Gaborn, now the Earth King, has lost his powers but still leads his people. He must contend with the threat of the inhuman Reavers, whose myriads Gaborn must now pursue across the nation. Gaborn's fate is to follow, even into the depths...
Kings and rulers
- Author:Farland, DavidSummary:
- Author:Penn, ThomasSummary:
Profiles Henry VII as an enigmatic and ruthless king of a country ravaged by decades of conspiracy and civil war, discussing the costs of establishing a Tudor monarchy and the ways he set the stage for Henry VIII's reign.
- Author:Meyer, MarissaSummary:
Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana. Winter despises her...
- Author:Medina, NicoSummary:
Named Temujin at birth by his nomadic family in early Mongolia, the great Genghis Khan used his skill and cunning to create the Mongol Empire and conquer almost the entire continent of Asia. As ruler of the largest empire in human...
- Author:Lasky, KathrynSummary:
The final book in Lasky's best-selling animal series. The strange, maniacal blue owl known as the Striga has been rousted from the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. Nyra, leader of the vicious Pure Ones, is either dead or laying low in some distant...
- Author:Dubé, PierretteSummary:
Tout a commencé par un petit éternuement de Bucéphale, le cheval du roi Godefroy. Le lendemain, l'animal refuse de se lever, mais accepte tout de même les chocolats offerts par son maître pour le réconforter, même s'il...
- Author:Beaulieu, Bradley P.Summary:
Sharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings--cruel, ruthless, powerful, and immortal. With their army of Silver Spears, their elite company of Blade...
- Author:Beard, MarySummary:
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years what does the face of power...
- Author:Shubin, Daniel H.Summary:
Boris Godunov governed from the shadows during the 13-year reign of the borderline-retarded Tsar Feodor Ivanovich, heir to Tsar Ivan IV, and then for almost seven years in his own name. But by then the brutal death of the 9-year-old...
- Author:Ryan, AnthonySummary:
Vaelin Al Sorna, warrior of the Sixth Order, called Darkblade, called Hope Killer. The greatest warrior of his day, and witness to the greatest defeat of his nation: King Janus's vision of a Greater Unified Realm drowned in the blood of...
- Author:Coffindaffer, RebeccaSummary:
During a race across the empire's 1,001 planets to find the royal seal and win the throne, Alyssa Farshot's friend was killed. Broken-hearted over her friend's death, Alyssa is hell-bent on revenge.
- Author:Showalter, GenaSummary:
New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter returns with a new book in the tantalizing Rise of the Warlords series, featuring a brutal Hell king and the irresistible beauty who upends his world. For centuries, Rathbone the Only,...
- Author:Addison, KatherineSummary:
Katherine Addison returns to the glittering world she created for her beloved novel, The Goblin Emperor, in this stand-alone sequel.
When the young half-goblin emperor Maia sought to learn who had set the bombs that killed his...
- Author:White, T. H.Summary:
King Arthur is on the throne, and trying to establish the rules of chivalry and noble questing that will come to mark his reign. Meanwhile, in one of the great love stories in English, Lancelot and Guinevere fall for each other at the...
- Author:Black, HollySummary:
After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone...
- Author:Liu, Ken.Summary:
One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time. In the much-anticipated sequel to the "magnificent fantasy epic" (NPR) Grace of Kings , Emperor Kuni Garu is faced with the invasion of an invincible army in his kingdom and...
- Author:Shakespeare, WilliamSummary:
One of the great Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt and revenge. Prompted by the prophecies of three mysterious witches and goaded by his ambitious wife, the Scottish thane Macbeth...
- Author:Turner, Megan WhalenSummary:
New York Times-bestselling author Megan Whalen Turner's entrancing and award-winning Queen's Thief novels bring to life the world of the epics and feature one of the most charismatic and incorrigible characters of fiction,...
- Author:Austin, Lynn N.Summary:
God has blessed Hezekiah--his kingdom is flourishing. The people are prospering and the city of Jerusalem is safe from invaders. But the king worries that his beloved wife may be barren. After all his hard work in preserving the faith...
- Author:Mahoney, KarenSummary:
They say the truth sets you free, but they have no idea how far off base that is. Free? I don’t think so. After being tricked into opening the doorway to the Demon Realm by Aliette, the Wood Queen, Donna Underwood is faced with a...