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Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 5
Publisher
Donald M. Grant
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 714 pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wolves of the Calla continues the adventures of Roland, the Last Gunslinger and survivor of a civilized world that has "moved on." Roland's quest is ka, an inevitable destiny -- to reach and perhaps save the Dark Tower, which stands at the center of everywhere and everywhen. This pursuit brings Roland, with the three others who've joined his quest to Calla Bryn Sturgis, a town in the shadow of Thunderclap, beyond which lies the Dark Tower. Before...
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Michael G (yes, "G" is his whole last name, and that's why everyone calls him G-Man) has to keep a journal in Mrs. Rosario's class at school, naturally he writes about his ambition to have superpowers and join the superheroes of his city (like Captain Thunderman) in the fight for justice. After all, his friend Billy Demon just got an awesome winged flying suit and superpowers of his own, and now he's the most popular kid in school! Mikey would...
23) Spear
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court. And so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides...
Author
Series
Glorkian warrior volume 2
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
125 pages ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The second adventure of this inept space hero and his talking backback on patrol.
25) Superworm
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Superworm's bug friends attempt to free him from the clutches of Wizard Lizard who, having heard of Superworm's wondrous and heroic deeds, captures him and forces him to dig for treasure.
Author
Series
Glorkian warrior volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
110 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
No mission is too small for an inept intergalactic hero and his talking backpack.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Katara tells how she inspired a group of Earthbenders to take a stand; Aang tells how he outsmarted the great Earthbender, King Bumi; and Sokka recounts the tale of the Great Divide.
Author
Series
Final Architecture trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 609 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time, this third and final novel in an extraordinary space opera trilogy depicts humanity on the brink of extinction--and reveals how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. Lords of Uncreation is the final high-octane installment in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture space opera trilogy.
32) He saves the day
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In plane or race car, on the high seas, in a jungle or before a castle, a brave and daring champion saves the day, but sometimes he needs help.
33) Stepsister
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.
35) Vicious
Author
Series
Villains (V. E. Schwab) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates--brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things...
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing. When...
Author
Series
Bone trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
234 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Tom and his cohorts continue their seemingly impossible quest to find the pieces of the Spark that will save Dreaming--and the Waking World--from the evil Nacht.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Mystical Crystals of Life are stolen from the Super Happy Magic Forest--where everybody parties all the time--five unlikely heroes are chosen to go on a quest to retrieve them.
Author
Series
Trials of Apollo volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In his penultimate adventure, a devastated but determined Apollo travels to Camp Jupiter, where he must learn what it is to be a hero, or die trying"--
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