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Author
Series
Pride wars volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prince Leo's identity as a Spinner, once thought to be his greatest curse, may become his greatest weapon when his devious cousin siezes control of Singara, forcing Leo to flee into enemy territory.
2) Treason
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Treason is a planet torn by warring factions and imprisoned by a superior human race. But now, the seeds of revolution are being sown.
3) Freakling
Author
Series
Psi chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Description
After losing his telekinetic powers in a traumatic accident, twelve-year-old Taemon is exiled to a colony with fellow disabled people. He comes to enjoy the community's acceptance and manual labors before encountering dangerous secrets.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife. As with a number of the author's other works, this profoundly influential novel brilliantly explores his characters' thoughts while probing the depths...
Author
Series
Montmaray journals volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Sophie and her family come together to support the war effort during World War I, meanwhile fighting to protect their beloved Montmaray.
7) Above
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When insane exile Corner and his army of mindless, whispering shadows invade Safe, a secret, underground community of freaks and disabled outcasts, Matthew, traumatized shapeshifter Ariel, and other misfits go to the dangerous place known as Above, where Matthew makes a shocking discovery about the histories entrusted to him.
Author
Series
Montmaray journals volume 2
Language
English
Description
In January 1937, as Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England but, even as they participate in the social whirl of London parties and balls, they remain determined to free their island home from the occupying Germans despite growing rumors of a coming war that might doom their country forever.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A novel of tremendous scope and beauty, The Translator tells of the relationship between an exiled Russian poet and his American translator during the Cuban missile crisis, a time when a writer's words -- especially forbidden ones -- could be powerful enough to change the course of history.
10) Exile's return
Author
Series
Conclave of shadows volume 3
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Banished to a distant land by Tal Hawkins, Kaspar, the former evil Duke of Olasko, travels halfway around the world while working as a common laborer and enduring numerous dangers in his determination to return home.
11) Shadowrise
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
With King Olin imprisoned and Prince Kendrick slain, the royal twins Barrick and Briony have been forced to flee their homeland. But both families and nations can hide dark and terrible secrets, and even if Barrick and Briony survive learning the astonishing truths at the heart of their own family and of Southmarch itself, they must still find a way to reclaim their kingdom and rescue their home--from traitors, tyrants, a god-king, and even the angry...
12) Sanctuary
Author
Series
[Elven exiles] volume 1
Publisher
Wizards of the Coast
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
After being driven from their homeland by powerful enemies, the exiled elven nations travel to Khur, where an ancient map reveals a secret valley that could be a new sanctuary, unless secret forces make it an elven tomb.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
While back on the trail, Breck Wallace, exiled from the Smoky Mountains for gunning down a man in self-defense, must evade a vicious gang of trappers who are after his goods and who force him to ride deeper into the mountains than he has ever gone.
14) The last watch
Author
Series
Divide volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Divide. It's the edge of the universe. Now it's collapsing--and taking everyone and everything with it. The only ones who can stop it are the Sentinels--the recruits, exiles, and court-martialed dregs of the military. At the Divide, Adequin Rake, commanding the Argus, has no resources, no comms--nothing, except for the soldiers that no one wanted. They're humanity's last chance."--Provided by publisher.
15) Black wolves
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Captain Kellas was lauded as the king's most faithful servant until the day he failed in his duty. Dismissed from service, his elite regiment disbanded, he left the royal palace and took up another life. Now a battle brews within the palace that threatens to reveal deadly secrets and spill over into open war. The king needs a loyal soldier to protect him. Can a disgraced man ever be trusted?
16) Fall of angels
Author
Series
Saga of Recluce volume 6
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A group of matriarchal women warriors is shipwrecked on a planet in space. After they establish a settlement, the women discover the planet is inhabited by very patriarchal men with magical powers. But the women will acquire magical powers of their own.
Author
Series
(Ingrid J.).Akitada volume 6
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Lord Sugawara Akitada investigates the murder of a man who was wrongfully exiled, a case that is complicated by the baffling death of a blind street singer.
Author
Series
(Ingrid J.).Akitada volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When the exiled Prince Okisada, the most illustrious prisoner of the penal colony on Sado Island, is poisoned, Akitada is called upon by the emperor's envoys to investigate incognito. Posing as a prisoner, he discovers a deadly conspiracy, only to fall into the hands of brutal guards and disappear.
20) The postcard
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a photo of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. On the back, the names of Anne Berest's maternal great-grandparents, Ephraïm and Emma, and their children, Noémie and Jacques--all killed at Auschwitz. Fifteen years after the postcard is delivered, Anne, the heroine of this novel, is moved to discover who sent it and why. Aided...
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