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Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 413 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ragnvald knows that Harald's success will eventually mean his own doom. His beloved sister, Svanhild, is now one of Harald's many wives. When an old enemy of Ragnvald's kidnaps his niece, Freydis, his sister follows the daughter she has neglected to Iceland, where an old love awaits. Ragnvald's sons, Einar, Ivar, and Rolli, are no longer children. Harald's heirs are pursuing their own ambitions. But Norway may no longer be large enough for so many...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are life-changing: the family could return to their beloved Tidelands,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
NC 1660L
Language
English
Description
"In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors--doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As violence...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
431 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first installment in a debut trilogy, The Half-Drowned King tells the compelling story of the political intrigues, battles, and struggles for power that led to the rise of King Harald the Fair-Haired, first king of Norway, seen through the eyes of the young man who became his most trusted warrior and advisor. Conjuring a bloodthirsty, superstitious, and thrilling ancient world (9th century), this debut novel is for fans of Game of Thrones, the...
Author
Series
Tarnished crown volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 675 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A royal son, falsely believed to be dead, fights for his father's stolen throne against a bastard-born lord and a duke's widow.
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Empire of Vishir has lost its ruler, and the fight to save Seravesh from the Roven Empire is looking bleak. Moreover, Askia has been captured by power-hungry Emperor Radovan, who plans on making her his wife simply so he can take her magic as his own, killing her in the process... The jewel Radovan has put around her neck will pull her power from her in thirty days. Worse, Vishir might not even have that long, as the two heirs to the throne are...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The battle lines in this bitter rivalry are as old as civilization itself: On one side, an unlikely band of ordinary Americans ready to make their last stand in defense of self-rule, freedom, and liberty, and on the other, an elite cabal of self-styled tyrants who believe that unlimited power should be wielded only by the chosen few. That group, led by an aging, trillionaire puppet-master named Aaron Doyle, will stop at nothing to destroy the myth...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 444 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Six years after The Half-Drowned King, Ragnvald Eysteinsson is now king of Sogn, but fighting battles for King Harald keeps him away from home, as he confronts treachery and navigates a political landscape that grows more dangerous the higher he rises. Ragnvald's sister Svanhild has found the freedom and adventure she craves at the side of the rebel explorer Solvi Hunthiofsson, though not without a cost. She longs for a home where her quiet son can...
Author
Series
Worldbreaker saga volume 1
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
538 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to uncover her own bloody past--while a world goes to war with itself. In the frozen kingdom of Saiduan, invaders from another realm are decimating whole cities, leaving behind nothing but ash and ruin. At the heart of this war lie the pacifistic Dhai people, once enslaved by the Saiduan and now courted by their...
10) The freedom race
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 402 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of a cataclysmic civil war known as the Sequel, ideological divisions among the states have hardened. In the Homestead Territories, an alliance of plantation-inspired holdings, Black labor is imported from the Cradle, and Biracial 'Muleseeds' are bred. Raised in captivity on Planting 437, kitchen-seed Jellybean 'Ji-ji' Lottermule knows there is only one way to escape. She must enter the annual Freedom Race as a runner. Ji-ji and...
Author
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"March, 1917. Petrograd is on the eve of revolution. For Countess Sophia Orlova, the city of her childhood--the only home she has ever known--has become her deadly enemy. The mob are ready to get rid of anyone connected to the old regime, including Sophia. When rebels threaten to shoot Sophia and her husband, they are saved by Nikolai, a fervent supporter of the revolution. Determined to help Nikolai's cause, Sophia sets up a hospital wing in the...
Author
Language
English
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"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
James Bond--British special agent 007--is summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the rebels threatening the established regime.
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her father is called away from their plantation near Charleston, S.C., during the Civil War, twelve-year-old Susanna must lead her brothers on a difficult journey in hopes of being reunited with him.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. South Sudanese translator William connects the corpse to the sudden disappearance of cook Layla, a northern nomad with whom he's fallen in love. Meanwhile, Sudanese American filmmaker Dena struggles to connect to her unfamiliar homeland, and white midwestern...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbors in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and their first loves. But as they grow older and the bombs continue to fall, the international sanctions bite and friends begin to flee the country,...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
481 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The streets and canals of Servenza fill with tension as the war between the gods heats up and the city's ruler prepares for rebellion. As always, ordinary people are caught in the cross-hairs of the powerful. Former street rat Buc has claimed a seat on the board of Kanados Trading Company, strongest of Servenza's trading houses. This is the first step toward Buc's goal: destroying the Gods who make many people's lives miserable. If that also means...
Author
Series
Protectors of the crown volume 2
Publisher
Grey Eagle Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For hundreds of years, Scotland has battled the English for their freedom. Now, they face a new enemy. In a divided world between politics and religion, the young King James V faces the threat of his own people rebelling against him. As civil war break out among the Highland clans, James recruits a secret group of warriors for protection. He calls them the Protectors of the Crown. Rylan has spent most of his life keeping his identity a secret, even...
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English
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"In Athena, Mississippi, librarian Charlie Harris is known for his good nature--and for his Maine coon cat, Diesel, whom he walks on a leash. Charlie returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but taking the plunge into a recent acquisition will have him in over his head... Lucinda Beckwith Long, the mayor of Athena, has donated a set of Civil War-era diaries to the archives of Athena College. The books were recently discovered among the...