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1) The familiar
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
2) Iron Flame
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....
Author
Series
The warring gods volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 559 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Reina arrives at Aguila Manor, her heart stolen from her chest, she's on the verge of death--until her estranged grandmother, a dark sorceress in the Don's employ, intervenes. Indebted to a woman she never knew, and smitten with the upper-caste daughter of the house, Celeste, Reina will do anything to earn--and keep--the family's favor. Even the bidding of the ancient god who speaks to her from the Manor's foundations. To save the woman she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
610 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defense...
Author
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of "happily ever after." Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its...
Author
Series
Secret projects volume 2
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Tor edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 366 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the "real world" should have been a guidebook entitled The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval...
Series
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Immerse yourself in a land of bomnubbles and quarreling cousins, sea dragons and book publishers, thieves and Fangs and secret maps. Here within these pages lie six stories of the distant past, lost adventures, forgotten songs, and heartbreaking histories."--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In rural Caball Hollow, surrounded by the vast National Forest, the James women serve up more than fried green tomatoes at the Harvest Moon diner, where the family recipes are not the only secrets.
Like her sisters, Linden was born with an unusual ability: she can taste what others are feeling. But this so-called gift soured her relationship with the annoyingly attractive Cole Spender one fateful night a year ago--the same night Linden vanished into...
Author
Series
Bamboo kingdom volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"The three panda siblings travel across the Bamboo Kingdom to find each other and discover the truth"--
10) Riverstar's home
Author
Series
Warriors super edition volume 16
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
505 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A cat living in a city park follows his destiny downriver and becomes one of the original leaders of the warrior cat Clans"--
11) Fourth wing
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans....
12) Duel at Araluen
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Maddie teams up with Hal, Thorn, and the rest of the Heron brotherband to rescue King Duncan and Princess Cassandra, who are trapped in the Castle Araluen, which is under attack by the Red Fox Clan.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers edition.
Physical Desc
364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Siblings Rachel, twelve, and Robert, fourteen, are passed a stolen book by their librarian father and must track down the missing final page while protecting the book from falling into the hands of the cruel ruler of Krasnia, President Charles Malstain.
14) Zhara
Author
Series
Guardians of dawn volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 404 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forbidden from practicing magic and burdened by her responsibilities, Jin Zhara's life takes an unexpected turn when she becomes involved with the Guardians of Dawn, a group dedicated to fighting a demonic plague that is corrupting magicians.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
While reading aloud fairy stories in hopes of bringing her comatose eight-year-old daughter back to this world, Ceres is called to a land colored by the memories of childhood and the folklore beloved by her father where old enemies are watching and waiting.
16) River of secrets
Author
Series
Bamboo kingdom volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Three pandas must separate the truth from the lies they've been raised on in order to save their kingdom"--
Author
Series
Bamboo kingdom volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Three young pandas set out on separate journeys to save their homes and families in the Bamboo Kingdom"--
18) Thunder
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Frostpaw was told to trust no cat, but a brutal attack has left her gravely injured, and she'll need to depend on someone. When help arrives in the form of a young warrior, she convinces him to protect her as she follows StarClan's cryptic directions toward the roots of RiverClan, where Riverstar has promised she'll find the answers she's been so desperately seeking. Back at the lake, the tension between ShadowClan and its neighbors might be easing,...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Prydain volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
viii, 182 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the second book of the Chronicles of Prydain, Taran, assistant pig-keeper of Prydain, faces even more dangers as he seeks the magical black cauldron, the chief implement of the evil powers of Arawn, lord of the Land of Death.