Weber, David
Summary: The Kingdom of Charis and the Kingdom of Chisholm have joined together, pledged to stand against the tyranny of a corrupt Church. The youthful Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm has wed King Cayleb of Charis, forging a single dynasty, a single empire, dedicated to the defense of human freedom. Yet there are things Sharleyan still does not know. Secrets Cayleb has not been permitted to share, even with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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Summary: "The war between magically gifted Arcana and psionically talented Sharona continues to rage. The dragon-borne Arcanan assault across five universes has been halted but at atrocious cost. One of those was the life of Crown Prince Janaki, heir to the newly created Sharonian empire, who went knowingly to his death. Another price will be the sacrifice of his younger sister, Grand Imperial Princess...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2016
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Summary: Not yet thirty years old, Cayleb Ahrmahk has won the most crushing naval victories in human history. He's smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm. Cayleb and Sharleyan have created the Charisian Empire, the greatest naval power in the history of Safehold, and they've turned Charis into a place of refuge for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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Contents: A certain talent -- In the navy -- The captain from Kirkbean -- Sir George and the dragon -- Sword brother -- A beautiful friendship -- Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington -- Miles to go -- The traitor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2008
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Summary: "The Solarian League lies in defeat, crushed by the Grand Alliance of Manticore, Haven, and Grayson. Obedient to the Alliance's surrender demands, the League is writing a new Constitution, to prevent the reemergence of out-of-control bureaucrats, like the"Mandarins" who led it to disaster. Frontier Security has been disbanded, the Outworlds' have regained control of their own economic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2021
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Summary: "We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet. But it also transpires that the Shongairi expedition that nearly destroyed our home planet ... wasn't an official one. That, indeed, its commander may have been acting as an unwitting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2024
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Summary: "The Solarian League's navy counts its superdreadnoughts by the thousands. Not even they know how large their economy is. And for hundreds of years they have borne the banner of human civilization. But the 'Mandarins' who rule today's league are corrupt, venal, accountable to no one and have decided that the Star Kingdom of Manticore must be destroyed. Honor Harrington has worn the Star...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2018
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Summary: As the first hradani wind rider in history, Bahzell stirs resentment over his elevation to the War God's elite champion, a situation that is further complicated by the romantic advances of Baron Tellian's heiress daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2012
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Summary: "NO REST FOR THE WEARY Rick Galloway's still not sure what inspired him to volunteer to fight Cubans in Angola, and he certainly never expected to end his African adventure shanghaied by a flying saucer when his CIA superiors cut him and his men adrift asthe Cubans overran their final position. He didn't expect to end up on the planet Tran, God only knew how many light-years from Earth, raising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POUPowers, Tim, 1952-
Summary: As this ingenious new novella, More Walls Broken, begins, a trio of academics have just entered a deserted California cemetery late at night, bringing with them a number of arcane devices aimed at achieving an equally arcane purpose. What follows is the sort of dizzying, mind-expanding entertainment that only the always reliable, always astonishing Tim Powers could have written. These three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2019
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Summary: Identical twin sisters Summer and Winter live alone on a remote island, sheltered from the fallout of a mysterious event that has laid waste to the rest of the world. They survive on rations stockpiled by their father and spend their days deep in their mother's collection of classic literature - until a mysterious stranger upends their carefully constructed reality. At first, Edward is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Text Publishing Company 2020
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Summary: A historical fantasy that follows Eastern European teens Yehuda and Bluma on a journey through the Far Country, the Jewish land of the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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Summary: Combines elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology in the story of two supernatural creatures--Chava, a golem brought to life by a disgraced rabbi, and Ahmad, a jinni made of fire--who form an unlikely friendship on the streets of turn-of-the-century New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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Summary: "Set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I-- the long-awaited follow-up to The Golem and the Jinni revisits Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WECFaber, Michel
Summary: Baffled by the sudden disappearance of the letter D, a young woman is summoned to the home of a former history teacher before arriving in an enslaved, wintry land where free thinking is under threat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Blue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood, Alabama, she's happened across lost wallets, jewelry, pets, her wandering neighbor, and sometimes, trouble. No one is more surprised than Blue, however, when she comes across an abandoned newborn baby in the woods, just south of a very special buttonwood tree. Sarah Grace Landreneau Fulton is at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2020
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Summary: Nathaniel, the apprentice of Death, is forced to stand on his own to lead an uprising against the Devil in Grimm City, where an ensuing brutal revolt tests the loyalties of the living and the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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Summary: "Uni and the little girl are taking a walk on the beach when they meet a mermaid! The little girl has all sorts of questions, but first, the mermaid needs some help! She wants to know all about the world above the water. Join Uni and the little girl as they help their new mermaid friend go on a grand adventure over hillsides, through magical forests, and even to the Real World!"--Provided by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: The Book Without Words appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages. But for a green-eyed reader filled with great desire, it may reveal the forgotten magical arts of making gold and achieving immortality. For generations, its magic has been protected from those who would exploit it. But on a terrible day of death and destruction, the Book Without Words falls into the hands of a desperate boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2005
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Summary: Asterel races against time to locate a token which will prevent the Kurbs from freezing the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1993
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Summary: Hilda and her mom have settled into their new home in the city of Trolberg. Pining for her magical friends and the wonder-filled wilderness, Hilda is finding it hard to fit in, especially at school. But when Hilda makes a new friend she soon begins to uncover some surprising secrets ... Perhaps this concrete labyrinth is a place where wonderful and magical things can happen too?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2019