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1) Outlawed
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
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Language
English
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Description
Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. Reluctantly, he agrees to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble -- caught in...
3) Dark age
Author
Series
Red rising novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 43
Language
English
Description
"A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he's an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the very evil he fought to destroy?
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation -- both material and psychological -- motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his wife's pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl, until she reaches her breaking point; a disturbed veteran of Iraq is murdered for his erratic behavior; an outsider's house is set on fire by an angry...
Author
Series
Rampart trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
469 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Koli has been cast from his village and into the strange and deadly forest beyond. But he heard a story, once. A story about lost London and the mysterious tech of the old times that was there. And if Koli can find it, there may still be a way for him to redeem himself--by saving what's left of humanity.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend.
Marooned far from home after a devastating defeat on the battlefields of Mercury, Darrow longs to return to his wife and sovereign, Virginia, to defend Mars from its bloodthirsty would-be conqueror - Lysander. Lysander longs to destroy the Rising...
Author
Series
Moonfall volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The second book in the New York Times bestselling Moonfall series from thriller-master James Rollins, The Cradle of Ice is a page-turning tale of action, adventure, betrayal, ambition, and the struggle for survival in a harsh world that hangs by a thread. To stop the coming apocalypse, a fellowship was formed. A soldier, a thief, a lost prince, and a young girl bonded by fate and looming disaster. Each step along this path has changed the party,...
Author
Series
Shadow age volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Petra Grady has known since adolescence that she has no talent for magic-and that's never going to change. But as a sweeper first-class, she's parlayed her rare ability to handle dross--the damaging, magical waste generated by her more talented kin's spellwork--into a decent life working at the mages' university. Except Grady's relatively predictable life is about to be upended. When the oblivious, sexy, and oh-so-out-of-reach Benedict Strom needs...
10) Crown of stars
Author
Series
Crown of stars volume 7
Publisher
Distributed by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xiv, 609 p. : map, geneal. table ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
King Henry's kingdom has been ravaged by internecine warfare, in a conflict that has been both long and bloody. The bitter in-fighting within King Henry's court and the ceaseless attrition of raiders has weakened his reign and saps his strength. Yet brute force alone will not be enough to stay the darkness that has been foretold as the shadow of the Cursed Ones has fallen. The spell holding the exiled from the land is failing fast and Liath's wild...
Author
Series
Tales of Pell volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 405 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It takes only one halfling bomb, and Offi Numminen's world is turned upside down--or downside up, really, since he lives in a hole in the ground. His goth cardigans and aggressive melancholy set him apart from the other gnomes, as does his decision to fight back against their halfling oppressors. Suddenly Offi is the leader of a band of lovable misfits and outcasts--from a gryphon who would literally kill for omelets, a young dwarf herbalist who...
Author
Series
Rampart trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
563 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Koli has come a long way since being exiled from his small village of Mythen Rood. In his search for the fabled tech of the Old Times, he knew he'd be battling shunned men, strange beasts and trees that move as fast as whips. But he has already encountered so much more than he bargained for. Now that Koli and his companions have found the source of the signal they've been following - the mysterious "Sword of Albion"--there is hope that their perilous...
Author
Series
Moonfall volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
18 audio discs (22 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A student foretells an apocalypse, and her reward is a death sentence. After fleeing, she is drawn to a team of outcasts: a broken soldier, a drunken prince, and a thief. On the run, they must learn to trust each other.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For as long as anyone can remember, Britt-Marie has been an acquired taste. It's not that she's judgmental or fussy or difficult -- she just expects things to be done in a certain way. A cutlery drawer should be arranged in the right order, for example -- forks, knives, then spoons. We're not animals, are we? But behind the passive-aggressive, socially awkward, absurdly pedantic busybody is a woman who has more imagination, bigger dreams and a warmer...
Author
Series
Ancient Egyptian volume 7
Publisher
Zaffre, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
407 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the city of Lahun, Hui lives an enchanted life. The favored son of a doting father, and ruler-in-waiting of the great city, his fate is set. But behind the beautiful fa�cade a sinister evil is plotting. Craving power and embittered by jealousy, Hui's stepmother, the great sorceress Isetnofret, and Hui's own brother, Qen, orchestrate the downfall of Hui's father, condemning Hui and seizing power in the city. Cast out and alone, Hui finds himself...
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