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Author
Series
Xanth volume 46
Language
English
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Description
In this heroic Xanth adventure from the New York Times-bestselling author, there's no time like the present to free six plucky princesses from the past. Young Vinia is enjoying her life with her boyfriend, Prince Ion. They complement each other perfectly: her telekinesis helps him walk, and his ambiance abolishes all allergens, allowing her to breathe freely. But Ion and his twin, Hilda, are bored with their easy royal lives and are restless for an...
Author
Series
Xanth volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1977
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
344 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
At age 25 Bink was exiled from the magic land of Xanth because he had no magic spell that was observable to his people. But both the good genie and the magic wall chart insisted that he did. How could he prove he had magic?
Author
Series
Xanth volume 45
Language
English
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Description
"Squid may only be a tween alien cuttlefish, but her feelings for Chaos, her Demon boyfriend, are real, which is why she's more than ready to let someone else take over as the protagonist of this story. Being a main character is exhausting--and it's drastically cutting down her flirting time with Chaos. But their alternate future is dependent upon their completion of one final mission... Seven years from now, in another reality frame, things are not...
4) Yon ill wind
Author
Series
Xanth volume 20
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
5) Harpy thyme
Author
Series
Xanth volume 17
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1995, c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gloha, the beautiful offspring of a chance mating between a harpy and a goblin, asks the Good Magician Humfrey for help in finding the one true love with whom she can share her life and is sent on a perilous quest in search of truth, friendship, and eventually happiness.
Author
Series
Xanth volume 41
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media, LLC
Pub. Date
©2017.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Night Colt has one ambition: to deliver dreams to the deserving. Unfortunately, only Night Mares can take on this task, and the Colt has no hope of leading his own herd if he can't get any practice. So he's struck a deal with a Mundane. During the hours when the Night Mares rest --dusk and dawn --the duo plants stories in the air, compelling the people of Xanth to enact them --whether they want to or not. Unwilling to participate in these fantasies,...
7) Skeleton key
Author
Series
Xanth volume 44
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upgrading her shape-changing abilities to lead a mission against an adversarial Demon, Squid joins a covert group disguised as traveling dancers before new friendships and a growing bond with a secret companion challenge their goals.
8) Fire Sail
Author
Series
Xanth volume 42
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lydell, a shy, naive man of twenty-one, and world-weary grandmother Grania could not be more different. But when their paths cross on the way to beseech the Good Magician to add some excitement to their extraordinarily dull lives, the one thing they have in common is about to get them more than they bargained for . . . Lydell and Grania's exceptional integrity makes them valuable to the Good Magician. He promises to fulfill their hearts' desires...
9) Jest right
Author
Series
Xanth volume 43
Language
English
Formats
Description
There's no shortage of laughs when Jess is around; she's been cursed to have nobody take her seriously. But her dubious talent comes in handy when she meets the very handsome showman Magnus. He promises to fake taking her seriously--if Jess joins his traveling show. But first they must see the Good Magician. He will give them the use of the flying Fire Boat to tour the realm if they complete a quest. The only problem is, he can't remember what quest....
10) Apoca lips
Author
Series
Xanth volume 47
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What's a single prince to do when confronted with the baton of protagonism? Why, become the hero of his own story of course! And in Xanth that usually means embarking on a quest. For Prince Nolan Naga, there's only one thing missing from his life: a wife. He needs a royal match by the time he assumes the throne. But to make sure he lands the right spouse, he must consult with the Good Magician. After completing the three challenges necessary to see...
11) Night mare
Author
Series
Xanth volume 6
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
12) Centaur aisle
Author
Series
Xanth volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
SCIENCE FICTION. FANTASY. HUMOR.
This is the third annual volume of Unidentified Funny Objects and it contains twenty-three humorous short stories from some of the genre's best-known authors, as well as talented up-and-comers.
These are some of the unlikely characters you will encounter in the pages of this book:
* Hobo Satan
* Vampire novelist
* Traveling robot salesman
* Brain-in-a-jar superhero
* Jinn trapped in a mattress
14) DoOon Mode
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Beyond the world, we know there is a multiverse of Modes where many strange realities interlock in an infinitely intricate pattern, and a perverse and deranged Emperor plays a deadly multidimensional game with human pawns as his slaves.
Now, with DoOon Mode, Piers Anthony at last delivers the breathtaking climax to this awesome saga. Fearing the heroine Coleen's dawning power, the depraved Emperor Ddwng dispatches a terrible Mind Monster to assault...
15) Awares
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Series
Language
English
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The Metal Maiden Series is a wildly different kind of story that tells how Elasa, a humanoid robot who achieves consciousness, eventually saves the world from surpassing horror Elasa contacts the very special Awares, folk who attune so perfectly to their environment that they can disappear, literally and figuratively. She needs to work with them to try to save Earth from being eaten by huge telepathic galactic maggots.
16) Shepherd
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Metal Maiden Series is a wildly different kind of story that tells how Elasa, a humanoid robot who achieves consciousness, eventually saves the world from surpassing horror. When Shep participates in the student exchange program, he finds himself in the body of a man on a rustic colony planet. Then a native sheep comes to the door. It seems Shep must become a literal shepherd, to his dismay. These are very special sheep, deadly, telepathic, and...
17) Chthon
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Chthon was Piers Anthony's first published novel in 1967, written over the course of seven years. He started it when he was in the US Army, so it has a long prison sequence that is reminiscent of that experience, being dark and grim. It features Aton Five, a space man who commits the crime of falling in love with the dangerous, alluring Minionette and is therefore condemned to death in the subterranean prison of Chthon. It uses flashbacks to show...
18) Hope of Earth
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Exciting, imaginative, and inspiring, Hope of Earth is the story of a group of heroic men and women, bound by ties of passion, honor, and blood, who struggle to transcend our violent past and forge and new and shinning future.
In Isle of Woman and Shame of Man, the first two volumes of the monumental Geodyssey saga, bestselling author Piers Anthony chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of two remarkable families reborn again and again, in some of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Beneath the twin suns Ellistar and Deneob, the Realm of Infinitera is menaced by the Dark One and his minions, the Illcreatures. And, in these strange times has come a thing never seen before: a star which has tumbled from the sky, holding a power of evil even more dangerous than the Dark One himself.
Now, to save the Realm, the High Bishop charges a lonely group of travelers with a crucial task: carrying the mightiest weapon every known, the Thunderwood...
20) Aliena Too
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An alien starfish and a human man must learn to live in each other's bodies in Piers Anthony's ingenious sequel to the science fiction gem Aliena Along with fellow members of her sapient starfish race, Aliena traveled many light-years to Earth. There, in the host body of a human woman, the inquisitive extraterrestrial learned how to exist as a member of this perplexing earthborn race. Now Piers Anthony, the New York Times–bestselling maestro of...
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