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1) Scythe
Author
Series
Arc of a scythe volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
Author
Series
Circle of shadows volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Sora can move as silently as a ghost and hurl throwing stars with lethal accuracy. Her gemina, Daemon, can win any physical fight blindfolded and with an arm tied around his back. They are apprentice warriors of the Society of Taigas--marked by the gods to be trained in magic and the fighting arts to protect the kingdom of Kichona. As their graduation approaches, Sora and Daemon look forward to proving themselves worthy of belonging in the elite...
Author
Series
Queen's secret volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Queen's Assassin is forced to take on a mysterious apprentice on his most dangerous mission yet, pulling them both into a vicious web of secrets and lies"--
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After graduating from college in 1941, Elizabeth Jerrold pursues her dream of becoming a stage actress, landing a position as an apprentice in a summer theater company where she hones her acting skills and falls in love with an aspiring director.
Author
Series
Monstrumologist volume 4
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Warthrop begins to doubt fourteen-year-old Will Henry's loyalty, he sets him against one of the most horrific creatures in the Monstrumarium unaware that Will's life and his own fate will lie in the balance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New England scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy the Wendigo, a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh.
Author
Series
Monstrumologist volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
Author
Series
Monstrumologist volume 3
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Warthrop goes hunting for the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" in 1888, twelve-year-old orphan Will Henry follows him to Socotra, plunging into depths of horror worse than anything he has experienced so far.
Author
Series
Eon volume 1
Publisher
Firebird
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
531 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Eon hopes to become an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune and learn to be its main interpreter, but to do so will require much, including keeping secret that she is a girl.
Author
Series
Queen's secret volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lilac's birthright makes her the Queen of Renovia, and a forced marriage made her the Queen of Stavin. But being a ruler does not mean making the rules-- taking the throne means giving up the opportunity to be with love of her life, the kingdom's assassin, Caledon Holt. Cal is forced to leave the castle when a horrific set of magical attacks threatens Lilac's sovereignty. Now Cal and Lilac will have to battle dark forces separately, even though being...
Author
Series
The Rover volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Eon volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Facing the ultimate battle for control of the land she calls home, Eona finds herself waging an internal battle every bit as devastating as the war threatening to break out across the kingdom.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 2018 Atlanta, Georgia, seventeen-year-old apprentice Demon Trapper Riley Blackthorne must deal with unwanted fame, an unofficial bodyguard, an overprotective friend, the Vatican's own Demon Trappers, and an extremely powerful Grade Five demon who is stalking her.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 355 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 2018 Atlanta, Georgia, after a demon threatens seventeen-year-old Riley Blackthorne's life and murders her father, a legendary demon trapper to whom she was apprenticed, her father's partner, Beck, steps in to care for her, knowing she hates him.
18) Defy the night
Author
Series
Defy the night volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The kingdom of Kandala is divided by corruption, and a sickness is ravaging the land. The only known cure to the sickness is an elixir made from delicate Moonflower petals, which are delicate and limited. King Harristan was thrust into power after his parents' assassination; the younger Prince Corrick takes on the brutal role of the King's Justice. The brothers have learned to react mercilessly to any sign of rebellion. Out in the Wilds, apothecary...
Author
Series
Nightshade volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lady Ember Morrow fulfills a family obligation by joining her friend Alistair in the Conatus Guard and begins training to help with the order's true mission, to seek out and stop evildoers and their unnatural creations.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the late seventeenth century, fifteen-year-old Kit, driven to desperation by the starvation of one brother and mistreatment of his own simple-minded twin, realizes his dream of becoming an apprentice in London but feels drawn by duty to return home to Essex.
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