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This is the second volume of an epic fantasy saga.
On a night of the full moon, in the tower of a castle that rises between the water of the Nàar, a witch is born, gifted with enormous, dark powers. In the city of Fedòra, the great capital of humans, an ancient Order guards a terrible secret that gravely threatens every living creature. In the Temple of Destiny, not all the wizards are what they seem, and dark threads are woven in the gelid nights....
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In a world of magic Blessings gifted by gods, the Porters were viewed as both the weakest and the strongest, for their god Hermes gave no Blessings. Until one day, when a Porter gave the ultimate sacrifice in defense of his cargo- and received the ultimate compensation.
Porter Lugot lost a precious cargo on his first Commission for his Order of Porters, and with it he lost his life, until he was dragged back to the living by the will of a being...
43) Amaskan's War
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Newly crowned Queen Margaret struggles with the loss of her father as the Kingdom of Shad's army marches for her border. But when the Boahim Senate refuses to step in, civil war threatens to break out across the Little Dozen Kingdoms. A harrowing journey reveals her greatest fears and unearths the Boahim Senate's darkest secret, leaving Margaret sure of one thing—neither she, nor the Little Dozen Kingdoms will ever be the same again. Now to secure...
44) StarMan
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Starman is the third title in Sara Douglass's epic fantasy Wayfarer Redemption series. A sprawling tale of love and magic, enormous battles and true monsters
Axis is the StarMan of prophecy and legend, destined to lead the three races of his world to unite as one people. The people of his world all know the Prophecy of the Destroyer, despite the failed attempts of the Seneschal to suppress it in the name of the god Artor the Ploughman, and it predicts...
45) Whitehorse Peak
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On the borderlands of the Kingdom of Deran, a young forest scout named Dar Cabot fights off an attack by goblin warriors and finds the ruins of a village, its homes destroyed and people slain. Eager for justice and motivated by a family secret, he enlists the help of an unlikely combination of allies: a halfling spy with a hidden past, the adopted son of a famous wizard, two half-elven sisters from a enemy land, a widowed priestess of the Elven god...
46) Assassin Prince
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Freelance sell-swords no longer, the Grey Riders are elevated to rank and title for their role in the defeat of the Lich Princess in Helm of Shadows, but they have some unfinished business. Eric Indidarc is driven to atone for the evils of his parents, leaders of the Crossed Swords Assassins Guild. He leads the Riders on a perilous mission to bring them to justice. Meanwhile, the Alenar sisters infiltrate dangerous lands, seeking remnants of ancient...
47) Preylute
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In this world, there are beings who are more than humansthose who live in the shadows and thrive on blood and fear. In the darkness, a battle rages between the vampires and their sworn enemies, the Preylutes, the abominations created when vampires breed with werewolves. The vampires consider the half-breeds to be a threat to their way of life and have vowed to destroy them all. The Preylutes in turn fight to defend themselvesbut a Preylute named John,...
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Professor Shutt delivers lectures on the great epics of literature, from Homer's Illiad to Milton's Paradise lost. He examines the stories and the characters, and considers the various styles represented, as well as the societies in which the epics were constructed. He explains the epic as a genre and as a reflection of ancient history.
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
50) The Financier
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The Financier (1912) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. The first installment of Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, The Financier has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example of social critique over a century after its publication. Followed by The Titan (1914) and The Stoic (1947), The Financier captures the greed at the heart of the Gilded Age, a time when tycoons rose with total impunity to take over swaths of American industry....
51) A Booktiful Love
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A Booktiful Love is, a collection of poems that deal with the entirety of human experience in its various forms. Didactically rich, the poems explore ideas ranging from love, relationships, and patriotism to marriage, morality, and many other concepts pertinent to daily living.
Given its variety of themes, what unifies the poems in this collection is the simplicity and ambiguousness of language, which the poet employs. The poems draw their strength...
54) Embers
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He's coming for them. And the kingdom.
Haegan and Kaelyria Celahar are royal heirs of the Nine Kingdoms, but Haegan is physically crippled. What chance does he have against Poired Dyrth, the greatest enemy the kingdom has ever faced, who wields fire with a power none can match?
Their only hope is forbidden: Kaelyria must transfer her fire-harnessing abilities to Haegan. When she does it comes with a terrible price: Haegan's disability is healed,...
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In 1517, Ariosto served under the cardinal's brother, Alfonso, duke of Ferrara, and it was then that he began writing his masterpiece and romance epic "Orlando Furioso." The earliest version appeared in 1516 but was not published in its complete form until 1532. The poem is a prolongation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's work, "Orlando Innamorato," and is separated into two volumes consisting of forty-six cantos in all. Volume I entails the first twenty-four...
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The pieces in this book were created through the some of my most difficult times, the tough parts of my life that created the Spoken Reasons you know and love today. They are more than poems, they are pieces of me, and my gift to you. My hopes are that you can gain something from these pages, something that can truly bless your life. #FCHW - "Faith, Consistency, & Hard Work" ... It's not a movement, it's a Lifestyle!
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"Of Myths and Legends Suite" is a collection of poems that pay homage to mythologies and legends across world history. From Gilgamesh to Sherlock Holmes, Cthulhu to Satan, this collection strikes into the colorful worlds glimpsed through the imagination of humanity. These poems are for those who enjoy journeying to other realms through the timeless words of poetry.
"Of Myths and Legends Suite" explores the depth of figures created by our ancestors....
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My third collection of poems and short stories, covering everything from my lurid and misspent youth, to my adventures as a young man, making his way in the City of Angels. Its temptations, its allure, its folly and its chaos. Stranger still, because it was all too real, and happened just as I told it here in this book. I've got nothing to hide, do you?
59) North of Phoenix
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Writings for the sake of writing, to be enjoyed and to be bring knowledge. Intertwined with the love for telling an enthralling story. Complied with whit and imaginative word play met by a verbal portrait. North of Phoenix is three poems written about living in Phoenix and a series of poems called "Tales of Theiv'yah" telling the story of a royal family and the civil war of their home.
60) Pan Tadeusz
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Pan Tadeusz is an epic poem by the Polish-Lithuanian poet, writer and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz. The book was first published in June 1834 in Paris, and is considered by many to be the last great epic poem in European literature. The story takes place over the course of five days in 1811 and one day in 1812 at a point in Polish history, when Poland-Lithuania had already been divided between Russia, Prussia, and Austria and disappeared from the political...
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