally made strides in having their voices heard...only to find them drowned out by the cannons of the fundamentalist Ziranis. As long as Alamaxa continues to allow for the elemental magic of the weavers-and insist on allowing an academy to teach such things-the Zirani will stop...
Author
Series
Future hero volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jarell has never quite known where he belongs. He's ignored at home and teased at school for wanting to draw instead of playing sports with the other boys. The only place he's ever felt truly at ease is his local barbershop where the owner hangs Jarell's art up on the walls. When Jarell discovers a hidden portal in the barbershop, he's transported to a magical world that's unlike anything he's seen before. But it's not just the powerful gods and dangerous...
Author
Series
Scarlet alchemist volume 1
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to eat in order to stay young forever. Instead she lives in an impoverished village in southern China, practicing an illegal form of alchemy to keep food on the table: resurrecting the dead, for a price. Given a chance to complete her imperial exams, she is followed to the capital by her reputation for raising the dead. The Crown...
Author
Series
Saga of the forgotten warrior volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
February 2019.
Language
English
Description
Ashok Vidal was once a member of the highest caste in all of Lok whose life was devoted to upholding the Law, delivering swift justice with his ancestor blade Angruvadal. Until the day he learned his entire life to that point was a lie. Now one of the casteless, he began a campaign of rebellion, war and destruction. Thera had been a member of the Warrior Order, spending her life training for combat until she was struck by lightning gaining the power...
67) Spark slingers
Author
Series
Cloud City volume 1
Publisher
BWL Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Deret Day’s got spark. Lots of it. He always knows exactly what to do. It’s been his gift for as long as he can remember, and it makes him stand out in his dreary little town of Median. But it’s not until he is mysteriously led to find an even more mysterious book about clouds, that his “just fine” life is headed for so much more. Recruited into an atmospherically diverse team of other Sparkslingers, Deret’s natural spark-slinging abilities...
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Years ago, Tomorrow - a noxious cloud of funky gas - descended on Manhattan, cutting the island off from the rest of the world and mutating the remaining population. Now, survivors exist amid the rubble of modernity, wearing cast-off clothing from generations past, worshipping celebrities from the past as ambivalent gods and communicating through roughly drawn emojis. Manhattan exists in a state of delicate balance between neighbourhoods, with each...
69) Rebel skies
Author
Series
Rebel skies volume 1
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Kurara has never known any other life than being a servant onboard the Midori, a flying ship serving the military elite of the Mikoshiman Empire, a vast realm of floating cities. Kurara also has a secret -- she can make folded paper figures come to life with a flick of her finger. But when the Midori is attacked and Kurara's secret turns out to be a power treasured across the empire, a gut-wrenching escape leads her to the gruff Himura, who takes...
70) Zhara
Author
Series
Guardians of dawn volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Forbidden from practicing magic and burdened by her responsibilities, Jin Zhara's life takes an unexpected turn when she becomes involved with the Guardians of Dawn, a group dedicated to fighting a demonic plague that is corrupting magicians.
Author
Series
Out of the dark volume 3
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The Earth, now a starfaring civilization, is desperate for allies in a universe teeming with hostile aliens and predators, and a group of determined individuals make a discovery that could bring down the Hegemony that dominates the galaxy once and for all.
Author
Series
Shadow age volume 1
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Petra Grady has known since adolescence that she has no talent for magic--and that's never going to change. But as a sweeper first-class, she's parlayed her rare ability to handle dross -- the damaging, magical waste generated by her more talented kin's spellwork -- into a decent life working at the mages' university. Except Grady's relatively predictable life is about to be upended. When the oblivious, sexy, and oh-so-out-of-reach Benedict Strom...
Author
Series
Waxways volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
As expected, Landwin Brood doesn't appreciate Theo's new bond to Ren Monroe; despite her brilliance and magical prowess, Landwin won't look past her Lower Quarter origins. Although Landwin attempts to separate them, Ren maintains her single-minded focus on revenge. Unbeknownst to Thugar, the eldest Brood, Dahvid and Nevelyn Tin'Vori, who are in hiding, are also out for vengeance as descendants of another family who fell victim to the Broods. Their...
74) Champion of fate
Author
Series
Heromaker volume 1
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Aristene are an order of mythical female warriors. Though heroes might be immortalized in legends, it's the Aristene who guide their paths to victory. They are the Heromakers. Raised by the order after being orphaned, Reed grew up surrounded by her future sisters-in-arms and the incredible stories of their quests. She's been counting the days until her initiation, and now one final test stands in her way: shepherding her first hero to glory on the...
Author
Series
Kingdom of lies volume 2
Publisher
Bingeable Books LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Risk everything for your kingdom…Or be destroyed by it. In a world darkened by deceit, the truth is a light that won't be dimmed. Even when it illuminates Lorian's betrayals more starkly than I could ever want to see. They call him the Bloodthirsty Prince. His reign of terror has left a trail of blood across this continent. A trail that intertwines with my own past–not even my parents were spared from his merciless slaughter. To save my brother's...
77) Bonesmith
Author
Series
House of the dead duology volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the Dominions, the dead linger, violent and unpredictable, unless a bonesmith severs the ghost from its earthly remains. For bonesmith Wren, becoming a valkyr--a ghost-fighting warrior--is a chance to solidify her place in the noble House of Bone and impress her frequently absent father. But when sabotage causes Wren to fail her qualifying trial, she is banished to the Border Wall, the last line of defense against a wasteland called the Breach...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
On September 6, 1995, Alex Dean is having a perfect day with his girlfriend Holly. He's 20 years old, a musician; he has a place at Cambridge, he's in love and full of spontaneity. Then a chance encounter leads to a violent altercation, and Alex nearly dies. The next day he wakes up, and it's 2010. He's older, he's in a strange flat, he has an alcohol addiction, and Holly is nowhere to be found. Just as Alex begins to piece things together, he falls...
Author
Series
Prison healer volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, working as the prison healer. When the Rebel Queen is captured, Kiva is charged with keeping the terminally ill woman alive long enough for her to undergo the Trial by Ordeal: a series of elemental challenges against the torments of air, fire, water, and earth, assigned to only the most dangerous of criminals. Then a coded message...
80) The gilded cage
Author
Series
Prison healer volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Kiva Meridan is a survivor. Not only did she survive Zalindov Prison, but also the deadly Trial by Ordeal. Now, Kiva's purpose goes beyond survival to vengeance. For the past ten years, her only goal was to reunite with her family and destroy the people responsible for ruining their lives. But now that she has escaped Zalindov, her mission has become more complicated than ever. As Kiva settles into her new life in the capital, she discovers she wasn't...
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