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Author
Series
Papercutz slices volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Parody of all the Harry Potter books in 1 graphic novel.
Author
Series
Forbidden library volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
When her father is lost at sea shortly after meeting a very unusual visitor, Alice must leave her home to live with an "uncle" whose rural Pennsylvania estate includes a massive and mysterious library that holds much more than books.
Author
Series
Sword of truth volume 1
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
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Description
The hero is Richard-the-Seeker, a woodsman with a magic sword. One day in his forest he rescues a woman pursued by assassins. She turns out to be Kahlan Amnell from the neighboring kingdom of Midlands who is seeking a wizard named Zedd to help her destroy the tyrant ruling her kingdom. Richard takes her to him and the novel is the story of their joint adventure. A first novel.
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 5
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing wizard, is hired by a mysterious priest to find the stolen Shroud of Turin. But first, Harry must deal with the Red Court of Vampires' champion, professional hit men, and the return of his semi-vampire former girlfriend.
12) Summer knight
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 4
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Despondent over the loss of his vampire girlfriend, private detective and wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden undertakes a mission for the Winter Queen of Faerie to find out who murdered the Summer Queen's right-hand man, the Summer Knight, and clear the Winter Queen of the crime.
Author
Series
Sword of the south volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The first in "a new epic fantasy series by ... David Weber, set within his Bahzell Bahnakson/War God universe, [in which] a swordsman who has been robbed of his past must confront an evil wizard with a world at stake"--Amazon.com.
14) Forbidden
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A loner, a runaway, and a failed apprentice Talent, Chad Hagan now wants a quiet life. He's been kicked out of one Institute of Magic for fighting and fled another after the death of his closest friend. But when he meets Kara Sedgewick, everything changes. Their forbidden alliance may just have the power to expose the institutes' corruption!"--
15) Elder race
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"[A] junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe"--Provided by publisher.
18) The witch hunter
Author
Series
Witch hunter (Virginia Boecker) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"Set in an alternative 16th-century England, Elizabeth Grey is the only girl in the king's elite group of witch hunters. When she's framed for being a witch herself, Elizabeth finds freedom at the hands of the world's most wanted wizard and her loyalties are tested"--
19) A wizard in love
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Hector, a retired wizard, lives happily and quietly with his cat, Poison, in a dilapidated house at the edge of the forest, until a noisy new neighbor moves into the abandoned house across the road, and things are never the same again.
20) Shadowborn
Author
Series
Darkborn trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Lady Telmaine Hearne has been condemned to death for sorcery. She's escaped but is now bound with her mageborn allies for the Borders and war. Meanwhile, her husband, Balthasar, has learned of his family connection to the Shadowborn--and is fighting for survival and sanity as magic turns him against everything he holds dear.
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