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Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
402 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Description
Fantasy stories. In Will Shetterly's Splatter, killers decide to show a novelist how it's really done, Karen Haber's A Bone Dry Place is set in a suicide-prevention clinic, and in John Ford's Chain Home, Low a sleeping virus strikes a group of wartime pilots.
23) The dark tower
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Series
Dark Tower volume 7
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The final book in the Dark Tower cycle. Thus continues Roland the Gunslinger and his relentless quest to reach The Tower in a last ditch effort to save all that is. Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room -- really a chamber of horrors -- in Thunderclap's Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the...
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Series
Wheel of time volume 12
Description
Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. Meanwhile, Egwene al'Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is being held captive by the White Tower. Knowing the Seanchan attack is imminent, she fights to hold the Aes Sedai together in an epic contest that will prove the mettle of her followers and will decide the future of the White Tower---and possibly...
25) Red prophet
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Tales of Alvin Maker volume 2
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Alvin Maker is drawn into the political manueverings of his visionary brother and a French colonel exiled to Fort Detroit named Napoleon Bonapart, in this tale set in the frontier of a magical alternate America.
26) Death masks
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Series
Dresden files volume 5
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Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing wizard, is hired by a mysterious priest to find the stolen Shroud of Turin. But first, Harry must deal with the Red Court of Vampires' champion, professional hit men, and the return of his semi-vampire former girlfriend.
27) The Daylight War
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Demon Cycle volume 3
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On the night of the new moon, the demons rise in force, seeking the deaths of two men, both of whom have the potential to become the fabled Deliverer, the man prophesied to reunite the scattered remnants of humanity in a final push to destroy the demon corelings once and for all. Arlen Bales denies he is the Deliverer at every turn, but the more he tries to be one with the common folk, the more fervently they believe.
28) Summer knight
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Series
Dresden files volume 4
Description
Despondent over the loss of his vampire girlfriend, private detective and wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden undertakes a mission for the Winter Queen of Faerie to find out who murdered the Summer Queen's right-hand man, the Summer Knight, and clear the Winter Queen of the crime.
29) Alta
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Series
Dragon jousters volume 2
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
402 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
The dragonrider Vetch excapes to Alta, the subjugated land of his birth. There, he hopes to teach his peoole to raise and train dragons-and build an army that will liberate his homeland.
30) Joust
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Series
Dragon jousters volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
373 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Vetch, an Altan serf, must learn the secret of the Tian jousters and their dragons in order to save his people.
31) Alvin journeyman
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Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 4
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Description
A grown Alvin Maker returns to the town of Vigor Church to work as a blacksmith, and teach the knack of "making" as a part of his quest to build the Crystal City.
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Codex Alera volume 1
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In the realm of Alera, where people bond with the furies--elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal--15-year-old Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. As his homeland erupts in chaos--when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies--Tavi's simple courage will turn the tides of war.
33) Aerie
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Series
Dragon jousters volume 4
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Kiron and his friends, established in a desert cliff dwelling seemingly made for dragons, must not only bring order to the new society, but be on guard against Magi who might try to achieve conquest surreptitiously after failing to win with violence.
36) Changing planes
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"All Le Guin's stories are...metaphors for the one human story; all her fantasy planets are this one. Le Guin is a quintessentially American writer, of the sort for whom the quest for the Peaceable Kingdom is ongoing."
In this collection of short stories, Sita Dulip from Cincinnati finds a method of transcending the miserable experience of flying. A mere kind of twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than to describe, takes her not to Denver
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"Rare and never-before published short stories featuring fan favorites from the New York Times bestselling series It's been more than ten years since Kelley Armstrong began the Otherworld series and drew legions of fans to a realm roamed by witches, werewolves, necromancers, vampires, and half-demons. Many of the novels have become bestselling favorites, but not all of the Otherworld adventures have been easy to find. At last, Otherworld Nights shares...
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Galactic empires trilogy volume 1
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A satire on our own racial intolerances and our own militarists.
39) Now and forever
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Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
209 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Presents two novellas, including "Somewhere a Band Is Playing," in which a young writer discovers that all is not as it seems in a nostalgic community, and "Leviathan '99," in which Ishmael Hunnicut Jones prepares for a first interstellar hunt.
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