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R.A. Salvatore
R.A. Salvatore's The Cleric Quintet tells the tale of the scholar-priest Cadderly, who is plucked from the halls of the Edificant Library to fulfill a heroic quest across the land of Faerun.Cadderly leads the combined forces of Carradoon and Shilmista against Castle Trinity, stronghold of his enemy Aballister. But another mission calls him on a journey leading into a past he hoped he would be able to forget.
Erin Hunter
Fire Alone Can Save Our Clan... Tensions are still high among the warrior Clans that roam the forest, and as allegiances shift, it becomes harder than ever to know whom to trust. Fireheart is determined to find out the truth about the mysterious death of the former ThunderClan deputy Redtail. But as he searches for answers, he uncovers secrets that some believe would be better left hidden... **Books in this arc** 1. [Into the Wild][1] 2. [Fire and Ice][2] 3. Forest of Secrets 4. [Rising Storm][4] 5. [A Dangerous Path][5] 6. [The Darkest Hour][6] [1]: [2]: [4]: [5]: [6]:
Stephanie Burgis
Aventurine is *not* the kind of dragon who can sit inside her family mountain for decades. If she’s cooped up for even one more hour, she might explode! Her family claims she’s too young to leave safely, but she’s fierce and she’s brave, and she’s ready to prove it by capturing the most dangerous prey of all: a human. Unfortunately, the human she captures turns out to be even sneakier than she was expecting. When he tricks her into drinking enchanted hot chocolate, she finds herself transformed into a puny, twelve-year-old human girl with tiny, blunt teeth, no fire, and not a single claw to use in battle. But she’s certain that she’s still the fiercest creature in these mountains – and now she’s found her true passion: *chocolate*. All she has to do is walk on two feet to the human city to find herself an *apprenticeship* (whatever that is) in a *chocolate house* (which sounds delicious), and she’ll be conquering new territory in no time…right? Wild and reckless young Aventurine will bring havoc to the human city – but what she doesn’t expect is that she’ll find real friendship there, too, along with betrayal, deception, delicious chocolate… and a startling new understanding of what it means to be a human (and a dragon) after all.
Dr. Seuess [pseudonym
The book begins by introducing Fox and Knox (sometimes called "Mr. Fox" and "Mr. Knox") along with some props (a box and a pair of socks). After taking those four rhyming items through several permutations, more items are added (chicks, bricks, blocks, clocks), and so on. As the book progresses the Fox describes each situation with rhymes that progress in complexity, with Knox periodically complaining of the difficulty of the tongue-twisters. Finally, after the Fox gives an extended dissertation on Tweetle Beetles who fight (battle) with paddles while standing in a puddle inside a bottle (a Tweetle Beetle Bottle Puddle Paddle Battle Muddle), Knox acts on his frustration by stuffing Fox into the bottle, reciting a tongue-twister of his own: When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle, THIS is what they call... a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks, sir! Knox then declares that the game is finished, thanking the Fox for the fun, and walks away while the beetles, a poodle, and the stunned Fox watch. - Wikipedia.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Martha Wells
Platform Decay by Martha Wells is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
John Wiswell
The Dragon has Some Complaints by John Wiswell is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
James S. A. Corey
The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
T. Kingfisher
Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Robert Jackson Bennett
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
P. Djèlí Clark
Abeni and the Kingdom of Gold by P. Djèlí Clark is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
C. L. Clark
Ambessa : Chosen of the Wolf : A League of Legends by C. L. Clark is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Annalee Newitz
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Travis Baldree
Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Nnedi Okorafor
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Cory Doctorow
Enshittification by Cory Doctorow is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Annalee Newitz
Grimoire by Annalee Newitz is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
T. Kingfisher
Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Brandon Sanderson
Isles of the Emberdark is a celebrated work by Brandon Sanderson (Hugo Award Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.
