Mark Lawrence
Author
Series
Library trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
The boy has lived his whole life trapped within a book-choked chamber older than empires and larger than cities. The girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust, where nightmares stalk and no one goes. The world has never even noticed them. That's about to change. Their stories spiral around each other, across worlds and time. This is a tale of truth and lies and hearts, and the blurring of one into another. A journey on which knowledge...
2) Red sister
Author
Series
Book of the Ancestor volume 1
Publisher
Ace
Language
English
Description
"At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls. A bloodstained child of nine falsely accused of murder, guilty of worse, Nona is stolen from the shadow of the noose. It takes ten years to...
Author
Series
Broken empire volume 2
Language
English
Description
After finding ancient, magical artifacts hidden in a chamber beneath the castle, King Jorg plots to use them against the twenty thousand members of the enemy's approaching army.
Author
Series
Broken empire volume 1
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the murder of his mother and brother and leading a band of bloodthirsty thugs, Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath returns to his father's castle and his birthright, but faces treachery and dark magic once he arrives.
5) Holy sister
Author
Series
Book of the Ancestor volume 3
Publisher
Ace
Language
English
Description
"As a young girl, Nona Grey was saved from the noose by the Abbess of Sweet Mercy. But behind the convent's walls she learned not a life of prayer and isolation, but one of the blade and the fist. Now she will serve as the convent's fiercest protector as the emperor moves to destroy the last bastion that stands against him" --
6) Grey sister
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"From Mark Lawrence, the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, comes the second novel in a dazzling fantasy series set in a dying world. The searing tale of a young woman on the path to becoming the empire's fiercest warrior"--
Behind its walls, the Convent of Sweet Mercy has trained young girls to hone their skills for centuries. In Mystic Class, Novice Nona Grey has begun to learn the secrets of the universe. But so often...
Author
Series
Red Queen's war volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Language
English
Description
"After harrowing adventure and near-death, Prince Jalan Kendeth and the Viking Snorri ver Snagason find themselves in possession of Loki's Key, an artefact capable of opening any door and sought by the most dangerous beings in the Broken Empire--including The Dead King. Jal wants only to return home to his wine, women, and song, but Snorri has his own purpose for the key: to find the very door into death, throw it wide, and bring his family back into...
Author
Series
Red Queen's war volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Language
English
Description
The Red Queen is old but the kings of the Broken Empire dread her like no other. For all her reign, she has fought the long war, contested in secret, against the powers that stand behind nations, for higher stakes than land or gold. Her greatest weapon is The Silent Sister--unseen by most and unspoken of by all. The Red Queen's grandson, Prince Jalan Kendeth--drinker, gambler, seducer of women--is one who can see The Silent Sister. Tenth in line for...
Author
Series
Red Queen's war volume 3
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Ace mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 465 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
To rescue his family, Snorri ver Snagason must face the horrors of hell, while Jalan Kendeth, determined to return to his idle life, desperately tries to get his hands on Loki's key, which is his ticket back into the living world.
Author
Series
Broken empire volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 399 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desiring to be emperor of the Broken Empire, young King Jorg Ancrath of the seven nations must face an adversary standing in his way, a necromancer unlike any he has ever challenged -- a figure hated and feared even more than himself: the Dead King.
Author
Series
Book of the ice volume 1
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In some children, the old blood shows, giving them strength, speed, and mystical power. In the cities of Abeth's Corridor, such children are prized. But on the vast ice plains of Abeth, those traits lead children to burn bright and die young, and the discipline of the priests is harsh. Any child who shows signs of the old races is cast into the Pit of the Missing, never to be seen again. Yaz is only sixteen, but she feels a burgeoning gift and she...
Author
Series
Library trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xii, 364 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Library of Alexandria died in fire. Others fade away with less drama, ignored, forgotten, left to dust. To the athenaeum though, the great library of which all others are echoes, fires are merely a temporary inconvenience. The only true threat to the library's existence is a book--the one Livira wrote. Livira's book also brought her together with Evar, a young man who was raised in the library itself, and they discovered secrets that no one else...
Author
Series
Book of the ice volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 365 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the planet Abeth there is only the ice. And the Black Rock. For generations the priests of the Black Rock have reached out from their mountain to steer the fate of the ice tribes. With their Hidden God, their magic and their iron, the priests' rule has never been questioned. But when ice triber Yaz challenged their authority, she was torn away from the only life she had ever known, and forced to find a new path for herself. Yaz has lost her friends...
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Garfield's owner, Jon, takes in sweet, but dimwitted pooch Odie, turning Garfield's perfect world upside-down. Now Garfield wants only one thing: Odie out of his home and his life! But when the hapless pup disappears and is kidnapped by a nasty dog trainer, Garfield, feeling responsible, tears himself away from the TV and springs into action.
15) The Spanish civil wars: a comparative history of the First Carlist War and the conflict of the 1930s
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This book provides a comparative history of the domestic and international nature of Spain's First Carlist War (1833-40) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), as well as the impact of both conflicts. The book demonstrates how and why Spain's struggle for liberty was won in the 1830s only for it to be lost one hundred years later. It shows how both civil wars were world wars in miniature, fought in part by foreign volunteers under the gaze and in the...
Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"How should America wield its enormous power beyond its borders? Should it adhere to grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it partner with other nations or avoid entangling alliances? Americans have been grappling with questions like these throughout the nation's history, and especially since the emergence of the United States as a major world power in the late nineteenth century. America in the World illuminates this history by...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen screen.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (817 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
No more Mr. Nice Spy! Chuck is back and he's the Chuck you know: the hapless Nerd Herder hopelessly devoted to sexy superspy Sarah. And he's the Chuck you don't know: a master martial artist whose brain is locked and loaded with the new Intersect 2.0. How the two Chucks clash, bash, and (sometimes) cooperate makes Season Three total action-packed fun.