Kevin J. Anderson
Author
Series
Clockwork angels volume 1
Publisher
ECW Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel based on the album "Clockwork Angels" by the rock band Rush follows a young man on a quest through a world of lost cities, pirates, anarchists, and a Watchmaker who imposes precision on all aspects of daily life.
Author
Series
Wake the dragon volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Two continents at war: the Three Kingdoms and Ishara have been in conflict for a thousand years. But when an outside threat arises--the reawakening of a powerful ancient race that wants to remake the world--the two warring nations must somehow set aside generations of hatred to form an alliance against a far more deadly enemy"--
Author
Series
Wake the dragon volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Thousands of years ago the god Kur created the wreth, beautiful and powerful in magic. Then he commanded them to destroy Ossus, the dragon at the heart of the world, and disappeared telling them that only when the dragon was destroyed would he return. The wreth created a lesser race -- the humans -- as servants, slaves and soldiers. Millennia later the land is fertile again. Humans have survived; the wreth and Osus are tales of a legendary post.......
Author
Series
Clockwork angels volume 3
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Owen Hardy, retired and content in his quiet, perfect life with the beautiful Francesca, is pulled into one last adventure with his eager grandson Alain. This final mission for the Watchmaker will take them up to the frozen lands of Ultima Thule and the ends of the Earth. Marinda Peake must undertake a mission of her own, not only to compile the true life story of the mysterious Watchmaker, but also to stop a deadly new group of anarchists.
5) Vengewar
Author
Series
Wake the dragon volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Two continents at war: the Three Kingdoms and Ishara have been in conflict for a thousand years. But when an outside threat arises-the reawakening of a powerful ancient race that wants to remake the world-the two warring nations must somehow set aside generations of hatred to form an alliance against a far more deadly enemy. Book one awakened the great dragon, and set the kingdoms at each other's throats. In book two, Vengewar, bitter rivalry and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Jam books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The Dark Jedi Brakiss has established the Shadow Academy to train Jedi. Now he attempts to kidnap the heirs to the Skywalker bloodline and turn them to the dark side of the Force.
Author
Series
Clockwork angels volume 2
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village; she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions to take care of her ailing father, an alchemist and an inventor. When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious inheritance: a blank book that she must fill with other people's stories -- and ultimately her own.
Author
Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Classic tales of mystery, intrigue, and the paranormal continue in this third volume of stories created by Topps Comics! Features issues #20-29, including "Family Portrait", "Donor", "Silver Lining," the three-part "Remote Control" and more!" -- Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Jam Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Anja is addicted to spice, and to get it she steals a ship and flees the Jedi academy. The Jedi Knights give chase and they all end up in the middle of a more dangerous situation.
12) House Atreides
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide. By the time of his death in 1986, Herbert had completed six novels in the series, but much of his vision remained unwritten. Now, working from his father's recently discovered files, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson collaborate on a new novel, the prelude to Dune-where we step onto the planet Arrakis decades before Dune's...
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Leto Atreides, Duke of Caladan and father of the Muad'Dib. While all know of his fall and the rise of his son, little is known about the quiet ruler of Caladan and his partner Jessica. Or how a Duke of an inconsequential planet earned an emperor's favor, the ire of House Harkonnen, and set himself on a collision course with his own death. This is the story."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Dune: The Heir of Caladan, the climactic novel in the Caladan trilogy by New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, we step into the shoes of Paul Atreides. A not yet a man in years, he is about to enter a world he could never have imagined. The story that began with Duke Leto Atreides's rise to power, then continued with the consequences of Lady Jessica's betrayal, will now conclude with Paul becoming the leader that...
Author
Series
Great schools of Dune volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Decades after the Battle of Corrin destroys the thinking machines and establishes Faykan Butler as the first Imperium Emperor, war hero Vor turns his back on political descendants who blame him for their downfall while Gilbertus Albans hides an unbelievable secret and the Butlerian movement sweeps through the known universe intent on destroying technology.
16) Awakening
Author
Series
Hellhole trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A confrontation between General Adolphus and the fleets of Diadem Michella Duchenet is compromised by a shadow-Xayan mental blast, an imminent asteroid collision in the outer Candela system, and a fanatical band of rogue telemancers.
17) Hellhole
Author
Series
Hellhole trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a colonized planet called Hellhole, defeated and exiled rebel General Tiber Adolphus continues his honorable opposition to the political scheming and selfish machinations of the Crown Jewel worlds and grandmotherly Diadem Michella Duchenet. Adolphus and his companions work in secret to undermine the royal space travel monopoly and form a coalition of Deep Zone planets.
Author
Series
Heroes of Dune volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brian Herbert presents the second interquel of Frank Herbert's epic Dune series, continued by his son, Brian, chronicling the life of Lady Jessica after the disappearance of her son, Emperor Paul-Muad'Dib. The growing battle between Jessica and her daughter, Alia, continues as Alia tries to hold the Imperial government together with Duncan and Bronso of Ix seems to be leading the opposition against the House of Atreides. "The Winds of Dune" begins...
Author
Series
Terra incognita volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Terra incognita-- the blank spaces on the map, past the edge of the world, marked only by the words "here be monsters." Two nations at war, fighting for dominion over the known, and undiscovered, world, pin their last hopes of ultimate victory on finding a land out of legend"--Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lady Jessica, mother of Paul, and consort to Leto Atreides. The choices she made shaped an empire, but first the Lady of Caladan must reckon with her own betrayal of the Bene Gesserit. She has already betrayed her ancient order, but now she must decide if her loyalty to the Sisterhood is more important than the love of her own family. Meanwhile, events in the greater empire are accelerating beyond the control of even the Reverend Mother, and Lady...