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Reign of shadows volume 1
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Seventeen years ago, an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their throne. Luna, Relhok's lost princess, has been hiding in a tower ever since. Luna's survival depends on the world believing she is dead. But that doesn't stop Luna from wanting more. When she meets Fowler, a mysterious archer braving the woods outside her tower, Luna is drawn to him despite...
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From the national bestselling author. Caelan E'Non is the son of the land's most powerful healer, and is naturally expected to follow in his father's footsteps. Except Caelan feels a burning desire to blaze his own trail-and possesses a magic he does not understand. Elandra Albain has been raised as a servant in her father's house. Her sister, Lady Bixia, has been pampered and spoiled, and is thought to be destined for greatness. But Elandra has a...
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Brianna can see her future but it's the past that haunts her. Plans laid in place centuries ago are threatening not only her and her sister, but all of the Seven Lines. As the shadows plot their way to old rule, the visions shift again. Her power has led to some hard choices-and the occasional stab wound-but this set of futures holds nothing but darkness. Unable to bear the idea of losing the footing they've so recently gained, she turns the soldiers...
4) Rise of fire
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Reign of shadows volume 2
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When a battle against the dark dwellers mortally injures Fowler, Luna is challenged to put their fate in the hands of mysterious strangers or risk losing Fowler, a situation that is complicated by the king's discovery of their ties to Relhok.
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Madison might have left the halls of La Voison, but she's about to take the deadliest of final exams.
Madison and her friends find themselves face-to-face with the source of Camille's evil power: Marduk, a dark and ancient god hellbent on becoming the most powerful deity of all time.
The goddess Hecate is their only hope to stop his reign of terror and free the Soule family, but after a year as Marduk's captive, she's hanging on by only a thread....
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She is born to rule a kingdom. He is competing to be in her elite royal guard.Together, their love becomes treason. Nineteen-year-old Rayleigh Kalastone may be heir to the Balmore throne, but her controlling and secretive mother has done nothing except treat Rayleigh with icy disdain. So, when the guard trials start to find Rayleigh four lifelong protectors, she sneaks out of the palace to spy on the contestants. She never expected to meet Wren Netero,...
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The shadows have taken over the lands of Meridiah.
Apollo lives with his brother in a farming village surrounded by shadows. When the unimaginable happens, he alone makes a decision that will effect both his and his brother's lives forever.
For the last two years, Ratsbayne has been haunted by visions of death, blood, and a mysterious woman calling to him. Unable to wrestle with them, he seeks to escape. When he has an encounter with nightmarish...
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The stunning conclusion to the Ruby Throne Trilogy from the national bestselling author of Reign of Shadows and Shadow War. After nine centuries-and ten lifetimes-the Emperor Kostimon is dead, and darkness sweeps the land. The emperor's young widow, Elandra, has fled the shadows of war with her champion, the warrior Caelan-the man she has grown to love. But is the emperor truly dead? Or can the power of the shadow god bring him back? Elandra must...
9) Shadow War
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The national bestselling author of Reign of Shadows continues her Ruby Throne Trilogy with a novel of epic dark fantasy. For nine centuries the Emperor Kostimon has sat upon the Ruby Throne. The dark lord Beloth is responsible for his eternal existence. And what the shadow god has bestowed, he can easily take away... As the aging Kostimon awaits the crowning of his empress, Elandra Albain, forces of evil conspire to destroy the kingdom of Imperia....
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By the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a "brilliant" and "beautifully told" new history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us [New Scientist; The Times UK]
National Bestseller • Top 10 Nonfiction of the Year: Kirkus • Best Science Book of the Year: The Times UK
We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty
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"Beginning with the earliest days of our lineage some 325 million years ago, Brusatte charts how mammals survived the asteroid that claimed the dinosaurs and made the world their own, becoming the astonishingly diverse range of animals that dominate today's Earth. Brusatte also brings alive the lost worlds mammals inhabited through time, from ice ages to volcanic catastrophes. Entwined in this story is the detective work he and other scientists have...
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Book Two in the Shadowed Stars sci-fi book series will allow you to follow the adventures of Josh Broody. A hero corrupted, turned villain, and back to hero as he is put on a path of redemption while the sins of his evil deeds haunt each new step he takes. He is a brother mentioned in prophecy to bring about the demise of the Dark Lord Epitaph by ending his brutal reign. With his brother Jase already killed, the prophecy seems broken, but he still...
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In vibrant historical detail, American Eclipse animates the fierce jockeying that came to dominate late nineteenth-century American astronomy, revealing the challenges faced by three of the most determined eclipse chasers who participated in this adventure. James Craig Watson, in his day a renowned asteroid hunter; Vassar astronomer Maria Mitchell, who fought to demonstrate that science and higher learning were not anathema to femininity; and Thomas...
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For the audience that made a major bestseller of Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution comes this exhaustively researched, character-driven chronicle of revolutionary terror, its victims, and the young men--energetic, idealistic, and sincere--who turned the French Republic into a slaughterhouse.
1792 found the newborn Republic threatened from all sides: the British blockaded the coasts, Continental armies poured over the frontiers,...
15) Lucero
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In this electrifying conclusion to the epic trilogy, the prince and the thief must band together one last time to stop the magical imbalance before Sombra regains his full strength once more--and to fulfill their prophecy before darkness reigns.
In the aftermath of Sombra's return, the balance between light and dark magic has been destroyed and chaos has broken out in Castallan and around the world. Sombra's shadows have taken over to create monstrous...
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Harlequin intrigue volume 1988
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"Single mom Ainsley Meadows and her daughter have finally found the perfect hideout from her abusive ex-husband. Armed with a new identity, she opens her heart to Deputy Hunter Churchill, but Hunter never anticipates the reign of terror that follows her. He's eager to get to know the real Ainsley, but first he'll have to keep her alive." --
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
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The year is 1888 and Jack the Ripper begins his reign of terror. Miss Sarah Bain, a photographer in Whitechapel, is an independent woman with dark secrets. In the privacy of her studio, she supplements her meager income by taking illicit boudoir photographs of the town's local ladies of the night. But when two of her models are found gruesomely murdered within weeks of one another, Sarah begins to suspect it's more than mere coincidence. Teamed with...
19) The unforgiven
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Krewe of Hunters volume 33
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"Twelve years after the grisly murder of her parents, Kaitlyn Delaney has finally found peace. She has friends, a good job, a place to call home and a new life to live. But then a shadow creeps in from Katie's past, reminding her that she will never completely escape its terrifying grip. When private investigator Dan Oliver is called to the scene of a gruesome crime in New Orleans, he can't help but hear echoes of the Delaney case, the unsolved murder...
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"As reports begin filtering into Bletchley Park about the stolen loot, Honey receives a mysterious package, hand-delivered from a man that she has never seen before who claims that he works at the Park as well. The package is postmarked from Russia, and inside is a small piece of amber. It is just the first of several such packages, and when she examines them together she realizes that someone, relying on her abilities to unravel codes, is trying...
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