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Sorcery ascendant sequence volume 1
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When young Caldan's parents are brutally slain, the boy is raised by monks who initiate him into the arcane mysteries of sorcery. Growing up plagued by questions about his past, Caldan vows to discover who his parents were, and why they were violently killed. The search will take him beyond the walls of the monastery, into the unfamiliar and dangerous chaos of city life. With nothing to his name but a pair of mysterious heirlooms and a handful of...
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Sorcery ascendant sequence volume 2
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"A novice sorcerer may hold the key to saving his world--or be the instrument of its destruction--in this second book in the Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, a mesmerizing saga of high fantasy that combines magic, malevolence, and mystery. Anasoma, jewel of the Mahruse Empire, has fallen. As orphaned, monk-raised Caldan and his companions flee the city, leaving behind their hopes for a new beginning, horrors from the time of the Shattering begin to close...
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For hundreds of years, war has raged across the realm of Guardian Angels. White-Wing against Black-Wing. Grace is the Saboteur, daughter of the White-Wing Spy Master, destined to end the war once and for all. But all of that is snatched away when she is captured by the Black-Wings. Trapped in their secret city, Grace finds herself questioning everything she's ever been told. About her enemies, and about herself
4) Ice Forged
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Condemned as a murderer for killing the man who dishonored his sister, Blaine "Mick" McFadden has spent the last six years in Velant, a penal colony in the frigid northern wastelands. Harsh military discipline and the oppressive magic keep a fragile peace as colonists struggle against a hostile environment. But the supply ships from Dondareth have stopped coming, boding ill for the kingdom that banished the colonists.
Now, as the world's magic...
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Can someone overcome a lifetime of fear and failure to finally become a hero when Hell comes to Earth?Hell has frozen over.Episode 2 takes us to Sin City, Las Vegas. Eternal snow blankets the city. Glaciers race across the landscape destroying everything in their path and monsters prowl the winter wasteland in search of human prey.A group of loners and misfits are drawn together in an effort to survive. They are pursued by monsters and demons at every...
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Would you betray one of your friends to save the lives of all the rest?Jealousy, greed, hubris, lust; all these things have always plagued mankind. It is no different when Hell comes to EarthThe apocalypse arrived without fanfare and with the dawn on April 1st.It sounds like a joke, but when Satan himself shouts April Fools it's pretty serious.According to legend, there are in each generation a few chosen humans who prevent the rest of us from being...
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It is a time of peace...
The quiet before the storm...
War is coming, and nobody can prevent it...
Following a successful rebellion against a ruthless despot, Martians struggle to rebuild their world. On Earth, the unification wars have finally ended, and Terra is, united under one supreme leader for the first time in history. But ,the planet is no longer capable of supporting humanity's exploding population, and covetous eyes have fallen on the newly...
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An oppressive dictator...
A mysterious orphan...
A reluctant heroine...
It is the twenty-third century and Mars is being terraformed into a new garden of Eden. But, all is not well in this soon-to-be paradise. A ruthless despot has, seized control of the government and rules the planet with an iron fist. A rebel force struggles to oppose his regime, but are near defeat.
A fugitive, and living under an alias, Melanie Destin is a travelling doctor,...
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An ageless menace lurks on the surface of Mars...
An unscrupulous industrialist seeks to control it...
One woman was bred to destroy it...
In the twenty-third century the descendants of the original Mars colonies struggle to retain their independence from the Terran government. The generations-old terraforming project is faltering and on the verge of failure. If that happens, the millions already adapted to the harsh Martian environment will be doomed,...
10) The Ares Weapon
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Armageddon Is Up For Auction...
Dr. Melanie Destin's life is a mess.
After losing her job as a medic aboard an old freighter, she is desperate to find something. In an attempt to start over, she accepts an interplanetary salvage job that will pay her enough to rebuild a new life for herself on Mars. When she learns the real purpose of the mission is to recover an apocalyptic virus, everything begins to unravel...
Governments compete with corporations...
11) Hellfire
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The Ascendant Humans have conquered Earth and banished mankind to a distant star. There, the refugee's war in space over the resources rationed to them. In an orbital habitat, Commander Rylan Shaw labors against inter-colony arms trafficking when an informant gives him horrific news. The ruthless cartel boss, Lilith, has stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. Worse, she has permission from the Wardens, humanity's robot overlords, to unleash them...
12) Shadow and Flame
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From Gail Z. Martin, one of the most exciting writers of fantasy adventure, comes the fourth and final novel in the epic Ascendant Kingdoms Saga. Blaine McFadden and his allies have brought magic back under mortal command and begun to restore order to the beleaguered kingdom of Donderath. Now, new perils and old enemies gather for a final reckoning. Foreign invaders, a legendary dark mage and vengeful immortals fight Blaine's battered forces for control...
13) War of Shadows
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Blaine "Mick" McFadden managed to restore Donderath's magic partially, but not without a cost. He and the magic are now bound together, and the power remains dangerous and erratic - draining the life from him with every use. New threats are rising from the wreckage of the battered kingdoms, and warlords both mortal and undead vie for control. Now, Blaine and his unlikely band of convict heroes must find allies amid a sea of enemies and discover a...
14) Reign of Ash
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Survival is just the beginning. Blaine McFadden endured six long years in the brutal Velant prison colony, exiled for murder. War devastated his homeland of Donderath and destroyed the magic on which the Ascendant Kingdoms relied. Now Blaine and a small group of fellow exiles have returned to a lawless wasteland, where unrestrained magic storms wreak havoc and monsters roam free. Yet, amidst the chaos, rumors persist of a new magic that could restore...
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Sorcery ascendant sequence volume 3
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In Mitchell Hogan's gritty and breathtaking conclusion to the Sorcery Ascendant Sequence-the award-winning fantasy series that started with A Crucible of Souls and Blood of Innocents-a young sorcerer must learn to wield his extraordinary powers to defeat two warring empires.
In a battle of armies and sorcerers, empires will fall.
After young Caldan's parents were slain, a group of monks raised the boy and initiated him into the arcane mysteries...
16) The false prince
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
17) The runaway king
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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Young King Jaron has taken the throne of Carthya, but after enemies attempt to assassinate him, and a neighboring kingdom threatens invasion, he finds that he has no friends in the palace, not even his bride-to-be, princess Amarinda--and his regents think it would be better for Carthya if he just disappeared again.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Young King Jaron has had nothing but trouble with his advisors and regents since he ascended the throne of Carthya, and now King Vargan of Avenia has invaded the land and captured Imogen--and Jaron must find some way to rescue her and save his kingdom.
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A DANGEROUS MIX OF POLITICS AND PERIL...
Morgan and Patrick Kell, founders of the Kell Hounds mercenary unit, are riding high. First, they deposed the crime lord that had been ruling the mercenary world of Galatea, then they saved that planet again from a religious zealot who tried to starve the government into submitting to his new theocracy. Along the way, they assembled a crack team of 'Mech pilots, techs, and ground forces that will make the...
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DANGER FROM AN UNLIKELY SOURCE...
MechWarrior brothers Morgan and Patrick Kell have successfully faced their first challenge in forming their new mercenary unit The Kell Hounds, toppling a criminal kingpin from atop his illegal empire on Galatea.
But while enjoying their recent success, the brothers Kell, along with the capital city of Galaport, come under threat by a new enemy-Bishop Arlington Poore, a religious zealot who wants to bring the entire...