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Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"This "powerful, fresh, and unflinching" reimagining from the award-winning author of the Penelope trilogy breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men (Jennifer Saint). On the isle of Ithaca, queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband Odysseus sailed to war with Troy and never came home. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep...
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English
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"Madeline Miller's Circe meets Cersei Lannister in a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious heroine of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen. As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her best... You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant. You stand by helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign...
63) Arca
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Series
Five queendoms volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Return to the Five Queendoms in the sequel to Scorpica, a sweeping epic fantasy that Rebecca Roanhorse called "ambitious and engaging," in which a centuries-long peace is shattered in a matriarchal society when a decade passes without a single girl beingborn. The Drought of Girls has ended, but the rift it broke open between the Queendoms is not so easily healed. Political tensions roil the senate of Paxim, where Queen Heliane vows to make her son...
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Ending fire trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Anoor is the first blue-blooded ruler of the Wardens' Empire. But when she is accused of a murder she didn't commit, her reign is thrown into turmoil. She must solve the mystery and clear her name without the support of her beloved, Sylah. Sylah braves new lands to find a solution for the hurricane that threatens to destroy her home. But in finding answers, she must make a decision: Should she sacrifice her old life in order to raise up her sword...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"When her seventeenth summer solstice arrives, Brienna desires only two things: to master her passion and to be chosen by a patron. Growing up in the southern kingdom of Valenia at the renowned Magnalia House should have prepared her. While some are born with a talent for one of the five passions-- art, music, dramatics, wit, and knowledge-- Brienna struggled to find hers until she chose knowledge. However, despite all her preparations, Brienna's...
66) La reina Carlota
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Publisher
Urano World
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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"De Julia Quinn, la autora n.º 1 en ventas del New York Times, y Shonda Rhimes, pionera de la televisión, llega una novela poderosa y romántica sobre la épica historia de amor entre la reina Carlota y el rey Jorge III, de los Bridgerton y de cómo cambió la sociedad. Una historia inspirada en la serie original La reina Carlota: Una historia de los Bridgerton, creada por Shondaland para Netflix. «SOMOS UNA CORONA. EL PESO DE LA CORONA DEL REY...
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Series
Black jewels series volume 12
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Enter the dark and sensual realms of the Black Jewels, a world where power always has a price, in this sweeping story in the New York Times bestselling fantasy saga. They are Warlord Princes, men born to serve and protect. They are the Queen's Weapons, men born to destroy the Queen's enemies--no matter what face that enemy wears. Daemonar Yaslana knows how to be bossy yet supportive--traits he shares with his father, the Demon Prince, and his uncle,...
68) A.D. 33: a novel
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A.D. (Ted Dekker) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker delivers the gripping story of Maviah, a slave who becomes a queen in Arabia, A.D. 33. They call her the Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was sealed on her birth by this world-unwanted, illegitimate, female, a slave-subject to the whims of all. But then she met a man named Yeshua who opened her eyes. She found strength in his words, peace from the brutal word around her. Because of what...
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Middlemist trilogy volume 1
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English
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"Every year on St. Walpurga's Eve, Caldella's Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace. An innocent life to be sacrificed on the full moon to keep the island city from sinking. Lina Kirk is convinced her brother is going to be taken this year. To save him, she enlists the help of the mysterious Thomas Lin, the boy she secretly loves, and the only person to ever escape from the palace. Working together they save her brother, but they draw the queen's...
70) The bees
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Pub. Date
2014
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English
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A member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, Flora 717, due to her courage and strength, finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum where she discovers secrets about the hive that cause her to challenge authority and perform unthinkable acts.
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Dragon prophecy volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
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Presents a new fantasy saga set in the world of the Enduring Flame trilogy, where the truth is revealed about elfin Queen Vielissiar Faricarnon and the sacrifices she makes to work unprecedented magics and bond with a dragon.
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"All Mina ever wanted was to escape her father's control. Half human, half vampire, she lived eternally torn between two worlds, never fully experiencing the pleasures of either--until her father chose her as the pawn in his latest political move, gifting her to the darkly powerful and dangerously seductive Malachi Zion. Malachi is not a vampire to be trifled with. He rules with an iron fist and has a reputation for the darkest of sins. But the longer...
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Series
Fractured fables volume 1-2
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In A Spindle Splintered, it's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday. When she was young, an industrial accident left her with a rare condition and no one who has it has lived to twenty-two. Her best friend is intent on making Zin's last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, she finds herself cast into another world, with another sleeping beauty, just...
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