Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
"Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away. Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A breathtaking, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family who must grow up in the wake of Ethiopia's socialist revolution. Wisecracking, inquisitive, and bombastic, Selam Asmelash is the youngest child in her large, boisterous family. Even before she is born, she has a wry, bewitching omniscience that animates life in her Small Town in southwestern Ethiopia in the 1980s. Selam and her father listen...
3) Contrarian
Author
Series
The grand illusion volume 3
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Contrarian, protests against unemployment and poor harvests have become armed riots as the people sink deeper into poverty. They look to a government struggling to emerge from corruption and conspiracy. Recently elected to the Council of Sixty-Six, Steffan Dekkard is the first Councilor who is an Isolate, a man invulnerable to the emotional manipulations and emotional surveillance of empaths--but not the recent bombing of the Council Office Building...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
Author
Series
Tainted blood duology volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A brilliant new voice brings us a brilliant new epic fantasy novel: Ehigbor Okosun’s first book in an action-packed, poignant duology inspired by Nigerian mythology—full of magic and emotion and set in a highly atmospheric, complex world in which a young woman fights to survive a tyrannical society, having everything stripped away from her, and seeks vengeance for her mother’s murder and the spilled blood of her people. In the midst of a tyrannical...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth century. And yet in 1848 nearly all of Europe was aflame with conflict. Parallel political tumults spread like brush fire across the entire continent, leading to significant changes that continue to shape our world today. These battles for the future were fought with one eye kept squarely on the past: The...
Author
Series
Legacy of the mercenary king novels volume 3
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Michael Kingman has discovered his destiny, but the distance to what he wants, namely a life with Serena, the queen of Hollow kingdom, is as wide as the world, and just as cruel ... Michael comes to realize that he is outclassed by powers that have been working for centuries to bring about a fresh end to the world ... To prevent what may bring about the end times Michael must gather his remaining allies and push himself to achieve the impossible,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The age of Atlantic revolutions-a six-decade period that packed in the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions, the independence of Spanish-speaking Latin America, and a host of lesser-known upheavals-transformed Europe and the Americas, and eventually the globe. Before 1765, most of Europe and the Americas were under the rule of monarchies and empires, and the institution of slavery existed in every jurisdiction. In the ensuing decades, empires...
Author
Series
Heart of thorns trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Katherine Teagan Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Angelyne, Mia and Pilar find themselves challenged by the returned Prince Quin, and their clashing powers tip the elements of all four kingdoms out of balance. In an attempt to put things right, the sisters travel to the glass kingdom, each suffering from both their own burdens and the aftermath of their feelings for the prince. It's enough to make them investigate rumors of an island that can erase all pain -- if they're willing to pay the price....
11) Furysong
Author
Series
Aurelian cycle volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Annie and Lee are fighting for their lives -- and for each other -- as invading dragonfire threatens to burn their home to the ground"--
12) Coup de grâce
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Sererity crew head to Yell City. Their job is to track down the killers of a local lawyer shot dead in the streets by local gang members. Their client is Annie Roberts, the eighteen-year-old daughter of the murdered man. Lucky for them, Annie is more than capable of handling herself, Unlucky for them, the job is a lot more complicated than they first think.
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request