Fantasy fiction
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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:
The Manuscript, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_burton_sarah.pdf
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"Thirteen witches must be ritually executed by the Basarab Priest-King to cure the Empire's plague. With the capture of the final witch, Rue, this deadly rite is hours away. But with the help of the twelve other imprisoned witches, Rue escapes, taking with her the first clue to a different, witchly, ritual--one that would cure the plague, strip the Basarabs of their power, and leave the witches alive. The Priest-King's nephews hunt Rue as she searches the Empire for further clues. Merrick,...
Dates:
2024
The Miraculous, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_fdail_monia.pdf
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"The story takes place in nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties Morocco. The protagonist, Ayur, is a miraculous child who survives a severe elephantiasis. He and his family encounter many hurdles and obstacles throughout his childhood and journey to recovery. She, a mysterious creature, that follows Ayur everywhere ever since his birth, is despised, feared, admired, and blamed by Ayur's mother who obsesses over her baby especially when he falls ill. Rabab, the mother, who recounts the...
Dates:
2024
The Mistress, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021fall_bjerke_megan.pdf
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"The Mistress is the first installment of a young adult dark fantasy duology and follows twenty three-year-old Tayven as he finds himself abducted and imprisoned in Rivaena Castle, a place of legend and death. Chosen as an Offering for the Mistress, a woman cursed by the god of Death, Tayven's soul is destined to be ripped from him and ferried to the Underworld as punishment for a centuries long feud between the Mistress and the god. Desperate to escape with his life, Tayven fights, but...
Dates:
2021
The Oncoming Storm, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_vantangoli_elizabeth.pdf
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"The Oncoming Storm is a young adult high fantasy novel about Eiowing – a girl who is perfectly content to live the life she has – whose safe world is shaken by rumors of a long buried evil which has returned. A quest is called to investigate and secretly find the one item that may vanquish the evil: a lost magickal sword. Representatives from the different provinces of Ithiel are assigned to the quest, including her brother Darion. When she secretly hears of a potential trap set for the...
Dates:
2023
The Prestige of Power, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_cormier_jason.pdf
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"There is no destiny, no fated hero prophesized to save the world of Sobrius from the tyrant, Geirdaan. But there are legends of those who sacrificed everything to unite the people and free the lands. The Prestige of Power is the first of four planned books in an epic fantasy series that takes readers across the world of Sobrius and explores the unique races, creatures, and cultures that call it home. It follows three key protagonists with a rotating point-of-view: A Magi male with...
Dates:
2021
The Sea of Souls, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_collins_monique.pdf
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"The Sea of Souls is a speculative fiction novel that spans generations of a Gullah-Geechee family. The novel takes place across two timelines, one in the past and the other in the future, and features beings from Gullah folktales and African mythology. Told from the point of view of a grandmother and granddaughter, the novel carries themes of love and female empowerment. At the novel's opening, the grandmother is a teenage girl who lives on an island near Charleston, SC. She is sent on a...
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2021
The Tale of Pamuya, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_rhodes_camia.pdf
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"Pamuya is a spirit who fell from the heavens to rescue a human boy from drowning. By saving his life, she committed the ultimate taboo, and was banished from the heavens to live with the boy as a mortal on earth. However, their love for each other did not last, and both died. Now they have been reincarnated. Annalee must figure out who she was in her past life. They must figure out how to mend the fences of the past and move on with their futures. But, unbeknownst to either of them, another...
Dates:
2022
The Thirteenth Zodiac, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_fasone_christina.pdf
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"The Thirteenth Zodiac is a bildungsroman fantasy novel. It follows Ella Brando, a junior in high school living in a small North Carolina town, who becomes the Pisces a member of the Zodiac Guardians after the previous Guardian dies mysteriously. The duty of the Guardians is to defeat the Physic Parasites who syphon off positive energy from people and create negative emotions, throwing people's lives off balance. When an old enemy of the Guardians' arises causing people in Ella's town to go...
Dates:
2023
Their Savage Daughters, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022summer_hill_ashley.pdf
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"Abducted from her homeland and forced into slavery, the magic that lives within Rana Nari is buried and diminished. But a single spark can start an inferno. An act of defiance escalates until Rana is a fugitive marked for death. Resolute to reclaim what was taken from her, Rana has no intention of dying before she has lived. Born of a magically powerful bloodline, Oni Machawi has never been cowed by others. When an unrefusable proposition is made by a foreign prince, Oni accompanies him to...
