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Straken
by Terry Brooks
The final battle between good and evil in the magical world of Shannara. A quest to save the Four Lands from destruction.
After receiving the darkwand from the Tanequil tree, Pen Ohmsford finds his companions—the Dwarf Tagwen and a small troll force led by Kermadec and his brother Atalan—captured by Druid forces under ... (Wikipedia)
Jarka Ruus
by Terry Brooks
A young girl must save her world from the evil Jarka Ruus, using magic and courage to overcome the darkness.
In the 20 years since the events chronicled in The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara , Grianne Ohmsford has become High Druid, or Ard Rhys, of the new Druid Council , but not without misgivings by many ... (Wikipedia)
Antrax
by Terry Brooks
The second book in the "Voyage of the Jerle Shannara" series. A quest to find the magical "tanequil" and defeat the evil Antrax.
The voyage to find the lost magic takes the companions to the continent of Parkasia . Here, they are split up, and Walker , despite all his plans and his enormous power, finds himself caught and ... (Wikipedia)
Clariel
by Garth Nix
A young woman's struggle to define her own identity in a dangerous world of magic.
Sixteen-year-old Clariel is not adjusting well to her new life in the city of Belisaere, the capital of the Old Kingdom. She misses roaming freely within the forests of Estwael, and she feels trapped ... (Goodreads)
Magician: Master
by Raymond E. Feist
Pug, a young magician, is kidnapped and taken to another world where he must use his powers to survive and save his friends.
In the twelfth year of the reign of Rodric the Fourth, an orphaned kitchen boy named Pug is made an apprentice magician to the magician Kulgan in Crydee . A struggling student of magic , he rises to ... (Wikipedia)
The Amulet of Samarkand
by Jonathan Stroud
A young sorcerer unlocks the secrets of a powerful magical amulet to save London from supernatural forces.
In an alternate London where the British Empire dominates the world through control of magic, and commoners are governed by the ruling class of magicians, five-year-old Nathaniel begins an ... (Wikipedia)
The Ruins of Gorlan
by John Flanagan
A young orphan's rise to become a heroic knight, defending the kingdom against an evil sorcerer.
Morgarath, the exiled lord of the bleak, barren Mountains of Rain and Night has been waiting fifteen years in his dark realm, carefully planning his revenge against the Kingdom of Araluen. His former ... (Wikipedia)
The Dragon Reborn
by Robert Jordan
A young man's quest to realize his destiny and save the world from destruction.
Rand al'Thor , having been declared the Dragon Reborn by Moiraine Damodred , secretly goes to Tear to prove himself. Along the way he is hunted by Darkhounds and Darkfriends. After leaving in secret, ... (Wikipedia)
The Great Hunt
by Robert Jordan
A daring adventure to recover a powerful artifact, with a kingdom's fate at stake.
Ba'alzamon presides over a clandestine meeting. In addition to Forsaken and Darkfriends (the antagonist 's known subordinates), the meeting includes two Aes Sedai . At Fal Dara in Shienar, following ... (Wikipedia)
Dragonseye
by Anne McCaffrey
A group of colonists on the planet Pern must fight to protect their world from a deadly threat - the Thread, a destructive spore that falls from the sky.
In Anne McCaffrey's New York Times bestselling DRAGONSEYE, join Weyrleaders, Holders, and Craftmasters in the creation of the legendary Star Stones and the teaching ballads of Pern! It's been ... (Goodreads)
Magician: Apprentice
by Raymond E. Feist
A young boy's journey to becoming a master sorcerer, encountering magical creatures and powerful forces along the way.
In the twelfth year of the reign of Rodric the Fourth, an orphaned kitchen boy named Pug is made an apprentice magician to the magician Kulgan in Crydee . A struggling student of magic , he rises to ... (Wikipedia)
The Lilac Bus
by Maeve Binchy
A group of passengers on a lilac-colored bus share their stories and secrets during their weekly commute.
Set in the 1960s and 1970s, , the book follows a group of seven people from the fictional village of Rathdoon in West Ireland , who all live in Dublin and return home each weekend on a lilac-colored ... (Wikipedia)
Dragon's Kin
by Anne McCaffrey
A young girl and her father struggle to raise and train a clutch of mischievous dragons.
The story tells how the people of the planet Pern discover the special abilities of the watch-whers or whers, a distant relative of the dragons. Subsequently, these beasts are used in mines to warn ... (Wikipedia)
A Modern Witch
by Debora Geary
A young woman discovers she's a witch and joins a community of modern witches. She learns to embrace her powers and find love.
Can you live 28 years without discovering you're a witch? — Lauren is downtown Chicago's youngest elite realtor. She's also a witch. She must be - the fetching spell for Witches' Chat isn't supposed ... (Goodreads)
The Skies of Pern
by Anne McCaffrey
The people of Pern face a new threat from the skies, and must find a way to protect themselves and their dragons.
