Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

Author: Robin StoneISBN-10: 141341785XISBN-13: 9781413417852Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2004Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d

Songs, Speech, and the Wyrding PathStep beyond the mists and into the myth.This lyrical companion to The Hollow Vale gathers the lost fragments of Caelwyn's journey-ancient songs, wyrd-laden prophecies, and the first comprehensive lexicon of the Tharionese tongue. Blending myth, memory, and meaning, The...

From whips of slavery, he ran. From the oppression of life, he sped, but for the fate of mortality, he stood tall, before the demons of the deep and the devil in the flesh.Through this sword and shield love story, a slave boy, Rafael,...

1801. Kamchatka, Russia.Ragnar, a courageous seafaring man, is called to return home to Norway along perilous roads.Sayiina, a strong Yakutian huntress and tracker, has promised to fulfill her dying father's last wish.Unexpectedly, their fates merge, intertwined by their growing love for each other in...

Tied to Justin with bonds stronger than blood, Melissa De Vire heads into her new life with fear and anger. Anger at Emily, at Katherine and most of all, anger at Justin, fuels her resolve to find a cure for the curse. From the...

Conall II: The Raven's Flight continues to chronicle the epic journey of the warriors from Ériu (Ireland). Conall Mac Gabhann and his brooding queen, Mórrígan, lead over two thousand warriors together with their followers across the narrow sea that separates Ériu from Albu (Britain)....

A Kingdom in Turmoil Good King Heinrich is dead, betrayed by his closest advisor. His three sons, quarrelsome to the end, have vowed that only one of them shall rule. How many thousands will die before a king is chosen? Rumors tell of unrest...

In THE PYRATES, the author of the celebrated Flashman novels pays tongue-in-cheek homage to the swashbuckling books and movies that have always stirred his imagination. In these rollicking pages you'll find tall ships and desert islands; impossibly gallant adventurers and glamorous heroines; devilishly sinister...

In this book are the first three Titles in the Kiwi Kingdom series. - Keoni's Kingdom, Return of the Kiwi Kingdom and Kupe Kiwi's Kingdom. Keoni, a Roroa Kiwi whose life is threatened when his mother passes to the spirit world after delivering his...

"Joyce Carol Oates has written what may be the world's finest postmodern Gothic novel: E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime set in Dracula's castle. It's dense, challenging, problematic, horrifying, funny, prolix and full of crazy people. You should read it." --Stephen King, New York Times Book ReviewPrinceton,...

Author: Shannon ChakrabortyISBN-10: 0062963546ISBN-13: 9780062963543Publisher: Harper VoyagerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2026Pages: 496Format: Hardcover

In The King, a retelling of Le Morte D'Arthur, Donald Barthelme moves the chivalrous Knights of the Round Table to the cruelty of the Second World War. Dunkirk has fallen, Europe is at the breaking point, Ezra Pound and Lord Haw-Haw are poisoning the...

In 1948, nine years before the first successful launch of a satellite, space artist Chester Brache is hired to illustrate articles about space travel. The magazine's mysterious editors want him to produce paintings as realistic as possible, more so than the usual depictions of...

The constable failed to find her husband. Now it's her turn.Nearly two years after her husband's disappearance, and with no more stones left unturned, Elizabeth Whalen has resolved to focus on her apiary and find a way to move forward. After all, it's 1897,...

Discover the World's First Seven-Dimensional StoryWhat if a story could move beyond words, beyond ordinary perception, to exist in the hidden space between thought, spirit, and imagination?The Lion's Secret Map of Ash and Gold Lions Book is not just a book; it is a...

Only blood can end it all.A Fight for the Crown...Betrayed and exiled from the Mercian throne, Norah Andell has survived against those who wish to kill her. Now, she'll do whatever it takes to reclaim her crown and take back everything she's lost. But...

For ten years, her kingdom has warred against the Shadow King. Now, she's his queen.Treachery Within ...Reaping the consequences from her decision to ally with her kingdom's greatest enemy to avoid war, Norah Andell, queen of Mercia and salara of Kharav, faces opposition from...

Fans of the GLASS AND STEELE and THE GLASS LIBRARY series will delight in the new magical historical mystery by USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, C.J. Archer. Set in the years between the two series, the first volume of Professor Gavin...

Jack decides to spend his summer break from college as a camp counselor, living on the cheap at his grandparent's lake house. He arrives as secrets over a century old are revealed, with Jack unexpectedly the focus of a conflict that puts his life...

An alternate 1940s. Magic, war machines, and the fall of a general that could unravel a nation.Mella Westwood grew up in the shadow of a war hero, dreaming of the day she would follow her father's wishes and take her vows as an Ingostle....

When power rules from marble halls and blood runs in the gutters, one spark can set a city aflame. In the sprawling city of Rawkin-where nobles govern by decree and magicians are vanishing without a trace-the people have learned to keep their heads down...

Edith's ancient home is full of secrets...and dragons are the least of them.As the new dragon keeper in the hidden valley of Ormdale, Edith expects her first dragon mating season to involve venomous bites and amorous wyverns.She doesn't expect to find herself growing closer...

THE FOREST WILL COLLECT WHAT IT DESIRES.For centuries, Róisín has dwelled in the shadowed heart of the Irish forests, a forest dwelling nymph bound to its moss-covered roots and whispered winds. Alongside her sisters, she has watched the world change, untouched by time -...

After years away, Ragnar returns to his home of Oslo, Norway, with a pregnant Sayiina. Wanting to retire from sailing, set his roots down, and raise a family, he finds gainful employment as Oslo's new harbor master.But trouble soon finds him when his authority...

A Dark Fantasy Epic Spanning MillenniaIn ancient Jerusalem, King Solomon finds himself facing a crisis of faith and leadership. With his greatest ambition - building a magnificent temple - stalled due to lack of resources, Solomon turns to mystical arts in search of a...

