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Thomas K Carpenter
A Tournament of Champions has brought the realms' greatest warriors to the city of sorcery. The prizes include ultra-rare faez crystals which could turn an average combatant into an exemplar…
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Second generation con woman and all-around thief Remi Wilde joined the Hundred Halls-the world's only magical university-in hopes of learning the right spells to pull off a dangerous heist. But…
A killer is on the loose in the City of Sorcery, and Damon Wolfhard, second year resident at Golden Willow hospital, fears it might be him.
Damon keeps having dreams…
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A deadly ghost is attacking patients and threatening to bring the overworked hospital to its knees.
The protective enchantments in the old Curse Ward are breaking down, leading to unusual…
Remi finds the Hospice Ward more dangerous than she expected when an enigmatic figure known only as the Stranger appears to her in the Veil. The Stranger is known for…
A demon dragon known as the Caoranarch is on the loose in the City of Sorcery, killing indiscriminately and then disappearing without a trace.
Remi and her friends are certain…
The future of mass media may appear unpredictable and too complex to fathom, but Mass Media in 2025 takes a scholarly, theoretical approach to identifying trends and explaining their possibilities.
There are exactly one hundred halls of magic to choose from. Ever since our parents were killed I knew exactly which hall was for me.
Aurelia "Aurie" Silverthorne is one…
Whoever controls the Hundred Halls, controls the world. Aurelia "Aurie" Silverthorne has high hopes for her second year in the Hundred Halls, the world's only magical university, but her expectations…
In the Hundred Halls, students experiment with all manners of magic: catoptromancy, lexology, verumancy, rune spells, demonology, shape changing, and a thousand other arcane techniques. Every magic is encouraged. Every…
Every fall the city of Invictus bustles with new students, and the classrooms reek of spent faez. This year it's true of every hall except one-Arcanium. While Semyon Grey, the…
As the Hundred Halls heads towards civil war, the fate of the city-and possibly the world-depends on Aurie and Pi finding the truth about Invictus' disappearance. Following a trail of…
THE ORDER OF MERLIN - BOOK ONE
Destiny calls when you least expect.
After five harrowing years in the Hundred Halls surviving dangerous supernatural threats, our group of young mages…
The greatest mystery of the ancient world remains the identity of who set fire to the Great Library in Alexandria.
One hundred years later, Heron of Alexandria-the city's most renown…
For 300 years it was believed Alexander the Great had no heir.
The Roman armada descends on Alexandria. Friends flee, allies bicker, and foes multiply in the night. The fragile…
The secrets of the pyramids have been lost for two thousand years.
While Agog courts the Parthians, Heron plans to build the largest pyramid the world has ever seen to…
Two hundred years before the Alexandrian revolution, the inventor Archimedes created unimaginable weapons to defend the city-state of Syracuse from Rome.
Now, the Alexandrians must contend with an enraged Roman…
One hundred years after the murder of Julius Caesar, the circumstances of his death could change the course of the fledgling Alexandrian Empire.
Left in charge of the treacherous Roman…
For thousands of years, myths have told the stories of the beasts at the edge of civilization: krakens, cyclops, even the fearsome dragon.
Now, Heron of Alexandria must confront those…
The oldest mystery of the ancient world-one sought by kings and scholars alike-remains the secret of immortality.
When Heron returns to Alexandria, she finds the High Priest of Sobek, Lysimachus…
The two major clans of the Undercity, Razor and Drops, are at a fragile peace after decades of conflict. When Pandora is sent to the Undercity to infiltrate the clans…
The clans are on the verge of war. Pandora and her Drops clanmates discover the existence of an elixir that allows for perfect faez crystal attunement-which will give imbibers a…
After Razor clan's destruction, the remaining members join the Drops clan, keeping alive the hope that they might survive the ascendant Alliance. The newest clan in the Undercity has all…
Kuma and Pandora are on the run in the Eternal City-the deadly realm of the city fae. With her grandfather in complete control of the Undercity, Pandora knows their chances…
The two major clans of the Undercity, Razor and Drops, are at a fragile peace after decades of conflict.
When Pandora is sent to the Undercity to infiltrate the clans…
The clans are on the verge of war.
Pandora and her Drops clanmates discover the existence of an elixir that allows for perfect faez crystal attunement-which will give imbibers a…
Brown H. Carpenter,Erwin K. Thomas
This handbook surveys the history, organisation, role, major issues and future outlook for different segments of the mass media industry and for its various audiences in the United States.
Teru Miyamoto
Presenting a new collection of stories exploring the perennial themes of Miyamoto Teru’s fiction, narrative sketches of the world-class world of the Osaka-Kobe region of his childhood employing memory to…
