Author: Sarah McGuire
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN: 1606845535
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Saville hates sewing. How can she not when her father, the Tailor, loves his bolts of velvet and silk far more than he's ever loved her? Yet, when he is struck ill shortly after they arrive in the city of Reggen, Saville must don boy's clothes in the hopes of gaining a commission from the king to keep them fed. The kingdom is soon on edge when stories spread of an army of giants led by a man who cannot be killed. But giants are just stories, and no man is immortal. And then the giants do come to the city gates, two larger-than-life scouts whom Saville cunningly tricks into leaving. The Tailor of Reggen is the hero of the kingdom, the king promises his sister's hand in marriage, and by the time Saville reaches the palace doors, it is widely known that the Tailor single-handedly killed the giants. When her secret—that she's a girl—is quickly discovered by Lord Galen Verras, the king's cousin, Saville's swept into the twists and turns of court politics. The deathless man is very real, and he will use his giant army to ensure he is given the throne freely or by force. Now, only a tailor girl with courage and cunning can see beyond the tales to discover the truth and save the kingdom again. Debut author Sarah McGuire artfully crafts a story of understanding, identity, and fighting to protect those you love most in Valiant, a rich reimagining of "The Brave Little Tailor."
Author: Lesley Livingston
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448493802
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Princess. Captive. Gladiator. Always a Warrior. Fallon is the daughter of a proud Celtic king and the younger sister of the legendary fighter Sorcha. When Fallon was just a child, Sorcha was killed by the armies of Julius Caesar. On the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Fallon is excited to follow in her sister's footsteps and earn her place in her father's war band. She never gets the chance. Fallon is captured and sold to an elite training school for female gladiators—owned by none other than Julius Caesar himself. In a cruel twist of fate, the man who destroyed Fallon’s family might be her only hope of survival. Now, Fallon must overcome vicious rivalries, deadly fights in and out of the arena, and perhaps the most dangerous threat of all: her irresistible feelings for Cai, a young Roman soldier and her sworn enemy. A richly imagined fantasy for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Cinda Williams Chima, The Valiant recounts Fallon’s gripping journey from fierce Celtic princess to legendary gladiator and darling of the Roman empire.
Author: Michael Jan Friedman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471108201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The USS Stargazer, a long-range exploration ship commanded by Captain Ruhalter, is assigned to pick up descendents of the survivors of the USS Valiant, a ship that was lost at the far edge of the galaxy in the very first Star Trek Original Series episode. The evacuees claim that a deadly invasion force from outside the galaxy is nearing the United Federation of Planets. When they are ambushed by the invaders, Captain Ruhalter is killed, leaving a young Lieutenant, Jean-Luc Picard, in charge of the ship in the midst of a deadly confrontation. Picard must swiftly learn to be an effective Captain; while dealing both with a crew that has not yet come to trust his judgement and with hostile aliens more powerful than anything the Federation has encountered before.
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471116247
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Rediscover the dark and seductive realm of faerie in the second book of the critically acclaimed Modern Faerie Tales series from the bestselling author of The Cruel Prince – Holly Black. When Valerie runs away to New York to escape her old life, she decides to sport a new identity and take up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system. There’s something suspicious about her new friends, but she can’t quite put her finger on it. When Val is talked into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature, she’s drawn into a world she never knew existed. But to leave with her life intact, she must strike a bargain. What’s Val willing to risk?
Author: Mary Ulmet
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1425984150
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 121
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The Ring of Fire This story begins with Freddie convincing his mother that he and his pet Tanga are grown up enough to deliver a wagon full of Dragon Cadet Cub cookies. The wagon is almost empty when they lose their sense of direction and become lost. The suspense grows, page by page, when Freddie and Tanga find themselves face to face with a fire, raging through the woods and threatening the home and garden of an elderly fire dragon. With no one close by to help, Freddie and Tanga are given the task to build a Ring of Fire. Can the raging fire be brought under control? How do Freddie and Tanga get back home? What happens to the cookies left in the wagon? Be prepared for some non-stop reading and a surprise ending after you open the cover of The Adventures of Freddie, The Little Fire Dragon: The Ring Of Fire. www.freddieandtanga.com
Author: Merrie Destefano
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
ISBN: 1640634258
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The Valiant was supposed to save us. Instead, it triggered the end of the world. Earth is in shambles. Everyone, even the poorest among us, invested in the Valiant’s space mining mission in the hopes we’d be saved from ourselves. But the second the ship leaves Earth’s atmosphere, our fate is sealed. The alien invasion begins. They pour into cities around the world through time portals, possessing humans, forcing us to kill one another. And for whatever reason, my brother is their number one target. Now the fate of the world lies in the hands of me, a seventeen-year-old girl, but with the help of my best friend, Justin—who’s suddenly starting to feel like more—maybe if we save my brother, we can save us all...
Author: Lesley Livingston
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448494744
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The darling of the Roman Empire is in for the fight of her life in this lush sequel to the acclaimed historical fantasy The Valiant. Be brave, gladiatrix... And be wary. Once you win Caesar's love, you'll earn his enemies' hate. Fallon was warned. Now she is about to pay the price for winning the love of the Roman people as Caesar's victorious gladiatrix. In this highly anticipated sequel to THE VALIANT, Fallon and her warrior sisters find themselves thrust into a vicious conflict with a rival gladiator academy, one that will threaten not only Fallon's heart - and her love for Roman soldier Cai - but the very heart of the ancient Roman Empire. When dark treachery and vicious power struggles threaten her hard-won freedom, the only thing that might help the girl known as Victrix save herself and her sisters is a tribe of long-forgotten mythic Amazon warriors. The only trouble is, they might just kill her themselves first.
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN: 1534484507
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Discover the dark and seductive realm of faerie in the first book of New York Times bestseller Holly Black’s critically acclaimed Modern Faerie Tales series, where one girl must save herself from the sinister magic of the fey courts, and protect her heart in the process. Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she drifts from place to place with her mother’s rock band until an ominous attack forces them back to Kaye’s childhood home. But Kaye’s life takes another turn when she stumbles upon an injured faerie knight in the woods. Kaye has always been able to see faeries where others could not, and she chooses to save the strange young man instead of leaving him to die. But this fateful choice will have more dire consequences than she could ever predict, as Kaye soon finds herself the unwilling pawn in an ancient and violent power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms—a struggle that could very well mean her death.
Author: Carlene Love
Publisher: Carlene Love
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Every wish counts. Every wish matters. Without them, life would lack surprise and be far less wonderful and good. When last year’s Christmas wish goes ungranted for the first time in her life, Lovie Watson accepts that it is a sign it’s time to stop believing in magic and start living in reality as an adult. What she doesn’t know is that the wish granting sentry assigned to her since childhood has been doing everything in his power to make the wish happen. Without success. Anden of the Valiant has until midnight this Christmas Eve to grant Lovie’s selfless wish and keep her light and faith alive… if he can just figure out how to do it without breaking the most sacred of his kind’s ancient and time-honored rules. Namely to never insert oneself personally in the granting of a wish. But if that is the only way to protect and preserve her unique trust in the universe, he may not have a choice. The consequence of a selfless wish going ungranted has always been devastating to both the wisher and the sentry. Both the Watsons and the Valiant have suffered through the pain of an ungranted selfless wish once before. To put both families through it again would be utterly cruel. Will it all be left to Fate? Or might Lovie and her Valiant sentry have the courage to redefine the rules and keep the magic of the season alive in the hearts of millions?
Author: Mary Fisher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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