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Sparrow Rising (Skyborn #1)

Author : Jessica Khoury

Publisher : Scholastic Inc.

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 33,99 MB

Release : 2021-08-03

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1338652400

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Jessica Khoury brings her masterful world-building and emotional depth to a brand-new fantasy series. In a world where everyone is born with wings, stone monsters prowl the skies, hunting those who dare to fly too high. In the Clandoms, everyone is born with wings, with tight-knit communities formed around bird types: Jay, Falcon, Crow.Ellie Meadows dreams of growing up to join the Goldwings -- the famed knights who defend all the people of the Clandoms. It was a Goldwing, after all, who saved her life on that terrible day her parents were killed. There's just one problem: Ellie is a Sparrow, and the Goldwings are almost invariably picked from the higher clans like Eagles and Ospreys. This rigid hierarchy means that Ellie is destined to become a farmer.Determined to honor her parents' memories and prove herself worthy of the Goldwings, Ellie sets out on her own for the capital. But her journey will be dangerous. Foul creatures called gargols lurk behind every cloud, ready to slay anyone unlucky enough to be caught outside in a storm -- just as Ellie's family was.Soon her path intertwines with a colorful band of fellow outcasts, each with their own aspirations... and their own secrets. Ellie's new friends offer not just roadside companionship. They'll challenge her ideas of right, wrong, and what truly makes a hero.



Sparo Rising: Blade of Wexbury

Author : Erik Schubach

Publisher : Erik Schubach

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 39,80 MB

Release : 2021-01-16

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Sparo Rising is a spinoff series from the Techromancy Scrolls. Each book features a standalone story of a different side character from the Techromancy Scrolls that readers wished to hear more about. This first book centers around Lady Verna of Wexbury, and her rise to Knighthood. Almost three thousand years after an extinction level event on Earth, mankind seeks to regain its former glory, in a new world where magic and technology collide. Verna had always dreamed of becoming a knight and protector ever since she was a child and a stranger gave his life to save her family from marauders. She and her best friend, Celeste, share the same dream and aspire to become Squires so that their dreams could be realized. After being passed by in the first choosing when she had been fifteen, both she and Celeste are chosen by knights the following year. The threat of an army of marauders calling themselves the Horde, under a man called the Reaper. casts a shadow upon their training over the years, until things come to a head and Wexbury answers the call for help from the realm of York... the Reaper is at the gates.



Sparo Rising: Princess of Highland

Author : Erik Schubach

Publisher : Erik Schubach

Page : 190 pages

File Size : 17,53 MB

Release : 2024-01-22

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Sparo Rising is a spinoff series from the Techromancy Scrolls. Each book features a standalone story of a different side character from the Techromancy Scrolls that readers wished to hear more about. This sixth book centers around Shavon Fisher of Solomon, and her rise to power. Almost three thousand years after an extinction level event on Earth, mankind seeks to regain its former glory, in a new world where magic and technology collide. Desiree Weaver was taken from the realm of Hell's Gate as a child, losing everything to a Marauder raid, her home, her family, her happiness. Given a new name, Shavon, she is raised far away from the Burning Desert in Hell's Gate, in the prosperous realm of Solomon upon the Great Sea, by a Fisher couple. One day, Shavon Fisher's life is changed irrecoverably once again, by a chance meeting of a mysterious woman at Carnival, who would wind up raising Shavon to unimaginable heights as the Crowned Princess of Highland Reach and all the realms of Sparo.



Sparo Rising: House of Bexington

Author : Erik Schubach

Publisher : Erik Schubach

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 31,8 MB

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Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Sparo Rising is a spinoff series from the Techromancy Scrolls. Each book features a standalone story of a different side character from the Techromancy Scrolls that readers wished to hear more about. This fourth book centers around Ranelle of the Andrei, and her rise to power. Almost three thousand years after an extinction level event on Earth, mankind seeks to regain its former glory, in a new world where magic and technology collide. There are few people in the history who have contributed more to the technological rise of Sparo toward parity with the Great Wizards of the Before, than the founder of House Bexington and his twins, Bryony and Bowyn. In this new age of heroes, they have reawakened many of the wonders from before the Great Impact. This story follows the twins as they attempt a first that would redefine the way all of Sparo looks at the world as they know it. Fraught with adventure, peril, and... who is this Arcadian artisan who has caught Bryony's eye?



