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Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Born into hardship, Dar learns to rely on herself alone. When her family betrays her, Dar is conscripted into King Kregantś army and its brutal campaign to conquer a neighboring country. Now she is bound as a slave to a dreaded regiment of orcs, creatures legendary for their savagery and battle prowess. Rather than cower, Dar rises to the challenge. She learns the unique culture and language of the orcs, survives treachery from both allies and enemies,...
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A delicate alliance between human and orc has been achieved. Now Queen of the Orcs, Dar works toward making that peace last. Her position has helped her to finally feel part of a community, to find a life to call her own. But sudden, strange outbreaks of unrest and ominous signs throw both realms into turmoil. Dar must draw on her knowledge and skills to confront a merciless long-time enemy-and an evil she once only barely survived. To keep human...
43) Torn: a novella
Pub. Date
2022
Description
In a world that is falling apart, four Tribes war with each other for leadership. The Elements, who are forced to fight, lose more courage everyday. Mortals flee their homes in lieu of natural disasters. The saving grace is a prophecy. The fate of the Tribes and the human race hangs in the balance of the sacred words being carried out.
Seventeen-year-old Remy Castillo had somewhat of a normal life, fighting for the Water Tribe in Northern Colorado....
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Lorness Carol, coming of age in the kingdom of her warlord father, Lord Rafel, aspires to wield magic. But sheś also unknowingly become the obsession of Kragan, an avenging wielder as old as evil itself. Heś waited centuries to find and kill the female prophesied as the only human empowered to destroy him. However, dispatching the kingś assassin, Blade, to Rafelś Keep, ends in treason. For Blade arrives not with a weapon but rather a warning for...
Author
Pub. Date
p2006
Formats
Description
New York Times reporter Will Monroe's investigation of a rash of seemingly random killings takes a dark and dangerous turn when his wife is kidnapped by shadowy enemies who want him to stop. Desperate to save his wife, Will follows the clues into the heart of New York's Hassidic community, and learns that the stakes of his quest are higher then he could ever imagine. As the death toll rises, he enlists an eccentric Kabbalah expert to decode his wife's...
Author
Series
Tensorate novellas volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as infants. While Mokoya developed her strange prophetic gift, Akeha was always the one who could see the strings that moved adults to action. While Mokoya received visions of what would be, Akeha realized what could be. What's more, they saw the sickness at the heart of their mother's Protectorate. A rebellion is growing. The Machinists discover new levers to...
47) The killing fog
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Survivor of a combat school, the orphaned Bingmei belongs to a band of mercenaries employed by a local ruler. Now the nobleman, and collector of rare artifacts, has entrusted Bingmei and the skilled team with a treacherous assignment: brave the wilderness’s dangers to retrieve the treasures of a lost palace buried in a glacier valley. But upsetting its tombs has a price. Echion, emperor of the Grave Kingdom, ruler of darkness, Dragon of Night,...
48) Blackbirds
Author
Series
Miriam Black novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The first book in the Miriam Black series: "A sassy, hard-boiled thriller with a paranormal slant" (The Guardian) about a young woman who can see the darkest corners of the future. Miriam Black knows how you're going to die. This makes her daily life a living hell, especially when you can't do anything about it, or stop trying to. She's foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides. She merely needs to touch you -skin to...
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Set in the intriguing Scotland of 200 years ago, the third installment in the romantic adventures of Jamie and Claire is as compelling as the first. Now that Claire knows Jamie survived the slaughter at Culloden, she is faced with the most difficult decision of her life. She aches to travel back through time again to find the love of her life, but, in order to do that, she must leave their daughter behind. It has been 20 years since she and Jamie...
Author
Series
Nicci chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
In the wake of the brutal war that swept the Old World in Siege of Stone, a new danger is forming along the coast. Taken captive by their enemies, King Grieve, along with Lila and Bannon are about to discover the terrifying force that threatens to bring destruction to the Old World. The Norukai, barbarian raiders and slavers, have been gathering an immense fleet among the inhospitably rocky islands that make up their home. With numbers greater than...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2004
Description
In this expanded prequel to THE WHEEL OF TIME saga, Robert Jordan introduces the characters of Moiraine Damodred, a young Accepted soon to be raised to Aes Sedai, and Lan Mandragoran, a young soldier, whose paths are inextricably bound by a shared destiny. For three days battle rages around the great city of Tar Valon, until, on the slopes of Dragonmount, the immense mountain that looms over the city, the future is foretold: a newborn child is prophesied...