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Price: $7.99
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Sale: $3.49
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Manufacturer: Tor Fantasy
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: L. E. Modesitt Jr.
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Publisher: Tor Fantasy
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 1996-02-15
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Reading Level: 608
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Description: The saga of Recluce, launched in The Magic of Recluce and continuing in The Towers of the Sunset and The Magic Engineer reaches a new climax in The Order War. "Modesitt has created an exceptionally vivid world," says L. Sprague de Camp, "so concretely visualized as to give the impression that Modesitt himself must have dwelt there." Publishers Weekly says, "Modesitt creates a complex world bgased on a plausible system of magic and peopled with engaging and realistic characters."
Set after the events of The Magic Engineer (and prior to The Magic of Recluce) The Order War illuminates great figures and major events in the historic war between order and chaos that is the central focus of the saga of Recluce.
The deadly White Wizards of Fairhaven, wielding the forces of chaos, have completed their great highway through the Westhorns and now threatened the ancient matriarchy of Sarronnyn, the last bastion of order in Candar. The ruler of Sarronnyn appeals to the Black order wizards of Recluce for help.
Justen - a young Black Engineer in the city of Nylan - joins the relief force. Despite their success in destroying more than half the White armies, Sarronnyn falls to the White Wizards, and Justen is chased into the most inhospitable desert in Candar. These trials are but the beginning, for the White Wizards have all Candar in their grasp. Justen must fight both Recluce and Fairhaven, as well as the highest powers of order and the forbidden technology to harness chaos itself in his efforts to halt the conquest of the chaos wizards.
The Order War is the fourth book of the saga of Recluce.
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Price: $7.99
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Sale: $2.00
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Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Margaret Weis::Tracy Hickman
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Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 2000-02-01
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: Think of it as A New Hope for the world of Dragonlance: Sure, maybe it's a little rough around the edges, maybe it's got one cliché too many, but this baby is pure magic. The first volume in the Dragonlance Chronicles series, this classic from Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman started it all for Krynn, eventually spawning a bestselling 90-plus book series. (And, frankly, you'd do well to stick to the Weis-Hickman titles.) All the heroes that you've likely heard of already--the creepy, hourglass-eyed Raistlin, the noble half-elf Tanis, the comic relief Tasselhoff Burrfoot, the curmudgeonly dwarf Flint Fireforge--they're all here, starting the good fight against the Dark Queen Takhisis as the War of the Lance begins. Pick up Dragons of Winter Night when you're done. --Paul Hughes
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Price: $8.99
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Sale: $4.14
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Manufacturer: DAW
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tad Williams
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Publisher: DAW
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 2002-03
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Reading Level: 1072
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Description: With Sea of Silver Light, Tad Williams completes his massive Otherland quartet, one of SF's more intriguing explorations of the eroding boundaries of the human and the nonhuman, the living and the dead. Otherland is a sequence that contains many secrets, and Williams plays fair by unpacking all of them in the final book. A group of adventurers searching for a cure for comatose children find themselves trapped in a sequence of virtual worlds, the only opponents of a conspiracy of the rich to live forever in a dream. Now, they are forced to make an uneasy alliance with their only surviving former enemy against his treacherous sidekick Johnny Wulgaru, a serial killer with a chance to play God forever. Williams manages a vast cast of emotionally involving characters with considerable panache, but the real strength of the book is its endlessly questing intelligence; it is, among other things, an enquiry into the nature of storytelling as a way for human beings to give structure to their perceptions of the universe around them. It is as story that Sea of Silver Light ultimately works so well--involving us in the grueling descent of a vast mountain, the siege of an underground fortress, gun battles in a nightmare Wild West. Williams never neglects to tell us how things feel. He efficiently ties up every plot strand and convincingly reveals every secret in this large, complex plot. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk
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Price: $7.99
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Sale: $3.97
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Manufacturer: DAW
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Mercedes Lackey
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Publisher: DAW
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 1993-08-01
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Reading Level: 480
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Description: Princess Elspeth journeys to the Vale of the Tayledras Clan to seek Mage training among the powerful Hawkbrother Adepts, only to find that she and renegade adept Darkwind must confront the malevolent magic of Ancar of Hardorn. Reprint.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $9.21
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
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Publication Date: 1994-12-06
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Reading Level: 488
