RPG Crossings - Novels

The Guide on Towels

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:12:52 -0400

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

— Douglas Adams, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Belgariad Book Four - Castle of Wizardry

Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:20:45 -0400

Author:
David & Leigh Eddings

Type:
Novel

Jacket Text:

The orb is recaptured but more remains. Ce'Nedra's task is even greater than she can imagine. A great war is approaching and in the center is Garion and Ce'Nedra. A princess and a country boy?

The Belgariad Book Three - Magician's Gambit

Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:17:17 -0400

Author:
David & Leigh Eddings

Type:
Novel

Jacket Text:

Ce'Nedra has problems believing that the prophecy speaks of the truth. Is Uncle Wolf really the legendary sorcerer Belgarath and who is Garion? A simple country boy on a dangerous journey? Garion and Ce'Nedra start to realize that their purpose for the world is far more complex than they first believed.

The Belgariad Book Two - Queen of Sorcery

Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:09:55 -0400

Author:
David & Leigh Eddings

Type:
Novel

Jacket Text:

Garion starts to realize his own role in the world. He's playing a much more significant role than he could ever imagine - the fate of the world lies in his hands...

The Belgariad Book One - Pawn of Prophecy

Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:59:23 -0400

Author:
David & Leigh Eddings

Type:
Novel

Jacket Text:

The story begins in aunt Pol's kitchen at Faldor's farm where Garion is being raised. The main theme of the books is about how it is to grow up and to break up with one's old life. From his safe life at the farm, Garion is being thrown into a new life controlled by a thousand of years old prophecy - the prophecy of his and the world's destiny...

Potter VI Is Book Of Year

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:42:49 -0500

.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, the sixth title in the best-selling boy-wizard franchise, was named Book of the Year March 29 at the British Book Awards, the Reuters news service reported.

The Paradise War 3 - The Silver Knot

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:43:55 -0500

Author:
Stephen Lawhead

Type:
Novel

Jacket Text:

Fire rages in Albion: a strange, hidden fire, dark–flamed, invisible to the eye. Seething and churning, it burns, gathering flames of darkness into its hot, black heart. Llew Silver Hand is High King of Albion, and the Brazen Man has defied his sovereignty. Llew must journey into the Foul Land to redeem his greatest treasure. The last battle begins. Celtic myth collides with modern life in a timeless story. With The Endless Knot, Stephen Lawhead strikes the final resounding chord in the Song of Albion.

Paradise War 2 - The Silver Hand

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:40:52 -0500

Author:
Stephen Lawhead

Type:
Novel

Jacket Text:

A troubled Celtic Otherworld with gateways into our own is the setting for the second volume in the Song of Albion series, following The Paradise War . After Meldryn Mawr, king of the Llwyddi, is treacherously slain, the bard and narrator, Tegid Tathal, names Llew, the king's champion and a sojourner from our world, as successor. The king's son Meldron contests the bard's ancient right to confer kingship and claims the throne himself. Tegid and Llew escape imprisonment only to witness the slaughter of the rest of Albion's bards; then Meldron blinds Tegid and cuts off Llew's hand, thereby denying him kingship for all time, since only an unblemished man can reign. Escaping again, Tegid and Llew wander in the wilderness, encountering a possible god, before they begin to build Dinas Dwr, a city of refuge for all those oppressed by Meldron, whose depredations are poisoning a beautiful land.

Paradise War 1 - The Song of Albion

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:35:46 -0500

Author:
Stephen Lawhead

Type:
Novel

Jacket Text:

Two Oxford graduate students stumble upon a stone cairn in Scotland and enter a magical "Otherworld" at once removed from and intimately connected to their own reality, becoming embroiled in an ancient battle against an evil that threatens both worlds

Dragon King Trilogy 3 - The Sword and the Flame

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:13:27 -0500

Author:
Stephen Lawhead

Type:
Novel

Jacket Text:

Amidst ancient halls of stone, an age-old evil stirs. With a cunning more potent than sorcery, Nimrood the Necromancer has returned, bent on a monstrous vendetta that would strip Quentin of everything he holds dear. His loved ones, his faith, Zhaligkeer, the sword of his kingship, and ultimately, the kingdom itself, sway in the balance as Quentin, unguarded and alone, races toward a confrontation with his cruelest foe.

