Auteur(s): Laura Joh Rowland
Editeur: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Genre: Detective
Série: Sano Ichiro
Résumé: Samurai detective Sano Ichiro, the hero of Laura Joh Rowland's beautifully written mysteries set in Shogun-era Japan, (The Samurai's Wife, The Concubine's Tattoo), investigates an arson murder at the Black Lotus temple, in which the only witness--a young girl who swears she doesn't remember what happened--is also the only suspect. ButSano's wife, Reiko, believes that Haru is innocent and that the real culprits are hiding behind the barred gates of the temple, home to a mysterious sect that is rumored to be responsible for a number of criminal acts. Under pressure to solve the crime, Sano agrees to let Reiko help, but when she takes matters into her own hands, it puts his career in jeopardy and nearly destroys their marriage. Who is the mysterious Abbess of the Black Lotus, and what is the sect's real goal?Is Haru the innocent youngster Reiko believes her to be, or does the evidence Sano uncovers reveal her deceitful nature and complicity in the murders of a child, a young woman, and a high-ranking police commander? As usual, Rowland turns in a brilliant re-creation of a time and place unfamiliar to most readers: the imperial court of 17th-century Japan, whose intrigues and excesses provide a fascinating backdrop for the most charming husband and wife detective team since Nick and Nora Charles. If you haven't discovered Rowland yet, Black Lotus is your opportunity; this is a series with real staying power. --Jane Adams

Auteur(s): Tamayo Akiyama
Editeur: Tonkam
Genre: Manga
Série: Secret Chaser 1
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Auteur(s): Tamayo Akiyama
Editeur: Tonkam
Genre: Manga
Série: Secret Chaser 2
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Auteur(s): Chris Bunch
Editeur: Time Warner Books Uk
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Seer King 1
Résumé: From Kirkus Reviews
Military sword and sorcery, from the co-author of Kingdoms of the Night (with Allan Cole, 1995, etc.) The former kingdom of Numantia is governed by an effete oligarchy known as the Rule of Ten. As a young, untried cavalry officer, narrator Damastes is sent with his troop to escort a diplomatic mission led by the seer (magician) Tenedos into a bandit-infested border country of Kait. But opposed by Kait's greedy boss--Baber Fergana and his sorcerer, Irshad, not to mention by a powerful demon called Thak and his strangler-assassin Tovieti cult--Tenedos and Damastes barely escape with a handful of survivors. Soon, however, Thak moves into the Numantian capital, Nicias, followed rapidly by the Tovieti with their yellow silk strangling cords, while another enemy, the sorcerer Chardin Sher, brews up spells more powerful than those of Tenedos. Despite all this, the Rule of Ten refuse to take action, and Nicias is engulfed by civil war. Tenedos and Damastes have no choice but to seize control of Numantia, then face further military and sorcerous challenges before Tenedos openly declares himself emperor. A fantasy sex- and violence-fest, courtesy of Bunch's sure grasp of military history and organization, gory battles interspersed with interludes of graphic sex, and dialogue peppered with incongruous modern expletives. The text, while complete in itself, seems to promise at least one sequel. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Auteur(s): Sempé
Editeur: Gallimard
Genre: Comic
Série: Sempé
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Auteur(s): Raymond E. Feist
Editeur: Voyager
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Serpentwar saga 1
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A dread darkness is descending upon a great land called Midkemia -- a powerful and malevolent race of monsters that has slipped through a hole in the dimensions. And two unlikely young heroes -- a bastard heir denied his birthright and an irrepressible scoundrel with a penchant for thievery -- must take up arms in the struggle to protect their besieged world...two friends chosen by Destiny to stand at the fore of the battle that is to come against the gargantuan reptile army of the terrible Emerald Queen.

