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The Pearl of the Soul of the World (The Darkangel Trilogy)
by Meredith Ann PierceThe spellbinding conclusion to the Darkangel Trilogy!Armed with a magical pearl imbued with all the sorcery and wisdom of the world, bestowed upon her by the Ancient known as Ravenna, Aeriel finally comes face-to-face with the White Witch and her vampire sons. Backed by her husband, his army of good, and a throng of magical steeds, she must unlock the power of the pearl to awaken her true destiny and save the world.
Pearl Volume 1
by Brian Michael BendisThe New York Times bestselling, Peabody, and multi-Eisner award-winning writer Brian Michael Bendis (Superman) and superstar Jessica Jones co-creator Michael Gaydos begin a masterful saga involving art, crime, loyalty, and passion.Pearl Tanaka&’s an outsider among outsiders. A Japanese American with albinism, she was born into a world ruled by the American yakuza. Now she uses her unequaled skills as a tattoo artist to make a living in San Francisco, and all that she owes to the yakuza is the occasional kickback from her shop.That all changes the day that she meets Rick Araki...and saves his life. Rick is another tattoo artist, who's run afoul of a different yakuza clan. By interfering with their hit on him, Pearl risks drawing her patron into a deadly gang war.Worse, Pearl has revealed to her yakuza bosses one of her deepest secrets: she has a talent for killing. Now, to pay off her debt, she must become an assassin for her yakuza clan.But Pearl Tanaka's secrets run more than just skin deep...Collects Pearl #1–#6.
Pearl Volume 2
by Brian Michael BendisThe masterful saga of art, crime, loyalty, and passion by NYT bestselling, Peabody, and multi-Eisner award-winning writer Brian Michael Bendis (Superman) and superstar Jessica Jones co-creator Michael Gaydos continues!Pearl Tanaka's boss, the malevolent Mr. Miike, used to think that she was merely a highly successful tattoo artist. But now that he knows about her gift for killing, he wants to put her deadly talents to use in service of his criminal empire. Pearl, however, has just learned some very interesting things about her late mother—and now she has a completely different career path in mind.As she travels to Japan to uncover the secrets of her heritage, Pearl hopes that by confronting Mr. Miike's boss on his home turf she can get her father freed from jail, keep her fellow tattoo artist and wannabe boyfriend Rick Araki safe, and take control of her destiny for the very first time. It doesn't work out the way she planned... Collects Pearl #7-12.
Pearl Volume 3
by Brian Michael BendisA brand-new chapter in the romantic odyssey of the tattoo artist and Yakuza assassin, Pearl! From New York Times bestselling, award-winning writer Brian Michael Bendis (Superman) and his Jessica Jones co-creator Michael Gaydos, it's the continuation of a masterful saga involving art, crime, loyalty, and passion.After finding out the truth about her parents in previous volumes, the real question is: WHO IS THE GHOST DRAGON OF SAN FRANCISCO?Fully painted by award-winning graphic novelist Michael Gaydos, Pearl is a unique experience about an artist discovering all the secrets of the modern yakuza world she was thrust into by no fault of her own. Collects Pearl series III issues #1–#6.
The Pearls
by Deborah ChesterLady Lea-beloved sister of the Emperor Caelan-is gifted with the ability to see into others' hearts and when she is moved to tears, those tears become pearls. When the hardened warrior Lord Shadrael kidnaps her and takes her through the fearsome Hidden Ways of the shadow world, Lea can foresee her destiny in him. For if she is to save Shadrael from his own darkness, she will ultimately have to choose between her brother and her abductor.
Pearls from Peoria
by Philip Jose FarmerA mammoth, 300,000 word gathering of fiction and non-fiction, all of it rare or never-before-published.
Pearl's Ocean Magic (Dolphin School #1)
by Catherine HapkaGoing to dolphin school under the sea is a magical experience for Pearl and her friends!Pearl is a magical dolphin of the Salty Sea, and today is her first day of school. Her classmates Echo and Splash make great new friends! Together they start learning dolphin skills like magic, music, and jumping.But another student, Flip, just won't stop bragging. And when he accepts a dare from an older student, he ends up in terrible danger from a shark! Can Pearl and her friends save him? It's an exciting first day at Dolphin School!
Pearls of Lutra: A Tale from Redwall
by Brian JacquesOn the Isle of Sampetra, Emperor Ubla, better known as Mad Eyes, sends his lizard army on a mission to capture Redwall. Meanwhile the inhabitants of Redwall are on a mission of their own--to solve the six fiendishly difficult riddles that will lead them to the rose-colored gems, the Pearls of Lutra. As they get closer to solving to riddles, the lizards get closer to Redwall and a battle to the death begins.
