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The Mage's Library

Author: Jim Conallen

Publisher:

Published: 2007-08-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780557092901

Three brothers beginning their summer vacation expected many hours of fun and play ahead. They didn't expect to find out that their parents were powerful mages, part of a secret world of people who had the power to control magic. In this new world the brothers discover that their parents are in very serious trouble. Can they work together on their own to help their parents? Do they have what it takes to be mages themselves?

Game Wizards

Author: Jon Peterson

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0262542951

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The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged by its cocreators. When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby community, it hardly seemed destined for mainstream success--and yet this arcane tabletop role-playing game became an unlikely pop culture phenomenon. In Game Wizards, Jon Peterson chronicles the rise of Dungeons & Dragons from hobbyist pastime to mass market sensation, from the initial collaboration to the later feud of its creators, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. As the game's fiftieth anniversary approaches, Peterson--a noted authority on role-playing games--explains how D&D and its creators navigated their successes, setbacks, and controversies. Peterson describes Gygax and Arneson's first meeting and their work toward the 1974 release of the game; the founding of TSR and its growth as a company; and Arneson's acrimonious departure and subsequent challenges to TSR. He recounts the "Satanic Panic" accusations that D&D was sacrilegious and dangerous, and how they made the game famous. And he chronicles TSR's reckless expansion and near-fatal corporate infighting, which culminated with the company in debt and overextended and the end of Gygax's losing battle to retain control over TSR and D&D. With Game Wizards, Peterson restores historical particulars long obscured by competing narratives spun by the one-time partners. That record amply demonstrates how the turbulent experience of creating something as momentous as Dungeons & Dragons can make people remember things a bit differently from the way they actually happened.

Libriomancer

Author: Jim C. Hines

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-08-06

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0756408172

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Includes excerpt from Codex born (pages 351-359).

Mage's Library

Author: Laura Greenwood

Publisher: Drowlgon Press

Published:

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13:

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Can searching an abandoned library bring romance for an ink mage and a pigeon shifter? Ink mage Lincoln has always loved books, but there hasn't been much use of them since the apocalypse came. Scout and shifter Penny loves finding treasures on her missions outside the oasis, particularly when she can take them back to her home base and give them to the mage who has quickly become her friend. When they uncover a lost library, they finally have a chance to spend some time together, and explore the connection that's been building, along with the trove of books just waiting to be uncovered. - Mage's Library is part of the Purple Oasis paranormal romance series. It includes a sweet m/f romance involving a pigeon shifter in search of home, and an ink mage looking for knowledge. If you enjoy light paranormal romances, coming-of-age storylines, post-apocalyptic settings, sweet moments, guaranteed happy endings, and casual magic systems, then start the Purple Oasis series today with Witch's Trust. Search Terms for the Series: paranormal romance, pnr, witches, dryads, warlocks, mages, shifters, familiars, merfolk, mermaid, siren, animal companions, pets, sweet romance, post-apocalypse, post-apocalyptic, light-hearted, fantasy romance, fantasy, young adult, young adult paranormal romance, new adult, new adult paranormal romance, supernatural, magic, bird shifters, unusual shifters, unusual magic, found family, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, sapphic, gay, LGBTQ+, princess in the tower, first love, first crush, coming of age, childhood friends, brother's best friend, best friend's sister, self-discovery, adventure, forced proximity

Magus of the Library

Author: Mitsu Izumi

Publisher: Kodansha America LLC

Published: 2019-09-24

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 164659102X

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Ambition Tested Theo has set out from his hometown on a journey to the great city of Aftzaak with three goals: to see the city he’s longed for his whole life, to take the test to become a Kafna, and to return the book lent to him by Sedona seven years earlier–the book that changed his life. The journey is difficult and the road long, but the world is filled with things for a young scholar like Theo to learn. Yet no matter how prepared he feels, the test that awaits Theo in Aftzaak is unlike anything he’s faced before…

