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"Follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant"--
In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodline-- her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a pagan girl for the king's blood sacrifice,...
Author
Description
"An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he's forbidden to wield and carves...
3) 47 Ronin
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Kai is an outcast who joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. They embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
When his companion's brother draws him into a plot against the Andarion crown, outcast Talyn Batur finds himself torn between the loyalty to their planetary government and his own beliefs of justice and right. But when old enemies align with new ones, it's more than just his own life at risk. And more than just his homeworld that will end should he fail.
6) The lobster
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obligated to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
7) 47 ronin
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"After a treacherous warlord kills their master and banishes their kind, 47 leaderless samurai vow to seek vengeance and reclaim their honor. This band of ronin must seek help from Kai ... an enslaved half-breed they once rejected--in their ultimate fight for redemption"--Container.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A deeper magic. A stronger curse. A family lost...and found. Persephone May has been alone her entire life. Abandoned as an infant and dragged through the foster care system, she wants nothing more than to belong somewhere. To someone. However, Persephone is as strange as she is lonely. Unexplainable things happen when she's around-changes in weather, inanimate objects taking flight-and those who seek to bring her into their family quickly cast her...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
10) Untouchable
Author
Publisher
[M.C. Pending]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Tessa has lived her entire life in a world where her worth is defined by her rank in society. And her rank just happens to be the lowest- the Unranked- the Untouchables. The people that aren't treated as people. Tessa has her ways of living outside the law, scavenging and robbing anyone who has a face. But after being elected reluctant leader of a band of Untouchable children, Tessa has more than one life to look out for. She has...
11) Untamable
Author
Series
Untouchable trilogy volume 2
Publisher
[M.C. Pending]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Tessa survived. After being thrown into an elaborate death trap, former Untouchable, Tessa of the Sapphire Ward, managed a narrow escape. However, not everyone made it out alive, and now she must learn how to bear the weight of the loss and heal from the Labyrinth. Finding herself in an alliance with a secret society outside of the walls of Radiance, she is finally safe. But safety lies. Tessa forms her own agenda and will do whatever it takes to...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
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...
14) The lobster
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obligated to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
16) The craft
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
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Description
A supernatural horror story filled with special effects about a group of unpopular high-school girls who dabble in witchcraft. Once unleashed, the power becomes too much for them to handle, leading to a battle for control between Sarah, the new girl in the group, and power-crazed Nancy.
Author
Series
Moon fall volume 2
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The second book in the New York Times bestselling Moonfall series from thriller-master James Rollins, The Cradle of Ice is a page-turning tale of action, adventure, betrayal, ambition, and the struggle for survival in a harsh world that hangs by a thread. To stop the coming apocalypse, a fellowship was formed. A soldier, a thief, a lost prince, and a young girl bonded by fate and looming disaster. Each step along this path has changed the party,...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
More thrills and chills in the steamy second season of the supernatural drama. Home to psychics, vampires, witches and other outcasts, the remote town of Midnight is a mysterious safe-haven for those seeking refuge from the outside world. As the town members' bond is stronger than ever, the mysterious arrival of new hotel owners threatens the balance of Midnight.
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