Auteur(s): Raymond E. Feist
Editeur: Voyager
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Serpentwar Saga 4
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Auteur(s): Masakazu Katsura
Editeur: Tonkam
Genre: Manga
Série: Shadow Lady 1
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Auteur(s): Masakazu Katsura
Editeur: Tonkam
Genre: Manga
Série: Shadow Lady 2
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Auteur(s): Masakazu Katsura
Editeur: Tonkam
Genre: Manga
Série: Shadow Lady 3
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Auteur(s): Maggie Furey
Editeur: Time Warner Books Uk
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Shadowleague 1
Résumé: This fast-moving adventure opens Maggie Furey's second fantasy sequence, "The Shadowleague"; her first was the "Artefacts of Power" tetralogy. The Heart of Myrial is set in a particularly artificial-seeming fantasyland, which proves to be not a world but a technomagical construct, divided into isolated regions by sorcerous barriers of force. Thanks to the machinations of a bad guy who may have good motives, these "curtain walls" are now failing--the first symptoms being clashes between the enclaves' different environments, leading to prolonged descriptions of truly lousy weather. In theory the barriers are guarded by and can be penetrated only by Loremasters of the Shadowleague, a secret inner circle of representatives from this patchwork world's various species: humans, dragons, centaurs, wind-sprites, insectile aliens, and more. In practice the Shadowleague is almost impotent.
Against this complex background, various characters struggle across the landscape through terrible weather. A woman Loremaster and her irrepressibly feisty firedrake companion play leading parts in the large cast (many of whom suffer death or worse). After tortuous regroupings and plot twists centered on a particular city that houses a key magical shrine, the book concludes with a gory invasion of nasties through the holed curtain wall. It reads well enough, and of course there's more to come. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk

Auteur(s): Allen Sharp
Editeur: Hachette Littérature
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Editeur: Sherlock's Diffusion SA
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Editeur: Sherlock's Diffusion SA
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Auteur(s): Gerald Lientz
Editeur: Gallimard
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Auteur(s): Philip Weller
Editeur: Sherlock Publications
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Auteur(s): Peter Ryan
Editeur: Gallimard
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Editeur: Sherlock's Diffusion SA
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Auteur(s): Richard Lancelyn Green, Arthur Conan Doyle
Editeur: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Auteur(s): Gerald Lientz
Editeur: GALLIMARD JEUNE
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Auteur(s): Gerald Lientz
Editeur: Gallimard
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Auteur(s): D. Dupuis
Editeur: Le Livre de Poche
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Auteur(s): Allen Sharp
Editeur: Hachette Littérature
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Auteur(s): Allen Sharp
Editeur: Hachette Littérature
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Auteur(s): Allen Sharp
Editeur: Hachette Littérature
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Auteur(s):
Editeur: Sherlock's Diffusion SA
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Auteur(s): Ellery Queen
Editeur: J'ai lu
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
Résumé: Un manuscrit inédit du docteur Watson parvient à Ellery Queen qui tente de résoudre un problème criminel resté en suspens. -- Services Documentaires Multimédia

