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Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 2
Language
English
Description
"A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction. It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears....With the death of the monstrous...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A special 25th anniversary edition of Paulo Coehlo's extraordinary international bestselling phenomenon--the inspiring spiritual tale of self-discovery that has touched millions of lives around the world. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical...
5) Copper Beach
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Within the pages of very rare books some centuries old lie the secrets of the paranormal. Abby Radwell's unusual psychic talent has made her an expert in such volumes-and sometimes taken her into dangerous territory. After a deadly incident in the private library of an obsessive collector, Abby receives a blackmail threat, and rumors swirl that an old alchemical text known as The Key has reappeared on the black market. Convinced that she needs an...
Author
Series
Shad Hadid volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Lebanese-American Shad Hadid discovers he is an Alchemist, he receives an invitation to the Alexandria Academy where he discovers not everything is as it seems and shadowy figures are lurking around every corner.
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Blue de la Cour has her life planned: hide the magic in her blood and continue trying to turn metal into gold so she can help her city's homeless. But when her father is murdered and a cruel but powerful woman claims custody of Blue and her property, one wrong move could expose her--and doom her once and for all. The only one who can help? The boy she's loathed since childhood: Prince Kellan. Kellan Renard, crown prince of Balavata, is walking a thin...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one...
9) Middlegame
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
528 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Roger and Dodger arent exactly human, though they dont realise it. They arent exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his...
Author
Series
Infinity alchemist volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Discovered practicing alchemy by apprentice Ramsay Thorne, Ash must help her find a sacred text of extraordinary power - a journey that forces him to discover his own definition of true power and how far he will go to seize it.
For Ash Woods, practicing alchemy is a crime. Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic, so when Ash is rejected by the Lancaster Mage's College, he takes a job as the school's groundskeeper instead,...
Author
Description
"Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Dj©·l©Ư Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to...
13) Ashlords
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Every year since the Ashlords were gifted phoenix horses by their gods, they've raced them. First into battle, then on great hunts, and finally for the pure sport of seeing who rode the fastest. Centuries of blood and fire carved their competition into a more modern spectacle: The Races. Over the course of a multi-day event, elite riders from clashing cultures vie to be crowned champion. But the modern version of the sport requires more than good...
14) The apothecary
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.
15) Seasonal fears
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
482 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The king of winter and the queen of summer are dead. The fight for their crowns begins! Melanie has a destiny, though it isn't the one everyone assumes it to be. She's delicate; she's fragile; she's dying. Now, truly, is the winter of her soul. Harry doesn't want to believe in destiny, because that means accepting the loss of the one person who gives his life meaning, who brings summer to his world. So, when a new road is laid out in front of them--a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (158 pages).
Language
English
Description
Living in the twenty-fifth century, young Dawkins and Hypatia Faraday take time travel and technology like the NeuroNet for granted but in Prague in 1648, they are startled to find a rogue alchemist who is using advanced technology to change mercury into gold.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In an alternate Tang Dynasty China, aspiring royal alchemist Zilan, who has the ability to resurrect the dead, arrives in the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country and becomes drawn into the dangerous political games of the royal family.
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (625 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the Elric brothers recklessly attempted to raise their mother from the dead, the horrors they unleashed marked the beginning of a long journey into the darkest corners of the cruelty of mankind. Now, destinies are converging for those who remain to fight for the light of salvation. The hunt for the truth behind truths is growing more desperate, and ruined Ishbal waits at the end of a road choked with wreckage both human and soulless. Contains...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 444 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having escaped to hide in Elizabethan London, Matthew and Diana must find a powerful witch teacher to help Diana control her magic and search for the elusive Book of Life. Enemies are everywhere, the threat to witches is growing, and Diana and Matthew's romance faces a barrage of new threats, from within as much as without.