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Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Your brother went missing looking for the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine in the Arizona mountains and you have several paths to pursue, some of which may get you killed, and it is up to the reader to decide which way you will go.
Author
Series
Foxe sisters trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Lady Alys thinks everyone knows the legend: If a man and a woman meet at midnight within the ancient Foxe Ring ruins, they are as good as married. But when she finds a captivating stranger lurking there in the middle of the night, she discovers the one man who is unaware. It's a deadly pursuit that brings Piers Mallory to the Fallstowe lands. But now that fate has attached the alluring, and curiously insistent, Alys to his side, it may work to his...
63) Lavinia
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word in the poem. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes the reader to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.--From amazon.com.
65) Driftwood
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Fame is rare in Driftwood--it's hard to get famous if you don't stick around long enough for people to know you. But many know the guide, Last, a one-blooded survivor who has seen his world end many lifetimes ago. For Driftwood is a strange place of slow apocalypses, where continents eventually crumble into mere neighborhoods, pulled inexorably towards the center in the Crush. Cultures clash, countries fall, and everything eventually disintegrates....
66) The prey of gods
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. The government is harnessing renewable energy to provide infrastructure for the poor. And in the bustling coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming thanks to the genetic engineering industry which has found a welcome home there. Yes, the days to come are looking very good for South Africans. That is, if they can survive the present...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this genre-bending and deeply emotional memoir that mirrors the sensation of being caught between realms, the author, after the death of her father, grapples with her bipolar disorder and sets out to interrogate the very notion of recovery through the lens of figures from Japanese, Taiwanese and Okinawan legend.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
What if everything you learned in history books were only half true? Brad Meltzer has studied and written about some of the most revered institutions and documents in human history, including the Supreme Court, the presidency, the Secret Service, Wall Street, and the Bible. Along the way he's uncovered countless clues, stories, and theories he hasn't been able to fully scrutinize until now. He investigates coded truths behind the Statue of Liberty,...
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Gubbio, Italy, Saint Francis shows the villagers that neither wealth nor strength are as powerful as love and compassion. Terrible wolf is terrorizing the town of Gubbio, and no one can stop him! First the townspeople send a brave knight. He never returns. Then they send an army of trained warriors. They get destroyed. Finally the townspeople send a great and mighty war machine, but even that can't stop the wolf. The villagers don't know what to...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of 11 fairy tales inspired by Irish mythology includes the stories of a midnight dance that steals children, a fairy island that appears once every seven years, and a silver horse that emerges from a lake.
In re-writing Irish fairy tales, Scott has created a story collection that brings the timeless tales to life. Readers of his Nicholas Flamel series, or Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series, are sure to be enthralled with these stories...
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