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Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
400 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Of all the great warriors of Native America, Crazy Horse remains the most enigmatic. Scorned from his childhood for his light hair, he was a man who spurned the love of finery and honors so characteristic of Lakota Sioux warriors. Despite these differences, Crazy Horse led his people to their greatest victory at the Battle of the Little Big Horn where General Custer fell. Crazy Horse's entire life was a triumph of the spirit. In youth, Crazy Horse...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the African nation of Bwalo prepares for The Big Day--the only day in the year the ailing King talks to his subjects--we meet five very different people: Charlie, a curious boy with a dangerous dictaphone habit, eavesdrops on the eccentric guests of the Mirage Hotel. Sean, an Irishman who's given his heart (and the best part of his liver) to Bwalo, struggles to write the great African novel--if only his crazed fianc©♭e and fierce thirst would...
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English
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In the cramped west end of Sharakhai, the Amber Jewel of the Desert, Ceda fights in the pits to scrape a living. She, like so many in the city, pray for the downfall of the cruel, immortal Kings of Sharakhai, but she's never been able to do anything about it. This all changes when she goes out on the night of Beht Zha'ir, the holy night when all are forbidden from walking the streets. It's the night that the asirim, the powerful yet wretched creatures...
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Series
Song of ice and fire volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 63
Physical Desc
1177p. ; maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four contend for power over the Iron Throne and the Land of the Seven Kingdoms; alliances shift, and betrayal is always an option. House Lannister's head, Joffrey, rules uneasily. Joffrey's enemy, Lord Stannis, is disgraced and enthralled. Robb of House Stark still rules the North, implacable in his enmity towards his Lannister foes, even as they hold his sister hostage. And the exiled queen Daenerys, mistress of the world's last three dragons, makes...
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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The Kingmaker's Daughter is the gripping story of the daughters of the man known as the 'Kingmaker,' Richard, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth century England. Without a son and heir, he uses his two daughters as pawns in the political games and they grow up to be influential players in their own right. In this novel, her first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory explores the lives of two fascinating young...
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Series
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The thrilling, epic tale of the young and arrogant prince Maxim Maresh, long before he became the king of Red London and adoptive father to Kell, the lead of A Darker Shade of Magic! The youthful Maresh is sent to a violent and unmanageable port city on the Blood Coast of Verose, on strict orders from his father, King Nokil Maresh, to cut his military teeth in this lawless landscape. There, he encounters an unruly band of soldiers, a lawless landscape,...
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Merlin in Moab volume 3
Physical Desc
399 pages
Language
English
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Arthur, the former King of Camelot, is back! Reborn in the twenty-first century as the son of Merlin Ambrosius, he will grow to adulthood in five years, courtesy of Merlin’s magic, ready to complete the goal he’d failed to achieve in the fifth century.
But will Arthur survive that long? Merlin’s ancient nemesis, who has been responsible for his problems all along, has revealed himself to be none other than the original Dark Angel, Satan. Unbeknownst...
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English
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The High Throne of Erkynland is tottering, its royal family divided and diminished. Queen Miriamele has been caught up in a brutal rebellion in the south and thought to have died in a fiery attack. Her grandson Morgan, heir to the throne, has been captured by one of Utuk'ku's soldiers in the ruins of an abandoned city. Miriamele's husband, King Simon, is overwhelmed by grief and hopelessness, unaware that many of these terrible things have been caused...
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Athenian volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In ancient Greece an army of slaves gathers on the plains of Marathon ... Under Darius the Great, King of Kings, the mighty Persian army--swollen by 10,000 warriors known as The Immortals--have come to subjugate the Greeks. In their path, vastly outnumbered, stands an army of freeborn Athenians. Among them is a clever, fearsome, and cunning soldier-statesman, Xanthippus. Against all odds, the Athenians emerge victorious. Yet people soon forget that...
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Series
Conqueror volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
387 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
He came from over the horizon, a single Mongol warrior surrounded by his brothers, sons, and fellow tribesmen. With each battle his legend grew and the ranks of his horsemen swelled, as did his ambition. For centuries, primitive tribes had warred with one another. Now, under Genghis Khan, they have united as one nation, setting their sights on a common enemy: the great, slumbering walled empire of the Chin. A man who lived for battle and blood, Genghis...
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(Catie E.)Inheritors' cycle volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
461 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fiercely intelligent, beautiful, and ready to claim her birthright, she navigates a dangerous world torn between war and witchpower. Seduction and stealth are Belinda Primrose’s skills–weapons befitting the queen’s bastard daughter, a pawn of espionage conceived by Lorraine, ruler of Aulun, and her lover and spymaster, Belinda’s father. Now an accomplished assassin, Belinda uncovers the true game her father never intended her to play. For...
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Series
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
412 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Conn Iggulden’s latest historical epic, join Pericles, the lion of Athens, on his journey to secure the fate of the Athenian empire.
Pericles returns home more than a hero: he's the leader of Athens, the empire's beacon of light.
But even during times of peace, the threat of Sparta—Athens's legendary rival—looms large on the horizon. When a sudden catastrophe brings Sparta to its knees, Pericles sees a golden opportunity to forever shift...
Author
Series
(Catie E.)Inheritors' cycle volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
432 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a world where religion has ripped apart the old order, Belinda Primrose is the queen's secret weapon. The unacknowledged daughter of Lorraine, the first queen to sit on the Aulunian throne, Belinda has been trained as a spy since the age of twelve by her father, Lorraine's lover and spymaster. Cunning and alluring, fluent in languages and able to take on any persona, Belinda can infiltrate the glittering courts of Echon where her mother's enemies...
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Series
Conqueror volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
387 p. : map, geneal. table ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Great Khan is dead. His vast empire hangs in the balance, an empire he forged with raw courage, guile, tactical brilliance, unswerving dedication to his people, and the force of his own indomitable will. Now the very qualities that united the fierce Mongol tribes threaten to tear them apart, as the heirs of Genghis maneuver for dominance. In the end, only one can command . . . Genghis's tough and canny heir, Ogedai, is on the verge of being proclaimed...
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Merlin in Moab volume 3
Publisher
Relham, LLC
Pub. Date
c2020
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Lost in time, his memory gone, Merlin unknowingly joins forces with his sworn enemy, Beli. As they struggle to find their way back to present day Moab, dark forces are gathering in Arches National Park, and they can only be there for one reason: the destruction of Merlin and his family. Merlin's wife Em, son Derek, and daughter Lumina are working frantically to find and bring Merlin back while trying to maintain their cover. But a meddlesome detective...
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English
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Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta has always had the gift of second sight. As a child visiting her uncle, she meets his prisoner, Joan of Arc, and recognizes her own power in the young woman accused of witchcraft. They share the mystery of the tarot card of the 'wheel of fortune' before Joan is taken to a horrific death at the hands of the English rulers of France. Jacquetta understands the danger for a woman who dares to dream....
Author
Series
Conqueror volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
383 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujin’s young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin endured — and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer...
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Language
English
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Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings, following the development of his work over fifty years. They take us from the harsh, cruel, vividly realized world of the 'Indian' stories that made his name, through the experimental modernism of his middle period to the highly-wrought subtleties of his later pieces. Including the tale of insanity and...
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Series
Threads of power volume 1
Publisher
Tor/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
648 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once, there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. Until the magic grew too fast and forced the worlds to seal the doors between them in a desperate gamble to protect their own. The few magicians who could still open the doors grew more rare as time passed and now, only three Antari are known in recent memory—Kell Maresh of Red London, Delilah Bard of Grey London,...
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 45
Physical Desc
751 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears... With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King's Landing. Robb Stark's demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the...
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