Magus of the Library 1

Author: Mitsu Izumi

Publisher: Kodansha America LLC

Published: 2019-07-09

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1642129437

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A story about a poor boy swept away by a kind library mage and the (literal) magic of reading, Magus of the Library is a beautifully-drawn, spirited fantasy adventure, like a Fullmetal Alchemist for all ages! The Magic of the Written Word In the small village of Amun lives a poor boy named Theo. Theo adores books, but because of his pointed ears and impoverished life, he isn’t allowed to use the village library. As he endures the prejudice and hatred of the village, he dreams of going where such things don’t exist: Aftzaak, City of Books. But one day, Theo chances to meet a Kafna–a librarian who works for the great library of Aftzaak–and his life changes forever…

Library of Time

Author: Ria Loader

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-18

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780692374344

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A mage born librarian is in peril and the old magic is awakening. A living library seeks a new custodian in a world that has forgotten most of the ancient knowledge and magic it contains. When her odd and immortal grandmother asked for Mira's help five years ago, Mira felt it only natural to agree. Mira now held a mysterious and dangerous collection of knowledge that was tesseracted into a magical book called the Rede of Trees. Little did she know that Gran would disappear before retrieving the book. When a Dragon shape shifter arrives bearing a message from Gran, Mira thought him to be the promised messenger who would take the unwelcome gift off her hands. She should have known better. Mira is drawn back into the worlds of magic and power to find what happened to Gran, and to take up a legacy she is not certain she wishes to claim.

Brother's Ruin

Author: Emma Newman

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 0765393956

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Brother's Ruin is the first in a new gaslamp fantasy series by Emma Newman. “Newman reworks the familiar idea of magical schools, breathing some new life into the premise by exploring the darker corners of London and their murky morality.” — Publishers Weekly The year is 1850 and Great Britain is flourishing, thanks to the Royal Society of the Esoteric Arts. When a new mage is discovered, Royal Society elites descend like buzzards to snatch up a new apprentice. Talented mages are bought from their families at a tremendous price, while weak mages are snapped up for a pittance. For a lower middle class family like the Gunns, the loss of a son can be disastrous, so when seemingly magical incidents begin cropping up at home, they fear for their Ben's life and their own livelihoods. But Benjamin Gunn isn't a talented mage. His sister Charlotte is, and to prevent her brother from being imprisoned for false reporting she combines her powers with his to make him seem a better prospect. When she discovers a nefarious plot by the sinister Doctor Ledbetter, Charlotte must use all her cunning and guile to protect her family, her secret and her city. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Mages of Starsea

Author: Kyle West

Publisher: Ragnarok Press

Published: 2021-01-14

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1954411006

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A mage's fate is worse than death... Lucian dreams of a new life outside the cesspool of Earth. Unfortunately, his wish comes true when the government identifies him as a mage. No one knows why the mages are being born. No one knows why their powers lead to madness and death in a terrifying disease known as "the fraying". The only solution is to quarantine the mages in academies. When Lucian is exiled from Earth, he must travel to the distant world of Volsung to receive training. During the long passage, he meets a mysterious mage. She prophesies Lucian is marked by the Manifold, the reality that is the source of all magic. It is a destiny that requires Lucian to master abilities he never imagined he possessed. But that’s the last thing Lucian wants. He faces a terrible choice. To accept his new reality as a mage. Or, to try and outrun destiny...

Rise of the Mages

Author: Scott Drakeford

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2022-02-08

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1250180074

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“This book commits almost every crime against heroic fantasy that I can imagine ... and I have not been able to put it down.” —Glen Cook, bestselling author of The Black Company A young warrior and his improbable band of allies face impossible odds as they seek to rescue his brother from the servants of the Fallen God. Emrael Ire is a student of war with lofty ambitions, despite being so poor his boots are more hole than leather. He and his talented younger brother Ban work hard to build themselves a better life at the Citadel, a school that specializes in both infusori Crafting and military arts. Their lives are upended when the power-hungry Lord Governor of the neighboring province invades the school with the help of a sinister sect of priests devoted to the newly awakened Fallen God of Glory. Many of the infusori Crafter students are captured—Including Ban. Though Emrael stands little chance against the Lord Governor and his armies, he’s desperate to save his brother—even if that means accepting the help of allies with uncertain motives, or becoming a practitioner of a forbidden magic. There is nothing he won't sacrifice to save his brother, but what happens when the cost of success is not his to pay? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.