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Following the devastating events in Wyndor, Torin dares to hope his enemies have finally set aside their hatreds. For a year, the draconic cult has been silent, allowing Torin and his companion to forge a new life in Skrithe, the realm of master swordsmiths and forgers. But their peace was always an illusion. While journeying to the far north of Westskyr—the edge of the known world—Torin learns of a catastrophic attack. His past returns to haunt him, and now the realms teeter on the brink of annihilation.

500 years ago, the Evolution System descended on Earth, and the world ended. Facing a transforming world, terrifying monsters and a new race of hostile elves, humans had no choice but to fight back with Awakened magic powers. For Imani, a young and ambitious Awakened, the world of magic and skills is all he’s ever known. Trapped in the walls of an isolated, overpopulated town with dwindling resources, he’s taught that survival means following rules. However, by putting his life on the line and defying one of those rules, Imani is granted a rare reward: a Settlement Stone.

Her name is Alias, and she is in big trouble. She is a sell-sword, a warrior-for-hire, and an adventuress. She awoke with a series of twisting, magical blue sigils inscribed on her arms and no memory of where she got them. Determined to learn the nature of the mysterious tattoo, Alias joins forces with an unlikely group of companions: the halfling bard, Ruskettle, the southern mage, Akabar, and the oddly silent lizard-man, Dragonbait.

Year three at Dragonis Academy was supposed to be manageable. I'd survived two years of brutal competition, backstabbing classmates, and professors who'd rather see me dead than graduate. I have Klauth by my side now, who just happens to be an ancient dragon king. The universe has a sick sense of humor when it comes to my life. The cursed egg I've been carrying since last semester pulses with dark energy. Thauglor teaches me everything he can while he's imprisoned. Meanwhile, my father's agents lurk in every shadow, and now the headmaster appears to be playing a deadlier game than I realized.

Tex falls into a chasm and wakes up in a primitive land. Armed with a rifle and the skills of a bushman, he struggles to survive against pterodactyls and demonic barbarians. But when he meets beautiful primeval women who need his help, life in the stone age suddenly doesn't seem so bad. Tex vows to protect them and build a tribe. But that won’t be so easy. The immortal Necromancer of Darkoveld is spreading his forces across the land.

Meet Maimun - an orphan who couldn’t imagine how unfortunate it would be to discover a stone that makes him forever lucky. Fleeing a powerful demon named Asbeel, Maimun stows away aboard the ship Sea Sprite, where he encounters a cast of characters well-known to Salvatore fans: Captain Deudermont, Drizzt Do’Urden, Wulfgar, Catti-brie, and the dwarf Bruenor. Drizzt becomes a mentor to Maimun and aboard Deudermont’s ship, they sail the treacherous seas of the Forgotten Realms.

Princess Solenn’s marriage into royalty should have unified the continental neighbors of Verdania and Solenn’s homeland of Braiz against a common enemy: the country of Albion. Thanks to Albion’s cunning sabotage, Verdania is now Braiz’s lethal rival. And the dead Braizian sailors washed ashore near Solenn’s château are just the beginning.

David, der Wolfsprinz und Erbe des Pans hat der Amazonenkönigin Sheryn blutige Rache für den Tod seines Vaters geschworen und so entbrennt der Krieg gegen die Amazonen auf Mauika aufs Neue. Urmutter kennt die Lösung: Die beiden Gegner müssen gemeinsam in der Schattenwelt das letzte verbliebene Drachen-Ei bergen, damit wieder ein Drache als Hüter über das Gleichgewicht von Mauika wacht. Doch David denkt gar nicht daran, sich mit Sheryn zu vertragen, denn er ist im Besitz des magischen Schwertes, mit dem er die Amazonen vernichten und damit zum alleinigen Herrscher über die Insel werden kann.

Over nine hundred years have passed since song and hammerfall rang beneath the snows of Ice-Cloak. The remnants of the dwarves live in exile in the human kingdoms, eking out their survival as itinerant tinkers and farriers. The young dwarf-maid Tourmaline dreams of better things than mending pots for the humans. When horror strikes her caravan, she and a desperate band of dwarves escape into the wild north in pursuit of a fool's hope.

