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Title: The Eye Of The World (wheel Of Time S.): Description:
The Eye of the World and its sequels in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series show the extent to which one can go with a traditional fantasy framework, with added gusto. Stock elements are abound: a reluctant hero--in fact five humble village folk--plucked from wholesome obscurity to fight dark powers; an eternal evil enemy who can be defeated but not destroyed, until the end of the world, which is fast approaching; a mysterious sisterhood with vast powers and who love to manipulate thrones and kingdoms from the shadows (think of the Bene Gesserit of the Dune series); a ferocious battle-hardened warrior race (echoes of the Fremen of Dune, or the Haruchai of the Thomas Covenant novels). Jordan didn't become a bestselling author merely by mixing up traditional ingredients; a master storyteller, he ingeniously gives unusual twists to these conventional fantasy elements. He also excels in the descriptive and narrative skills needed to create a detailed and coherent imaginary world. The many lands he portrays are vast in scope and contain amazingly varied countries and peoples, while retaining the inner coherence needed to make them satisfying places for a fantasy fan to roam around in. However, Jordan's writing never attains the subtlety or sophistication of, say, George RR Martin and there are some annoying stylistic tics: he seems unable to introduce a female character without commenting on her neckline and thereafter has them forever smoothing their dresses. To his publisher's credit, Jordan's books are fortunate among fantasy novels in not having covers that look like an explosion of a teenager's bedroom. The absence of such lurid artwork is, perhaps, part of their appeal. --David Pickering

Title: The Dragon Reborn (wheel Of Time): Description:
The Dragon Reborn - the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it - is on the run from his destiny. Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, Rand al'Thor knows only that he must face the Dark One. But how? About the Author Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, where he now lives with his wife Harriet. He is a graduate of the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam. His hobbies include hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool and pipe collecting.

Title: The Path Of Daggers: Description:
Synopsis..."Robert Jordan's bestselling' Wheel of Time' series has enthralled millions of readers throughout the world. Now the phenomenal tale continues in one of the most eagerly awaited fantasy novels of the year(1998). ..the Seanchan invasion force is in possession of Ebou Dar. Nynaeve, Elayne and Aviendha head for Caemlyn and Elayne's rightful throne, but on the way they discover an enemy much worse than the Seanchan.....In Illian, Rand vows to throw the Seanchan back as he did once before, although signs of madness are appearing among the Asha'man....In Ghealdan, Perrin faces the intrigues of the Whitecloaks, Seanchan invaders, the scattered Shaido Aiel and the Prophet himself. Perrin's beloved wife, Faile, may pay with her life, and Perrin himelf may have to destroy his soul to save her...Meanwhile the rebel Aes Sedai under their young Amyrlin, Egwene Al'Vere, face an army that intends to keep them away from the White Tower. But Egwene is determined to unseat the usurper Elaida and reunite the Ais Sedai. She does not yet understand the price that others - and she herself - will pay....'The Path of Daggers' is a magnificent ground-breaking and captivating masterpiece of fantasy."

Title: The Conan Chronicles Ii: Description:
Before Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series, he revived fantasy hero, Conan the Cimmerian. This volume contains three tales, "Conan the Destroyer", "Conan the Magnificent" and "Conan the Triumphant"; and "Conan the Indestructible" - a history of Conan and his times, by L. Sprague de Camp. About the Author Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, where he now lives with his wife Harriet. He is a graduate of the Citadel, the Military college of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam. His hobbies include hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool and pipe collecting.

