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Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. "It seems that things are stirring across the water," the Bard had warned. "Ships are being built, swords are being forged." "Is that bad?" Jack had asked, for his Saxon village had never before seen berserkers. "Of course. People don't make ships and swords unless they intend to use them." The year is A.D. 793. In the next months, Jack... (more)

Pellinor Trilogy: Book 1

The Naming

by Alison Croggon

In the classic spirit of epic fantasy comes this glittering saga of a young girl who learns she possesses an uncanny gift — and is destined to use it to save her world from a terrifying evil. Maerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child when her family is destroyed in war. She doesn't yet know she has inherited a powerful gift, one that marks her as a member of the noble... (more)

Pellinor Trilogy: Book 2

The Riddle

by Alison Croggon

Maerad is a girl with a tragic past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. Now she and her mentor, Cadvan, hunted by both the Light and the Dark, must unravel the Riddle of the Treesong before their kingdom erupts in chaos. The quest leads Maerad over terrifying seas and glacial wilderness, until she is trapped in the icy realm of the seductive Winterking. There, Maerad must confront what she has suspected all... (more)

Bedlam's Bard

by Mercedes Lackey

Eric Banyon is a talented musician whose lady has left him singing the blues in a deserted corner of the Renaissance Faire. He couldn't have known that the desperate sadness of his music would free Korendil, a young elven noble, from the magical prison he has been languishing in for centuries. Suddenly, Eric has no time to be sad, as he has to help Korendil fight against the evil elf lord who first imprisoned... (more)

Fiddler Fair

by Mercedes Lackey

Running the gamut from her beloved Bardic fantasies to urban fantasy set in the modern world; from science fiction adventure to chilling horror, this is a volume that demonstrates the wide range of this author's talent. It is a feast for the multitudes of Lackey fans everywhere--and for new readers, a powerful introduction to the most significant new fantasy writer of the decade.

Music to My Sorrow (Bedlam's Bard)

by Mercedes Lackey

Eric Banyon, known as Bedlam's Bard, managed to save his young brother Magnus from what seemed to be a killer demon, but now he must rescue Magnus from their tyrannical parents. Eric does not look forward to the custody battle, but his friend Ria heads a high-powered law firm, and in a pinch he can use bardic magic to fudge a DNA test. But Eric doesn't know that his parents are allied with evangelist Billy... (more)

The Eagle & the Nightingales

by Mercedes Lackey

Nightingale, a gypsy Free Bard, and T'fyrr, a birdman, must discover why the High King is shirking his responsibilities as the Church grows hostile to the bards and all else outside its control.

Four and Twenty Blackbirds A Bardic Voices Novel (Bardic Voices/Mercedes Lackey, Bk 4)

Four and Twenty Blackbirds A Bardic Voices Novel (Bardic Voices/Mercedes Lackey, Bk 4)

by Mercedes Lackey

A magical murderer is loose in Alanda. The victims are always women and the weapon is always a three-sided stiletto, most often found in Church regalia. But the killers are never churchmen, and they always commit suicide immediately after the bloody deed. Tal Rufen is just a simple constable, but his every instinct cries out that he has seen only one small piece of a bigger and even nastier puzzle.

Pellinor Trilogy: Book 4

The Singing

by Alison Croggon

The climactic volume of the epic quartet follows the Bards of Edil-Amarandh on a vital quest to merge their powers against a nameless evil. In an increasingly battle-ravaged land, Maerad, Cadvan, and Hem desperately search for one another as they make their separate journeys. The Black Army is advancing north, and even as Maerad faces a mighty confrontation with the Landrost to save Innail, all of the Seven... (more)

The Robin & the Kestrel (Bardic Voices, Book Ii)

The Robin & the Kestrel (Bardic Voices, Book Ii)

by Mercedes Lackey

Combining their fortunes for a life on the open road, a gypsy bard and an heir to an unwanted throne seek happiness together, encountering the Ghost of Skull Hill and making him their ally in a plan to foil a sinister plot. Reprint.

