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1) Valdemar
Author
Series
The Founding of Valdemar volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
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
Enduring flame volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Description
New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory first teamed up to write the Obsidian Trilogy, which was set in a wondrous world filled with magical beings, competing magic systems, and a titanic struggle between good and evil. That world proved so popular with the creators and readers alike that Lackey and Mallory have returned to it again, with The Phoenix Unchained, Book One of The Enduring Flame, the opening...
3) Beyond
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
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...
4) Sanctuary
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Description
In gaining entry to Altan noble society, Kiron had come to learn many distressing things about who really controlled Alta. The Magi were plotting to replace the royal Great Ones and rule Alta, and had built a terrible weapon, the Eye of Light, which could kill from afar.
Author
Publisher
Caezik SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Space travel is tough. No air, cosmic radiation, absolute lack of other life-sustaining essentials. What better way to deal with space travel than to man ships with creatures that regenerate or don't need air, or are immune to various maladies? In a future world where zombies, vampires and werewolves co-exist with 'normal' humans on Earth, these ships are staffed by a motley crew of various types of undead or near-dead creatures. Of course no...
Author
Series
Founding of Valdemar volume 2
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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...
8) Joust
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Vetch, an Altan serf, must learn the secret of the Tian jousters and their dragons in order to save his people.
9) Alta
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Vetch, and Altan serf who was saved by a dragon-rider and trained to be a dragon-boy, cannot forget the family he lost during the war, so he steals a dragon egg in the hopes of raising the dragon as his own and using it to help find his family.
Author
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
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 Arthur's queen--only to find herself facing temptation and treachery, intrigue and betrayal, but also love and redemption.
Author
Series
Enduring flame volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In The Phoenix Endangered, second in The Enduring Flame, Tiercel, a budding High Mage, and Harrier, a reluctant Knight-Mage, develop greater power--and learn of the evils of war when they see the devastation caused by the fanatical armies of the Wild Mage Bisochim. The desert tribespeople led by young Shaiara flee Bisochim's evil, seeking a legendary oasis deep in the desert--a refuge that may hold the key to stopping Bisochim and preserving the Balance...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 43
Description
Kellen Tavadon, son of 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 Kellen found the forbidden Books of Wild Magic-or did they find him? Their...
13) Brightly burning
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Lavan Chitward is a very unhappy young man; pulled away from his country home by his parents' ambitions and resettled in the big city of Haven, he is desperately lonely, bullied and beaten at school, ignored by his parents. It is not surprising that he falls ill-but his illness is the first manifestation of a terrible power, the Gift of the Firestorm, a power which can and does kill. If controlled, the Gift of the Firestorm can save Valdemar, but...
14) Apex
Author
Series
Hunter volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Joy must uncover a deadly conspiracy at the heart of Apex City--and lead her fellow Hunters to victory in the final confrontation with the dangerous Othersiders"--
In the Elite Hunter Command's latest clash with Othersiders, the army of monsters nearly wiped them out. Apex City is safe-- for now. But within the city barriers, the corrupt and powerful PsiCorps is determined to usurp the Hunters as chief defenders of Apex City and Joy is now squarely...
15) Elite
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
While fighting monsters that break through the barriers surrounding Apex City, Joy and her pack of magical hounds begin finding dead Psimons, and reporting the incidents only causes more trouble.
16) Hunter
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"A teenage girl leaves home to join the legendary Hunters, who protect the people from the terrifying monsters that have overrun their world"--
17) Jolene
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 15
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The ... Elemental Masters series moves to America for the first time in a rich retelling of The Queen of the Copper Mountain, set against the backdrop of Tennessee coal country ... Anna May Jones is the daughter of a coal miner, but a sickly constitution has kept her confined to the house for most of her life. Hoping to improve her daughter's health--and lessen the burden on their family--Anna's mother sends her to live with her Aunt Jinny, a witchy-woman...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 44
Description
"Three writers (the others are Eric Flint and Dave Freer) collaborate on this massive concoction of alternate history, high fantasy, and historical romance set in the sixteenth-century Venice of an alternate world in which Catholicism is factionalized, the Hohenstauffens instead of the Habsburgs rule the Holy Roman Empire, magic works, and the grand duke of Lithuania is trying to use that magic against his enemy, the emperor."--Booklist.
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Penguin USA
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
It has been ten years since the magical Cataclysm, which destroyed the twin strongholds of the two world's most powerful Mages, killing Urtho, creator of the gryphons, and sending his forces into exile. Now Urthro's peoples-human and non-human alike live in a terraced city carved into the face of a gleaming white cliff on the edge of the Western Ocean. Secure at least . . . until the fleet of the mysterious Black Kings appears in their harbor, bringing...
Author
Series
Obsidian trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 35
Description
A great working of Wild Magic and High Magic strikes at the heart of the Demon Queen's plots, but the human city, the Golden City of the Bells, falls farther under her sway with each day that passes. And without the City's High Magicians, the Wild Magicians, the Elven Army, and all their allies will surely fall before the onslaught of the Demon Queen's malignant warriors.But not all hope is lost. The Light's young mages, tempered by war, grow ever...
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