The Obelisk Gate / (Broken Earth Book 2)
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New York, NY : Orbit, [2018].
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Book
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3 volumes ; 21 cm.
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Published
New York, NY : Orbit, [2018].
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English
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Date is from container that housed all three volumes.
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Date is from container that housed all three volumes.
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[Volume 1: The fifth season] : Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years, collapses as its greatest city is destroyed by a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heartland of the world's sole continent, a great red rift has been torn which spews ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries. But this is the Stillness, a land long familiar with struggle, and where orogenes--those who wield the power of the earth as a weapon--are feared far more than the long cold night. Essun has remembered herself, and she will have her daughter back. She does not care if the world falls apart around her. Essun will break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.
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[Volume 2: The obelisk gate] : The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring -- madman, world-crusher, savior -- has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the fate of the Stillness forever. It continues with a lost daughter, found by the enemy. It continues with the obelisks, and an ancient mystery converging on answers at last. The Stillness is the wall which stands against the flow of tradition, the spark of hope long buried under the thickening ashfall. And it will not be broken.
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[Volume 3: The stone sky] : THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed. The remarkable conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed trilogy that began with the multi-award-nominated The Fifth Season.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jemisin, N. K., & Jemisin, N. K. (2018). The Obelisk Gate / (Broken Earth Book 2) . Orbit.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jemisin, N. K. and N. K. Jemisin. 2018. The Obelisk Gate / (Broken Earth Book 2). Orbit.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jemisin, N. K. and N. K. Jemisin. The Obelisk Gate / (Broken Earth Book 2) Orbit, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jemisin, N. K.,, and N. K Jemisin. The Obelisk Gate / (Broken Earth Book 2) Orbit, 2018.
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