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Cast in Shadow [Chronicles of Elantra Series Book 1] [Secure]
by Michelle Sagara
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Seven years ago Kaylin fled the crime-riddled streets of Nightshade, knowing that something was after her. Children were being murdered--and all had the same odd markings that mysteriously appeared on her own skin." Since then, she's learned to read, she's learned to fight and she's become one of the vaunted Hawks who patrol and police the City of Elantra. Alongside the winged Aerians and the immortal Barrani, she's made a place for herself, far from the mean streets of her birth. But children a... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Pearl of Fire
by Deborah Wheeler
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When Rayzel got the Pearl of Fire from her dying grandfather, she had no idea what having possession of it would do to her and how it would change her life. (Published: 2007)
Words: 7208 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
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On the Other Side [Heralds of Valdemar series]
by Mercedes Lackey
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Herald Enna didn't want to return to her home village, didn't want to see the people who would remember her from when she was a young girl, and especially didn't want to see Bard Jordie Ambersen again. But Heralds go where they are sent, so she didn't have a choice; she had to face her past. (Published: 2003)
Words: 5947 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
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Somebody Else's Magic [Lythande series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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 Although it's Lythande's magic that's for hire, not her blade--at least, not the right-hand blade--you don't live long in the lands between Tschardain and Northwander if you don't have some skill with an edged weapon, and she has plenty. A swordswoman's mission, however, can sideslip without warning into a magician's ordeal. And may the gods help her who's caught in a web spun by somebody else's magic. (Published: 1984)
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Wizards
by Jay Greenstein
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Donald Tyson answered an improbable ad. Now, he's a wizard, and sells magic over the counter like toothpaste, providing invulnerability and perfect health at reasonable cost. Business is brisk, as you might imagine. But who will buy a car when a magic carpet is cheap and doesn't need fueling? Who needs doctors or hospitals when no one ever gets sick, or hurt? Soon, half the world is unemployed. That's bad. But soon, too, dictatorships will vanish, and that's good. How do you oppress people who c... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 71643 - Reading Time: 204-286 min.
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Cast in Courtlight [Chronicles of Elantra Series Book 2] [Secure]
by Michelle Sagara
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In Elantra, a job well done is rewarded with a more dangerous task. And so, after defeating a dark evil, Kaylin must enter a place of deceit and treachery. A world where silk and jewels hide deadly secrets.... Kaylin goes before the Barrani High Court, where a misspoken word brings sure death. And Kaylin's never been known for her grace or manners. But the High Lord's heir is suspiciously ill and Kaylin's healing magic is the only shot at saving him--if she manages to dodge the traps laid for he... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Demon Sword [The Years of Longdirk 1]
by Dave Duncan
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All of Europe is under the control of the Khan, whose conquering armies swept across the West in 1244. Scotland, in addition, lies under the heel of England. Young Toby Strangerson, a half-English bastard, reared by a witchwife, wants only to shed his hated "Sassenach" blood and free his beloved highlands. Toby wields a sword as the outlaw Longdirk. The sword can cut down men like so many stalks of corn. But stranger winds are swirling and howling across the lochs, eldritch winds that are ridde... more info>> (Published: 1995)
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A Mage in the Making [The Chronicles of Grimm Dragonblaster Book 1]
by Alastair J. Archibald
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At the age of seven, Grimm Afelnor is sent from his grandfather's forge to learn the craft of magic at Arnor House of the Ancient and Honourable Guild of Magic-users, Sorcerers and Thaumaturges. He soon learns that his beloved grandfather, Loras Afelnor, is not the simple blacksmith he appears. Once a powerful Mage Questor of the Seventh Rank, Loras fell into disgrace and was banished from the Guild, his name and honours stricken from the Guild records. As a charity Student and the grandson of t... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Cast in Fury [Chronicles of Elantra Series Book 4] [Secure]
by Michelle Sagara
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When a minority race of telepaths is suspected of causing a near-devastating tidal wave, Private Kaylin Neya is summoned to Court--and into a PR nightmare. To ease racial tensions, the emperor has commissioned a play, and the playwright has his own ideas about who should be the focus.... But Kaylin works her best magic behind the scenes, and though she tries to stay neutral, she is again drawn into a world of politics ... and murder. To make matters worse, Marcus, her trusted sergeant, gets stri... more info>>