Title: Winter's Heart (wheel Of Time): Description:
Rand is on the run with Min, but his destination is a mystery to Cadsuane. Mazrim Taim, leader of the Black Tower, is revealed to be a liar, but his purpose remains shrouded in secrecy. Meanwhile, Perrin is hunting desperately for Faile, now a prisoner of Sevanna's sept. From the Publisher WINTER’S HEART is Book Nine of THE WHEEL OF TIME, Robert Jordan’s international best-selling epic fantasy series. Praise for Robert Jordan ‘With THE WHEEL OF TIME, Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal’ THE NEW YORK TIMES ‘A powerful vision of good and evil’ ORSON SCOTT CARD ‘Epic in every sense’ THE TIMES ‘A great read … the volumes only get richer as they go along’ LOCUS ‘Well written adventure on the grand scale’ ANNE MCCAFFREY ‘Glowing with true magic’ FRED SABERHAGEN The Wheel of Time series: THE EYE OF THE WORLD, THE GREAT HUNT, THE DRAGON REBORN, THE SHADOW RISING, THE FIRES OF HEAVEN, LORD OF CHAOS, A CROWN OF SWORDS, THE PATH OF DAGGERS, WINTER’S HEART About the Author Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, where he lives with his wife Harriet. He is a graduate of the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam. His hobbies include hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool and pipe collecting.

Title: The Great Hunt (wheel Of Time): Description:
The sequel to "The Eye of the World". Young Rand al'Thor has been recognized as the Dragon Reborn, but it is prophesied that the Dragon will destroy all he holds dear. Throughout the world the battle continues against Ba'alzamon and both Mat and Perrin have their own personal wars to wage. From the Publisher THE GREAT HUNT is Book Two of Robert Jordan’s international best-selling epic fantasy series THE WHEEL OF TIME. Praise for Robert Jordan ‘With THE WHEEL OF TIME, Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal’ THE NEW YORK TIMES ‘A powerful vision of good and evil’ ORSON SCOTT CARD ‘Epic in every sense’ THE TIMES ‘Well written adventure on the grand scale’ ANNE MCCAFFREY ‘Glowing with true magic’ FRED SABERHAGEN The Wheel of Time series: THE EYE OF THE WORLD, THE GREAT HUNT, THE DRAGON REBORN, THE SHADOW RISING, THE FIRES OF HEAVEN, LORD OF CHAOS, A CROWN OF SWORDS, THE PATH OF DAGGERS, WINTER’S HEART About the Author Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, where he now lives with his wife Harriet. He is a graduate of the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam. His hobbies include hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool and pipe collecting.

Title: The Fires Of Heaven (wheel Of Time): Description:
In this fifth book of "The Wheel of Time", legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. The Chosen are free and already planning the Great Day of Return, when the Dark One will walk the Earth again. From the Publisher Praise for Robert Jordan ‘With THE WHEEL OF TIME, Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal’ THE NEW YORK TIMES ‘A powerful vision of good and evil’ ORSON SCOTT CARD ‘Epic in every sense’ THE TIMES ‘Well written adventure on the grand scale’ ANNE MCCAFFREY ‘Glowing with true magic’ FRED SABERHAGEN The Wheel of Time series: THE EYE OF THE WORLD, THE GREAT HUNT, THE DRAGON REBORN, THE SHADOW RISING, THE FIRES OF HEAVEN, LORD OF CHAOS, A CROWN OF SWORDS, THE PATH OF DAGGERS, WINTER’S HEART About the Author Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, where he now lives with his wife Harriet. He is a graduate of the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam. His hobbies include hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool and pipe collecting.

