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Author
Series
Girl at midnight volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A girl, who's adopted and raised by a race of creatures with feathers for hair and magic in their veins, becomes involved in an ancient war and a centuries-old love, discovering startling truths about the world she lives in"--
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
©2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
674 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Uncharted worlds, distant galaxies, and unknown threats lurking in the vastness of the cosmos ... travel to the farthest regions of space in this collection of original short stories. Written by many of today's finest authors, readers will find canonical tales of the Honorverse, the Lost Fleet, Dune, Vatta's War, Ender Wiggin, the Legion of the Damned, the Imperium, and more. Also included are past masterpieces by authors whose works defined the genre....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The vowels and the consonants fight each other until they realize that if they work together they can create marvelous poems, plays, and memoirs.
65) Shadow scale
Author
Series
Seraphina volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Seraphina, half-dragon and half-human, searches for others like her who can make the difference in the war between dragons and humans in the kingdom of Goredd"--
67) Cecil's story
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy thinks about the possible scenarios that exist for him at home if his father goes off to fight in the Civil War.
Author
Series
Dragonwatch volume 4
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
535 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kendra and Seth seek help from the Giant Queen as the war against dragons moves into Titan Valley, a magical realm of towering giants and enslaved dragons.
Author
Publisher
Escarpment Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
588 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Jake Lawlor begins his war as executive officer aboard USS S-49, an aged S-class submarine, with orders to conduct unrestricted warfare against the enemy in the Pacific. When a freak mid-sea grounding causes the loss S-49, Jake assumes command of another boat, USS Orca, a new Gato-class submarine, under construction in Groton, CT. As Jake prepares a new boat and a freshly-assembled crew for war, the conflict in the Pacific is going badly for the Allies....
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
39 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Garang, orphaned by a civil war in Sudan, finds the inner strength to help lead other boys as they trek hundreds of miles seeking safety in Ethiopia, then Kenya, and finally in the United States.
71) Vortex
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While serving as a superhuman government weapon during World War III, teenager Tom Raine's loyalties are tested by corruption and nefarious enemies"--
Author
Series
Seelie wars volume 2
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
290 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Prince Aspen and Snail, the midwife's apprentice, realize that they have started the war they meant to prevent, they take on new identities and go on a quest to make things right"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Ignatius "Brother" Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq, but as he comes to accept the inevitability of change, he also sees the man he is meant to be.
75) How I live now
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. "Every war has turning points and every person too." Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Branwen has accepted the role of Chosen One, and now, with a growing army including her half-owl half-human friend Rhodri and the dashing yet maddening Iwan, she must overcome terrifying odds if she is to succeed in saving Wales from the Saxon invaders.
77) Insignia
Author
Series
Insignia trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
446 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
79) After the bugles
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sam Houston's victory at San Jacinto has made Texas an independent republic. Along with other settlers whose lives have been disrupted by the revolution, Joshua Buckalew tries to put the pieces back together. He finds that starting over in the aftermath of war can be as challenging as war itself. The racial differences that helped foment the conflict have not disappeared -- and being an independent republic can be more difficult than being a colony...
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