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1. The shards
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Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date:
©2023
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"A story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city"--
2. The Shards
Author:
Publisher:
Open Road Media
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
In this third volume of the GemQuest series, captured and imprisoned by Colton, the wizard Premoran rails against his fate. Without Premoran, the essences of the ancient Lalas trees will be lost forever. While the Twins prepare to embark on their separate quests for the Gem of Eternity, another rises to aid the Lalas. Her name is Tamara, a Sister of Parth. Trained in the mustical mysteries, though unaware of the true extent of her power, she alone...
3. The Shards
Author:
Publisher:
argon
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
German
Description:
Bret Easton Ellis' meisterhafter neuer Roman erzählt eine traumatische Geschichte: Während seiner eigenen Schulzeit war ein Serienmörder in L.A. eine Bedrohung für die Jugendlichen. Der siebzehnjährige Bret ist in der Oberstufe der exklusiven Buckley Prep School, als ein neuer Schüler auftaucht. Robert Mallory ist intelligent, gutaussehend und charismatisch und zieht Bret magisch an. Bret ist sich sicher, dass Robert ein düsteres Geheimnis...
Author:
Publisher:
St Martins Pr
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
"Julius Caesar is dead, assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history. Juba, Numidian prince and adopted brother of Octavian, has embarked on a...
Author:
Publisher:
Christian Faith Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Farm girl turned sexual assault advocate Mrs. Luna was born and raised in the heart of Pennsylvania with degrees in graphic design and master's in business administration. Luna's work ethic and passion for continuous learning carry over into everything she does. A rape and sexual assault survivor, Luna has turned the voice of her pain into a megaphone to help others and advocate for change in laws and policy regarding assault at the local, state,...
Author:
Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
The call of fire beckons Arden Ashwen towards an inevitable oblivion, one he wishes with his whole heart would soon come to end him. Despite his trepidations, he is tasked with a mission to calm the rising tension of The Kin, a species said to be descended from Dragons. Sailing to the South to fulfill his mission, can Arden survive against the rising of the tide which threatens to sweep him away? Or, in the end, will he be just another casualty to...
Author:
Publisher:
Dean G E Matthews
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
With the creature vanished, tensions rise at the school after it's revealed that head wizard Almagest's death may not have been an accident. Meanwhile having discovered clues to the whereabouts of the feared Firebrand shards, Kuelack sets out to find them together with the disinherited Dragonlord Ramus, whilst Kuelack's sadistic and power hungry wife Gradine embarks on a campaign to kill and imprison the Bruins and their friends. But, with each piece...
Author:
Series:
Sellswords volume 1
Publisher:
Wizards of the Coast
Pub. Date:
[2005]
Language:
English
Author:
Publisher:
Machelle Berglund
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Have you ever experienced that bitter hope that twists in your heart as you search for love, though certain you'll never find it? Have you ever had love and lost it, whether romantically or platonically? And have you ever, after going through heartache after heartache, finally found a healthy, everlasting love that fights to stay by your side? Those very themes and many more run rampant throughout this collection of poems. "Through the Shards of My...
Author:
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2001
Lexile measure:
920L
Language:
English
Description:
The Newbery Medal-winning tale of an orphan boy whose dream of becoming a master potter leads to unforeseen adventure in ancient Korea.
Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a 12th-century Korean village renowned for its ceramics. When he accidentally breaks a delicate piece of pottery, he volunteers to work to pay for the damage. Putting aside his own dreams, Tree-ear resolves to serve the master potter by embarking on a difficult
...12. My Stones
Author:
Publisher:
Christian Faith Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
In storms, memories of God's grace seem fleeting. We forget about the last storm we just survived because the new one feels lost and uncomfortable again. In this book, I attempt to lay stones in the midst of one of the hardest seasons of my life. My faith was tested, my plans shredded, and my emotions were all over the place. It is through this stone-laying process that I began to see the light I was walking toward without even realizing it. From...
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Language:
English
Description:
It would be hard to imagine Russian poetry in the last half century without Lydia Grigorieva," writes eminent Russian poet and critic Konstantin Kedrov. Grigorieva is a uniquely individual voice, bucking the trends of modernist poetry to create her own distinctive and beguiling body of poetry. Her work draws on her own remarkable life to create startlingly arresting images and metaphors, full of beauty and power, from her series that emerged from...
Author:
Publisher:
Author's Republic
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Introduction To PPC Marketing: The Complete Guide to Search Engine Optimization and PPC Marketing to Help Boost Sales and Grow Your Business Search engines are used for practically everything, from shopping to find "how to" articles. Most websites are found through using a search engine, however, not all websites get the traffic they need to survive because they do not have the necessary visibility to thrive. One method of creating visibility is through...
Author:
Publisher:
Author's Republic
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Absolute Essentials of Digital Marketing Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Introduction To PPC Marketing and The SEO Blueprint With so much information on the internet nowadays, one of the most crucial things for any business is to simply keep up. It's almost impossible to keep up with everything but any business should aim for their content to get out there to reach its target audience. With so much information on the internet, it's easy for any content to...
16. Shards of earth
Author:
Series:
Final architecture volume 1
Publisher:
Orbit
Language:
English
Description:
Idris, an enhanced human, and his crew, 50 years after the destruction of the earth by alien aggressors, the Architects, discover something strange in space that many people would kill to obtain--and could herald the return of the enemy.
After Earth was destroyed mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors,...
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"The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands. Lin is the emperor's daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. When her father refuses to recognize her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden...
18. Shards of glass
Author:
Series:
Chronicles of Elantra volume 17.50
Language:
English
Description:
The Academia, once an elite proving ground for the rulers of the world, has been frozen for centuries. Now its strange slumber has ended, and a new Chancellor, an orange-eyed dragon, has reopened its lecture halls and readied its dorms. In order to thrive once more, however, the Academia needs fresh blood--new students with a passion and talent for learning. One such student, Robin, has the perfect recruit in mind: his friend Raven, an orphan who...
19. Shard & Shield
Series:
Shard of Elan volume 1
Language:
English
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He can save her life-if he sacrifices those he swore to protect. King's bastard Shianan Becknam buries himself in his military career to avoid the dangers of drawing political attention. When the artifact intended to end an interdimensional war is damaged, a mage is trapped on the other side of the rift with her servant-only the cheery young boy is really one of the monstrous enemy, disguised as a human. Shianan is desperate to rescue Ariana, one...
20. (--shards--)
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English
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Ismet Prcic's brilliant, provocative, and propulsory energetic debut is about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised that in order to make peace with the corrosive guilt he harbors over leaving behind his family behind, he must "write everything." The result is a great rattlebag of memories, confessions, and fictions:...