Melanie Rawn
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
There is magic in the big city...literally. New York City has a small, and by preference discrete, population of witches and wizards who live and love and go dancing just like everyone else. Holly McClure is one of them, a successful writer who tries to ignore her heritage, except when the local Magistrate needs her special gift in his coven. Holly is far more interested in Evan Lachlan, the handsome federal marshal who works with her best friend,...
2) Elsewhens
Author
Series
Glass thorns volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
While touring with a magical theater troupe, Cayden is plagued by "elsewhens"--uncontrollable visions of possible futures--and fears that his Fae gift will forever taint his friendships, especially when the troupe travels with a Royal Embassy to collect Prince Ashgar's new bride.
3) Thornlost
Author
Series
Glass thorns volume 3
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Melanie Rawn returns to her rich high fantasy world in Thornlost, the sequel to Touchstone and Elsewhens. Cayden is part Elf, part Fae, part human Wizard--and all rebel. His aristocratic mother would have him follow his father to the Royal Court, to make a high-society living off the scraps of kings. But Cade lives and breathes for the theater, and he's good, very good. He's a tregetour--a wizard who is both playwright and magicwielder. It is Cade's...
4) Fire raiser
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Something's not right in Pocahontas County where witchcraft is the family business of all the oldest clans. Churches are being burned down in mysterious arsons with a taint of magic on them. Sheriff Lachlan suspects that they have something to do with the new owners of the old Westmoreland plantation, now a very upscale inn full of sinister secrets and big-city newcomers.
Author
Series
Glass thorns volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this final volume of Rawn's acclaimed series Glass Thorns, the boys are at the top of their theatrical game. Their only real competition for the hearts and gold of the public are the Shadowshapers. Nevertheless, the past years of financial struggle, since their manager proved to have been embezzling, have taken a toll on the group's creativity. A shocking event brings all that to an end and brings Touchstone back together to create a play that...
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
With her bestselling fantasy trilogy, Dragon Prince, Melanie Rawn introduced us to Sunrunner's magic and sorcerous evil, to a ruler striving to bring peace to warring kingdoms-and to her magnificent dragons. In Stronghold, the first novel in Rawn's Dragon Star trilogy, the peace won by High Prince Rohan is shattered when a mysterious invasion force begins a devastating campaign against the people of the Desert. Now, in The Dragon Token, the time for...
7) Skybowl
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Both the High Prince and the invading Warlord have mobilized all of their warriors to meet at Skybowl while the High Prince's mother Sioned undertakes a daring mission to strike at the heart of the invasion force and to free Pol's wife Meiglan, held prisoner by the Warlord.
8) Stronghold
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
There is a devastating new challenge to the power of both the High Prince Rohan and Andry, Lord of the Sunrunners at Goddess Keep, as a mysterious and seemingly unstoppable invasion force swarms across their lands. For Andry it signals the start of a nightmare made real, the horrifying fulfillment of his long ago visions of his homeland in flames, and he will draw upon even the forbidden sorcerer's magic in an attempt to destroy this enemy which is...
10) Window wall
Author
Series
Glass thorns volume 4
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For nearly two years, Cade has been rejecting his Fae gift, his prescient Elsewhens--simply refusing to see or experience them. But the strain is driving a wedge between him and his theater troupe, Touchstone, and making him erratic on stage and off. It takes his best friend Mieka to bully Cade into accepting the visions again. But when Cade finally looks into the possible futures, he sees a royal castle blowing up, though his vision does not tell...
13) The diviner
Author
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The only survivor of royal treachery that eliminates his entire family, Azzad al-Ma'aliq flees to the desert and dedicates himself to vengeance. With the help of the Shagara, a nomadic tribe of powerful magicians, he begins to take his revenge, but at a terrible cost to himself.
Author
Series
Dragon prince volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Dragon Prince has been reuinted with his mother, the Human Kingdoms, and Xadia are at peace, and humans and elves are ready to move on. Only Rayla is still restless. Unable to believe Lord Viren is truly dead, and haunted by questions about the fate of her parents and Runaan, she remains trapped between hope and fear. When an ancient ritual calls her, Callum, and Exran to the Moon Nexus, she learns the lake is a portal to a world between life...
Author
Series
Dragon prince volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Every Moonshadow elf child knows the scary stories of the Bloodmoon Huntress, the evil sorceress who steals your blood on the night of the Harvest Moon. Everyone also knows those legends aren't true. But for young Rayla, whose parents recently left her behind to fulfill their duty as members of the elite Dragonguard, this autumn is scarier than most. Her guardians, Runaan and Ethari, are still getting the hang of the whole parenting thing, and no...
Author
Series
Dragon prince volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Learning magic is no easy thing, even for young Claudia. Despite a bit of help from a book of spells created by Kpp'Ar, her father's former mentor, it's all she can do to keep things from blowing up in her face--often with spectacularly messy results. But a spell book isn't the only thing that Kpp'Ar left behind when he suddenly and mysteriously vanished. In his wake stands the Puzzle House, a bizarre tower full of magical traps, tricks, contraptions,...
Author
Series
Dragon prince volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Four full moons past, humans crossed into the magical lands of Xadia and committed an unspeakable crime: They destroyed the only egg of the Dragon King and Queen. Now a young Moonshadow elf assassin has been sent on her first mission; she will make the humans pay for their heinous act. But before she can complete her task, she and two human princes make an astonishing discovery . . . a discovery that could change everything. And so the three reluctant...
Author
Series
Exiles volume 2
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The reality-hopping adventurers continue their exploits across the Marvel Multiverse! And they must face a fistful of mutants when the Exiles land in the Old West! A dusty town of innocents is under the thrall of the Brotherhood and their sharpshooting leader, Magneto! But this town ain't big enough for all these mutants. Meanwhile, who is the Black Panther of the Wild West - and what does he want with the Exiles? They call him "King," and you do...