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1) The familiar
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The chaos god Asag has been quiet since the destruction of the City of Monsters, but Monster Hunter International know that he is still out there, somewhere-plotting, waiting for his chance to unravel reality. When Owen and the MHI team discover that one of Isaac Newton's Ward Stones is being auctioned off by Reptoids who live deep beneath Atlanta, they decide to steal the magical super weapon and use it to destroy Asag once and for all. But before...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Appears on list
Description
Eleven-year-old Gregor and his younger sister, Boots, return to the Underworld beneath New York City to find the cure for a terrible plague that threatens the life of their mother, as well as the lives of the people, bats, and rats who populate the underworld.
Author
Publisher
Hidden Gnome Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Years ago, Lindon left his home as a powerless Unsouled. Now, he goes to war with the most powerful beings in the world over the future of Cradle itself. The Weeping Dragon has a grudge to settle, and Lindon intends to take out the Dreadgod with his friends by his side. But rival Monarchs know his plans, and they won't let things end so easily. If Lindon does win, he will ascend to the heavens. But he may not find a safe haven there either. In the...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, she's a con woman of unsurpassed talent....
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
The Bamboo Kingdom is once again safely led by guidance of a real Dragon Speaker--three Dragon Speakers, in fact! But a troubling vision from the Great Dragon warns of a "Dark Sun" coming soon. And while Rain, Leaf, and Ghost argue amongst themselves about what it means, the monkeys are hatching a plan to use this moment of uncertainty to their best advantage... Unless the pandas learn to trust each other, their biggest challenges may still lurk on...
9) Murtagh
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"El mundo ya no es un lugar seguro para Murtagh y su dragón, Thorn. Un rey malvado ha sido derrocado y deben enfrentar las consecuencias del papel reacio que desempeñaron en su reinado de terror. Ahora son odiados y están solos, exiliados a las afueras de la sociedad. Por todos los territorios, voces apagadas susurran sobre tierra quebradiza y un leve olor a azufre en el aire, y Murtagh siente que algo malvado acecha en las sombras de Alagaësia....
Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"NEW ENTRY IN THE BESTSELLING MONSTER HUNTER INTERNATIONAL SERIES BY DRAGON AWARD WINNING AUTHORS LARRY CORREIA AND SARAH A. HOYT When Owen Pitt and the rest of the Monster Hunter International crew are called away to mount a month's-long rescue mission in a monster-infested nightmare dimension, Julie Shackleford--Owen's wife and descendant of MHI founder Bubba Shackelford--is left behind. Her task: hold down the fort and take care of her new baby...
14) Once a queen
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
After moving to her estranged grandmother's house, fourteen-year-old Eva teams up with the gardener's great-grandson, Frankie, to uncover family secrets and they suspect that Eva's grandmother was once a queen in another world.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Frostpaw was told to trust no cat, but a brutal attack has left her gravely injured, and she'll need to depend on someone. When help arrives in the form of a young warrior, she convinces him to protect her as she follows StarClan's cryptic directions toward the roots of RiverClan, where Riverstar has promised she'll find the answers she's been so desperately seeking. Back at the lake, the tension between ShadowClan and its neighbors might be easing,...
Author
Publisher
Aethon Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In the wake of an unexpected homecoming, Jason questions if there is still a place for him in the world he left behind. Forced to confront what he has become in his time away, he feels more alien than ever. But his old world is hiding secrets that he never knew. As he starts to unravel what has been hidden from him his entire life, he discovers that not only might he fit in better than ever, but he may be exactly what the world needs.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Appears on list
Description
Everyone has been trying to keep Gregor from seeing "The Prophecy of Time". That is because the final prophecy calls for the warrior's death. With an army of rats quickly approaching and time running out, Gregor must defend Regalia and get his family back hom safely. There is a code that must be cracked, or all will be lost. It is a war designed to end all wars. The fates of the Underland and the great warrior, Gregor the Overlander, masterfully unfold...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Risking her immortal soul to win Mr. Benedict Ashbrooke's heart, housemaid Effie has 100 days--and 10,000 stitches--to make Mr. Ashbrooke fall in love and propose but finds her greatest obstacle the man with whom she made a devil's bargain whose overwhelmingly good intentions stand in her way.
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