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The Bards of Bone Plain – Patricia A. McKillip

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Phelan Cle is back looking for his father. Jonah wanders- looking for lost treasures. He’s even got the Princess Beatrice (youngest daughter of the king) working on the crew that helps him dig things up around the capital city of Cearlu. Phelan’s never known what Jonah’s been searching for. Phelan himself is in his last […]

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Lord Darcy – Randall Garrett

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This is an omnibus of three books of mostly short stories about Lord Darcy, the chief investigator for Prince Richard, Duke of Normandy, in an alternate world where King Richard the Lion-Heart survived the cross bow attack that killed him in our world. His family is still in charge of an Angevin empire that includes

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Voices – Ursula K. Le Guin

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This is the second book in the Annals of the Western Shore. The first was Gifts – featuring Orrec and Gry. They figure heavily into this story as well, but it’s more Memer’s story. Memer is a siege brat in the city of Ansul – daughter of a woman of the city and one of

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Bastion – Mercedes Lackey

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I don’t know what it is about the books that are set around when Heralds are being trained, but I seem to like them best. I’ve been enjoying the heck out of this series, and I’m really glad there are two more series that feature these same characters, because Lackey’s set up a good bunch

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A Midsummer Tempest – Poul Anderson

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In this book’s world, Shakespeare was a historian, and a short time later, the English Civil War rages, but with more technology than we had in our world. Prince Rupert of the Rhine, fighting for his uncle, Charles I, is captured. His captor’s niece, Jennifer, helps him escape, and Oberon and Titania chose the two

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The Raven King – Maggie Stiefvater

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This the final book of The Raven Cycle. Blue, Gansey, Ronan, Adam, and Noah, are absolutely in the thick of searching for Owain Glendower.   It’s now critically important, as a demon is unraveling the magical forest around the ley line where Glendower is buried. A lot happens in the book – and I’m a little

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Redoubt – Mercedes Lackey

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This is the fourth book in the Collegium series. Mags and his friends are really settling into life at the Collegium. Healer Bear has been able to do an operation that’s given their friend Amily the ability to walk again, and it’s absolutely changed her life, as well as deepening her relationship with Mags. Mags

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Look for Me by Moonlight – Mary Downing Hahn

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This was just a classic 90’s YA vampire story. Cynda’s off to remote Maine to live with her father, step-mother and little half-brother, now that her mother is moving to Italy. They run an inn by the sea – an inn supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young woman who died there years ago.

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Night Broken – Patricia Briggs

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Adam’s ex-wife is back – she’s gotten herself into trouble with a man who’s now stalking her, and is apparently willing to kill the people around her. Adam takes her in because she is the mother of his daughter, and since he is an alpha werewolf, it is pretty much his job to protect people.

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The Midnight Queen – Sylvia Izzo Hunter

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Gray Marshall is a student at Merlin College, the foremost of the Oxford colleges in this alternate England where the Tudors still reign in the 1800s and there’s magic aplenty. He’s stuck under the tutelage of Professor Apius Callender, and the two do not particularly get along. When two of Callender’s favorites rope him into

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