Patricia A McKillip
3) Kingfisher
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the new fantasy from the award-winning author of the Riddle-Master Trilogy, a young man comes of age amid family secrets and revelations, and transformative magic.
Hidden away from the world by his mother, the powerful sorceress Heloise Oliver, Pierce has grown up working in her restaurant in Desolation Point. Traveling strangers tell him of the legendary capital city of Severluna. Heloise tells her son the truth: about his father, a knight in...
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Heir of sea and fire: When Morgon, Prince of Hed, fails to return from his journey to the High One, his fiancée, accompanied by his sister and a friend, sets out to find him.
Harpist in the wind: In the midst of conflict and unrest, the Prince of Hed solves the puzzle of his future when he learns to harp the wind, discovers who the shape changers are, and understands his own relationship to Deth, harpist of the wizard Ohm.
Riddle-master of Hed:...
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Description
"Romantic, magical, respectful of fantasy's traditions without being awed by them, McKillip's novels are near perfect examples of fantasy in the fairy-tale or folkloric mold, and the latest, "Alphabet of Thorn," is among her best."--"Locus."
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Plain--which has been studied for the last 500 years, though no one has been able to locate it as a real place. Archaeologist Jonah Cle, Phelan's father, is also hunting through time, piecing history together from forgotten trinkets. His most eager disciple is Princess Beatrice, the king's youngest daughter. When they unearth a disk marked with ancient runes, Beatrice pursues the secrets of a lost language that...
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