Title: Lord Of Chaos (wheel Of Time): Description:
Rand al'Thor struggles to unite the nations for the last battle, when the Dark One will break free into the world, and to spring the snares laid by the immortal Forsaken for unwary humankind. Across half a continent, Perrin Aybara feels Rand's pull. From the Publisher LORD OF CHAOS is Book Six of THE WHEEL OF TIME, Robert Jordan’s international best-selling epic fantasy series. Praise for Robert Jordan ‘With THE WHEEL OF TIME, Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal’ THE NEW YORK TIMES ‘A powerful vision of good and evil’ ORSON SCOTT CARD ‘Epic in every sense’ THE TIMES ‘Well written adventure on the grand scale’ ANNE MCCAFFREY ‘Glowing with true magic’ FRED SABERHAGEN The Wheel of Time series: THE EYE OF THE WORLD, THE GREAT HUNT, THE DRAGON REBORN, THE SHADOW RISING, THE FIRES OF HEAVEN, LORD OF CHAOS, A CROWN OF SWORDS, THE PATH OF DAGGERS, WINTER’S HEART About the Author Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, where he now lives with his wife Harriet. He is a graduate of the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam. His hobbies include hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool and pipe collecting. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: Crossroads Of Twilight (wheel Of Time): Description:
Robert Jordan's epic fantasy saga The Wheel of Time is now firmly established as a classic of the genre and a world-wide bestseller. Now the series continues with the eagerly-awaited tenth volume . Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must fight on against the Dark One in a stuggle that has drawn an entire world into its vortex - claiming the souls of friends and enemies alike. He has cleansed the taint of madness from the male half of the True Source, so may now draw on its power as a weapon of awesome potential. This could tip the balance in a perilous battle against evil as Rand must gamble with himself at stake. He cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies - even among lifelong companions. Excerpted from Crossroads of Twilight (Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Extract from CROSSROADS OF TWILIGHT by Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Rhannon Hills. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.Born among the groves and vineyards that covered much of the rugged hills, the olive trees in evergreen rows, the ordered vines leafless till spring, the cold wind blew west and north across the prosperous farms dotting the land between the hills and the great harbor of Ebou Dar. The land lay winter fallow still, but men and women were already oiling plowshares and tending harnesses, preparing for the planting to come. They paid little mind to the trains of heavily laden wagons moving east along the dirt roads carrying people who wore odd clothes and spoke with odd accents. Many of the strangers seemed to be farmers themselves, familiar implements lashed to their wagon boxes, and in their wagons unfamiliar saplings with roots balled in rough cloth, but they were heading on toward more distant land. Nothing to do with life here and now. The Seanchan hand lay lightly on those who did not contest Seanchan rule, and the farmers of the Rhannon Hills had seen no changes in their lives. For them, rain or the lack of it had always been the true ruler.West and north the wind blew, across the broad blue-green expanse of the harbor, where hundreds of huge ships sat rocking at anchor on choppy swells, some bluff-bowed and rigged with ribbed sails, others long and sharp-prowed, with men laboring to match their sails and rigging to those of the wider vessels. Not nearly so many ships still floated there as had only a few days before, though. Many now lay in the shallows, charred wrecks heeled over on their sides, and burned frames settling in the deep gray mud like blackened skeletons. Smaller craft skittered about the harbor, slanting under triangular sails or crawling on oars like many-legged waterbugs, most carrying workers and supplies to the ships that still floated. Other small vessels and barges rode tethered to what appeared to be tree trunks shorn of branches, rising out of the blue-green water, and from those men dove holding stones to carry them down swiftly to sunken ships below, where they tied ropes to whatever could be hauled up for salvage. Six nights ago death had walked across the water here, the One Power killing men and women and ships in darkness split by silver lightnings and hurtling balls of fires. Now the rough rolling harbor, filled with furious activity, seemed at peace by comparison, the chop giving up spray to the wind that blew north and west across the mouth of the River Eldar, where it widened into the harbor, north and west and inland. Sitting cross-legged atop a boulder covered with brown moss, on the reed-fringed bank of the river, Mat hunched his shoulders against the wind and cursed silently. There was no gold to be found here, no women or dancing, no fun. Plenty of discomfort, though. In short, it was the last sort of place he would choose, normally. The sun stood barely its own height above the horizon, the sky overhead was pale slate gray, and thick purple clouds moving in from the sea threatened rain. Winter hardly seemed winter without snow—he had yet to see a single flake in Ebou Dar—but a cold damp morning wind off the water could serve as well as snow to chill a man to the bone. Six nights since he had ridden out of the city in a storm, yet his throbbing hip seemed to think he was still soaked to the skin and clinging to a saddle. This was no weather or time of day for a man to be out by his own choice. He wished he had thought to bring a cloak. He wished he had stayed in bed.Ripples in the land hid Ebou Dar, just over a mile to the south, and hid him from the city, as well, but there was not a tree or anything more than scrub brush in sight. Being in the open this way made him feel as though ants were crawling under his skin. He should be safe, though. His plain brown woolen coat and cap were nothing like the clothes he was known by in the city. Instead of black silk, a drab woolen scarf hid the scar around his neck, and the collar of his coat was turned up to hide that, as well. Not a bit of lace or a thread of embroidery. Dull enough for a farmer milking cows. No one he needed to avoid would know him to recognize if they saw him. Not unless they were close. Just the same, he tugged the cap a bit lower. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: The Shadow Rising (wheel Of Time): Description:
Rand al'Thor - the Dragon reborn, the man whose destiny is to save the world and yet, in the saving, destroy it - encounters more of the prophecies that control his life. And he confronts the awesome power of the Dark One. From the Publisher THE SHADOW RISING is Book Four of THE WHEEL OF TIME, Robert Jordan’s international best-selling epic fantasy series. Praise for Robert Jordan ‘With THE WHEEL OF TIME, Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal’ THE NEW YORK TIMES ‘A powerful vision of good and evil’ ORSON SCOTT CARD ‘Epic in every sense’ THE TIMES ‘Well written adventure on the grand scale’ ANNE MCCAFFREY ‘Glowing with true magic’ FRED SABERHAGEN The Wheel of Time series: THE EYE OF THE WORLD, THE GREAT HUNT, THE DRAGON REBORN, THE SHADOW RISING, THE FIRES OF HEAVEN, LORD OF CHAOS, A CROWN OF SWORDS, THE PATH OF DAGGERS, WINTER’S HEART About the Author Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, where he now lives with his wife Harriet. He is a graduate of the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam. His hobbies include hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool and pipe collecting.

