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1) To be a king
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 11
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Hoole uses the power of the Ember in the final, decisive battle and searches for the ideal place to establish an order of free owls.
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With great power comes great destruction. Or something like that . . .
Titos has never been powerful, but as he continues to gain more keepers his power grows. It's almost too much. He finds out more of what it means to be a soul eater and why his kind has been practically wiped out. He has to stand tall, be a king, and defend his home.
But as his list of enemies continues to grow Titos isn't sure how much longer he can stand strong. His existence...
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Blessed by the gods and goddesses, edoli have lived alongside humans for thousands of years. While some hold such abilities as shape-shifting and controlling the elements, the rarest are the kings and queens who can bond through blood with keepers and amplify their power . . . and their own.
Titos has been seen as useless and weak his entire life. He's never been able to bond with another edoli and has nothing of value to offer his queen.
When a...
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One day you're on the run, the next, you're king of your own territory. With lives on his shoulders, Titos must step up. With all the change, Titos struggles with being a ruler. Does he rule with compassion or without? He's been around humans too long, forgetting the edoli way. Showing weakness means no respect, but that is all Titos feels he is capable of.
With so much pressure building and his own expectations weighing him down, Titos makes some...
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To be King or not to be King.
There is no more hiding. Titos has accepted being king of his small territory but now he's being pushed to take on even more enlarging the target on his back.
His keepers are doing everything they can to keep him safe, but Titos is a walking danger zone.
Titos will fight for his home and his newfound family. His mates mean everything to him, and he refuses to give up, even if it means wearing a crown that he never...
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Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him. When the three meet in the settlement of Monrovia, their gifts...
7) The men who would be king: an almost epic tale of moguls, movies, and a company called Dreamworks
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For sixty years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged. Then came Hollywood's Circus Maximus-created by director Steven Spielberg, billionaire David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who gave the world The Lion King-an entertainment empire called DreamWorks. Now Nicole LaPorte, who covered the company for Variety, goes behind the hype to reveal for the first time the delicious truth of what happened. Readers will feel...
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You can't do the wrong thing with the right person. And you can't do the right thing with the wrong person." If you struggle with self-doubt, anxiety, discouragement, indecision, comparison – it is, exhaustion, promising too much, copious amounts of stress, worry, even profound sadness - or any other number of hard-as-f**k internal challenges, the time has come for you to stop. Forever. Always remember, you are enough. Right now. Just as you are....
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Findaway World, LLC
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[2018]
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"In the West African village of Lai, red-haired Gbessa is cursed at birth and exiled on suspicion of being a witch. Bitten by a viper and left for dead, she miraculously survives. On a plantation in Virginia, June Dey hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. And in the blue mountains of Jamaica, Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave, can fade from sight at will, just...
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Girls of paper and fire series volume 1
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"When Lei, seventeen, is stolen from her home to become one of nine Paper Girls, the Demon King's concubines, she proves to be more fire than paper." --
Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for... and the most cruel. But this year, there's a ninth girl... and she's made of fire. Lei is a member of the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. She's forced to go with...
11) The player king
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In 1486 England, a penniless kitchen boy named Lambert Simnel is told by a mysterious friar that he, Lambert, is actually Prince Edward, the true King of England, setting him on a dangerous course to regain the throne. Based on a true story.
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"The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories" is a classic collection of some of the most loved short stories of Rudyard Kipling, one of the most important and accomplished English authors of the twentieth century. The youngest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature at age 42 in 1907, Kipling, who was born in India in 1865, captured in his writing the British Empire in all of its glory and contradiction in unparalleled detail and nuance. Contained...
13) Mage King
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No-one prepared Haynes to be a king.
The previous king committed treason against the Imperium. Only a mage who works for a higher being can be trusted by the Imperium leaders to be king. And only Haynes is such a person from his planet.
But is everyone happy with the change in power?
Haynes has Imperium responsibilities to carry out, and mages to train. But what of those who never wanted to join the Imperium in the first place?
The times are changing...
14) Charlemagne
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By the mid 8th century no centralized European authority had yet arisen to take the place of the place of the Roman Empire since its collapse. But in Germany, the Frankish dynasty began to establish itself and eventually their kingdom covered most of modern day France as well as other parts of Central and Eastern Europe.
In the midst of all of the chaos to control the land, one individual stood at the heart of the Franks' expansion: Charlemagne. A...
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After a lifetime with a grief-stricken father and a self-absorbed brother, Felicity isn't daunted by sacrifice. But when protecting her father means falling afoul of the curse that has swallowed the Summer Castle, and Prince Justin along with it, her own safety is not all that's at stake. The prince's monstrous form is the least of her concerns - the whole castle has been trapped by his pride, and his absence from the capital is driving the kingdom...
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Being a king is still unreal to Benjy, but there's nothing imaginary about the kingdom he and Marty have built.
Step by step, brick by brick, they've built something beautiful. Something evil craves. Once again, their safe haven for the wounded and weary is under threat.
From the corpse of what was once the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, forgotten sins are stirring.
Threats concealed in the dark corners of the old empire see their...
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This series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson World War I. Part 7 continues the series with the development of the United States under the presidents from Washington to Wilson. Stories include: Washington: First in War, First in Peace, Adams: How He Kept Peace with France, Jefferson: How the Territory of the United States Was Doubled, Jefferson: How the Door into the Far West...
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Over the centuries, the claim has repeatedly been made that Jesus Christ not only walked the earth but also spent his early and post-crucifixion years in a variety of places, including Egypt, India, Great Britain, Japan and America. Indeed, traditions maintain that Jesus, the great godman of the West, lived, learned, loved and died in such places. Popular modern literature also purports that Jesus sired children, who then became the ancestors of various...
19) Kings of Muraine
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A YEAR TO THE DAY since my dad, Lance Ravier, died. Somehow, it felt like just yesterday. The shock of it was still so raw. That night changed my life, and everything, forever. I saw them. Two strangers from another world. One with glowing yellow eyes. The other with vampire fangs. The one with fangs claimed to be a king. But, he was a young king, at best. The King of Paragon. He broke the news to me. My dad wasn't from Earth. Instead, he was from...
20) Los Smoków
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DRAFT OF DRAGONS (BOOK 3 OF THE BLACK DUCK) presents Thor's next adventures on his heroic journey, which will make him a warrior. Our hero overcomes the Dragon Sea and reaches the Isle of Fog, a ruthless place that is the home of the best warriors in the world. Thor's powers and abilities increase with each passing day spent exercising. His friendships deepen with each and every adversity overcome. However, when he comes face to face with unimaginable...
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