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Series
Temeraire volume 1
Language
English
Description
When the HMS Reliant captures a French ship and its priceless cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, Captain Will Laurence is swept into an unexpected kinship with an extraordinary creature and joins the elite Aerial Corps as a master of the dragon Temeraire, in which role he must match wits with the powerful dragon-borne forces of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Publication Date
2009.
Edition
First Omnibus edition.
Language
English
Description
Capt. Will Laurence is serving with honor in the British Navy when his ship captures a French frigate harboring a most unusual cargo--an incalculably valuable dragon egg. When the egg hatches, Laurence unexpectedly becomes the master of the young dragon Temeraire and finds himself on an extraordinary journey that will shatter his orderly, respectable life and alter the course of his nation's history.
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tragedy has struck His Majesty's Aerial Corps, as an epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the dragons' ranks. Only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected and must stand as the only means of airborne defense against France's ever bolder sorties. As Bonaparte's dragons harrow Britain's ships, Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, take wing to Africa in search of a cure for the deadly contagion.
Publisher
Yen Press
Publication Date
2026
Language
English
Description
I'm sure His Majesty will have these worries during that critical time in the future... As Jill continues training with the Dragon Knights, she runs into Lawrence Marton, one of Prince Gerald's servants who was her aide-de-camp in the original timeline. But Lawrence is firstly a shrewd spy, and with their companionship having never happened, can she really trust him this time around? What's more, Jill determines that Hadis's older siblings, Princess...
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Description
"In the first-ever comprehensive survey of the world’s female buccaneers, Pirate Women tells of the women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside—and sometimes in command of—their male counterparts. These women came from all walks of life but had one thing in common: a desire for freedom. History has largely ignored these female swashbucklers, until now. Here are their stories, from ancient Norse warriors...
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Series
Language
English
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"When Thomas Pitt is tasked with playing bodyguard to Sofia Delacruz, a young and controversial British preacher who has been living in Spain and has returned to England on a mysterious errand, he thinks it's a waste of Special Branch's time and resources. But when kidnappers manage to reach Sofia murdering two of her companions in the process. Pitt learns that the message the lovely evangelist was meant to deliver was far more urgent than he knew....
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Language
English
Description
Konowa Swift Dragon, former commander of the Empire's elite Iron Elves, is looked upon as anything but ordinary. He's murdered a Viceroy, been court-martialed, seen his beloved regiment disbanded, and finally been banished in disgrace to the one place he despises the most -- the forest. Now, all he wants is to be left alone with his misery...but for Konowa, nothing is ever that simple. The mysterious and alluring Visyna Tekoy, the highborn daughter...
8) Temeraire
Author
Language
English
Description
An historical fantasy with bite. This debut novel from Naomi Novik is set in the Napoleonic period and layers history with imagination and fantasy by adding the Dragon Air Force to the battle for England.
9) Majesty
Author
Publisher
Stefanie Lozinski
Publication Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The sacrifices to the gods have ceased.A wicked king thirsts for power.A forbidden love threatens everything. Raised from birth to fulfill the duties of his role as Envoy, Wes Cervos had always known where his place was in the Four Kingdoms. But ever since meeting his best friend-a dragon called Celesyria-everything has changed. After escaping the prison where he'd been held on charges of blasphemy, Wes finds himself facing new challenges. The Codex...
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Language
English
Description
Three years past, Matt had found a fateful scrap of parchment in the college library... Cross the void of time and space! Seek and find your proper place! The runes were a spell - and they had whisked Matt away to a world where reciting verse worked magic. There Matt's talent for poetry had won him fame, power, and the heart of the woman he loved, the beautiful Queen Alisande ... Winning Alisande's heart had been easy; winning her hand was going to...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Publication Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Two thousand years of legend and lore about the menace and majesty of dragons, which have breathed fire into our imaginations from ancient Rome to Game of Thrones A Penguin Classic The most popular mythological creature in the human imagination, dragons have provoked fear and fascination for their lethal venom and crushing coils, and as avatars of the Antichrist, servants of Satan, couriers of the damned to Hell, portents of disaster, and harbingers...
12) King's conquest
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Publication Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Unhindered by the efforts of Thomas Walpish, late of His Majesty's Cavalry, and Skara Bethany, a newly-made wyvern, mage Vistos continues to convert 'followers' by offering them poisoned sweets. Thomas and Skara have sworn an oath to rid the world of the cursed mage but he has a powerful ally. What price are they willing to pay for their honor? And will it be enough? Alain Casman and his centaur sister, Lisette Marie, are released on the Jasram Plains...
