Fantasy fiction
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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 112 Collections and/or Records:
The Fox Merchant, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_benz_allison.pdf
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"This fantasy novel centers around Sionnach, a cursed fox god of trade, and Maia, a deaf mage snatched from her homeland as a child. After ten years of servitude, Maia secretly learns magic and escapes onboard Sionnach's wagon. He soon discovers that her deafness makes her immune to his manipulative powers. The two set off on their journey, suspicious of one another and unable to communicate. But when Sionnach saves Maia's life, their relationship changes. Maia demands that Sionnach take her...
Dates:
2020
The Fury of Creation, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_malpino_james.pdf
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"What if creation itself was furious at its own existence? The Fury of Creation is a novel in progress that seeks to address this intriguing question, framed through a dark medieval fantasy tale of war, betrayal, trauma, and redemption. Three distinct characters maneuver their way through the unforgiving world of Hymn, each of them trying to find meaning in their lives while dealing with the ghosts of their pasts. And just out of sight, from the shadowed corners of the world, sinister forces...
Dates:
2024
The Gates of Horn, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_laughlin_sophia.pdf
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"The Gates of Horn is an Adult Fantasy novel complete at 128,000 words. Death has smothered the Lucan Empire. While Sisenna, daughter of the emperor, mourns the death of her youngest brother, Sisenna's power-hungry uncle sends assassins to kill her parents—and very nearly Sisenna herself. Ousted from her seat of power, Sisenna is tossed into the streets with nothing but her loyal bodyguard and her own wits to protect her. Thirsting for vengeance, she sneaks out of Luca and across the...
Dates:
2023
The Ghosts We Eat, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_prusko_gabrielle.pdf
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"The Ghosts We Eat is an original collection of short fiction that takes place within a world just like ours alongside all too familiar monsters and magic living among us. Filled with brutal beauty and sprinkled with dry unflinching humor, this particular compilation explores hauntings that take on various shapes. From cannibals to aliens to young women redefining their constructed places within sex and intimacy, Prusko uses her stories to investigate how we face trauma head on whether it be...
Dates:
2024
The Golden Rabbit and the Silver Wolf, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024summer_jones_imani.pdf
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"In an enchanted forest, a timid rabbit gains the protection of the Spirit Shepherd, a majestic silver wolf, to deter predators by becoming her shadow. As she discovers courage and explores the world, her newfound power alienates her from her fellow creatures. Faced with a choice between fear and companionship, she unwittingly seals her fate, becoming an eternal, golden-souled companion to the deceitful wolf." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
The Gulch, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_sztobryn_alicia.pdf
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"This thesis contains a synopsis and the first 13 chapters of The Gulch, a YA dystopian novel set in a future society where displays of emotion are deemed dangerous and punishable, an attempt to stem the depression and suicide that run rampant. The protagonist, 18-year-old Simon, struggles to contain his emotions and garners attention from the Minister, the strict leader of his city. Simon watches those closest to him buckle under the pressures of the city, and his mental health...
Dates:
2022
The Hauntlands, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_bloem_noah.pdf
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"The Hauntlands is a slyly comedic fantasy adventure that follows four distinct characters as they move through a wild, magic, and often absurd world. Though coated in a paint of the odd, silly, and fantastical, the narrative's ultimate focus centers on the relationships characters develop even in adverse circumstances. Each character must deal with their own personal struggles, whether that be searching for one's lost memories or dealing with a newfound power, while simultaneously facing...
Dates:
2021
The Invisible Guests, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_hamedi_leyla.pdf
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"It's believed that our souls can linger for seven days after death. When Ziya Roshan's older sister Yalda kills herself, Ziya sets off to find Yalda's soul and bring her back before her time is up. She finds herself in an in-between world where the fairy tale demons she knows from childhood stories keep watch over the souls, "the invisible guests." Just like all stories, there's a price. To return with her sister, she must complete three tasks. Ziya completes each with the help of a...
Dates:
2024
The lost cavern, 1999
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From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1999
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 Promise in Ironhart Manor, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_nieves_jazmine.pdf
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"When twenty-year-old Anne strikes a deal with a dragon named Bael, it doesn't end in the happily ever after like the fairy tales suggest. For the past 200 years, she has been trapped in Ironhart Manor, which sits at the center of the faeries' forest, inhabited by dangerous and deceitful creatures, including the dragon who imprisoned her. Anne must become a beast herself in order to finally escape her prison, and so another human is lured to Ironhart Manor. Anne strikes a deal with the...
Dates:
2024
The Raven Maiden, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_cal-williamson_brittani.pdf
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"In a city where magic has been outlawed for centuries, Yira performs at The White Moth, a theater where those who still practice magic share their gifts under the disguise of illusion. Protecting themselves behind unused trap doors and pulleys, they live an enchanting life of dancing fire, spellbinding melodies, and secrets that would make even the moon blush. But there are two rules that must never be broken. Never perform magic outside of The White Moth and never fall in love. Yira...
Dates:
2024
The Scattering Winds, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_carlson_robert.pdf
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"The Scattering Winds is a high fantasy novel, and though it stands alone, it is also the first in a planned trilogy called The Iean Cycle. There are Avrathians (bird-like people), Lacertians (snake-like people), Groukis, Humans, and yes, Gnomes. A human city is sacked and that sets in motion a series of events. We follow three primary characters in third person omniscient point-of-view: Xobb, a human warrior; Haro, an Avrathian shifter, and Cinder, a human woman with powers she doesn't know...
Dates:
2024
The Sea of Souls, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_collins_monique.pdf
Overview
"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...
Dates:
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