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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...
Author
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,...
Author
Series
Darker shade of magic volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
624 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The precarious equilibrium among the four Londons has reached its breaking point. Once brimming with the red vivacity of magic, darkness casts a shadow over the Maresh Empire, leaving a space for another London to rise. Kell begins to waver under the pressure of competing loyalties. Meanwhile, an ancient enemy returns to claim a crown and a fallen hero is desperate to save a decaying world...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Young King Jaron has had nothing but trouble with his advisors and regents since he ascended the throne of Carthya, and now King Vargan of Avenia has invaded the land and captured Imogen--and Jaron must find some way to rescue her and save his kingdom.
Author
Series
Codex Alera volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Physical Desc
504 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The land of Alera is under outside threat from barbarians, and internal strife abounds because the aging, sickly lord does not have an heir. Fortunately, Alera can use the defenses of the elementals of water, earth, air, fire and metal to protect the kingdom. Furthermore, the lord enlists Amara, a young female spy, to lurk outside the kingdom and seek out possible enemies. It is under these circumstance that Amara and the sheepherder Tavi meet, and...
Author
Series
Avalon volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Legendary saga of King Arthur and his companions at Camelot, their battles, love, and devotion, told this time from the perspective of the women involved. Viviane is "The Lady of the Lake," the magical priestess of the Isle of Avalon, a special mist-shrouded place which becomes more difficult to reach as people turn away from its nature- and Goddess-oriented religion.
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...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 10 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in a world where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime. From the scheming south and the savage eastern lands, to the frozen north and ancient Wall that protects the realm from the mysterious darkness beyond, the powerful families of the Seven Kingdoms are locked in a battle for the Iron Throne. This is a story of duplicity and treachery, nobility and honor, conquest and triumph. In the Game of Thrones, you either win or you die....
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Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
This audiobook narrated by bestselling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today's "sculpture wars"—Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits
Publisher
Cynthia Bassett Productions
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (22:15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Indulge yourself by traveling back in time over eight centuries to Mongolia's Golden Age of Genghis Khan. For the moment consider that he and his successors created the largest land empire in history, laying the groundwork for commercial trade and a global economy. From mountains and taiga to grassy steppes, to dunes and dessert of the Gobi, learn why Mongolians are still more comfortable navigating their harsh terrain on horseback. Horses were key...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 415 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1837, a diminutive, neglected teenager is crowned Queen Victoria, navigates the scandal, corruption, and political intrigues of the Court, and soon rises to become the most powerful woman in the world.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
xlvi, 938 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table have inspired some of the greatest works of literature -- from Cervantes's Don Quixote to Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Although many versions exist, Malory's stands as the classic rendition. Malory wrote the book while in Newgate Prison during the last three years of his life; it was published some fourteen years later, in 1485, by William Caxton. The tales, steeped in the magic of Merlin,...
Author
Series
Warlord chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Derfel, once a captain in Arthur's warband, recalls the days of Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and Bishop Sansum. But, above all, it tells the story of Arthur, the only man who can hold Uther's throne for its infant heir, and unite Britain's squabbling kingdoms against the enemy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Story Warren Books
Language
English
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Description
"A displaced community fights for hope on the ragged edge of survival"--Cover.
A group of rabbits flees to a safe haven after their home is invaded. Their king tries to bring the community back together in their new land but some rabbits are hesitant to settle. Former coal miner, Fleck, chooses to be loyal to his king, vowing to protect him and his son as all the rabbits struggle to create a home for themselves.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J.R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world...
Author
Series
Mac B. kid spy volume 3
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
148 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
There is a legend that if the ravens at the Tower of London ever leave then Britain will fall, so when somebody steals the birds, the Queen calls for Mac B. to find the thief and retrieve them--a mission that takes him to Iceland, where he encounters secret submarines, hungry polar bears, and his arch-nemesis from the KGB.
100) Into the narrowdark
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Series
Language
English
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Description
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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