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Forged Bonds by Daniel Schinhofen
14 ratingsSean and his Bonded settled in Hearthglen to learn, train, and grow. Taking on an apprentice, setting up his shop, and Bonding both Chastity and Andrea to him, Sean felt like he would finally be able to learn about this world and try his hand at new things...Categorized as:
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![Paladin of the Spirit by Marvin Knight]()
Paladin of the Spirit by Marvin Knight
8 ratingsIn the depths of Hell, Darren grew strong. Now he's ready to return as he prepares to face down the man who killed his mother.The world thinks Darren is dead. Now is the perfect time for him to build his strength and prepare to wage war on the heavens themselves. To prepare to attack the heavens, he will destroy the hells... -
![Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey]()
Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey
28 ratingsThe final chapter in Mercedes Lackey's spellbinding fantasy trilogy! The Herald-Mage, Vanyel, and his Companion, Yfandes, are alone responsible for saving the once-peaceful kingdom of Valdemar from the forces of a master who wields a dark, forbidding magic. And if either Vanyel or Yfandes falters, both Valdemar and its Herald-Mage must pay the ultimate price... -
![Wayfarer's Keep by T.A. White]()
Wayfarer's Keep by T.A. White
18 ratingsBranded a traitor by her people, Shea and her warlord—the fiercely dangerous Fallon—travel to the Pathfinders’ seat of power at her father’s request, hoping to form an alliance despite the distrust between them. It doesn’t take long before Shea and Fallon realize something is dangerously wrong in the place she once called home... -
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![Test Flight: Otherworld Academy 03 by Deacon Frost]()
Test Flight: Otherworld Academy 03 by Deacon Frost
8 ratingsThe Venture has taken flight and set off to explore the dimension of Taryl. Their trip should have been an easy one, traveling from town to town, instead they're facing monsters and mayhem at every turn... -
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Incubus Inc. III by Randi Darren
8 ratings(Minor Spoiler and Warning at the bottom of the blurb. Please read all the way through.)Sameerixis, or Sam for those who actually know him, isn’t what you’d call normal.He had been a door-to-door salesman, of sorts.One that peddled wares, wishes, and whims to anyone willing to pay his prices.Except that life is gone now.His old business model had been modernized... -
![Incubus Inc. II by Randi Darren]()
Incubus Inc. II by Randi Darren
10 ratings((Minor Spoiler and Warning at the bottom of the blurb. Please read all the way through.))Sameerixis, or Sam for those who actually know him, isn’t what you’d call normal.He had been a door-to-door salesman, of sorts. One that peddled wares, wishes, and whims to anyone willing to pay his prices.Except that life is gone now.His old business model had been modernized... -
![Warriors by C. Gockel]()
Warriors by C. Gockel
12 ratings~ The Continuation of the USA Today Bestselling Series ~When science meets Chaos, what could go wrong?Bohdi Patel is keeping the revelation that he is Chaos incarnate a secret, and handling the revelation about as well as one would expect. He’s in a downward spiral: losing his lease, totaling his car, and trying to keep everyone he cares about at arm's length... -
![Briar's Book by Tamora Pierce]()
Briar's Book by Tamora Pierce
26 ratingsThere is an alternate cover edition of this book here.Former "street rat" Briar leads a comfortable life at Winding Circle Temple, learning plant magic from Rosethorn. But street kids are still his friends, and when one of them gets sick, she turns to Briar for help. When her disease proves beyond even Rosethorn's power, Briar realizes that all of Summersea is in danger...Categorized as:
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![The Plan Commences by Kristen Ashley]()
The Plan Commences by Kristen Ashley
16 ratingsOnce upon a time, in a parallel universe, there existed the continent of Triton. The land was filled with beauty, but it was also splintered by war. Out of the chaos grew a conspiracy to reawaken the Beast, a fearsome creature who wrought only tragedy and devastation... -
![Spirit's End by Rachel Aaron]()
Spirit's End by Rachel Aaron
