Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&Ne=6670&N=3+7439+4294966706 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1686192 Five hundred years ago, the famed Witchbreaker, Lord Stark Tower, launched a war against the cult of witches, nearly wiping them out. Today, only a handful of women still practice the craft in secret. A young witch named Sorrow has dedicated her life to changing this reality, vowing to wipe out the Church of the Book and launch a new golden age of witchcraft. In pursuit of her goals, she bonds her soul with Rott, the primal dragon of decay, giving her nearly limitless powers of destruction. Unfortunately, tapping this power comes at the cost of her humanity, leading her into a desperate quest to find the greatest witch of all time, Avaris, in hopes of mastering her dark magic before it destroys her. But shes not alone in hunting Avaris, as fate throws her into an uneasy partnership with a man who wants to be the new Witchbreaker. Can either of them survive their mutual quests when their journey leads them into battle with Tempest, the primal dragon of storms?--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706377 Ordered to Coronnan City, Glenndon, the mute and illegitimate son of King Darville, takes the throne and, in this place where court politics are deadly and magic is forbidden, must hide his talents as he struggles to find his voice and his destiny. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735952 When she is hired by the Master of Natchez, Mississippi to stop rogue vampires from terrorizing his city, skinwalker Jane Yellowrock soon discovers that there is something different about these vamps as her simple job turns into a fight to stay alive. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684666 Coming out of hiding to find her sister and repair their estrangement, and to stop King Tohon from winning control of the Realms, Avry of Kazan, the last Healer in the Fifteen Realms, must support Tohons opponents by teaching them forest skills and destroying an army of the walking dead. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732111 Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist --- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists. Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736017 I was raised to do the right thing. But to my family that means staying safe behind the walls of human society. To be a respectable metalmage and never put myself at risk. But the treaty is faltering. And if it fails, nothing is safe. To help save the city and everyone I care about, I will use whatever means I can to ensure the negotiations to renew the treaty are successful--even if that means forging an alliance with a man who is the very opposite of the right thing...Fen is trouble. Wild. He would rather bind himself in iron and drink himself into oblivion than learn to master the visions that come to him. Those visions might just hold the key to peace, and it seems that my power might hold the key to his control--if I can keep it around him...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712890 Green returns to her service under the Lily Goddess in the city of Kalimpura, where she is hounded by gods that would render her a conduit for the supernatural while she attempts to rescue two Bittern Court hostages. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715966 The werewolf pack and Mercy Thompsons mate Adam have been abducted. Outclassed and on her own, Mercy may be forced to seek assistance from any ally she can get, no matter how unlikely. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739239 Vitala Salonius, champion of the warlike game of Caturanga, is as deadly as she is beautiful. Shes a trained assassin for the resistance, and her true play is for ultimate power. Using her charm and wit, she plans to seduce her way into the emperors bed and deal him one final, fatal blow, sparking a battle of succession that could change the face of the empire. As the ruler of a country on the brink of war and the son of a deposed emperor, Lucien must constantly be wary of an attempt on his life. But hes drawn to the stunning Caturanga player visiting the palace. Vitala may be able to distract him from his woes for a while--and fulfill other needs, as well.Luciens quick mind and considerable skills awaken unexpected desires in Vitala, weakening her resolve to finish her mission. An assassin cannot fall for her prey, but Vitalas gut is telling her to protect this sexy, sensitive man. Now she must decide where her heart and loyalties lie and navigate the dangerous war of politics before her gambit causes her to lose both Lucien and her heart for good...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715612 Drizzt DoUrden navigates a winding path littered with secrets and lies. Tangled up in his companion Dahlias dark secrets, the ties that once held her close to Drizzt threaten to tear as her bonds to his former foe, Artemis Entreri, continue to grow. Meanwhile, in the caverns of Gauntlgrym, the drow Tiago Baenre enlists the help of Bregan Daerthe in his quest to destroy Drizzt. Determined to stand for whats right in the Realms once again, Drizzt forges a new road north-- toward Icewind Dale. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713335 Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures. A bankers wife belongs to a secret order of assassins. And a shady saloon owner, whose fingers are in everyones business, may know more about the towns true origins than hes letting on. A haven for the blessed and the damned, Golgotha has known many strange events, but nothing like the primordial darkness stirring in the abandoned silver mine overlooking the town. Bleeding midnight, an ancient evil is spilling into the world, and unless the sheriff and his posse can saddle up in time, Golgotha will have seen its last dawn . . . and so will all of Creation. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729391 Felicity, a minstrel sworn to the truth, tells the ill-fated love story of the stubborn and indulged Princess Caution and the stableboy Lostler, a former Chalcedean slave and the piebald horse bound to him by the magic of Wit, which gives him the power to communicate with animals. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1718286 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711925 Necromancer is such an ugly word, but its a title Eric Carter is stuck with. He sees ghosts and talks to the dead. Hes turned it into a lucrative career; putting troublesome spirits to rest, sometimes taking on even more dangerous things. For a fee, of course. When Carter left L.A. fifteen years ago he tought hed never have to go back. Too many bad memories. Too many people trying to kill him. But now, his sisters been brutally murdered and Carter wants to find out why. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685964 Kara is the prisoner of the demonic lord, Mzatal, but quickly discovers shes far more than a mere hostage. He has his own plans to use Kara and keep her from Rhyzkahl -- the demonic lord she is sworn to serve. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728757 A follow-up to The Wards of Faerie places the fate of an innocent young girl in the hands of protectors who embark on a dangerous quest to protect a once-peaceful world from dangerous creatures imprisoned behind an eroding magical barrier. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707054 Persephone Alcmedis beloved foster daughter, Beverley, has been playing with a magical artifact thats far more dangerous than she realizes. Now Persephone must summon help from a mystical being so potent that even vampires fear him ... and the cost of his aid may be more than shes willing to pay. Seph, Johnny, and Menessos face threats from all side -- and a few from within. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715666 Blood prophet Meg Corbyn, who can see the future when her skin is cut, escapes enslavement by her Controller and teams up with a shape-shifter who employs her as a Human Liaison. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715468 A retelling of Snow White set in the gritty gun-slinging west. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704634 Isabella, Lady Trent, known as the worlds preeminent dragon naturalist, writes her memoir detailing how she sought true love and happiness despite her lamentable eccentricities; and of her thrilling expedition to the perilous mountains of Vystrana, where she made the first of many historic dragon discoveries that would change the world forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713793 As Gair struggles with grief over the loss of the only home he had known--and his beloved--hes walking into a conflict thats greater and more deadly than he or his mentor ever anticipated. A storm of unrests spreading across the land, and theyre going to be caught up in it at a moment when Gairs hold on his magic--his greatest defense and most valuable tool--is starting to slip. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1718278 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715662 After an interstellar civil war, heir to the throne Gareth Elhalyn, takes on a secret mission to stop the seedy population of Darkover from arming the Dry Towners with forbidden weapons in this expansion of the late fantasy authors unpublished work. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712894 When an emergency room patient ranting about dragons spontaneously combusts before her eyes, Vivian Maylor discovers that her visions of mythical beasts is real and is plunged into a world where the line between dream and reality is hard to distinguish and control. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698368 The Great Reawakening did not come quietly. Across the country and in every nation, people began to develop terrifying powers, summoning storms, raising the dead, and setting everything they touch ablaze. Overnight the rules changed, .but not for everyone. Colonel Alan Bookbinder is an army bureaucrat whose worst war wound is a paper-cut. But after he develops magical powers, he is torn from everything he knows and thrown onto the front-lines. Drafted into the Supernatural Operations Corps in a new and dangerous world, Bookbinder finds himself in command of Forward Operating Base Frontier, cut off, surrounded by monsters, and on the brink of being overrun. Now, he must find the will to lead the people of FOB Frontier out of hell, even if the one hope of salvation lies in teaming up with the man whose own magical powers put the base in such grave danger in the first place, Oscar Britton, public enemy number one. