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Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
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He can save her life-if he sacrifices those he swore to protect. King's bastard Shianan Becknam buries himself in his military career to avoid the dangers of drawing political attention. When the artifact intended to end an interdimensional war is damaged, a mage is trapped on the other side of the rift with her servant-only the cheery young boy is really one of the monstrous enemy, disguised as a human. Shianan is desperate to rescue Ariana, one...
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"The "smoldering heat, epic romance, and awesome action"* of Nalini Singh's New York Times bestselling series continues as two Arrows find themselves caught in a chilling conspiracy that spans all three races. Awakening wounded in a darkened cell, their psychic abilities blocked, Aden and Zaira know they must escape. But when the lethal soldiers break free from their mysterious prison, they find themselves in a harsh, inhospitable landscape far from...
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"The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands. Lin is the emperor's daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden...
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Cordelia Naismith, Betan Survey Captain, was expecting the unexpected: hexapods, floating creatures, odd parasites ... She was not, however, expecting to find hostile humans on an uninhabited planet. And she wasn't really expecting to fall in love with a 40-plus barbarian known to cosmopolitan galactics as the Butcher of Komarr.--From source other than Library of Congress.
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Crown of shards volume 2
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Everleigh is the new queen of Bellona and must deal with scheming nobles and an assassination attempt, but Everleigh must also travel to the neighboring kingdom of Andvari and negotiate an alliance with their stubborn king.
9) Time Shards
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It's called "the event," an unimaginable cataclysm that shatters 600 million years of the Earth's timeline. Our world is gone, instantly replaced by a new one made of scattered remnants of the past, present, and future, dropped alongside one another in a patchwork of "shards." Monsters from Jurassic prehistory, ancient armies, and high-tech robots all coexist in this deadly postapocalyptic landscape. A desperate group of survivors sets out to locate...
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"Julius Caesar is dead, assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history. Juba, Numidian prince and adopted brother of Octavian, has embarked on a...
11) Shards of Light
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When unknown conspirators launch their deadly schemes to oversee the city of Cryssigens and trigger civil war, Hope rests on a trio of heroes, none of which fully understands the depth and speed of the approaching menace. In 2002 ADR, the jewel of the southern empire is the city of Cryssigens, where life is an unending carnival of display, while intrigue brews beneath the surface. Nobles, guilds, and House Cups scheme with and against each other,...
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Riftwar. Serpentwar saga volume 4
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The terrible Emerald Queen is vanquished…but the war in Midkemia is not yet won, as the remarkable Raymond E. Feist concludes his magnificent Serpentwar Saga with Shards of a Broken Crown-a spellbinding tale of magic, conflict, and treachery that sees the rise of a new threat from the ashes of defeat, an evil poised to strike mercilessly at realm triumphant but weakened by war. This is epic fantasy adventure at its finest-a classic that stands tall...
13) Iron Shards
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John Jones, a fourteen-year-old in small town Alabama, finds himself thrown into the chaos of fairy conflicts as different factions search for the cure to their iron allergy. Armed with witty sci-fi quotes, exceptional speed, and a penchant for honesty, John finds his first days of high school far from dull as he's attacked by enemies, questions his own sanity, and finds that only he can save his parents when an ancient prophecy leads a dangerous...
14) The Shards
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Bret Easton Ellis' meisterhafter neuer Roman erzählt eine traumatische Geschichte: Während seiner eigenen Schulzeit war ein Serienmörder in L.A. eine Bedrohung für die Jugendlichen.
Der siebzehnjährige Bret ist in der Oberstufe der exklusiven Buckley Prep School, als ein neuer Schüler auftaucht. Robert Mallory ist intelligent, gutaussehend und charismatisch und zieht Bret magisch an. Bret ist sich sicher, dass Robert ein düsteres Geheimnis...
15) Shards of glass
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The Academia, once an elite proving ground for the rulers of the world, has been frozen for centuries. Now its strange slumber has ended, and a new Chancellor, an orange-eyed dragon, has reopened its lecture halls and readied its dorms. In order to thrive once more, however, the Academia needs fresh blood--new students with a passion and talent for learning. One such student, Robin, has the perfect recruit in mind: his friend Raven, an orphan who...
16) Cloak of Shards
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A destroyed cult. A creature from the Shadowlands on a rampage. And I'm the next target.
I thought I would help the Family of the Shadow Hunters track down a renegade cult of Dark Ones worshippers.
Instead, whatever nightmare the cultists summoned killed them all, and now it's on the run.
If I don't find the creature, a lot of people are going to die.
Starting with everyone I love...
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The second book in the Dark Portal series, this lighthearted epic fantasy adventure draws inspiration from a variety of popular role-playing games. This story features countless battles with monsters as well as numerous non-explicit romantic encounters between the main character and the host of beautiful women that find him simply irresistible.
18) Shards of Frost
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When had life stopped being so simple? Probably around the time that Casey Frost first agreed to pay off her drug addict brother's debt to save him from a brutal beating. It soon became a "thing." When the dealer-who's also an Alpha shifter-demands she do something that goes against her very being, Casey decides enough is enough. It's while she's confronting the Alpha that he appears-Eli Axton, a ruthless wolf shifter with a dark reputation. When...
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The call of fire beckons Arden Ashwen towards an inevitable oblivion, one he wishes with his whole heart would soon come to end him. Despite his trepidations, he is tasked with a mission to calm the rising tension of The Kin, a species said to be descended from Dragons.
Sailing to the South to fulfill his mission, can Arden survive against the rising of the tide which threatens to sweep him away? Or, in the end, will he be just another casualty to...
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Shards are the chipped-off pieces and eroded grains of myself that I collected from my mid-20s, when I was almost homeless again (yes, again), through my 30s, when I fought through that poverty, depression, and grief to find myself as a survivor. A poet doesn't just love you for a moment. She lets you puncture her skin with the way you feel, lets it heal, and then rubs it now and then to feel you again. This debut collection of poetry and hand-drawn...
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