19 ratingsEli Monpress is clever, he's determined, and he's in way over his head.First rule of thievery: don't be a hero. When Eli broke the rules and saved the Council Kingdoms, he thought he knew the price, but resuming his place as the Shepherdess's favorite isn't as simple as bowing his head... -
![Magic's Promise by Mercedes Lackey]()
Magic's Promise by Mercedes Lackey
27 ratingsThe wild magic is taking its toll on the land, and even Vanyel, the most powerful Herald-Mage to ever walk the world, is almost at the end of his strength. But when his Companion, Yfandes, receives a call for help from neighboring Lineas, both Herald-Mage and Companion are drawn into a holocaust of dark magic that could be the end of them both... -
![Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind]()
Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind
41 ratingsIn Wizard's First Rule, Richard Cypher's world was turned upside down. Once a simple woods guide, Richard was forced to become the Seeker of Truth, to save the world from the vile dominance of Darken Rahl, the most viciously savage and powerful wizard the world had ever seen...Categorized as:
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![Angel Fury by Ella Summers]()
Angel Fury by Ella Summers
10 ratingsCadence Lightbringer, daughter of a legendary archangel, has always known her gods-endowed magic comes with a price. As an angel in the Legion of Angels, she lives where the Legion commands her to live, trains how the Legion tells her to train, and marries whom the Legion instructs her to marry. Somehow it all sounded simpler in her head...Categorized as:
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![Heart Fate by Robin D. Owens]()
Heart Fate by Robin D. Owens
14 ratingsWed to a wealthy older man when she was just a girl, Lahsin Yew runs away from her abusive home to find a new life. At seventeen, she's about to enter her Second Passage, when her Flair?and perhaps her HeartMate?will be revealed. Lahsin finds sanctuary in a secret garden, where she meets Tinne Holly... -
![Otherlife Awakenings by William D. Arand]()
Otherlife Awakenings by William D. Arand
14 ratingsRunner and his team managed to bring peace to Tirtius, successfully log the crew out, and have begun settling in to make a home on the isle of Vix. North Wood fort itself. Fate isn’t going to let them go that easily though. She clearly hasn't decided on what to do with him. Plots are in motion...Categorized as:
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![Otherlife Nightmares by William D. Arand]()
Otherlife Nightmares by William D. Arand
14 ratingsRunner and company have safely left the city ahead of the siege. Completing their class promotions with barely any time to spare. Unfortunately he hasn't discovered the password he needs to begin the logoff process to save the four-hundred thousand or so crewmates left alive in this game where dying truly means death...Categorized as:
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![Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon by Kerrelyn Sparks]()
Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon by Kerrelyn Sparks
14 ratingsFrom the brilliant imagination of Kerrelyn Sparks comes a bold new fantasy romance series in which passion and magic collide. Behold the Embraced…Gwennore has a talent. An Elf able to track down the cause of an illness and heal it, she’s a valuable asset to her people...Categorized as:
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![Seeress of Kell by David Eddings]()
Seeress of Kell by David Eddings
33 ratingsNow in the final stages of their quest for his son, Garion and his companions travel to Kell to consult the only undamaged copy of the Malloreon Gospels. For centuries the Seers have guarded this book from the Grolims and even had their wizards put a curse of blindness on any Grolim who tried to enter Kell...Categorized as:
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![The Caller by Juliet Marillier]()
The Caller by Juliet Marillier
18 ratingsNeryn has made a long journey to perfect her skills as a Caller. She has learned the wisdom of water and of earth; she has journeyed to the remote isles of the west and the forbidding mountains of the north. Now, Neryn must travel in Alban's freezing winter to seek the mysterious White Lady, Guardian of Air... -
![Fearless by Cornelia Funke]()
Fearless by Cornelia Funke
