Books with title The Last Siege

Much-loved author Kathryn Lasky continues to bring the fantastic Guardians of Ga'Hoole owl world to life in this, the fourth book of the New York Times bestselling series.Soren's beloved mentor, Ezylryb, is finally back at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. But all is not well. There's a war between good and evil in the owl kingdom. On one side is a group led by Soren's fearsome brother, Kludd, who wears a terrifying metal mask to cover his battle-scarred face. On the other side are the owls of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, who must fight to protect their legendary tree from Kludd's attacks. Soren, his friends, and the other owls at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree enter into fierce combat against Kludd's forces. They win a major battle, but warfare is not over yet.

Along with their friends Laura and Brian, Tom and Mitch Hearn are on boardthe Rakurai, in search of the mysterious Dragon Island. Mitch is chargedwith being the ship's captain, but his decisions are making Tom furious. Thisis no time for a family feud, however, especially when they are attacked bypirates, and then Brian disappears! Worse yet, the Rakurai seems to beheaded on a different course - one that leads them right into the hands oftheir arch nemesis, Julian Vane.

Set during the Anglo-Cherokee War (1758–1761), The Last Sister traces a young woman's journey through grief, vengeance, guilt, and love in the unpredictable world of the early American frontier. After a band of fellow settlers fakes a Cherokee raid to conceal the murder of her family, seventeen-year-old Catriona "Catie" Blair embarks on a quest to report the crime and bring the murderers to justice, while desperately seeking to regain her own sense of safety. This journey leads Catie across rural South Carolina and through Cherokee territory―where she encounters wild animals, physical injury, privation, British and Cherokee leaders, and an unexpected romance with a young lieutenant from a Scottish Highland regiment―on her path to a new life as she strives to overcome personal tragedy. The Anglo-Cherokee War erupted out of tensions between British American settlers and the Cherokee peoples, who had been allies during the early years of the French and Indian War. In 1759 South Carolina governor William Henry Lyttelton declared war on the Cherokee nation partly in retaliation for what he perceived as unprovoked attacks on backcountry settlements. Catie's story challenges many common notions about early America. It also presents the Cherokee as a sovereign and powerful nation whose alliance was important to Britain and addresses the complex issues of race, class, and ethnicity that united and divided the British, the Cherokee, the Scottish highlanders, and the Scottish lowlanders, while it incorporates issues of power that led to increased violence toward women on the early American frontier.

Whirling through a psychic library, travelling through walls, dealing with obnoxious furniture….it’s all in a days work for Aisling. She is The Last of the Magicians – in a world where Magicians are persecuted, hunted and destroyed without mercy. Discovering her power in secret one cold night, she is smuggled to a long abandoned training facility where she is taught to use her powers. But before she can complete her training, they are attacked and Aisling must learn whether she has learnt enough to save herself and the world.One chance to save the world….or one chance to doom it.And you thought you had problems as a teenager…..

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Adam and the other members of the Pioneer Project are still recovering from their last encounter with Sigma, an artifical intelligence program that's gone rogue as well as the loss of one of their own. Sigma is determined to understand the human attribues that make the Six excel. Because the AI doesn't want world domination. It wants to destroy Adam, and after that, all of humanity.

Set during the Anglo-Cherokee War (1758-61), The Last Sister, by Courtney McKinney-Whitaker, traces a young woman's journey through grief, vengeance, guilt, and love in the unpredictable world of the early American frontier. After a band of fellow settlers fakes a Cherokee raid to conceal their murder of her family, seventeen-year-old Catriona "Catie" Blair embarks on a quest to report the crime and bring the murderers to justice, while desperately seeking to regain her own sense of safety. This journey leads Catie across rural South Carolina and through Cherokee territory―where she encounters wild animals, physical injury, privation, British and Cherokee leaders, and an unexpected romance with a young lieutenant from a Scottish Highland regiment―on her path to a new life as she strives to overcome personal tragedy. The Anglo-Cherokee War erupted out of tensions between British American settlers and the Cherokee peoples, who had been allies during the early years of the French and Indian War. In 1759 South Carolina governor William Henry Lyttelton declared war on the Cherokee nation partly in retaliation for what he perceived as unprovoked attacks on backcountry settlements.Catie's story challenges many common notions about early America. It also presents the Cherokee as a sovereign and powerful nation whose alliance was important to Britain and addresses the complex issues of race, class, and ethnicity that united and divided the British, the Cherokee, the Scottish highlanders, and the Scottish lowlanders, while it incorporates issues of power that led to increased violence toward women on the early American frontier.