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81) Wizard and glass
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 4
Description
The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is "splendidly tense...rip-roaring" (Publishers Weekly)—a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe.
In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is "at his most ebullient...sweeping readers up in...swells of passion" (Publishers Weekly) as Roland the Gunslinger, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake survive Blaine the Mono's final crash, only to find themselves...
In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is "at his most ebullient...sweeping readers up in...swells of passion" (Publishers Weekly) as Roland the Gunslinger, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake survive Blaine the Mono's final crash, only to find themselves...
82) The lawless
Author
Publisher
N. Doubleday
Pub. Date
1978
Description
In a flourishing post–Civil War America, the Kent family seizes good fortune again-until all is suddenly threatened by one woman's return The penultimate volume in John Jakes's stirring Kent Family Chronicles finds America booming in its postwar prosperity. With this newly secured peace comes an opportunity for the Kent family to reconcile and to thrive, both personally and financially. Gideon Kent takes up his father's vow to reunite the family,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of West of Here, a novel that chronicles a hundred-and-seventy years of American nation-building from numerous points-of-view across place and time, and explores the Great American Experiment from its formative days to the present moment and asks whether or not our nation has made good on its promises"--
Set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental...
84) Vegas rich
Author
Series
Vegas volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
1996
Description
An illiterate prostitute's rise to fame in the 1920s. She is Sally Coleman who sings in a saloon in Las Vegas and who inherits a fortune from a grateful customer. To gain polish she hires a handsome tutor from Boston, whom she marries, and becomes the town's best known entrepreneur.
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Series
Dragonvarld trilogy volume 3
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Description
The third and concluding volume to Margaret Weis's spectacular Dragonvarld fantasy trilogy, Master of Dragons.
They were twin brothers, the offspring of Dragon magic, one raised in court, the other in hiding. But, the link that exists between them will not be broken by mere distance, and in the very duality of their origin lies mankind's hope for peace and safety.
When two renegade dragons with an army of crazed demi-human/dragons devise a plan...
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Series
Description
"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
89) Shark dialogues
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
The saga of a Hawaiian family, beginning in 1834 with the meeting of a shipwrecked Yankee sailor and a runaway Tahitian princess. It traces the family's fortunes all the way to the present, incorporating a great deal of history: whaling, labor unions, earthquakes and the Vietnam War. The author is of mixed Hawaiian and Anglo-American descent.
Author
Series
The nightshade crown volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"When Lore was thirteen, she escaped a cult in the catacombs beneath the city of Dellaire. And in the ten years since, she's lived by one rule: don't let them find you. Easier said than done, when her death magic ties her to the city. Mortem, the magic born from death, is a high-priced and illicit commodity in Dellaire, and Lore's job running poisons keeps her in food, shelter, and relative security. But when a run goes wrong and Lore's power is revealed,...
92) Empire rising
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"Never boring...the setting is convincingly rendered, and the characters--heroes and villains--are sharply drawn." - Publishers Weekly
"EMPIRE RISING is a winner from the first page to the last. Highly recommended." - John Lescroart
"Barone knows his stuff and writes fluently of life, love, and war." - John Lescroart
"If Bernard Cornwell and Diana Gabaldon decided to collaborate on a novel, the result would be something like this." - Arizona Republic
"Equal...
93) Soarer's choice
Author
Series
Description
L. E. Modesitt, Jr., author of the bestselling Saga of Recluce fantasy series, opens the door into a marvelous new world.
Millennia ago, a magical disaster caused the fall of a great worldwide civilization, the end of a golden age. New civilizations have fought their way up from the ancient destruction and chaos, knowing little of the lost world that preceded them or the details of its fall. Corus today is a world of contending countries, of humans,...
94) The Silicon Mage
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
A computer programmer must rescue an imprisoned wizard to save the universe in this sequel to The Silent Tower from the New York Times–bestselling author.
There was a time when Joanna Sheraton knew nothing of the Void. She was an ordinary computer programmer, toiling in a cubicle in air-conditioned Southern California comfort, unaware that sinister forces had penetrated her universe. But from across the interdimensional...
There was a time when Joanna Sheraton knew nothing of the Void. She was an ordinary computer programmer, toiling in a cubicle in air-conditioned Southern California comfort, unaware that sinister forces had penetrated her universe. But from across the interdimensional...
95) The Dog Wizard
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
From a New York Times–bestselling author: A wizard must return from his Earthly exile when his lover, a computer programmer, is kidnapped by an otherworldly evil.
Joanna Sheraton is in love with a wizard. Once an ordinary Californian computer programmer, her life was upended when she was first taken across the Void to a world of magic, where an evil mage threatened to destroy that world and ours. With the help of Antryg,...
Joanna Sheraton is in love with a wizard. Once an ordinary Californian computer programmer, her life was upended when she was first taken across the Void to a world of magic, where an evil mage threatened to destroy that world and ours. With the help of Antryg,...
Author
Series
Foundation volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1991
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Finally returned to print in a beautiful paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale of a nineteenth-century immigrant family of confidence artists-a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability. The patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from...
100) Blood of the fold
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Series
Description
Richard Cypher and Kahlan face yet another challenge to the forces of love and truth when a group of anti-magic zealots known as the Blood of the Fold becomes an unwitting pawn of an ancient evil.
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