Fantasy: Contemporary
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A selection of recent books by some great writers.
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Brooks, Terry Wards of Faerie During a tumultuous period in the Four Lands, young Druid Aphenglow stumbles on a dangerous secret about an Elven girl's heartbreak and the vanished Elfstones. Set seven years after the High Druid series. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Donaldson, Stephen R. Against All Things Ending Book 3 of the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Durham, David Anthony The Sacred Band Queen Corinn masters spells found in the ancient Book of Elenet, while her younger brother embarks on a perilous mission to the Other Lands, and her sister travels north to confront an invasion by the fearsome Auldek. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Erikson, Steven. Dust of Dreams The exiled Malazan army commanded by Adjunct Tavore begins its march into the eastern Wastelands, to fight for an unknown cause against an enemy it has never seen. this last great army of the Malazan Empire is resolved to make one final defiant, heroic stand in the name of redemption. But can deeds be heroic when there is no one to witness them? And can that which is not witnessed forever change the world? Destines are rarely simple, truths never clear but one certainty is that time is on no one's side. 2010 Adult Fiction Book ERIKSON |
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Flewelling, Lynn. Casket of Souls When Nightrunners Alec and Seregil discover evidence of a plot pitting Queen Phoria against Princess Klia, they find their loyalties torn asunder as a mysterious plague spreads through the city. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Hendee, Barb. Through Stone and Sea : a Novel of the Noble Dead Wynn journeys to the mountain stronghold of the dwarves in search of the Stonewalkers, an unknown sect supposedly in possession of important ancient texts. But in her obsession to understand these writings, she will find more puzzles and questions buried in secrets old and new-along with an enemy she thought destroyed. 2010 Adult Fiction Book HENDEE |
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Huff, Tanya. The Silvered The Empire has declared war on the small, were-ruled kingdom of Aydori, capturing five women of the Mage-pack, including the wife of the were pack-leader. With the pack off defending the border, it falls to Mirian Maylin and Tomas Hagen--she a low-level mage, he younger brother to the pack-leader--to save them. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Jordan, Robert Towers of Midnight As the seals on the Dark One's prison crumble and the armies of the Shadow boil out of the Blight, Perrin Aybara, hunted by specters from his past, must seek answers in "Tel'aran'rhiod" and find a way to master the wolf within him -- or lose himself to it forever. Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life ... as The Tower of Ghenjei awaits. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Lake, Jay. Endurance Courtesan and trained assassin Green returns to Copper Downs where she must defend the gods from the Godslayers, magicians dedicated to the destruction of all deities, by tracking them down and removing the threat. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Lawrence, Mark Prince of Thorns After witnessing the murder of his mother and brother and leading a band of bloodthirsty thugs, Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath returns to his father's castle and his birthright, but faces treachery and dark magic once he arrives. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Marillier, Juliet. Flame of Sevenwaters Maeve returns to Sevenwaters to find the country in turmoil after Prince Mac Dara's desperate attempts to return his only son to the Otherworld put innocents in peril. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Martin, George R. R. A Dance With Dragons Familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire. In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again. 2011 Adult SciFi Fantasy Book |
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Moon, Elizabeth. Echoes of Betrayal The imminent nuptials of Lyonya King Kieri are overshadowed by treacherous rumors about his elf queen grandmother, while young Tsaia king Mikeli struggles with political unrest over his decision to elevate a magical woman. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Pogue, Aaron Taming Fire Daven Carrickson grew up as a beggar in the filthy alleys beneath the shadows of the palace. He's the son of a known thief, disgraced and despised. His only real talent is his ability with a sword, and his only real chance at finding honor or a home is a desperate dream of joining the King's Guard. Then Daven receives a new future when Master Claighan invites him to study magic at the Academy. The wizard offers to make him into a new kind of soldier: a swordsman equally skilled with forged blades and mystic forces. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Redick, Robert V. S. The River of Shadows The Chathrand races across the seas in a desperate bid to stop the sorcerer Arunis unleashing the Swarm of Night. From the mysterious River of Shadows to the Infernal Forest, to the Island Wilderness Pazel and his companions face a phatasmogoric journey through altered relaities, a nightmare journey which offers glimpses of what might have been while taking them into the terror of what is to come. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Sanderson, Brandon. The Emperor's Soul When Shai is caught replacing the Moon Scepter with her nearly flawless forgery, she must bargain for her life and create--to Forge--a new soul for the emperor in less than one hundred days. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Sprange, Matthew The Shadowmage Trilogy The world of Twilight turns in the darkness, illuminated by the ethereal glow of the god-planet, Kerberos. This is a world of heroes and monsters, in which four unique individuals stand against the end of everything. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Sullivan, Michael J. Theft of Swords Two thieves in the wrong place at the wrong time are on the run in this fast-paced adventure fantasy. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Weeks, Brent The Blinding Knife Learning that he has less than a year to live, Gavin Guile struggles to resolve problems in the form of refugee needs, an illegitimate son and a treacherous ex-fiancee in a world where out-of-control magic forces him to seek help from the brother he betrayed years earlier. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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