Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&browse=true&N=3+7439+4294965687 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=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=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=1572213 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1594896 For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats. Assigned to External Assets, Bob discovers the company--unofficially--employs freelance agents to deal with sensitive situations that may embarrass Queen and Country. So when Ray Schiller--an American televangelist with the uncanny ability to miraculously heal the ill--becomes uncomfortably close to the Prime Minister, External Assets dispatches the brilliant, beautiful, and entirely unpredictable Persephone Hazard to infiltrate the Golden Promise Ministry and discover why the preacher is so interested in British politics. And its Bobs job to make sure Persephone doesnt cause an international incident. But its a supernatural incident that Bob needs to worry about--a global threat even the Laundry may be unable to clean up..-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696684 London 1872. A bloody escape, a deadly threat, a shocking revelation. As the orphan who stole the Queens ring - only to find the ring was a reservoir that held a truce between the world of Faerie and the British Court - Tikis greatest fear suddenly becomes all too real: the fey have returned to London seeking revenge. As war escalates in the Otherworld, Queen Victorias youngest son, Prince Leopold, is attacked. In order to protect her family and the ones she loves, she needs to know the meaning of the birthmark that winds around her wrist. But will Tiki be brave enough to face the truth? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1477796 Investigators Burton and Swinburne return to Africa to seek the source of the Nile, a magic gem, and a way to fix history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647318 The Constantine Affliction, a strange malady that kills some of its victims and physically transforms others into the opposite sex, has spread scandal and upheaval throughout society. Scientific marvels and disasters, such as clockwork courtesans, the alchemical fires of Whitechapel, electric carriages, and acidic monsters lurking in the Thames, have forever altered the face of the city. Pembroke Pimm Hanover is an aristocrat with an interest in criminology, who uses his keen powers of observation to assist the police or private individuals, at least when hes sober enough to do so. Ellie Skyler, who hides her gender behind the byline E. Skye, is an intrepid journalist driven by both passion and necessity to uncover the truth, no matter where it hides. When Pimm and Skye stumble onto a dark plot that links the citys most notorious criminal overlord with the Queens new consort, famed scientist Sir Bertram Oswald, they soon find the forces of both high and low society arrayed against them. Can they save the city from the arcane machinations of one of historys biggest monsters and uncover the shocking origin of the Constantine Affliction. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392322 After the death of her father, Lucy Derrick is forced to maintain a shabby dignity as an unwanted boarder with her unpleasant uncle, fending off marriage to the local mill owner, Mr. Olson. But her prospects of even that unwanted match are complicated by the appearance of a beautiful stricken man who appears on the family doorstep begging her not to marry Mr. Olson just as he collapses. This appearance seems to open the door to a series of increasingly strange occurrences surrounding Lucy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1244234 In 1918, wounded WWI American soldier Alex White has a frightening encounter in the forest near the pastoral English village of Gatford. His encounter leads him into the arms of Magda Variel, an alluring red-haired widow rumored to be a witch. She warns him to steer clear of the wood and the perilous faerie kingdom it borders, but Alex cannot help himself. Drawn to its verdant mysteries, he finds love, danger, and wonders that will forever change his view of the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1377261 Five hundred years ago Henry VIII had a fearsome temper and bloodthirsty reputation to match; more beast than human, some might say... Is it possible he was really a werewolf?!? Discover the man behind the myth-- and behind the fur-- in this inventive retelling of Henrys reign. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1261133 The year is 1918. Alex White, a young American soldier recently wounded in the Great War, comes to Gatford to escape his troubled past. The pastoral English village seems the perfect spot to heal his wounded body and soul, but the neighboring woods are said to be haunted by capricious, even malevolent, spirits. He is warned to steer clear of the woods, and the perilous faerie kingdom it borders, but Alex cannot help himself. Drawn to its verdant mysteries, he finds love, danger, and wonders that will forever change his view of the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1236831 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1426007 When Eva Ward moves to an old house on the Cornish coast, she discovers hidden pathways, mysterious voices, and ghosts of the past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185076 Jane Austen, turned into a vampire against her will, joins a group of English vampires in putting their superhuman strength and speed to the service of their country and thwarting a French invasion. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1163519 When Kit Livingstone learns that Britains ley lines are not legends but pathways to other worlds, hes determined to find a map tattooed on a piece of skin in order to travel to the dangerous realms. But are the intricate codes more than they seem--can they really begin a quest to regain paradise? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1165777 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1005027 Acting as the son her father never had, Gwenhwyfar, when called upon to serve another purpose by the Ladies of the Well, bows to circumstances to become Arthurs queen--only to find herself facing temptation and treachery, intrigue and betrayal, but also love and redemption. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1024278 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1054314 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=695484 Titans of Chaos completes Wrights new fantasy trilogy, the Chronicles of Chaos. Launched with the Orphans of Chaos and continued with Fugitives of Chaos, the trilogy is about five orphans raised in a strict boarding school who discover that they are not human. The students do not age, while the world around them does. They had been kidnapped from their true parents, robbed of their powers, and raised in ignorance by superbeings: pagan gods and fairy queens, Cyclopes, sea monsters, witches, and things even stranger. The five have made sinister discoveries about themselves. Amelia is apparently a fourth dimensional being; Victor is a synthetic man who can control the molecular arrangement of matter; Vanity can find secret passageways through solid walls; Colin is psychic; Quentin is a warlock. Each power comes from a different paradigm or view of the universe, and they should not be able to coexist under the same laws of nature. They have learned to control their strange abilities and have escaped into our world. And now their true battle for survival begins.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=677062 Great Harry is dead, and England is ruled by a dour Protector for 10-year-old Edward VI - a Protector intent on keeping total control over the young king, and no friend to Lady Elizabeth. In the great lenses that hold Visions of the future for the elves of the Bright Court and the Dark, the images change and waver. A pale, thin girl sometimes wears a crown and sometimes has no head: King Edward and his Court grow misty as he changes from boy to stripling. The fires of Marys reign still burn bright as they swallow writhing men, women, and children. But if she ever reigns, a red-haired queen brings a burgeoning of art and joy. Elimination of that possibility for England is Vidal Dhus prime purpose, but he has been forbidden by King Oberon to attack Elizabeth. Other means to remove her from the succession to the throne must be found. When Elizabeth goes to live with her stepmother, Queen Catherine, Vidal seizes the opportunity to use Thomas, Catherines amoral husband, to stimulate Elizabeths awakening sexuality. An affair would disgrace her; rendering her unfit to rule. And if his plan to involve the young prince in a poisonous scandal should fail, Vidal has still more twisted plans to eliminate Elizabeth once and for all.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=679829 Inscribed in Latin, The Prophecy has resided in the hands of a single family for generations, revealing secrets about the world that is to come, and guiding them to wealth and power. It begins when a Celtic noble betrays his people at the behest of his mothers belief in The Prophecy and sides with the conquering Roman legions. For the next 400 years, Britannia thrives-as does the family that contributed to Romes reign over the island with the construction of Emperor Hadrians Wall and the protection of Emperor Constantine from a coup detat. And even when the sun begins to set on the Roman Empire, The Prophecy remains. For those capable of deciphering its signs and portents, the future of Earth is in their hands--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=619813 A second installment of the trilogy that began with The White Mare spans three centuries and recreates Celtic Britain at the time of the Roman invasion, during which Rhiann, an Alban priestess and princess, enters a political marriage with exiled Irish prince Eremon, a union that gives way to a powerful love on which the nations fate rests. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=673701 Every schoolboy knows the history: in the twelfth century, Mordred the Great defeated his father, King Arthur - forever after despised as Arthur the Tyrant - and founded the Pendragon Empire. Now, half a millenium later, the Empires flag flies over much of Europe, Asia, and the New World, ably defended by the White and Red knights of the Order of Crown, Shield, and Dragon. The White and Red Knights carry swords, each containing the soul of someone of great power. Even in the hands of a knight of the Order, and wielded in the cause of righteousness, both Red and White swords are terribly dangerous to their owners and those around them: a single red sword can defeat an army, or leave a city in flaming ruins, its inhabitants dead - or worse. In their last mission, four knights of the Order were able to defeat an enemy possessing an arsenal of red swords, although the victory came at a terrible cost. And now, new menaces are threatening. An ancient witch, long thought to be dead, has returned. The deadly - and undead - creatures called darklings are infesting Europe. And on the Scottish isle of Colonsay, another deadly supernatural being has reappeared, his pipes sending inhabitants into frenzies of murderous madness. And this time, service, honor, faith, and obedience - even when backed with a sword of power - may not be enough to hold back the forces of darkness.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=666253 Hunted like an animal by Norman invaders, Bran ap Brychan, heir to the throne Elfael, has abandoned his fathers kingdom and fled to the greenwood. There, in the primeval forest of the Welsh borders, danger surrounds him -- for this woodland is a living, breathing entity with mysterious powers and secrets, and Bran must find a way to make it his own if he is to survive. Like the forest itself, Hood is deep, dark, and at times savagely brutal -- yet full of enchantment and hope. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=612067 To the Eceni tribe of Britannia, nature is the ultimate god, and warriors are joined in battle by the voices and spirits of their ancestors. But the proud Eceni are running out of time. Neros army, long since out of patience with Britannias wild tribes, is becoming increasingly oppressive. And Boudicas family is at the center of the gathering storm: Cunomar, Boudicas son, who longs for the mettle to kill as fiercely as his mother ... Graine, her young daughter, gifted with the power of dreamers, scarred forever by the horrors of war ... and Boudicas brother, born Ban of the Eceni, turned the traitor Valerius - a man caught between worlds: warrior and dreamer, Roman and Eceni. As conflict erupts between the tribes and their brutal invaders, Boudica is forced to make a bold sacrifice. Cloaking her identity, she will travel directly into the stronghold of an enemy who longs for her crucifixion. What happens next - in a brutal drama of betrayal, heroism, and sacrifice - will leave Boudica with no options but one: to raise and arm every warrior, every dreamer, every tribe ... and push the invader and its legions back into the sea.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=834183 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=630295 Raised in a strict British boarding school, five orphans discover that they possess unusual powers, from psychic premonitions to the ability to rearrange matter, and when they learn that they have been kidnapped from their parents and are not aging at the same rate as other people, they formulate a desperate escape plan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=581254 Britain. An ancient land. Most think they know its history- but few know the truth. From the mists of time came Brutus, last of the Trojan kings, armed with hidden knowledge. He was captivated by the alluring sorceress Genvissa, and together they almost succeeded in creating a magical Labyrinth that could rival the might of the gods. But the Labyrinth was struck down by Brutuss wife, Cornelia, who believed that to challenge the power of the gods was to destroy the world. Her actions trapped them in an endless cycle of death and rebirth. Ages passed, and again and again the players came close to victory, only to be thwarted each time. But these soul travelers have arrived in a most unique Now: the English are at war, a mighty civil war that threatens to destroy a nation. A great pestilence is upon the land, and the newly restored Charles II is trying to hold chaos at bay. He is another player in the game, reborn yet again. And he is not alone.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=540147 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=477763 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=471975 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=542217 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=430918 A poet with promise and little else, young Will Shakespeare is having a harder time of it in London than he thought he would. Though his contact with the world of faerie has left him with poetry in his blood and the urgent need to express it, he is overshadowed by the favorite of Elizabeth I, Christopher Marlowe. But Will and his rival have more in common than they think. They can both trace their creative spark back to the world of faerie, back to the same bed - and now Lady Silver, who loves them both still, has come to London. She has come to track down a creature of supernatural might and vaulting ambition. It wants nothing less than to take control of both worlds.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=496963 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=273307 Baltimore, 1805: When young Sarah Cunninghams father dies, she is left alone in the world. At the behest of her aunt, she leaves behind her few friends and heads across the ocean to the hope of a new life in England with a distant relative. Little does Sarah suspect that her journey will carry her much farther than a mere oceans width. For as she crosses the Atlantic, powerful magics are being worked by Lady Sarah Roxbury. Lying on her deathbed, Roxbury casts a spell that will summon her counterpart from the universe-next-door ... Sarah. Waking, Sarah finds herself in a world not her own, a world where the Stuart kings still rule England, where Baltimore and the original thirteen United States are still British colonies, where Napoleon runs rampant on the European continent, a world where she is the Lady Roxbury. Under the influence of a steady supply of drugs and insidious manipulation, Sarah comes to believe that she is Roxbury, and soon finds herself embroiled deep in the machinations of court intrigue and scandal. She also comes to despise her intended, the Duke of Wessex. As the threat of a French invasion grows, the only hope for England is a peace treaty with Denmark. But when the Princess of Denmark goes missing and Frances agent, the Marquis de Sade, is found in council with Denmarks king, it is up to Sarah and Wessex to put aside their differences. Together they must find a way to rescue the princess from her captivity deep in the black heart of Imperial France before Napoleon can cross the channel and utterly destroy England.