Take a Thief

Author	Tanya Huff
ISBN	0886776988

My favorite type of fantasy that I can just fall into with no effort. We've got a strong female protagonist in the form of Vree. She's trying to come to terms with life outside of the army. She's no longer a royal assassin and she's separated from her brother. This is not a life she ever imagined living. She...

Author	Marion Zimmer Bradley
ISBN	0688143601

The House of the Tiger has skillfully ruled Merina in times of peace. But now the indomitable armies of the Emperor Balthasar stand poised to crush the vulnerable city/state. And in the enemy's midst is the gray mage Apolon -- foul necromancer who serves the Dreadful Dark . . . and whose mission it is to...

Author	Anne McCaffrey
ISBN	1857232054

This is another of the "Brain and Brawn" series created by Anne McCaffrey in The Ship Who Sang. The premise behind the books is that in a future time, severely handicapped people are given a chance at a fulfilling life by becoming cyborgs: an entire city or a ship becomes their "body" that they control....

Author	John Helfers
ISBN	0756400376

Fifteen years ago, Mercedes Lackey put pen to paper to write Arrows Of The Queen, her first novel about Valdemar, a fantasy kingdom replete with magical races and magical creatures, enemies and allies both sorcerous and mundane. This ancient land of mystery is unique even among fantasy realms, for...

Author	Andre Norton
ISBN	0812571231

In this long-awaited new novel in The Halfblood Chronicles, fantasy greats Norton and Lackey tell the enthralling story of the reclusive elvenlord Kyrtian, who emerges as a hero in a world torn by politics and war. When his cousin, Aelmarkin, tries to prove that Kyrtian is unfit to run his estate, the...

Author	Piers Anthony
ISBN	0671721755

In the age of the Mazonians women rule through magic - and men suffer what they must. Magical creations only last for a single day (magical food is great for dieting), but that is quite long enough for casting a giant wet blanket (if you're feeling kind) over a would-be rampaging male - or a block of granite...

Author	Josepha Sherman
ISBN	0671877135

An anthology of fantastical stories set in and around Lammas Night. In Lammas Night a young weaver is persuaded to bide a while in a small village, to make their village spells and keep the Dark at bay. The villagers give her the house of her predecessor. Now a half-seen phantom courts her. He is either her...

Author	Ellen Guon
ISBN	0671721771

I downloaded a bunch of free books from the Baen library, and I don't think a single one of them was any good, at least for my taste.

This one was--I don't know, maybe it's meant to be a middle-grade book, in which case some of the behaviour might make sense? But for an adult, it was just stupid. The...

Author	Jennifer Roberson
ISBN	0756400104

The last two novels in Jennifer Roberson’s dynastic fantasy epic Chronicles of Cheysuli, now available in an omnibus edition.

In Flight of the Raven: Aidan, only child of Brennan and Aileen, is heir to the Lion Throne of Homana and inheritor of a prophecy carried down through the generations....