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42) Warriors
Series
Tales of Dunk and Egg volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Some of the finest fantasy authors present original short stories in a collection that includes George R.R Martin's new novella Song of Fire and Ice.
Author
Series
Girls of paper and fire series volume 3
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Told from their alternating viewpoints, as battle lines are drawn between the powerful Hanno clan and the Demon King of Ikhara, the warrior Wren fights to find Lei, who is trying to assist the rebellion even though she is the King's prisoner.
44) Missionaries
Author
Language
English
Description
"Neither Mason, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign correspondent, has emerged from America's long post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unscathed. Yet war also exerts a terrible draw that neither can shake--the noble calling, the camaraderie, the life-and-death stakes. Where else in the world can such a person go? All roads lead to Colombia, where the US, with its patented fusion of intelligence dominance and quick-striking...
Author
Series
Crimson Empire (Alex Marshall) volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years ago, feared general Cobalt Zosia led her five villainous captains and mercenary army into battle, wrestling monsters and toppling an empire. When there were no more titles to win and no more worlds to conquer, she retired and gave up her legend to history. Now the peace she carved for herself has been shattered by the unprovoked slaughter of her village. Seeking bloody vengeance, Zosia heads for battle once more, but to find justice...
50) Catalyst
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom Raines and his friends return to the Spire for their third year as superhuman government weapons, but the rules have been changed and Tom's training is put to the test.
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
La guerra de Oriente Medio se ha extendido por todo el planeta. Inanna y Támmuz, los últimos supervivientes, buscan refugio en una cueva donde se encuentran con Luzbel, quien los llevará de viaje para mostrarles los errores cometidos por la humanidad. Atravesarán la historia de Oriente Medio y sus guerras, el origen de los dioses y los humanos, el interior de la materia, la sabiduría oculta detrás de los mitos, el auge y caída de los imperios,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Roberta, a lonely thirty-four-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother's battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family's history is completely upturned. Running alongside Roberta's narrative is that of her grandmother, Dorothy, as a forty-year-old childless woman desperate for motherhood during the early years of World War II....
54) The air war
Author
Series
Shadows of the apt volume 8
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
All is in turmoil as the world moves towards war. In Solarno, the spies watch each other and ready their knives, while Myna sees the troops muster at its border and emotions run high as it vows never to be enslaved again. In Collegium, the students argue politics, too late to turn the tide. In the heart of the Empire, new pilots have completed their secretive training, generals are being recalled to service and armies are ready to march. Their Empress,...
55) Semper Fi
Author
Series
Corps volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America's first line of defense as the winds of war exploded into the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, the bestselling author of the acclaimed Brotherhood of war saga brings to life the men of the Marine Corps--their loves and their loyalties--as they steeled themselves for battle, and prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice ...
56) How I live now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
57) Kings rising
Author
Series
Captive prince trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After it is revealed that Damen is really Damianos of Akielos, he must join forces with his rival Prince Laurent if they are to defeat the Regent and reclaim the throne.
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the first novel of the New York Times bestselling Temeraire series, a rare bond is formed between a young man and a dragon, and together they must battle in the Napoleonic Wars.
“A terrifically entertaining fantasy novel.”—Stephen King
Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft...
“A terrifically entertaining fantasy novel.”—Stephen King
Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft...
60) Legend
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
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