Tamora Pierce

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Title: Wild Magic (immortals): Description:
Daine is desperate to forget the past. The bandit attack. The slaughter of her family. Her madness. Calling to the wolves, running with the pack, smelling blood, smelling vengeance. But she cannot forget. Power over wild magic is Daine's birthright, and protecting Tortall her destiny. For her adoptive home is in terrible danger, being ravaged by dread creations from the Divine Realms: Stormwings, Hurrocks and deadly Spidrens. Daine must master her rare and wondrous power or else see friends and home destroyed once more.

Title: Lioness Rampant (song Of The Lioness 4): Description:
Accompanied by the legendary Shang Dragon, Alanna must attempt the impossible - she must recover the fabled Dominion jewel. And she must work fast. Tortall is in terrible danger and Roger of Conte is back, and he is more powerful than ever.

Title: Magic Steps (circle Opens): Description:
First in a new quartet, The Circle Opens, Magic Steps follows the characters from the Circle of Magic series. The four mages of the circle have dispersed, travelling with their mentors-except for Sandry who is left back in Summersea caring for her sick uncle, Duke Vedris. It's not that she minds-she loves the old man, but it is hard to think of the excitement the others are having. untilshe sees a boy dancing on the beach, dancing what is quite clearly a magical working. He has no idea of the power he is unleashing-while Sandry can feel it in the very air around them. Now she just has to convince Pasco-and his family...

Title: Realms Of The Gods (immortals): Description:
She should have killed Ozorne when she had the chance. Now he has raised a band of pirates, brigands and Immortals intent on destroying Tortall. Daine must seek help in the Divine Realms, for Ozonre has made a pact with Uusoae, God of Chaos who exists only to suck all life into chaos and oblivion.

Title: Street Magic (circle Opens): Description:
When Briar Moss spots a street kid using magic in a marketplace, he knows he must find her a teacher. But before he can do so, Briar and the mage are swept up in gang warfare that puts them both in grave danger. Now Briar must decide if he's ready to step in as young Evvy's mentor.

Title: Alanna: The First Adventure (song Of The Lioness 1): Description:
Denying her magical powers and disguised as a boy, Alanna strives to become a knight. She wins powerful friends in the palace, but court life holds unexpected dangers - there's something about the powerful magician that scares her. Soon Alanna will face a challenge to test all her skills.

Title: The Woman Who Rides Like A Man (song Of The Lioness 3): Description:
Newly knighted, Alanna rides the desert in search of adventure. Captured by the Bloody Hawk tribe, she must challenge ancient tribal customs if she ever hopes for freedom. Tradition demands that Alanna must prove her worth in a magical duel - to the death.

Title: In The Hand Of The Goddess (song Of The Lioness 2): Description:
Sent north to fight the marauding Tusaine, Alanna is swept into a world of danger and intrigue. She proves herself in battle, but she must uncover Duke Roger's secret before facing the terror of "The Ordeal", the ceremony that will make her a knight - or destroy her.

Title: First Test (protector Of The Small): Description:
It's ten years since royal decree permitted girls to train as knights. No one applied - until Keladry of Mindelan. Keladry knows she's equal to any of the boys, but how can she hope to succeed when Lord Wyldon's mind is already made up?

Title: The Power In The Storm (circle Of Magic): Description:
The second book in this series which features Tris, Sandry, Daja and Briar. They love living in the Winding Circle and will do anything to protect it - even unleashing their untrained magic on the world.

Title: Shatterglass (circle Opens): Description:
Trisana (Tris) Chandler meets Kethlun (Keth) Warder, a glass mage with a dangerous power: lightning. During their first meeting, he was unconsciously using his ambient powers and accidentally created a living dragon out of glass. Tris saves the dragon from being smashed by Keth, and names it Chime. She later finds out that he had been struck by lightning less than a year ago, and this left him paralyzed and with a great fear of lightning. He learned to walk again, but his speech is a little slow, and he lost his ease at glass-blowing. A twenty-year-old man just as stubborn as Tris, Keth won't accept Tris or any of her teachings. He argues with her constantly, and refuses to learn about his lightning abilities, fearing a relapse into paralysis. Tris is surprisingly patient with him as she guides him through meditation and control over his powers. Eventually, Keth learns to trust Tris' instincts, and grudgingly accepts her as his teacher. Soon, mysterious murders begin to take place. All the murdered women are Yaskedasi, female entertainers who are looked down upon in the town for their immodesty. But when one of the murdered Yaskedasi turns up in the town's central fountain, everyone starts to take notice. The town has a culture of thanatophobia, an irrational fear of death. Each time a person dies, the place must be cleansed by the town's priests when they perform the traditional cleansing ceremony. This ceremony is not only religious, but magical as well, effectively erasing all traces of the murderer, making it impossible for the authorities to track the killer, nicknamed the 'Ghost' by locals. Keth has been asked to attempt to find the Ghost by way of glass balls that only he can make. These balls hold scenes of past crimes in them, causing him to be a suspect at first. Keth and Tris struggle, first against the local authorities, then against each other in the creation of these globes. When Keth's friend Yali is killed by the Ghost, the race takes on new meaning. Tris must teach Keth to control not only his magic, but his emotions and his impatience, for the Ghost to be caught, while taking care of Yali's foster daughter Glaki, who is an academic mage.