Sparo Rising: Mason of York

Author : Erik Schubach

Publisher : Erik Schubach

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 32,49 MB

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Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Sparo Rising is a spinoff series from the Techromancy Scrolls. Each book features a standalone story of a different side character from the Techromancy Scrolls that readers wished to hear more about. This first book centers around Lady Verna of Wexbury, and her rise to Knighthood. Almost three thousand years after an extinction level event on Earth, mankind seeks to regain its former glory, in a new world where magic and technology collide. The life of Genevieve Mason, a commone0r and serf of the Realm of York, in the Lower Ten of Sparo, had been turned upside down when she was young. Being the daughter of a mason, she always knew her place in the cogs of the wheel of life, until the Keep came under siege by the Reaper and his Horde of Marauders. She was saved at the gates when York fell, by a huge muscular female Squire from the neighboring realm of Wexbury, Verna. This woman had taken a killing axe blow meant for her, and yet stood, saving Gen from an untimely demise. That set the course for her life, as she aspired to be like Verna and champion the weak, to challenge the stars to change her own destiny and become one of the greatest Knights of York.



Sparo Rising: Hammer of Flatlash

Author : Erik Schubach

Publisher : Erik Schubach

Page : 172 pages

File Size : 47,94 MB

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Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Sparo Rising is a spinoff series from the Techromancy Scrolls. Each book features a standalone story of a different side character from the Techromancy Scrolls that readers wished to hear more about. This third book centers around Laura Smith of Flatlash, and her rise to nobility. Almost three thousand years after an extinction level event on Earth, mankind seeks to regain its former glory, in a new world where magic and technology collide. Laura and her family, the most skilled blacksmiths in Flatlash, have had a better life than some of the other commoners in the Keep. Seeing few winters where food and heat were scarce. But she dreamed of more, thinking to reach beyond her station. By happenstance she had been part of the Sparo contingent who, while stranded in New Cali, fought to free the people there from the Thief of Minds. And along the journey she saw potential in an area of the barren wasteland of the Uninhabitable Lands. Daring to change her stars and write her own destiny, she petitions the Crown to grant her, a mere serf, lands in which to start a mine that would raise her to the rank of nobility, and start a revolution in mining in all the lands of Sparo, taking her place in this new age of heroes.



Sparo Rising: Minstrel of the Andrei

Author : Eik Schubach

Publisher : Erik Schubach

Page : 188 pages

File Size : 28,99 MB

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Category : Fiction

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Sparo Rising is a spinoff series from the Techromancy Scrolls. Each book features a standalone story of a different side character from the Techromancy Scrolls that readers wished to hear more about. This fourth book centers around Ranelle of the Andrei, and her rise to power. Almost three thousand years after an extinction level event on Earth, mankind seeks to regain its former glory, in a new world where magic and technology collide. Before there was Laney, there was a minstrel... Sora Ranelle of the Andrei, who rose up to become one of the most loved Great Mothers of the People in the history of Sparo. From questionable beginnings, and possessing a power she could not control, the Mother of the Andrei sent Rain to learn control under the tutelage of the eldest and most powerful of the Mountain Gypsies, Mother Udele of the Lupei. The old seer teaches control and more to the young woman, whose fate Udele has already seen in her visions. Over the years, Udele sends for Rain to witness turning points in the history of Sparo. And the Mountain Gypsy clans slowly lose their fear of her explosive magiks and learn to love her as their fierce protector. On the day of the Choosing, where the Conclave of Mothers select a new ruler, to her shocked surprise, Ranelle is selected to lead as Great Mother of the People.





Sparrow and the Hawk

Author : Kyle Longley

Publisher : University of Alabama Press

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 13,29 MB

Release : 1997

Category : History

ISBN : 0817308318

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During World War II and the immediate postwar era, both the United States and Costa Rica experienced dramatic changes. The United States assumed world leadership and the accompanying responsibilities; Costa Rica encountered far-reaching difficulties that culminated in civil war in 1948 and the rise to power of Jose Figueres.



The Sparrow

Author : Mary Doria Russell

Publisher : Ballantine Books

Page : 450 pages

File Size : 19,51 MB

Release : 2008-05-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0345510887

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A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end. Praise for The Sparrow “A startling, engrossing, and moral work of fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “Important novels leave deep cracks in our beliefs, our prejudices, and our blinders. The Sparrow is one of them.”—Entertainment Weekly “Powerful . . . The Sparrow tackles a difficult subject with grace and intelligence.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Provocative, challenging . . . recalls both Arthur C. Clarke and H. G. Wells, with a dash of Ray Bradbury for good measure.”—The Dallas Morning News “[Mary Doria] Russell shows herself to be a skillful storyteller who subtly and expertly builds suspense.”—USA Today