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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything "I refuse to be nothing..." In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness......
Author
Series
Dragon Masters volume 14
Language
English
Description
The Dragon Masters have defeated the evil wizard Maldred, but not before the Kingdom of Bracken was devastated by Naga, the earthquake dragon; now Drake and his dragon, Worm, must appeal to the spring dragon, Fallyn, who is their only hope of restoring Bracken before its people starve--but Fallyn lives deep inside a secret fairy world, and Drake must pass a series of tricky tests before he can even make his appeal.
Author
Series
Heechee saga volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1980
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stellar expedition searches for an answer to world famine.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two women from different generations of the same family fiercely fight for their futures while running a small bakery in Montmartre, in the new novel from the author of The School for German Brides."--
Author
Publisher
BBC Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
viii, 281 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Doctor, Amy and Rory find a society breaking apart under the strain. Tensions are mounting, old rivalries are coming to the fore, people are dying - And then the Doctor's old enemies the Ice Warriors make their move. With the cold-hearted threat of invasion, the real battle for survival begins. Or does it?
8) The keeners
Author
Publisher
Medallion Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For fans of Ariadne, a spellbinding debut fantasy about a human who gets trapped with the god of Autumn, who brings with him life-threatening danger and a forbidden romance. Under the right circumstances, would even a god fall? Tirne is one of four humans rigorously selected to usher the turn of the seasons into the mortal world. Every year, she escorts the taciturn god Autumn between the godly and human realms. Autumn's seasonal stay among mortals...
10) Flamefall
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Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
483 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After a brutal revolution Callipolis is ravaged by famine and the Pythians are ready for revenge, so it's up to Annie, Lee, and newcomer Griff to decide what to fight for, and who to love"--
After fleeing the revolution and settling into the craggy cliffs of New Pythos, the Dragonlords are eager to punish their usurpers and reclaim their city. Their first order of business: destroying the Callipolan food supply. Annie is Callipolis's new Firstrider....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite their political differences Nyl, a young Ukrainian farmer, and Alice, a Canadian girl whose father has come to the Soviet Union, struggle to survive the famine-genocide known as the Holodomor, when the forced collectivization of the Ukrainian farms and hard winters led to mass starvation and death.
Ever since the Soviet dictator, Stalin, took control of the farms in the Ukraine like the one Nyl's family lives on, there is less and less food...
12) Burying the sun
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1941 Leningrad, when Russia and Germany are at war, fourteen-year-old Georgi vows to help his family and his city during the terrible siege.
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