Author: Michael J Dennis
Publisher: Michael J Dennis
ISBN: 1386862045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: Michael Dennis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781794188419
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 575

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When night took hold, would he stand in awe at those bodies forever beyond his touch? The trunk was far wider than he was tall, black shining, gnarled, at first glance it reminded him of an ancient yew with many trunks intertwined as one like wide ropes, knots and boles, a parody of a tree with no leaves or needles, but arrays of small bones, none of its branches swayed in the breeze. It stood brooding, motionless like no other tree he had ever seen.Its trunk formed of faces screaming to be free, arms and legs entwined with bodies locked together for eternity, its main branches composed of long bones fused as one, branching off into smaller versions of themselves, a grotesque mockery of natural trees, ending in bud-like structures of knuckles, small bones and teeth looking much like fruit and flowers.Prydain stood eighty feet tall, it's all-encompassing branches appeared just as wide casting a bone-chilling shadow across the snow.Almund took a deep breath as he stepped back, slipping on a half-buried pile of bones that crunched beneath his boot. At first glance Prydain looked as though conjured by some mad sorcerer, not grown from this good earth, but this was no trick, for all its deathly stillness he could feel its energy, not formed by man but planted, its root deep within the earth, abet many years ago in this rich soil for the veneration of Achren

Author: Michael J Dennis
Publisher: Michael J Dennis
ISBN: 1386746622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Michael J Dennis
Publisher: Michael J Dennis
ISBN: 1386037273
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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Author: Clark Ashton Smith
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612107702
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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The dark sorcerer Malygris has died, though Maranapion suspects there is more to his death than meets the eye. Maranapion and other wizards set out to ensure that Malygris is truly dead, and has not been using necromancy to extend his life beyond the realm of death…

Author: Steven Brust
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1429922133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Sethra Lavode is the sequel to The Paths of the Dead and The Lord of Castle Black, and the culmination of the bestselling epic begun with The Phoenix Guards. The oldest person in the Dragaeran Empire. A military genius and master of sorcery whose story stretches back to before the dawn of history. Now, after a long absence, the undead Sethra Lavode, the Enchantress of Dzur Mountain, has reentered the Empire's affairs. And the affairs of Khaavren and Pel, Tazendra and Aerich, and all their descendants, colleagues, and friends. For since Adron's Disaster, when Dragaera City was turned instantly into a sea of amorphia, the Empire has been in ruins. Trade has declined, brigands rule the roads, plagues sweep through the population. Now an ambitious Dragonlord means to rebuild the Empire in his own name. But unknown to him, the true heir, the Phoenix Zerika, has already retrieved the Imperial Orb from the Paths of the Dead. Sethra Lavode means to see Zerika on the throne. To do so will entail a climactic battle of sorcery and arms, told with all the swashbuckling flair for which Steven Brust is known. The Khaavren Romances, set in the world of Vlad Taltos's Dragaera: 1. The Phoenix Guards 2. Five Hundred Years After 3. The Paths of the Dead (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Vol. 1) 4. The Lord of Castle Black (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Vol. 2) 5. Sethra Lavode (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Vol. 3) The Baron of Magister Valley [standalone] At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Steven Brust
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429993510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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In which Vlad Taltos confronts the Left Hand of the Jhereg...and discovers the game has more players than he thought Vlad Taltos, short-statured, short-lived human in an Empire of tall, long-lived Dragaerans, has always had to keep his wits about him. Long ago, he made a place for himself as a captain of the Jhereg, the noble house that runs the rackets in the great imperial city of Adrilankha. But love, revolution, betrayal, and revenge ensued, and for years now Vlad has been a man on the run, struggling to stay a step ahead of the Jhereg who would kill him without hesitation. Now Vlad's back in Adrilankha. The rackets he used to run are now under the control of the mysterious "Left Hand of the Jhereg"—a secretive cabal of women who report to no man. His ex-wife needs his help. His old enemies aren't sure whether they want to kill him, or talk to him and then kill him. A goddess may be playing tricks with his memory. And the Great Weapon he's carrying seems to have plans of its own... Picking up directly where Issola left off, Dzur gives us Vlad Taltos at his best—swashbuckling storytelling with a wry and gritty edge. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Eoin Colfer
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780141340760
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Opal Koboi, power crazed pixie is plotting to exterminate mankind and become fairy queen. If she succeeds, the spirits of long-dead fairy warriors will rise from the earth, inhabit the nearest available bodies and wreak mass destruction. But what happen sif those nearest bodies include crows, or deer, or badgers - or two curious little boys by the names fo Myles and Beckett Fowl? Yes, it's true. Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl's four-year-old brothers could be involved in destroying the human race. Can Artemis and Captain Holly short of the Lower elements Police stop Opal and prevent the end of the world?

Author: Eoin Colfer
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613750356
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

Author: Mercedes Lackey
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1101141743
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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The first in a series of adult fairy tale retellings full of magic, romance, humor, and suspense—from a Grand Master of science fiction and fantasy! A richly reimagined Snow White uncovers the secrets of her family’s magical history in an alternate Edwardian London . . . As the daughter of a prominent British physician and a Brahmin woman of the highest caste, Maya Witherspoon graduated from the University of Delhi as a Doctor of Medicine by the age of 22. But the science of medicine was not Maya’s only heritage. For Maya’s aristocratic mother, Surya, was a sorceress—a former priestess of the mystical magics fueled by the powerful and fearsome pantheon of Indian gods. Though Maya felt the stirring of magic in her blood, her mother had repeatedly refused to train her. Yet it was Maya’s father’s death shortly thereafter that confirmed her darkest suspicions. For her father was killed by the bite of a krait, a tiny venomous snake, and in the last hours of her mother’s life, Surya had warned Maya to beware “the serpent’s shadow.” Maya knew she must flee the land of her birth or face the same fate as her parents. In self-imposed exile in Edwardian London, Maya knew that she could not hide forever from the vindictive power that had murdered her parents. She knew in her heart that even a vast ocean couldn’t protect her from “the serpent’s shadow” that had so terrified her mother. Her only hope was to find a way to master her own magic: the magic of her father’s blood. But who would teach her? And could she learn enough to save her life by the time her relentless pursuers caught up with their prey?