Featured works

Works listed in this section are recommended by North Portland Library staff. Also, see past featured works.

April 2012

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin: New York : Orbit, 2010.

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. When her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate — and gods and mortals — are bound inseparably together.
N.K Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy also includes The Broken Kingdoms and The Kingdom of Gods.