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Alexis Deacon
Author
Series
Curse of the chosen volume 1
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Great Chief Matarka has died, and in accordance with her last will and testament, a contest will be held to announce her successor. From all over her realm, figures of great influence--leaders of the military, the church, and industry--have come to participate in the tests that are to be conducted to name the heir to Matarka's chiefdom. And so begins a sprawling, high-stakes adventure. Some of the participants are willing and eager to succeed,...
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The chief matriarch is dying. Drawing her last breath, she declares a contest: let fate decide the one worthy to rule. Fifty souls are summoned in the night; fifty souls bound to the same fate. But this is no ordinary trial... And so begins the first task. This supernatural historical fantasy is the first in an epic trilogy.
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books/Nobrow Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The dramatic and hotly anticipated conclusion to Alexis Deacon's original Geis fantasy trilogy, featuring new branding and a format designed to sit alongside Curse of the Chosen Volume 1. As the great chief matriarch lay dying, she gave one final decree: Upon her death there would be a contest. Having no heir of her own blood she called on the gods. Let fate decide the one truly worthy to rule in her place. The rich, the strong, the wise, the powerful;...
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The second test has begun. Contenders for the new chief find themselves divided against their will and flung into a dangerous game. While the struggle for power continues, Io and Nemas battle with their own identities--but when allies are turned against one another, who can be trusted?
8) Coco y Pío
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Ekaré
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
En la arena, muy juntos, hay dos huevos. Cuando los hermanos salen del cascarón aparecen un pájaro... y un cocodrilo. Pero ¿Pueden ser hermanos un pájaro y un cocodrilo?
On the sand, close together, there are two eggs. When the brothers hatch a bird ... and a crocodile appear. But how can a bird and a crocodile be brothers?
10) Jim's lion
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A young boy who is afraid of the operation that can help him get well learns to overcome his fear with the help of a caring nurse.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry Black is lost between the world of war and the land of myth in this illustrated novel that transports the tale of Orpheus to World War II–era London.
Brothers Marcus and Julian Sedgwick team up to pen this haunting tale of another pair of brothers, caught between life and death in World War II. Harry Black, a conscientious objector, artist, and firefighter battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes in