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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world where global power has shifted east and revolution is brewing, two women embark on vastly different journeys -- each harrowing and urgent and wholly unexpected. When Meena finds snakebites on her chest, her worst fears are realized: someone is after her and she must flee India. As she plots her exit, she learns of The Trail, an energy-harvesting bridge spanning the Arabian Sea that has become a refuge for itinerant vagabonds and loners...
82) I Oklahoma!
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A bleeding-edge contemporary novel that dives into the heart of Donald Trump's America. Three artists set out across the country to make a movie. There's Suzie, the jaded writer; Jim, a corporate suit-turned-video artist who survived 9/11; and a hipster videographer, Remy. They team up to make a piece of 'road movie' video/performance art about about 'freedom and democracy and starting over and making a clean break and moving forward and making America...
Author
Series
Graceling volume 1
Publisher
Etch, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
257 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Katsa is a Graceling, one of the rare people born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she lived a life of privilege until the day her ability to kill a man with her bare hands revealed itself during a royal banquet. Now she acts as her uncle's enforcer, traveling the kingdom and threatening those who dare oppose him. But everything changes when she meets Po, a foreign prince Graced with combat skills who is searching for the truth about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
331 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Attentive readers of Lady Trent's earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that would one day lead her to becoming the world's premier dragon naturalist. Now, in this remarkably candid second volume, Lady Trent looks back at the next stage of her illustrious (and occasionally scandalous) career. Three years after her fateful...
85) The judge hunter
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xi, 348 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1664. Twenty years after the English revolution, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II sits on the throne. The men who conspired to kill his father are either dead or disappeared. Baltasar 'Balty' St. Michel is twenty-four and has no skills and no employment. He gets by on handouts from his brother-in-law Samuel Pepys, an officer in the king's navy. Fed up with his needy relative, Pepys offers Balty a job in the New World. He is to...
86) Desierto sonoro
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
460 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Un matrimonio en crisis viaja en coche con sus dos hijos peque�nos desde Nueva York hasta Arizona. Ambos son documentalistas y cada uno se concentra en un proyecto propio: �el est�a tras los rastros de la �ultima banda apache en rendirse al poder militar estadounidense; ella busca documentar la di�aspora de ni�nos que llegan a la frontera sur del pa�is en busca de asilo. Mientras el coche familiar atraviesa el vasto territorio norteamericano,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay is back with a new novel, Children of Earth and Sky, set in a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands--where empires and faiths collide. From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance...
88) Fevered star
Author
Series
Between earth and sky volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God's eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. As sea captain Xiala is swept up in the chaos and currents of change, she finds an unexpected ally in the former Priest of Knives. For the Clan Matriarchs of Tova, tense alliances form as far-flung enemies gather and the war in the heavens is reflected...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 2011, just after Nour loses her father to cancer, her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father’s spirit as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story — the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker. But the Syria Nour’s parents knew is changing,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Devoted readers of Lady Trent's earlier memoirs, A Natural History of Dragons and The Tropic of Serpents, may believe themselves already acquainted with the particulars of her historic voyage aboard the Royal Survey Ship Basilisk, but the true story of that illuminating, harrowing, and scandalous journey has never been revealed -- until now. Six years after her perilous exploits in Eriga, Isabella embarks on her most ambitious expedition yet: a two-year...
Author
Series
Morning Star novels volume 5
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lightning Shell marks the dramatic conclusion to the People of Cahokia sub-series by bestselling authors W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. Spotted Wrist's squadrons are about to launch an assault on Evening Star Town. Meanwhile, the new Keeper's loyal squadrons have taken control of central Cahokia. Blue Heron's enemies have declared her dead, a supposed victim of the fire that consumed her palace. She's alive and in the end it will be her wits,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1965
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
440 p. : ill., charts, geneal. tables, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and takes part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. Merry and Pippin, captured by...
Author
Series
Sister of darkness Nicci chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
512 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One-time lieutenant of the evil Emperor Jagang, known as “Death’s Mistress” and the “Slave Queen”, the deadly Nicci captured Richard Rahl in order to convince him that the Imperial Order stood for the greater good. But it was Richard who converted Nicci instead, and for years thereafter she served Richard and Kahlan as one of their closest friends ― and one of their most lethal defenders. Now, with the reign of Richard and Kahlan finally...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
279 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
“Life is not lived in the long, downhill stretches of expressways, but in the obscure, perilous trails and back roads where we stumble and feel our way through the fog of our unknowing. Life is not a run. It is just one step of faith after another.” Alan Christoffersen lost his heart when his wife was killed in an accident almost one year ago. He lost his trust when his business partner stole his advertising business. He lost his home when the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
374 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal—if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal—is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T.S. from his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum’s hallowed halls. T.S. sets out alone, leaving before dawn with a plan...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In August 2019, discredited journalist Boyd Halverson walks into the Community National Bank in Northern California and steals $81,000 at gunpoint, then brings teller Angie Bing along on an extended ride that reveals the country's flattened morals and morale. Along the way, they're chased by hitmen, angry lovers, an heiress, a billionaire, and assorted others as Boyd seeks vengeance for the wrongs one man did him.
Author
Series
Shadowfell volume 1
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
410 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Neryn is alone in the land of Alban, where the oppressive king has ordered anyone with magical strengths captured, but when she sets out for Shadowfell, a training ground for a rebel group, she meets a mysterious soldier and the Good Folk, who tell her that she, alone, can save Alban.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"Join Waldo on his most labyrinthine vacation ever, where every place he visits is a mind-boggling maze. Head to the airport and trace your finger along the paths to plot a route from start to finish. Blast off to an awesome space center, where the mission is following rocket trails to find one that reaches all the way to the orange moon. Line up to explore a cave, elaborate gardens, a museum, a film studio, a candy factory--even a disco where you...
Author
Series
Valdemar universe. Family Spies volume 3
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen year old Prince Kyril and Mags and Amily's fourteen-year-old son Tory 'share' the Gift of Farsight--although neither of them are Chosen. They are self-trained, though currently, their shared Gift only allows them to see what is happening with their immediate family members. After much debate, the Herald's Collegium has decided to test and train them anyway. That's when the surprises start. They do not share a single Gift; they have two...
100) Flights
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
403 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined...
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