Auteur(s): Pamela Greenwood
Editeur: Pocket
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
Résumé: From Publishers Weekly
Greenwood's second borrowing from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tops her first, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Raleigh Legacy. As narrated by Watson, this is a more plausible and twisty tale, set off by a note from Holmes's university friend, Aubrey Tyson, which takes Watson and the detective to Sabina Hall, the home of Tyson's elderly, ailing Uncle Silas Andrews. The nephew wants a doctor to check on the old man, and Watson obliges, accompanied by Holmes whose antennae correctly alert him to intrigue. The miser Andrews dies of poison, and so does his sister-in-law and heir, Bertha Garth. Not until a third death occurs does the sleuthing genius separate the guilty from the innocent. Among the suspects: a cheeky maid incongruously far from her Cockney neighborhood; ingenuous young Agnes Meredith, Garth's companion; a clergyman, visibly relieved when Garth dies; and Old Neb, whose lucrative business Andrews had closed, throwing the villagers on the dole. The source of the poison, thujone, from the savin juniper, plays an interesting part in the solution of the case. Detective Book Club selection.
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Editeur: Sherlock's Diffusion SA
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes
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Auteur(s): Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle
Editeur: Wordsworth
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes 1
Résumé: From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up-The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes II is narrated by British theatre, film, and television actor David Timson. His Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are near perfect. The only place where Timson's narration is less than perfect is his female and German characters. All in all, this is a fine production, with piano and string music by Paganini and others sprinkled throughout. All of the stories take place after Dr. Watson has married and moved from Baker Street. "The Scandal in Bohemia" is a good story with which to begin, because in it Watson describes both Holmes' singular lifestyle of old books, the violin and cocaine, and his extraordinary powers of deduction and disguise. This information may help to reel in students who are unfamiliar with the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The four cases are interconnected in that, although Holmes solves each case, in each he has to admit a failure, which adds a humanizing quality to the otherwise invincible Holmes. In "The Scandal in Bohemia," Watson and Holmes try to extract a photograph and compromising letters from the opera singer, Irene Adler. In "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb," Holmes must untangle events that have led a hydraulic engineer to have his thumb chopped off while working for the secretive Colonel Stark. In "The Five Orange Pips," unravels a plot by Klu Klux Klan members to retrieve sensitive documents from the Openshaw family, or kill all of them in the process. Finally, in "Silver Blaze," Holmes and Watson must succeed where the Dartmoor authorities have failed, by finding prized racehorse, Silver Blaze, whose trainer has been killed. the 12-page booklet provides information about the author, the musical selections, and the timing of each cassette. All Sherlock Holmes aficionados will appreciate the quality of Timson's narration. For students, listening in the classroom might help to make the accents, language, and setting more understandable.
Jo-Ann Carhart, East Islip Public Library, NY
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From Library Journal
These deluxe Oxford editions offer the exploits of Holmes and Watson the red carpet treatment they truly deserve. Along with the full text, each volume contains a scholarly introduction, illustrations, and other assorted extras. All public and academic libraries should have the full canon of Holmes's cases.
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Auteur(s): Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle
Editeur: Wordsworth
Genre: Detective
Série: Sherlock Holmes 2
Résumé: Book Description
Sherlock Holmes was not the only writing Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) did but Holmes and Dr. Watson are his most remembered characters.
Holmes titled himself a "Consulting Detective". His powers of observation, his understanding of crime, and his insights into the criminal mind were brilliant. His knowledge of things not related to crime were extemely limited, except in opera and the violin.
Like many other authors famous for a single character, Authur Conan Doyle attempted to "kill" Holmes. But the readers would not let this happen. Holmes eventually appeared in 56 short stories and 4 novels.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Book 9 of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. This is the last collection of Sherlock Holmes mysteries by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is the only collection that comprises cases which are narrated by the great detective himself. Some of the cases in this collection include: 1) The Illustrious Client-Sherlock Holmes has a mystery client who hires him to.break up an engagement! 2) The Blanched Soldier-A soldier engages Sherlock Holmes to find out what really happened to his best friend whom he has lost touch with. 3) The Mazarin Stone-Sherlock Holmes outwits a pair of thieves into revealing the location of the stolen Mazarin stone. 4) The Sussex Vampire-Sherlock Holmes helps a man who is torn between protecting his wife from being taken away and his children from his wife's vampirism. 5) The Three Garridebs-Sherlock Holmes is engaged to find three men with the unusual name of Garrideb. 6) Problem of Thor Bridge-Sherlock Holmes sets out to find an elusive murderer to clear a woman who is believed to be wrongly accused. 7) The Retired Colourman-Sherlock Holmes embarks on a trivial case to find an adulterous couple.--This text refers to the Digital edition.

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Auteur(s): Kia Asamiya
Editeur: Marvel Panini France
Genre: Manga
Série: Silent Möbius 0
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Auteur(s): Kia Asamiya
Editeur: Marvel Panini France
Genre: Manga
Série: Silent Möbius 1
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Auteur(s): Kia Asamiya
Editeur: Marvel Panini France
Genre: Manga
Série: Silent Möbius 2
Résumé: Les portes séparant la Terre du monde des démons ont été entrouvertes. Le sort de l'humanité repose entre les mains de l'A.M.P.D., une section spéciale de la police composée de jeunes femmes aux capacités
physiques, psychiques et intellectuelles hors pair... SILENT MÖBIUS, une œuvre magistrale signée KIA ASAMIYA, l'auteur du célèbre DARK ANGEL.

Auteur(s): Kia Asamiya
Editeur: Marvel Panini France
Genre: Manga
Série: Silent Möbius 3
Résumé: Tokyo 20XX. Les portes séparant la Terre du monde des démons ont été entrouvertes. Le sort de l'humanité tout entière repose entre les mains de l'A.M.P.D., une section spéciale de la police composée de jeunes femmes aux capacités physiques, psychiques et intellectuelles exceptionnelles... SILENT MÖBIUS, une œuvre magistrale signée Kia Asamiya, l'auteur du célèbre DARK ANGEL.

