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Author
Series
Mousai ; 3
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Within the world of Aadilor sits the hidden Thief Kingdom, a land overflowing with magic and mayhem. There the Mousai, a trio of deadly sorceresses, serve the reclusive Thief King, delivering punishment and pleasure to the masses. Arabessa Bassette is the leader of the Mousai, conducting their powerful gifts with unyielding precision. But behind her mask of control burns a desire to forge her own path-along with a tumultuous relationship with Zimri...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The runaway international bestseller - part sweeping historical epic, part legal thriller - following the trial that shaped the life of the young Julius Caesar and gave root to an immortal legacy. Every legend has a beginning. Rome, 77 B.C. Senator Dolabella, known for using violence against anyone who opposes him, is going on trial for corruption and has already hired the best lawyers and even bought the jury. No man dares accept the role of prosecutor...
443) The druid
Author
Series
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Eilean was born a "wretched"--A lowly foundling raised by the Aldermaston of Tintern Abbey. Then she's chosen to assist in establishing the new abbey of Muirwood, now the site of a castle in the swampy Bearden Muir. Eilean's role is as night servant to the druid Mordaunt, the king's exiled advisor--and prisoner. He's clever, dangerous, and invaluable to the Aldermaston. Mordaunt's priceless secret: the hiding place of an ancient tome that reveals...
444) Rule
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this epic conclusion to the Unraveled Kingdom trilogy that began with Torn and Fray, the magical seamstress Sophie Balstrade joins forces with her brother the revolutionary leader and her betrothed the Crown Prince in a deadly bid to change history. The civil war that the charm caster Sophie and the Crown Prince Theodor tried so desperately to avert has come to Galitha. While Theodor joins Sophie's brother and his Reformist comrades in battle,...
445) The killing fog
Author
Series
Grave Kingdom ; 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Survivor of a combat school, the orphaned Bingmei belongs to a band of mercenaries employed by a local ruler. Now the nobleman, and collector of rare artifacts, has entrusted Bingmei and the skilled team with a treacherous assignment: brave the wilderness's dangers to retrieve the treasures of a lost palace buried in a glacier valley. But upsetting its tombs has a price. Echion, emperor of the Grave Kingdom, ruler of darkness, Dragon of Night, has...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Winter, 1564. Beautiful young Princess Margot is summoned to the court of France, where nothing is what it seems and a wrong word can lead to ruin. Known across Europe as Madame la Serpente, Margot's intimidating mother, Queen Catherine de Médicis, is a powerful force in a country devastated by religious war. Among the crafty nobility of the royal court, Margot learns the intriguing and unspoken rules she must live by to please her poisonous family....
447) La espada de cristal
Author
Series
Red queen ; 2
Publisher
Océano Gran Travesía
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"El segundo libro de la apasionante trilogía La reina Roja, sigue las aventuras de Mare Barrow en su búsqueda de justicia. La sangre de Mare Barrow es roja, del color de los empobrecidos, la gente común; sin embargo, su capacidad sobrehumana de controlar los relámpagos la ha puesto en la mira de la realeza. Es allí, entre el glamour y la buena vida de la corte, donde Mare carga con el estigma de la abominación, y donde conoce también una amarga...
448) Cautiva del jeque
Author
Series
Harlequin Bianca ; 1082
Publisher
Harlequin Ibérica, S.A
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
"Tilda lamentaba haber tenido aquel breve romance con Rashad, príncipe de la corona de Bakhar. Su familia estaba en deuda con él y Rashad estaba haciéndole chantaje para que se convirtiera en su concubina. Tilda no tardó en estar cautiva en el lejano reino del jeque...esperando a que él la tomara. Pero entonces Rashad anunció públicamente que Tilda estaba con él, por lo que, según las leyes de Bakhar, estaban unidos para siempre...como marido...
449) Die standing
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"No one in the history of histories has lost more than Philippa Georgiou, ruler of the Terran Empire. Forced to take refuge in the Federation's universe, she bides her time until Section 31, a rogue spy force within Starfleet, offers her a chance to work as their agent. She has no intention of serving under anyone else, of course; her only interest is escape. But when a young Trill, Emony Dax, discovers a powerful interstellar menace, Georgiou recognises...