For generations, the forests of Ixachipan have echoed with the clash of weapons, as nation after nation has fallen to the Empire of Songs - and to the unending, magical music that binds its people together. Now, only two free tribes remain. The Empire is not their only enemy. Monstrous, scaled predators lurk in rivers and streams, with a deadly music of their own.

As Cora hunts down the leads given to her by Andrew and Andrea, she stumbles across stories of the shadowy founder of the Evolved. The revelation puts her in a position she'd been congratulating herself for sidestepping. Cora has a choice to make. Will she stand by her principles and watch the world burn? Or will she accept the hand of fate and become the assassin she never wanted to be?

High fantasy adventure takes a turn with mystery in the final title in the Finder’s Stone Trilogy by Jeff Grubb and Kate Novak. When the Harpers judged the Nameless Bard responsible for the death of his apprentices, they sentenced him to exile and obscurity. Now the Harpers are reconsidering their decision, but with the arrival of the monster Grypht, Nameless’ new trial dissolves in a string of disappearances and murder. It is up to the bard’s friends, Alias the swordswoman, Akabar the mage, Dragonbait the paladin, and Ruskettle the thief, to prove one enemy is behind all the chaos - the ancient evil god, Moander the Darkbringer.

Blinded by betrayal, Aisling's heart burns for revenge against Kohen, the man she once trusted. But war looms on two fronts—Luska and Imbria—and her people are caught in the crossfire. As battle lines are drawn and alliances tested, Aisling faces an impossible choice: to side with the lesser evil or risk everything for her people’s survival.

High fantasy doesn’t get better than this - revisit the classic Forgotten Realms in this 2nd book of the Finder’s Stone Trilogy by veteran authors Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb. More than a hunk of junk, the Wyvern’s Spur has moldered in a crypt for 15 generations until now. The Wyvernspur family’s powerful heirloom has been stolen, and grand wizard and patriarch Drone Wyvernspur is the first to fall to the ancient item’s curse. The family fool, Giogi, is left to find it, but even recovering the spur cannot guarantee his clan’s safety. Fortunately, the famous halfling bard Olive Ruskettle and a mysterious and talented mage named Cat are willing to help.

Koen is accepted into the famous Dragon Stone Academy, where he'll certainly encounter adventure, magic, and power beyond his wildest dreams. None of it comes easy though, and as he learns, he'll uncover more than he expected. Secrets lurk deep within the kingdom and its fabled academy. Some of them are eager to keep a young hero from saving the world.

Book two in the Ember War Series.

Lolth - patron deity of the drow, Spider Queen, regent of the Demon Web Pits - has once again stirred the dark elves into roiling aggression against the rest of Faern, reveling in the chaos born from her dark schemata. This is the Rise of the Underdark. In Iltkazar, the last subterranean kingdom of the once resplendent dwarven realm of Shanatar, King Mith Barak faces a siege of drow soldiers, spies, and assassins looking to seize the powerful city and the ancient magical artifacts hidden there.

As the daughter of the emperor, Aisling Everhart was born into privilege. She has trained her entire life to go into The Wilds and have a chance at bonding with a creature that can give her unknown power. Half of the candidates will die the first night, and only a few will make it out. Those who survive the bonding are quickly conscripted into the Imperial Fleet to join the war.

In the land of monsters, you'll want her by your side. Nyrielle Tam - better known by her code name, Thorn - is a Dark Lantern sent undercover to a summit in the monstrous kingdom of Droaam. The beasts of Droaam have organized and want recognition from the kingdoms of Khorvaire. Breland attends to gauge its neighbors' reaction to the new state's demands of equality... and to take the opportunity to recover something long ago stolen by the mysterious Sheshka, Queen of the Medusas.

After their friends are kidnapped by a band of assassins from across the sea, Orin and his companions must mount a rescue party. Teaming up with the Talon Squadron, the Griffin Guard’s elite warriors, and some “old friends,” they embark on an unprecedented quest. With the fate of their friends unknown, Orin and the others must brave unexpected dangers crossing the treacherous Gant Sea to save them. But the land of Kelvur holds secrets of its own.