Auteur(s): Kia Asamiya
Editeur: Marvel Panini France
Genre: Manga
Série: Silent Möbius 4
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Auteur(s): Kia Asamiya
Editeur: Marvel Panini France
Genre: Manga
Série: Silent Möbius 5
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Auteur(s): Kia Asamiya
Editeur: Panini Comics
Genre: Manga
Série: Silent Möbius 6
Résumé: Toute l’équipe de l’A.M.P.D. se lance au secours de Nami, prise en otage par un Lucifer Hawk… tandis que Yuki fait une surprenant expérience suite à l’achat d’un moulin à café très ancien.

Auteur(s): Tamora Pierce
Editeur: Scholastic Press
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Song of the Lioness 1
Résumé: Denying her magical powers and disguised as a boy, Alanna strives to become a knight. She wins powerful friends in the palace, but court life holds unexpected dangers - there's something about the powerful magician that scares her. Soon Alanna will face a challenge to test all her skills.

Auteur(s): Tamora Pierce
Editeur: Scholastic Press
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Song of the Lioness 2
Résumé: Sent north to fight the marauding Tusaine, Alanna is swept into a world of danger and intrigue. She proves herself in battle, but she must uncover Duke Roger's secret before facing the terror of "The Ordeal", the ceremony that will make her a knight - or destroy her.

Auteur(s): Tamora Pierce
Editeur: Scholastic Press
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Song of the Lioness 3
Résumé: From School Library Journal
Grade 5-8-Listeners will be thrilled by this final episode of the Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce (Random, pap. 1997). In this series that began with Alanna: The First Adventure (Atheneum, 1983), the lioness reaches the height of her power. As the first female knight in the mythical country of Tortall, Alanna sets out to find the powerful Dominion Jewel in the hope that she can save her war-torn nation from disaster. As always, Alanna is stunning in battle and wise in her deeds. It's no wonder she has many suitors vying for her hand in marriage. Can the lioness be tamed? Listeners will be guessing right up to the exciting conclusion. The production, narrated by actress Trini Alvarado, smoothly weaves dramatic reading and Pierce's outstanding fantasy. Alvarado's even pacing perfectly matches the crisp tone of the book, which reads and feels like great historical fiction. Her performance will have listeners believing that Tortall really existed and that the bards truly sang about Alanna's prowess on the battlefield. While this fourth offering will stand on its own, listeners will beg to hear (all available from Listening Library) or read previous titles, including In the Hand of the Goddess (Atheneum, 1984) and The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Atheneum, 1986). A thoroughly enjoyable listening experience guaranteed to enthrall a host of new fans to Pierce's enchanting saga.
Celeste Steward, Contra Costa County Library, Clayton, CA
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"Full of slam-bang action...young readers will rejoice."--Kirkus

"Alanna's fans will be pleased to see their heroine triumph in all the ways that matter." -- School Library Journal

"It has the appeal of good winning over evil and of the resilient courage of a believably heroic female protagonist." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Auteur(s): Tamora Pierce
Editeur: Scholastic Press
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Song of the Lioness 4
Résumé: Newly knighted, Alanna rides the desert in search of adventure. Captured by the Bloody Hawk tribe, she must challenge ancient tribal customs if she ever hopes for freedom. Tradition demands that Alanna must prove her worth in a magical duel - to the death.

