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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Daughter of an ousted king, descendant of ancient druids, Gruoch (GREW-ock), has grown up believing that she will be crowned queen of Alba and reclaim the lands of her Pictish kin, a prophecy seemingly fulfilled by her betrothal to Duncan, the heir-elect. Determined never to be powerless again, she leaves behind her home, her family, and her close friend MacBethad, and travels to the royal seat at Scone to embrace her new position. But Duncan's court...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The small town of North Harbor, Michigan, is just not big enough for the two of them- flamboyant phony Maria Romanov and feisty Nana Jo. The insufferable Maria claims she's descended from Russian royalty and even had a fling with King Edward VIII back in the day. She's not just a lousy liar, she's a bad actress, so when she nabs the lead in the Shady Acres Senior Follies-a part Nana Jo plays every year in their retirement village production-Nana Jo...
63) City of masks
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 368 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Its 1358, and young Oswald de Lacy, Lord Somershill, is delayed in Venice as he awaits a pilgrim ship to the Holy Land. While the city is besieged by the King of Hungary, Oswald stays at the house of an English merchant, and soon comes under the spell of this decadent and dazzling island state that sits on the edge of Europewhere East meets West. But Oswald has secrets. He is running away from something in Englanda shadow that still haunts him, no...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Charley Davidson has enough going on without having to worry about twelve hellhounds hot on her trail. She is, after all, incredibly pregnant and feeling like she could pop at any moment. But, just her luck, twelve deadly beasts from hell have chosen this time to escape onto our plane, and they've made Charley their target. And so she takes refuge at the only place she thinks they can't get to her: the grounds of an abandoned convent. Of course,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points out that her 'daughters are being traded like cattle for...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xviii, 455 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Perfect for fans of Alan Furst, Kristin Hannah, and Jacqueline Winspear, here is the next exciting historical novel featuring Clara Vine, the actress and British spy in prewar Germany who maneuvers through the treacherous Nazi society gathering intelligence--and discovering a deadly secret. Berlin, 1937. Clara Vine's star is on the rise. The British-born, half-German actress is about to take her first leading role in a movie produced by the Nazis'...
Author
Publisher
Broadway
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
423 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Born into a poor southern family but taken in by rich relatives, Wallis Simpson was raised as a socialite. Between family conflicts and debutante balls, she and her friends dream of their future husbands, and like millions of girls worldwide, dream of Prince Edward, the heir to the British throne who would someday be king.
Author
Series
Raven's Shadow novel volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
608 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Blood Song, Anthony Ryan introduced readers to "a fascinating world of conflicting religions and the wars fought in the name of those faiths" (Library Journal). Now Ryan's epic tale continues as Vaelin Al Sorna discovers that there is no escape from the call of destiny -- "The blood-song rose with an unexpected tune, a warm hum mingling recognition with an impression of safety. He had a sense it was welcoming him home." Vaelin Al Sorna, warrior...
70) The Shadow Queen
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pulled by chance from her traveling actor family into service under the influential mistress of Louis XIV, Claudette uses her considerable talents to spy on personal and political rivals only to question her loyalty in the wake of a mercurial Athenais's fascination with dark magic.
Author
Series
Mistborn volume 07
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 507 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal. For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set--with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders--since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines....
72) For the king
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's Christmas Eve in Paris in the year 1800, eight years after the execution of King Louis XVI and a year since First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte seized power. Amid a backdrop of political turmoil, all of the city's elite, including Bonaparte himself, are expected to attend the premiere of the year's most anticipated musical event at the Opera. But as his carriage approaches the theater, a massive bomb detonates on Rue Saint-Nicaise, narrowly missing...
73) Shadows & magic
Author
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Humans have no idea what lurks in the shadows. Mortals don't expect to see supernaturals. Their minds rarely consider the possibility, even when it's staring them right in the face. I was one such person... until I met my estranged father. Let me introduce myself. The name is Carter. Quinn Carter. A witty laid-back, regular guy, who just happens to be half demon. Finding out Dad is a demon king was like a sucker punch to the gut. Seriously, I'm a...
74) The wolf's call
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
414 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Vaelin Al Sorna, the once-epic warrior and hero of many battles, is now the Tower Lord of the Northern Reaches. He spends his days policing the remote region against smugglers. But then he captures an assassin from the Far West. The thwarted killer tells Vaelin that the entire Far West is in peril of genocidal invasion and that the healer Sherin, now practicing her arts on the northern frontier of the lands of the Merchant Kings, will be one of the...
75) Crystal blade
Author
Series
Burning glass volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sonya and Anton may have brought about a revolution, but can they protect their homeland--and their love--with so many forces threatening to tear them apart? The empire has fallen, Valko faces trial, and Sonya is finally free from her fate as Sovereign Auraseer. But Sonya's expanding abilities are just as unstable as the new government of Riaznin. Not only can she feel the emotions of others but, unlike most Auraseers, she's learned to make others...
Author
Series
Daughter of the pirate king volume 3
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
334, 11 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The crew of the Vengeance finds itself in a fight to save the world when it accidentally awakens the King of the Undersea who can control the dead.
You can't be afraid of the dark when you're the monster lurking in the shadows. As an assassin working for the pirate queen, Sorinda is surprised when Alosa's next task for her is not to kill a new target, but to captain a handpicked crew on a rescue mission. Unfortunately, her sailing master is Kearan....
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Herald Mags, the King of Valdemar's Herald Spy, has been developing a network of young informants who operate on the streets and also in the halls and kitchens of the wealthy and highborn. His wife Amily is King's Own Herald and finds it useful to be underestimated for there are dark things stirring in the shadows of Haven. Someone has discovered many secrets of the women of the Court and the Collegia and is using those secrets to terrorize and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPress
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 537 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the days, then the hours, then the hours, then the seconds until his release tick away, he can feel a storm building. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in apparently adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America....
79) Snow White
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death; seven street urchins,...
80) Shadowsong
Author
Series
Wintersong volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six months after the end of Wintersong, Liesl is working toward furthering both her brother's and her own musical careers. Although she is determined to look forward and not behind, life in the world above is not as easy as Liesl had hoped. Her younger brother Josef is cold, distant, and withdrawn, while Liesl can't forget the austere young man she left beneath the earth, and the music he inspired in her. Who is the Goblin King? And what is the true...
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