Eason, K.
Summary: Princess Rory Thorne must use the fairy blessings gifted to her at birth to change the multiverse--or possibly destroy it. How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse is a feminist reimagining of familiar fairytale tropes and a story of resistance and self-determination--how small acts of rebellion can lead a princess to not just save herself, but change the course of history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EASStaveley, Brian
Summary: Pyrre Lakatur doesn't like the word skullsworn. It fails to capture the faith and grace, the peace and beauty of her devotion to the God of Death. She is not, to her mind, an assassin, not a murderer--she is a priestess. At least, she will be a priestess if she manages to pass her final trial. The problem isn't the killing. Pyrre has been killing and training to kill, studying with some of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAPollock, Tom.
Summary: Expelled from school, betrayed by her best friend, and virtually ignored by her widowed father, Beth Bradley is introduced to the magic and wonder of a hidden London by Filius Viae, then helps him protect it from Reach, a malign god of demolition who wants to claim the skyscraper throne for himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flux 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC POLRothfuss, Patrick
Summary: "The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages, you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. But this book is so much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTMaas, Sarah J.
Summary: In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is released from prison to serve as the king's champion. Her name is Celaena Sardothien. The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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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: After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2012
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Eason, K.
Summary: Space pirate Rory Thorne and her crew trace an abandoned ship to vicious advanced alien tech and a sentient floral plant designed to be a massive biological weapon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EASAlbert, Edoardo
Summary: In 604 AD, Edwin, the deposed king of Northumbria, seeks refuge at the court of King Raedwald of East Anglia. But Raedwald is urged to kill his guest by Aethelfrith, Edwin's usurper. As Edwin walks by the shore, alone and at bay, he is confronted by a mysterious figure--the missionary Paulinus--who prophesies that he will ascend to greater heights than any of his forefathers. Through battles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCoe, David B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COEKristoff, 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: Follows the adventures of the powerful families in the kingdom of Westeros that are constantly vying for control of the throne.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2012
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Summary: Zora Michaels hides her genius and passion for technology behind a girly image, but when a boy goes missing just as a forest fire threatens, Zora and a Drone Academy friend help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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Summary: "Charlie Thorne is a genius. Charlie Thorne is a thief. Charlie Thorne isn't old enough to drive. And now it's up to her to save the world... Decades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth -- or destroy it. Fearing what would happen if the equation fell into the wrong hands, he hid it. But now, a diabolical group known as the Furies are closing in on its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC GIBRothfuss, Pat (Patrick J.)
Summary: "The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages, you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. But this book is so much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2007
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Summary: The CIA forces twelve-year-old Charlotte "Charlie" Thorne, a rebellious genius, to use her code-breaking skills on an epic global chase to locate Einstein's last equation before dangerous agents discover it and unlock the solution to harnessing energy.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GIBEmerson, Kevin
Summary: While waiting to leave Mars before it burns up just like the Earth before it, Liam and his friend Phoebe discover some facts about time and space and realize that the human race is just one of the races trying to survive in space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EMEHamilton, Peter F.
Summary: The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel - self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that threatens the existence of all that lives. The Raiel convince Nigel to participate in a desperate scheme to infiltrate the Void. Once inside, Nigel discovers that humans are not the only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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Summary: When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLPearson, Mary (Mary E.)
Summary: "On the morning of her wedding, Princess Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive--and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets--even as she finds herself falling in love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2014
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Summary: Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets out on a hazardous mission to save Prydain from the forces of evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ALEButcher, James J.
Summary: "In the tradition of his renowned father, James J. Butcher's debut novel is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor. On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the Department of Unorthodox Affairs, the Auditors are the magical elite,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTCoville, Bruce.
Summary: Having jumped into the fantasy land of Luster, Cara joins Lightfoot the unicorn in the search for Queen Arabella Skydancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COVElliott, Kate
Summary: Princess Sun has finally come of age. Growing up in the shadow of her mother, Eirene, has been no easy task. The legendary queen-marshal did what everyone thought impossible: expel the invaders and build Chaonia into a magnificent republic, one to be respected--and feared. But the cutthroat ambassador corps and conniving noble houses have never ceased to scheme--and they have plans that need...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2020