Duncan, Emily A.
Summary: Nadya, a girl who can speak to gods, must save her people without destroying herself. A prince in danger must decide who to trust. A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings. In a centuries-long war, their paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints. Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war. But a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2019
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Summary: In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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2 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WESDelaney, Joseph
Summary: In his job as the county's spook seventeen-year-old Thomas Ward is used to battling boggarts, witches, and other creatures of the dark. But now he and his apprentice, Jenny, must team up with former rivals and enemies to fight the evil Kobalos warriors intent on destroying the county. The fight has cost the life of a strong ally, Grimalkin the witch assassin. Determined to end the war with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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LaFevers, Robin.
Summary: Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA FIC LAFKagawa, Julie
Summary: One thousand years ago, the great Kami Dragon was summoned to grant a single terrible wish--and the land of Iwagoto was plunged into an age of darkness and chaos. Now, for whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, a new wish will be granted. A new age is about to dawn. Raised by monks in the isolated Silent Winds temple, Yumeko has trained all her life to hide her yokai nature. Half...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Teen 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAGHobb, Robin
Summary: "After nearly killing his oldest friend, the Fool, and finding his daughter stolen away by those who were once targeting the Fool, FitzChivarly Farseer is out for blood. And who better to wreak havoc than a highly trained and deadly former royal assassin? Fitz might have let his skills go fallow over his years of peace, but such things, once learned, are not so easily forgotten. And nothing is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2015
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: Fantasy Hobb 2015De la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: Lilac's birthright makes her the Queen of Renovia, and a forced marriage made her the Queen of Stavin. But being a ruler does not mean making the rules-- taking the throne means giving up the opportunity to be with love of her life, the kingdom's assassin, Caledon Holt. Cal is forced to leave the castle when a horrific set of magical attacks threatens Lilac's sovereignty. Now Cal and Lilac will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DE LHobb, Robin
Summary: "Nearly twenty years ago, Robin Hobb burst upon the fantasy scene with the first of her acclaimed Farseer novels, Assassin's Apprentice, which introduced the characters of FitzChivalry Farseer and his uncanny friend the Fool. A watershed moment in modern fantasy, this novel--and those that followed--broke exciting new ground in a beloved genre. Together with George R. R. Martin, Robin Hobb...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2014
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1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy Hobb 2014Sparks, Lily
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Signal Deere has raised eyebrows for years as an unhappy Goth misfit from the trailer park. When she's convicted of her best friend Rose's brutal murder, she's designated a Class A--the most dangerous and manipulative criminal profile. To avoid prison, Signal signs on for a secret program for 18-and-under Class As and is whisked off to an abandoned sleep-away camp, where she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPAKristoff, Jay
Summary: "In a world where the suns almost never set, a woman gains entry to a school of infamous assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers that destroyed her family. Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father's failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she wanders a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and its thugs. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2016
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Summary: Fitz, Prince Chivalry's illegitimate son raised by Burrich the stableman, is ignored by all the royalty except for King Shrewd, who has him tutored as an assassin because he has the magic Skill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOBSparks, Lily
Summary: The Teen Killers Club is on the brink of destruction, with one faction pitted against another in a deadly game of survival. Erik and Signal are part of the group who've had their "kill switches" disabled, and the others are under orders to hunt them down--or meet their own demise. Now, Erik and Signal have to find a way to neutralize the others' switches and clear Signal's name. In the middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPAKagawa, Julie
Summary: Ember Hill left the dragon organization Talon to take her chances with rebel dragon Cobalt and his crew of rogues. But Ember can't forget the sacrifice made for her by the human boy who could have killed he--Garret Xavier Sebastian, a soldier of the dragon-slaying Order of St. George, the boy who saved her from a Talon assassin, knowing that by doing so, he'd signed his own death warrant....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KAGHarris, Charlaine
Summary: Felicia, Lizbeth Rose's young half-sister, is caught between secrets and powerful family struggles in the New Holy Roman Empire. Felicia is on a journey of discovery filled with magical assassins and desperation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARElle, J.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Quell is reluctantly inducted into a magical debutante society of social elites where she must bind with her forbidden magic while evading the assassin who has been tasked with hunting her kind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2023
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Summary: "Saoirse Sorkova survives on lies. As a soldier-in-training at the most prestigious barracks in the kingdom, she lies about being a siren to avoid execution. At night, working as an assassin for a dangerous group of mercenaries, Saoirse lies about her true identity. And to her family, Saoirse tells the biggest lie of all: that she can control her siren powers and doesn't struggle constantly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BURDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: "The Queen's Assassin is forced to take on a mysterious apprentice on his most dangerous mission yet, pulling them both into a vicious web of secrets and lies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DELLucier, Makiia
Summary: Lord Cassia is taken prisoner, while a plague sweeps over the land. Three years later, he wants only to return to his home. Meanwhile, his home has changed, and an assassin has targeted the queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUCMaas, Sarah J.
Summary: After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013
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Summary: "Years in the making, Sarah J. Maas's #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series draws to an epic, unforgettable conclusion. Aelin Galathynius's journey from slave to king's assassin to the queen of a once-great kingdom reaches its heart-rending finale as war erupts across her world. . . Aelin has risked everything to save her people-but at a tremendous cost. Locked within an iron...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018
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Summary: Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she's at last returned to the empire -- for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past. She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight. She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die just to see her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MAACorland, Mai
Summary: The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective: to kill the god king Joon. But for these five killers--each versed in deception, lies, and betrayal--it's not enough to forge an alliance. To survive, they'll have to find a way to trust each other, but only one can take the crown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC CORAfzal, Zulekha
Summary: One of the queen's most formidable weapons, rare flame-wielder Aasira must use her power to execute enemies of the crown, but as war looms around and secrets swirl, she questions whether she was truly born to kill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Thren Felhorn is the greatest assassin of his time. All the thieves' guilds of the city are under his unflinching control. If he has his way, death will soon spill out from the shadows and into the streets. Aaron is Thren's son, trained to be heir to his father's criminal empire. He's cold, ruthless--everything an assassin should be. But when Aaron risks his life to protect a priest's daughter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2013