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1. Firebird
Author:
Publisher:
Putnam Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland encourages a young ballet student, with brown skin like her own, by telling her that she, too, had to learn basic steps and how to be graceful when she was starting out, and that some day, with practice and dedication, the little girl will become a firebird, too. Includes author's note about dancers who led her to find her voice.
3. Firebird
Author:
Series:
Flint Hills Novels volume 1
Language:
English
Description:
In her stunning debut novel, Janice Graham creates a love story that rises from the ashes of despair. Rich with passion and triumph, Firebird goes beyond romance to become a tale of greater challenges and revelations. Ethan, a young Kansas lawyer, is trapped between the demands of his fiance and his growing love for an exotic visitor to his small town. Suddenly, when tragedy strikes, Ethan is plunged into despair. But even as he mourns, strange forces...
4. Firebird
Author:
Publisher:
Putnam's
Pub. Date:
[1994]
Language:
English
Description:
A simple retelling of the Russian tale in which Prince Ivan encounters the magical Firebird who helps him defeat the evil Kotschei and rescue a princess.
5. Firebird
Author:
Series:
Fairy Tales volume 1
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
In Mercedes Lackey's Firebird, Ilya, son of a Russian prince, is largely ignored by his father and tormented by his larger, older brothers. His only friends are three old people: a priest, a magician, and a woman who toils in the palace dairy. From them Ilya learns faith, a smattering of magic, and the power of love-all of which he will need desperately, for his life is about to be turned upside-down. The prince's magnificent cherry orchard is visited...
6. Firebird
Author:
Series:
Fire that binds volume 1
Publisher:
Bramble/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
"From the moment Roman general and nephew to the emperor Julianus Dakkia laid eyes on Malina, he was enthralled by the Dacian dancer. Years later, the fierce beauty stands before him on a scarred battlefield, her life in danger. He instinctively shifts into his fierce dragon form to save her, an action that may mean his head on the imperial gate. But he and his dragon know one thing: she belongs to them. Malina can't believe that the centurion who...
7. Firebird
Author:
Series:
Firebird volume 1
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
Her death was expected, but something more powerful kept her alive.Lady Firebird was born to the royal family of Netaia. Because of her birthplace in the family, however, her life is expendable. Honorable suicide is the highest calling she could hope to attain. When she is chosen to lead an attack on the neighboring planet of Veroh her death is expected. Instead she is taken prisoner during the battle and is held by the enemy.With her own people seeking...
11. Firebird
Publisher:
Tor Books/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date:
2006
Language:
English
Description:
A young orphan girl falls in love with a foreign knight, who's carrying with him the most precious artifact of the kingdom--the egg of the Firebird. The two set out on a wonderful quest, filled with spectacle, romance, and hairsbreadth escapes, to save the land and find a life together.
12. Firebird
Author:
Publisher:
Rebecca Shelley
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
Young Aedus of the Nanuk Clan knows nothing of the war between the spirits or the Firebird. Aedus wants only to prove himself a man in the Great Hunt. But when the battling spirits threaten to destroy his clan, he risks everything-not just his life, but his very humanity-to save his people.
13. Firebird
Author:
Publisher:
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Firebird has it all-mystery, suspense, drama, politics, romance and sensitivity. And added to that are vivid locations-Maine, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Russia and an author that makes you feel like you are there. Now mix in rich characters as well with heroic bravery and devotion to family, friends, and country, and you have an incredibly powerful novel. Throw in twist and turns and threats and a great plot and you have an electrifying...
14. Firebird
Author:
Publisher:
Wildside Press
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
The world is moving towards alternative energy. Two giant laboratories, one in France, one in Texas, are engaged in a contest to give mankind a limitless source of energy-fusion, the energy source of stars. In France, the European Union is constructing the colossal ITER project. At CFRC, the Controlled Fusion Research Center near Austin, a scientists have constructed a machine they call Prometheus to challenge ITER. When the director of the Austin...
15. Firebird
Author:
Publisher:
Jane Wiseman
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Keera has revenge in mind, and boundless confidence. After all, her magic powers are second to none. With outrage, she finds her powers stripped away from her. When she finds she must fight her battle with only her wits and her grit, how can she possibly prevail? She is young and has no war-skills. But the girl has friends: an old mage who helps her, a young man with a twinkle in his eye who can't get her out of his mind-and a ghost. Book III of the...
16. Firebird
Author:
Publisher:
Scofflaw Publishing
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
Sixteen-year-old Katie Wickliff wants nothing more than to settle into a quiet life with her cursed beloved, William. But both Katie's past-and William's-are far too troubled to allow them to live in peace. Shortly after Katie discovers that a shadowy figure has placed a price on her head-and that a pack of vampires is out to collect the reward-William disappears, leaving Katie without the one person she can trust. Separated from her true love and...
17. Firebird
Author:
Publisher:
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
Description:
In the fantastic land of Markovy east of Europe, in the Iron Wood filled with werewolves and other unpleasant creatures, in the house of the dreaded Bone Witch, lives a young orphan girl named Aria. Her life is changed forever when a foreign knight, Sir Roye de Roye, enters the forest pursued by enemies, carrying with him the most precious artifact of the kingdom, the egg of the Firebird. Aria saves him and falls in love with him, and it becomes her...
18. The firebird
Author:
Series:
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
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Two Women. One Mysterious Relic. Historical fiction with romance, betrayal, and magic you'll never forget.
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...19. Firebird
Author:
Publisher:
Templar Books
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Description:
With the aid of Gray Wolf, young Prince Ivan fulfills a series of tasks set for him by his father and two other kings, winning the legendary firebird, a magical horse, and the hand of Princess Helen by his efforts.
20. Firebird
Author:
Publisher:
Ronsdale Press
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
Firebird explores a period in our history, one year in particular (1915-1916), when a massive number of newcomers were deemed "enemy aliens," arrested and put into internment camps set up all across Canada. Alex Kaminsky, a fourteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant boy, suffers burns to his hands and face when his uncle's farmhouse burns down. Rescued by a neighbour, he is tended to by a backcountry midwife before being taken in by a local postmaster....