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Author
Series
A court of thorns and roses volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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Description
"Against the sweeping backdrop of a world seared by war and plagued with uncertainty, Nesta and Cassian battle monsters from within and without as they search for acceptance-and healing-in each other's arms"--
2) Oathbringer
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 3
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 69
Language
English
Description
Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the...
Author
Series
A court of thorns and roses volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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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"--cProvided by publisher.
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 58
Language
English
Description
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soil less ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter. It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 60
Language
English
Description
Six years ago, the Assassin in White, a hireling of the inscrutable Parshendi, assassinated the Alethi king on the very night a treaty between men and Parshendi was being celebrated. So began the Vengeance Pact among the highprinces of Alethkar and the War of Reckoning against the Parshendi. Now the Assassin is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among...
Author
Series
Winternight trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind — she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and...
Author
Series
Winternight trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Now, in the conclusion to this powerful trilogy, Moscow has been struck by disaster. Its people are searching for answers--and someone to blame. Vasya finds herself alone, beset on all sides. The Grand Prince is in a rage, choosing allies that will lead him on a path to war and ruin. A wicked demon returns, stronger than ever, determined to spread chaos. Caught at the center of this conflict is Vasya, who finds the fate of both worlds resting on...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 3
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A dying wizard attempts to pass his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son who is in the process of being born, not realizing until it is too late that the newborn is a girl.
Author
Series
Winternight trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Vasilisa has grown up at the edge of a Russian wilderness, where snowdrifts reach the eaves of her family’s wooden house and there is truth in the fairy tales told around the fire. Vasilisa’s gift for seeing what others do not won her the attention of Morozko — Frost, the winter demon from the stories—and together they saved her people from destruction. But Frost’s aid comes at a cost, and her people have condemned her as a witch. Now Vasilisa...
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2011, c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 45
Physical Desc
694 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Long ago, an enigmatic event forever changed the seasons in Winterfell. Thus the land was blessed with lush summers and simultaneously cursed with harsh winters. Now, Winterfell's borders are being increasingly encroached, forcing the prominent Stark family to defend its kingdom from enemies both old and new, including the rival Lannister House and a legendary demon.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 14
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2008, c1992
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere -- even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewsey Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning... Everything ought to be going like a dream. But the Lancre All-Comers Morris Team have got drunk on a fairy mound and the elves have come back, bringing all those things traditionally associated with the magical, glittering realm of Faerie: cruelty, kidnapping,...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 22
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2008], c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
There is big trouble at the Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork's lone institute of higher learning. And the one person who can remedy the situation is...Rincewind, not only most inept magic-doer the UU ever produced but currently stranded on the unfinished down-under continent of Fourecks. No worries though, the UU faculty is taking steps to bring Rincewind back, traveling magically to his general vicinity...several thousands of years too early. Meanwhile,...
Author
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...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 10
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discworld's pesky alchemists are up to their old tricks again. This time, they've discovered how to get gold from silver -- the silver screen that is. Hearing the siren call of Holy Wood is one Victor Tugelbend, a would-be wizard turned extra. He can't sing, he can't dance, but he can handle a sword (sort of), and now he wants to be a star. So does Theda Withel, an ambitious ingénue from a little town (where else?) you've probably never heard of....
Author
Series
Waverley family volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures. A successful caterer, Claire Waverley prepares...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 11
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2008, c1991
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Death is missing -- presumed ... er ... gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. Ghosts and poltergeists fill up the Discworld. Dead Rights activist Reg Shoe -- 'You Don't Have to Take This Lying Down' -- suddenly has more work than he had ever dreamed of. And newly deceased wizard Windle Poons wakes up in his coffin to find that he has come back as a corpse. But it's up to Windle and the...
Author
Series
Earthsea volume 6
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
246 p. map
Language
English
Description
The wizard Alder comes from Roke to the island of Gont in search of the Archmage, Lord Sparrowhawk, once known as Ged. The man who was once the most powerful wizard in the Islands now lives with his wife Tenar and their adopted daughter Tehanu. Alder needs help: his beloved wife died and in his dreams she calls him to the land of the dead -- and now the dead are haunting him, begging for release. He can no longer sleep, and the Wizards of Earthsea...
Author
Series
Book of dust volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-year-old college undergraduate Lyra is once again thrown together with Malcom Polstead, now a professor, after Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon, receive secrets from a dying man about a daemon-haunted city and the origins of Dust.
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