18 ratingsWith the fatal fairy moth on his chest giving only a few months to live, Jocob Reckless tries, the blood of a Northern Djinn, then a mythical crossbow that can kill thousands, or heal one, when shot through the heart. But famed Goyl assassin treasure hunter is also searching for the prized crossbow. Jacob must find it first--and somehow convince Fox to do whatever it takes to save him... -
![Odin's Child by Siri Pettersen, Paul Russell Garrett]()
Odin's Child by Siri Pettersen, Paul Russell Garrett
18 ratingsAn epic fantasy trilogy from Norway about thousand-year-old secrets, forbidden romance, and what happens to those who make a deal with the devil comes at last to the United States! 15-year-old Hirka has always been an outsider in the world of Ym: she’s the only person without a tail, and the only one unable to access the Might, a current of power that runs through the earth... -
![Syren by Angie Sage]()
Syren by Angie Sage
28 ratingsIn this fifth book in the Magykal series, Septimus ends up on a captivatingly beautiful island, one of seven set in a sparkling sea. He's stranded there with his badly injured dragon, Spit Fyre, along with Jenna and Beetle... -
![The Last Uncharted Sky by Curtis Craddock]()
The Last Uncharted Sky by Curtis Craddock
6 ratingsThe Three Musketeers meets Jules Verne in Curtis Craddock's concluding novel in the critically-acclaimed high fantasy Risen Kingdoms series, an engrossing tale of courtly intrigue and breathtaking magic.Isabelle and Jean-Claude undertake an airship expedition to recover a fabled treasure and claim a hitherto undiscovered craton for l'Empire Celeste...Categorized as:
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![Empire Builder by Dante King]()
Empire Builder by Dante King
6 ratingsBreed, Populate, ConquerWhen Benjamin's latest conquest revealed herself to be from another world, he couldn't believe it. But her crazy revelations didn't stop there. She said that Benjamin was the reincarnation of the Forgotten Ruler, a supreme being with an empire that once spanned an entire continent... -
![King of the Murgos by David Eddings]()
King of the Murgos by David Eddings
34 ratingsBeginning of the Quest...The infant son of Garion and Ce'Nedra had been foully kidnapped. Now they began the great quest to rescue the child, with the immortal Belgarath the Sorcerer, his daughter Polgara the Sorceress, and inevitably the little Drasnian, Silk. Guided by the Orb of the God Aldur, their way led through the foul swamps of Nyissa, then into the lands of the Murgos...Categorized as:
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![Black Blades by Ginn Hale]()
Black Blades by Ginn Hale
12 ratingsKahlil balances his loyalty to the Bousim house against the revelations of his past. Blood will be shed one-way or the other. While in the heights of Rathal’pesha, John adapts to the hardships of a warrior-priest’s life and secretly searches for anything that will return him and his friends back home... -
![Herald of Shalia by Tamryn Tamer]()
Herald of Shalia by Tamryn Tamer
12 ratingsA village full of gorgeous elves desperate to be loved? There had to be a catch. Sebastian Frost’s most recent memory was waking up in a field naked, in a body that wasn’t his own, in a world that definitely wasn’t his own, and three stunning pointy-eared women staring right at him. He also remembered hair as white as starlight, eyes like amethysts, and the name Shalia...Categorized as:
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![The Road to Magic by Алексей Глушановский, Alexey Glushanovsky]()
The Road to Magic by Алексей Глушановский, Alexey Glushanovsky
12 ratingsThe world that Glushanovsky paints is wonderfully-saturated with elements from all over the fantasy genre—though this is not simply a tale of sword and sorcery. These classical fantasy figures are well-executed and have the sensibility of a seasoned Russian fantasy novel, especially since this is part of a tetralogy previously published in Russia. Readers of George R.R... -
![So I Married a Sorcerer by Kerrelyn Sparks]()
So I Married a Sorcerer by Kerrelyn Sparks
14 ratingsGrowing up on the Isle of Moon, Brigitta knows nothing of her past, except that she is Embraced: born with powers that forced her into hiding. Everything changes when she learns she’s a princess, hidden away from her villainous half-brother who now rules the kingdom. But he knows about Brigitta, and he’ll do anything to get her back...Categorized as:
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![Sorceress of Darshiva by David Eddings]()