Pearls of Lutra (Redwall, Book #9)
by Brian JacquesThe Tears of All Oceans are missing. Six magnificent rose-colored pearls, which inspire passion and greed in all who see them, have been stolen and passed from hand to hand, leaving a cryptic trail of death and deception in their wake. And now Ublaz Mad Eyes, the evil emperor of a tropical isle, is determined to let no one stand in the way of his desperate attempt to claim the pearls as his own. At Redwall Abbey, a young hedgehog maid, Tansy, is equally determined to find the pearls first, with the help of her friends. And she must succeed, for the life of one she holds dear is in great danger.
Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions (Peasprout Chen #2)
by Henry Lien“It’s Hermione Granger meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon meets the Ice Capades meets Mean Girls." —The New York Times"Takes on weighty and relevant questions of gender, ability, leadership, immigration... with intelligence, deftness and precision." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Now in her Second Year at Pearl Famous Academy of Skate and Sword, Peasprout Chen strives to reclaim her place as a champion of wu liu, the sport of martial arts figure skating. But, with the new year comes new competition, and Peasprout’s dreams are thwarted by an impressive transfer student.Yinmei is the heir to the Shinian throne and has fled her country for Pearl. When she excels both academically and socially, Peasprout begins to suspect that Yinmei is not a refugee at all but a spy. When the Empress of Shin threatens to invade the city of Pearl, Peasprout makes a bold decision. To keep her enemy close, Peasprout joins Yinmei's “battleband," a team that executes elaborate skating configurations that are part musical spectacle, part defensive attack. In Henry Lien's Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions, Peasprout guides her battleband on a mission to save Pearl, and learns what it truly means to be a leader.
Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword (Peasprout Chen Ser. #1)
by Henry Lien“It’s Hermione Granger meets ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ meets the Ice Capades meets ‘Mean Girls.’” For all its disparate ingredients, though, PEASPROUT CHEN: FUTURE LEGEND OF SKATE AND SWORD speaks in a single, strong voice, thanks to its spirited heroine." —The New York Times"Massively entertaining...Peasprout Chen is a future legend, indeed." —Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewWelcome to Pearl Famous Academy of Skate and Sword, where the blades are sharp and the competition is fierce. Peasprout Chen dreams of becoming a legend of wu liu, the deadly and beautiful art of martial arts figure skating.As the first students from the rural country of Shin to attend Pearl Famous Academy of Skate and Sword, Peasprout and her little brother Cricket have some pretty big skates to fill. They soon find themselves in a heated competition for top ranking.Tensions rise when the dazzling pearl buildings of the Academy are vandalized and outsider Peasprout is blamed for the attacks by her rivals ... and even some friends. Now, she must uncover the true vandal to ensure peace between Shin and Pearl – all while becoming a champion.
Pebble in the Sky (Super Ficcion Ser.)
by Isaac AsimovOne moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil--so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty. Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two. This is young Isaac Asimov's first novel, full of wonders and ideas, the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Foundation series. This is Golden Age SF at its finest.
Pebble in the Sky (Empire #1)
by Isaac AsimovFascinating adventures set in the not-too-distant future adventures that could change from fiction to fact any day now.
El Pecado Que Escojas
by Michael R. B. Ryan DavisonDan y Cressie: una pareja de mente abierta, hasta que comparten una prostituta masajista. Cressie lleva un amuleto de Aeshma, el demonio de la ira de una religión de medio oriente. Pero, ¿Puede Aeshma encajar en un país donde la religión oficial, el budismo, no reconoce al pecado como algo que sea capaz de dañar el alma y llevarla al tormento eterno? Cressie decía que iría a la ciudad con mayor turismo sexual del mundo para acudir a rezar en sus templos Budistas. ¿Pero por qué arrastró a Dan a un burdel masajista? ¿Por qué la joven y bella Prani, su nueva amiga, tuvo que quedarse con ellos en la misma pieza del hotel durante el resto de sus vacaciones? ¿Qué tan bien se lleva el Buda, del amuleto que lleva Prani en su cuello, con Aeshma? ¿Qué hacen las esposas Thai cuando sus maridos las engañan, que tanto divierte a Cressie y Dan? En esta corta pequeña historia de terror, la necesidad sexual, la ignorancia cultural y la pobreza de autoestima colisionan entre ellas para luego concluir en una tragedia.
