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Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When his companion's brother draws him into a plot against the Andarion crown, outcast Talyn Batur finds himself torn between the loyalty to their planetary government and his own beliefs of justice and right. But when old enemies align with new ones, it's more than just his own life at risk. And more than just his homeworld that will end should he fail.
3) Dragon heart
Author
Publisher
Tor a trademark of Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Where the Cape of the Winds juts into the endless sea, there is Castle Ocean, and therein dwells the royal family that has ruled it from time immemorial. But there is an Empire growing in the east, and its forces have reached the castle. King Reymarro is dead in battle, and by the new treaty, Queen Marioza must marry one of the Emperor's brothers. She loathes the idea, and has already killed the first brother, but a second arrives, escorted by more...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Meet Prince Maxon before he fell in love with America, and a girl named Amberly before she became queen. See the Selection through the eyes of a guard who watched his first love drift away and a girl who fell for a boy who wasn't the prince. Features four novellas from the world of Kiera Cass's Selection series, two of which appear here in print for the first time. Additional content includes new scenes from The Selection, The Elite, and The One;...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Talia, a runaway Holdgirl, is chosen to become a trainee herald in the queen's elite guard and to care for young Princess Elspeth, heir to the throne. The sequels are Arrow's Flight (1987) and Arrow's Fall (1988). The author's Last Herald Mage series (Magic's Pawn, 1989; Magic's Price, 1990; and Magic's Promise, 1990), and her Mage Winds trilogy (Winds of Fate, 1991; Winds of Change, 1992; and Winds of Fury, 1993) are set in the same world. The Black...
Author
Series
UNSTOPPABLE LIV BEAUFONT volume 1
Publisher
LMBPN Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Liv is simple like that-but her life is about to drastically change. She's a rebel with royal blood who abdicated her birthright. A string of murders changes everything and the House of Seven asks her to take on a role as a Warrior, one of seven positions revered for protecting magic. Although Liv would rather stay out of the politics and conspiracies that she ran away from years ago, her family needs her. It's only a twelve-year stint until her sister,...
Author
Series
Publisher
LMBPN Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When the Council suddenly starts assigning Liv Beaufont dangerous cases, she's automatically suspicious. Do they want her dead? However, she isn't deterred when they assign her a case that no one would dare to go near. Even though Clark is worried for her, she won't back down. Liv is determined to prove that she's a capable and strong Warrior. She's uncertain about is what's hiding in the library. Decoding the ancient language of the Founders will...
Author
Series
Lightbringer series (Brent Weeks) volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find its lost Prism, the only man who may be able to stop catastrophe. But Gavin Guile is enslaved on a pirate galley. Worse, Gavin no longer has the one thing that defined him -- the ability to draft. Without the protection of his father, Kip Guile will have to face a master of shadows alone as his grandfather moves to choose a new Prism and put himself in power. With Teia and...
Author
Series
Woven in moonlight volume 1
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Ximena is the decoy Condesa, a stand-in for the last remaining Illustrian royal. Her people lost everything when the usurper, Atoc, used an ancient relic to summon ghosts and drive the Illustrians from La Ciudad. Now Ximena's motivated by her insatiable thirst for revenge, and her rare ability to spin thread from moonlight. When Atoc demands the real Condesa's hand in marriage, it's Ximena's duty to go in her stead. She relishes the chance, as Illustrian...
Author
Series
Publisher
LMBPN Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The truth has been buried for so long that only one person can uncover it-someone who doesn't play by the rules. Magic has been stolen. A giant's sword, locked away. And no one questions the peculiar. Except for Liv Beaufont. She downright rants about it. The House of Seven keeps sending her on wild-goose chases, but this warrior has a way of stumbling upon clues. When one leads her to an unlikely ally, Liv strikes up a partnership that she might...
Author
Series
Remnant chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia's life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight, but she does not. She knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to a prince she has never met in order to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom. On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, intrigued when two mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
This is a revised and updated edition of the book that was first published to great acclaim in 1981. It presents, for the first time, a comprehensive account of both the heraldic and the genealogical history of European royalty. Starting with the beginning of heraldry in the eleventh century, the two experts who collaborated to make the book present the heraldic as well as the genealogy of all the royal families of Europe, past and present. The genealogical...
13) The Briar king
Author
Series
Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Two millennia after humans were freed from the tyranny of slavery, the Briar King, a legendary portent of death, reawakens, and the fate of the kingdom lies in the hands of the king's woodsman, a rebellious girl, and a new-made knight.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a world bound for an epic flood, only a chosen few are guaranteed safe passage into the new world once the waters recede. The Kostrovian royal court will be saved, of course, along with their guards. But the fate of the court's Royal Flyers, a lauded fleet of aerial silk performers, is less certain. Hell-bent on survival, Principal Flyer, Natasha Koskinen, will do anything to save the flyers, who are the only family she's ever known. Even if "anything"...
15) Warlord
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Someone from the past has the British crown in his sights again, and has proven once before that these threats are not to be taken lightly. This is just the call to duty British-American M16 counterterrorism operative Alex Hawke needs to get back in action -- if the madman doesn't wreak total havoc first.
18) The Russian cage
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia, and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In an alternate Tang Dynasty China, aspiring royal alchemist Zilan, who has the ability to resurrect the dead, arrives in the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country and becomes drawn into the dangerous political games of the royal family.
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Beleaguered by scandal, betrayed by faithless spouses, bedeviled by ambitious children, the kings and queens of Great Britain have been many things, but they have never been dull. Some sacrificed everything for love, while others met a cruel fate at the edge of an axman's blade.Behind the Palace Doors features stories covering every monarch, from randy Henry VIII to reserved Elizabeth II; debunks historical myths; serves up surprising anecdotes; and...