Sorceress of Darshiva by David Eddings
32 ratingsThe Endless Quest...Troubles and delays continued to mount as Garion, Belgarath, Polgara, and the company pursued Zandramas across the known world. Possessed by the Dark Destiny, she had stolen Garion's infant son for a ritual that would destroy all that men valued. She was always one step ahead, taunting and spying on them, flying over in the form of a great dragon... -
![Return to Del by Emily Rodda]()
Return to Del by Emily Rodda
20 ratingsDeltora is a land of monsters and magic. The seven lost gems have been restored to the Belt of Deltora.Now Lief, Barda, and Jasmine must find the heir to the kingdom's throne. They know that only the true heir can use the Belt's magic to overthrow the evil Shadow Lord. But the heir has been in deepest hiding from birth and only the Belt can reveal the hiding place... -
![Mistake of Magic by Alex Lidell]()
Mistake of Magic by Alex Lidell
21 ratingsThree trials stand between Lera and exile. Unless the training kills her first.Quint magic has never chosen a human before, and the Elders Council is convinced Lera is a mistake. When the quint refuses to be cleaved apart, the enraged elders give them a choice: exile from Lunos or demotion to the lowest of trainees... -
![Daja's Book by Tamora Pierce]()
Daja's Book by Tamora Pierce
26 ratingsThere is an alternate cover edition here.Outcast Trader Daja, along with her fellow mages-in-training, journeys from Winding Circle to the Gold Ridge Mountains, where drought threatens widespread famine. There, Daja creates an astonishing object: a living metal vine, and Daja's dealings with her former people reawaken a longing for familiar ways...Categorized as:
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![Tris's Book by Tamora Pierce]()
Tris's Book by Tamora Pierce
28 ratingsEarthquake damage leaves Winding Circle vulnerable to pirate attack, so everyone - including the young mages-in-training Tris, Briar, Daja, and Sandry - is working to strengthen the community's defenses. When Tris's cousin Aymery comes to visit, he advises the "weather witch" to return to the family that exiled her, but she doesn't wish to leave her friends to face the threat without her... -
![Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind]()
Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind
38 ratingsEverything Richard Rahl has learned will be for naught as the ruthless Emperor Jagang returns with his vast legions...heralded by a mystical plague that kills innocents in the thousands.Richard must now challenge the undefeatable: the magic that thwarts magic, sealed away for three thousand years in the Temple of Winds... -
![Demon Lord of Karanda by David Eddings]()
Demon Lord of Karanda by David Eddings
33 ratingsCaptives of His Imperial Majesty...Zandramas had stolen King Garion's infant son and fled to use the child in some ritual that would make the Dark Destiny supreme. Garion and his friends had followed, but now they were captives of Zakath, Emperor of Mallorea, who, while friendly, stubbornly refused to let them leave...Categorized as:
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![Angel Fever by Ella Summers]()
Angel Fever by Ella Summers
6 ratingsCadence Lightbringer has everything. The prestige and power that comes with being the Angel of Storm Castle. Her archangel husband and soulmate, Damiel Dragonsire, Master Interrogator in the Legion of Angels. And their son Nero, a miracle of magic, the first and only child of two angels.But the Legion’s mission to exterminate dark magic brings trouble to Cadence’s door...Categorized as:
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![In Despair by Megan Derr]()
In Despair by Megan Derr
8 ratingsPrince Telmé Guldbrandsen has been groomed since childhood to become a Prince of the Blood and Commander of the Legion. He will be the youngest person to ever take the Blooding—if he can behave long enough to prove he can be trusted with the responsibility... -
![Lullaby Scars by Hollee Mands]()
Lullaby Scars by Hollee Mands
8 ratingsHe’s the only man she’s ever wanted. She’s everything he can never have.Killian’s scars are all people see, but with his wretched past, he doesn’t want them to look closer. He resigned himself long ago to living as an indentured slave to a powerful and capricious high mage—until a chance meeting with a temptress outside a brothel teaches him to want…If only he hadn’t asked her price for the night... -
