Set in an academy
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The 3 books on this stack
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Red Rising
Pierce Brown · 2024
The first novel of Pierce Brown’s iconic, New York Times bestselling Red Rising Saga, now in a stunning deluxe hardcover edition, featuring: • Illustrated slipcase with foil • Designed sprayed edges • New cover and full wrap-around book case art • Fold-out poster • Full-color illustrated endpapers with a new map Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so. “Meteoric.”—Entertainment Weekly “Top-notch.”—USA Today “[Pierce] Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline.”—NPR Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga: RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J. K. Rowling · 1997
Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy. He lives with his Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia and cousin Dudley, who are mean to him and make him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. (Dudley, however, has two bedrooms, one to sleep in and one for all his toys and games.) Then Harry starts receiving mysterious letters and his life is changed forever. He is whisked away by a beetle-eyed giant of a man and enrolled at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The reason- Harry Potter is a wizard!
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Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card · 1985
Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.