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After the events of Legend, June Iparis and Daniel "Day" Altan Wing arrive at Las Vegas in search for the Patriots. Through Kaede, they meet with Tess and Andrew "Razor" DeSoto, a Republic Commander doubling as the leader of the Patriots. Razor offers Day a prosthetic leg and protection in exchange for assassinating the new Elector Primo, Anden ...
Later on, when she receives the plague, a cure made from June's blood helps save her. She and June become friends by the end of the novel. In the epilogue, she is responsible for making Day and June reunite. Commander Natasha Jameson- An important antagonist in the series who is a murderer and attempted to kill Anden, Day and June. Her orders ...
Legend is a 2011 dystopian young adult novel written by American author Marie Lu.It is the first book in the Legend series followed by Prodigy, Champion, and Rebel. [2] Lu draws inspiration from events and experiences throughout her life and media she has consumed such as the movie Les Miserables.
During World War II, after her father's death, Duprez and her mother, living then in the U.S., were unable to access money they had in England. They sold or pawned jewels to stay afloat financially, and eventually Duprez sent her mother to Australia, where she had access to the British funds.
Maps in a Mirror (1990) is a collection of short stories by American writer Orson Scott Card. [1] Like Card's novels, most of the stories have a science fiction or fantasy theme. Some of the stories, such as " Ender's Game ", " Lost Boys ", and " Mikal's Songbird " were later expanded into novels.
The Enchanted Princess The Blue Mountains: Princess Hadvor Hermod and Hadvor: Seserakh Earthsea: The princess of the Kargad lands and King Thol's daughter. Ursula K. Le Guin: Vera Princess Ligovskaya: She is based on Varvara Lopukhina, whom the author Lermontov was in love with. Lopukhina's husband, Nikolai Bakhmetyev, was the prototype for the ...
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Latin: [tʰɛˈaːtrũː ˈɔrbɪs tɛˈrːaːrũː], "Theatre of the Lands of the World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas.Written by Abraham Ortelius, strongly encouraged by Gillis Hooftman [2] and originally printed on 20 May 1570 in Antwerp, [3] it consisted of a collection of uniform map sheets and supporting text bound to form a book for which ...
The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul . After the empire's 1517 conquest of Egypt , Piri Reis presented the 1513 world map to Ottoman Sultan Selim I ( r.