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"Oddny and Gunnhild meet as children in tenth century Norway, and they could not be more different: Oddny hopes for a quiet life, while Gunnhild burns for power and longs to escape her cruel mother. But after a visiting wisewoman makes an ominous prophecy that involves Oddny, her sister Signy, and Gunnhild, the three girls take a blood oath to help one another always. When Oddny's farm is destroyed and Signy is kidnapped by Viking raiders, Oddny is...
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Realizing their destinies as saviors, Blue, River, Shenli, and Wren grapple with their roles and expectations, and as they embark on separate quests amidst looming war, they navigate individual challenges, choices, and revelations in their quest to decipher the Fates' plan for them.
5) Starfields
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Rosalba, a nine-year-old Mayan girl living in a rural Mexican village, watches as people destroy the environment around her, and when she hears that the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world in 2012, Rosalba dreams of an ancient Mayan boy who hints at a way she can help.
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In 16th-century New Spain, Lady Leonora, with witchcraft punishable by death, masquerades as Pantera, who uses her magic to fight the tyranny of Spanish rule--and who is doomed to a short life, and must fight to the end when an ancient prophecy of destruction threatens to come true.
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Clay, a MudWing dragonet, sees war coming to his mountain and fellow dragons. What he does not know is that he and four other dragonets are part of a prophecy of the five chosen dragonets, but it may be that they don't want to be part of a prophecy. They may instead choose freedom over fate.
11) The Phoenix king
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""If we carry the burdens of our fathers, we'll never know what it means to be free." For Elena Aadya Ravence, fire is yearning. She longs to feel worthy of her Phoenix god, of her ancestors who transformed the barren dunes of Sayon into a thriving kingdom. But though she knows the ways and wiles of the desert better than she knows her own skin, the secrets of the Eternal Flame elude her. And without them, she'll never be accepted as queen. For Leo...
12) Dragons of fate
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"A clash of powerful magical forces sets off the Graygem of Gargath, sending Destina Rosethorn and her companions deeper into the past than she intended--to the age of Huma Dragonbane and the Third Dragon War. Now, with the Device of Time Journeying shattered, they must find another way back to their own era, before the Graygem irrevocably alters history and the Third Dragon War ends in defeat for the forces of good. While the battle rages on, Destina...
13) Consort of fire
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While fulfilling an ancient prophecy, Sachielle is sent to be the mortal consort of an ancient dragon god, but she and her handmaid, who is a trained assassin, plot to murder the dragon and break the curse.
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"Many years ago, Sir Aelfric and his nine companions saved the world, seizing the Dark Lord's cursed weapons, along with his dread city of Necrad. That was the easy part. Now, when Aelfric - keeper of the cursed sword Spellbreaker - learns of a new and terrifying threat, he seeks the nine heroes once again. But they are wandering adventurers no longer. Yesterday's eager heroes are today's weary leaders - and some have turned to the darkness, becoming...
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My desire to sit upon the Lucin throne led me to revive an ancient, winged monarch -- one I deemed a friend until that friend duped and imprisoned me. Lorcan claims he's holding me captive for my own safety, but then he also claims I belong to him. Slumbering for five centuries has evidently given the Crow King severe delusions. We may share an unfortunate mind-link, but we are still masters of our own destiny, and I intend to steer mine away from...
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"There are few people I loathe more than Dante Regio, but my aunt Bronwen, my former grandfather Justus, and my Shabbin grandmother Meriam sit right alongside the Faerie monarch on my list of despicable beings. Especially after they assist the pointy-eared ruler with my kidnapping.Locked in an obsidian underworld no Crow can reach, not even their king, I soon learn things aren't as they seem. People aren't as they seem. And history... I'm still attempting...
18) Sons of darkness
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The House of the Dragon meets Succession in an epic reimagining of the Mahabharata. Some ballads are inked in blood... Bled dry by violent confrontations with the Magadhan Empire, the Mathuran Republic simmers on the brink of oblivion. Senator Krishna and his third wife Satyabhama have put their plans in motion, both within and beyond the Republic's blood-soaked borders, to protect it from total annihilation. But they are soon to discover that neither...