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Radiant emperor volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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USA TODAY bestseller, #1 international bestseller, and Indie Next Pick
Best of 2023 Pick for Autostraddle and BookPage; a Recommended Reading List Pick for Locus
The sequel and series conclusion to She Who Became the Sun, the accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping across an epic alternate China. Mulan meets The Song of Achilles.
How much would you give to win
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Codex Alera volume 5
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English
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"Tavi of Calderon, now recognized as Princeps Gaius Octavian and heir to the crown, has achieved a fragile alliance with Alera's oldest foes, the savage Canim. But when Tavi and his legions guide the Canim safely to their lands, his worst fears are realized.The dreaded Vord--the enemy of Aleran and Cane alike₇have spent the last three years laying waste to the Canim homeland."--Publisher's descript
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Stormlight archive volume 4
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English
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"After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move. Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation....
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Farseer trilogy volume 2
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"Fitz has survived his first hazardous mission as king's assassin, but is left little more than a cripple. Battered and bitter, he vows to abandon his oath to King Shrewd and to remain in the distant mountains. But love and events of terrible urgency draw him back to the court at Buckkeep, and into the deadly intrigues of the royal family. Renewing their vicious attacks on the coast, the Red-Ship Raiders leave burned-out villages and demented victims...
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Codex Alera volume 1
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English
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In the realm of Alera, where people bond with the furies--elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal--15-year-old Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. As his homeland erupts in chaos--when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies--Tavi's simple courage will turn the tides of war.
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Jack Ryan, Jr volume 12
A Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 9
Thorndike Press large print core
Jack Ryan Jr volume 12
A Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 9
Thorndike Press large print core
Jack Ryan Jr volume 12
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English
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"When the leader of North Korea is catastrophically injured, his incapacitation inadvertently triggers a "dead-man's switch," activating an army of sleeper agents in South Korea and precipitating a struggle for succession. Jack Ryan, Jr. is in Seoul to interview a potential addition to the Campus. When a wave of violence perpetrated by North Korean operatives grips South Korea's capital, Jack races to discover the meaning behind an ominous one-word...
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Song of ice and fire volume 3
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English
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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...
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Saxon stories (Bernard Cornwell) volume 4
Saxon tales volume 4
The Warrior Chronicles
Last Kingdom volume 4
Saxon tales volume 4
The Warrior Chronicles
Last Kingdom volume 4
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English
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Uhtred has been made Governor of London while Alfred, building fortified towns to hold Wesssex, pushes into Mercia.
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"In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just fifteen, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her...
13) Oathbringer
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Stormlight archive volume 3
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English
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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...
14) Fire & blood
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The first volume of a definitive two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros is set centuries before the events of "A Game of Thrones" and answers key questions about the dynasty's origins, conflicts and relationships with dragons.
15) Half a king
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Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted... if he can must survive cruelty, chains, and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea. Born with only one good hand, in a world where a strong arm and a cold heart rule, Yarvi cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so he must sharpen his mind to a deadly edge. He gathers a strange fellowship of the outcast and the lost, who help him become the man he needs to be. But even with loyal friends...
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Goblin emperor novels volume 1
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"The youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an 'accident,' he has no choice but to take his place as the only surviving rightful heir. Entirely unschooled in the art of court politics, he has no friends, no advisors, and the sure knowledge that whoever assassinated his...
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"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...
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Threads of power volume 1
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"Prepare for tangled schemes and perilous adventures with friends old and new in The Fragile Threads of Power." -Provided by Publisher
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Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnet, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world.
She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Cleopatra...
She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Cleopatra...
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