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The Black Prism

Brent Weeks · 628 pages

Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live: Five years to achieve five impossible goals. But when Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must deci

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Stone of Tears

Terry Goodkind · 703 pages

[*Stone of Tears*](/works/OL2010483W) stato pubblicato in lingua italiana per la prima volta da Fanucci suddiviso in due volumi, [*Il guardiano delle tenebre*](/works/OL2010460W) (1999) e [***La pietra delle lacrime***](/works/OL2010453W) (2000). In seguito è stato ripubblicato in volume unico col titolo *La spada della verità - Volume 2* (2001) e *La pietra delle lacrime* (2015).

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The Desert Spear

Peter V. Brett · 689 pages

The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that arise as the sun sets, preying upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind ancient and half-forgotten symbols of power. These wards alone can keep the demons at bay, but legends tell of a Deliverer: a general--some would say prophet--who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. Those t

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A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold

George R.R. Martin · 656 pages

Fear cuts deeper than swords The Starks are scattered. Robb Stark may be King in the North, but he must bend to the will of the old tyrant Walder Frey if he is to hold his crown. And while his youngest sister, Arya, has escaped the clutches of the depraved Cersei Lannister and her son, the capricious boy-king Joffrey, Sansa Stark remains their captive, trapped in marriage with Joffrey's deformed

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Mistborn

Brandon Sanderson · 686 pages

Now with over 10 million copies sold, The Mistborn Series has the thrills of a heist story, the twistiness of political intrigue, and the epic scale of a landmark fantasy saga. Once, a hero arose to save the world. He failed. Ever since, the world has been a wasteland of ash and mist controlled by the immortal emperor known as the Lord Ruler. But hope survives. A new uprising is forming, one built

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The Queen of the Tearling

Erika Johansen · 464 pages

"On her nineteenth birthday, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, raised in exile, sets out on a perilous journey back to the castle of her birth to ascend her rightful throne. Plain and serious, a girl who loves books and learning, Kelsea bears little resemblance to her mother, the vain and frivolous Queen Elyssa. But though she may be inexperienced and sheltered, Kelsea is not defenseless: Around her

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A Reaper at the Gates

Sabaa Tahir · 458 pages

The Blood Shrike, Helene Aquilla, is assailed on all sides. Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable, while the Commandant capitalizes on his madness to bolster her own power. As Helene searches for a way to hold back the approaching darkness, her sister's life and the lives of all those in the Empire hang in the balance.

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Furies of Calderon

Jim Butcher · 512 pages

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Kushiel's Dart

Jacqueline Carey · 702 pages

The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good... and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafi

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The Shadow of the Gods

John Gwynne · 500 pages

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The Written

Ben Galley · 436 pages

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Ship of Magic

Robin Hobb · 698 pages

Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships—rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown’s oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. For Althea’s young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and f

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Unclean

Richard Lee Byers · 352 pages

The realm of Thay has long been ruled by the uneasy peace of an alliance of wizards, but all along there has been one who believes he is the true master. And when that one wizard finally moves against his former allies, his homeland could be only the first of his conquests.

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Odalisque

Fiona McIntosh · 487 pages

Captured by slave traders in the inhospitable desert, Lazar fought his way to freedom, earning the coveted position of Spur of Percheron. Charged with protecting his adopted city from enemies on both sides of its walls, he has led a charmed life as confidant to and protector of Zar Joreb for many years. But now Joreb is dead. . . .Though Joreb's well-intentioned fifteen-year-old heir, Boaz, will t

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Empress

Karen Miller · 699 pages

In a family torn apart by poverty and violence, Hekat is no more than an unwanted mouth to feed, worth only a few coins from a passing slave trader. But Hekat was not born to be a slave. For her, a different path has been chosen. It is a path that will take her from stinking back alleys to the house of her God, from blood-drenched battlefields to the glittering palaces of Mijak.This is the story o

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The Elvenbane

Andre Norton, Mercedes Lackey · 414 pages

When Serina Daeth, favorite concubine of the Elf-Lord Dyran, conceives a half-blood child by him, she flees his wrath into the desert, where she quickly succumbs. But the child, born in Serina's dying moments, is rescued by a friendly dragon and raised with her own draconic brood. As the child Shana grows, she develops prodigious sorcerous powers--so strong that it seems she might be the fabled El

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A Woman Worth Ten Coppers

Morgan Howell · 324 pages

Seer and slave, Yim is purchased by Honus, a warrior whose master has been killed by the followers of an evil god, thus entwining their fates together.

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Reaper's Gale

Steven Erikson · 880 pages

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The Blade Itself

Joe Abercrombie · 531 pages

Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glo

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The Gods of Amyrantha

Jennifer Fallon · 496 pages

"The Tide Lords are returning and that means every man, woman and child is in danger ..." "Arkady is exiled to the repressive Torlenian capital, where she makes some unexpected friends and some powerful enemies, all of whom seem bent on using her to wreak vengeance on each other." "Things are not going smoothly for Declan Hawkes, the Kings Spymaster, either, and not just because the Empress of the

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Prince of Fools

Mark Lawrence · 502 pages

Hailed as "epic fantasy on a [George R. R. Martin](https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2621846A/George_R.R._Martin) scale, but on speed,"\* the _Broken Empire trilogy_ introduced a bold new world of dark fantasy with the story of Jorg Ancrath's devastating rise to power. Now, Mark Lawrence returns to the Broken Empire with the tale of a less ambitious prince... The Red Queen is old but the kings of

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The Illearth War

Stephen R. Donaldson · 528 pages

Thomas Covenant aids the inhabitants of the Land in their desperate struggle against the evil forces of Lord Foul the Despiser.

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