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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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Furies of Calderon

Jim Butcher · 512 pages

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Flight of the Nighthawks

Raymond E. Feist · 400 pages

A new evil threatens Midkemia, its web stretching from the deepest criminal underworld all the way up to the highest seats of power in ancient Kesh. And the Conclave of Shadows, charged unexpectedly with the training of two apprentices, must also best powerful agents of the darkest magic . . . for the fate of two worlds lies in the balance.The New York Times bestselling author and master of fantas

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The Grace of Kings

Ken Liu · 640 pages

"Wily, charming Kuni Garu--a bandit--and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu--the son of a deposed duke--seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, soaring battle kites, underwater boats, magical books, shapeshifting gods, and scaled whales who se

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The Emperor's Knife

Mazarkis Williams

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The City of Dusk

Tara Sim · 512 pages

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The Crown Tower

Michael J. Sullivan · 432 pages

Thieving assassin Royce Melborn and warrior Hadrian Blackwater are forced to work together to steal a treasure that no one can reach in the Crown Tower, an impregnable fortress that houses the realm's most prized possessions.

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Gardens of the Moon

Steven Erikson · 544 pages

The opening chapter in an epic fantasy masterpiece....Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, the vast, sprawling Malazan empire simmers with discontent.Even its imperial legions yearn for some respite. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his Bridgeburners and for Tattersail, sole surviving sorceress of the Second Legion, the af

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A Plague of Giants

Kevin Hearne

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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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Realm Breaker

Victoria Aveyard · 584 pages

Save the world or end it. A strange darkness is growing in the Ward. Even Corayne an-Amarat can feel it, tucked away in her small town at the edge of the sea. Fate knocks on her door, in the form of a mythical immortal and a lethal assassin, who tell Corayne that she is the last of an ancient lineage—with the power to save the world from destruction. Because a man who would burn kingdoms

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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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The Way of Shadows

Brent Weeks · 645 pages

For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the city's most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned the hard way to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. But to be accepted,

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Furyborn

Claire Legrand · 501 pages

When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will be executed ... unless the trials kill her first.

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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 King's Bastard

Rowena Cory Daniells

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The Emperor's Blades

Brian Staveley · 479 pages

The children of an assassinated emperor try to stay alive and avenge their father's death while continuing down their individual life-paths, one in a monastery, another training with elite soldiers, and one appointed a minister determined to prove herself to her people.

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Words of Radiance

Brandon Sanderson · 1,088 pages

The war with the Parshendi moves into a new, dangerous phase, as Dalinar leads the human armies deep into the heart of the Shattered Plains. Meanwhile Shallan searches for the legendary city of Urithuru, and Kaladin, leader of the restored Knights Radiant, masters the powers of a Windrunner.

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Blood's Pride

Evie Manieri · 516 pages

Two decades after being forced into slavery by seafaring Norlander invaders, a small faction of Shadari rebels hires the infamous mercenary Mongrel to assist their uprising, unaware that her ties to the region render her a volatile ally with an agenda of her own.

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Hawkwood's Voyage

Paul Kearney · 380 pages

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A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

George R.R. Martin · 688 pages

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Lord of Chaos

Robert Jordan · 922 pages

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. On the slopes of Shayol Ghul, the Myrddraal swords are f

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Cry of the Newborn

James Barclay · 832 pages

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Rules of Ascension

David B. Coe · 672 pages

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