Books by "Emma L. L. Murray"
4 books found
Indestructible
by Emma L. Adams
Two years ago, the fiends invaded, with a devastating explosion that split the world in half. Even now, energy blasts strike without warning, destroying everything in their paths. The fiends hunt anyone unlucky enough to escape. My name is Leah. An energy blast killed my group. It should have killed me, too. Instead, I woke up alone in the wilderness, stalked by the fiends. Until a latent fighting power awakens in my blood, and I discover I'm more than human. Swept into the world of the Pyros -- flame-conjuring warriors born to kill the fiends -- I learn to unlock the fire buried inside me. But I swiftly learn my allies aren't what they seem. The literal skeletons buried underneath their base are my first clue. The darkness stirring in my blood, showing me memories that don't belong to me, is another. And the man whose memories I see hides dangerous secrets behind his eyes. If I don't uncover the truth about why the world ended the first time, my new safe haven might go up in smoke… A YA dystopian fantasy trilogy for fans of Angelfall, Divergent, and City of Bones.
The Lives of Stories traces three stories of Aboriginal–settler friendships that intersect with the ways in which Australians remember founding national stories, build narratives for cultural revival, and work on reconciliation and self-determination. These three stories, which are still being told with creativity and commitment by storytellers today, are the story of James Morrill’s adoption by Birri-Gubba people and re-adoption 17 years later into the new colony of Queensland, the story of Bennelong and his relationship with Governor Phillip and the Sydney colonists, and the story of friendship between Wiradjuri leader Windradyne and the Suttor family. Each is an intimate story about people involved in relationships of goodwill, care, adoptive kinship and mutual learning across cultures, and the strains of maintaining or relinquishing these bonds as they took part in the larger events that signified the colonisation of Aboriginal lands by the British. Each is a story in which cross-cultural understanding and misunderstanding are deeply embedded, and in which the act of storytelling itself has always been an engagement in cross-cultural relations. The Lives of Stories reflects on the nature of story as part of our cultural inheritance, and seeks to engage the reader in becoming more conscious of our own effect as history-makers as we retell old stories with new meanings in the present, and pass them on to new generations.
Transcendent
by Emma L. Adams
With the world on the brink of a second war with the fiends, Leah and the other Pyros should be amassing their forces. But the survivors of the last battle have scattered, pushed back by the army led by the terrifying, bloodthirsty Fiordan warlords. Leah and her friends must take the ultimate risk to find the truth about the Fiordans, and how to unlock her potential as Transcendent before the fiends wipe out the Pyros, along with the rest of humanity. A YA dystopian fantasy trilogy for fans of Angelfall, Divergent, and City of Bones.
Ablaze
by Emma L. Adams
Leah has joined the Pyros, a group of warriors with astonishing powers, who fight the fiends who wiped out most of life on earth. But their worst enemy is one of their own. Jared, the sadistic scientist who betrayed the Pyros, has captured Leah's ally, Cas. To get him back, she must leave her new friends and face the wilderness alone. But Jared’s not the only threat out there. The fiends are moving, forces stir on the other side of the divide, and if Jared’s plan succeeds, it’ll spell disaster for their world. And that’s if the dark transformation in Leah's blood doesn’t kill her first. A YA dystopian fantasy trilogy for fans of Angelfall, Divergent, and City of Bones.