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1) Iron flame
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....
Author
Series
A court of thorns and roses volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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Description
Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever"--Provided by publisher.
3) Uprooted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 26
Description
"Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. The...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"Men and women who lay their life on the line never escape unscathed, and when the time comes to return home, they find a wall between them, and loved ones. These tales follow those who gather the hope to begin healing, and tearing down the walls that have sprung up between them, and their loved ones. No one ever said it would be easy ..."--Amazon.com
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
i, 127 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
A cottage by the sea, nestled in a respectable neighborhood. It should be a safe haven...Elizabeth Markham has run away from school and seeks the house of her godmother, six miles outside of Portsmouth. Seavale Cottage is a place of peace, and Elizabeth will be safe under Mrs. Brownhurst's care.But she arrives at Seavale only to discover that Mrs. Brownhurst has gone away, leaving Elizabeth to fend for herself. She finds assistance in her servants...
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"A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, called "a very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic" by The New York Times Book Review. Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter ofmoneylenders, but her father is not a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has left his family on the edge of poverty--until Miryem intercedes. Hardening her heart, she sets out...
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Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Amara is a young woman of Cormanor, a household whose womenfolk have the ability to transform into cormorants to fly and dive for fish. Kellen is the youngest prince of the realm, a seventh son of a seventh son, and wishes to see these remarkable women for himself. During the pageantry upon the lake, Amara's cousin falls into the water and is spirited away by the Grimly, a malign creature of the elder world! Kellen braves both water and monster to...
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Series
Avatar Wizard volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
178 pages; 20 cm.
Description
Jeremy has a problem: he randomly turns into a black and white bear cub. The transformations panic his mom, but his father says he knows a wizard who can help. That scares his mother even more. The volkh wizards once ruled like gods in their power, building the great golden city of Miklagard, establishing kingdoms, and trading with legendary places like Sheba, Chin, and India. Then the Dark arose and the wars destroyed much of the world. Kingdoms...
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Series
The avatar wizard volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Jeremy's celebration party for his passing the second degree of the volkh path is stopped when a band of armed men demand to speak with Master Anthony. Who disturbs the keep of the world's greatest remaining wizard-lord? And that young healer with them. Why is Jeremy so attracted to her? In a world where the volkh wizards once ruled as gods, and the Light wars with the forces of Darkness, a teenaged boy discovers that there are other important things...
Series
Light unto another world volume 2
Physical Desc
157 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Uriel Makkis didn’t know what to expect when he finally met the king of Fulnar, apart from learning exactly why he had been pulled to this new world. He did not expect to become an immediate enemy of the state. The twin revelations that he was summoned to be used as a weapon of conquest, and that his fellow Swords were evil people from back on Earth, however, made that inevitable. Without intending to do so, Uriel finds himself embroiled in a far...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
90 pages : 23 cm
Description
Time-Travelling Pirates In Space In the far distant future, with the galaxy locked in an area of dark space where electronics will not work, Little John Singapore sits in a prison cell on Pluto awaiting execution. Singapore is the First Mate of the pirate ship, the Timeless. As he awaits his fate he agrees to tell a young author one story each day about his ship and his Captain, Rock Congo. Singapore tells how the Governor of the Sol system Garabaldi...
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
A collection of illustrated micro-fiction. During MarsCon 2023 the three Moms of the Apocalypse handed out images to anyone who wanted to enter the contest. The rules were simple: write down a complete story in fifty words, and then send it to us. These are the winners of that challenge!
Author
Series
The guardian cycle volume 1
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
147 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
A man whose debts must be paid by vengeance. A woman desperate to save her husband. A grieving father finding a young enemy soldier on his veritable doorstep... These fantasy and soft sci-fi stories wonder whether or not heroes need families. Are we not told that families slow the hero down? Is it not typically implied that they get in the way of the adventure? Are they a burden, or truly the greatest strength from which the hero and those he loves...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
161 pages : 23 cm.
Description
Journeying into the unknown is a daunting task, even for those prepared to do so.
True heroes are those who will take that journey when the need arises, despite their fears.
Facing the unknown is less daunting, however, for those fortunate enough to be in the company of trusted comrades.
Uriel Makkis and his small group of friends have successfully escaped the Kingdom of Fulnar for the friendly, elf kingdom of Valtenar, but that doesn’t mean things...
16) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants -- rather than the BFG -- she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she...
Author
Series
The guardian cycle volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
In Halcyon, meet a man who has been abused in a prison camp for so long that he has forgotten his own name - but not the desire to survive. Follow the adult orphans Warlock Ruthers produced in his campaign for power as they protect two children whom he seeks to murder to defeat a prophecy of his downfall in American Mage. Meanwhile, Allan Kearney and Michio Oshika work on removing the demon tattoos from the former's back at the same time they seek...
18) Prospero lost
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Miranda, daughter of the magician Prospero from Shakespeare's Tempest, lives in the modern age. Upon discovering that her father has gone missing, she must discover the location of her other siblings and convince them to save their father, before the Three Shadowed Ones destroy the Family Prospero. She is accompanied by her company gumshoe, an airy spirit stuck in a body that looks a bit like Humphrey Bogart. Humor, mystery, wonder.
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Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
274 pages : 22 cm.
Description
The small island of Sark in the English Channel is the last feudal government in Europe. By law, no motor vehicles run on the road, and no lights burn at night. Only the lord of the island may keep hounds. Into the strange, high house of Wrongerwood wanders Hal Landfall, penniless graduate student at Magdalen College, looking for his missing friend Manfred Hathaway, who has just inherited the lordship, the house, and the island. What he finds instead...
20) Tuck everlasting
Author
Pub. Date
1975
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
139 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
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