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704757 In the jungles of Khyrei, an escaped slave seeks vengeance and finds the key to a savage revolution. In the drought-stricken Stormlands, the Twin Kings argue the destiny of their kingdom: one walks the path of knowledge, the other treads the road to war. Beyond the haunted mountains King Vireon confronts a plague of demons bent on destroying his family. With intrigue, sorcery, and war, Seven Kings continues the towering fantasy epic that began with Seven Princes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695503 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732022 In this sequel to The Lost Gate, bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the Mages of Westil who live in exile on Earth. Here on Earth, Danny North is still in high school, yet he holds in his heart and mind all the stolen outselves of thirteen centuries of gatemages. The Families still want to kill him if they cant control him...and they cant control him. He is far too powerful. And on Westil, Wad is now nearly powerless--he lost everything to Danny in their struggle. Even if he can survive the revenge of his enemies, he still must somehow make peace with the Gatemage Daniel North. For when Danny took that power from Loki, he also took the responsibility for the Great Gates. And when he comes face-to-face with the mages who call themselves Bel and Ishtoreth, he will come to understand just why Loki closed the gates all those centuries ago.--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734865 Exiled heir Re-Tamur and his wizard friend Sarmarkar take on the dark forces that are determined to conquer the great Empires along the Celedon Road. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734525 When assassin Gin Blanco, a.k.a. the Spider, is robbed and taken hostage at gunpoint during the biggest gala event of the summer at Ashlands fanciest art museum, she is more than happy to show these unlucky thieves that red is her favorite color. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713806 Once Corine Solomon only had the touch: the ability to read an objects past by handling it. Then she inherited her mothers magick, and that ended up being a hell of a burden. But if Corine can wrestle a demon queen and win, she can bring back her lover Chance after hes made the ultimate sacrifice. Cant she? All Corine knows is that she cant leave Chance behind if theres anything she can do about it. But the clock is ticking, and she still has to deal with debt-collecting demons and a maniacal archangel whos running a recruitment drive. The stakes have never been so high, and this time its truly Corines last chance to save the love of her life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733133 1593. The dreaded alchemist, black magician and spy Dr. John Dee is missing... and terror sweeps through the court of Queen Elizabeth, for in Dees possession is an obsidian mirror, a mysterious object of great power which legend says could set the world afire. The call goes out to celebrated swordsman, adventurer and rake Will Swyfte: find Dee and his feared looking-glass and return them to London before disaster strikes. But when Will discovers the mirror may help him solve the mystery that has haunted him for years-- the fate of his lost love, Jenny-- the stakes become acutely personal. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733228 Possessing no magic but a beautiful singing voice, Makeda leaves her formerly co-joined twin sister, Abby, to set out on her own for a life of independence, but must reconcile with her sibling after her father goes missing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711732 Upon turning nine, Merlin is apprenticed to a skilled healer who hones his extraordinary gift of prophecy and healing, while the High King of the Celts searches for a human sacrifice to make his towers stand firm and sets his sights on the gifted boy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727099 Its a city built upwards, not across--where streets are built upon streets, buildings upon buildings. A city that the Ministry rules from the sunlit summit, and where the forsaken lurk in the darkness of Under. Rojan Dizon doesnt mind staying in the shadows, because hes got things to hide. Things like being a pain-mage, with the forbidden power to draw magic from pain. But he cant hide for ever. Because when Rojan stumbles upon the secrets lurking in the depths of the Pit, the fate of Mahala will depend on him using his magic. And unlucky for Rojan--this is going to hurt.-- P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696550 Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyverns jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders. But if standing and fighting is hard, leading a company of men-- or worse, a company of mercenaries-- against the smart, deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder. It takes all the advantages of birth, training, and the luck of the devil to do it. The Red Knight has all three. So when he hires his company out to protect an Abbess and her nunnery, its just another job... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713809 There is another world than our own-- one no closer than a kiss and one no further than our nightmares-- where all the stuff of which dreams are made is real and magic is just a step away. But once you see that world, you will never be the same. Dreams and Shadows takes us beyond this veil. Once bold explorers and youthful denizens of this magical realm, Ewan is now an Austin musician who just met his dream girl, and Colby, meanwhile, cannot escape the consequences of an innocent wish. But while Ewan and Colby left the Limestone Kingdom as children, it has never forgotten them. And in a world where angels relax on rooftops, whiskey-swilling genies argue metaphysics with foul-mouthed wizards, and monsters in the shadows feed on fear, you can never outrun your fate -- from HarperCollins web site. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742780 Regency-era glamourists Jane and Vincent Ellsworth hope to bolster Melodys chances for a good marriage by accepting a commission from a prominent London family, a job that embroils them in an international crisis. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694772 Condemned for killing the man who dishonored his sister, Blaine Mick McFadden has spent the last six years in Velant, a penal colony in the frigid northern wastelands. Harsh discipline and oppressive magic keep a fragile peace as colonists struggle against a hostile environment. But the supply ships from Dondareth have stopped coming, boding ill for the kingdom that banished the colonists. Now, as the world s magic runs wild, McFadden and the people of Velant must fight to survive and decide their fate--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698369 Magical hero Quaeryt leads the first Imager fighting force into war and joins a vengeful invading army in the hostile land of Bovaria, where Quaeryt secretly demonstrates the heroics of Imagers to legitimize their status. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735842 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704286 Celia Graves, bodyguard, part siren, part vampire is called upon by her aunt, who is the queen of the sirens, to act as her cousin Adrianas bodyguard during Adrianas wedding since a conspiracy is afoot. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697971 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705386 During a tumultuous period in the Four Lands, young Druid Aphenglow stumbles on a dangerous secret about an Elvan girls heartbreak and the vanished Elfstones. Set seven years after the High Druid series. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704403 Four years after the horrific events in Leadville, a young woman from England, Victoria Dawes, sets into motion a series of events that will lead Cora and herself out into the New Mexico desert in pursuit of Anaba, a Navajo witch bent on taking revenge for the atrocities committed against her people. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713767 Discovering a Necklace plot to destabilize the U.S. government by using a demonic entitys powers to reawaken terrorist fears, Max August tests his magickal resources and the abilities of companions Pam and Vee to save tens of thousands of spectators in a domed stadium. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713856 To keep three helpless were-dog children safe, occult bounty hunter Deacon Chalk must battle a trio of evil witches, which forces him to partner with a ruthless government agent, embrace a power beyond his imagining, and put both his team and his soul on the line. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714172 My name is Calliope Reaper-Jones (Callie to my friends). Im Deaths Daughter and as of very recently,the (reluctant) head of my fathers company, Death, Inc. I was gradually learning how to be a businesswoman. Had the power suits and shoes down, though the day to day was slow going. Then I was blindsided by Enemies Unknown and sent off to I-dont-know-where. Not a good thing. Now not only must my friends and family be frantic, but without a CEO, Death, Inc., cannot function. With the newly deceased left free to roam the Earth, it is the zombie apocalypse come true. Ive got to get back both for my sake and the sake of, oh, all humanity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728699 Two decades after being forced into slavery by seafaring Norlander invaders, a small faction of Shadari rebels hires the infamous mercenary Mongrel to assist their uprising, unaware that her ties to the region render her a volatile ally with an agenda of her own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679685 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1478918 As she tries to save the Thorn Lands prophecy-haunted queen, shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham must form an uneasy alliance with her shapeshifting ex-lover Kiyo and use her own cursed fate as a weapon to conquer evil. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577811 Being a human mmune to magic helped Sophie Lawson get promoted. Its also made her a major, very reluctant player in a game that stretches beyond even the Underworld. Having handsome buttoned-down Englishman Will as her new guardian is one tempting blessing, especially since sexy fallen angel Alex is mysteriously MIA lately. But as a frightening number of demons start disappearing around the city, Sophie suspects that an Armageddon-level prophecy is about to become everyones nightmare. And her investigation is testing her bravery--and Wills unepected vulnerability--in ways neither could predict. Now Sophie and will are fast running out of time as an unstoppable evil prepares to lay waste to demons and humans alive. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624541 Gifted with the ability to draw objects out of books, Isacc Vainio, a Libriomancer, seeks assistance from a Harley-riding dryad after a number of vampire attacks are reported by other members of his secret, magic organization. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1580589 The half-breed daughter of a Fae lord, Holly Evendale, paid to uncover secrets others wish to hide, stumbles upon a Templar knight in her part of the city and is forced to place her trust in this holy warrior when the peace treaty that set the laws for all four races is broken. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647378 Falaste Rione is imprisoned, sentenced to death. The magical balance of the Source is slipping and the fabric of reality itself has begun to tear. Jianna Belandor can think only of freeing the man she loves while undead creatures terrorize the land, slaves of the Overmind--a relentless consciousness determined to bring everything that lives under its sway. All that stands in the way is a motley group of arcanists and a misanthropic hermit whose next move may turn the tide and save the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1652551 An ancient, evil force known as the Darkness threatens Albion several years after the monarch took the throne, disrupting an era of peace and prosperity and engulfing the kingdom in war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518829 Summoner-King Tris Drayke takes what remains of his army north for a war he is ill-prepared to fight, as reports from spies confirm Triss worst fear. A new threat rises across the sea: a dark summoner who intends to make the most of the Winter Kingdoms weakness. In Isencroft, Kiaras father is assassinated and she will now have no choice except to return and claim the crown. But she must leave behind her husband and their infant son to face the dark power that threatens her rule--Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577934 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1565643 As the Byzantine and German emperors plot war, the future of Venice rests with three unwilling people, including an ex-slave and trained assassin; a spoiled, but grieving noblewoman; and a pauper girl who escapes after being buried alive. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1473357 When a series of grisly murders threaten to stall treaty negotiations between the mages and the vampires, Sabina Kane, while trying to find the killer, questions everyone she thought she could trust. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1564913 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649539 As Lenk journeys to the island of Jaga, the tomb of Ulbecetonth, he is hunted... by enemies, by the woman he loves, by the demon he has to kill, by an army of any number of bloodthirsty purple berserkers, savage lizardmen, vicious monsters, and colossal demons. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544111 Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a skin man, Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beasts most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, The Wind through the Keyhole. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1482160 While helping the vampire Menessos, who is being hunted by a trio of extremely dangerous truthseeking vampire sisters, Persephone Alcmedi, Lustrata of the witches, must deal with her lover, the waeres, her eccentric family, vampire politics and two sexy supernatural males. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671722 When he stumbles upon a magical bag that belongs to Krampus, the Lord of Yule and the dark enemy of Santa Claus, struggling songwriter Jesse gets an unexpected chance to save his daughter and his own broken dreams, and return magic to Boone County, West Virginia. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693992 Gavin Ennock has everything a man could desire-except time. As the clockwork plague consumes his body and mind, it drives him increasingly mad and fractures his relationship with his fiance, Alice, Lady Michaels. Their only hope is that the Dragon Men of China can cure him. But a power-mad general has seized the Chinese throne in a determined offensive to conquer Asia, Britain-indeed, the entire world. He has closed the countrys borders to all foreigners. The former ruling dynasty, however, is scheming to return the rightful heir to power. Their designs will draw Gavin and Alice down a treacherous path strewn with intrigue and power struggles. One wrong step will seal Gavins fate...and determine the future of the world.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735864 Shunted into the background of a great empire it once founded, the sleepy island city of Malaz frenetically prepares for a once-in-a-generation celestial event that has been foretold to be a precursor to the return of an ancient oppressive force. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1609278 Gujaareh, the city of dreams, suffers under the imperial rule of the Kisuati Protectorate. A city where the only law was peace now knows violence and oppression. And nightmares: a mysterious and deadly plague haunts the citizens, dooming them to die screaming in their sleep. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1604898 A beautiful balance of magic and crime, history and fantasy that was fast-paced, compelling, and completely absorbing. Historical fantasy that reads like an old-school crime novel, as if Raymond Chandler were channeling Jonathan Swift. I loved it!--Kat Richardson. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675704 Elven Queen Vielissiar Farcarinon makes wrenching sacrifices to work unprecedented magics and bond with a dragon. Set in the same world as the Enduring Flame trilogy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1614933 Jesse James Dawson must keep Hollywood starlet, blonde bombshell Gretchen Keene--and the souls shes carting around--safe until New Years and wonders how he can fight something he cant see coming. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1638623 Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a skin man, Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beasts most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, The Wind through the Keyhole. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678287 In 1348, after a young girl left orphaned by the Black Death predicts a coming apocalypse, Thomas, a disgraced knight, finds himself in the middle of a second war on heaven as angels fight demons. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669973 Gifted with the ability to see the fae and track their movements between our world and the Realm, McKenzie Lewis finds her dreams of living a normal life shattered when she is plunged into a brutal civil war among the fae--one that could cost the lives of everyone shes tried so hard to save. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1478958 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687476 Joy to the world. or, joy to the worlds! Let heaven and nature--and also the supernatural--sing. A Cosmic Christmas presents twelve stories of Christmas in very unusual circumstances, ranging from vampires to robots, from the hills of Appalachia to a high orbit space station, all celebrating the holiday in their own, off-beat ways. New York Times best-selling author Larry Correia sends his popular tough guy detective and magicwielder, Jake Sullivan, on a special case, while visions of tommy guns dance in the heads of the thugs hes up against. Mark L. Van Names Lobo, an A.I. housed in a pocket battle starship, drops his usual cynical pose when challenged by a troubled family at Christmas time. Nebula Award-winner Catherine Asaro tells of a romantic weekend that turns into a mystery in a futuristic high-tech house--all that and Christmas, too. Mercedes Lackey delivers a ghost story with a not-so-friendly visitation from the beyond, and George O. Smith, a star of the Golden Age of science fiction, is on hand with an episode from his classic Venus Equilateral series, in which a Christmas celebration on a gigantic space station is interrupted by the arrival of a ruthless interplanetary criminal, who didnt drop by to hand out presents. And much more, in a holiday package that any fan of science fiction and fantasy would be delighted to find under their tree, on any planet. About A Cosmic Christmas authors: If you love monsters and action, youll love [Larry Correia]. If you love guns, youll love [Correia]. If you love fantasy, and especially horror fantasy, youll love [Correia].--Knotclan.com [Catherine Asaro creates] an entertaining mix of hard SF and romance.--Publishers Weekly Just when I was thinking science fiction might be over, Mark Van Name proves that there are still smart, exciting, emotional sci-fi stories to be told. -Orson Scott Card-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1565094 Twelve years ago, two children witnessed a murder that still haunts them as adults. Tali, a slave girl in subterranean Cython, saw her mothers head hacked open and something taken from inside. Rix, boy heir to the biggest fortune in Hightspall, watched two shrouded figures do the deed. He did not realise they were his parents, acting for a faceless sorcerer. Tali has sworn to bring her mothers murderers to justice, but now she is hunted by a killer who can only be beaten by magic. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1557048 As the clouds of war gather and the final battle for Midkemia begins, the Keshs invading hordes descend upon the Kingdom, and the magician Pug must harness his magic and wisdom to save them all from a new threat that could destroy the alliance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577936 Quaeryts prestigious new rank and marriage to Vaelora are threatened by a devastating volcanic eruption in the old capital of Telaryn, where he is challenged to restore order in the face of chaos, corruption, and an invasion by a would-be conqueror. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647444 Despite being tasked to work together, Manshoon and Elminster battle, as Elminster inhabits the body of a fallen dark elf so that he can rally Cormyrs wizards and stop deadly monsters, while Manshoon tries to conquer Cormyr. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559292 Princess Lasva falls into the arms of Prince Ivandred of Marloven Hesea, sparking a war fueled by a mage in league with the magical land of Norsunder--considered by Lasvas people the Colendi to be their enemy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1658871 A young Herald trainee in Haven, Mags, is trained as a spy to uncover secrets held by a mysterious new enemy of the kingdom of Valdemar. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559747 While helping her ex-lover, Hitch, locate a secret chemical weapons lab where humans are being used as lab rats, Annabelle Lee, a Fairy Containment and Control agent, discovers that everyone around her is keeping dangerous secrets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1477872 When the bond Maxine Kiss shares with the demons tattooed on her skin is deliberately severed, the demon hunter is left vulnerable and unprotected. For the first time in ten thousand years, the demons have a taste of freedom. And as the little demons grow more violent and unpredictable, Maxine starts to fear they will lose their minds without her. Reuniting wont be easy, since a greater temptation waits for these hellions: a chance to return to their lives as Reaper Kings, and unleash hell on Earth.--Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1511861 Consumed with despair, the blind necromancer Dante seeks refuge in a magical puzzle-- a puzzle that supposedly fulfills ones utmost desires. But its actually a seductive trap, threatening to unleash the very cataclysm he fears. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681146 As Ruhens millennia-old plans are about to bear terrible fruit and his power continues unchecked, King Emin and his allies have one opportunity to stop him--use a weapon so terrible only a dead man could wield it, and only a madman would try. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1656472 During the thirteenth century, in northwest England, in one of the coldest winters in living memory, a formidable middle-aged Irishwoman and her little troupe are trying to drive their three wagons across the Pennines before the heavy snows set in. Molly, her powerful and enigmatic lover Jack, her fey granddaughter Nemain, and the young apprentice Hob soon find that something terrible prowls the woods through which they must make their way. As they travel from refuge to refuge, it becomes apparent that the evil must be faced, and it is then that Hob learns how much more there is to his adopted family than he had ever imagined-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1599459 Queen Victoria is the undead matriarch of a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where goblins live underground, and where mothers know better than to let their children out after dark. In this world, being part of the nobility means being infected with the Plague (side-effects include undeath), Hysteria is the popular affliction of the day, and leeches are considered a delicacy--and technology lives side by side with magic. The year is 2012 and Pax Britannia still reigns. Xandra Vardan is a member of the elite Royal Guard, and it is her duty to protect the Aristocracy. But when her sister goes missing, Xandra will set out on a path that undermines everything she believed in and uncover a conspiracy that threatens to topple the empire. And she is the key-the prize in a very dangerous struggle. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1580593 Ei Monpress is vain. Hes cocky. And hes a thief. But hes a thief who has just seen his bounty topped and hes not happy about it. The bounty topper, as it turns out, is his best friend, bodyguard, and master swordsman, Josef. Who has been keeping secrets from Eli. Apparently, hes the only prince of a rather feisty country and his mother (a formidable queen whos every bit as driven and stubborn as he is) wants him to come home and do his duty, which means throwing over personal ambitions like proving hes the greatest swordsman who ever lived. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1599450 Riss has taken a leave of absence from the Boston PD to focus on her Fury duties, and becomes embroiled in a civil war which threatens to tear apart the Sisterhood and divide arcanekind. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1638639 While investigating a haunting at the long-abandoned Haybarn Theatre, the Ghost Finders, led by unbearably arrogant J. C. Chance, think this will be an easy assignment until they encounter an ancient evil whose ability to alter reality tests all of their skills. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1672170 After nearly dying at the hands of the Aurelian, Chrysabelle finds new determination to move beyond life as a comarr. That is until the Kubai Mata bring a new task to her doorstep: rescue the child Tatiana has kidnapped, or Mal becomes enemy number one. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577718 In a city where Gatherers harvest the magic of the sleeping mind and use it to judge the corrupt, Ehiru, the most famous of the citys Gatherers, learns that he must protect the woman he was sent to kill or watch the city be devoured by forbidden magic. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1575479 Caim must face an unfathomable power waiting for him in a land of eternal night. Final book in Sprunks Shadow trilogy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684692 In this sequel to The Alchemist of Souls, a group of renegades cause a rift among the Skraylings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647445 Audrun, a human woman trapped within Alisanos -- a sentient forest -- is reunited with her four children, only to learn that each has been marked by the deepwoods wild magic. And her newly born fifth child, captured by a winged demon, is still missing. Audrun has sworn to find the infant, but can a mere human possibly hope to outwit the monstrous inhabitants of Alisanos ... and the nightmarish deepwood itself? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660669 A god has died, and its up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without Him, the metropoliss steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Taras job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in. Her only help: Abelard, a chain-smoking priest of the dead god, whos having an understandable crisis of faith. When Tara and Abelard discover that Kos was murdered, they have to make a case in Alt Coulumbs courts--and their quest for the truth endangers their partnership, their lives, and Alt Coulumbs slim hope of survival. Set in a phenomenally built world in which justice is a collective force bestowed on a few, craftsmen fly on lightning bolts, and gargoyles can rule cities, Three Parts Dead introduces readers to an ethical landscape in which the line between right and wrong blurs. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1548495 Newlyweds Jane and David Vincent travel to Belgium and their ability to create invisibility via glamour makes them a target for emperor Napoleons returning forces. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1508973 An ancient sorcerer slaughters the King of Yaskatha and his court before the unbelieving eyes of the young Prince Dzan. From that moment the fugitive Prince is driven by one thought: he must regain his fathers stolen throne. The lives of six foreign Princes are tied to Dzans fate as he seeks allies for his cause. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1585306 While trying to find out the truth about her demonic heritage, Tess Corday, an agent with the Occult Special Investigations squad, finds herself at odds with her undead boyfriend during an unauthorized investigation into an addictive new street drug that results in a paranormal showdown.