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Author
Publisher
Alan Sutton
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The youngest son of King Peter, leaves his family home to explore the world, meet new people, and discover the Well at the World's End. It's an unconventional hero's journey that takes the protagonist on a life-changing adventure.
King Peter has four sons, all of whom are eager to leave home. He allows three of them to travel the world but forces his youngest boy, Ralph, to stay. Despite his father's ruling, Ralph sets out on his own adventure without...
Author
Series
Beyond the circle volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter many years ago. Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams.They are wrong. In the small town of Eden, Utah, a blind girl named Rachelle Matthews is about to find out just how wrong.When a procedure meant to restore Rachelle's sight goes awry, she begins to dream of another world so real that she wonders if Earth...
Author
Series
Eirlandia novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Ravaged by barbarian Scálda forces, the last hope for Eirlandia lies with the islandâs warring tribes. Wrongly cast out of his tribe, Conor, the first-born son of the Celtic king, embarks on a dangerous mission to prove his innocence. What he discovers will change Eirlandia forever. For the Scálda have captured the mystical Fae to use as an ultimate weapon. And Conorâs own people have joined in the invasion."--Dust jacket.
Author
Series
Broken Earth novels volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Santiago, a young shepherd living in the hills of Andalucia, feels that there is more to life than his humble home and his flock. One day he finds the courage to follow his dreams into distant lands, each step galvanised by the knowledge that he is following the right path: his own. The people he meets along the way, the things he sees and the wisdom he learns are life-changing. With Paulo Coelho's visionary blend of spirituality, magical realism...
6) The Talisman
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
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On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America - and into another realm.
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
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When she arrives in a small village in the Two Rivers, Moiraine discovers three young men, each of whom might be the long-awaited and reviled Chosen One, the Dragon Reborn. But she is not the only stranger new to the village, nor the only one searching. In a race against time and the agents of the Shadow, she must guide her charges through lands of myth and legend, toward allies both new and old, and into the footsteps of prophecy.
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
In The Gunslinger, King introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting, solitary figure at first, on a mysterious quest through a desolate world that eerily mirrors our own. Pursuing the man in black, an evil being who can bring the dead back to life, Roland is a good man who seems to leave nothing but death in his wake.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower...
10) Coal black horse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Robey Childs's mother experiences a premonition about her husband, a Civil War soldier, she sends her only son to retrieve his father from the battlefield, accompanied by a horse that becomes his only companion as he makes his way through the destruction of war.
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Language
English
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In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Toma´s discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The fortunate life of successful businessman Thomas Danforth of 1939 New York City is thrown into chaos when he unwittingly provides a location for a mysterious woman to receive training in firearms and explosives before she abruptly disappears.
13) Naamah's kiss
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"After Moirin undergoes the rites of adulthood, she finds divine acceptance...on the condition that she fulfill an unknown destiny that lies somewhere beyond the ocean"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the epic depicting the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-earth, following the odyssey of Frodo the hobbit and his companions on a quest to destroy the Ring of Power.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 9
Language
English
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Description
Dead men tell many tales, though Commander Gray Pierce, Sigma, and Vatican historians could do without the twisted history lesson when a pair of disturbing artifacts sent by a missing colleague point to a tomb said to hold riches and the secret behind an ancient empire.
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Series
Language
English
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"Lizzy and Diesel are back in an all-new wicked adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich and Emmy Award-winning co-author Phoef Sutton. Murdered and mummified nearly a century ago, notorious bootlegger Collier "Peg Leg" Dazzle discovered and re-hid a famous pirate's treasure somewhere along the coast of New England. A vast collection of gold and silver coins and precious gems, the bounty also contains the Stone of Avarice--the...
17) Wind and truth
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 5
Publisher
Tor Fantasy, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare--and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium's place has thrown everythinginto disarray. Desperate fighting continues simultaneously worldwide--Adolin in Azir, Sigzil and Venli at the Shattered Plains, and Jasnah in Thaylenah. The former assassin Szeth must...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
This collection contains ten stories reflecting the endless variety of life on the planet Majipoor. The stories include "Thesme and the Ghayrog", "In the Fifth Year of the Voyage", "The Desert of Stolen Dreams" and "Voriax and Valentine".
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
Across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless. But as Dan Torrance knows, and twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are tortured to death. Haunted by the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades. In a New Hampshire town, he finds a job at...
Author
Series
Dragonships of Vindras volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Skylan Ivorson and his Vindrasi clan must sail the Sea of Tears into the heart of the Forbidden Empire of the Cyclops, to implement a cunning yet delicate plan that risks his life and leadership, for a new enemy lies deep in the sea, one who draws upon powers never harnessed by land dwellers.