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1) Beyond
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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...
2) Valdemar
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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...
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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...
Author
Series
Heirs of Alexandria volume 4
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
594 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Prince Manfred and his mentor and bodyguard, the deadly warrior Erik, survived dangers and enemies both natural and supernatural, and if they thought that their new mission was going to be anything but more of the same, they soon gave up on that hope. Returning from Jerusalem, they and their escort of knights of the Holy Trinity are escorting an envoy of II Khan Mongol to the lands of the Golden Horde -- between the Black Sea and the Carpathians,...
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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?
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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...
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Series
Elemental masters volume 7
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
361 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elemental Earth Master Richard Whitestone, devastated by the death of his beloved wife during childbirth, has ignored his daughter for years, until he conceives of a twisted plan to use her body to bring back the spirit of his wife.
Author
Series
Heirs of Alexandria volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Physical Desc
928 p. : maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Valdosta brothers are now ensconced in the Venetian nobility, but young Benito is not adjusting well. He is exiled to the island of Corfu, where his beloved Maria has gone with her elderly husband and new baby. Meanwhile, the demon Chernobog, who is possessing the grand duke of Lithuania, has allied with the witch-king Emeric of Hungary and the Byzantine Empire to descend on Corfu, a notable site of ancient magic.
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 2
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a physician operating among London's poor in the early years of the 20th century, Dr. Maya Witherspoon has two strikes against her her gender and her status as the half-breed daughter of an Englishman and a Hindu woman. The magic she possesses, however, assists her not only in her work but also in fighting off an assassin bent on destroying her through the use of dark powers.
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Series
Elemental masters volume 15
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The 14th novel in bestselling author Lackey's magical alternate history Elemental Masters series continues the reimagined adventures of Sherlock Holmes in a richly detailed alternate 20th-century England.
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Series
Elemental masters volume 8
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fledgling Water Master Mari Prothero rebels against her expected arranged marriage at age eighteen until she learns that her family's magical heritage is actually protected by these unions. This story combines East of the Sun and West of the Moon, as well as Tam Lin, with the Selkie of Sul Skerry. We'll see Nan and Sarah (from Wizard of London) as adults, coming into their own, and Grey and Neville, of course!
Author
Series
Heirs of Alexandria volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 44
Physical Desc
825 p. : geneal. tables, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An alternative history in which half-brothers Marco and Benito Valdosta, posing as street urchins in order to hide from the enemies of their grandfather, the Duke of Ferrara, find themselves in the center of a multi-faceted battle to claim the city of Venice in the sixteenth century.
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
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...
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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
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 31
Physical Desc
463 p. : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Karal, Firesong, and their companions have temporarily counteracted the ever-increasing waves of the mage storms that threaten to destroy their world and are now looking to Urtho, a powerful mage who has been dead for millennia, to find a way to stop the magical vibrations for good.
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