Once again, Jeff Wheeler unleashes tension and fate in this eagerly awaited sequel to the Angel Sworn series...All roads lead to Ecbatana as the trading masters say. This ancient fortress with its multi-colored interlocking walls, the vibrant bazars, and its powerful sorcerers who use...

The Fives' Oath: Legacy of the Bloodborn is a dark, emotionally charged epic delving into the cursed legacy of Ravenhelm, a realm where magic wanes, heroes are forged in pain, and echoes of past wars haunt every shadow.At the heart is Bryn Blackskull, a...

Author and musical theatre librettist Stephen Cole has taken his real-life friendships with Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, the two undisputed queens of Broadway, tossed them into a blender and come up with a fantasy about a nerdy super-fan in the early 1980s who,...

Amid the vast history of China's dynasties, no story captivates like that of Wu Zetian, the nation's first and only female emperor. Rising to power at age 65 by dethroning her own son, Wu Zetian defied all conventions to become the Empress of the...

He'll make her his again . . . even if he has to seduce her When the woman he loves is taken, Forest "Trees" Scott abandons a mission to save her from the enemy. Fearing the worst, he moves heaven and earth to find...

In the mid-19th century among the grandeurs of morbidly romantic and sumptuously decadent imperial Wien an horrible plot against innocent lives blossoms like a spine and poisonous flower to satisfy an inextinguishable thirst for revenge.Through a frenetic cavalcade of overwhelming passions, betrayals and old...

The historical heart of the novel set in 15th Century Ireland, is framed through the fresh eyes of Kelly, an ordinary woman who runs a café in Banbridge, County Down. Down to earth, deeply religious, the community turn to her in times of need....

Mary Sweet and her Teams are ordered to go to Scotland. There, they must again stop General Gusto Gatwick from causing Mayhem, including death and destruction, to the Ancient Scottish Clans. Inspired by a true story of Scottish history, Mary and her Teams must...

It is 1938 in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon as Zed Moonhawk helps train a group of Civilian Conservation Corpsmen who are excavating and rebuilding Anasazi ruins. Moonhawk is exceptionally skilled at his masonry work--as well he should be. After all, he was there when...

If there was one thing that Katie O'Neill was sure of it was that life was not as God had anticipated it to be. Being brought up in a small Christian town had left Katie exposed to the flaws of those who would hide...

A trip to Jagged Rock Lighthouse to take photos suddenly turns nightmarish for twelve-year-old Paige Johnson when she touches the first Lightkeeper's journal and is whisked back to 1910. She can't figure out how to get back to the present day. She meets Keeper...

Edgar Allan Poe, one of the great American writers, died a mysterious death in 1849. Found delirious on the streets of Baltimore and wearing clothes that were not his own, Edgar was admitted to Washington Medical Center where he died without explaining what had...

Buffalo, NY. 1986. Mina Melton has always been drawn to traces of the past - the fading lines of old buildings, the worn streets of her city, and the stories of women whose lives shaped the world in quiet, enduring ways. But when she...

HAPPILY EVER AFTER--AND THEN SOME A three-way showdown occurs as Jin Guangyao, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, and Nie Mingjue's reassembled fierce corpse converge on the Guanyin Temple. With decades-long schemes finally unveiled, and terrible secrets unearthed, the events of this rain-battered night will...

Toddy's mind raced; the mermaid didn't look like the wily sea-vixen they said she would be. He wasn't quite sure what a sea-vixen ought to look like, but when he looked at her face, her features had the same soft roundness as his younger...

A philandering prince discovers that the princely consort he neglected in life is the only one by his side in death. Now that he's got a second chance, can the prince make it up to him?! A heartwarming romance about second chances, palace intrigue,...

A new kind of vampire...Artist Ernst Doud has been living with his secrets for over a century: feeding, killing and creating art to assuage his guilt. All of that is about to change. Sergio, the lover that he turned decades before, the lost love...

Two people on unexpected life journeys across time and place. Thomas McDermott, a fourteen-year-old Dublin child being forced into the priesthood by family and custom in 1843, rebels. His father may have planned the course of his life, but Thomas dreams of a different...

In the fairy tale-like and colorful town of Glossop lies a small graveyard guarded by an ancient yew. Residents have long resigned themselves to its existence, with the poorer ones forced to trek through its dreary space just to get to work each day....

Discouragement has drowned out hope. But it is no match against the power and love of the Keeper!Oria and her friends survived the Swirling Desert and find themselves in a strange society called Legalis. It's far different from artistic Regalia. For in Legalis laws...

In a world where you are either a Solar or Lunar, rich or poor, righteous or sinful, treacherous underworlds can be a haven. After all, the demands under the Holy Empire of Solen are high. Its subjects are given the choice of stealing, slaving,...

Masquerades, monarchs, and . . . misalliances?All her life, Jessa Caldwell has feared the Vigil-and now they've claimed her. Worse yet, they're not acting alone. Someone directs their every move, someone all too interested in Jessa-and her sisters. Even if she breaks free of...

Enthralling fantasy mystery from the world of Legend of the Five Rings as two samurai risk everything to rescue an old friend from the clutches of a shadowy trickster.Having vanquished demons and halted invasions of devious creatures from the Spirit Realms, Asako Sekken and...

During King George II's reign, when ancient magic and dark forces collide, a young woman must navigate dangerous alliances, uncover hidden truths to aid her Romani lover, and retrieve a powerful gemstone that holds the key to immortality.Inspired by an actual event in 1749,...

Last witness of an elder time, handmaid of the age to come. It was a time of the end of empire. The world was in turmoil. The Romans were abandoning Britain, leaving the remaining servants of empire to try to stem the tide of...