courts and courtiers

As the royal assassin to an evil king, eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien must decide what she will fight for--survival, love, or the future of a kingdom.

Herbalist Maomao is all anyone in the palace can talk about after her show of food tasting at the garden banquet. After receiving a mysterious hairpin at the banquet, she returns to the pleasure district for the first time in almost a year. While visiting her home, a courtesan and her client are found poisoned, and Maomao finds herself investigating another mystery.

Still searching for the garden banquet poisoner, Maomao stays at the Garnet Palace. However, the palace holds shocking secrets that could cause Maomao to lose her job and her life!.

"Dune, Frank Herbert's epic science-fiction masterpiece, set in the far future amid a sprawling feudal interstellar society, tells the story of Paul Atreides as he and his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the most important and valuable substance in the cosmos. Originally published in 1965 and now faithfully adapted graphic novel by New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert, son of Frank Herbert, and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune explores the complex, multilayered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion as the forces of the empire confront each other for conrol of Arrakis." -- Back cover of volume 1.

"In an alternate America, Beatrice, now queen, and her sibilings Samatha and Jefferson struggle to untangle their personal lives and settle into their new political roles while the country hosts the world's monarchs at the League of Kings conference"--OCLC.

In an alternate America, Beatrice, now queen, and her sibilings Samatha and Jefferson struggle to untangle their personal lives and settle into their new political roles while the country hosts the world's monarchs at the League of Kings conference.

In an alternate America, tensions are high as Beatrice prepares to become the country's first queen, while Princess Samantha and Prince Jefferson struggle to decide what their futures might hold.

The New York Times bestselling series returns in this heart-stopping prequel novella. Ever wonder how our future queen fell for her bodyguard? Or how Prince Jefferson and his sister?s best friend got caught in a love triangle for the ages? Grab your royal invitation and we?ll show you the night that started it all. Princess Beatrice realizes what?s expected of her as heir apparent?and it is not riding in cars, alone, with her Revere Guard. But what the Crown doesn?t know won?t hurt it?right? Princess Samantha is already bored of her own graduation party. She swears she isn?t looking for trouble, but when the king and queen are away, the spare will play?. Nina never dreamed of acting on her feelings for Prince Jefferson. Tonight, though, anything seems possible: even a prince and a commoner. Meanwhile, Daphne is hiding more than one secret beneath her perfect exterior. A royal party might just be the window of opportunity she needs?until everything comes crashing down. Will this be an evening of new beginnings, or will it mark the end of an era? Set before the events of New York Times bestseller American Royals, this brand-new story offers a glimpse of your favorite royal family as you've never seen them before, just in time for the release of American Royals III: Rivals!.

For her knowledge of the corruption at the heart of the kingdom, Rae finds herself imprisoned on a slave ship and her situation goes from bad to worse after an escape attempt results in her being indebted to a Fae sorceress. She's still determined to free her fellow prisoners and her land, although her heart may remain the property of Bren, the thief who stole it while hiding secrets of his own.

Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.