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Author
Series
Greatcoats volume 3
Publisher
Jo Fletcher Books, an imprint of Quercus Editions Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"How do you kill a Saint? Falcio, Kest, and Brasti are about to find out, because someone has figured out a way to do it and they've started with a friend. The Dukes were already looking for ways out of their agreement to put Aline on the throne, but with the Saints turning up dead, rumours are spreading that the Gods themselves oppose her ascension. Now churches are looking to protect themselves by bringing back the military orders of religious soldiers,...
Author
Series
Language
English
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The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
For twenty-five gold pieces a day, plus expenses, Eddie LaCrosse will take on most any case. But the unexpected delivery of a coffin in the dead of winter forces LaCrosse to look back at a bygone chapter in his past{u2014}and the premeditated murder of a dream.
Author
Series
The burning volume 1
Publisher
Orbit, an imprint of Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around war and only war. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine.
Author
Series
Publisher
Odd Dot
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Congratulations on your acceptance to the Apprentice Academy, one of the world's finest institutions for knightly education. Your course of study here will prepare you for a career as a knight, samurai, Viking, or really any type of sword-swinging warrior. Swinging a sword is inherently dangerous, but this guide will help you complete your education while minimizing the twin risks of 1. getting maimed and 2. working too hard. Learn how to: Fight...
Author
Series
Greatcoats volume 4
Publisher
Jo Fletcher Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After years of struggle and sacrifice, Falcio val Mond, First Cantor of the Greatcoats, is on the brink of fulfilling his dead king's dream: Aline, the king's daughter, is about to take the throne and restore the rule of law once and for all.But for the Greatcoats, nothing is ever that simple. In the neighboring country of Avares, an enigmatic new warlord is uniting the barbarian armies that have long plagued Tristia's borders--and even worse, he...
Author
Series
Edge series (Ilona Andrews) volume 4
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Charlotte de Ney, a blueblood from the Weird with magical healing abilities, finds her new life in the Edge disrupted when Richard Mar, a swordsman seeking to wipe out slavers trafficking humans, is brought to her for treatment.
11) Gideon la novena
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
La inclasificable novela que ha ganado el Premio Locus 2020 al debut del año y ha sido finalista de los premios Hugo, Nebula y World Fantasy a la mejor novela. El Emperador necesita nigromantes. La nigromante de la Novena necesita una espadachina. Gideon tiene una espada, unas revistas guarras y ninguna paciencia para tonterías con los muertos vivientes. Después de haber sido criada por profesoras antipáticas y osificadas, sirvientes vetustos...
12) Berserk: 18
Author
Series
Berserk volume 18
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Hell has broken loose in the kingdom of Midland. After the death of Midland's king, demonic forces and underground pagan cults are running wild. Guts is busy testing out his newly repaired sword on the invaders, while his former captain and lover has fallen in with a rough crowd.
Author
Series
Seven swords novels volume 2
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Landless one-time king Guyime, once called Pilgrim but known to history as the Ravager, has survived the fall of the Execration--an event that set him on a path to find the legendary Seven Swords. Guided by sorcery, Guyime journeys to Carthula in the centre of the First Sea to claim the mythical blade known as the Kraken's Tooth. Aided by three companions--the beast charmer Seeker, a powerful sorceress and a scholarly slave--Guyime ventures into...
Author
Series
The burning volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In order to reclaim her throne and save her people, an ousted queen must join forces with a young warrior in the second book of this must-read epic fantasy series by breakout author Evan Winter. Tau and his Queen, desperate to delay the impending attack on the capital by the indigenous people of Xidda, craft a dangerous plan. If Tau succeeds, the Queen will have the time she needs to assemble her forces and launch an all out assault on her own capital...
Author
Series
Seven swords novels volume 1
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"It is two hundred years since the deity known as the Absolved went mad and destroyed the Kingdom of Alnachim, transforming it into the Execration, a blasted wasteland filled with nameless terrors. For decades, desperate souls have made pilgrimage to the centre of this cursed land to seek the Mad God's favour, their fate always unknown. Now a veteran warrior known only as Pilgrim, armed with a fabled blade inhabited by the soul of a taunting demon,...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Aros of Azteca, a swordsman, and Neoloth-Pteor, a sorcerer, are deadly enemies who have been fighting for fifteen years. But when the princess Tahlia is kidnapped, Aros must pretend to be a lost princeling and infiltrate the deadliest cabal of necromancers in the world. To save the princess and prevent the most powerful and diabolical spell ever created from destroying the world, he needs Neoloth's help. They can't trust each other. They will betray...
Publisher
Distributed by Viz Media
Pub. Date
2006
Language
日本語
Description
"Luffy is fighting for his life against Kuro, the former captain of the Black Cat Pirates. With his vicious claws and evil scheme to steal the fortune of innocent Kaya, Kuro even plans to kill his own crew to get what he wants! Together Luffy, Zolo, Nami and Veggie Pirates, can Usopp put this cat in the bag?"-- Container.
19) Berserk: 16
Author
Series
Berserk volume 16
Publisher
Digital Manga Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"Warrior supreme Guts has been marked for sacrifice to the armies of the damned, and now he has the blood of a village's possessed children on his hands--a horde of elf-demons straight out of a fairy-tale fever dream. But now Guts must deal with the Queen of the Elves herself, and though she may be cute as a button, she has hideous power and lethal intent, and in her wake, no one lives happily ever after!"--Page 4 of cover
Series
Publisher
FUNimation
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Language
English
Description
After the horrific murder of his parents, young Tetsu embarks on a quest for vengeance that threatens to consume his soul. His journey leads him to the inner sanctum of the Shinsengumi, a prestigious order of swordsmen at war with the very villains who cut down his mother and father. Contains episodes 1-24.
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