Pecados de la noche (Cazadores Oscuros #Volumen 8)
by Sherrilyn KenyonLos pecados más peligrosos se cometen durante la noche...La historia de Alexion, el brazo ejecutor de los Cazadores Oscuros, y de la valerosa Danger, en la octava entrega de esta mítica serie de romance paranormal. En el reino de los Cazadores Oscuros existe un código de honor que incluso ellos, los chicos malos de la inmortalidad, deben respetar: «No hacer daño a ningún humano. No beber sangre. No enamorarse jamás». Aunque en ocasiones hay quien se rebela, y entonces se ve obligado a intervenir Alexion, el juez y verdugo de los Cazadores Oscuros, el brazo ejecutor de Aquerón. Frío y distante, Alexion es aquel a quien todos temen y que nada teme. Implacable en sus veredictos, nadie puede detenerle... salvo quizá, esta vez, Dangereuse St. Richard. Porque Danger es un peligro y una distracción letal. Pero también la única mujer que, en más de doscientos años, ha atravesado la coraza de Alexion y a la que ahora él no puede ni quiere dejar escapar. Aunque su amor por ella se interponga con el deber. La crítica ha dicho...«Kenyon escribe con ritmo, ironía, sensualidad y una imaginación incansable. Las suyas no son las típicas novelas de vampiros que compraría tu madre.»The Boston Globe
Pecados de la noche (Cazadores Oscuros #8)
by Sherrilyn KenyonEn el reino de los Cazadores Oscuros existe un código de honor que incluso ellos, los chicos malos de la inmortalidad, deben respetar: «No hacer daño a ningún humano. No beber sangre. No enamorarse jamás». Aunque en ocasiones hay quien se rebela, y entonces se ve obligado a intervenir Alexion, el juez y verdugo de los Cazadores Oscuros, el brazo ejecutor de Aquerón.Frío y distante, Alexion es aquel a quien todos temen y que nada teme. Implacable en sus veredictos, nadie puede detenerle... salvo quizá, esta vez, Dangereuse St. Richard.Porque Danger es un peligro y una distracción letal. Pero también la única mujer que, en más de doscientos años, ha atravesado la coraza de Alexion y a la que ahora él no puede ni quiere dejar escapar. Aunque su amor por ella se interponga con el deber.Una novela de los Cazadores Oscuros.
Los pecados de un padre: Libro de cuentos de Morgan 3 (Una fantasía épica de Lilliehaven #3)
by Greg Alldredge¿Qué cuerdas controlan una marioneta? Morgan y su compañía de aventuras enfrentaron un sinfín de preguntas, y cada revelación solo sirvió para suscitar más. Libre del Laberinto oscuro ahora se enfrenta a la interminable luz del día del mágico desierto. La torre de magos y las respuestas que se encuentran a su alcance esperan. ¿Morgan podrá desentrañar los secretos de su pasado o se convertirá en una víctima más de los pecados de su padre? Lea el último libro de la historia de Morgan para conocer la verdad. Consiguelo ahora.
The Pecan Children
by Quinn Connor"With creeping claustrophobia and a filter of the surreal over lushly detailed lives, The Pecan Children captures both the magic and despair of trying to hold onto home when the world is determined to take it away from you." — Kiersten White, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mister MagicFor fans of The Midnight Library and Demon Copperhead comes a breathtaking story of magical realism about two sisters, deeply tied to their small Southern town, fighting to break free of the darkness swallowing the land—and its endless cycle of pecan harvests—whole.How long will you hold on when your world is gone?In a small southern pecan town, the annual harvest is a time of both celebration and heartbreak. Even as families are forced to sell their orchards and move away, Lil Clearwater, keeper of a secret covenant with her land, swears she never will. When her twin Sasha returns to the dwindling town in hopes of reconnecting with the girl her heart never forgot, the sisters struggle to bridge their differences and share the immense burden of protecting their home from hungry forces intent on uprooting everything they love.But there is rot hiding deep beneath the surface. Ghostly fires light up the night, and troubling local folklore is revealed to be all too true. Confronted with the phantoms of their pasts and the devastating threat to their future, the sisters come to the stark realization that in the kudzu-choked South, nothing is ever as it appears.A story of the love between sisters, and an allegory of decay in small-town America, The Pecan Children walks the line between beauty and horror.Also By Quinn Connor:Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves
Pécheur (Les Gardiens des Abysses #4)
by Mary CalmesLes Gardiens des Abysses, numéro hors sérieEn tant que gardien, Jackson Tybalt est un homme bon, jusqu’à ce qu’il découvre l’homme qu’il aime embrassant quelqu’un d’autre. Trahi et en colère, Jackson flirte avec le danger et la mort, ignorant les appels à la prudence des autres gardiens. C’est un état d’esprit exécrable pour commencer une nouvelle relation, mais cela n’arrête pas le kyrie Raphaël qui veut, plus que tout, que Jackson lui appartienne. Jackson ne veut pas d’un foyer, ne veut pas d’un amant… il veut juste de la noirceur et de la douleur, alors Raphaël lui donnera ce qu’il veut. Mais parfois, les péchés de la chair sont exactement ce dont un corps a besoin pour panser les plaies du cœur, donc Raphaël cachera la tendresse qu’il éprouve pour Jackson tant que le gardien portera l’apparence d’un pécheur.
