Lois McMaster Bujold
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 27
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A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril returns to the noble household he once served as page, and is named secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule. It is as assignment Cazaril dreads, for it must ultimately lead him to the place he most fears: the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies who once placed him in chains now occupy lofty positions. But it is more than the traitorous...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 26
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Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets, for she knows the truth of what brought her land to the brink of destruction. And now the road, the escape beckons. A simple pilgrimage, perhaps. Quite fitting for the Dowager Royina of all Chalion
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Pub. Date
2003
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Being a Vor lord on the war-torn planet Barrayar isn't easy, but Miles Vorkosigan has natural leadership qualities. Perhaps that explains how he managed to forge a secret identity and became the leader of a force of spaceborne mercenaries even after being washed out of the Barrayaran Military Academy.
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Pub. Date
c1986
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Cordelia Naismith, Betan Survey Captain, was expecting the unexpected: hexapods, floating creatures, odd parasites... She was not, however, expecting to find hostile humans on an uninhabited planet. And she wasn't really expecting to fall in love with a 40-plus barbarian known to cosmopolitan galactics as the Butcher of Komarr.--From source other than Library of Congress.
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Penric and Desdemona volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
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On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is The Bastard, "master of all disasters out of season," and with her dying breath she bequeaths her mysterious powers to Penric. From that moment on, Penric's life is irreversibly...
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Pub. Date
2007
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Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume. Falling Free-The Nebula Award-winning novel. Leo Graf was just your typical efficient engineer: mind your own business and do the job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where children had been bio-engineered to have four arms (and no legs) to function in zero gravity. Now that they're no longer needed, a heartless mega corporation is getting rid of them before they...
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Pub. Date
c2002
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Truth and Consequences. Miles' attempt to juggle both his identities, Admiral Naismith and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan, crashes when a new player enters the game: the brother he never knew he had, Mark Pierre. First unified edition includes Borders of Infinity, Brothers In Arms, and Mirror Dance
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Sharing knife volume 3
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Unable to overcome the bigotry of their own families in spite of the numerous hardships they have shared, Fawn and Dag set out to find alternative solutions to the perilous rift between their races, during which they acquire such motley companions as a pair of novice Lakewaker patrollers, a magically beguiled farmer boy, and a young riverboat captain.
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Sharing knife volume 4
Pub. Date
2009
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"... when patroller Dag Redwing Hickory rescued farmer girl Fawn Bluefield, neither expected to fall in love, join their lives in marriage, or defy both their kin to seek new solutions to the perilous split between their peoples. As Dag's maker abilities have grown, so has his concern about who, or what, he is becoming... Fawn and Dag see that their world is changing, and the traditional Lakewalker practices cannot hold every malice at bay forever......
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Penric and Desdemona volume 7
Pub. Date
2020.
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"When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their combined talents of mind and magic to unravel the mysteries of the sisters and escape from the pirate stronghold."--
13) The Vor game
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Pub. Date
2016.
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When his boyhood chum, Gregor, the Imperial Emperor, goes awol, chance places the exiled ensign Miles Vorkosigan in a position to extricate Gregor, the Dendarii Mercenaries, and himself from a very sticky and potentially deadly political situation
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Vorkosigan saga volume 18
Pub. Date
[2012]
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"Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor's life of a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Ivan, cousin to Imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr, far from the Byzantine court politics of his home system. But when an old friend in Barrayaran intelligence asks...
15) Memory
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Secret agent Miles Vorkosigan struggles to deal with life outside the Barrayaran Imperial Security force after he is dismissed for lying about his health problems, but he finds a new mission when agency chief Simon Illyan begins having problems of his own which could have devastating consequences for Barrayar.
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Sharing knife volume 2
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Fleeing her family farm after becoming pregnant, unwed Fawn Bluefield encounters a patrol of enigmatic soldier-sorcerers under the leadership of Dag, a knife-bearing, one-handed patroller who comes to Fawn's rescue when she is kidnapped by a dangerous magical entity.
19) Cetaganda
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Pub. Date
[1996]
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Miles Vorkosigan and Cousin Ivan go to Cetaganda on a diplomatic mission, but get in trouble when Miles tries to discover the truth about the death of the empress's attendant and Ivan gets involved with a few too many women.
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Vorkosigan saga volume 15
Pub. Date
[2002]
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A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy's Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children.