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Series
Throne of glass novels volume 1
Language
English
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After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
Author
Series
Throne of glass novels volume 2
Language
English
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As the royal assassin to an evil king, eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien must decide what she will fight for--survival, love, or the future of a kingdom.
3) Heir of fire
Author
Series
Throne of glass novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Royal assassin Celaena must travel to a new land to confront a truth about her heritage, while brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world.
4) Grave mercy
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 1
Language
English
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In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.
5) Dark triumph
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"Sybella's duty as Death's assassin in 15th-century France forces her return home to the personal hell that she had finally escaped. Love and romance, history and magic, vengeance and salvation converge in this sequel to Grave Mercy"--
6) Mortal heart
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
Author
Series
Something dark and holy volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A girl who can speak to gods, a prince who must learn whom to trust, and a boy with a monstrous secret seek to assassinate the king and stop a centuries-long war.
Author
Series
Throne of glass novels volume 4
Language
English
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Description
"Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. Embracing her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen, Celaena returns to the empire--for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past"--
9) Shatter city
Author
Series
Impostors (Scott Westerfeld) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Assuming her twin's identity, Frey works to destroy her father, but when a rebel uprising strands her in a city that comes under attack, Frey must step out of the shadows to find her missing sister and take action against her tyrant father.
10) Midnight thief
Author
Series
Midnight thief novels volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Kyra, a highly skilled seventeen-year-old thief, joins a guild of assassins with questionable motives. Tristam, a young knight, fights against the vicious Demon Riders that are ravaging the city"--
11) Firebug
Author
Series
Firebug volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Ava, a contract killer who can start fires with her mind, hits the road with her friends, desperately trying to escape the Coterie, a magical mafia, while keeping the murder to a minimum after she's asked to kill a family friend by Venus, who killed Ava's mother.
12) Seeker
Author
Series
Seeker trilogy (Arwen Dayton) volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
After years of brutal training for what she thinks is the noble purpose of becoming a Seeker, Quin Kincaid, fifteen, learns that she will be using the ancient artifacts and sacred knowledge as an assassin.
13) Death sworn
Author
Series
Death sworn volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"When a young sorceress is exiled to teach magic to a clan of assassins, she will find that secrets can be even deadlier than swords"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation by her mother a noted scriptologist.
15) Legacy of kings
Author
Series
Blood of gods and royals volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Katerina, on a mission to kill the queen, falls in love with Alexander, Prince of Macedonia. Jacob will go to unthinkable lengths to win Katerina, even if it means having to compete with Hephaestion, a murderer sheltered by the prince. And far across the sea, Zofia, a Persian princess and Alexander's unmet betrothed, wants to alter her destiny by seeking the famed and deadly Spirit Eaters.
16) Traveler
Author
Series
Seeker trilogy (Arwen Dayton) volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
After learning that she pledged her life to deception, Quin and her oldest companion Shinobu search for answers in the past about the Seeker legacy and uncover a sinister plan, begun generations ago, with the power to end it.
17) Impostors
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Frey and Rafi are inseparable . . . two edges of the same knife. But Frey's very existence is a secret. Frey is Rafi's twin sister-and her body double. Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world has grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. So while Rafi was raised to be the perfect daughter, Frey has been taught to kill. Her only purpose is to protect her sister, to sacrifice herself for Rafi if she must. When her father sends Frey...
18) Rogue
Author
Series
Talon saga volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Ember Hill, a member of the dragon organization Talon, along with rebel dragon Cobalt and his crew of rogues, sets out to rescue Garret Xavier Sebastian, a soldier of the dragonslaying Order of St. George, the boy who saved Ember from a Talon assassin. A reckoning's brewing-- and the secrets hidden by both sides are shocking and deadly.
19) Rogue
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Wing and Raven find themselves in a deadly race against time to track Otto down before the other G.L.O.V.E. assassins get to him. Their pursuit takes them to a secret facility hidden deep within the Amazon rainforest, where they face a mysterious operative even deadlier than Raven. Meanwhile back at H.I.V.E., the school's own automated defence systems turn against the pupils and staff, and there is no one there to stop it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In an alternate 19th-century Italy, Elsa has an incredible gift: she can craft new worlds with precise lines of script written in books. But political extremists have stolen the most dangerous book ever scribed-one that can rewrite the Earth itself. Now Elsa must track down the friend who betrayed her and recover the book before its destructive power is unleashed. Can she handle the secrets she'll uncover along the way-including the ones hiding in...
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