Dates:
2022
Tricentennial, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_yeazel_christopher.pdf
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"Tricentennial is a sci-fi fantasy novel of approximately 50,000 words. Its protagonist, Marisol Rivera, is a cult survivor who leads a team of space-based commandos in a conflict she and many on Earth believe is being fought to ensure American dominance over the solar system's resources. Her greatest mentor, Michael Goff, is a publicly disgraced former military officer branded as a traitor by her government. As Marisol wrestles with distressing memories from her childhood, she is dispatched...
Dates:
2022
Ultramarinus, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_jackens_nolita.pdf
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"A young captain is mutinied for crimes she didn't commit on an island teeming with untamable magic. She soon realizes she's far from alone in this new land and seems to be the only traveler who retained her memory prior to arriving, something that ties her to eccentric Marcel who's been in the same predicament for many years. As our Captain Crostaff navigates the bonds of trust and companionship within a fluid reality she has to learn the value of them both if she ever wants to set sail...
Dates:
2023
Under Every Mountain, A King, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_robertson_claire.pdf
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"Under Every Mountain, A King is a queer fantasy novel about language. It follows Cleena Clery, a young woman who flees from her home for unknown reasons. She stumbles into the land of the fae, strange people who's words carry power in the most literal sense. The novel follows Cleena as she's wrapped in the ongoing perils of the fae, learns slowly to work through her own trauma, and forms bonds with these new people around her. All while it explores the meaning of language, and the effect...
Dates:
2024
Warrior Without Hope: The Crimson Crown, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020spring_brockway_charlotte_jo.pdf
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"Freedom fighters across the realm of Grimmrverold fight for justice and compete for the Crimson Crown. The Zaethials of Dragon-Scale have begun to take power for themselves by pursuing the Crimson Crown. The only one who could have prevented it was the wood-elf, Taurin Greenkeep. But because Taurin did not destroy the Crown, the Zaethials' tyrannical young queen, Anarlion who is also a Boston teenager named Gaby Dracon, is in hot pursuit. The knights of the Argent Code and the king in...
Dates:
2020
When Gods Wander, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_schoettle_cameron.pdf
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"A dystopian, climate-fiction novel set in a world where the dominant resource in society is an organ called a "core" that animals (gods) have evolved to deal with the nuclear fallout and the environmental saturation of radioisotopes and the biomagnification of toxic chemicals. Cores are needed for the preparation of a regenerative drug called "the blessing," which Nemera, a sovereign and ancient god, has shown people how to make. The narrative follows several characters. Soma, a...
Dates:
2024
Whispers of Madness, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019spring_pillar_erik.pdf
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"The following thesis is the first 100 pages of the novel, Whispers of Madness. The work is of the epic fantasy genre, and when completed will serves as book one out of a planned multi novel series. Whispers of Madness follows the journey of two young adults seeking meaning and answers from the world. Alexis is a woman on a mission for knowledge of events past. She seeks the secrets of a great disaster, one that affected her life deeply and personally. Toward that end, she finds what she...
Dates:
2019
Wings, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_wendt_taylor.pdf
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"One sunny and otherwise perfect day, neurotic young mother Fiona notices fuzz on her newborn baby's back and becomes obsessed with the idea that he is growing wings. As she spirals into a postpartum-depression-fueled fixation while desperately trying to avoid being re-committed to the psychiatric hospital, her fiancé John abruptly relocates the little family to his mother Susan's rental bungalow. As Fiona grows closer to her future in-laws, she notices odd inconsistencies in their shared...
Dates:
2022
World Breaker, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_green_marleigh.pdf
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"World Breaker is an adult high fantasy multi-POV novel by Marleigh Green. It follows two central characters; Delphine, a woman with amnesia, as she navigates the Imani Empire and dodges violent enemies in an effort to regain her memories; and Alder, a soldier for the Imani Empire who feels an inexplicably powerful emotional connection to Delphine, as if he knew her in a past life. As they journey to Lilistadt, the capital of Imani, they are hunted by an enemy of Delphine's known as the...
Dates:
2024
Zahara, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_grazia_sierra.pdf
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"Ten years ago, Sarsa Pain was spared by the Issa witches of the desert. But in exchange for her life, Sarsa was made into an Arlen, an ancient warrior that has been outlawed for centuries––a warrior bound to the mind of her master. Sarsa's new assignment is not only impossible; it could change the fate of the dying world. Sarsa must kill the Centh Emperor, a man more ghost than mortal. Using a prisoner named Baden Prime as her guide, Sarsa leads a group of disguised Issa warriors into enemy...
Dates:
2024