The Wise Mans Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Book 2
The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1 <p>At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (<i>The New York Times</i>)</p> <p>This is the way the world ends...for the last time.</p> <p>It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.</p> <p>This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the Earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.</p> <p>Listen to the first book in the critically acclaimed, three-time Hugo award-winning trilogy by <i>NYT </i>best-selling author N. K. Jemisin.</p> Audible The Shadow of What Was Lost: The Licanius Trilogy, Book 1 <p>It has been 20 years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs, once thought of almost as gods, were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs' fate only by submitting themselves to the rebellion's Four Tenets. </p> <p>A representation of these laws is now written into the flesh of any who use the Gift, forcing those so marked into absolute obedience. As a student of the Gifted, Davian suffers the consequences of a war fought--and lost--before he was born. Despised by most beyond the school walls, he and those around him are all but prisoners as they attempt to learn control of the Gift. Worse, as Davian struggles with his lessons, he knows there is further to fall if he cannot pass his final tests. But when he discovers he has the ability to wield the forbidden power of the Augurs, he sets into motion a chain of events that will change everything. </p> <p>To the north an ancient enemy, long thought defeated, begins to stir. And to the west, a young man whose fate is intertwined with Davian’s wakes up in the forest, covered in blood and with no memory of who he is....</p> Audible Unfettered: Tales By Masters of Fantasy <p>You define life or it defines you. In Shawn Speakman’s case, it was both. Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Shawn quickly accrued a massive medical debt that he did not have the ability to pay. That’s when <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author Terry Brooks offered to donate a short story that Shawn could sell to help alleviate those bills - and suggested he ask the same of his other writer friends. <i>Unfettered</i> is the result: An anthology built in order to relieve that debt, featuring short stories by some of the best fantasy writers in the genre. </p> <p>Twenty-three tales comprise this incredible collection, and as the title suggests, the writers were free to contribute whatever they wished. Here is the table of contents: </p> <ul> <li>Foreword by Patrick Rothfuss</li> <li>Introduction: On Becoming Unfettered</li> <li>Imaginary Friends by Terry Brooks</li> <li>How Old Holly Came to Be by Patrick Rothfuss</li> <li>The Old Scale Game by Tad Williams</li> <li>Game of Chance by Carrie Vaughn</li> <li>The Martyr of the Roses by Jacqueline Carey</li> <li>Mudboy by Peter V. Brett</li> <li>The Sound of Broken Absolutes by Peter Orullian</li> <li>The Coach with Big Teeth by R. A. Salvatore</li> <li>Keeper of Memory by Todd Lockwood</li> <li>Heaven in a Wild Flower by Blake Charlton</li> <li>Dogs by Daniel Abraham</li> <li>The Chapel Perilous by Kevin Hearne</li> <li>Select Mode by Mark Lawrence</li> <li>All the Girls Love Michael Stein by David Anthony Durham</li> <li>Strange Rain by Jennifer Bosworth</li> <li>Nocturne by Robert V. S. Redick</li> <li>Unbowed by Eldon Thompson</li> <li>In Favour with Their Stars by Naomi Novik</li> <li>River of Souls by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson</li> <li>The Jester by Michael J. Sullivan</li> <li>The Duel by Lev Grossman</li> <li>Walker and the Shade of Allanon by Terry Brooks</li> <li>The Unfettered Knight by Shawn Speakman<p>With the help of stalwart friends and these wonderful short stories, Shawn has taken the gravest of life’s hardships and created something magical. <i>Unfettered</i> is not only a fantastic anthology in its own right, but it’s a testament to the generosity found in the science fiction and fantasy community—proof that humanity can give beyond itself when the need arises. After all, isn’t that the driving narrative in fantasy literature? </p></li> </ul> Neverwhere <p><b>National Best Seller </b></p> <p><b>Selected as one of NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time </b></p> <p><b>The number one <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author's wildly successful first novel featuring his new <i>Neverwhere</i> tale, "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back". </b></p> <p>Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew. </p> <p>"A fantastic story that is both the stuff of dreams and nightmares" (<i>San Diego Union-Tribune</i>), Neil Gaiman's first solo novel has become a touchstone of urban fantasy and a perennial favorite of readers and listeners everywhere. </p>