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Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Now in one volume, the entire epic series set in an ancient island sanctuary of gods and magic -- from "the finest fantasy writer of this or any decade" (Marion Zimmer Bradley). Anne McCaffrey has praised Nancy Springer as "someone special in the fantasy field." Andre Norton agrees that "Ms. Springer's work is outstanding." Now the multiple award-winning author's classic five-part epic fantasy is presented in a single volume. In the grand tradition...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning series of sword and sorcery -- featuring two unorthodox heroes -- from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Long before George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones became a worldwide phenomenon, Fritz Leiber ruled the literary universe of sword and sorcery. This novel and two short story collections chronicle the adventures of Leiber's endearing and groundbreaking antiheroes: the barbarian Fafhrd and the Gray...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"These two timeless epics by the ancient Greek poet-each translated by a world-renowned author-have captured the Western imagination for millennia. The Iliad : Alexander Pope "works miracles" in this beautiful verse translation of Homer's epic poem set near the end of the Trojan War. It centers on a quarrel between the invading Greek king Agamemnon and his greatest asset in battle, the warrior Achilles. From this conflict, Homer weaves a tale of warring...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young man is transformed into a barbarian fighter in this adventurous series from "one of the leading masters of epic fantasy" (Publishers Weekly). In this complete collection of the high fantasy Seventh Sword series by Aurora Award--winning author Dave Duncan, Wallie Smith must face a new destiny and save an unfamiliar world from evil forces. The Reluctant Swordsman : Wallie goes to the hospital and wakes up in the body of a barbarian swordsman,...
65) Crush the King
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A fierce gladiator queen must face off against her enemies in an epic battle in this next thrilling installment of New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Estep's Crown of Shards series-an action-packed adventure full of magic, murderous machinations, courtly intrigue, and pulse-pounding romance. Queen Everleigh Blair of Bellona has survived the mass murder of the royal family, become a fearsome warrior trained by an elite gladiator...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young couple battles forces determined to keep them apart in this high fantasy series by "one of the leading masters of epic fantasy" (Publishers Weekly). These four fantasy novels of love and adventure follow the exploits of childhood friends Inos and Rap as their feelings are tested by the direst of circumstances. But while abduction, magic, and imprisonment conspire to separate them, the two remain steadfast in their determination to be together....
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An action-packed pair of fantasy adventures from the Hugo Award-winning and New York Times -bestselling author. Before his renown as "the standard bearer for alternate history" ( USA Today ) , New York Times -bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author Harry Turtledove's first published series told of the heroic exploits of Gerin the Fox as he battled dark magic in the Empire of Elabon. Werenight : The second son of the Baron of Fox Keep, young Gerin...
Author
Publisher
Babelcube Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Aldin has always felt out of place. In her fifteen years of life as a refugee alongside her parents in the small elf enclave of Lar, she's never displayed a single one of the gifts for which her race, the oracles, are known. But what if she isn't who everyone wants her to believe she is? What if there's another explanation? The Oracle's daughter is the first book in the Landeron saga, a coming-of-age story that explores the power of friendship, solidarity,...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Adventurous maidens and sinister mages clash in these magical tales by a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award winner and 'one of the all-time masters' (Peter Straub). Three different young women, each endowed with extraordinary abilities, pit their powers against warriors, wizards, and royal intrigue to preserve their worlds and stem the tide of evil. Mirror of Destiny : Transformed by a powerful talisman, the orphaned apprentice Twilla defies...
70) No Good Deed
Author
Series
Saga of the redeemed volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cursed with a magic ring that forbids skullduggery, Tyvian Reldamar's life of crime is sadly behind him. Now reduced to fencing moldy relics and wheedling favors from petty nobility, he's pretty sure his life can't get any worse. That is until he hears that his old nemesis, Myreon Alafarr, has been framed for a crime she didn't commit and turned to stone in a penitentiary garden. Somebody is trying to get his attention, and that somebody is playing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Russell's new high fantasy series launch is well written with a definite steampunk vibe and sword-and-sorcery appeal." -- Library Journal A world consumed by war. An ancient evil resurrected. A millennia-old bargain comes due... When two blades clash, the third will fall, and the fate of all will be jeopardized. To save Lozaria, the failures of the past must be atoned for by a new generation of heroes. The time has come for mortals to cast off sight...
Author
Language
English
Description
Initially conceived after reading the works of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, who was known for his early studies of Native American culture, "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is an epic poem based on the legends of the Ojibwa Indians of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Written in 1855 in trochaic tetrameter, the tale is set in the picturesque Pictured Rocks area along the south shore of Lake Superior. The lyrical descriptions of this...
73) Purgatorio
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The second book in the three-part Divine Comedy finds Dante and his guide, Virgil, halfway between Heaven and Hell. Having portrayed the tortures of the damned in Inferno, Dante resumes his allegory of the soul's journey to God with Purgatorio. A place of pain but also hope, Purgatory allows its suffering souls to reflect upon their sins and to work toward their moral improvement, paving the way for their eventual entry to Paradiso. Dante transformed...
74) Fire Study
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times Bestselling Author Maria V. Snyder The apprenticeship is over -- now the real test has begun. When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder -- able to capture and release souls -- spreads like wildfire, she faces mistrust and fear in Sitia. What's more, she keeps discovering new, unusual sides of her abilities. As the Council debates Yelena's fate, she receives a disturbing message: a plot is rising against her homeland, led by a murderous...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In New France in the late 18th century, Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. This novel tells stories of Rene's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well as the descendants of his friends and foes, as they travel back to Europe, to China, to New England, always in quest of a livelihood or fleeing stunningly brutal conditions--war, pestilence, Indian attacks, the revenge...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This classic fantasy adventure from the acclaimed author of the Wars of Light and Shadow series "is storytelling at its best" (Raymond E. Feist, #1 New York Times --bestselling author). Chained at the oar on a Mhurgai galley, a sullen slave who never speaks is considered a madman by his fellow captives--until the hour Korendir announces a plan, which is certainly doomed to failure, for no one ever escapes the merciless Mhurgai alive... Korendir's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Idylls of the King (1859-1885) is a cycle of narrative poems by British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written while Tennyson was serving as Poet Laureate, Idylls of the King reworks the medieval Arthurian legend in blank verse and with an elegiac tone. Based on Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and the early British Mabinogion manuscripts, Tennyson's work connects an ancient tradition to the reign and ideals of Queen Victoria.
"The Coming of Arthur"...
80) Moongather
Author
Series
Duel of sorcery volume 1
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young warrior woman, Serroi fights to keep dark magic from destroying her world, in the first book of Jo Clayton's acclaimed Duel of Sorcery fantasy trilogy. Serroi is unique in her world, and was nearly put to death in infancy as a result. A green-skinned "misborn," small in stature with an unnatural connection to the natural world, she was nonetheless chosen and exceptionally trained as a meie warrior. As such, she fears nothing, except the cold...
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