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Cast in Secret [The Chronicles of Elantra Series Book 3] [Secure]
by Michelle Sagara
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Still avoiding magic whenever possible, Corporal Kaylin Neya relished investigating a regular theft once again. Until she found out the mysterious box was taken from Elani Street, where the mages and charlatans mingled, and it was sometimes hard to tell the difference between the two. But she was hoping this might be a mundane case--when in a back room Kaylin saw a lost-looking girl in a reflective pool...who called out Kaylin's name. Shaken, Kaylin tried to stay focused on the case at hand. But... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Mask of the Serpent
by S.W. Vaughn
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No matter who loses, the bad guy wins Drug lord and self-professed saint Diego Mendez is a man of his word. He's watched two of his lieutenants die, thanks to Angel and House Phoenix. Unfortunately, he's promised a certain crooked cop that he won't seek revenge unless Phoenix hits him first. When Angel makes a run on his turf, Mendez decides it's enough of a loophole to act. He kidnaps Angel's lieutenant, Jenner, intent on breaking him--and killing him. But Jenner is just as nasty and mean as ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Take A Chance
by Eve Langlais
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Shy librarian Samantha longs to find her one true love, but in today's modern world, finding a dashing hero seems to be an impossible to task. So Chance decides to step in and what follows is pure adventure as Samantha finds herself magically teleported to a tropical island where she meets a hunky wizard in need of rescuing. Sinclair, is a wizard of the high council, cursed to live alone on a tropical island with little hope of rescue, that is 'til a luscious librarian is dropped onto his beac... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Hallowmas Night
by Mercedes Lackey
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When a wandering mage came to a village, they asked her to stay and offered her the cottage that had belonged to their previous mage. It was almost too good an offer - or was it? (Published: 1996)
Words: 5022 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
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Landscape of the Imagination [Vows and Honor series]
by Mercedes Lackey
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Tarma and Kethry had managed to get stranded in a place where they couldn't find a new job. When their only way out was into the magic-infested chaos of the Pelagir Hills, Tarma was worried, but then Kethry's enchanted sword Need led them to their new employer, and things got truly strange. (Published: 2001)
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Weapon of the Guild [The Chronicles of Grimm Dragonblaster Book 2]
by Alastair J. Archibald
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Grimm Afelnor, the youngest Mage Questor in Arnor House, has sworn to expunge the stain from his reviled family name. Grimm's arduous first Quest with his best friend, Dalquist, seems simple enough at first: to retrieve a magical gem from a magic-using Baron. Along the way, Grimm has to kill a man, destroy a demon, conquer unwitting drug addiction and break free of magical infatuation cast by a young witch-nun. Grimm regards the wealth and title of Baron as more than ample recompense for his pai... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Magic Casement [A Man of His Word #1]
by Dave Duncan
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A princess and a stableboy? It sounds like the worst sort of hackneyed formula romance. Think again, for A Man of His Word may well be the most original fantasy you ever read. The magic is unique and applied in unexpected ways, some of which the late Lester del Rey admitted he had not met in fifty years as writer and editor. The world itself is unique--there are no humans in Pandemia, only imps, elves, gnomes, jotnar, and many more, all of whom you will recognize as human. In Magic Casement the ... more info>> (Published: 2005)
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Questor [The Chronicles of Grimm Dragonblaster Book 3]
by Alastair J. Archibald
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Mage Questor Grimm Afelnor and his companions find themselves in Haven, a steel fortress in the forbidding Shest Mountains, as the unwilling guests of Armitage, the reborn avatar of a long-dead Technologist, who holds ancient techniques of mental control. After being forced to fight a magical duel, Grimm and his nemesis, Questor Xylox, break free and battle the hellish array of Technological devices at Armitage's command. However, even defeating Armitage and his minions is not the end: a traitor... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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The Spirit Ring
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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During the height of the Renaissance, Fiametta Beneforte learns the secrets of magic and metalworking from her father in the Italian province of Montefoglia. Just as Fiametta begins to develop her skills, her country is overrun by enemies and everything she owns is destroyed, except for the clothes on her back and the ring she made just the day before. It was supposed to be a magic ring, to bring her true love, but what it brings her instead is a chance to fight back against her oppressors befor... more info>> (Published: 1992) Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 109530 - Reading Time: 312-438 min.