Dragon King Trilogy 2 - The Warlords of Nin

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:24:24 -0500

Author:
Stephen Lawhead

Type:
Novel

Jacket Text:

In Mensandor's evening sky, the Wolf Star fiercely gleams, a baleful eye beholding the end of the age. Across the southern lands sweep the armies of a grim and terrible foe: Nin the Destroyer, merciless, invincible. Summoned from his studies in the ancient city of Dekra, Quentin sets forth on a perilous journey to open the prophetic path for a coming deliverer -- the Priest-King who will wield the blazing sword Zhaligkeer and usher in the heralded age of light.

Dragon King Trilogy 1 - In the Halls of the Dragon King

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:14:44 -0500

Author:
Stephen Lawhead

Type:
Novel

Jacket Text:

A dying knight’s urgent plea propels a disenchanted young acolyte into a deadly mission. On the shoulders of the unsuspecting Quentin rests the course of a kingdom; and ahead of him, a quest that will lead him out of the darkness of the old gods . . . and into undreamed-of spheres of conflict, magic, and light.

Pendragon Cycle 6 - Avalon: Return of King Arthur

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:09:56 -0500

Author:
Stephen Lawhead

Type:
Novel

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In a near-future Britain, the death of King Edward IX throws the succession into disarray until a young man named James Arthur Stewart discovers his identity as the reborn King Arthur and claims his rightful throne. Aided by his counselor Myrddin Embries, the new king seeks to restore faith in the monarchy as well as a sense of justice to a land beleaguered by despair. The author of the popular "Pendragon Cycle" takes his Arthurian interests one step further as he explores the ramifications of a legend come to life in the modern world. Infused with Christian overtones, Lawhead's latest novel should appeal to fans of Arthurian fantasy.

Pendragon Cycle 5 - Grail

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:43:17 -0500

Author:
Stephen Lawhead

Type:
Novel

Jacket Text:

This installment of Stephen Lawhead's long-running Pendragon series is narrated by Gwalchavad (Galahad), one of King Arthur's captains and Lord of Orcady. After getting off to a slow start as the aftermath of a war with the Vandali is sorted out, the story focuses on the Holy Grail, which its guardian, Avallach, has used to cure Arthur of a deadly wound. In gratitude, Arthur raises a shrine to the Grail, but soon the Grail is stolen by Llenlleawg (Lancelot), who also abducts Queen Gwenhwyvar. When Arthur and his knights pursue, they are led to the magical, bleak land of Llyonesse, into the sorceress Morgian's power, fighting for their sanity and the Grail.

Pendragon Cycle 4 - Pendragon

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:41:46 -0500

Author:
Stephen Lawhead

Type:
Novel

Jacket Text:

The fourth volume of Lawhead's ambitious Pendragon cycle, in which he attempts to combine Atlantean myths and the Matter of Britain, arrives at last at the reign of Arthur, and Lawhead's treatment is admirably original. In it, Gwenwhyvar (that is, Guinevere) is faithful to her lord; Arthur is Christian, though not kind to meddling, corrupt, or lazy clerics; and the climactic battle is fought against unusual but not implausible enemies, the Vandals and the Irish. Sound writing and scholarship alike assure the book's appeal to both the casual fantasy reader and the serious student of Arthurian material. Neophyte Arthurian fiction readers can still profitably begin with Rosemary Sutcliffe and Mary Stewart, and no one should start reading Lawhead's saga with this volume; but with those things understood, it is highly and widely recommended.