Akron Public Library

The first book in the Vows and Honor trilogy unites sword master and sorceress in a quest for revenge in this thrilling epic fantasy. She was Tarma. Born to the Clan of the Hawk of the nomadic Shin'a'in people, she saw her entire clan slain by brigands. Vowing blood revenge upon the murderers, she became one of the sword-sworn, the most elite of all warriors. And trained in all the forms of death-dealing combat, she took to the road in search of her...

It began with a phone call from Queen's University Life Science Department to tell private investigator Vicki Nelson her mother had died. But what started as an all-too-normal personal tragedy soon becomes the most terrifying case of Vicki's career. Vampire Henry Fitzroy and homocide detective Mike Celluci help Vicki locate her mother's body, which has mysteriously disappeared.

Volume 1

Bren Cameron, a human living in exile on the island of Mospheira, seeks a new way to develop a deeper understanding between the human community and the society of atevi--two dangerous, intelligent, and possibly incompatible species.

Twenty-three imaginative stories--by Brian Aldiss, Diana Paxson, Charles de Lint, Kate Elliott, Mike Resnick, Gregory Benford, and others--explore the life and works of Shakespeare.

Since the starship Phoenix left the small group of colonists on the planet of the atevi 178 years ago, humans and atevi have developed an understanding, which is threatened when the Phoenix suddenly returns.

Haunted by fleeting, nightmarish memories of her childhood on Darkover, Margaret Alton flees her home with her uncommunicative, brooding father to take a job as assistant to musicologist Ivor Davidson, a career that takes her back to Darkover and a terrifying confrontation with the past.

In the conclusion to the Mage Storms trilogy, the sequel to the Mage Winds trilogy, the desperate allies of the besieged kingdom of Valdemar sort through the ruins of the ancient stronghold of the legendary wizard, Urtho. As Storm Breaking opens, the western allies, led by Karal, Karsite Sunpriest and delegate to the Valdemaran Court, and the Adepts Firesong and An'desha, have traveled deep into the Dorisha Plains to locate the ancient ruins of the...