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Author
Series
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (376 pages) : map
Language
English
Description
In the land of Darhan, promises are bound by magic, tied into knots, and worn with pride. Those who break them are physically scarred, cast out into the desert, and stalked by vengeful shadows of their treachery. Fifteen-year-old Raim, the best young fighter ever to train for the elite Yun guard, has worn a simple knot around his wrist for as long as he can remember. He doesn't know where it came from and barely thinks about it at all. But on the...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
518 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his companion's brother draws him into a plot against the Andarion crown, outcast Talyn Batur finds himself torn between the loyalty to their planetary government and his own beliefs of justice and right. But when old enemies align with new ones, it's more than just his own life at risk. And more than just his homeworld that will end should he fail.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he's forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home. A drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother's shadow and claims a purpose of his own. An imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact--one that will ignite...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains fire-and-brimstone warnings from the pulpit at Holy Fire Baptist. Unfortunately for Ruth, the only things the townspeople fear more than the God and the Devil are the myths that haunt the area, like the story of the Low Man, a vampiric figure said to steal into sinners' bedrooms and kill them on moonless nights. When a skull is found deep...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
485 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A nobleman's daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri's captivating, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy. The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and an exiled Amrithi mother she can barely remember, but whose face and...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
198 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
The +Anima are beings who possess animal-like powers who are shunned and branded as outcasts. As Cooro and company arrive in a new town filled with hopes and dreams, Igneous and his army show up once again to create new problems for the +Anima. Will they ever find a place to call home? Or will they remain wanderers and outcasts forever?
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for wealth, power, and the next hedonistic thrill. Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher--the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He has been raised alongside the prince, trained in every aspect of combat and statecraft. He and Conor are as close as brothers,...
Author
Series
Lot Lands volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
545 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The long-awaited war has come in the sweeping conclusion to the Lot Lands trilogy--another irresistibly swashbuckling, swaggering, foul-mouthed fantasy...The Hispartan armies on the horizon are bolstered by divine champions, dread sorcerers, and gunpowder. Oats has won impossible battles before. He is more orc than man, and he will stack the bodies high for his chief and his brethren, if that's the price of freeing the Lots from human tyranny. But...
11) The outcasts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Skandian outcasts Hal, Stig, and others do battle at sea against the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race across icy waters where not everyone thinks of the competition as play.
Author
Series
Moon fall volume 2
Publisher
Tor/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
655 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"To stop the coming apocalypse, a fellowship was formed. A soldier, a thief, a lost prince, and a young girl bonded by fate and looming disaster. Each step along this path has changed the party, forging deep alliances and greater enmities. All the while, hostile forces have hunted them, fearing what they might unleash. Armies wage war around them. For each step has come with a cost--in blood, in loss, in heartbreak. Now, they must split, traveling...
13) The orphan witch
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deeper magic. A stronger curse. A family lost...and found. Persephone May has been alone her entire life. Abandoned as an infant and dragged through the foster care system, she wants nothing more than to belong somewhere. To someone. However, Persephone is as strange as she is lonely. Unexplainable things happen when she's around-changes in weather, inanimate objects taking flight-and those who seek to bring her into their family quickly cast her...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant"--
In her forest-veiled pagan village, ⁹vike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodlineher father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen...
Author
Series
(Jonathan P.).Lot lands volume 2
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
583 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fetching was once the only female rider in the Lot Lands. Now she is the proud leader of her own hoof, a band of loyal half-orcs sworn to her command. But in the year since she became chief, the Lots have tested her strength to the breaking point. The Bastards are scattered, desperate, their ranks weakened by a mysterious famine, their fortress reduced to smoldering slag. And their troubles are only growing. A pack of ravening beasts circles their...
Author
Series
(Jonathan P.).Lot lands volume 1
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Call them outcasts, call them savages--they've been called worse, by their own mothers--but Jackal is proud to be a Grey Bastard. He and his fellow half-orcs patrol the barren wastes of the Lot Lands, spilling their own damned blood to keep civilized folk safe. A rabble of hard-talking, hog-riding, whore-mongering brawlers they may be, but the Bastards are Jackal's sworn brothers, fighting at his side in a land where there's no room for softness....
17) Flint
Author
Series
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Flint left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America -- and one of the most feared and hated. Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed speculator is setting up the land swindle of a lifetime,...
18) Gothikana
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Bramble hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
399 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she expects though is an old, secluded castle on top of a mountain riddled with secrets, deceit, and death. An enigma his entire life, Vad Deverell likes being a closed book but knowing exactly everything that happens in the...
19) Icebreaker
Author
Series
Hidden volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015, c2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Petrel is an outcast on the ancient ship, an icebreaker, that has been following the same course for 300 years. In that time, the ship's crew has forgotten its original purpose and broken into three warring tribes. Everyone has a tribe except Petrel. Nicknamed the Nothing Girl, Petrel has been ostracized ever since her parents were thrown overboard as punishment for a terrible crime. But Petrel is a survivor. She lives in the ship's darkest corners...
20) Obsidian
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shade wears her tattoos openly and carries obsidian blades at her hips. For years, she has protected the outcast clans who wander the blighted Wastes, but the land is growing more unstable and her blades are no longer enough. To save her people, Shade vows to raise a Veil of protection ... But the magical Veils are said to belong to the Brotherhood church; if she succeeds in raising one, it will expose their lies. They swear to see her obliterated...