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Kur of Gor [Gor Series Book 28]
by John Norman
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The Kur is often eight to ten feet in height when it straighten its body - which it seldom does - and several hundred pounds in weight, and it is clawed and fanged, long armed, agile and swift. It prizes its strength, speed, and sensitivity - its capacity to be easily aroused to rage. The Kurii, as humans, have produced several civilizations, some of which, as those of humans, have survived. But they have taken care to see that what we might tendentiously call their bestiality, or animality shou... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July-August 2010
by Spilogale Authors
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine and original publisher of SF classics such as Stephen King's "Dark Tower," Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon," and Walter M. Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz." Each issue contains the science fiction field's most respected and outspoken opinions on literature, film, and science, along with compelling short stories and novellas by writers such as Ray Bradbury, Ben Bova, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mike Resnic... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Blaze of Glory
by Sheryl Nantus
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Saving the world is easy for a superhero--unless you're a fraud. Jo Tanis is a superhero, fighting evil on the city streets, using her ability to feed off electromagnetic energy and fire off charges--and it's all just a show. The Agency captures her and others like her when their powers begin to manifest, pitting them against each other in staged, gladiatorial fights. An explosive implant on the back of her neck assures she'll keep right on smiling for the camera and beating up the bad guys. W... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover [Darkover Anthology series #11]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Elisabeth Waters
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A collection of Darkover stories written by Marion Zimmer Bradley (with occasional help from Elisabeth Waters), covering such popular subjects as the Free Amazons, Hilary Castamir, Rohanna Aillard, and Dyan Ardais. (Published: 1993)
Words: 117506 - Reading Time: 335-470 min.
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Rogue's Curse
by Jason Beymer
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Two thousand years after the Rapture, the world still sucks. The talisman responsible for the Rapture has embedded itself in Doban's chest, making him the most wanted rogue in history. Pursued by a biblical prophet intent on ripping the talisman out, Doban must seek help from the only woman who ever loved him--a woman he once left to die in a tomb. Can they let go of the past long enough to stop a second Rapture? This title contains graphic violence, off-kilter copulation, and nasty rogues. (Published: 2010)
Words: 75874 - Reading Time: 216-303 min.
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The Far Kingdoms [The Far Kingdoms, Book 1]
by Allan Cole, Chris Bunch
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Allan Cole and Chris Bunch - the bestselling authors of the Sten series - now turn their storytelling talents from science fiction to epic fantasy--with a magnificent quest novel. The Far Kingdoms: a place of wonders, riches, magic, and terrors . . . a place where a young trader will seek wealth beyond imagination and find the adventure of a lifetime. (Published: 1994)
Words: 185075 - Reading Time: 528-740 min.
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The Vanishing Sculptor: A Novel [Secure]
by Donita K. Paul
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Donita K. Paul's 250,000-plus-selling DragonKeeper Chronicles series has attracted a wide spectrum of dedicated fans--and they're sure to fall in love with the new characters and adventures in her latest superbly crafted fiction novel for all ages. It's a mind-boggling fantasy that inhabits the same world as the DragonKeeper Chronicles, but in a different country and an earlier time, where the people know little of Wulder and nothing of Paladin. In The Vanishing Sculptor, readers will meet Tippe... more info>>
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