“Refreshing…Never veers into horror, staying strictly on the side of realistic—if, you know, there were monsters—and heartwarming adventure…An original.” —io9.com “Monstrously fun…Heartwarming, hilarious, and full of memorable characters. You won’t be able to put this one down!” —John Corey Whaley, Michael L. Printz Award-winning author of Where Things Come Back and Noggin His name, believe it or not, is Boy. Boy is (among other things): seventeen years old, a genius computer hacker on the brink of creating an artificial intelligence, and obsessed with a girl. But there’s something even more that sets Boy apart. For one, he’s never been out in public. And here’s something else: he isn’t even human. Now it’s time for him to run away from the home he’s known and step out into the real world. But it’s a hard world out there… Especially if you’re a monster. Books in the series: Man Made Boy (Book 1) This Broken Wonderous World (Book 2)

Man Made Boy

Children's Books

Skovron, Jon

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Speak

In the first book of this fun, action-packed fantasy trilogy, a warrior and a thief must come together to stop the forces that threaten their people. Hope's old life ended the night her entire village was massacred by the emperor's forces. Now, trained in secret by a master warrior, her new life is centered on only one goal: vengeance. Red lives by the skin of his teeth and sharpness of his wit. An expert thief and a brilliant con artist, he cares for only one thing: a good time. But when the empire's soldiers start to encroach on his territory, taking down his friends with it, he may have to re-prioritize. Together, they will take down an empire. Start reading this daring adventure that Sam Sykes called, "Furious where it needs to be, deceptively tender where it can get away with it, adventurous all around!" The Empire of StormsHope and RedBane and ShadowBlood and Tempest

Hope and Red (The Empire of Storms, 1)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Orbit

A killer adventure fantasy follow-up to HOPE AND RED, set in a fracturing empire spread across savage seas, where two young people from different cultures find common purpose. Red is being trained as a cold-blooded assassin by the biomancers. As he becomes increasingly embroiled in palace politics, he learns that even life among the nobility can be deadly. While terrorizing imperial ships as the pirate Dire Bane, Hope stumbles onto a biomancer plot of such horrifying scope that it makes even the massacre of her childhood village seem small in comparison. With the biomancers tightening their grip of fear over the empire, Hope and Red struggle to fill their new roles and responsibilities, but the cost will be greater than any of them realize. The Empire of Storms seriesHope and RedBane and Shadow

Bane and Shadow (The Empire of Storms, 2)

The thrilling conclusion to Jon Skovron's adventure fantasy series, two young people from a fracturing empire spread across savage seas must find a way to keep their nation together. Still reeling from the events at Dawn's Light, Hope struggles to understand what it means to be a warrior who has vowed to never again take up a sword. Red is enjoying his new role as imperial spy. Perhaps a bit too much. But his loyalties will be tested when his employer, Lady Hempist, relents and assigns him the one task he's been begging for all along: recruiting Hope and Brigga Lin to help rid the empire of biomancery once and for all. Fate brought them together; it will tear their empire apart. The Empire of Storms Hope and Red Bane and Shadow Blood and Tempest

Blood and Tempest (The Empire of Storms, 3)

<div>When their father is murdered by imperial soldiers, two siblings set out on opposite paths--one will destroy the Empire forever and the other will save it--in this thrilling new epic fantasy.</div> <div> </div> <div>Sonya is training to be a Ranger of Marzanna, an ancient sect of warriors who have protected the land for generations. But the old ways are dying, and the rangers have all been forced into hiding or killed off by the invading Empire.</div> <div> </div> <div>When her father is murdered by imperial soldiers, she decides to finally take action. Using her skills as a ranger she will travel across the bitter cold tundra and gain the allegiance of the only other force strong enough to take down the invaders.</div> <div> </div> <div>But nothing about her quest will be easy. Because not everyone is on her side. Her brother, Sebastian, is the most powerful sorcerer the world has ever seen. And he's fighting for the empire.</div>

Ranger of Marzanna (The Goddess War, 1)

Fantasy

In this thrilling epic fantasy, Sonya has won the battle and brought a foreign army to free her country from imperial rule, but now she has to face her allies--who may have other goals.&nbsp; The first battle is over, but war yet looms on the horizon. Sonya and her allies--the foreign Uaine and their armies of the undead--have beaten back the imperial soldiers from the capital city. Now they have the rest of the country to free. Meanwhile, her brother the famed wizard Sebastian has retreated with the imperial forces to regroup and lick his wounds. Betrayed by his sister and his wife, the beautiful noblewoman Galina, he will regain control of his life and his country at any cost. Galina, his former betrothed, has her own visions for the land, and the political savvy to make them a reality. But a fledgling oligarchy, a foreign army, and the whims of a self-proclaimed servant of death stand in her way--power must be seized, and a queen must rise, before it's too late. Sonya has brought a foreign army to free her country from imperial rule, but her allies may have other goals in the second book of this thrilling epic fantasy trilogy from Jon Skovron.

The Queen of Izmoroz (The Goddess War, 2)

In the thrilling conclusion to Jon Skovron's epic fantasy trilogy that began with The Ranger of Marzanna, allies and enemies alike must band together to defeat an evil on a scale never before seen—and this time, the Gods are on the battlefield.\nAs Vittorio’s empire enacts its bloody reign, the Uaine now behind him after a stunning betrayal, a reunited Sonya and Sebastian must embark on a journey to distant lands to amend past wrongs—and find unlikely allies along the way.\nIn far Raiz, Jorge has his hands full enough with the devastation the Empire left behind. But the battle isn’t over, and the sovereignty of his nation will depend on his ability to band together the ancient houses—and recruiting a figure straight out of legend.\nGalina, now Queen of Izmoroz, rules her land with an iron fist in a velvet glove. But heavy is the crown, and enemies lie in wait both within and without her dominion. To realize her vision for a free Izmoroz at last, she’ll have to fight with much more than politics.

The Wizard of Eventide (The Goddess War, 3)

Genre Fiction

Blood and Tempest: Book Three of Empire of Storms

Ranger Of Marzanna

The Queen of Izmoroz: Book Two of the Goddess War

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