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King of Shadows is a children's historical novel by Susan Cooper published in 1999 by Penguin In the United Kingdom. It was a finalist for both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize .
Travel "Maybe the Belgian border guards didn't care who came and went, but the French customs inspectors did." Furst (a seasoned travel writer) uses travel and its related experiences to vividly depict the Europe his characters live in. Morath journeys across the continent by train frequently and sees a world of suspicious border guards, desperate passengers with the wrong papers, and tenuous ...
Throne of Glass follows Celaena Sardothien, an 18-year-old assassin in the Kingdom of Adarlan. After a year of suffering for her crimes in a slave camp called Endovier, she accepts the offer of Crown Prince Dorian Haviliard, the King of Adarlan's son, to compete with other assassins and thieves for a chance to serve as the King's Champion, and eventually gain her freedom after four years in ...
A Skinful of Shadows is a 2017 children's or young adults' paranormal historical fiction novel by Frances Hardinge. Her seventh novel, it revolves around Makepeace Felmotte, a girl with the inherited ability to see and absorb ghosts. It is set during the First English Civil War, and in particular the Siege of Oxford. The book was received ...
Lord of Shadows is a young adult urban fantasy novel by Cassandra Clare. It is the second book in The Dark Artifices, which is chronologically the fourth series in The Shadowhunter Chronicles. The book is set in the Los Angeles area in 2012. The titles from each chapter are derived from the poem Dreamland by Edgar Allan Poe. [2]
A song, "Jack of Shadows", based on the novel and written by then-current Hawkwind members Dave Brock, Robert Calvert, Simon King and Simon House, appears on the 1979 album PXR5. In Daniel Keys Moran ’s novel The Long Run , the protagonist Trent Castanaveras is rescued from a low Lunar orbit by a stealth spacecraft from the Spacefarers ...
A Kiss of Shadows features the following major characters: Andais - Queen of Air and Darkness, Merry's aunt, the sister of Essus, and mother of Cel. Andais is a war goddess, and the sadistic Queen of the Unseelie Court. Her personal guard, called the "Queen's Ravens" is composed exclusively of men.
Conclave of Shadows is a series of fantasy novels by Raymond E. Feist, part of The Riftwar Cycle. The series picks up events following The Serpentwar Saga , and deals with the secret titular organization formed by the great magician Pug , and its initial struggle against evil necromancer Leso Varen while in the employ of Kaspar, Duke of Olasko.