Lois McMaster Bujold
Author
Series
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 27
Description
A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril returns to the noble household he once served as page and is named secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule. It is an assignment Cazaril dreads, for it must ultimately lead him to the place he most fears: the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies who once placed him in chains now occupy lofty positions.
But it is more than the traitorous...
Author
Series
Publisher
EOS/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 26
Description
One of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold transports us once more to a dark and troubled land and embroils us in a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm.
Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A magnificent epic tale of devotion, possession, obsession, and strange destiny from the author of the Hugo Award-winning, Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold.
The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile -- and Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff must transport the body to its burial place and the accused killer, the Lady Ijada, to judgment. With the death of the old Hallow King imminent and the crown in play, the...
4) Komarr
Author
Series
Publisher
BAEN Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest imperial auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to investigate a problem on the conquered planet of Komarr. But a betrayal there a generation before drenched the name of Vorkosigan in blood. Thus the Komarrans surrounding Miles could be loyal subjects or rebels ready for revenge.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
"Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor's life of a staff officer to a Barrayaran Admiral. Ivan, cousin to Imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere leaving Ivan to enjoy like on Komarr. But when and old friend in Barrayaran intelligence asks Ivan to protect an attractive young woman Tej Arqua his chivalrous...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1992
Description
In an alternate Renaissance Italy where the church regulates magic and licenses magicians, fiery Fiametta Beneforte wants to be more than her goldsmith-mage father's unpaid apprentice. But when the Duchy of Montefoglia is laid under military and magical siege, she unexpectedly must join with Thur Ochs, a young Swiss miner and foundryman, to tap their skills in both metalwork and necromancy to rescue her father's soul and combat an evil sorcerer.
7) Mirror Dance
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1994
Description
Miles's clone, Mark, originally raised to assassinate him, has been freed, and now Miles has put him in charge of a mission to free other clones using Miles's secret identity. But when the mission goes awry and the rescue goes even more wrong, Miles ends up in cryogenic suspension. Will Mark save him or take his place as heir?
Author
Series
Penric and Desdemona volume 3
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Sorcerer Penric, who is possessed by a clever chaos demon named Desdemona, has his clandestine mission of diplomacy to Cedonia upended when he finds himself gravely injured and imprisoned in the darkest of dungeons.