A Cast of Corbies (Bardic Choices)

by Josepha Sherman

When representatives of Alanda's Church seek to ferret out unauthorized magic and music, the Free Bards--those who will not or cannot join the priest-condoned Guild--fight back.

The lark and the wren

by Mercedes Lackey

Possessing the potential to be the greatest bard her world has ever seen, young Rune rashly brags about her abilities and must prove herself by meeting the Ghost of Skull Hill, who forces her to fiddle an entire night. Reissue.

The Riddle: The Second Book of Pellinor (Pellinor Series)

The Books Of Pellinor

The Riddle: The Second Book of Pellinor (Pellinor Series)

by Alison Croggon

Maerad is a girl with a tragic past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. Now she and her mentor, Cadvan, hunted by both the Light and the Dark, must unravel the Riddle of the Treesong before their kingdom erupts in chaos. The quest leads Maerad over terrifying seas and glacial wilderness, until she is trapped in the icy realm of the seductive Winterking. There, Maerad must confront what she has suspected all... (more)

The Last Herald-Mage: Book 2

Magic's Promise

by Mercedes Lackey

The wild magic is taking its toll on the land, and even Vanyel, the most powerful Herald-Mage to ever walk the world, is almost at the end of his strength. But when his Companion, Yfandes, receives a call for help from neighboring Lineas, both Herald-Mage and Companion are drawn into a holocaust of dark magic that could be the end of them both. Original.

The Land of the Silver Apples

by Nancy Farmer

THE CHILDREN FROM THE SEA OF TROLLS BRAVE THEIR WORST NIGHTMARES -- UNDERGROUND. Jack is amazed to have caused an earthquake. He is thirteen, after all, and only a bard-in-training. But his sister, Lucy, has been stolen by the Lady of the Lake; stolen a second time in her young life, as he learns to his terror. Caught between belief in the old gods and Christianity (790 AD, Britain), Jack calls upon his... (more)

The Crow

by Alison Croggon

As this enthralling epic nears its climax, the young heroine’s brother discovers his own hidden gift — and the role he must play in battling the Dark. Hem is a weary orphan whose struggle for survival ends when he is reunited with his lost sister, Maerad. But Maerad has a destiny to fulfill, and Hem is sent to the golden city of Turbansk, where he learns the ways of the Bards and befriends a mysterious white... (more)

The Quartered Sea (Quarters, 4)

by Tanya Huff

Queen Jalena of Shkoder has decided to start her reign by commissioning a ship to undertake the exploration of uncharted waters and see if it is possible to circumnavigate the world. When disaster strikes, the sole survivor is the bard Benedikt who Sings only One Quarter, that of Water. Found by the people of a Mayan-like civilization, he becomes a pawn between the brother and sister who are the most powerful... (more)

Renegades of Pern: Book 5

The Dolphins of Pern

by Anne McCaffrey

The latest adventure in the Dragonriders of Pern series follows the efforts of Pern's human colonists to reestablish contact with the legendary, superintelligent ""shipfish"" they brought with them centuries ago. Reprint. PW. AB.

Mad Maudlin (Bedlam's Bard)

by Mercedes Lackey

Homeless children in New York have created a bizarre mythology about a demon called Bloody Mary who preys on young children. Somehow, Bloody Mary has come to life and now stalks the city's streets. Anyone who sees her is doomed to die - and 17-year-old Magnus has seen her.

Spirits White as Lightning

by Mercedes Lackey

Eric Banyon has more to worry about than passing his courses at Julliard. The evil elf lord Aerune, whose love was killed by mortal men, is determined to destroy the human race. Eric's only hope of stopping Aerune is to trap him inside a magical maze, from which there is no escaping. But for the plan to work, Eric and his friends must cross the land of chaos and survive, then travel undetected through a gate... (more)

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