Category: Fantasy

By Piers Anthony

ISBN-10: 0061828653

ISBN-13: 9780061828652

Confused Prince Dolph, Xanth's precocious shapeshifter, could be in love yet isn't. still, he needs to selected among fiancÉes -- Nada the bored stiff and Electra the dull -- or all 3 of them will endure the main dire effects. fortunately a handy disaster has popped as much as distract Dolph shape his hindrance -- the foal-napping of younger Che Centaur by means of goblins. And the one one that understands the place Che is is a pleasant yet remarkably naive elflike gir named Jenny from the area of 2 Moons. If somebody can store the lacking centaur...she definite can't.

By Diane Duane

Shop Description:
Just one other Hallowe'en within the younger Wizards universe...

Ronan burst out guffawing because the tatty darkish shapes got here lurching and brilliant nearer and towards the wizards within the darkness, bits and items sometimes falling off them as they got here. The laughter had a touch panicky part to it, although, and after a second Ronan bought his keep an eye on again as he reached within his costume’s tunic. “Sorry, sorry,” he acknowledged as he pulled out whatever challenging to determine, “honestly. I simply maintain looking ahead to them to begin dancing. by means of any probability, are you men carrying?”

Nita ripped her wand out of its sheath and shook the protection spell off her attraction bracelet. package threw his plastic sword away and pulled his wand out too. “Time to make a stand,” Nita acknowledged. “We enable It reduce to rubble Hallowe’en, it’ll be coming after Hanukkah or Christmas next!” She whispered a few phrases within the Speech, and the rowan wand blazed with prepared power.

“You listen me?” Nita yelled, not only on the shambling undead yet on the amused energy chargeable for them and possibly staring at this complete factor. “I am taking Hallowe’en again, and also you are usually not getting away with this! now not on my patch!”

In this 14,000-word novelette, written for UNICEF's sixtieth annual "Trick or deal with for UNICEF" crusade, we tag besides Nita Callahan, package Rodriguez, Ronan Nolan, and Dairine Callahan as they perform a little overage Trick or Treating of their personal local, and locate themselves going up opposed to an outdated adversary with a weird new ally...

This tale hasn't ever seemed at any place, both in print or on-line, ahead of overdue October 2011. it is going to be the "October" access within the upcoming younger Wizards brief fiction anthology, The Wizards' yr, to be released by way of Badfort Press past due in 2012.

50% of all earnings from "Not On My Patch" visit UNICEF.

By Piers Anthony

Whilst Clio, the foundation of background, sat right down to pen the twenty-eighth quantity within the Chronicles of Xanth, she used to be surprised to find it was once already there! And, what was once worse, it was once absolutely unreadable, for the phrases on its pages have been fuzzed past comprehension.

Vexed and bewildered, and greater than a bit involved, Clio resolved to depart the quiet convenience of her examine at the slopes of Mount Parnassus, and ask her outdated pal, the great Magician Humfrey, to go looking an answer to her challenge in his publication of Answers.

But, a lot to her consternation, Humfrey required her to accomplish a mystical carrier prior to she may possibly gather her solution: to rescue Xanth's dragons from the verge of extinction prior to the fragile stability of its flora and fauna was once completely thrown out of whack.

Her momentous challenge lead her to a deadly Dragon international hidden among the Moons of Ida, throughout a dangerous panorama jam-packed with ask yourself and hazard, looking for the fabled Currant, a really infrequent purple berry that may carry the key she sought.

Along the best way she received a fellowship of partners, together with the courageous and gorgeous Becka Dragongirl, a couple of pocket dragons named Drew and Drusie, an enthralling younger baby known as Ciriana whose future was once someway entwined with hers, and Sherlock, a candy yet homely guy from Mundania who may simply be a grasp magician himself.

Together they progressively started to resolve the momentous secret of Xanth's lacking historical past. And Clio started to detect that Sherlock's enchantments had all started to paintings their manner into her heart.

By William Horwood

ISBN-10: 0099443007

ISBN-13: 9780099443001

The tale of a quest into the character of affection and greed, oppression and freedom, braveness and corruption – and eventually into the character of grace and the ability of the spirit… regardless of their transformations the moles of Duncton wooden are individuals of a similar once-proud procedure yet all at the moment are tyrannised by way of Mandrake. in basic terms within the shadow of the Stone, the inspiring half-forgotten image of a higher previous, can the energy to withstand be came upon and led through Bracken. while he has the misfortune to fall in love with Rebecca, Mandrake’s daughter, lifestyles and loss of life offerings has to be made and a unprecedented quest begins…

‘An epic within the culture of Lord of the Rings’ Sunday occasions

By Stacia Kane

Magic-wielding Churchwitch and mystery addict Chess Putnam understands higher than somebody simply how excessive a value everyone is prepared to pay for a chemical rush. but if a person with cash to burn and a penchant for black magic begins tampering with Downside's drug provide, Chess realizes that the unfortunate consumers are paying with their souls--and taking the blameless with them, because the magic-infused velocity compels them to kill within the so much grotesque methods possible.

