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Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this gripping account of lies and heroic acts, the New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Warriors investigates the tragedy of Benghazi, putting the events on September 11, 2012 in the larger context of Obama administration policy toward the Middle East.
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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A meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful rail journey across Europe to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian revolution and forever changed the world. In the early spring of 1917, as the First World War stretched on and Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shock waves across Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich. When the news reached him, Lenin immediately resolved to return...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
In a book based on newly released documents, the author sheds a new light on the historic battle between U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa during the Senate Rackets Committee hearings and beyond during 1957 to 1964.
Author
Publisher
Rodale Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"For the past 5 years, Steve Kamb has transformed himself from wanna-be daydreamer into a real-life superhero and actually turned his life into a gigantic video game...To help him accomplish all of these goals, he built a system that allowed him to complete quests, take on boss battles, earn experience points, and literally level up his life. If you have always dreamed of adventure and growth but can't seem to leave your hobbit-hole, Steve's book,...
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Series
Warriors (Erin Hunter). Omen of the stars volume 3
Warriors. Omen of the stars volume 3
Warriors omen of the stars volume 3
Warriors. Omen of the stars volume 3
Warriors omen of the stars volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Description
As Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Dovepaw continue to seek answers to the mysterious prophecy that binds them, they learn that another cat may play an essential role in defeating the Dark Forces.
7) The becoming
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A new epic of love and war among gods and humans, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening. The world of magick and the world of man have long been estranged from one another. But some can walk between the two-including Breen Siobhan Kelly. She has just returned to Talamh, with her friend, Marco, who's dazzled and disoriented by this realm-a place filled with dragons and faeries and mermaids (but no WiFi, to his chagrin). In...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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In a remote village surrounded by vast forests on the border of Moldova and Ukraine, sisters Liba and Laya have been raised on the honeyed scent of their Mami's babka and the low rumble of their Tati's prayers. But when a troupe of mysterious men arrives, Laya falls under their spell - despite their mother's warning to be wary of strangers. And this is not the only danger lurking in the woods. As dark forces close in on their village, Liba and Laya...
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Series
Bone witch volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she's a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone witch, who takes Tea and her brother to another land for training. In her new home, Tea puts all her energy into becoming an asha-one who can wield...
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Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Reunited in America, they now have a son and a strong love. But with the Cold War rising, dark forces at work in their adopted country threaten their lives, their family, and their hard-won peace.
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Series
Ember in the ashes volume 2
Language
English
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After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.
Laia is determined to break into Kauf - the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison - to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars' survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom.
But dark forces, human...
12) Kill the queen
Author
Series
Crown of shards volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In a realm where one's magical power determines one's worth, Lady Everleigh's lack of obvious ability relegates her to the shadows of the royal court of Bellona, a kingdom steeped in gladiator tradition. Seventeenth in line for the throne, Evie is nothing more than a ceremonial fixture, overlooked and mostly forgotten. But dark forces are at work inside the palace. When her cousin Vasilia, the crown princess, assassinates her mother the queen and...
Author
Series
Eternal sky trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Exiled heir Re-Tamur and his wizard friend Sarmarkar take on the dark forces that are determined to conquer the great Empires along the Celedon Road.
15) The devil's bed
Author
Language
English
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Description
With her husband up for re-election, First Lady Kate Dixon returns home to care for her father, accompanied by Secret Service agent Bo Thorsen, who suspects that Kate has been targeted by escaped mental patient David Moses and by dark forces within the federal government.
16) Life and fate
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Series
Publisher
New York Review Books
Language
English
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Completed in the late 1950s by its distinguished Russian author, this novel has been recognized as fiction on an epic scale: powerful, deeply moving, and devastating in its depiction of a world mutilated by war and ideological tyranny. A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning...
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Series
Spirit animals. Fall of the beasts volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan and their spirit animals as they continue their efforts to protect Erdas from dark forces.
18) Mooncakes
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Language
English
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A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft.
Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers' bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town. One fateful night, she follows reports of a white wolf into the woods, and she comes across the unexpected: her childhood crush, Tam Lang, battling a horse demon in the woods. As a...
Author
Series
Nine kingdoms volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
As the dark forces and evil magic of the black mage threaten to engulf the kingdom of Neroche, the fate of the Nine Kingdoms lies in the hands of the woman destined to wield one of two magical swords in the possession of the king of Neroche.
20) The junkyard bot
Author
Series
Robots rule! volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
When George Gearing's personal robot Jackbot gets hit by a car, George rebuilds him into something amazing, only to have him disappear just as dark forces threaten the town, leaving George and his new friend Anne Droid to find out what happened.
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