![In the Balance by C. Gockel]()
In the Balance by C. Gockel
10 ratingsAmy Lewis is sure she’ll never see Loki again, but when chaos is involved nothing is certain.Called into ADUO’s offices to identify a magical artifact, Amy is taken on a journey beyond the universe itself. She comes face to face with the good and the bad of the forces of order and chaos, and has to chose for herself which of many imperfect paths to take... -
![The Crown of Dalemark by Diana Wynne Jones]()
The Crown of Dalemark by Diana Wynne Jones
16 ratingsThe Countess and Lord Keril send Mitt to kill a young woman Noreth Onesdaughter, who claims to know where the lost crown is hidden... -
![Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce]()
Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce
18 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Tamora Pierce returns to the magical world of Winding Circle.While visiting the God-King and the First Circle temple in Gyongxe, mages Briar, Rosethorn, and Evvy are invited to visit the emperor's summer palace...Categorized as:
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![Beauty and the Beast by K.M. Shea]()
Beauty and the Beast by K.M. Shea
18 ratingsOnce upon a time Elle made a mistake. A small miscalculation sends her through the roof of an enchanted chateau. Stranded until her broken leg mends, Elle is forced to rely on the good will of the sour chateau owner —the cursed Prince Severin... -
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![Heart of Ice by K.M. Shea]()
Heart of Ice by K.M. Shea
19 ratingsRakel, a princess by birth, has spent most of her life exiled on a barren mountain, despised because of her powerful snow magic. Though she longs to be accepted, she hides in her ice-castle and lives with the fear that her brother—the King—will one day order her execution... -
![Guardians of the West by David Eddings]()
Guardians of the West by David Eddings
36 ratingsGarion has slain the evil God Torak and been crowned King of Riva. The Prophecy was fulfilled—or so it seemed. While the strange child Errand was growing up in the Vale of Aldur with Polgara and Durnik, showing only occasional flashes of inexplicable knowledge and power, Garion was learning to rule and to be the husband of his fiery little Queen Ce’Nedra. Eleven years passed...Categorized as:
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![Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind]()
Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind
38 ratingsThere is an alternate cover edition here.Richard comes to terms with his true identity as a War Wizard. The New World, and all the freedom of humankind, is under threat from the Imperial Order after he had brought down the barrier between the Old and New World. The Imperial Order has already sent delegations and armies into the New World...Categorized as:
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![Sandry's Book by Tamora Pierce]()
Sandry's Book by Tamora Pierce
31 ratingsWith her gift of weaving silk thread and creating light, Sandry is brought to the Winding Circle community. There she meets Briar, a former thief who has a way with plants; Daja, an outcast gifted at metalcraft; and Tris, whose connection with the weather unsettles everyone, including herself. At Winding Circle, the four misfits are taught how to use their magic - and to trust one another... -
![Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce]()
Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce
26 ratingsLady Sandrilene fa Toren knows all about unusual magic - she herself spins and weaves it like thread. But when she witnessed a boy dancing a spell, even she is confounded. To her dismay, Sandry learns that as the mage who discovered the power of the young dancer, she must be his teacher...Categorized as:
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![The Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson]()
The Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson
26 ratings"A trilogy of remarkable scope and sophistication."--Los Angeles TimesTwice before Thomas Covenant had been summoned to the strange otherworld where magic worked. Twice before he had been forced to join with the Lords of Revelstone in their war against Lord Foul, the ancient enemy of the Land.Now he was back--to a Land ravaged by the armies of Lord Foul. The Lords were besieged and helpless...Categorized as:
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