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The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 852 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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A timeless tale of youth, daring, and friendship, and full of intrigue, swordplay, and revenge, The Three Musketeers follows the escapades of D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades Porthos, Athos, and Aramis as they fight to foil the devious schemes of Cardinal Richelieu.
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English
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Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favorite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of d'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the King's Musketeers and is befriended by three of them, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with whom he embarks on a career of adventure and romance. Dumas is a brilliant...
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Greatcoats volume 2
Publisher
Jo Fletcher Books, an imprint of Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
ix, 580 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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English
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A few days after the horrifying murder of a duke and his family, Falcio val Mond, swordsman and First Cantor of the Greatcoats, begins a deadly pursuit to capture the killer. But Falcio soon discovers his own life is in mortal danger from a poison administered as a final act of revenge by one of his deadliest enemies.
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Aros of Azteca, a swordsman, and Neoloth-Pteor, a sorcerer, are deadly enemies who have been fighting for fifteen years. But when the princess Tahlia is kidnapped, Aros must pretend to be a lost princeling and infiltrate the deadliest cabal of necromancers in the world. To save the princess and prevent the most powerful and diabolical spell ever created from destroying the world, he needs Neoloth's help. They can't trust each other. They will betray...
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Seven swords volume 2
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
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135 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Landless one-time king Guyime, once called Pilgrim but known to history as the Ravager, has survived the fall of the Execration--an event that set him on a path to find the legendary Seven Swords. Guided by sorcery, Guyime journeys to Carthula in the centre of the First Sea to claim the mythical blade known as the Kraken's Tooth. Aided by three companions--the beast charmer Seeker, a powerful sorceress and a scholarly slave--Guyime ventures into...
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Burning volume 1
Publisher
Orbit, an imprint of Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
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535 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
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English
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The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around war and only war. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine.
12) Traitor's blade
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Jo Fletcher
Pub. Date
2014.
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x, 372 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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"The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, and Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as bodyguards for a nobleman who refuses to pay them. Things could be worse, of course. Their employer could be lying dead on the floor while they are forced to watch the killer plant evidence framing them for the murder. Oh wait, that's exactly what's happening. Now a royal conspiracy is about to unfold...
13) Saint's blood
Author
Series
Greatcoats volume 3
Publisher
Jo Fletcher Books, an imprint of Quercus Editions Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 574 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"How do you kill a Saint? Falcio, Kest, and Brasti are about to find out, because someone has figured out a way to do it and they've started with a friend. The Dukes were already looking for ways out of their agreement to put Aline on the throne, but with the Saints turning up dead, rumours are spreading that the Gods themselves oppose her ascension. Now churches are looking to protect themselves by bringing back the military orders of religious soldiers,...
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
427 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm.
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English
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In this story, set early in his life, Conan has left his northern homeland to cut a bloody swath across the legendary Hyborian Age. A mercenary, a soldier, a thief, and a pirate, he faces conquering armies, malicious sorcerers, and monstrous creatures, against which he wields only the sword held in his powerful grasp. This novel leads directly into one of Robert E. Howard's most famous sword-and-sorcery adventures, "Red Nails," which is included as...
Author
Series
Seven swords volume 1
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition; Special signed edition.
Physical Desc
123 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It is two hundred years since the deity known as the Absolved went mad and destroyed the Kingdom of Alnachim, transforming it into the Execration, a blasted wasteland filled with nameless terrors. For decades, desperate souls have made pilgrimage to the centre of this cursed land to seek the Mad God's favour, their fate always unknown. Now a veteran warrior known only as Pilgrim, armed with a fabled blade inhabited by the soul of a taunting demon,...
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
378, [1] pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power and prestige in the city's labyrinth of streets and ballrooms, theatres and brothels, boudoirs and salons. Into this alluring and alarming world walks a bright young woman ready to take it on and make her fortune. A well-bred country girl, Katherine knows all the rules of conventional society. Her biggest mistake is thinking they apply." "Katherine's host and uncle, Alec...
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Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Omnibus ed.
Physical Desc
600 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming the King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber, at the cost of never being able to swim again! Now Luffy, with the help of a motley collection of pirate wannabes, is setting off in search of the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world! Vivi's Adventure: With all the Officer Agents defeated, only Crocodile and his final plan...
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Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
179 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
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English
Description
"A terrible tragedy befalls Link's family and friends when the traitorous Agahnim launches a plot to seize the Triforce and unleash a terrible evil on the world. To bring justice to Agahnim, Link needs the Master Sword and sets off on a quest to find it. Link's journey may also help him discover what happened to his parents, and while Agahnim's minions and traps are dangerous, this link to the past may be even more challenging!" -- from publisher's...
Author
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Omnibus ed.
Physical Desc
567 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming the King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber, at the cost of never being able to swim again! Now Luffy, with the help of a motley collection of pirate wannabes, is setting off in search of the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world...
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