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1) Embassytown
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
345 p.; 24 cm.
Description
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
2) Eternal
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 468 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
An aspiring writer, an athlete from a professional cyclist family and a mathematics prodigy find their bond tested by a love triangle and the spread of anti-Semitism and fascism in 1937 Italy.
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Series
Ignite the stars volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A criminal mastermind and unrivaled pilot, I.A. Cōcha has spent her life terrorizing the Olympus Commonwealth, the imperialist nation that destroyed her home. When I.A. is captured-- and revealed to be a teenage girl-- she is sentenced to correctional rehabilitation at a training ground for the elite Star Force. By forcing her to serve them, the Commonwealth will prove that no one is beyond their control. Ia forms alliances with Brinn, a seemingly...
4) The kiss
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
"For the first time in their lives, Wisty and Whit Allgood find themselves at odds as Wisty is drawn to a mysterious and magical stranger named Heath"--
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Description
The seventh installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series.
At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and his son Edward reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot hold: the Danes in the north, led by Viking
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
158 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"In 1919, in a small town in the province of Berry, France, under the crushing heat of summer heat wave, a war hero is being held prisoner in an abandoned barracks. In front of the door to his prison, a mangy dog barks night and day. Miles from where he is being held, in the French countryside, a young extraordinarily intelligent woman works the land the land, waiting and hoping. A judge whose principles have been sorely shaken by the war is traveling...
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Series
Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume 17
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Rachel Morgan will learn that the price of loyalty is blood in the next Hollows novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison. Rachel Morgan, witch-born demon, suspected that protecting the paranormal citizens of Cincinnati as the demon subrosa would be trouble. But it's rapidly becoming way more trouble than even she could have imagined. While Rachel and her friends may have vanquished the trickster demon Hodin, his mysterious associate...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she's recruited by Russia's largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she's in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America's most famous technology companies. In between her executive management (make offers to promising startups, crush them and copy their features if they refuse); self promotion (check out her latest op-ed in the WSJ, on Work/Life...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Three grown siblings confront their father's role in their mother's disappearance in this arresting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob. Jane Larkin disappeared without a trace in November 1976. When ten-year-old Miranda arrives home from school that autumn afternoon, finding her mother's pocketbook in its usual spot in the front hall, she assumes her mother will be back any minute. But as the hours tick by, alone...
10) And I darken
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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
486 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Description
No one expects a princess to be brutal. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the key to survival. She and Radu are doomed to act as pawns in a vicious game, an unseen sword hovering over their every move. For the lineage that makes them special also...
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