Pecos Bill and the Wonderful Clothesline Snake
by Wyatt BlassingameWhat Sue wants, she will get, but not without hilarious adventures along the way. Other books by Wyatt Blassingame are available in this library.
Pecos Bill Rides a Tornado
by Wyatt BlassingameFrom the back cover: He jumped so high that Bill's hat was left hanging on the moon. He spun like a top, backflipped, and went sidewinding up hills and down valleys, but he couldn't throw Pecos Bill. Finally Widow-Maker stopped bucking. He became as peaceful as a lamb and as tame as a lapdog. He became Bill's favorite horse. After that everybody knew that Pecos Bill was the best cowboy in all the West. "Bill can ride anything with four hoofs and a hide," the other cowboys said, but nobody ever thought that Bill would have to ride a tornado.
The Peculiar
by Stefan BachmannDon't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged. In the faery slums of Bath, Bartholomew and his little sister Hettie live by these words. Bartholomew and Hettie are Peculiars, and neither faeries nor humans want anything to do with them. But when Peculiars start showing up in London murdered and covered with red tattoos, Bartholomew breaks all the rules and gets himself noticed. Full of magic, dazzling inventions, and intriguing characters such as Mr. Jelliby and Lord Lickerish, this story of friendship, bravery, and nonstop action adventure was hailed by best-selling author Christopher Paolini as "swift, strong, and entertaining. Highly recommended." The Peculiar ends with a spectacular cliff-hanger, and the story concludes in The Whatnot.
The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt: A Novel
by Chelsea Iversen"A sweeping tale of a woman on the edge." —Publishers Weekly"Comparisons to authors like Alice Hoffman or Sarah Addison Allen are apt...highly recommended." —Booklist"This unearthly story flows with an elemental eeriness." —Historical Novel SocietyA lush, enchanting story of a woman who must use the magic of the fantastical plants that adorn her crumbling estate in Victorian London to thwart the dark plots of the men around her...Harriet Hunt is completely alone. Her father disappeared months ago, leaving her to wander the halls of Sunnyside house, dwelling on a past she'd rather keep buried. She doesn't often venture beyond her front gate, instead relishing the feel of dirt under her fingernails and of soft moss beneath her feet. Consequently, she's been deemed a little too peculiar for popular Victorian society. This solitary life suits her fine, though – because, in her garden, magic awaits.Harriet's garden is special. It's a wild place full of twisting ivy, vibrant plums, and a quiet power that buzzes like bees. Caring for this place, and keeping it from running rampant through the streets of her London suburb, is Harriet's purpose. When suspicion for her father's disappearance falls on her, she marries a seemingly charming man, the first to see past her peculiarities, in order to protect herself. It's soon clear, however, that her new husband might be worse than her father and that she's integral to a dark plot created by the men around her. To free herself and discover the truth, she must learn to channel the power of her strange, magical garden. At once enchantingly mesmerizing and fiercely feminist, perfect for fans of The Magician's Daughter and The Once and Future Witches, the vibrant world-building and sinister undertones of The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt make for the perfect modern fairytale about women taking control of their lives—with a little help from the magic within them.
The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin: A Novel
by Stephanie KnipperIn the spirit of Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s The Language of Flowers--and with a touch of the magical--The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin is a spellbinding debut about a wondrously gifted child and the family that she helps to heal. Sisters Rose and Lily Martin were inseparable when growing up on their family’s Kentucky flower farm yet became distant as adults when Lily found herself unable to deal with the demands of Rose’s unusual daughter. But when Rose becomes ill, Lily is forced to return to the farm and to confront the fears that had driven her away. Rose’s daughter, ten-year-old Antoinette, has a form of autism that requires constant care and attention. She has never spoken a word, but she has a powerful gift that others would give anything to harness--she can heal with her touch. She brings wilted flowers back to life, makes a neighbor’s tremors disappear, and even changes the course of nature on the flower farm. Antoinette’s gift, though, comes at a price, since each healing puts her own life in jeopardy. As Rose--the center of her daughter’s life--struggles with her own failing health and Lily confronts her anguished past, the sisters, and the men who love them, come to realize the sacrifices that must be made to keep this very special child safe. Written with great heart and a deep understanding of what it feels like to be different, The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin is a novel about what it means to be family and about the lengths to which people will go to protect the ones they love. “This is the kind of book that invites you home, sits you down at the kitchen table, and feeds you something delicious and homemade. You will want to stay in this world where new relationships bloom out of broken ones, sisters find one another again, and miracles really do occur.” —Tiffany Baker