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1) Iron flame
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 2
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
Laundry files novels volume 13
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the sunlit uplands of the 21st century! Britain's avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much." -Publisher
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: New from the author of The Keeper of Night comes a YA fantasy duology set in an alternate Tang Dynasty China, where a poor biracial girl with the ability to raise the dead gets caught up in the dangerous political games of the royal family.
Author
Series
School for Good and Evil volume 1
Publisher
Puck
Edition
1.a edición.
Language
Español
Description
With her glass slippers and devotion to good deeds, Sophie knows she'll earn top marks at the School for Good and join the ranks of past students like Cinderella and Snow White. Meanwhile, Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks and wicked black cat, seems a natural fit for the School for Evil.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, but when restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories escape, it is up to the Librarian to track them down...and keep the collection complete. Many years ago, Claire was named head librarian of the Unwritten Wing--a neutral space in Hell where all the stories unfinished by their authors reside. Her job consists mainly of repairing and organizing...
6) To be a king
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 11
Language
English
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Description
Hoole uses the power of the Ember in the final, decisive battle and searches for the ideal place to establish an order of free owls.
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Language
English
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"Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Entering a contest to redesign late author Emrys Myrddin's estate, aspiring architect Effy Sayre arrives at Hiraeth Manor where she meets a stodgy young literature scholar who draws her into a battle against dark forces-both mortal and magical-that threatens to consume them both.
9) Uprooted
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Language
English
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Description
"Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. The...
Author
Series
Blood and ash volume 5
Language
English
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Description
"A great primal power has risen. The Queen of Flesh and Fire has become the Primal of Blood and Bone--the true Primal of Life and Death. And the battle Casteel, Poppy, and their allies have been fighting has only just begun. Gods are awakening across Iliseeum and the mortal realm, readying for the war to come. But when Poppy falls into stasis, Cas faces the very real possibility that the dire, unexpected consequences of what she is becoming could...
11) The Underland
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Tag and Skyla have returned to Perodia to begin their warrior training, but when their friend Blaze returns with troubling news that her mother has gone missing, Tag and Skyla's warrior skills are quickly put to the test.
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Universe
Language
English
Description
"Monica Rambeau has called herself Captain Marvel, Spectrum, Photon and more - but no matter the name, she's one of the most powerful heroes in the Marvel-Verse! And in Monica's first appearance, Spider-Man will learn that fact the hard way! As Monica struggles to keep her awesome energy abilities in check, will she find salvation - and a new home - with the Avengers? Monica flies solo with a new job as a ship's captain - but when hijackers target...
Author
Series
School for Good and Evil volume prequel
Publisher
Harper Collins
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The journey that started a hundred years ago throttles towards its end. This final chapter in the duology that began with the RISE OF THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL brings the tale of the twin School Masters to the brink of war and a shocking conclusion that will change the course of the school forever." -Publisher
15) Stellarlune
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 9
Publisher
Aladdin
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With her friends divided and scattered, and the Black Swan wanting her to focus on their projects, Sophie is led in a different direction to Stellarlune, which might be their salvation or destruction, and learns the true meaning of power--and evil" --
16) After death
Author
Language
English
Description
"Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished--including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he--or anyone else--has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John,...
Publisher
Ncircle Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sonic is back on Planet Mobius, using his supersonic speed and teenage irreverence to thwart the comedically despicable Dr. Robotnik. Sonic's idolizing little buddy, Tails, tags along on every fast-action, gag-driven adventure. Includes the episodes: Sonic Boom; Sonic and Sally; Ultra Sonic; Sonic and the Secret Scrolls; Super Sonic; Sonic Racer; Hooded on Sonics; Harmonic Sonic; Sonic's Nightmare; Warp Sonic; Sub-Sonic; Sonic Past Cool; Heads or...
Author
Series
Another day volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Following a confrontation with her reclusive great-grandfather, the one-time Wizard of Oz, Rainary Ko--the granddaughter of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West--has re-upped in a mission to settle a few scores and right a wrong or two. Her memory and her passions reviving, Rain turns her gaze back to her native Oz. Though the Grimmerie, which she had cast into the sea, retains its arcane power over her, the lover she left behind in Oz proves no less haunting....
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Jungle Bunch is the exciting tale of Maurice, a penguin who was raised in the jungle and thinks he's a tiger! When two penguins from his Antarctic homeland come in search of "The Great Tiger Warrior" to defend their colony from and invading herd of walruses, Maurice assembles a misfit team of jungle friends to save the day!
Author
Series
School for Good and Evil volume prequel
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Two brothers--one good, one evil--choose the students for the School for Good and Evil where they train, teach and prepare them for their fate until something unexpected and powerful happens that changes everything"--
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