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Lord of the Clans

Christie Golden · 278 pages

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In the Shadow of Lightning

Brian McClellan · 576 pages

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Towers of Midnight

Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson · 880 pages

As the seals on the Dark One's prison crumble and the armies of the Shadow boil out of the Blight, Perrin Aybara, hunted by specters from his past, must seek answers in "Tel'aran'rhiod" and find a way to master the wolf within him--or lose himself to it forever. Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life ... as The Tower of Ghenjei awaits.

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Last Argument of Kings

Joe Abercrombie · 647 pages

The King of the Union lies on his deathbed, the peasants revolt, and the nobles scramble to steal his crown. No one believes that the shadow of war is about to fall across the heart of the Union. Only the First of the Magi can save the world, but there are risks.

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Inheritance

Christopher Paolini · 880 pages

Not so very long ago, Eragon -- Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider -- was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders. Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And still, the real battle lies ahead: they must confront Galb

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The Return of the King

J.R.R. Tolkien · 544 pages

The awesome conclusion to The Lord of the Rings—the greatest fantasy epic of all time—which began in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read While the evil might of the Dark Lord Sauron swarms out to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggle deep into Mordor, seat of Sauron’s power. To defeat the Dark Lo

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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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Exile's Return

Raymond E. Feist · 368 pages

The evil Duke of Olasko is lord no more -- vanquished by his nemesis Tal Hawkins, the Talon of the Silver Hawk. Saved by a mage's intervention from certain death, the once-feared despot has been reduced to an exile's existence, forced to wander the harshest realms of the world he once enslaved.Conclave of Shadows: Book ThreeOnly days ago, Kaspar, the powerful Duke of Olasko, had great armies at hi

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Poison Study

Maria V. Snyder · 409 pages

About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace-and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay

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Exile's Valor

Mercedes Lackey · 425 pages

This stand-alone novel in the Valdemar series continues the story of prickly weapons-master Alberich. Once a heroic Captain in the army of Karse, a kingdom at war with Valdemar, Alberich becomes one of Valdemar's Heralds. Despite prejudice against him, he becomes the personal protector of young Queen Selenay. But can he protect her from the dangers of her own heart?

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A Grant of Arms

Morgan Rice · 180 pages

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King's Shield

Sherwood Smith · 585 pages

Sherwood Smith is “a writer who is making her bid to be a major fantasist. ”( Orson Scott Card)Inda, on the verge of adulthood, is at last coming home. At age eleven he’d been exiled from his kingdom, but when he learns that his homeland is about to be invaded, he ends his exile to report the imminent attack. Pressed into service as the king’s “royal shield arm,” Inda must now defend the kingdom—f

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Havemercy

Jaida Jones, Danielle Bennett · 418 pages

This stunning epic fantasy debut introduces two exciting new authors--and a world brimming with natural and man-made wonders, extraordinary events, and a crisis that will test the mettle of men, the boundaries of magic, and the heart and soul of a kingdom.Thanks to its elite Dragon Corps, the capital city of Volstov has all but won the hundred years' war with its neighboring enemy, the Ke-Han. The

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The Battle of Hackham Heath

John Flanagan · 357 pages

As Morgarath recruits an army of Wargals, Halt ventures into enemy territory to uncover the extent of Morgarath's plan of attack.

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Promise of Blood

Brian McClellan · 560 pages

The Age of Kings is dead . . . and I have killed it. It's a bloody business overthrowing a king... Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. But it also provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics, and the greedy to scramble for money and power by Tamas's supposed allies: the Church, w

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Legacies

L.E. Modesitt Jr. · 560 pages

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The Orc King

R.A. Salvatore · 394 pages

The uneasy peace between the dwarves of Mithral Hall and the orcs of the Kingdom of Many Arrows begins to falter as the tribes of orcs under the command of Obould begin to battle one another, and Bruenor becomes determined to finish the war that had nearly destroyed him.

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Dragonmaster

Chris Bunch · 396 pages

Bunch, the bestselling author of the Last Legion series, begins a new trilogy. When war comes to the kingdom men ride fearsome dragons. Young Hal Kailas, who bonded with a dragon years before, has reason to think he may be one of the few who can bend a dragon's will.

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The War of the Dwarves

Markus Heitz · 784 pages

„Im Geborgenen Land herrscht Festtagsstimmung. Während Zwerg Tungdil mit seinen Freunden den Sieg über den verräterischen Magus Nôd’onn feiert, wälzt sich ein Heer hinterhältiger Orks heran, um das Zwergenreich zu zermalmen. Das Schwarze Wasser, ein düsteres Geheimnis, hat sie unsterblich gemacht, und schon bald müssen Tungdil und seine Gefährten ihre ganze Tapferkeit aufbieten, um sich den Bösewi

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The Legion of Videssos

Harry Turtledove · 422 pages

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Heldenhammer

Graham McNeill · 416 pages

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Death's Angels

William King

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Hero in the Shadows

David Gemmell · 385 pages

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