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Description: In volumes ten and eleven of The History of Middle-earth, Christopher Tolkien recounts from the original texts the evolution of his father's work on The Silmarillion, the legendary history of the Elder Days or First Age, from the completion of the Lord of the Rings in 1949 until J.R.R. Tolkien's death. In volume ten, Morgoth's Ring, the narrative was taken only as far as the natural dividing point in the work, when Morgoth destroyed the Trees of Light and fled from Valinor bearing the stolen Silmarils. In The War of the Jewels, the story returns to Middle-earth and the ruinous conflict of the High Elves and the Men who were their allies with the power of the Dark Lord. With the publication in this book of all of J.R.R. Tolkien's later narrative writing concerned with the last centuries of the First Age, the long history of The Silmarillion, from its beginnings in The Book of Lost Tales, is completed; the enigmatic state of the work at his death can now be understood. A chief element in The War of the Jewels is a major story of Middle-earth, now published for the first time - a continuation of the great "saga" of Turin Turambar and his sister Nienor, the children of Hurin the Steadfast. This is the tale of the disaster that overtook the forest people of Brethil when Hurin came among them after his release from long years of captivity in Angband, the fortress of Morgoth. The uncompleted text of the Grey Annals, the primary record of the War of the Jewels, is given in full; the geography of Beleriand is studied in detail, with redrawings of the final state of the map; and a long essay on the names and relations of all the peoples of Middle-earth shows more clearly than any writing yet published the close connection between the language and history in Tolkien's world. The text also provides new information, including some knowledge of the divine powers, the Valar.
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Price: $7.99
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Sale: $3.00
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Manufacturer: Del Rey
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Terry Brooks
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Publisher: Del Rey
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 1992-01-22
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: In the three hundred years since the death of the Druid Allanon, the evil Shadowen have seized control of the Four Lands. If they are to be saved, the black Elfstone must be retrieved, at whatever cost to life or love....
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Price: $8.99
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Sale: $3.45
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Manufacturer: DAW
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tad Williams
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Publisher: DAW
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 2000-09-01
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Reading Level: 784
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Description: Otherland, the quartet of which Mountain of Black Glass is the powerful third part, combines some terrifying speculation on the future of virtual reality with adventures no less terrifying because they are technologized dreaming. These are dreams the adventurers cannot awaken from and in which, if they die, they are really dead. An epidemic of comatose children has led Renie and her San friend !Xabbu into the net and to a series of dream worlds created as palaces by the corrupt aspiring immortals, the Grail Brotherhood. Two of those children, Orlando and Fredericks, have become adventurers in their own right, while their parents' lawyer Ramsey follows real-world money and lesbian cop Calliope tracks a serial killer with serious ambitions to become an angry god. In this volume, adventures take place in a mythic ancient Egypt and a rambling Gormenghastlike house before all the virtual adventurers meet where they were always destined to, before the walls of Troy. "All around, death. It was not a quiet presence during the long day--not a pale-faced maiden bringing surcease from pain, not a skillful reaper with a scalpel-sharp blade.... Death on the Trojan plain was a crazed beast that roared and clawed and smashed, which was everywhere at once, and which in its unending fury showed that even armored men were terribly frail things." Tad Williams takes the gameworld and turns it on its head, passionately; how do we know that what bleeds does not feel pain? He writes a classic of cyberspace adventure that has a sorrowful heart. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk
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Price: $7.99
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Sale: $1.25
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Manufacturer: Del Rey
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Terry Brooks
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Publisher: Del Rey
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 1991-02-13
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: Since the death of Allanon, life in the Four Lands has drastially changed. Yet Par Ohmsford still has some power of the Wishsong. And when a message from the ancient Druid, Allanon, reaches them, Par is ordered to recover the long-lost Sword of Shinnara, and the glory that once was the Four Lands....
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Price: $7.99
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Sale: $1.48
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Manufacturer: Del Rey
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Anne McCaffrey
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Publisher: Del Rey
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 1992-10-24
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: Led by Masterharper Robinton and F'lar and Lessa, the people of Pern excavate the ancient remains of the planet's original settlement and uncover the colonists' voice-activated artificial intelligence system. Reprint.
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Price: $6.99
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Sale: $1.68
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Manufacturer: Tor Fantasy
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Orson Scott Card
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Publisher: Tor Fantasy
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 1989-12-15
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Reading Level: 342
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Description: The Tales of Alvin Maker series continues in volume three, Prentice Alvin. Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a blacksmith. But Alvin must also learn to control and use his own talent, that of a Maker, else his destiny will be unfulfilled.
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