Sparo Rising: House of Bexington

Sparo Rising: House of Bexington
Author: Erik Schubach
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Total Pages: 192
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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?

Sparrow Rising (Skyborn #1)

Sparrow Rising (Skyborn #1)
Author: Jessica Khoury
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-08-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338652400

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: Princess of Highland

Sparo Rising: Princess of Highland
Author: Erik Schubach
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2024-01-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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: Blade of Wexbury

Sparo Rising: Blade of Wexbury
Author: Erik Schubach
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-01-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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: Mason of York

Sparo Rising: Mason of York
Author: Erik Schubach
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Total Pages: 192
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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: Minstrel of the Andrei

Sparo Rising: Minstrel of the Andrei
Author: Eik Schubach
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Total Pages: 188
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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.

Sparo Rising: Hammer of Flatlash

Sparo Rising: Hammer of Flatlash
Author: Erik Schubach
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Total Pages: 172
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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.

Sparrow and the Hawk

Sparrow and the Hawk
Author: Kyle Longley
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 0817308318

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.

Dialogues with Rising Tides

Dialogues with Rising Tides
Author: Kelli Russell Agodon
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1619322390

In Kelli Russell Agodon’s fourth collection, each poem facilitates a humane and honest conversation with the forces that threaten to take us under. The anxieties and heartbreaks of life—including environmental collapse, cruel politics, and the persistent specter of suicide—are met with emotional vulnerability and darkly sparkling humor. Dialogues with Rising Tides does not answer, This or that? It passionately exclaims, And also! Even in the midst of great difficulty, radiant wonders are illuminated at every turn.

Searching for Sparrow

Searching for Sparrow
Author: K. A. Emmons
Publisher: K.A. Emmons
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734014624

A rebellious girl who can see the unseen. A headstrong young man haunted by his past. An invisible soldier with a thirst for revenge. Abandoned by her parents the day she was born and raised by her Sensei, Fin, Sparrow has grown up bitter and doubtful of her identity. Forced to train beside the elite "Anomalies" - a secret society of superhuman fugitives on a mission to rescue a war-torn world from the Reformed Global Militia - Sparrow fights her own powers, desperately wishing she could live like a normal teenager. But her rebellious streak comes to a screeching halt when Fin transfers her to a new school (which just happens to be a cabin in the woods) to train alongside the best of the best, including his hot-tempered adopted son, Keegan. Fiercely loyal to the Anomalies, Keegan is outraged by his father's decision to bring Sparrow to their finest school. He doesn't trust her, and he has no idea who she really is: the only daughter of the patriarchs. But everything changes when Sparrow's reckless behavior places them all in imminent danger... and forces them to flee into the wilderness. Sparrow feels more alienated than ever, until a special bond begins to form between her and Keegan. But when Sparrow starts to see mysterious figures shadowing them through the woods, nobody believes her - until, one by one, students begin to vanish from their group. When Sparrow is taken captive by the invisible enemy, she finds herself face-to-face with the deadly RGM, and their newest secret weapon: a handsome young corporal, hellbent on revenge...and destroying every Anomaly he can find. Searching for Sparrow is the thrilling, next-gen continuation of The Blood Race saga by K.A. Emmons.