Steve West
1) Warlight
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English
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The story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the...
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Ember in the ashes volume 1
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English
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"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--
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English
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"A captivating novel about two women, centuries apart, fighting to be heard -- one of whom may be the real author of Shakespeare's plays -- from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here. As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright...
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Sands of Arawiya volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old huntress Zafira must disguise herself as a man to seek a lost artifact that could return magic to her cursed world.
Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya-- but neither...
6) Vertigo 42
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"At Vertigo 42, a bar high above London's financial district, Richard Jury meets Tom Williamson - a friend of a friend who is convinced his wife, Tess, was murdered 17 years ago. Tess's death was ruled accidental - a fall caused by vertigo - but Jury agrees to re-examine the case. A young girl's fatal fall at a children's party 22 years ago at Tom and Tess's home may be connected. After an elegantly dressed woman falls from a tower near a pub that...
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Kingdom of cards volume 1
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English
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In a magic competition to find the next headliner for the Conquering Circus, tricks become dangerous, rival magicians mysteriously disppear, and ambitious showgirl Kallia, her nightclub manager Jack, and competition judge Daron are forced to face their deepest secrets.
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Strange the dreamer volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A breathtaking new novel by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer is a story full of alchemy and blood candy, nightmares and godspawn, moths and monsters, friendship and treachery, love and carnage.
"Starred Review."--Booklist
"Starred Review."--Publishers Weekly
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Nero novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2018
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English
Description
For nine years, Nero has ruled the Roman Empire with the beautiful and cunning Poppaea at his side. Though they have yet to produce an heir, Nero turns his thoughts to ushering in an unprecedented era of artistic and cultural splendor. But a terrifying prophecy comes to pass when a fire engulfs Rome, reducing entire swaths of the city to rubble. Though Nero joins the battle to contain the flames, rumors of his complicity in the blaze start to sow...
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Strange the dreamer volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around - and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he's been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he...
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Strange the dreamer volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected"--
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Queen's thief volume 3
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English
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Eugenides, still known as a Thief of Eddis, faces palace intrigue and assassins as he strives to prove himself both to the people of Attolia and to his new bride, their queen.
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Queen's thief volume 6
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English
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A conclusion to the best-selling series finds high king Eugenides preparing to defend the Lesser Peninsula from an invasion by the ruthless Mede empire, an effort that is complicated by a prophecy that foretells a king's death.
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Queen's thief volume 4
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English
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Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Sophos, an unwilling prince, tries to save his country from being destroyed by rebellion and exploited by the conniving Mede empire.
17) Fireborne
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Aurelian cycle volume 1
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English
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"Two dragonriders must go head-to-head for the top position in the Callipolan fleet, and protect the new regime from those who lost power"--
Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world. Now they are both rising stars in the new regime. Annie's lowborn family was executed by dragonfire, while Lee's aristocratic family was murdered by revolutionaries. Growing up in the same orphanage forged their friendship, and seven...
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Pub. Date
2015
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English
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In one of the most entertaining and twisty thrillers of the year a London family, a mother, father and young son, must deal with the murder of their secretive next door neighbor and the intrusive police investigation that follows. Readers will be faced with ever shifting and increasingly frightening suspicions that one or all of them had something to do with it.
Alex Mercer loves his family more than anything. His wife Millicent and their
...19) Island of Fire
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The Unwanteds volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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The magical world of Artimé is gone and the Unwanteds are looking to Alex Stowe for answers, but while his twin brother Aaron continues to build his army in Quill, a very dangerous common enemy is revealed.
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The Unwanteds volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Divided by their society into Wanted and Unwanted at thirteen, estranged twin brothers Aaron and Alex have both run into trouble--as mage of Artime, Alex must defend the island from attack, while Aaron continues to scheme to take over the islands and get rid of the Unwanteds altogether.