Charge into the new year, new decade and new reading challenge with these books featuring "dragon" in the title:
Fiction
Forty years after
the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and
inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires
journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional
young hacker, to investigate.
While spending her Christmas vacation in Wales, London literary agent
Lyn Ravenshaw is pulled into an ancient mystery involving ancient
prophecies and Arthurian legend after a widow believes that Lyn has been
sent to save her child and she is haunted by visions of her own dead
child.
Su-Jen Chou, a Chinese immigrant growing up in 1950s Ontario finds
herself shouldering the weight of her mother's hopes and dreams as her
isolated family attempts to forge a life for themselves in a small town.
Set in 1917, an undergraduate is given a special book that he is told
was the reason for his professor's murder and so must now protect it
with his life as he goes on a journey like no other to places that are
only supposed to exist in history and dreams.
Isabella, Lady Trent, the world's preeminent dragon naturalist, writes her memoir of how a bookish young woman whose passion for learning
lead to revolutionary new understandings about dragons and defies the
stifling conventions of her world.
At a time when the number of Dragonriders has fallen too low for safety
and only one Weyr trains the creatures and their riders, the Red Star
approaches Pern, threatening the planet with disaster.
Trader's wife Alise and 16-year-old Thymara must join the caravan
traveling up the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild River, with the aim of
relocating weakened dragons from outside their home town of Cassarick
to the long-lost city of Kelsingra.
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who
will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to
accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the
dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's
dark secrets.
Nonfiction
A tour of the world of the endangered Asian arowana, or "dragon fish,"
describes the violence, expense, cultural beliefs, and sophisticated
smuggling operations surrounding its illegal possession, tracing the
author's years-long quest in search of surviving populations.
A zoologist describes his adventures studying modern ancestors of the
dinosaurs which include escaping a boiling lake of lava in the Afar
Desert, being chased up a tree by a tiger in India and hitchhiking with a
Bolivian drug smuggler.
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