Auteur(s): David Eddings, Leigh Eddings
Editeur: Del Rey
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Sparhawk /Elenium 1
Résumé: From Publishers Weekly
Eddings begins his new Elenium series in a world that has different names but much the same feel as those of his bestselling Belgariad and Malloreon series. Fans will find themselves back in step as the Pandion knight Sparhawk sets off to find a cure for his poisoned Queen Ehlana. PW praised Eddings's "graceful, fluid style of storytelling."
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From Library Journal
A young queen's life and a country's future lie in the balance as an exiled Pandion knight, a Styric "witch," an aging squire, and a mysterious child begin a long and arduous trek through foreign lands in search of an elusive cure for an unknown disease. The author of the popular "Belgariad" and "Malloreon" series draws once more on his particular strengths, combining heroic yet humorous characters with exotic settings and tangled politics to create a fast-moving fantasy that will appeal to his large readership. Highly recommended.-- JC
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Auteur(s): David Eddings
Editeur: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Sparhawk /Elenium 2
Résumé: From Publishers Weekly
Sir Sparhawk and his companions seek the Bhelliom, an antidote to a rare poison administered to Elenia's queen. "Eddings's delightful style propels the reader along a well-crafted and carefully unfolding course, and even through the few places he falls back on cliches of the genre," said PW.
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From Library Journal
The Pandion knight Sparhawk and his companions continue their quest for the Bhelliom, the legendary jewel whose power alone can save a dying queen. Eddings's strength lies in his ability to create thoroughly likable heroes with personalities that transcend the formulaic fantasy genre. Graceful prose and judicious humor add style to this excellent addition to fantasy collections. Recommended.
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Auteur(s): David Eddings
Editeur: Del Rey
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Sparhawk /Elenium 3
Résumé: From Publishers Weekly
This final volume of the Elenium trilogy, which began with The Diamond Throne , is also set in a magic world in turmoil. Here we follow the Pandion Knight Sparhawk as he uses the infinitely powerful sapphire-rose jewel Bhelliom to awaken Cimmura's queen Ehlana from the poison administered by the primate Annias, who seeks control over her kingdom and, in particular, her treasury. Annias is supported in his bid to become archprelate of the Church of the Elenes by the Elder God Azash, imprisoned by his fellow gods and seeking release through the powers of Bhelliom. After Sparhawk is coerced into marriage by Ehlana, he sets out with his companions, including the Styric seer Sephrenia, for the Holy City of Chyrellos, to rescue his people from destruction by Azash and his archpriest Otha. Having saved the city from its besieger, Martel, the small band of adventurers must proceed to Azash's lair to vanquish him and safeguard their world. Eddings adroitly mixes the exalted with the mundane in a tale that should satisfy his many fans.
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Finally the knight Sparhawk had come to possess Bhellion, the legendary jewel of magic. With it, he frees Queen Ehalana from the crystalline cocoon that preserves her life, but Bhellion carries dangers of its own. And now Sparkhawk is being stalked by a dark lurking menace that is only the beginning of his troubles....--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Auteur(s): David Eddings
Editeur: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Sparhawk /Tamuli 1
Résumé: From Publishers Weekly
Magic, insurrection, rebirth and new gods and cultures propel this first volume of a proposed second trilogy featuring Sir Sparhawk, Queen Ehlana and other stalwarts of Eddings's best-selling Elenium trilogy. The distant Tamul Empire, endangered by civil unrest exacerbated by paranormal (or magical, depending on the point of view) incidents, begs help from Sparhawk, destroyer of the Elder God Azash and savior of the Elenes. Undertaking the long journey to Tamul, the knight, his royal wife, their daughter Princess Danae and assorted followers encounter unrest in each of the lands through which they pass. Incidents taking more or less the same form--rumors, supported by rabble-rousing orators, of ancient heroes reborn to lead the downtrodden--arouse Sparhawk's suspicion of godly or magical opposition to his cause. Arriving in the Tamul capital, Sparhawk and his cohorts thwart a plot against the emperor but find disturbing evidence that the Troll-Gods and other old enemies are at work. Eddings' likable, spirited characters are not deeply etched but they reflect his original touch nevertheless.
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From Library Journal
Hard on the heels of the Elenium trilogy, Eddings launches a new fantasy epic featuring the futher adventures of Pandion knight Sparhawk and his companions. Eddings is a first-class storyteller with a gift for easy humor and colorful characters. There will be considerable demand for this title.
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Auteur(s): David Eddings
Editeur: Del Rey
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Sparhawk /Tamuli 2
