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Poppy war volume 1
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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
Poppy war volume 3
Language
English
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The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuang's acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect. After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead. Despite her losses, Rin hasn't given up on those for whom...
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Poppy war volume 2
Language
English
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The war is over. The war has just begun. Three times throughout its history, Nikan has fought for its survival in the bloody Poppy Wars. Though the third battle has just ended, shaman and warrior Rin cannot forget the atrocity she committed to save her people. Now she is on the run from her guilt, the opium addiction that holds her like a vice, and the murderous commands of the fiery Phoenix--the vengeful god who has blessed Rin with her fearsome...
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Soldier son trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 38
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English
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Nevare Burvelle is the second son of a second son, destined from birth to carry a sword. The wealthy young noble will follow his father—newly made a lord by the King of Gernia—into the cavalry, training in the military arts at the elite King's Cavella Academy in the capital city of Old Thares. Bright and well-educated, an excellent horseman with an advantageous engagement, Nevare's future appears golden.
But as his Academy instruction
...6) Iron crowned
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Series
Dark swan volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books
Language
English
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Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham searches for the Iron Crown, a legendary object feared by all, to end the war destroying her kingdom, but she must confront unimaginable temptation to control the Crown's vast powers.
7) Storm born
Author
Series
Dark swan volume 1
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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When Eugenie Markham, a powerful shaman and mercenary, is hired to find a teenager taken to the Otherworld, she uncovers dark secrets about her past that could destroy the world.
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Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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In this novella set in the World of the Five Gods and four years after the events in Penric's Demon, Penric is a divine of the Bastard's Order as well as a sorcerer and scholar, living in the palace where the Princess-Archdivine holds court. His scholarly work is interrupted when the Archdivine agrees to send Penric, in his role as sorcerer, to accompany a "Locator" of the Father's Order, assigned to capture Inglis, a runaway shaman charged with the...
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Dark swan volume 2
Language
English
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"Eugenie Markham is a shaman for hire, paid to bind and banish creatures from the Otherworld. But after her last battle, she's also become queen of the Thorn Land. It's hardly an enviable life, not with her kingdom in tatters, her love life in chaos, and Eugenie eager to avoid the prophecy about her firstborn destroying mankind. And now young girls are disappearing from the Otherworld, and no one--except Eugenie--seems willing to find out why. Eugenie...
11) Shaman rises
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Walker papers volume 9
Language
English
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For over a year, Joanne has been fighting the Master?the world's most abiding evil entity. She's sacrificed family, friendships, even watched potential futures fade away?and now the Master is bringing the final battle to Joanne's beloved Seattle. Lives will be lost as the repercussions of all Joanne's final transformation into her full Shamanic abilities come to her doorstep. Before the end, she'll mourn, rejoice?and surrender everything for the hope...
12) Walking dead
Author
Series
Walker papers volume 4
Publisher
Luna
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"For once Joanne Walker's not out to save world. She's come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she's been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and she's got a love life for the first time in memory. Not bad for a woman who started out the year mostly dead. But it's Halloween and the undead have just crashed Joanne's party..."--p.[4] of cover.
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Sixth world volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much more terrifying than...
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English
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"This is what hooks Sam when he first overhears it at a fancy dinner party in the Hollywood hills: the story of a globe-trotting shaman who claims to perform 'open-soul surgery' on emotionally damaged people. For neurotic, depressed Sam, new to Los Angeles after his life in New York imploded, the possibility of total transformation is utterly tantalizing. He's desperate for something to believe in, and the shaman - who promises ancient rituals, plant...
15) Raven calls
Author
Series
Walker papers volume 7
Publisher
Luna
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
No longer a cop, Joanne Walker's inner magic draws her to Ireland and back in time to rescue the woman who, one year ago, sacrified her life for Joanne.
16) Autumn thorns
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Series
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years ago, I ran away from Whisper Hollow, Washington, a small town on Crescent Lake in the Olympic Peninsula. But truth is, if you were born here, you can never really leave. Im Kerris Fellwater, and when I returned, I inherited my grandmothers houseand her gift. As a spirit shaman, its my responsibility to drive the dead back to their graves, because around Whisper Hollow, peopleand secretsdont always stay buried. When I was little, I was...
17) Spirit dances
Author
Series
Walker papers volume 6
Publisher
Luna
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Joanne Walker could probably handle a case of homeless people disappearing, a mystical murder out of her jurisdiction, and her own transformation into a coyote. But one ordinary homicide pushes her to the edge where she might need to decide, cop or shaman?
Author
Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"With Penric's Fox, multiple-award-winner and bestselling author Lois McMaster Bujold returns to her World of the Five Gods, the setting of her acclaimed novels The Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls, and The Hallowed Hunt. Continuing the tale begun in the novellas Penric's Demon, Penric and the Shaman, and Penric's Mission, Bujold's newest installment of Penric and Desdemona's tale is another must-read novella for her legion of fans. Some eight months...
19) Wayfinder
Author
Series
Worldwalker novels volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Lara Jansen, having crossed from Earth into the Faerie world of the Barrow-lands, is armed with a malevolent staff which seeks to bend her to its dark will. She is sure of only one thing, her love for Dafydd ap Caerwyn, a Faerie prince whom she helped in solving a royal murder. Now Dafydd is missing--or even dead--as the Barrow-lands move closer and closer to a conflagration, and Lara must harness the perilous magic of the staff and blaze a path to...
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