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The keeper of the mist

Before Keri was called to rule over Nimmira, she was focused on keeping the family bakery running after her mother's death. Now she's facing vicious outsiders who want to take over her land. The kingdom, once protected by a mist that hid it and its inhabitants, is now vulnerable to attack as the mist fails to cover them. And Keri herself is not safe as her three half brothers plot to take her throne.

The crown's game

Vika Andreyeva and Nikolai Karimov are the only two enchanters in Russia, and the tsar needs their powers on his side. To determine which of the two will become the Imperial Enchanter, the tsar initiates the Crown Games. The winner will become the most respected adviser to the empire and the other will be sentenced to death.

A thousand nights

The evil King Lo-Melkhiin has killed 300 women before coming to the unnamed narrator's village. Knowing the king will want the loveliest girl for his next wife to kill, the narrator goes to Lo-Melkhiin's court in her sister's place, fully believing she will die within a day. However, the narrator is a great storyteller, perhaps even a magical one, and Lo-Melkhiin keeps her alive so long as she keeps him interested in her stories. Soon the narrator realizes that Lo-Melkhiin is not himself, and may need rescuing from a demon.

The great good thing

a novel
Twelve-year-old Princess Sylvie's storybook kingdom really is a storybook, where nothing ever changes, even the character's mad scramble to reach their places whenever the book is opened, until Sylvie discovers she can enter new worlds with the Reader, and find new adventures.

George vs. George

the American Revolution as seen from both sides
Explores how the characters and lives of King George III of England and George Washington affected the progress and outcome of the American Revolution.

The flame bearer

a novel
"Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Northumbria's Viking ruler, Sigtryggr, and Mercia's Saxon Queen Aethelflaed have agreed a truce. And so England's greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago-and which his scheming cousin still occupies"--Jacket flap.

The secret world of mermaids

Lucas and Clara are floating on a raft when a wave casts them into the sea, where Lucas catches a glimpse of a coral kindom and a dark-haired mermaid helps him, but when his father, King Caleb, hears of this, he scolds Lucas and tells him he has broken an age-old pact.

Across the sea

Anna and Elsa from Disney s Frozen sail off on a new adventure.

King for a day!

The pups from Nickelodeon s PAW Patrol are putting on a King Arthur play if Marshall can save the day!.

Thick as thieves

"Kamet, a secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition and the means to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire. But with a whispered warning the future he envisioned is wrenched away, and he is forced onto a very different path"--Provided by publisher.

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