Title: Cold Fire (circle Opens): Description:
Daja and Frostpine expect to spend some peaceful weeks with old friends in Namorn. But things begin to go awry as soon as they arrive. First Daja discovers that their hosts' twin daughters are mages. Then mysterious fires begin to blaze across the frigid city. Daja works with Bennat Ladradun, to locate what seems to be a serial arsonist. Daja's magic saves the city from going up in flames, but nothing and nobody can save her the disappointment of learning that the arsonist is someone close to her own heart.

Title: Lady Knight (protector Of The Small): Description:
Kel is finally a knight. The first girl to make it in decades. She's dealt with the hazing and prejudice of her year-mates, and the terrifying Ordeal, the final test of a squire. Now she faces the real thing, Tortall is at war. The Scanran raiders have united to form an army, and they're invading. Refugees are flooding away from the northern border, destitute and terrified, with stories of the fearsome metal creatures that the invaders have brought with them. Kel's post is to the border refugee camp - the Scanrans, and their monstrous weapons, will be waiting for her...

Title: The Fire In The Forging (circle Of Magic): Description:
"I think fire is the most fascinating element. It is friend and foe, and sometimes the difference lies only in the direction of the wind at the time." The fire in the Forging is the third book in this wonderful fantasy quartet. You'll fall under its spell...

Title: The Magic In The Weaving (circle Of Magic: 1): Description:
Sandry, Tris, Briar and Daja each possess a strange and wonderful power. These four powers will unite these very different people. And when disaster strikes, it is the weaving of the magic that will keep them alive. From the Author A new ventureAfter writing two quartets set in Tortall (The Song of the Lioness and The Immortals), I wanted a change--not just in background, but of mind and point of view. I love tales of the Arabic world and the Silk Roads, and wanted to try something where all kinds of cultures met and mixed. I wanted to try a group hero, as so many books these days are doing. Also, for years I had been turning an image over in my mind: that of my mother and sister on winter nights, watching television and crocheting or knitting so fast that heaps of new cloth grew in their laps over the course of a few hours. It seemed to me that there was a kind of magic in needlework. I had tried writing about that before, in THE WOMAN WHO RIDES LIKE A MAN and in a short story, "Plain Magic," which was published by Oxford University Press in 1985, but I wanted to try again. I had also made an artist friend who, in the course of a long and productive lifetime, has done smithing, needlepoint, glass-blowing, architecture, weaving, landscaping, carpentry, and pottery-making: he made me wonder what kind of magic might be worked through other crafts.From this out-and-out stew of ideas came the Circle 4: Sandry, Tris, Daja and Briar. Needlework had been the first craft to get me thinking, and what better person to make four such wildly different people into friends, even a kind of family, than the one who could spin? It is Sandry who gets the thief and the law-abiding merchant to talk, or the Trader and mere land-dwellers to be friendly. Without her, these four might never have united. With her, by the end of her book, they are *forced* to live and work together, and for their sake I'm glad of it. These four go through trials that would break any one of them alone, but together they are hard to best. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: Page (protector Of The Small): Description:
It's ten years since a royal decree permitted girls to train as knights. No one applied - until Keladry of Mindelan. Keladry knows she's equal to any of the boys, but how can she hope to succeed when the pages think it's wrong for a girl to train?

Title: Squire (protector Of The Small): Description:
Keladry has finally worked her way through her page training, despite the opposition from traditional members of the court, and some of her fellow pages. She is now a squire, but no knight has come forward to be her sponsor.

Title: The Wolf Speaker (immortals): Description:
The wolves of Long Lake are calling her. They helped her once, now they need her help. The wolves' enemy is a grisly band of warriors but will Daine's new understanding of wild magic give her the strength to combat them and the power to destroy their terrible weapon - the bloodrain?

Title: Wild Magic (the Immortals 1): Description:
Daine is desperate to forget her past. The slaughter of her family, her madness. But she can't forget. Power over wild magic is Daine's birthright and protecting Tortall her destiny. Her adoptive home is in danger and she must master her wondrous power or else see everything destroyed once more.

Title: The Healing In The Vine (circle Of Magic): Description:
Summersea faces terrible danger. A plague has struck the city, and time is running out. The Winding Circle mages must find the key to countering the disease, and fast, or Summersea will become a city of the dead.