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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Every great city has a soul. A human avatar that embodies their city's heart and wields its magic. New York? She's got six. But all is not well in the city that never sleeps. Though Brooklyn, Manny, Bronca, Venezia, Padmini, and Neek have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading--and destroying the entire universe in the process--the mysterious capital "E" Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. A new candidate for mayor...
2) Fevered star
Author
Series
Between earth and sky volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
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. The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. How do you live when legends come to life, and the faith you had is rewarded? As sea captain Xiala is swept up in the chaos and currents of change, she finds an unexpected...
3) Blowback
Author
Language
English
Description
US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they've sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign...
4) Samurai game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In an underground club, a high-ranking public official spends his secret nights indulging in fantasies as exciting as they are depraved. For a seductive employee of the Dungeon, it's her job to fulfill them. But she's playing a far more dangerous game-one of blackmail, politics, and murder that reaches into the shadow world of the GhostWalkers, and the creation of a spectacular, one-of-a-kind new weapon of defense. But when a dictator makes his own...
5) Shadow rites
Author
Series
Jane Yellowrock novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane is keeping the peace between visiting groups of witches and vamps in the city, but then trouble comes knocking on her doorstep. When her house is magically attacked, the wild chase to find her assailants unearths a mystery that has literally been buried deep. A missing master vampire, presumed long deceased, is found chained in a pit--undead, raving mad, and in the company of two human bodies. Now it's up to Jane to find out who kept the vampire...
Author
Series
Jane Yellowrock novels volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When one of the most powerful vampire witches of the European Council arrives in New Orleans, bent on bloody destruction, Jane Yellowrock, with the help of a tech wiz and an ex-Army ranger, must track him down before things turn deadly in the Big Easy.
7) The jump
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The stress of an oil refinery being built in their backyard, threatening their families' livelihood, prompts four working-class teens to join a dangerous scavenger hunt where the reward of power could change their families' fates and save the city they love so much.
Author
Series
Walking Dead series volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Uber-villain Philip Blake journeyed from his humble beginnings directly into the dark heart of the zombie apocalypse and became the self-proclaimed leader of a small town called Woodbury. The violent dictatorship within Woodbury all comes to a head.
Author
Series
Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume 15
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"To save the city, Rachel Morgan will need to show some teeth in the next Hollows novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison. The new master vampire of Cincinnati has arrived . . . and she wants Rachel Morgan out. No matter where Rachel goes, Constance is there--threatening Rachel's allies, causing city-wide chaos, and, to add insult to injury, even forcing Rachel out of her current quarters. Ever since Rachel found a way to save...
Author
Series
House immortal volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
To protect the people she loves, Matilda Case, one of the immortal galvanized, must stop the reoccurrence of an ancient time experiment, which gifted her and the other galvanized with immortality, in order to save the world from utter destruction.
13) Jade legacy
Author
Series
Green Bone saga volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Jade, the mysterious and magical substance once exclusive to the Green Bone warriors of Kekon, is now known and coveted throughout the world. Everyone wants access to the supernatural abilities it provides, from traditional forces such as governments, mercenaries, and criminal kingpins, to modern players, including doctors, athletes, and movie studios. As the struggle over the control of jade grows ever larger and more deadly, the Kaul family, and...
14) House immortal
Author
Series
House immortal volume 1
Publisher
A Roc book
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Matilda Case isn't like most folk. In fact, she's unique in the world, the crowning achievement of her father's experiments, a girl pieced together from bits. Or so she believes, until Abraham Seventh shows up at her door, stitched with life thread just like her and insisting that enemies are coming to kill them all. Tilly is one of thirteen incredible creations known as the galvanized, stitched together beings immortal and unfathomably strong. For...
Author
Series
House immortal volume 3
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A galvanized woman with an endlessly repairable body, Matilda Case stumbles into an alternate time line that should not exist and, to save the world where her loved ones and friends are alive to survive, she must find a way to stitch together time once and for all while being hunted by a madman. By the national best-selling author of Infinity Bell.
16) Star eater
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Elfreda Raughn will avoid pregnancy if it kills her, and one way or another, it will kill her. Though she's able to stomach her gruesome day-to-day duties, the reality of preserving the Sisterhood of Aytrium's magical bloodline horrifies her. She wants out, whatever the cost. So when a shadowy cabal approaches Elfreda with an offer of escape, she leaps at the opportunity. As their spy, she gains access to the highest reaches of the Sisterhood, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance, now a fledgling New Republic, presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy's scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy's strength is unfolding. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling for a kill,...
Author
Series
Rage of kings volume 1
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Thirty years ago, the Iron Wolves held back mud-orc hordes at the Pass of Splintered Bones, and led a brutal charge that saw the sorcerer Morkagoth slain. Now, a new terror stalks the realm. Orlana the Changer has escaped from the Chaos Halls and is building an army, twisting horses, lions and bears into terrible, bloody hunters, summoning mud-orcs from the slime and heading north to battle the mighty region of Vagandrak where, it said, the King has...
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Each night Keiko whispers to her crane, "I wish to change the world." She is kind, and she has big dreams. But at times she feels invisible; she knows some people misjudge her. Keiko is also loved, so she perseveres and stands strong. Over time, her confidence grows, she shares more of herself, and she helps lift up others--and eventually lead them. She understands that no matter what, she can shine" --
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