Two Ordinary People from Mundania travel to Xanth to defeat a rogue Night Colt in the latest in a beloved series from bestselling author Piers Anthony. The Night Colt has one ambition: to deliver dreams to the deserving. Unfortunately,...
Epic fiction
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Author:Anthony, PiersSummary: - Author:Wight, WillSummary:
Long ago, the Monarch Northstrider created a world of his own. This world, known as Ghostwater, housed some of his most valuable experiments. Now, it has been damaged by the attack of the Bleeding Phoenix, and a team of Skysworn have...
- Author:Herbert, FrankSummary:
More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in Frank Herbert's DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the...
- Author:Hess, MarieSummary:
Written by a Mohawk Institute Residential School survivor, this is a fierce and candid story that reveals the heartbreaking trauma of that tragic time in our history. The author portrays how the ongoing impact of the residential schools...
- Author:Herbert, FrankSummary:
Heretics of Dune, the fifth installment in Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi series. On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, ten times ten centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are...
- Author:Smith, AliSummary:
There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets...
- Author:Herbert, Brian, Anderson, Kevin J.Summary:
Book One in the classic conclusion to Frank Herbert's worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's...
- Jalna : books 13–16 : Return to Jalna, Renny's daughter, Variable winds at Jalna, Centenary at JalnaAuthor:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
All good things must come to an end, and this four-book bundle closes Mazo de la Roche's beloved Jalna series with stories of return, rebirth, and hope for a new day. As the dark clouds of World War II begin to clear, the scattered...
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
Chronicling the early years of the formidable manor Jalna and the Whiteoak family who inhabit it, this bundle gathers together the first four novels in Mazo de la Roche's treasured Canadian saga.IncludesThe Building of JalnaMorning...
- Jalna: Books 13-16 Return to Jalna / Renny's Daughter / Variable Winds at Jalna / Centenary at JalnaAuthor:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
All good things must come to an end, and this four-book bundle closes Mazo de la Roche’s beloved Jalna series with stories of return, rebirth, and hope for a new day. As the dark clouds of World War II begin to clear, the scattered...
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
Perhaps the most classic novels of Mazo de la Roche's monumental family saga are these four, which were the first books written in the series, though they fall in the middle of her books' multi-generation narrative. These,...
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
History flows swiftly on, and even the formidable family home of Jalna is swept up in its currents in this collection of books 9-12 of the Jalna series. Fortunes rise and crumble as older generations give way to the young, and the reins...
- Author:Wu, Cheng'enSummary:
"The fantastic tale recounts the sixteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Hsuan-tsang (596-664), one of China's most illustrious religious heroes, who journeyed to India with four animal disciples in quest of Buddhist scriptures. For nearly...
- Author:Bohjalian, ChrisSummary:
«Peu d’écrivains savent mener une intrigue avec autant de force et d’élégance.» The New York Times Book Review Alep (Syrie), 1915. La Première Guerre mondiale fait rage. Elizabeth Endicott, une jeune Américaine, se rend en Syrie avec...
- Author:Dussault, DanielleSummary:
À la manière d'une longue déambulation intérieure, Danielle Dussault propose ici un roman choral tout sauf conventionnel, porté par les voix de trois femmes fortes, distinctes, mais unies par leur quête de liberté. Le fleuve...
- Author:Auel, Jean M.Summary:
A novel set 25,000 years ago is the sixth book in the author's landmark series and continues the story of Ayla and Jondalar.
- Author:LaDuke, WinonaSummary:
In this highly anticipated new edition of her debut novel, Winona LaDuke weaves a nonlinear narrative of struggle and triumph, resistance and resilience, spanning seven generations from the 1800s to the early 2000s.
- Author:Hugo, VictorSummary:
The novel that inspired the beloved Broadway musical: Jean Valjean's immortal adventure among the dispossessed of nineteenth-century Paris. Widely considered Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Miserables is both an epic story and a...
- Author:Leconte de LisleSummary:
Les aventures que rencontre Ulysse, l'un des principaux stratèges du siège de Troie, lors de son retour dans sa patrie portent son nom : Odysseus (soit Ulysse en grec) ou Odyssée en français. Des 24 chapitres qui composent l...
- Author:Eddings, DavidSummary:
The Belgariad is an epic fantasy of immense scope, telling the tale of struggles between ancient Gods and mighty Kings, and of men in strange lands facing fated events, all bound by a prophecy that must be fulfilled. Ce'Nedra, Imperial...
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