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1) Cat's cradle
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Language
English
Description
A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb.
Author
Series
Adventurers wanted volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Newly-named wizard Alexander Taylor joins a familiar company of adventurers on a new quest to discover the fate of the legendary dwarf Albrek, find his mythical tomb, and locate the lost talisman that could be the key needed to save the entire dwarf realm.
3) Going bovine
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Language
English
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Description
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.
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Language
English
Description
Mid-nineteenth-century little person Mercy Levinia Warren Bump comes of age in the antebellum south before being invited to join the P. T. Barnum circus, through which she meets her future husband, General Tom Thumb, and pursues limitless international opportunities.
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Series
Legends of the First Empire volume 4
Language
English
Description
"With Age of Myth, Age of Swords, and Age of War, fantasy master Michael J. Sullivan riveted readers with a tale of unlikely heroes locked in a desperate battle to save mankind. After years of warfare, humanity has gained the upper hand and has pushed the Fhrey to the edge of their homeland, but no farther. Now comes the pivotal moment. Persephone's plan to use the stalemate to seek peace is destroyed by an unexpected betrayal that threatens to hand...
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English
Description
One of the three 'Great Tales' of the Elder Days, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin takes place in Middle-earth thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
The Children of Húrin is the first complete book by Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The Silmarillion. Six thousand years before the One Ring is destroyed, Middle-earth lies under the shadow of the Dark Lord Morgoth.
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Series
Adventurers wanted volume 5
Language
English
Description
Wizard-in-training Alex Taylor must help his mentor Whalen track down Whalen's nephew Jabez who was once being trained by Whalen but who now has chosen a path into dark magic.
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Series
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English
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From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Floating in My Mother's Palm comes a stunning novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times. Trudi Montag is a Zwerga dwarfshort, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans sharefrom her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he's...
10) Age of swords
Author
Series
Legends of the First Empire volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Age of Swords continues the epic story of the war between humankind and the elves--and of ordinary people becoming legendary heroes. It introduces a set of new characters: the dwarves, whose magical weaponcraft could decide the war. It's up to our heroes to win over the dwarves to the side of humankind...or else lose the war forever"--
Raithe, the God Killer, started the rebellion by killing a Fhrey. But even if the clans can join forces, how will...
11) The pirate king
Author
Series
Transitions volume 2
Publisher
Wizards of the Coast
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
When Captain Deudermont comes to the aid of the city of Luskan, which has become a safe haven for the Sword Coast's most dangerous pirates, dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden is drawn into the struggle to save the city from itself.
12) Neverwinter
Author
Series
Neverwinter volume 2
Publisher
Wizards of the Coast
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Free for the first time in almost one hundred years, Drizzt feels not only relief, but guilt, and this makes him vulnerable to the wiles of the elf Dahlia, his newest companion.
13) The dwarf giant
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Prince Mainichi and Princess Ichinichi are visited by a rude dwarf, who inflicts upon them evil and dangerous games before revealing his true self.
16) Rise of the King
Author
Series
Companions codex volume 2
Publisher
Wizards of the Coast LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Follows dwarf king Bruenor Battlehammer and his violent feud with the orc kingdom of Many Arrows, as they seek to take advantage of the Sundering chaos.
17) Big girl small
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2011.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Judy Lohden finds her three feet nine inches tall, incredibly talented self in the middle of a scandal, with the national media on her trail and the students at Darcy Academy, a local performing arts high school, involved in the mayhem.
18) Thud!
Author
Series
Discworld volume 34
Language
English
Description
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch will be damned if he lets anyone disturb his city's always tentative peace, and that includes a rabble-rousing dwarf from the sticks who's been stirring up trouble on the eve of the anniversary of one of Discworld's most infamous historical events. Centuries earlier, in a hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls met dwarfs in bloody combat. Though nobody's quite sure why they fought or who actually won,...
19) Chiquita
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara/Santillana
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
Español
Description
Espiridiona Cenda, una joven cubana de sólo veintiséis pulgadas de estatura, llega a la Nueva York de fines del siglo XIX con el deseo de triunfar como bailarina y cantante. Esta biografía imaginaria de un personaje real recrea con libertad y una fabulación ilimitada las aventuras y desventuras de Chiquita, una mujer seductora e independiente que llegó a convertirse en una de las celebridades mejor pagadas de los teatros de vaudeville y las ferias...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 15
Language
English
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"Corporal Carrot has been promoted. He's now in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork, Discworld's greatest city, from Barbarian Tribes, Miscellaneous Marauders, unlicensed Thieves, and such. It's a big job, particularly for an adopted dwarf. But an even bigger job awaits. An ancient document has just revealed that Ankh-Morpork, ruled for decades by Disorganized crime, has a secret sovereign. And his name is Carrot"--Page 4 of cover.
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