A rogue comet that strikes Pern leads the Weyrleaders and Holders, contemplating a future where dragonriders are not needed in a Threadless world, to consider the creation of a new Star Craft made of ... (Wikipedia)
Raymie Nightingale
by Kate DiCamillo
An unlikely trio of girls embark on an adventure to win a beauty pageant, learning valuable life lessons along the way.
Raymie Clarke has come to realize that everything, absolutely everything, depends on her. And she has a plan. If Raymie can win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition, then her father, who ... (Goodreads)
Tandia
by Bryce Courtenay
A young black girl in apartheid South Africa fights against oppression and racism to achieve her dreams.
Tandia, whose parents were a South African Indian man (Mr. Patel) and his house worker (a black woman), is raped by a police officer at her father's grave the day after his funeral. With Mr. Patel's ... (Wikipedia)
The Quest
by Wilbur Smith
A young man sets out on a dangerous journey to find a legendary treasure and avenge his father's death.
Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up. Something ... (Wikipedia)
Sabriel
by Garth Nix
A young woman embarks on a quest to save her kingdom from an ancient evil, confronting her own mortality.
The book opens with Sabriel raising a freshly killed rabbit from death. She is a young girl attending Wyverly College, an all-female boarding school in Ancelstierre. An undead creature enters the ... (Wikipedia)
Servant of the Shard
by R.A. Salvatore
Artemis Entreri and Jarlaxle team up to steal the powerful crystal shard, but their partnership is tested by their own ambitions.
After regaining his confidence and will to live (lost in Paths of Darkness, when Drizzt Do'Urden seemed to have died without being defeated fairly by Artemis, thus apparently taking from him the ... (Wikipedia)
Seize the Night
by Dean Koontz
A thrilling story of a detective hunting down a killer in the dark of night.
Seize the Night begins a few months after Fear Nothing . It starts with Chris and his dog Orson happening upon Chris's ex-girlfriend, Lilly Wing, whose son Jimmy has just disappeared. Chris swears to ... (Wikipedia)
Shade's Children
by Garth Nix
In a dystopian world, children are hunted by evil overlords for their body parts. A group of children fight back to reclaim their humanity.
A boy nicknamed Gold-Eye, a fifteen-year-old, was born near the time of the Change. He was physically affected by the Change radiation and his eyes, including his pupils, are a bright golden color. ... (Wikipedia)
The Legacy
by R.A. Salvatore
Adventurer Drizzt Do'Urden embarks on a quest to save his people from a vicious enemy.
The Legacy continues the plot-line of The Icewind Dale Trilogy , with Wulfgar and Catti-brie preparing for their marriage and Drizzt returning from the first of many visits to Lady Alustriel of ... (Wikipedia)
A Local Habitation
by Seanan McGuire
A private investigator is sent to a fairy kingdom to investigate a computer virus. But things are not as they seem.
October "Toby" Daye is a changeling, the daughter of Amandine of the fae and a mortal man. Like her mother, she is gifted in blood magic, able to read what has happened to a person through a mere ... (Goodreads)
Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles
by Margaret George
A historical novel about the life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, and her tumultuous reign.
She became Queen of Scots when she was only six days old. Life among the warring factions in Scotland was dangerous for the infant Queen, however, and at age five Mary was sent to France to be raised ... (Goodreads)
City of the Lost
by Kelley Armstrong
Casey Duncan flees to Rockton, a secret town in the Yukon for people on the run. But danger follows her there.
At age eighteen, Casey Duncan is attending police college to become a detective, much to the disapproval of her parents, who are both prominent doctors. She is dating Blaine Saratori, a small-time ... (Wikipedia)
Rhapsody: Child of Blood
by Elizabeth Haydon
Epic fantasy adventure, featuring a young girl's quest to reclaim her destiny.
Rhapsody: Child of Blood is a fantasy/adventure novel, though it opens with a strong romantic scene. The main story begins in Easton, when the protagonist Rhapsody finds herself in jeopardy, having ... (Wikipedia)
Rule of Two
by Drew Karpyshyn
The Sith Lord Darth Bane trains his apprentice, adhering to the Rule of Two, which states that there can only be two Sith at a time.
Darth Bane, still on the planet Ruusan, finds his apprentice Zannah, a girl only 10 years old. Together they decide to see the effects of the thought bomb, and journey into the catacombs where it ... (Wikipedia)
The Fate of the Tearling
by Erika Johansen
A young queen's quest to save her kingdom from a powerful tyrant.
"Katniss Everdeen, you have competition."— Entertainment Weekly In the final volume of the the, New York Times, bestselling Tearling trilogy, which has captivated readers around the world, Erika ... (Barnes & Noble)
Path of Destruction
by Drew Karpyshyn
Epic space opera, involving space pirates, gods, and a galactic war.
