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61) The just city
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 500 and 1000 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager...
Author
Series
(Rebecca J.).Elements of Cadence volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
467 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Tamerlaine hasn't stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. Enchantments run deep on Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawls can be as strong as armor, and the smallest cut of a knife can instill fathomless fear. The capricious spirits that rule the isle by fire, water, earth, and wind...
63) Shadows of self
Author
Series
Mistborn novel volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
383 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns to the world of Mistborn with his first novel in the series since The Alloy of Law. With The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy, in a period corresponding to late 19th-century America.The trilogy's heroes are now figures of myth and legend, even objects of religious veneration. They are...
Author
Series
Pendragon volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Bobby finds himself in the territory of Cloral, a world entirely covered by water, which is nearing a huge disaster. He learns that it is up to him to help rid the area of marauders and locate the legendary lost land of Faar, which may hold the key to Cloral's survival.
65) Kingdom of ash
Author
Series
Throne of glass volume 7
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
Aelin has risked everything to save her people, but at a tremendous cost. Locked within an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. Aware that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, though her resolve begins to unravel with each passing day.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America, from the always inventive and exciting author of The Love Wife and Who's Irish. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and live on high ground, and the mostly coppertoned "Surplus,"...
Author
Series
The Licanius trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 729 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
""Love The Wheel of Time? This is about to become your new favorite series." - B&N SF & Fantasy Blog The second book in a glorious new fantasy trilogy by the next major force in commercial epic fantasy. In the wake of the devastating attack on Ilin Illan, an amnesty has been declared for all Augurs - finally allowing them to emerge from hiding and openly oppose the dark forces massing against Andarra. However as Davian and his new allies hurry north...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, she's a con woman of unsurpassed talent....
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
c2021
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before even The Phantom Menace . . . Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in The High Republic. It is a golden age. Intrepid hyperspace scouts expand the reach of the Republic to the furthest stars, worlds flourish under the benevolent leadership of the Senate, and peace reigns, enforced by the wisdom and strength of the renowned order of Force users known as the Jedi. With the Jedi at the height of their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Twins imbued with incredible magic and near-immortality will do anything to keep their family safe-even if it tears the siblings apart-in the first book of a mythic epic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls. Rhea and her twin brother, Lexos, have spent an eternity helping their father rule their small, unstable country, using their control over the seasons, tides, and stars to keep the people in line. For a hundred years,...
Author
Series
Girls of Paper and Fire volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"In this mesmerizing sequel to the New York Times bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire, Lei and Wren have escaped their oppressive lives in the Hidden Palace, but soon learn that freedom comes with a terrible cost. Lei, the naive country girl who became a royal courtesan, is now known as the Moonchosen, the commoner who managed to do what no one else could. But slaying the cruel Demon King wasn't the end of the plan---it's just the beginning. Now Lei...
72) Crystal keepers
Author
Series
Five Kingdoms volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Journeying in a magical region where he continues his search for his friends and works to correct magical imbalances in The Outskirts, Cole confronts challenges that threaten to trap him in the world between reality and imagination.
73) Sky Raiders
Author
Series
Five kingdoms volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Whisked through a portal to The Outskirts, an in-between world, sixth-grader Cole must rescue his friends and find his way back home--before his existence is forgotten.
74) Shadowsong
Author
Series
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
x, 387 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Six months after the events of "Wintersong," the barrier between worlds begins to crumble, sending Liesl back to the Underground where she searches for answers about life, death, and the Goblin King.
Author
Series
The Daevabad trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Daevabad has fallen.
After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander, Dara, must try to repair their fraying alliance and stabilize a fractious, warring people.
But the bloodletting and loss of his beloved Nahri have unleashed the worst demons of Dara's dark past. To vanquish them, he must face some ugly truths about his history and put himself at the mercy of those he once considered...
76) The choice
Author
Series
The dragon heart legacy volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The conclusion of the epic trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening and The Becoming. Talamh is a land of green hills, high mountains, deep forests, and seas, where magicks thrive. But portals allow for passage in and out-and ultimately, each must choose their place, and choose between good and evil, war and peace, life and death... Breen Siobhan Kelly grew up in the world of Man and was once unaware of her true nature....
78) Siege of stone
Author
Series
Sister of Darkness The Nicci Chronicles volume III
Sister of darkness The Nicci chronicles volume III
Nicci chronicles volume 3
Sister of darkness The Nicci chronicles volume III
Nicci chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The ramifications of Shroud of Eternity extends throughout all of the Old World as familiar allies, dangerous magic, and creatures created by twisted sorcery all work at cross purposes to either save or destroy Ildakar in Terry Goodkind's Siege of Stone. The Sorceress Nicci, the Wizard Nathan Rahl, and the young swordsman Bannon remain in the legendary city of Ildakar after a great internal revolt has freed the slaves and brought down the powerful...
79) The Hazel Wood
Author
Series
Hazel Wood volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.
80) Elevation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together--a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs...