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1) Beyond
Author
Series
Founding of Valdemar volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited founding of Valdemar comes to life. Within the Eastern Empire, Duke Kordas Valdemar rules a tiny, bucolic Duchy that focuses mostly on horse breeding. Anticipating the day when the Empire's exploitative and militant leaders would not be content to leave them alone, Kordas' father set out to gather magicians in the hopes of one day finding a way to escape and protect the people of the Duchy from tyranny. Kordas has lived his life...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Baron Valdemar and his people have found a temporary haven, but it cannot hold all of them, or for long. Trouble could follow on their heels at any moment, and there are too many people for Crescent Lake to support. Those who are willing to make a further trek by barge on into the West will follow him into a wilderness depopulated by war and scarred by the terrible magics of a thousand years ago and the Mage Wars. But the wilderness is not as empty...
3) Valdemar
Author
Language
English
Description
"The refugees from the Empire have established a thriving city called Haven with the help of the Tayledras and their allies. But the Tayledras have begun a slow withdrawal to the dangerous lands known as the Pelagirs, leaving the humans of Haven to find their own way. But even with Haven settled, the lands around Haven are not without danger. Most of the danger comes in the form of magicians: magicians taking advantage of the abundant magical energy...
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
433 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beauty and the Beast in a contemporary urban fantasy setting.. Rosalind Hawkins is a medieval scholar from a fine family in Chicago, unfortunately, her professor father has speculated away the family money and died, leaving young Rosalind with no fortune and no future. Desolate with grief, forced to cut her education short, she agrees to go West to take a job as a governess to a wealthy man in San Francisco. Jason Cameron her new employer is a man...
Author
Series
Obsidian trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 43
Physical Desc
604 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kellen Tawadon, son the Arch-Mage Lycaelon, thought he knew the way the world worked. His father, leading the wise and benevolent Council of Mages, protected and guided the citizens of the Golden City of the Bells. Young Mages in training-all men, for women were unfit to practice magic-memorized the intricate details of High Magic and aspired to seats on the council. Then he found the forbidden Books of Wild Magic-or did they find him? The three slim...
Author
Series
Valdemar universe. Mage wars volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Penguin USA
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unofficial leader Skandranon, the black gryphon now bleached white, and Amberdrake, the human representative of White Gryphon, are envoys to the Court of the Black Kings, enemies that are threatening the safety of the terraced city that Urthro's peoples have worked ten long years to establish.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this chronicle of the early history of Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey's bestselling world, a thirteen-year-old orphan named Magpie escapes a life of slavery in the gem mines when he is chosen by one of the magical Companion horses of Valdemar to be trained as a Herald. Thrust into the center of a legend in the making, Magpie discovers talents he never knew he had--and witnesses the founding of the great Heralds' Collegium.
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mags was an orphan who had slaved in a gem mine for all his young life. Found in a bandit camp when he was an infant, he was taken in by Cole Pieters, who owned the mine. Pieters constantly told him that he had 'bad blood' and would never amount to anything. Had he not been Chosen by his Companion, Dallen, and taken to Haven to be trained in the new Herald Collegium, he probably would have died before he reached adulthood. Now, Mags was never hungry...
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 10
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rosamund is an Earth Master in the Schwarzwald, the ancient Black Forest of Germany. Since the age of ten, she has lived with her teacher, the Hunt Master and Earth Magician of the Schwarzwald Foresters, a man she calls “Papa.” Her adoptive Papa rescued her after her original Earth Master teacher, an old woman who lived alone in a small cottage in the forest, was brutally murdered by werewolves. Rosa herself barely escaped, and this terrifying...
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Orphan Magpie pursues his quest for his parent's identity with burning urgency -- while also discovering another hidden talent and being trained by the King's Own Herald as an undercover agent for Valdemar. Shy Bardic Trainee Lena has to face her famous but uncaring father, one of Valdemar's most renowned Bards. And Healing Trainee Bear must struggle against his disapproving parents, who are pressuring Bear to quit the Healers' Collegium because he...
Author
Series
Reimagined Fairy Tales volume 2
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his wife is killed, Baron Eric von Rothbart vows to punish any woman who dares to cross him by turning her into a magical swan, but when he casts his spell on Odette, she pleads with him to set her and the other swans free, and together the two learn how to love again.
Author
Series
Obsidian trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 35
Physical Desc
496 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mage Kellen and his Elven allies must find a way to reclaim the High Magick from the Demons to prevent the forces of Light fall victim to forces of evil.
Author
Series
Reimagined Fairy Tales volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ilya, banished from his home after he disobeys his father's orders and attempts to capture the legendary Firebird that has appeared in the cherry orchard, journeys through a magical Russia where he falls in love with an enchanted princess and must use his wits, might, and magic to free her.
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 5
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Jane has come to Isabelle Harton's school in London, a happy child with unusual gifts, but will Isabelle be able to keep her safe from a powerful intent to harm her?
Author
Series
Obsidian trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 46
Physical Desc
656 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Demon Queen sends her forces against her human and elven enemies, sowing distraction and death. In the human City, the Queen's agents work to divide the Council and foment rebellion among the City's citizens. In the countryside, they target the most vulnerable and valuable -- the young Elf Prince and the Wild Mages who might be the Demons' most dangerous enemies. To his own surprise, young Kellen, once the disappointing son of the great Mage who...
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 11
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a man is caught stealing from a walled garden owned by a strange woman, he bargains away his youngest daughter in return for food for his family. The woman, rumored to be a witch, takes the golden-haired child and locks her away in a high tower. Sixteen years later, Giselle has lived an isolated life, but her adoptive mother has trained her in Air magic, and Giselle must use her new skills on a quest to avenge her broken heart...
Author
Series
One dozen daughters volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The rulers of tiny, impoverished Swansgaard have twelve daughters and one son. While the prince's future is assured, his twelve sisters must find their own fortunes. Disguising herself as Clarence, a sailor, Princess Clarice intends to work her way to the New World. When the crew rebels, Clarice/Clarence, an expert wth rapier and dagger, sides with the handsome navigator, Dominick, and kills the cruel captain. Dominick leads the now-outlawed crew...
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 6
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based loosely on the tale of Puss in Boots, Reserved for the Cat takes place in 1910 in an alternate London. A young dancer, penniless and desperate, is sure she is going mad when a cat begins talking to her mind-to-mind. But her feline guide, actually an Elemental Earth Spirit, helps her to impersonate a famous Russian ballerina and achieve the success she’s been dreaming of. Unfortunately she also attracts the attention of another Elemental Spirit—a...
20) Gryphon in light
Author
Series
Valdemar Gryphon volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in the beloved and bestselling world of Valdemar, this first book in a new trilogy returns to the tales of the majestic gryphons.
On the border between Valdemar and the deadly Pelagirs Forest, the gryphon hero Kelvren returns from a near-fatal self-sacrifice that won him the approval of Valdemar's ground troops, but caused a diplomatic crisis. Frustrated by his lack of a hero's welcome, Kelvren is talked into helping with an expedition by his...
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