R. F. Kuang
Catabase, nom féminin, du grec ancien katábasis : descente du héros aux Enfers. Alice Law a tout donné pour réussir : son énergie, son temps et sa santé mentale. Doctorante en magie analytique à Cambridge, son unique objectif est d'être titularisée et légitimer ainsi son talent de magicienne. Seul obstacle dans son parcours, son directeur de thèse, l'éminent Jacob Grimes, meurt dans un accident aux circonstances douteuses. De ce postulat découle une solution logique : Alice doit descendre en Enfer retrouver celui dont son destin dépend. Mais elle n'est pas seule à entreprendre ce voyage. Son plus grand rival, Peter Murdoch, le génie flegmatique, décide de l'accompagner dans sa descente. Alliés de longue date ou concurrents en puissance, les deux étudiants devront mettre de côté leurs différends s'ils veulent venir à bout des Huit Cours de l'Enfer. Car en ce lieu hanté par les Ombres, les secrets des uns deviennent les hymnes de douleur des autres. Traduit de l'anglais par Michel Pagel Praises : “Riche en allusions et en illusions, Kuang crée une aventure pleine d'esprit, sanglante et poignante qui met à mal les dangers et les structures de pouvoir du monde universitaire, sans jamais perdre de vue ce qui se cache derrière la fragilité du cœur humain.” Leigh Bardugo, autrice de La Neuvième Maison et du Grishaverse “Une histoire captivante et poignante qui m'a tenue en haleine jusqu'à la dernière page, Katabasis de R. F. Kuang est plus qu'un roman à savourer. Ce livre est une expérience. J'envie ceux qui vont le lire pour la première fois.” Rebecca Ross, autrice de Divines Rivalités
Stephen Graham Jones
Killer on the Road / the Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Lives of Bitter Rain by Adrian Tchaikovsky is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Becky Chambers
Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Cory Doctorow
Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Martha Wells
Queen Demon by Martha Wells is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Martha Wells
Rapport by Martha Wells is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
John Scalzi
Shattering Peace is a celebrated work by John Scalzi (Hugo Award Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Stephen Graham Jones
In 1912 a strange confession is given, over several nights, to a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunted the fields of the Blackfeet reservation, looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran Pastor is discovered within a wall and what it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to two hundred and seventeen Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed confessions by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shared the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits, this is a bloody history of the American West that has remained untold until now.
Alix E. Harrow
Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters—but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten. Centuries later, Owen Mallory—failed soldier, struggling scholar—falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives—and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs. But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una’s legend—if they want to tell a different story--they’ll have to rewrite history itself.
Emily Tesh
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Mary Robinette Kowal
The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Antonia Hodgson
Let us fly now to the empire of Orrun, where after twenty-four years of peace, the reign of Bersun the Brusque has come to an end. In the dizzying heat of midsummer, seven exceptional warriors, thinkers, strategists compete to replace him. When one of them is murdered, it falls to Neema Kraa, the emperor’s brilliant, idiosyncratic High Scholar, to find the killer and fight for the throne. Neema believes she is alone. But we are here to help; all she has to do is let us in. If she succeeds, we will win an empire. If she fails, death awaits her. But we won’t let that happen.
Nnedi Okorafor
The space cat by Nnedi Okorafor is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Annalee Newitz
We Will Rise Again by Annalee Newitz is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
John Wiswell
Nebula Award-winning author of Someone You Can Build a Nest In John Wiswell brings a humanizing and humorous touch to the Hercules story, forever changing the way we understand the man behind the myth—and the goddess reluctantly bound to him Sometimes a goddess's worst enemy is her biggest fan. Heracles, hero of Greece, dedicates all his feats to the goddess Hera. If only he knew that his very face is an insult to her...as he is yet another child that Hera’s dipshit husband, Zeus, had out of wedlock. “Auntie Hera” loathes every minute of Heracles’ devotion, until she snaps and causes an unspeakably tragic accident: the death of Heracles' children. Plunged into grief and desperate for revenge, Heracles is determined to find the god that did this. Wracked with guilt and desperate to save face, Hera distracts Heracles with monster-slaying quests, only to find that he is too traumatized to enact more violence. Instead, Heracles cares for the Nemean lion, bonds with the Lernaean hydra, and heeds the Ceryneian hind. Each challenge adds a new monster to Heracles' newfound family. A family that just might lay siege to Mount Olympos.
T. Kingfisher
What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
John Scalzi
When the Moon Hits Your Eye is a celebrated work by John Scalzi (Hugo Award Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.
Ray Nayler
Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Jeff VanderMeer
Absolution is a celebrated work by Jeff VanderMeer (Nebula Award Winner, Shirley Jackson Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go? Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a reality in the worst way. His political activism sees him exiled from Earth to Kiln’s extrasolar labour camp. There, he’s condemned to work under an alien sky until he dies. Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem like nothing seen on Earth. The monstrous alien life interacts in surprising, sometimes shocking ways with the human body, so Arton will risk death on a daily basis. However, the camp’s oppressive regime might just kill him first. If Arton can somehow escape both fates, the world of Kiln holds a wondrous, terrible secret. It will redefine life and intelligence as he knows it, and might just set him free…
Kerstin Hall
Asunder by Kerstin Hall is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Nalo Hopkinson
Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Linda Nagata
Blade by Linda Nagata is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
Naomi Novik
Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.
John Scalzi
Constituent Service is a celebrated work by John Scalzi (Hugo Award Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.
Wole Talabi
Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi is an acclaimed literary work showcasing celebrated storytelling, rich characterization, and distinguished literary artistry.