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1) Tigana
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tigana is the magical story of a beleaguered land struggling to be free. It is the tale of a people so cursed by the black sorcery of a cruel, despotic king that even the name of their once-beautiful homeland cannot be spoken or remembered.
2) The cursed
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
The story of a people who suffer from star-sickness, an illness which gives them magical powers for both good and evil. Outcasts like our lepers were, they too get their Doctor Schweitzer in the person of Gwin Nien Solith, but unlike him her mission is in constant danger.
Author
Series
Aspect-emperor ; 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Some twenty years have passed since the events narrated in The Prince of Nothing. Anasurimbor Kellhus now rules all the Three Seas, the first true Aspect-Emperor in a thousand years leading a holy war deep into the wastes of the Ancient North, intent on destroying Golgotterath and preventing the Second Apocalypse.
10) A shadow crown
Author
Series
Halfling saga ; 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Keera navigates political scheming, backstabbing, and her own grief as she moves against the cruel king that holds her kingdom hostage"--
"The highly anticipated second installment of the new adult fantasy saga that took BookTok by storm picks up where A Broken Blade left off... To the kingdom, Keera is the king's Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadow--the dark, brooding...
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Stories on the fictional city of Newford where hard-edged street life is touched by ancient magic. In Bird Bones and Wood Ash, a woman manages to save children from being eaten by their monster parents, while in Dream Harder, Dream True, the protagonist saves a fairy with a broken wing.
Author
Series
Perilous Realm ; 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When Will, a rebellious teen, stumbles from the present into the realm where stories come from, he learns he has a mission concerning the evil Malabron and, aided by some of the story folk, he faces a host of perils while seeking the gateless gate that will take him home.
Series
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Essays on the writers and works of Canadian fantasy and science-fiction that have made this genre an important component of Canadian literature, one that must be considered by Canadian literary scholars. Documents the rapid development of Canadian fantasy and science-fiction from the early 1980s to the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A queer, modern Arthurian tale set in contemporary Vancouver. An autistic college student who is the latest reincarnation of Sir Gawain is drawn deeper and deeper into the family secrets and round table feuds he’s spent his life trying to avoid while a Valkyrie tries to figure out who is murdering knights before the body count climbs"--