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Ascendance volume 1
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New York Times bestseller The False Prince thrills with wild twists and turns, danger and deceit, and the revelation of hidden identities that will have readers rushing breathlessly to the end.In a discontented kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are...
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ALFAGUARA IJC
Pub. Date
2013
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Español
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La sorprendente y esperada secuela de EL FALSO PRÍNCIPE llevará a los lectores a través de la traición, la ambición y el asesinato, el peligro y el misterio, hasta el mismo corazón de un mundo gobernado por reglas propias.
Tras superar una cruel competición a vida o muerte e innumerable intrigas, Sage tomó el trono. Unas semanas después, un intento de asesinato pondrá en peligro su vida y la seguridad del reino. A su alrededor se disparan...
3) Ice Forged
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Condemned as a murderer for killing the man who dishonored his sister, Blaine "Mick" McFadden has spent the last six years in Velant, a penal colony in the frigid northern wastelands. Harsh military discipline and the oppressive magic keep a fragile peace as colonists struggle against a hostile environment. But the supply ships from Dondareth have stopped coming, boding ill for the kingdom that banished the colonists.
Now, as the world's magic...
4) Runaway king
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Ascendance volume 2
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English
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Young King Jaron has taken the throne of Carthya, but after enemies attempt to assassinate him, and a neighboring kingdom threatens invasion, he finds that he has no friends in the palace, not even his bride-to-be, princess Amarinda--and his regents think it would be better for Carthya if he just disappeared again.
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Manticore Ascendant volume I
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life...two things his neglectful mother couldn't or wouldn't provide. So when Travis enlists in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he'd finally found the structure he'd always wanted so desperately. But life in the RMN isn't exactly as expected. Boot camp is rough; his first ship assignment lax and disorderly; and with the Star Kingdom of Manticore still recovering from a devastating...
6) Reign of Ash
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Survival is just the beginning.
Blaine McFadden endured six long years in the brutal Velant prison colony, exiled for murder. War devastated his homeland of Donderath and destroyed the magic on which the Ascendant Kingdoms relied. Now Blaine and a small group of fellow exiles have returned to a lawless wasteland, where unrestrained magic storms wreak havoc and monsters roam free.
Yet, amidst the chaos, rumors persist of a new magic that could restore...
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Ascendance volume 3
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English
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Young King Jaron has had nothing but trouble with his advisors and regents since he ascended the throne of Carthya, and now King Vargan of Avenia has invaded the land and captured Imogen--and Jaron must find some way to rescue her and save his kingdom.
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Manticore Ascendant volume Book II
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is one of those rare people who likes rules but has a talent for thinking outside of them when everything starts coming apart. That is why he is now a mustang and also why he has enemies. At the moment, there are powerful forces in the young Star Kingdom's Parliament who don't think they need him or the navy for that matter. Unhappily for them, the edge of the explored galaxy can be a far more dangerous...
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Winner of the 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy! Mitchell Hogan, an imaginative new talent, makes his debut with the acclaimed first installment in the epic Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, A Crucible of Souls, a mesmerizing tale of high fantasy that combines magic, malevolence, and mystery. The author's definitive edition… When young Caldan's parents are brutally slain, the boy is raised by monks who initiate him into the arcane mysteries of sorcery....
10) War of Shadows
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Blaine "Mick" McFadden managed to restore Donderath's magic partially, but not without a cost. He and the magic are now bound together, and the power remains dangerous and erratic - draining the life from him with every use. New threats are rising from the wreckage of the battered kingdoms, and warlords both mortal and undead vie for control. Now, Blaine and his unlikely band of convict heroes must find allies amid a sea of enemies and discover a...
11) The Ares Weapon
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Armageddon Is Up For Auction...
Dr. Melanie Destin's life is a mess.
