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"Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme of things not found within recorded time." J. R. R. Tolkien,

The Once and Future The Last Wish King by Andrzej Sapkowski by T. H. White Geralt is a Witcher, a man Describes King Arthur's life from whose magic powers, enhanced his childhood to the coronation, by long training and a creation of the Round Table, mysterious elixir, have made and search for the Holy Grail. him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious and vile fiends that ar vage the land and attack the innocent. Gardens of the Moon But not everything monstrous- looking is and not everything fair is good...and in by Steven Erikson every tale there is a grain of truth. When the last of the free cities of the Malazan Empire is targeted by the forces of the The Blade Itself Empress Laseen, Bridgeburner by Joe Abercrombie squad leader Sergeant Logen Ninefingers, infamous Whiskeyjack and the mage barbarian, has finally run out fo Tattersall confront dark gods to luck. Caught in one feud too protect the citadel of many, he's on the verge of Darujhistan. becoming a dead barbarian — leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a Daughter of the lot of happy enemies. Empire by Raymond E. Feist Mara, a young, untested Ruling Lady of Kelewan, is called upon The Way of Kings to lead her people in a heroic by stuggle for survival. But first she Introduces the world of Roshar must rally an army of rebel through the experiences of a warriors, form a pact with the war-weary royal compelled by alien cho-ja and marry the son visions, a highborn youth of a hated enemy. Queen Mara condemned to military slavery, of Acoma vows to avenge the and a woman who is desperate deaths of her brother and to save her impoverished house. father, even if it means killing her own husband.

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"Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme of things not found within recorded time." J. R. R. Tolkien, Mythopoeia

The Fifth Season The Final Empire by N. K Jemisin by Brandon Sanderson After the empire Sanze Experiencing an epiphany collapses and the vast continent within the most daunting Stillness becomes ravaged by a prison of the monstrous Lord red rift which darkens the sky, Ruler who has enslaved his Essun, whose daughter has people for a thousand years, been kidnapped by her half-Skaa Kelsier finds himself murderous husband, crosses taking on the powers of a Stillness in a desperate attempt Mistborn and teams up with to save her daughter. ragged orphan Vin in a desperate plot to save their world. by A Wizard of When The Two Rivers is by Ursula K. Le Guin attacked by Trollocs—a savage Ged was the greatest sorcerer in tribe of half-men, half-beasts— Earthsea, but in his youth he five villagers flee that night into was the reckless Sparrowhawk. a world they barely imagined, In his hunger for power and with new dangers waiting in the knowledge, he tampered with shadows and in the light. long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tumultuous tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient , and crossed A Game of Thrones death's threshold to restore the balance. by George R. R. Martin Summers span decades. Winter The Lies of Locke can last a lifetime. And the Lamora struggle for the Iron Throne has by Scott Lynch begun. As Warden of the north, Vowing to bring down the Lord Eddard Stark counts it a omnipotent crime boss running curse when King Robert the city, a group of Gentlemen bestows on him the office of the Bastards, led by the eccentric Hand. The old gods have no Locke Lamora, sets out to beat power in the south, Stark’s the Capa at his own criminal family is split, and there is game, taking on other thieves, treachery at court. Worse, the murderers, beggars, prostitutes, vengeance-mad heir of the deposed Dragon King has and thugs in the process. grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities.

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"Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme of things not found within recorded time." J. R. R. Tolkien, Mythopoeia

The Lord of the Rings The Farseer Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien by Robin Hobb In ancient times the Rings of Young Fitz is the bastard son of Power were crafted by the the noble Prince Chivalry, raised Elven-smiths, and , the in the shadow of the royal court , forged the One Ring, by his father's gruff stableman. filling it with his wo n power so He is treated as an outcast by all that he could rule all others. But the royalty except the devious the One Ring was taken from King Shrewd, who has him him. After many ages it fell by secretly tutored in the arts of chance into the hands of the the assassin. For in Fitz's blood hobbit Bilbo Baggins. When Bilbo reached his runs the magic Skill—and the darker knowledge of a eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing child raised with the stable hounds and rejected by to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a his family. perilous : to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Sheepfarmer's Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. Daughter by Elizabeth Moon Blood Song Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter by Anthony Ryan may be the daughter of a Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child humble sheep farmer in the far of ten when his father left him at north end of the kingdom, but the iron gate of the Sixth Order she dreams of so much more. to be trained and hardened to After refusing her father's orders the austere, celibate and to do the sensible thing and dangerous life of a warrior of the marry the pig farmer down the Faith. He has no family now save road, Paks, runs away to join a the Order. band of mercenaries, dreaming of daring deeds and military glory.

The Black Prism The Name of the Wind by Brent Weeks by In a world where color is the A named Kvothe, now basis of all magic, Kip has yet to living under an assumed name realize his powers, but he soon as the humble proprietor of an begins to learn the truth behind inn, recounts his transformation the rift between his father, the from a magically gifted young current Prism and uncle, and man into the most notorious discovers that time is running wizard, musician, thief, and out for the world. assassin in his world.

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