As if the streets weren't frightening sufficient, the looming battle among the 2 males in her existence explodes, taking much more casualties and placing Chess squarely within the heart. draw back may well turn into a literal ghost city if Chess doesn't give you the option to forestall either the warfare and the darkish wave of death-magic, and the single method to do this is to take advantage of either her habit and her energy to go into the spell and chase the magic all of the as far back as its malevolent resource. Too undesirable that doing so will most likely kill Chess--if the struggle doesn't first smash the fellow who's turn into her reason behind dwelling.

By Joan Aiken

ISBN-10: 1409025411

ISBN-13: 9781409025412

Are you able to pass a bit speedier? are you able to run?

Long in the past, at a time in heritage that by no means occurred, England used to be overrun with wolves. yet as Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia realize, actual probability usually lies toward domestic. Their new governess, pass over Slighcarp, doesn't look in any respect great. She shuts Bonnie in a cabinet, fires the devoted servants and sends the cousins far-off from Willoughby Chase to a spot they're going to by no means be came upon. Can Bonnie and Sylvia outwit the depraved omit Slighcarp and her community of criminals, forgers and snitches?

By Ian C. Esslemont

ISBN-10: 1429940387

ISBN-13: 9781429940382

Greymane believed he'd outrun his previous. along with his institution for swordsmanship in Falar, he was once awaiting a quiet lifestyles, even if his colleague Kyle wasn't as enamoured with lifestyles open air the mercenary corporation, the pink defend. in spite of the fact that, it kind of feels it's not really easy for an ex-Fist of the Malazan Empire to vanish, particularly one below sentence of demise from that very same Empire.

For there's a new Emperor at the throne of Malaz, and he's residing at the ignominy that's the Empire's failed invasion of the Korel subcontinent. within the vaults underneath Unta, the Imperial capital, lie the solutions to that catastrophe. And out of this buried historical past surfaces the identify Stonewielder.

In Korel, Lord Protector Hiam, commander of the Stormguard, faces the aptitude annihilation of all that he holds pricey. With few ultimate males and a crumbling stone wall that has noticeable larger days, he confronts an old enemy: the sea-borne Stormriders have returned.

Religious struggle additionally threatens those lands. The cult of the Blessed woman, which had stood enterprise opposed to the Riders for millennia, now seeks to remove its competitors. And as chaos looms, an area Justice of the Peace investigating a sequence of murders by surprise unearths himself on the center of a much more historical and terrifying crime – one who has tainted a whole land....

Stonewielder is a captivating new bankruptcy within the epic tale of a thrillingly imagined global that occurs within the timeline correct after the recent York instances bestseller airborne dirt and dust of goals left off.

By Steven Erikson

After a long time of internecine conflict, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have ultimately united lower than the Warlock King of the Hiroth, there's peace--but it's been exacted at a bad cost: a pact made with a hidden strength whose factors are the easiest suspect, at worst, deadly.To the south, the expansionist nation of Lether, wanting to satisfy its long-prophesized renaissance as an Empire reborn, has enslved all its less-civilized pals with rapacious starvation. All, that's, shop one--the Tiste Edur. And it has to be just a subject of time sooner than they too fall--either underneath the suffocating weight of gold, or by means of slaughter on the fringe of a sword. Or so future has decreed. Yet because the facets assemble for a pivotal treaty neither really desires, old forces are awakening.  For the approaching fight among those peoples is yet a faded mirrored image of a much more profound, primal battle--a disagreement with the still-raw wound of an old betrayal and the yearning for revenge at its seething center.    

By John Maddox Roberts

ISBN-10: 0812552105

ISBN-13: 9780812552102

While his would-be bride and her family members are savagely killed via Taharka of Keshan, the younger Conan of Cimmeria vows his unrelenting revenge. From the battling pits of Croton to the plains of Ophir, Conan pursues Taharka to a conflict to the demise.

By J. D. Horn

Savannah is taken into account a Southern treasure, a urban of good looks with a wealthy, colourful previous. a few may possibly even name it magical…

To the uninitiated, Savannah exhibits in simple terms her shiny face and genteel demeanour. those that be aware of her good, although, can see past her colonial trappings and small-city appeal to a global the place witchcraft is revered, Hoodoo is feared, and spirits linger. Mercy Taylor is all too conversant in the supernatural part of Savannah, being a member of the main robust family members of witches within the South.

Despite being powerless herself, of course.

Having grown up with out magic of her personal, within the shadow of her proficient and charismatic dual sister, Mercy has continuously suggestion herself content material. but if a sequence of mishaps—culminating within the demise of the Taylor matriarch—leaves a vacuum within the mystical underpinnings of Savannah, she unearths herself thrust right into a secret that can shake her family members apart…and unharness a darkness the road of Taylor witches has been retaining at bay for generations.

In the road, the 1st booklet of the Witching Savannah sequence, J.D. Horn weaves magic, romance, and betrayal right into a attractive Southern Gothic delusion with a modern flare.