Résumé: From Publishers Weekly
Sir Sparhawk and his wife, Queen Ehlana of Elenia, encounter ever more sinister plots in the second book of The Tamuli , following Domes of Fire , as they try to help the emperor of Tamuli take a firm grasp of the government. In a world of many gods, whose powers depend on the number and fervor of their worshippers, the royal couple find themselves pawns in the struggle of one entity to free his followers, albeit bloodthirsty and un-neighborly, from constraints placed upon them eons previously. Unrest spreads throughout Tamuli, with indications of sorcery and meddling by various gods, prompting the goddess Aphrael, reincarnated as the royal couple's young daughter Danae, to retrieve the powerful sapphire-rose jewel Bhelliom, hidden a few years earlier after being used to destroy the evil god Azash. While Sparhawk, Aphrael (now in the guise of the child Flute) and various companions race through a hostile countryside, encountering the mythical and abhorred Shining Ones, the queen and emperor play a more stylized game to keep the enemy at bay. Neatly blending simplicity and complexity, this tale of comradeship, dastardly doings, multiple gods, strange races and noble and ignoble humans is vintage Eddings.
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This fantasy adventure is a sequel to The Tamuli, set in the exotic Tamul empire. Narrator Glover conquers the obscure and original vocabulary of this imaginary world, making the fantasy nomenclature sound like ordinary words. He does very well with a variety of accents and full casts: young and old, good and evil, human and inhuman. The program features extensive musical support, from single instruments to full symphonic styles. The music rises and falls with the action. In the tradition of radio, extensive sound effects are used. M.G.S. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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Auteur(s): David Eddings
Editeur: Del Rey
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Sparhawk /Tamuli 3
Résumé: From Publishers Weekly
In this conclusion to the trilogy begun with Domes of Fire, Sir Sparhawk must rescue his wife, Queen Ehlana of Elenia, from the followers of the mad god Cyrgon. Her kidnapping occurs as various Church Knights and Atan troops are finishing what they believe are mopping-up operations against the enemies of the Tamuli emperor, Sarabian. Ehlana's abductor is the son of the Styric renegade masterminding a plot against the emperor. Her safe return is promised in exchange for Bhelliom, the powerful living gem responsible for the destruction of the evil god Azash. The Pandion knight Berit, disguised as Sparkhawk by a spell, moves from place to place following the kidnappers' instructions, while Sparhawk, in another guise, seeks allies, and the child-goddess Aphrael (reborn as Ehlana's and Sparhawk's daughter Danae) calls on some reluctant fellow gods to lend aid. These moves are gravely complicated by the machinations of Cyrgon, who has unleashed Klael, the ancient embodiment of evil. A new note of introspection gives a fuller dimension to Eddings's rousing adventure.
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From Library Journal
To rescue his beloved Queen from the clutches of a mad god's minions, the Pandion Knight Sparhawk confronts a monster capable of destroying his world. The conclusion to the latest series by the best-selling author of "The Belgariad" and other fantasy series promises to be a much-requested title. Libraries should purchase according to demand.
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Auteur(s): Terry Brooks
Editeur: Gardners Books
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Star Wars 1
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Auteur(s): Donald Glut
Editeur: Orbit
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Star Wars 5
Résumé: Donald F. Glut took over from Lucas to write the novelisation of the second film in the original Star Wars trilogy. First published in 1980, it follows the plot of the film without pausing to take the opportunities offered by a novel to explore the inner thoughts or feelings of any of the characters. This reflects the tone of the film, in which the lead characters of Luke, Han and Leia are action heroes dedicated to the destruction of evil. Their personal histories have been fleshed out by later writers, and the focus here is very much on action.
Glut handles the action at a fast pace: the opening battle on the ice world of Hoth, the pursuit of Han's ship, the Millennium Falcon, through an asteroid belt by Imperial ships, and our heroes' adventures in Lando Calrissian's Cloud City of Bespin where they encounter treachery and fall into the clutches of the evil Darth Vader. Meanwhile, Luke learns to control the Force under the tutelage of the tiny Jedi master Yoda amongst the suitably damp and uninviting swamps of Dagobah.
This workmanlike entry in the trilogy retells the story without frills--these are left to the imagination of the reader. --Elizabeth Sourbut

Auteur(s): James Kahn
Editeur: Time Warner Books Uk
Genre: Fantastic
Série: Star Wars 6
Résumé: It is a dark time for the rebel alliance. Han Solo is frozen in carbonite and has been delivered into the hands of Jabba the Hutt. Determined to rescue him, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Lando Calrissian launch a hazardous mission against Jabba's Tatooine stronghold.