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By Kelly McCullough

Ravirn is the easiest hacker round. but if the method controlling the multiverse wishes an enormous reboot, Ravirn needs to make the most of all of his abilities as a mage and forestall entire chaos-even if it expenses him his lifestyles.

By Wesley James, Tony Dunn, Debbie Murray

By Robert Asprin

While the queen makes him a suggestion he can't refuse, master-magician Skeeve needs to use his powers to plot an break out prior to marriage ceremony bells begin to chime, within the most recent quantity within the well known fable sequence.

By Robert Asprin

As president of M.Y.T.H. Inc., Skeeve is in command of a myth-chievous gang that features a puppy dragon and an inventive vampire. notwithstanding, is it simply good fortune (of the undesirable kind) or planned myth-directions that experience Skeeve and his gang sleuthing round a few very out-of-the-way (and risky) dimensions?

By Piers Anthony

Jordan used to be a ghost in citadel Roogna now. even if as soon as he were the main valorus of knights--that is, until eventually he was once betrayed by way of wily magicians and the girl he loves. Now, if he purely can consider how he used to be killed, he will be capable of reassemble his physique. And he's getting impatient....

By Allan Zola Kronzek, Elizabeth Kronzek

The New York Times bestseller, now absolutely up-to-date to include the whole seven-volume series.

Who used to be the genuine Nicholas Flamel? How did the Sorcerer’s Stone get its energy? Did J. okay. Rowling dream up the terrifying basilisk, the seductive veela, or the vicious grindylow? And if she didn’t, who did?

Millions of readers around the globe were enchanted through the paranormal international of wizardry, spells, and legendary beasts inhabited via Harry Potter and his acquaintances. yet what such a lot readers don’t recognize is that there's a centuries-old trove of actual historical past, folklore, and mythology in the back of Harry’s wonderful universe. Now, with The Sorcerer’s Companion, these with out entry to the Hogwarts Library can tuition themselves within the interesting fact at the back of J. ok. Rowling’s global of magic.

Newly up to date to incorporate Harry Potter and the part Blood Prince, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Sorcerer’s Companion permits curious readers to seem up something magical from the Harry Potter books and find a wealth of exciting, unforeseen details. Wands and wizards, boggarts and broomsticks, hippogriffs and herbology, all have superb histories rooted in legend, literature, or real-life occasions relationship again hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of years. Magic wands, like these offered in Rowling’s Diagon Alley, have been as soon as formed by means of Druid sorcerers out in their sacred yew bushes. Love potions have been first concocted in old Greece and Egypt. And books of spells and curses have been hugely well known in the course of the center a while. From Amulets to Zombies, you’ll additionally learn:

• how one can learn tea leaves
• the place to discover a basilisk at the present time
• how King Frederick II of Denmark financed a battle with a unicorn horn
• who the true Merlin was once
• tips on how to accurately harvest mandrake root
• who wore the 1st invisibility cloak
• easy methods to dispose of a goblin
• why owls have been feared within the old world
• what fairly lies past the Veil
• the origins of our modern day “bogeyman,” and extra.

A spellbinding journey of Harry’s attractive international, The Sorcerer’s Companion is a needs to for each Potter aficionado’s bookshelf.

The Sorcerer's spouse has now not been ready, licensed, or authorized through any individual or entity that created, released, or produced the Harry Potter books or comparable houses.

By Marissa Burt

From Marissa Burt, writer of Storybound, comes a richly imagined center grade fable choked with magic, intrigue, and inventive twists. A Sliver of Stardust is the ideal subsequent experience for enthusiasts of A Wrinkle in Time and The Emerald Atlas.

Wren Matthews concept she'd outgrown nursery rhymes decades in the past. yet that used to be earlier than she knew that songs of twinkling little stars and four-and-twenty blackbirds have been the major to an old, hidden magic.

Wren's discovery catapults her right into a international of buried secrets and techniques, unusual goals, and a mountain citadel below an aurora-filled sky. yet simply as she begins to grasp her specified skills, her new global starts off to collapse round her . . . and purely she will reserve it.

By Paulius Juodisius (text and illustrations)

By Lev Grossman

The New York Times bestselling novel a couple of younger guy training magic within the actual global

Like each person else, precocious highschool senior Quentin Coldwater assumes that magic isn't genuine, till he reveals himself admitted to a really secretive and specific collage of magic in upstate manhattan. There he indulges in joys of college-friendship, love, intercourse, and booze- and gets a rigorous schooling in glossy sorcery. yet magic doesn't carry the happiness and event Quentin inspiration it's going to. After commencement, he and his associates bump into a mystery that units them on a impressive trip which could simply satisfy Quentin's craving. yet their trip seems to be darker and extra harmful than they'd imagined. Psychologically piercing and dazzlingly artistic, The Magicians is a charming coming-of-age story approximately magic practiced within the genuine world-where reliable and evil aren't black and white, and tool comes at a poor cost.

By Brent Weeks

From the New York Times Bestselling writer of The Black Prism...

Gavin Guile is demise.

He'd inspiration he had 5 years left--now he has lower than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiancée who can have realized his darkest mystery, Gavin has difficulties on each part. All magic on this planet is working wild and threatens to smash the Seven Satrapies. Worst of all, the previous gods are being reborn, and their military of colour wights is unstoppable. the one salvation could be the brother whose freedom and existence Gavin stole 16 years in the past.