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1) Winterkeep
Author
Series
Publication Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"Queen Bitterblue of Monsea must head to the nation of Winterkeep after her envoys drown in suspicious circumstances, and somewhere there, Lovisa Cavenda waits and watches while tragedy with devastating political and personal ramification strikes."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Uncharted Realms volume 2
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The ease and grace that come to Jepp naturally in fighting leathers disappears when battles turn to politics. When a scouting party arrives from far-away Dasnaria, bearing veiled threats and subtle bluffs, Jepp is happy to let her queen puzzle them out while she samples the pleasures of their prince's bed. But Jepp's light use of Prince Kral has sparked a diplomatic crisis. Banished from court, she soon becomes the only envoy to Kral's strange and...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Young Razo travels from Bayern to Tira at war's end as part of a diplomatic corps, but mysterious events in the Tiran capital fuel simmering suspicions and anger, and Razo must spy out who is responsible before it is too late and he becomes trapped in an enemy land.
Author
Series
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Henry Deeping and Kate Meacham seem to clash every time they meet, but soon they agree to an exchange-Henry will serve as Kate's escort to important events to which she is no longer invited, Kate will introduce him to the important people she knows so well.
Author
Series
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Our favorite moral philosopher is caught up in a delicate dispute between members of a prominent family as her husband, Jamie, is dragged into his own internecine rivalry. Isabel accepts an invitation to serve on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, but soon finds herself swept up in an all-too-familiar dilemma. David is the grandson of a Scottish clan chief and is supportive of Scottish nationalism. But his fervent beliefs...
Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old mermaid princess Lana reluctantly visits her mother on land for the Royal Festival after her mermaid-father appoints her a royal ambassador, but when an earthquake strikes back home and Lana is forbidden to go back home, she discovers nefarious forces may be at work against her kingdom.
8) Munich
Author
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
Description
September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German...
Author
Publication Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom -- from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double...
Author
Publisher
[Jennifer M. Kennedy]
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The first story, Heart's blood, is a fairytale retelling of a princess robbed of rank, husband, and even her name by Natilde, her former waiting woman. The second work, The crown of the queen, is a novella where Dafne Mailloux, a librarian, must forge peace with the daughter, the would-be Queen, of a tyrant who destroyed her family, and whom she helped pull off the High Throne.
11) In the black
Author
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"In a demilitarized zone on the border of human space, long range spy satellites are mysteriously going quiet, and no one knows why. Captain Susan Kamala and her crew are dispatched to figure out what's going on and solve the problem. That problem, however, is a mysterious, bleeding edge alien ship that no human vessel could hope to match in open conflict. But, it's not spoiling for a fight. Now, the Captain and her Crew must figure out how to navigate...
12) Lost to eternity
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
2024: Almost forty years ago, marine biologist Gillian Taylor stormed away from her dream job at Sausalito's Cetacean Institute, and was never seen or heard from again. Now a new true crime podcast has reopened that cold case, but investigator Melinda Silver has no idea that her search for the truth about Gillian's disappearance will ultimately stretch across time and space, and attract the attention of a ruthless obsessive with his own secret agenda....