Durham, David Anthony
Summary: Growing up in a village in the middle of the Egyptian desert, Ash thinks his future holds nothing but sand, sun, a few annoying bullies, and lots of boring chores. On the night before his twelfth birthday, Ash learns that he was born on the same day as Prince Khufu, which makes him eligible to compete to be the prince's shadow, a coveted position as the friend and bodyguard of the boy destined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DURDurham, David Anthony
Summary: Leondan Arkan, the powerful ruler of an idyllic empire, hides the dark realities of their prosperity from his four children, until an assassin from the Mein, a race exiled to an ice-locked stronghold in the north, strikes him down and frees his children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DURDurham, David Anthony
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DURDurham, David Anthony
Summary: "A historical novel of one of the most storied uprisings of classic times by an emerging master of the genre. From the author of Pride of Carthage, the superb fictional rendering of Hannibal's epic military campaigns against Carthage's archenemy Rome, comes the perfect follow-up: an equally superb novel of the legendary gladiator Spartacus and the vast slave revolt he led that came ever so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DURDurham, David Anthony
Summary: "In this middle grade solarpunk novel set in an alternate Egyptian universe, twelve-year-old Ash must compete and survive to become the shadow-and protector-of the prince"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DURSummary: When students gather at the nation's top high school jazz competition in San Antonio, Texas, the musicians at Xavier Desmond High, teenagers with strange abilities, start going wayward in their efforts to outplay their rivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEXSummary: Officer Francis, vigilante joker "The Infamous Black Tongue," and ace thief Tesseract are forced by a cold-blooded Baba Yaga into an illegal fight ring as part of her effort to placate a vicious monster from another dimension.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGSummary: "An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw and ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Nevertheless, human nature reigns supreme. And one fo the most enduring human drives is the search for love. Aces and jokers alike both want to find it, or have lost it...or perhaps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2023