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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 42
Description
"A swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, it is set in France during the 1620s and richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms major and minor historical figures into larger-than-life characters: the brave d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the...
4) Dark Jenny
Author
Series
Eddie LaCrosse mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Freelance Sword Jockey Eddie LaCrosse is in the wrong place at the wrong time while conducting a undercover investigation on the island kingdom of Grand Bruan. When a poisoned apple kills a member of the Queens personal guard, Eddie becomes the prime suspect in the murder. He must do do some fast talking to keep his head attached to his shoulders. Trying to clear his name and find the real killer, Eddie becomes embroiled in a nasty political scandal....
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Aros of Azteca, a swordsman, and Neoloth-Pteor, a sorcerer, are deadly enemies who have been fighting for fifteen years. But when the princess Tahlia is kidnapped, Aros must pretend to be a lost princeling and infiltrate the deadliest cabal of necromancers in the world. To save the princess and prevent the most powerful and diabolical spell ever created from destroying the world, he needs Neoloth's help. They can't trust each other. They will betray...
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"Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight an unwinnable war. Side-by-side with a detested rival, Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath -- but her health is failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening to betray her."--Publisher....
7) Steelflower
Author
Series
Steelflower chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"Thief, assassin, sellsword--Kaia Steelflower is famous. Well, mostly famous, and mostly for the wrong reasons. She's made a good life for herself, despite being kicked out of her homeland for having no magic. She's saving up for her retirement, when she can settle down, run an inn, and leave the excitement for others. Then she picks the wrong pocket, wakes up with a hangover, and gets far more than she bargained for ..."--P. [4] of cover.
8) Highlander
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Conner Macleod is a Scot who should have died in 1536. But he belongs to a rare race of immortals that can only be killed when beheaded with a sword. Their destiny is to duel through history until the Gathering, when the remaining few will battle for supremacy. Macleod lives in peace for four centuries. Then his old enemy, the evil Kurgan, arrives to challenge him. With modern New York as their arena, the two time-scarred swordsmen square off. Only...
9) Zorro
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Zorro joins forces with a monk and an aristocratic lady to fight a corrupt colonel in Spanish California.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Two immortal Scots meet in modern New York after 400 years for a final confrontation which will leave only one alive; MacLeod and Ramirez return to save the Earth from its deteriorating ozone layer; John MacLeod, aka Connor MacLeod, battles the last of the immortals, Kane, in an effort to rid the world of his evil; Duncan MacLeod and Connor MacLeod team together to combat a fearsome band of Immortals; a band of immortals, led by the Highlander, set...
Description
When a bloodthirsty legion of half-man/half-beast Krugs rampages through his village, one man picks up a sword and undertakes a quest of vengeance and honor. Haunted by the memory of his son's death and the kidnapping of his wife by the Krugs, Farmer ignites a duty-call for others to join his crusade to stop the campaign of terror waged by an evil sorcerer whose ruthless quest for the crown could spell doom for the entire Kingdom.
13) Blind fury
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Nick Parker, was blinded by an explosion in Vietnam, but rescued and trained to be a master swordsman by sympathetic villagers. Twenty years later he has become a drifter. He visits the family of Frank Devereaux (O'Quinn) an old Army buddy, now a chemist. There he foils an attempt by gangsters to kidnap the family in order to force Frank to produce designer drugs. Frank, it seems, has fallen into debt to the mob while gambling at a Reno casino. Nick...
15) Berserk
Author
Series
Berserk volume 3
Pub. Date
February 2019.
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Description
Berserk Deluxe Volume 1: Have you got the Guts? Kentaro Miura’s Berserk has outraged, horrified, and delighted manga and anime fanatics since 1989. Creating an international legion of hardcore devotees and inspiring a plethora of TV series, feature films, and video games. And now the badass champion of adult fantasy manga is presented in an oversized 7″ x 10″ deluxe hardcover edition, nearly 700 pages amassing the first three Berserk volumes....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Description
When the Grand Duchess Rubin, posing as a man to protect her identity, seeks the assistance of the realm's best swordsmen to regain her throne from an evil sorcerer, she finds assistance from two haphazard companions.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, Captain Alatriste and his protege Inigo are fish out of water. But the king is determined to keep the captain on retainer and - as a veteran with no other livelihood - he must remain, even as his employment brings him uncomfortably close to old enemies.
19) Traitor's blade
Author
Series
Greatcoats volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Reduced to demeaning work when the Greatcoats are disbanded after the king's death, swordsman Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates are framed for murder by a scheming adversary who would destroy everything they once worked to create.
20) The fencer
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Fleeing from the Soviet secret police, Estonian fencer Endel Nelis returns to his homeland and finds work as a children's sports instructor. Quickly becoming a role model to his students, Nelis begins teaching them competitive fencing techniques despite the objections of school administrators. When the children are invited to a fencing tournament in Leningrad, Nelis must make a choice: put his safety first or risk everything to take the children...
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