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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...
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
Elemental masters volume 9
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lionel Hawkins is a magician whose act is only partially sleight of hand. The rest is real magic. He's an Elemental Magician with the power to persuade the Elementals of Air to help him create amazing illusions. It doesn't take long before his assistant, acrobat Katie Langford, notices that he's no ordinary magician — and for Lionel to discover that she's no ordinary acrobat, but rather an untrained and unawakened Fire Magician. She's also on the...
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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
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.
8) 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
Heralds of Valdemar volume s. 1-3
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
726 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arrows of the queen: Talia and her Companion, a mystical horse-like being with power beyond imagining, are destined to become part of the Queen's elite guard. A time of treachery forces the Queen to turn to Talia and the Heralds for protection.
Arrow's flight: After earning the rank of full Herald, Talia, discovers she must face even greater trials during her internship on patrol dispensing Herald's justice in the kingdom of Valdemar. It will require...
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
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
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,...
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
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 17
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
273 pages
Language
English
Description
Annie Oakley has always suspected there is something "uncanny" about herself, but has never been able to put a name to it. But when Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show goes on tour through Germany, Bill temporarily hires a new sharpshooter to be part of his "World Wide Congress of Rough Riders": a woman named Giselle, who also happens to be an Elemental Master of Air. Alongside this new performer, Annie discovers that she and her husband, Frank, are not...
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
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mags returns to the Collegium, but there are mixed feelings -- his included -- about him actually remaining there. No one doubts that he is and should be a Herald, but he is afraid that his mere presence is going to incite more danger right in the heart of Valdemar. The heads of the Collegia are afraid that coming back to his known haunt is going to give him less protection than if he went into hiding. Everyone decides that going elsewhere is the...
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 3
Publisher
Distributed by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Physical Desc
446 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marina Roeswood has spent most of her life living with friends of her wealthy parents on a remote farm in rural Cornwall, studying the secrets of the Elemental Masters of magic and learning how to control her powers, but as she draws near her eighteenth birthday, she begins to wonder about the secrets of her past.
Author
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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