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Author
Series
The shining volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
"On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off...
Author
Series
On the seventh day trilogy volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xii, 205 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A stranger arrives in the remote village of Viscos with a backpack containing a notebook and 11 gold bars, setting in motion an extraordinary struggle between good and evil. As the stranger searches for the answer to whether humans, in essence, are good or evil, the village becomes an accomplice to his plot, which will mark their lives forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
xxviii, 595 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rand Al'Thor is the Dragon Reborn, the leader who will save the world but in the process destroy it. He is able to touch the One Power but cannot control it. He knows only that he must face the Dark One in a battle to the death.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen.
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens.
Author
Series
Mistborn novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Lord Ruler--the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years--has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young protégé, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and to the idealistic young nobleman she loves.
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the first book of this brilliant series, now expanded and revised by the author, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues the man in black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New...
Author
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first book in one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written, the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever.
He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself. Yet he was tempted to believe, to fight for the Land, to be the reincarnation of its greatest hero...."
9) Billy Budd
Author
Series
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Billy and the Master-at-Arms, John Claggart, aboard the Indomitable.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Dr. Ransom, a noted philologist, is kidnapped and flown by spaceship to Malacandra (Mars) where he flees his human captors and establishes communication with the planet's extraordinary inhabitants. What he learns galvanizes his attempt to return to Earth with a message of great urgency.
11) The hero of ages
Author
Series
Mistborn novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result - the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists - is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed." "Having escaped death at the climax of The Well of Ascension only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world....
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1987, c1967
Edition
1st Evergreen ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 402 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness of chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves...
13) Wild born
Author
Series
Spirit animals. Main series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The paths of four children have been changed forever after they enter the world of Erdas, where every child must discover if they have a spirit animal.
14) The iron trial
Author
Series
Magisterium volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new student arrives at the Magisterium against his will. He is told he is to become a powerful magician, but the truth is more twisted than he believes. The clear-cut distinction between good and evil is blurred at the Magisterium.
Author
Series
Wicked years volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin - no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and not long after entering Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz's most promising...
Author
Series
Wheel of time volume 1
Language
English
Description
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.
When The Two Rivers is attacked by Trollocs―a savage tribe of half-men, half-beasts― five villagers flee...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this unforgettable story, British schoolchildren Polly and Digory inadvertently tumble into the Wood Between the Worlds, where they meet the evil Queen Jadis and, ultimately, the great, mysterious King Aslan. We witness the birth of Narnia and discover the legendary source of all the adventures that are to follow in the seven books that comprise the series
Author
Series
Winternight trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege"--
Vasilisa's gift for seeing what others do not won her the attention of Morozko-- Frost, the winter demon. But Frost's aid comes at a cost, and her people have condemned...
20) The call
Author
Series
Magnificent 12 volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
A seemingly average twelve-year-old learns that he is destined to gather a team of similarly gifted children to try to save the world from a nameless evil, which is threatening to reappear after having been imprisoned for three thousand years.
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