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81) Glass sword
Author
Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Mare's blood is red -- the colour of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from the prince and friend who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Pursued by the Silver king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red and Silver fighters...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
13 CDs (16 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Following Star Wars: Aftermath and Star Wars: Life Debt, Chuck Wendig delivers the exhilarating conclusion to the New York Times best selling trilogy set in the years between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.
Author
Series
Heartland trilogy (Chuck Wendig) volume 1
Publisher
Skyscape/Amazon Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Angry with the oppressive dictates of the Empyrean government, Heartlander and Captain of the Big Sky Scavengers Cael McAvoy discovers a secret, illegal garden and Cael, together with his crew, decides to make his own luck ... a choice that will bring down the wrath of the Empyrean elite and change life in the Heartland forever.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Long ago, Queen Mirantha vanished. King Karolje claimed it was an assassination by a neighboring king, but everyone knew it was a lie. He had Disappeared her himself. But after finding the missing queen's diary, Anza--impassioned by her father's unjust execution and inspired by Mirantha's words--joins the resistance group to overthrow the king. When an encounter with Prince Esvar thrusts her into a dangerous game of court politics, one misstep could...
85) The key to fury
Author
Series
Key volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What price would you pay for freedom? Return to the acclaimed dystopian world of the Key by New York Times bestselling author Kristin Cast, as two young rebels fight to determine their own worth and change the world along with themselves. Safety comes with a price. The Key Corporation has kept Westfall safe from pandemics for the last fifty years. But that's not all they've done. After discovering the shocking truth behind the Key Corporation, nurse...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's September 1999 and the world is on the cusp of a new millennium. In rural Maine, Gordon St. Onge, known as "The Prophet," presides over his controversial Settlement, a place rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the grid and off the land. Out in greater America, Bruce Hummer, the aging CEO of multinational corporation Duotron Lindsey, lays off workers by the thousands. Meanwhile, the newest member of the Settlement,...
87) Seven devils
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Eris faked her death, she thought she had left her old life as the heir to the galaxy's most ruthless empire behind. But her recruitment by the Novantaen Resistance, an organization opposed to the empire's voracious expansion, throws her right back into the fray. Eris has been assigned a new mission: to infiltrate a spaceship ferrying deadly cargo and return the intelligence gathered to the Resistance. But her partner for the mission, mechanic...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Madrid, 1957. Daniel Matheson, the son of a Texas oil tycoon, arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth through the lens of his camera. He meets Ana Moreno, whose family's interweaving obstacles reveal the lingering grasp of the Spanish Civil War-- as well as chilling definitions of fortune and fear. Daniel's photographs leave him with uncomfortable questions amidst shadows of danger. -- adapted from...
Author
Series
Ember in the ashes volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Laia, Elias, and Helene must risk everything to defeat their foes--both human and supernatural--and prevent the coming of an otherworldly maelstrom"--
Who will survive the storm? The long-imprisoned jinn are on the attack, wreaking bloody havoc in villages and cities alike. But for the Nightbringer, vengeance on his human foes is just the beginning. By his side, Commandant Keris Veturia declares herself Empress, and calls for the heads of any and...
90) City of secrets
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1945, Jewish refugees by the thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it relied on the underground to shelter them; taking false names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for independence. "City of Secrets" follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided--like his new identity--by the underground, he navigates the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
18 CDs (22 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Victory comes at a price. Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Cal's betrayal nearly destroyed her. Now determined to protect her heart, and secure freedom for Reds and newbloods like her, Mare resolves to overthrow the kingdom of Norta once and for all.
92) Poster girl
Author
Language
English
Description
"What's right is right. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan--she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked...
93) Street freaks
Author
Publisher
Grim Oak Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After his extremely popular (and massive) Shannara series of heroic fantasy novels, Brooks takes an unexpected turn to a smooth, standalone, near-future dystopia. Teenage Ash Collins runs from the authorities after his scientist father is murdered. Though his treacherous uncle, Cyrus, has control of all the manpower and gadgets [needed] to capture Ash, the boy manages to reach the outlaw enclave, the Red Zone, and connect with the kids who live there....
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After devastating losses at the hands of the First Order, General Leia Organa has dispatched her agents across the galaxy in search of allies, sanctuary, and firepower -- and her top spy, Vi Moradi, may have just found all three on at the galaxy's edge. A planet of lush forests, precarious mountains, and towering, petrified trees, Batuu is on the furthest possible frontier of the galactic map, the last settled world before the mysterious expanse of...
Author
Publisher
Disney/Lucas Film Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
551 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The reign of the Galactic Empire has reached the Outer Rim planet of Jelucan, where aristocratic Thane Kyrell and rural villager Ciena Ree bond over their love of flying. Enrolling at the Imperial Academy together to become fighter pilots for the glorious Empire is nothing less than a dream come true for the both of them. But Thane sours on the dream when he sees firsthand the horrific tactics the Empire uses to maintain its ironclad rule. Bitter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
457 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Six months after Noam Álvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor. But despite Lehrer's image as a progressive humanitarian leader, Noam has finally remembered the truth that Lehrer forced him to forget--that Lehrer is responsible for the deadly magic infection that ravaged Carolinia. Now that Noam remembers the full extent of Lehrer's crimes, he's determined to use...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family's summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe...
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1655
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Erenthrall--a sprawling city of light and magic, whose streets are packed with traders from a dozen lands and whose buildings and towers are grown and shaped in the space of a day. At the heart of the city is the Nexus, the hub of a magical ley line system that powers Erenthrall. This ley line also links the city and the Baronial plains to rest of the continent and the world beyond. The Prime Wielders control the Nexus with secrecy and lies, but it...
100) Divided we fall
Author
Series
Divided we fall trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danny Wright, seventeen, joined the Idaho Army National Guard to serve the country as his father had, but when the Guard is sent to an anti-government protest in Boise and Danny's gun accidently fires, he finds himself at the center of a conflict that results in the federal government declaring war on Idaho.
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