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Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On a world called Heaven, the ten major religions of mankind each have its own land governed by a capital city and ruled by a Hegemon. That Hegemon may be a god, or a prophet of a god. Smaller religions have their own towns or villages of belief. Corvyn, known as the Shadow of the Raven, contains the collective memory of humanity's Falls from Grace. With this knowledge comes enormous power. When unknown power burns a mysterious black image into the...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"You can't militarize space. This one rule has led to decades of peaceful development of space programs worldwide. However, increasing resource scarcity and a changing climate on Earth's surface is causing some interested parties to militarize, namely India, the North American Union, and the Sinese Federation. The discovery of a strange artifact by Dr. Alayna Wong precipitates a crisis. What appears to be a hitherto undiscovered comet is soon revealed...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A talented problem-solver-for-hire, Blaine Donne is called in to investigate a series of mysteries linked to an enigmatic woman of unlimited resources, with no ties to the past or present, and discovers a utopian world in an alternate universe.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The lives and fates of three civilizations separated in time become intertwined as the forces behind an indestructible and massive canal 2,000 miles long and spanning the mid-continent of Earth react to a plot to overthrow the world government, and three teams of scientists find their lives changed beyond belief.
Author
Series
Saga of Recluce volume 15
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Rahl was a young apprentice on the island of Recluce sent to the mages training school for testing, then banished to Hamor. His education now continues under dangerous circumstances. In Hamor, his powers have increased, but so has the amount of trouble he attracts.
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Promoted to commander and assigned to convice the Pharsi High Council to submit to Lord Bhayar's rule, Quaeryt leads an Imagers team into hostile lands once held by the tyrannical Rex Kharst, where they confront a powerful order of women.
Author
Series
Corean chronicles volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Discovering that large sums of money have been diverted from her father's treasury, the eldest daughter of Lanachrona's overseer is directed to discover her Talent in order to save her world, a mission that is complicated by an attempt to marry her off to a lord in a neighboring land. Set in Tempre, the capital city of Lanachrona on Corus, the world of Modesitt's Corean Chronicles.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The colony world of Stittara is no ordinary planet. For the interstellar Unity of the Ceylesian Arm, Stittara is the primary source of anagathics: drugs that have more than doubled the human life span. But the ecological balance that makes anagathics possible on Stittara is fragile, and the Unity government has a vital interest in making sure the flow of longevity drugs remains uninterrupted, even if it means uprooting the human settlements. Offered...
Author
Series
Spellsong cycle volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
After being pulled by a sorcerer from her boring life in Ames, Iowa, Anna Marshal must now defend her new kingdom of Defalk from the greedy rulers of neighboring kingdoms.
Author
Series
Saga of Recluce volume 12
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Khari is the best cooper in Brysta, one of the major cities in Nordia, and his life as been as ordered and dependable as his barrels. His trouble begins when he saves a neighbor's daughter from the violent advances of two upper-class men. Then he rescues an actual rape victim he finds unconscious in an alley, a blackstaffer, a young expatriate mage, from Recluce, and that makes his wife very uneasy. The culprit in both cases turns out to have been...
15) Archform: beauty
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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