Thousands of years ago, in the Rub al-Khali Desert, there was a thriving trading post called Ubar, which prospered with the passing of merchants. But this wealthy city vanished without a trace, causing explorers to search for the ruins over the centuries. One explorer, a rich British financier, disappeared in a strange event, a...
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Katniss Everdeen, a poor sixteen year old girl who lives with her good as dead mother and her young, 12 year old sister, has lived in the poorest part of town her whole life: The Seam. This is the area where there are no rich people and just about no happiness. People starve to...
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The two that are one must become the one that is all. In The Alchemyst, Josh and Sophie Newman are introduced as a pair of teenage twins that work in a bookshop for Nick and Perry Flemming. Sitting in a coffee shop one day, Sophie nottices a group of very conspicuos looking fellows...
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Veralidaine Sarrasri otherwise known as Daine, loses her home and her family to bandits in her hometown of Snowsdale. Torn with grief, Daine leaves Snowsdale with the only family she has left, her shaggy grey pony, Cloud. The two travel to the fair held at the capital of the country of Galla, Cria, in...
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Have you ever imagined about controlling demons? Have you wondered what they are thinking? Now you don’t have to. When Nathaniel was only six years old, his parents sold him to an orphanage where he would stay until a magician came to pick him up. This was all based on the fact that someone...
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”I volunteer! “ I gasp. “I volunteer as tribute.” Seventeen year old Katniss Everdeen lives in District Twelve with her younger sister, Primrose, and her widowed mother. What used to be North America, is now the country of Paneam. Each year the Capitol holds the ‘Hunger Games’ , a test of survival. Two tributes...
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“Happy Hunger Games, and may the odds be ever in your favor!” A sentence everyone in the 12 districts across North America dreads. It’s a horrid annual event invented by the Capitol to show how the Capitol is superior to the 12 districts. Two tributes, a girl and a boy between the ages of...
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When Nathaniel, a young English boy, is given up by his parents to become a magician, he has no idea of how dangerous his new life is going to be. Nathaniel has been apprenticed to Underwood, one of the weakest magicians and head of an unimportant office in the government. Nathaniel turns out be...
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In a world without humans, animals have evolved, talking, walking, fighting with weapons, and building houses. Peace is present at Redwall Abbey. The abbey is home to generations of mice, otters, hedgehogs, squirrels, birds, and Constance the Badger. This peace is broken when Slagar comes to town. Bent on revenge, Slagar, with his sly and...
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Imagine a world without dogs? Well in The Last Dog on Earth that is exactly what is happening. Logan, boy in his teens, needs to learn discipline. So his step-father makes him adopt a dog. Logan picks a dog that he names Jack, they match as soon as they met each other. Together they...
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