Books with author K. F. Riley

In the Valta, no matter what month you were born, everyone is assigned the same birthday. November 1st. It's the anniversary of the day when the government declared war on the Eastern Order. The day you turn seventeen, the Recruiters come to take you away. And no one ever hears from you again. It’s October 31st. Today, Kress is sixteen years old. Tomorrow, she’ll be taken. The good news? So will her best friend Cardyn, and Brohn, the handsome, enigmatic boy she’s avoided all her life. The bad news? Recruitment isn’t what any of them expected.Weeks of training await. Military and psychological tests, escape rooms, hand-to-hand combat. The Recruits are told they're the key to winning the war. But with each day that passes, things begin to make less sense. If only Kress had been able to bring her trained raven, Render, with her.If only none of them had ever had to come to this place.

In the Valta, no matter what month you were born, everyone is assigned the same birthday. November 1st. It's the anniversary of the day when the government declared war on the Eastern Order. The day you turn seventeen, the Recruiters come to take you away. And no one ever hears from you again. It’s October 31st. Today, Kress is sixteen years old. Tomorrow, she’ll be taken. The good news? So will her best friend Cardyn, and Brohn, the handsome, enigmatic boy she’s avoided all her life. The bad news? Recruitment isn’t what any of them expected.Weeks of training await. Military and psychological tests, escape rooms, hand-to-hand combat. The Recruits are told they're the key to winning the war. But with each day that passes, things begin to make less sense. If only Kress had been able to bring her trained raven, Render, with her.If only none of them had ever had to come to this place.

Up until now, my life has been simple, uncomplicated, but because of what I am, everything is about to change. In fact, things are about to get deadly. Faeries are real and they want my blood. To make matters worse, I'm falling for one of them. In a mythical and magical world, I'm about to discover the secrets of my past and the truths of my existence. At least, that is, if I can survive.

Up until now, my life has been simple, uncomplicated, but because of what I am, everything is about to change. In fact, things are about to get deadly. Faeries are real and they want my blood. To make matters worse, I'm falling for one of them. In a mythical and magical world, I'm about to discover the secrets of my past and the truths of my existence. At least, that is, if I can survive.y

Beautifully illustrated with a narrative that is both fast paced and engaging, this book takes you on a living adventure through Africa, the second largest continent in the world, home to a great variety of animals, and to the greatest number of free-ranging wild animal populations, from carnivores to herbivores to jungle creatures to aquatic life.Discover the fastest animal on land, how gorillas rarely attack except if threatened, how giraffes sing to one another in frequencies that humans cannot hear, how the incredible memory of elephants affects their relationships, how the stripes of zebras are used to camouflage and confuse their predators, why the lion is known as the king of the jungle, and much, much more.