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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The city of Aberdeen is being terrorised by giant robot chickens who want to peck out every last sign of human resistance. The streets are empty, the adults have vanished and those left behind are fighting for survival. Jesse and his friends are desperate to save their families and stop the feathered fiends. They hatch a master plan but can a gang of kids really defeat an army of angry robot chickens?
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Series
Shadow Campaigns volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
About to become Queen Regnant in the wake of her father's death, Raesinia Orboan must beware of the ambitious men who will wish to control her, and the throne.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Star wars rebels is set five years before Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope when a motley group of rebels affected by the Galactic Empire band together aboard a freighter starship. This is the beginnings of the group that forms the Rebel Alliance. This book shows you the beginning of the epic struggle against the Empire. Meet daring new heroes and sinister villains, discover never-before-seen vehicles, and explore exciting new worlds. Features a foreward...
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Six of crows volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge...
7) Fourth wing
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English
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Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....
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Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 10
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Nate Quarter, a lowly lamplighter in the phraxmines of the Eastern Woods, must flee for his life when the mine sargeant wants him killed, while elsewhere, a storm unlike any ever seen is building.
10) The poppy war
Author
Series
Poppy war volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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A war orphan rises from her humble beginnings to become a powerful military commander, and perhaps her country's only hope for survival.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When Luke Skywalker and his companions are lured to Mindor and into battle with the Black Stormtroopers, they are unaware that the confrontation is part of a plot by Lord Shadowspawn to destroy the heroes of the New Republic and to restore the Empire with himself as ruler.
12) The last watch
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Series
Divide (Dewes) volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The Divide. It's the edge of the universe. Now it's collapsing-and taking everyone and everything with it. The only ones who can stop it are the Sentinels-the recruits, exiles, and court-martialed dregs of the military. At the Divide, Adequin Rake commands the Argus. She has no resources, no comms-nothing, except for the soldiers that no one wanted. Her ace in the hole could be Cavalon Mercer--genius, asshole, and exiled prince...
13) The cruel stars
Author
Series
Cruel stars volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A group of intrepid heroes must band together to save civilization after a long dormant enemy awakens and strikes a devastating blow.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
One of NPR 's Best Books of 2016 Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Womens College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her. "Kij Johnson's haunting novella The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe is both a commentary on a classic H.P. Lovecraft tale and a profound reflection on a woman's life. Vellitt's quest to find a former student who may be the only person who can...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Returning to his signature world of Corona, introducing a dynamic new part of the southern coast, a fantasy author brings together a ragtag crew of Xoconi, dwarven Powrie pirates and human sailors--once enemies, now fierce friends with a common enemy and the spark of rebellion.
17) Jade war
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Series
Green Bone saga volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In Jade War, the sequel to the Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award-nominated Jade City, the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone warriors with supernatural powers they alone have possessed for hundreds of years. Beyond Kekon's...
18) Incendiary
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Hollow crown volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Renata was only a child when she was kidnapped by the King's Justice and brought to the luxurious palace of Andalucía. As a memory thief, the rarest and most feared of the magical Moria, Renata was used by the crown to carry out the King's Wrath, a siege that resulted in the deaths of thousands of her own people. Now Renata is one of the Whispers, rebel spies working against the crown. The Whispers may have rescued Renata years ago, but she cannot...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Northumbria's Viking ruler and Mercia's Saxon Queen Aethelflaed have agreed a truce. And so England's greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago. But fate is inexorable and the enemies Uhtred has made and the oaths he has sworn combine to distract him from his dream of recapturing Bebbanburg....
20) Sword of fire
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The bards are the people's voice--and their sword. All over the kingdom of Deverry, the common people are demanding reform of the corrupt law courts. In Aberwyn, the situation catches fire when Gwerbret Ladoic, second in authority only to the High King, allows a bard to starve to death rather than hear their grievances. Guildwoman Alyssa, a student at the local scholars' collegium, and Lady Dovina, the gwerbret's own daughter, know that evidence exists...
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