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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...
6) Shards
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Ignoring chronological denouement, the Cortland, NY native takes the reader on a hopscotch jour¬ney through his life. One minute you're with him at 4 years old in kindergarten in 1936, dealing with a frustrated little nun. A few pages later, you're with him on a hair-raising patrol in North Korea in 1953. Then, you're setting pins with him in a bowling alley in 1940. In 1942, you witness his awakening to sex at the old swimming hole in the Tioughnioga...
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"During what seems like an ordinary museum visit, a tour guide lures Sunni and Blaise through a painted doorway-and they discover they've stepped into eighteenth-century London. When they realize their "tour guide" will do anything to get more information about what Sunni and Blaise know about magical paintings, they attempt to flee and encounter body snatchers, art thieves and forgers"--
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial killer strikes across the city
“A thrilling page turner from Ellis, who revisits the world that made him a literary star with...
“A thrilling page turner from Ellis, who revisits the world that made him a literary star with...
10) 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...
11) Shards of empire
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In the tenth century, the center of the world is not Rome, but Byzantium--a glorious empire, upon which the sun never sets. Constantinople, the center of this mighty dynasty, is starting to unravel. The great kings and princes, the holy city, the affluence of the empire will be scattered to the winds. Attacked by the Turks on all sides, Byzantium looks to its emperor for deliverance. Leo Ducas, heir to the Byzantine crown, must fight for his inheritance,...
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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...
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Feared and reviled, the fierce, winged creatures known as Jeguduns live in the cliffs surrounding the Taakwa valley. When Malia discovers an injured Jegudun in the pine forest of the valley, she risks everything, exile from the village, loss of her status as clan mother in training, even her life, to befriend and save the surprisingly intelligent creature. But, all of that pales when she learns the truth: the threat to her people is bigger and more...
15) 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,...
16) Shards
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Shards is an allegorical, amorphous soliloquy about two pivotal days in the life of a troubled young woman from a middle-class Zimbabwe family. The rhapsodic story follows the protagonist as she experiences a profound existential crisis precipitated by an ancestral calling she has long refused to accept and grows increasingly disillusioned and alienated. It is set against the backdrop of a country beset by sociopolitical troubles and grappling with...
17) Shards
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This is a story that spans three generations. It begins with Sherry, who has a child out of wedlock. She runs away to have the child alone, but the father of the baby finds her and eventually marries her. Sherry's baby, Leora, grows up in a happy family atmosphere and enjoys attending school. She gets involved in a lovers' triangle in high school, and it carries on for over twenty years, throughout high school and her marriage to Jim, the love of...
18) Shards
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Six fictional and semi-fictional short stories
An Ill Fated Friendship
The Bonds of a Breed
Falcon Summers
The Law and the Limo
Karmaleon
Cairo
19) The shard
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This title is all about the Shard, which is the tallest building in London and the United Kingdom. Readers will learn all about its construction, the materials that it is made from, its uses, and more. This title is written at a Level 3, specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards.
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Bringing together The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and Inception in an epic action-packed narrative.
Zain is last of the Vampires...
... the Death of the Undeath...
... and now, he's finally decided to die.
After 700 years, all his efforts and sacrifices meant nothing. He's killed his kind to save the world from their hunger, but all he's been left with is everlasting guilt and solitude.
The only one who could save him is Lilith,...
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