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Author
Series
Sunbearer duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Transgender demigod Teo is unexpectedly selected for the Sunbearer Trials, a fierce competition among demigod heroes where the winner sacrifices the loser to Sol, their blood fueling the Sun Stones that protect Reino del Sol.
2) Vicious
Author
Series
Villains (V. E. Schwab) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Ten years after an experiment designed to tap a human's supernatural abilities goes terribly wrong, Victor breaks out of prison and resolves to track down his former roommate, Eli, who resolves to eradicate the world's super-powered people.
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A tale moving from the final months of World War II to the present, and from the Russian front to contemporary South Africa, follows the dual adventures of a freedom-seeking war martyr and an alcoholic police officer who is drawn into a mystery with past origins.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A young man, injured and home from the war, is lauded as a hero. But he doesn't feel very heroic in the face of all that he witnessed"--
Hailed as a hero, twenty-year-old Jake returns to his pro-military hometown and family injured physically and emotionally, unsure if he can return to active duty but uncomfortable with the alternative.
6) Hero mom
Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A child demonstrates that while Mom differs from a traditional superhero, as an American soldier, she is a hero of a different kind.
7) Nimona
Author
Series
Nimona volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Lord Blackheart, a villain with a vendetta, and his sidekick, Nimona, an impulsive young shapeshifter, must prove to the kingdom that Sir Goldenloin and the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are.
Author
Series
Final Architecture trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The third and final novel in a space-opera trilogy about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy everyone.
11) Chosen ones
Author
Series
Chosen Ones volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first novel written for an adult audience by the mega-selling author of the Divergent franchise: five twenty-something heroes famous for saving the world when they were teenagers must face even greater demons-and reconsider what it means to be a hero . . . by destiny or by choice"--
12) Hero of Hawaii
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 5
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane causes the river near his Hawaiian home to flood, a boy named Calvin Coconut makes a daring rescue.
Author
Language
English
Description
A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.
14) Eyes of the void
Author
Series
Final Architecture trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Facing impending extinction, an Intermediary decides to help the Human Colonies stop the Architects who are back consuming entire planets after eighty years of a fragile peace, in the second novel of the series, following Shards of Earth.
15) The unflushables
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sully Stringfellow, his arch-nemesis Izzy Cisco, friend Moleman, and a league of long-forgotten plumber heroes team up to save Nitro City from mutant creatures in the sewers.
16) Charmed
Author
Series
Fairy Tale Reform School volume 2
Language
English
Description
When Sleeping Beauty's nemesis breaks the Evil Queen out of the dungeon, Gilly and her friends at Fairy Tale Reform School must figure out how to stop Alva from terrorizing the village of Enchantasia--before she comes after the ones Gilly loves the most.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
After his mother mends his favorite pajamas, Timothy finds that he has super strength and decides to use it to help others, but when the pajamas rip again, he loses his strength just when he needs it most.
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