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Oath of Fealty

Elizabeth Moon · 471 pages

Elizabeth Moon's bestselling science fiction novels featuring Kylara Vatta have earned her rave reviews and comparison to such giants as Robert Heinlein and Lois McMaster Bujold. But as Moon's devoted fans know, she started her career as a fantasy writer. The superb trilogy known as The Deed of Paksenarrion is widely judged to be one of the great post-Tolkien fantasies, a masterpiece of sustained

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Cry of the Newborn

James Barclay · 832 pages

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The Thousand Names

Django Wexler · 624 pages

Winter Ihernglass poses as a man to enlist in the Vordanai Colonials and must form an allegiance with a new colonel, appointed by the king to restore order, after she's promoted to a command post.

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The Sworn

Gail Z. Martin

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Wolfblade

Jennifer Fallon · 640 pages

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A Kingdom Besieged

Raymond E. Feist · 400 pages

Plagued by rumour and instability. the Kingdom is losing spies in Kesh, disappearing - either murdered, or turned to the enemy side. Information has become scant and unreliable; but dark forces are coming. The Keshian Confederacy is assembling under an old enemy in new guise., and powerful magician Pug's youngest son brings new apprentices into the family. As the men of the West answer the King's

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Suldrun's Garden

Jack Vance · 448 pages

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The Last Stormlord

Glenda Larke · 704 pages

Shale is the lowest of the low-an outcast from a poor village in the heart of the desert. In the desert water is life, and currency, and Shale has none. But he has a secret. It's the one thing that keeps him alive and may save all the cities of the Quartern in the days to come. If it doesn't get him killed first...Terelle is a slave fleeing a life as a courtesan. She finds shelter in the home of a

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Cursor's Fury

Jim Butcher · 448 pages

When the High Lord of Kalare enters into a dangerous alliance with the Canim, and treachery destroys the Aleran army's command structure, an inexperienced, young Tavi of Calderon leads a poorly equipped legion against the Canim horde.

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Cephrael's Hand

Melissa McPhail · 780 pages

“All things are composed of patterns...” And within the pattern of the realm of Alorin, three strands must cross: In Alorin...three hundred years after the genocidal Adept Wars, the realm is dying, and the blessed Adept race dies with it. One man holds the secret to reverting this decline: Bjorn van Gelderan, a dangerous and enigmatic man whose shocking betrayal three centuries past earned him a

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Dance of Shadows

Gourav Mohanty · 832 pages

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Shadowmarch

Tad Williams · 672 pages

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Soul of the World

David Mealing · 656 pages

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Sorcerers of Majipoor

Robert Silverberg · 624 pages

On the gigantic planet Majipoor, it is a time of ancient mysteries and new wonders. The aged Pontifex Prankipin, who brought sorcery (and prosperity) to the Fifty Cities of Castle Mount, is at last near death. Omens are seen, prodigies are born, wine and blood are consumed...even the sea-dragons have been glimpsed from the cliffs. Truly, a great change is at hand!. The Coronal Lord Confalume, who

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Stronghold

Melanie Rawn · 544 pages

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The King's Bastard

Rowena Cory Daniells

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Dragon Wing

Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman · 430 pages

**The Death Gate Cycle** *Ages ago, sorcerers of unmatched power sundered a world into four realms - sky, stone, fire, and water - then vanished. Over time, magicians learned to work spells only in their own realms and forgot the others. Now only the few who have survived the Labyrinth and crossed the Death Gate know of the presence of all four realms - and even they have yet to unravel the myste

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A Throne of Bones

Vox Day, Theodore Beale · 924 pages

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The Dinosaur Lords

Victor Milan · 445 pages

A world made by the Eight Creators on which to play out their games of passion and power, Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often brutal place. Men and women live on Paradise but dinosaurs predominate, and they are the weapons of choice. Vast armies of dinosaur-mounted knights engage in battle. During the course of one of these epic battles, the enigmatic mercenary Dinosaur Lord Karyl Bogomirsky i

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A Secret Atlas

Michael A. Stackpole · 531 pages

Seven centuries ago, the world was shrunk by the magic-spawned Cataclysm, which shattered the Empire into Nine Principalities and buried it in black ice. As ice and magic receded, Qiro Anturasi's genius for finding new trade routes allowed Nalenyr to prosper again. His talent yielded enormous power and wealth, but now it may cost his family their lives.

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Black Wolves

Kate Elliott · 821 pages

SOME CHOICES CAN NEVER BE UNDONE.He lost his honor long ago. Captain Kellas was lauded as the king's most faithful servant until the day he failed in his duty. Dismissed from service, his elite regiment disbanded, he left the royal palace and took up another life. Now a battle brews within the palace that threatens to reveal deadly secrets and spill over into open war. The king needs a loyal soldi

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Inda

Sherwood Smith · 599 pages

Acclaimed author Sherwood Smith's first adult fantasy novel, set in the bestselling world of Crown Duel.Indevan-Dal is the second son of the Prince and Princess of Choraed Elgaer, destined to become his elder brother Tanrid's Shield Arm-his military champion. Like all second sons, he is to be privately trained at home by Tanrid, the brother whose lands he will one day protect.When the King's Voice

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Acacia: The War with the Mein

David Anthony Durham · 576 pages

The bestselling historical novelist turns to epic fantasy with a powerful story of treachery, murder and revenge...Ruling from the island of Acacia, the emperor of the Known World has inherited an apparent peace and prosperity won by his ancestors generations ago. He's an intelligent man, a widower who dotes on his four children and it is this devotion that obliges him to hide a terrible secret fr

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The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson · 552 pages

For a thousand years ashes have fallen from the sky. For a thousand years nothing has flourished. For a thousand years the skaa have been enslaved and live in misery, mired in inevitable fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler has reigned with absolute power, ruling thanks to terror, his powers and his immortality, aided by "benders" and "inquisitors", along with the powerful magic of Alloman

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