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=137226 Like the inhabitants of the mystical Avalon, readers of Lady of Avalon will feel they have been transported to another world - a world of myth, magic, romance, and history. This novel spans the creation of Avalon itself and foreshadows the birth of the legendary King Arthur. Here, we meet three remarkable holy women who steer the fortunes of Roman Britain as they struggle with their own destinies: Caillean retreats to the island of Avalon with a small band of priestesses. There she establishes a sisterhood to serve the Great Goddess, raises the heir to the mystic royal line, and veils Avalon from a hostile world in its everlasting mists. The astute Dierna guides Avalon through treacherous political waters by marrying a young priestess to a Roman general ... only to discover that love - especially her own - cannot be so easily controlled. Ana gives birth to a baby girl who will be the mother of the great King to come. But it is her beautiful and feisty oldest daughter, Viviane, who is destined for true greatness - as the famed Lady of the Lake and guardian of the Grail.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=12427 We know the legends: Arthur, who brought justice to a land that had known only cruelty and force; his father, Uther, who had carved a kingdom out of the chaos of the fallen Roman Empire; the sword Excalibur, drawn from stone by Englands greatest king. But legends do not tell the whole tale. Legends do not tell of the despairing Roman soldiers, abandoned by their empire, faced with the choice of fleeing back to Rome or struggling to create a last stronghold against barbarian onslaughts from the north and the east. Legends do not tell of Arthurs great-grandfather, Publius Varrus, the warrior who marked the boundaries of a reborn empire with his own shed blood; they do not tell of Publius wife, Luceiia, British-born and Roman-raised, whose fierce beauty burned pale next to her passion for law and honor. The Singing Sword continues the gripping epic begun in The Skystone. As the great night of the Dark Ages falls over Roman Britain, a lone man and woman fight to build a last stronghold of law and learning - a crude hill-fort which one day, long after their deaths, will become a great city; a crude hill-fort which one day will be known as Camelot.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=27751 Sharan Newman has created a portrait of what Guinevere might have been like--not a cardboard character who has been both deified and vilified over the centuries, but someone who was as bound by prophecy as Arthur and whose will ultimately was not all her own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=119277 The worlds greatest fantasy classic is the magical epic of King Arthur and his shining Camelot, of Merlyn and Guinevere, of beasts who talk and men who fly, of wizardry and war. It is the book of all things lost and wonderful and sad. It is the fantasy masterpiece by which all others are judged.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=238886 Before the Mists obscured the Isle of Avalon, there was the Forest House; where, in a remote part of Britain, a secret circle of Druidic priestesses guarded the ancient rites of learning, healing, and prophecy against the inexorable approach of the Roman Empire. Young Eilan, born to a Druidic family, is ripening toward womanhood and the flowering of an inner power she hardly dares dream of. Already she hears the call of the Great Goddess - and it will be she who is ceremonially chosen as the new High Priestess when the reigning Priestess of the Oracle dies. But first, Eilan hears another voice - that of her love for the young Roman Gaius Macellius, whose mission is to subdue her native land and all its seemingly pagan ways. But Eilan must find the courage to renounce her lover for her sacred destiny... For within the Forest Houses realm also dwell the bitter priestess Dieda, who, against her will, makes a pact that will bind her to Eilan forever; and the rebellious young priestess Caillean, who protects Eilan with a passion that runs far deeper than duty. Yet it is the Arch-Druid Ardanos, by turns the High Priestesss greatest ally and most ruthless enemy, who could destroy the Forest House, should he learn the terrible secret Eilan guards as fiercely as her life. The war that rages within Eilan mirrors the turbulence of her times; as the legions of Rome move closer, Eilan must rely on the power and magic of the Great Goddess to find her way out of the labyrinth in which fate has placed her... Like her classic bestseller The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradleys new novel is a tapestry of myth, mystery, and romance, rich in the detail of the Druids timeless rituals. The Forest House is a mesmerizing epic of a womans mythic role at a turning point in history - brought to magnificent, unforgettable life.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=9672 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=119222