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English
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Ordinary people are caught up in unreal situations in these 19 strange stories. Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination--that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place--strolling through empty, shadow-washed fields at midnight; exploring long-forgotten...
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Publisher
Baen Pub
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION
Paksenarrion was the finest paladin her world would ever see. But Paksenarrion could never have become a fighter at all had it not been for he who had come before: Gird, the liberator, who taught his people that they could fight—and win—against their Mage-Born rulers.
And after Gird came one more: Luap, Gird's sworn follower and the king's half-breed bastard. Riven by internal
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Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
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In his four-volume series Return to Neveryeon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Neveryeonvolumes in trade paperback. The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neveryeon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's...
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Signet classic volume CE 1659
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New American Library
Language
English
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A collection of horror and fantasy fiction by American author Edgar Allan Poe.
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Ballantine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 26
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English
Description
First book in the second Shannara series. Three hundred years have passed since Wishsong of Shannara, and magic is forbidden. Then the shade of Allanon summons the descendants of Shea Ohmsford to bring back the magic and restore the Druids.
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Fablehaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
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Tor
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 43
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English
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Kellen Tawadon, son the Arch-Mage Lycaelon, thought he knew the way the world worked. His father, leading the wise and benevolent Council of Mages, protected and guided the citizens of the Golden City of the Bells. Young Mages in training-all men, for women were unfit to practice magic-memorized the intricate details of High Magic and aspired to seats on the council. Then he found the forbidden Books of Wild Magic-or did they find him? The three slim...
10) The telling
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Series
Hainish series volume 8
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Sutty, an Observer for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to Aka, a world in the grip of a materialistic government. The monolithic Corporation State of Aka has outlawed all old customs and beliefs. Sutty herself, an Earthwoman, has fled from a similar monolithic state - but one controlled by religious fundamentalists.
11) Wizards
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English
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Contains eighteen stories by leading fantasy writers, such as Neil Gaiman and Eoin Colfer, which feature wizards.
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Prydain chronicles volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
Description
Eight short stories dealing with events that preceded the birth of Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper and key figure in the author's five works on the Kingdom of Prydain.
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Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Presents two novellas, including "Somewhere a Band Is Playing," in which a young writer discovers that all is not as it seems in a nostalgic community, and "Leviathan '99," in which Ishmael Hunnicut Jones prepares for a first interstellar hunt.
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Distributed by Penguin U.S.A
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
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Simon, the scullery boy turned sometime wielder of the sword Thorn, continues to play a large role in the battle to save the land from Ineluki, the Storm King. Simon and his companions struggle to reach the distant and mysterious Stone of Farewell where they hope to find sanctuary for a time.
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Series
Incarnations of immortality volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
In a world where science and magic are equally advanced, Niobe accepts an incarnation as one of the three Fates in order to discover and thwart the plans of Satan
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 23
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Publisher
TooFar Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Lyle is a young man who hates his life in the State of Salt, a cultural and literal desert. He vandalizes a State icon, then swallows a poison pill that transports him not to death, but to a liminal realm - blue, watery, and wholly alien. He's rescued and shepherded by henchmen of the Polyp, god of the oceanic world they call "heaven". A series of encounters unfolds between Lyle and the monstrous, seductive god, who gradually reveals his grandeur...
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Daw Books, Inc
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English
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For Karigan G'ladheon, the call of magic in her blood is too strong to resist. Karigan returns to the Green Riders, the magical messengers of the king, to find she's badly needed. Rider magic has become unstable, many Riders have been lost, and the Rider corps is seriously threatened. The timing couldn't be worse. An ancient evil, long dormant, has reawakened, and the world is in peril. Karigan must face deadly danger and complex magic to save the...
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