450) Water horse
Author
Publisher
Candlemark & Gleam LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For the last twenty years, Esclin Aubrinos, arros of the Hundred Hills, has acted jointly with Alcis Mirielos, the kyra of the Westwood, and the rivermaster of Riverholme to defend their land of Allanoth against the Riders who invade from Manan across the Narrow Sea. He has long been a master of the shifting politics of his own people and his independently-minded allies, but this year the omens turn against him. The Riders have elected a new lord...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter approaches like an angry beast. Beyond the Northern borders, wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice and stone wasteland of the Frostfangs. From there, the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall. Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown in the Kingdom of the North, but his defences are ranged against attack from the South, the land of House Stark's...
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Inar is Master Builder for the Kingdom of Mishig-Tenh. Life is hard after the Kingdom lost the war against the League of Free Cities. Doubly so since his father betrayed the King and paid the ultimate price. And now the King's terrifying chancellor and torturer in chief has arrived and instructed Inar to go and work for the League. And to spy for him. And any builder knows you don't put yourself between a rock and a hard place. Far away Anton, Blade...
Author
Series
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Fear is the most fertile ground for faith." "You will be called Anippe, daughter of the Nile. Do you like it?" Without waiting for a reply, she pulls me into her squishy, round tummy for a hug. I'm trying not to cry. Pharaoh's daughters don't cry. When we make our way down the tiled hall, I try to stop at ummi Kiya's chamber. I know her spirit has flown yet I long for one more moment. Amenia pushes me past so I keep walking and don't look back. Like...
454) The Kingless Crown
Author
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From the USA Today and international best-selling author of the Saga of Crimson & Clover comes a gripping new epic fantasy world that will leave you breathless to the very last moment.
A crown woven together by lies.
A kingdom with the power to unravel them.
Four Reaches. Four brides. Only a fortnight separates the young women from becoming reluctant queens of the usurper king, Eoghan Rhiagain.
Twenty years earlier, King Eoghan's father cunningly...
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas ; 613
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"La novela arranca con la vindicación de la escritura y la construcción de un paisaje. Ese paisaje es fronterizo -entre México y Estados Unidos-, y en él irán apareciendo personajes, del pasado y del presente. Asoman misioneros, colonos y también los otros, los indios de las tribus ya civilizadas o aún salvajes. Asoma una mujer que huye por el desierto, y un militar que persigue por ese desierto a unos indios que han robado ganado. Y también...
456) Herejes de Dune
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Esta quinta entrega de la serie prosigue con las aventuras de la estirpe de los Atreides en el fascinante planeta de arena. Nos hallamos en el futuro respecto a la acción de Dios emperador de Dune. La expansión galáctica que siguió a la muerte de Leto ha terminado. Todos regresan al planeta madre, convertido de nuevo en el mundo inhóspito y seco de sus orígenes. El delicado equilibro entre las antiguas fuerzas está a punto de romperse. En...
457) The tsarina's legacy
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Then. Grigory 'Grisha' Potemkin has had a successful long association with the powerful Empress Catherine of Russia. But Catherine and Grisha are older now and face new threats, both from powers outside of Russia and from those close to them. Haunted by the horrors of his campaign against the Muslim Turks, Grisha hopes to construct a mosque in the heart of the empire. Unfortunately, Catherine's much younger new lover, the ambitious Platon Zubov,...
458) Ascendant's rite
Author
Series
Moontide quartet ; 4
Publisher
Jo Fletcher Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The last few months of the moontide - when the bridge connecting East and West rises above the sea - has come, and in the West Emperor Constant prepares the final phase of his plan to conquer the East. For failed mage Alaron and his companion Ramita - widow to the mage who built the Leviathan Bridge - the unthinkable has happened. They have lost the Scytale of Corineus, the key to the Rite of Ascendancy, as well as one of Ramita's infant sons, to...
Author
Publisher
[Rebecca Thorne]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on every table, firelight drifting between the rafters... all complemented by love and good company. Thing is, Reyna works as one of the Queen's private guards, and Kianthe is the most powerful mage in existence. Leaving their lives isn't so easy. But after an assassin takes Reyna hostage, she decides she's thoroughly done risking her life for a self-centered...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"On November 8, 1519, Hernan Cortes set foot for the first time on the Mexican island city of Tenochtitlan in the company of 450 Europeans and approximately 6,000 Tlaxcalteca, Cholulteca, Huexotzinca, and Totonac soldiers . . . This novel takes us to the other side of the story, placing the conquistadors on a distant plane, and helping us to understand through the eyes of Moctezuma, Cuitlahuac, and Cuauhtemoc that which they themselves didn't know...
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