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Publisher Annotation: Fifteen-year-old Sloane can incinerate an enemy at will-she is a Scion, a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods. Under the Lucis' brutal rule, her identity means her death if her powers are discovered. But when she is forcibly conscripted into the Lucis army on her fifteenth birthday, Sloane sees a new opportunity: to overcome the bloody challenges of Lucis training, and destroy them from within.

"As the winter ice begins to thaw, the fury of a demon builds -- all because one girl couldn't stay dead . . . Roan Harken considers herself a typical high school student -- dead parents, an infected eyeball, and living in the house of her estranged, currently comatose grandmother (well, maybe not so typical) -- but she's uncovering the depth of the secrets her family left behind. Saved from the grasp of Death itself by a powerful fox spirit named...

God of Sperm tells the remarkable story of Dr. Cappy Miles Rothman, the son of notorious gangster Norman "Roughhouse" Rothman, who went on to become a trailblazer in the field of reproductive medicine. Rothman started the California Cryobank, one of the world's largest repositories of reproductive genetic material and cord-blood stem cells. Among other achievements, Rothman also pioneered the use of microsurgery in urological procedures, postmortem...

'If you had not already realised it, this is a very strange house you are come to.' The Scions of the House of Werth are all born normal. It is what happens afterwards that sets them apart. It is not easy being the most supernatural family in England.

After the attack of the Svärdaveld scion and Sasha's death while giving birth to his son, Rune is forced to leave Port Eynon with his closest friends and family members As he makes his way back to Oakridge Falls, his dreams are plagued with Sasha's presence, in a way so vivid as to make him want nothing but to fall asleep so he can be with her again. In the meanwhile, there's a killer on the loose in New Orleans, and it's not just any murderer. This...

Discover the intricately plotted, action-packed, animal-based fantasy series that. Scion of the Fox: The Realms of Ancient, Book 1 Roan Harken considers herself a typical high school student - dead parents, an infected eyeball, and living in the house of her estranged, currently comatose grandmother (well, maybe not so typical) - but she's uncovering the depth of the secrets her family left behind. Saved from the grasp of Death itself by a powerful...

In one of his earliest cases, Ellery Queen confronts a murder in blue blood America's master of deduction, Ellery Queen, has made his name by combining dazzling feats of pure reason with the old-fashioned legwork that comes with being the son of a New York cop. Before he became the nation's most famous sleuth, he was just an untested talenta bookworm who thought he might put his genius to work solving crimes. Young Queen made his bones on the Khalkis...

A dying fraternity brother draws a wealthy playboy into a bizarre conspiracy Bernie staggers off the airplane from Honolulu, a lei around his neck and blood seeping from the wound in his chest. He stumbles to the terminal gift shop, and demands the cashier point him to a payphone. As his life seeps away, Bernie calls Harry Fairchild, his old fraternity brother. Dying or not, he has a job to do.   Harry is a playboy, the scion of an oil-rich family...

Fate can be benevolent. Or incredibly cruel. That's what Nick and Jane will learn... Just take their relationship. Nick is stunningly handsome, the blue-eyed scion of a blue-blood New York family. Rich, talented, confident, he will become the world's most famous movie star. Jane is delightfully funny, a dark-skinned, dark-haired, half-Jewish, half-German daughter of the Midwest. Smart, gifted, loving, she will become famous in her own right as...

A chilling what if? tale of nuclear apocalypse in the American heartland Philip Wylie's gripping parable Tomorrow! describes a time in America when doomsday threatens to dawn at any moment. A nation's worst nightmare is made palpably real, seen through the eyes of a diverse group of ordinary citizens in two adjacent Great Plains metropolises. Wylie brings this holocaust to life with blood-chilling detail in his  extraordinary science fiction classic...