After losing her job as a medic aboard an old freighter, she is desperate to find something. In an attempt to start over, she accepts an interplanetary salvage job that will pay her enough to rebuild a new life for herself on Mars. When she learns the real purpose of the mission is to recover an apocalyptic virus, everything begins to unravel...
Governments compete with corporations...
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A novice sorcerer may hold the key to saving his world-or be the instrument of its destruction-in Mitchell Hogan's Blood of Innocents, the second book in The Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, a mesmerizing saga of high fantasy that combines magic, malevolence, and mystery.
Anasoma, jewel of the Mahruse Empire, has fallen.
As orphaned, monk-raised Caldan and his companions flee the city, leaving behind their hopes for a new beginning, horrors from the...
13) Shadow and Flame
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English
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From Gail Z. Martin, one of the most exciting writers of fantasy adventure, comes the fourth and final novel in the epic Ascendant Kingdoms Saga. Blaine McFadden and his allies have brought magic back under mortal command and begun to restore order to the beleaguered kingdom of Donderath. Now, new perils and old enemies gather for a final reckoning. Foreign invaders, a legendary dark mage and vengeful immortals fight Blaine's battered forces for control...
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In Mitchell Hogan's gritty and breathtaking conclusion to the Sorcery Ascendant Sequence-the award-winning fantasy series that started with A Crucible of Souls and Blood of Innocents-a young sorcerer must learn to wield his extraordinary powers to defeat two warring empires.
In a battle of armies and sorcerers, empires will fall.
After young Caldan's parents were slain, a group of monks raised the boy and initiated him into the arcane mysteries...
15) Child of Mars
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English
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An oppressive dictator...
A mysterious orphan...
A reluctant heroine...
It is the twenty-third century and Mars is being terraformed into a new garden of Eden. But, all is not well in this soon-to-be paradise. A ruthless despot has, seized control of the government and rules the planet with an iron fist. A rebel force struggles to oppose his regime, but are near defeat.
A fugitive, and living under an alias, Melanie Destin is a travelling doctor,...
16) Eternal Twins
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The first in a series for those who wish Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings had never ended! James Montgomery has existed almost as long as the country he lives in. Born at the dawn of the 17th century, he has seen cultures rise and fall, and progress made in every facet of life. After four centuries, James begins a journey that will lead him to his fraternal twin, and together they may hold the key to saving the world and continuing the existence...
17) Mother of Mars
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English
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An ageless menace lurks on the surface of Mars...
An unscrupulous industrialist seeks to control it...
One woman was bred to destroy it...
In the twenty-third century the descendants of the original Mars colonies struggle to retain their independence from the Terran government. The generations-old terraforming project is faltering and on the verge of failure. If that happens, the millions already adapted to the harsh Martian environment will be doomed,...
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Their bright ascendency volume 1
Publisher
TOR, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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When a dark force begins to overtake the crumbling border walls of the Hokkaran Empire, an infamous Qorin warrior and a spoiled divine warrior princess set out to save their people and fufill the prophecy made at their birth.
The Hokkaran empire conquered every land within their bold reach-- but failed to notice a lurking darkness festering within the people. Now, their border walls begin to crumble, and villages fall to demons swarming out of the...
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Manticore Ascendant volume 3
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Book three in the nationally best-selling Manticore Ascendant series, a prequel series to David Weber's multiple New York Times best-selling Honor Harrington series. Sequel to A Call to Duty and A Call to Arms. After the disastrous attack on the Manticoran home system by forces unknown, the Royal Manticoran Navy stands on the brink of collapse. A shadowy enemy with the resources to hurl warships across hundreds of light years seeks to conquer the...
20) Legacy of Mars
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It is a time of peace...
The quiet before the storm...
War is coming, and nobody can prevent it...
Following a successful rebellion against a ruthless despot, Martians struggle to rebuild their world. On Earth, the unification wars have finally ended, and Terra is, united under one supreme leader for the first time in history. But ,the planet is no longer capable of supporting humanity's exploding population, and covetous eyes have fallen on the newly...