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1) Gilded youth: a history of growing up in the royal family: from the Plantagenets to the Cambridges
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2023].
Physical Desc
xviii, 277 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"For as long as the British royal family has existed, their children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us—the royal family’s obsession with making their children tough and independent as early as possible, often by delegating their parental duties to staff, goes back centuries. Gilded Youth looks at centuries of growing up aristocratic and royal—from Edward VII smashing up his schoolroom...
Author
Series
(Sam Smith).Tales of Old Natalia volume 2
Publisher
Story Warren Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
167 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm.
Description
King Whitson Mariner leads the displaced rabbits as they weather every challenge on their quest for a new home.
3) The familiar
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
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"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
4) Dawnbreaker
Author
Series
Salvation cycle volume 2
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
The wall of magic separating human and demonic planes has been destroyed, so Nightrender, immortal warrior of the gods, must find a way to rebuild it--and Hanne who let the demon king, Daghath Mal, into her mind long ago may be the only one who can help.
Author
Series
Elemental emergence volume 1
Publisher
Red Tower Book/Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
405 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Description
"Harrow was born during a war between two of the five capricious Elemental Queens. It's a war of fury and attrition, and exacted its price in blood. In one grim night, almost all of the water Elementals--the Seers--were killed. All but Harrow. Years later, she's taken refuge in anonymity, hidden within an unusual circus run by a centuries-old Enchanter. No one can know who she really is or about the magic she wields. Now the circus has acquired a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
In this graphic novel retelling of Disney Wish, Asha finds her plea to save her community answered by a cosmic force called Star, proving that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
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Series
Bone spindle volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Fi is a prisoner. Briar, a monster. Shane's a warrior. And Red is a traitor. What was once a formidable group of four fighting to reawaken the kingdom is now ruptured, torn apart by the wicked Spindle Witch. Confined to a tower with the monstrous Briar Rose, Fi is caught in the Spindle Witch's ever-tightening web. With the Spindle Witch on the verge of finding the Siphoning Spells and crushing Andar—with Fi's help, no less—Fi's only...
Author
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Samson is a strong man with legendary powers who meets the beautiful Delilah and is later seduced by her into giving up the secret of his strength, tells the story of Moses' journey from prince of Egypt to prophet and leader of the Hebrew slaves; dramatization of the early life of St. Francis of Assisi; follows the story of the Biblical character David as he rises from lowly shepherd boy to the throne of Israel; a man is given the task of rescuing...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"As a new coven, Aziza, Leo, and Tristan faced evil and triumphed. All that's left is to put their lives back together, a process complicated by the fallout from painful secrets, the emotional and physical scars they now carry, and the mysteries that still haunt them. But with the approach of the solstice comes the arrival of strange new visitors to Blackthorn: the Summer Court, a nomadic community of Fair Folk from deep in Elphame. They've journeyed...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiii, 222 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernan Cortes entered the city of Tenochtitlan - today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cortes was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators: Friar...
11) Corona de sangre
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
403 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Description
"Cuando Alfonso XI, Rey de Castilla y Leon, muere a causa de la peste negra durante el asedio a Gibraltar, el reino queda huerfano, con las fronteras amenazadas y las cosechas devastadas. Sera entonces cuando su hijo Pedro, un joven de quince anos con gran sed de poder, que ha vivido apartado y marginado de la corte, se coronara rey. Empujado por las ansias de venganza de su madre, Maria de Portugal, y amenazado por la vil mirada de su hermano bastardo,...
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