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Series
Song of ice and fire volume 2
Language
English
Description
A medieval fantasy set in the land of the Seven Kingdoms, chronicling the intrigues of its ruling families as they jockey for power.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
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Description
"This stunning slow-burn romantasy follows a fated pair who uncover a world-changing secret and are thrust into a violent class war, navigating love, loss, and devastating betrayals. Nina Harrow and Patrick Colson are twelve years old when they are whisked away from the shadows of their disenfranchised mining towns to dazzling Belavere City to discover their magical potential. Those who pass Belavere's test will become Artisans, wielders of powerful...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions-Mercury Radio Arts
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
419 p. ; 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
Eternal sky volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
334 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Going into exile after barely escaping a war waged by his cousin and brother, Temur, the grandson and heir of the Great Khan, teams up against an enemy cult with former princess Samarkar, who after a series of bitter betrayals has pursued a life of magical study.
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born and raised in the Daniel's Den, a bordello in Boonesborough, Kentucky, "bastard" Zach McCall never knew his mother and only sees his whiskey-drummer father, Fat Jack McCall, occasionally. Reluctantly, Zach serves the South during the Civil War and meets younger half brother Little Jack in Louisville. After the war the illegitimate McCall befriends Jasper Washington, an educated, former bear-wrestling black man intent on reuniting with his pal...
6) The unwanted
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
326 pages : 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning, New York Times Notable author of A Replacement Life-"a born storyteller with a tremendous gift for language" (San Francisco Chronicle)- delivers a fierce and staggering new page-turner full of cruelty, tenderness, and heroism, about a young girl and her parents fleeing civil war and the brutal dictatorship that has targeted their family. Susanna, George, and their eight-year-old daughter, Dina, have been lucky, so far, in these four...
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Language
English
Description
"In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she's willing to risk for the life of a stranger, from the New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical fiction as Hour of the Witch and The Sandcastle Girls. Virginia, 1864--Libby Steadman's husband has been away for so long that she can barely conjure...
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
555 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cadenza is the City of Words, a city run by poets, its skyline dominated by the steepled towers of its libraries ... Carlo Mazzoni, a young wordsmith, arrives at the city gates intent on making his name as the bells ring out with the news of the death of the city's poet-leader. Instead, he finds himself embroiled with the intrigues of a city in turmoil ... A war that threatens not only to destroy Cadenza but remove it from history altogether"-- Provided...
Author
Series
These hollow vows volume 2
Language
English
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After Abriella's sister was sold to the fae, she thought life couldn't get any worse. But when she suddenly finds herself caught in a web of lies of her own making, loving two princes and trusting neither, things are not quite as clear as she once thought. As civil war wages in the Court of Darkness, Brie finds herself unable to choose a side. How can she know where she stands when she doesn't even know herself anymore? In this darkly romantic thrill...
Author
Series
Secret refuge volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of a young woman's brave attempt to save her family's legacy during the Civil War.
11) Burn
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English
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"Every year Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage to northern Maine where they camp, hunt, and hike, leaving much from their long friendship unspoken. Although the state has convulsed all summer with secession mania--a mania that had simultaneously spread across other states--Jess and Storey figure it's a fight reserved for legislators or, worse-case scenario, folks in the capitol. But after two weeks hunting moose off the grid, the men reach...
12) The wolf: #1
Author
Series
Under the northern sky volume 1
Publisher
Orbit, an imprint of Hachette Book group
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 493 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Violence and death come to the land under the Northern Sky when two fierce races break their age-old fragile peace and start an all-out war"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
547 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set among the splendor of the Rocky Mountains in 1880, The Grant Conspiracy takes you to a Colorado mining town being torn apart by an evil law firm out for revenge for Black Friday. Frost and Hancock are ex-Confederates who, with the help of their henchmen, are plotting the assassination of former president Ulysses S. Grant. But they're not angry over the war; rather, their hatred comes from pure greed. They lost their fortunes when Grant dumped...
Author
Series
Warrior witch volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
370 pages : illustrations ; 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...
15) The spider
Author
Series
Under the northern sky volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvi, 524 pages : illustration, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Roper, the Black Lord of the north, may have vanquished the Suthern army at the Battle of Harstathur. But the greatest threat to his people lies in the hands of more shadowy forces. In the south, the disgraced Bellamus bides his time. Learning that the young Lord Roper is planning to invade the southern lands, Bellamus conspires with his Queen to unleash a weapon so deadly it could wipe out Roper's kind altogether. And at a time when Roper needs...
Author
Series
Half-drowned king volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 413 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The fates of Ragnvald and his sister Svanhild unfold to their stunning conclusion in this riveting final volume in The Golden Wolf Saga." --Amazon.com.
17) The parade
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Language
English
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A spare, powerful, timeless parable of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country. "Four and Nine are partners, working for the same company, sent without passports to a nation recovering from ten years of civil war. Together, operating under pseudonyms and anonymous to potential kidnappers, they are given a new machine, the RS-90, and tasked with building...
18) Smokescreen: #25
Author
Series
Eve Duncan volume 25
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this heart-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to Africa to help families torn apart by a violent attack deep in the jungle -- but she may be putting herself in more danger than she knows. A journalist shows up on Eve Duncan's doorstep with a plea for help. Jill Cassidy has just come from a small African village with a heart wrenching story: half the villagers -- many...
19) Missionaries
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Neither Mason, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign correspondent, has emerged from America's long post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unscathed. Yet war also exerts a terrible draw that neither can shake--the noble calling, the camaraderie, the life-and-death stakes. Where else in the world can such a person go? All roads lead to Colombia, where the US, with its patented fusion of intelligence dominance and quick-striking...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2025.
Physical Desc
xiv, 316 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A cutting, revealing caricature of the American Civil War, told through the story of a white teenager who joins an all-Black regiment of soldiers, for fans of Colson Whitehead and James McBride. How to Dodge a Cannonball is a razor-sharp and bitterly hilarious Civil War satire about American racism. It tells the story of a friendless, fatherless, and guileless white teenager named Anders who volunteers for the Union army as a flag-twirler to escape...

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