Title: A Crown Of Swords (wheel Of Time): Description:
The seventh book in Robert Jordan's internationally bestselling epic fantasy series, THE WHEEL OF TIME, now reissued with a stunning new cover design. The war for humanity's survival has begun. Rand al' Thor, the Dragon Reborn, has escaped the snares of the White Tower and the first of the rebel Aes Sedai have sworn to follow him. Attacked by the servants of the Dark, threatened by the invading Seanchan, Rand rallies his forces and brings battle to bear upon Illian, stronghold of Sammael the Forsaken ...In the city of Ebou Dar, Elayne, Aviendha and Mat struggle to secure the ter' angreal that can break the Dark One's hold on the world's weather - and an ancient bane moves to oppose them. In the town of Salidar, Egwene al'Vere gathers an army to reclaim Tar Valon and reunite the Aes Sedai ...And in Shadar Logoth, city of darkness, a terrible power awakens ...Find out more about this title and others at www.orbitbooks.co.uk

Title: The Wheel Of Time Books 1-10: Description:
selling books 1 - 10

Title: Dragon Reborn (wheel Of Time): Description:
Book 3 in Wheel of Time

Title: The Eye Of The World: To The Blight Pt.2 (wheel Of Time): Description:
Despite the magical aid of Moraine Sedai and the awesome fighting skills of the warrior Lan, Rand Al'Thor and his friends have been unable to throw off the foes that pursue them. Even a detour through the ghosts of the ruined city of Shadar Logoth has failed to deter the Dark One's minions. Now the companions have a Trolloc army at their rear and eyeless shadowmen, known as Myrddraal, laying ambushes on the roads ahead. Worse still, the Dark One has dispatched his most feared general to ensure that Rand will die. Aginor is the powerful magician whose dark magic first created the Trollocs and he will stop at nothing to fulfil his master's bidding. Unless Rand can unlock the secrets of his extraordinary destiny, Aginor will destroy him and the darkness will triumph forever.

Title: Wheel Time 2 Great Hunt: Description:
Book 2 WHEEL OF TIME