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The Castle of Llyr: The Chronicles of Prydain
by Lloyd AlexanderThe Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander, Book Three in The Chronicles of PrydainPrincess Eilonwy hates to leave her friend Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and her beloved home, Caer Dallben. Why does she have to go to the Isle of Mona to train as a proper lady when she's already a princess? But Eilonwy soon faces much more than the ordeal of becoming a dignified young maiden, for she possesses magical powers sought by the evil enchantress Queen Achren.When Eilonwy is put under a deep spell, Taran and his companions set out on a dangerous quest to rescue her. Yet how can a lowly Assistant Pig-Keeper hope to stand against the most evil enchantress in all of Prydain?
The Castle of Llyr (The Chronicles of Prydain #3)
by Lloyd AlexanderPrincess Eilonwy hates to leave her friend Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and her beloved home, Caer Dallben. Why does she have to go to the Isle of Mona to train as a proper lady when she's already a princess? But Eilonwy soon faces much more than the ordeal of becoming a dignified young maiden, for she possesses magical powers sought by the evil enchantress Queen Achren. When Eilonwy is put under a deep spell, Taran and his companions set out on a dangerous quest to rescue her. Yet how can a lowly Assistant Pig-Keeper hope to stand against the most evil enchantress in all of Prydain? Gurgi, the bard, Kaw and other popular characters from the first two books of the series make appearances. There are also new characters, Rhun, the bumbling, well meaning prince who expects to marry Eilonwy, the huge music loving cat, and the self, centered potion maker who could kill them all.
Castle of Shadows
by Ellen RennerEver since the Queen mysteriously disappeared and the King went mad five years ago,eleven-year-old Princess Charlie has lived a wild and mostly unsupervised life in thecountry of Quale--until now. With the discovery of an unfinished letter in the Queen'shandwriting, Charlie embarks on a quest to find her mother and save the kingdomfrom a revolution. With Tobias, the gardener's boy, by her side, every step closer to theQueen pulls Charlie deeper into an entangling web of lies and secrets--as twisted asthe dark castle--where nothing is as it seems.
Castle of the Cursed
by Romina GarberA delicious and dark gothic romance from bestselling author Romina Garber! THE HOUSE IS ALWAYS HUNGRY…After a mysterious attack claims the lives of her parents, all Estela has left is her determination to solve the case. Suffering from survivor’s guilt so intense that she might be losing her grip on reality, she accepts an invitation to live overseas with an estranged aunt at their ancestral Spanish castle, la Sombra.Beneath its gothic façade, la Sombra harbors a trove of family secrets, and Estela begins to suspect her parents’ deaths may be linked to their past. Her investigation takes a supernatural turn when she crosses paths with a silver-eyed boy only she can see. Estela worries Sebastián is a hallucination, but he claims he’s been trapped in the castle. They grudgingly team up to find answers and as their investigation ignites, so does a romance, mistrust twined with every caress.As the mysteries pile up, it feels to Estela like everyone in the tiny town of Oscuro is lying and that whoever was behind the attack has followed her to Spain. The deeper she ventures into la Sombra’s secrets, the more certain she becomes that the suspect she’s chasing has already found her . . . and they’re closer than she ever realized.
The Castle of the Winds
by Michael Scott RohanCenturies before the building of the Great Causeway, when the enveloping Ice seems to be in retreat, the lands of the North and South are on uneasy terms. War appears to be inevitable. But there is still some trade between them, particularly for the peerless weapons created by the Northern mastersmiths. In one small town, Kunrad, one young mastersmith, has carved out a reputation as a fine armourer. Helped by his two apprentices, the ox-like Olvar and the silver-tongued Gille, Kunrad has created the greatest suit of armour ever made: armour fit for a hero or a king. When that armour is stolen by a powerful Southern lord, Kunrad has only one concern - to regain it. And so begins an epic journey of discovery, filled with danger, magic - and love.
The Castle of the Winds (The Winter of the World #4)
by Michael Scott RohanWhen an armourer has his life's work stolen and sets out to recover it, he stumbles across a plot to stage a coup, directed by the sinister Powers of Ice. The lands of the North and South are on increasingly uneasy terms following their strife-torn foundation. War seems inevitable.
The Castle of the Winds
by Michael Scott RohanCenturies before the building of the Great Causeway, when the enveloping Ice seems to be in retreat, the lands of the North and South are on uneasy terms. War appears to be inevitable. But there is still some trade between them, particularly for the peerless weapons created by the Northern mastersmiths. In one small town, Kunrad, one young mastersmith, has carved out a reputation as a fine armourer. Helped by his two apprentices, the ox-like Olvar and the silver-tongued Gille, Kunrad has created the greatest suit of armour ever made: armour fit for a hero or a king. When that armour is stolen by a powerful Southern lord, Kunrad has only one concern - to regain it. And so begins an epic journey of discovery, filled with danger, magic - and love.
Castle of Wizardry (The Belgariad #4)
by David EddingsEND OF THE QUEST<P> It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer.<P> Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide. After that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished.<P> But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion--and for the little princess Ce'Nedra. <P> This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad, begun in Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, and Magician's Gambit--a fantasy set against a background of the war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years--a novel of fate, strange lands, and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!
The Castle Omnibus: The Year of Our War, No Present Like Time, The Modern World
by Steph Swainston50 immortals, chosen by the emperor lead humanity in an endless war against hordes of ginant insects. Their immortality, conferred on them by the emperror can be taken away if they lose a challange to be part of the circle of 50.Jant, the emperor's drug-addicted messanger, the only man who can fly, tells the story of mankinds savage fight for survival in a uniquely imagined, beautiful fantasy world.
The Castle Omnibus: The Year of Our War, No Present Like Time, The Modern World
by Steph Swainston50 immortals, chosen by the emperor lead humanity in an endless war against hordes of ginant insects. Their immortality, conferred on them by the emperror can be taken away if they lose a challange to be part of the circle of 50. Jant, the emperor's drug-addicted messanger, the only man who can fly, tells the story of mankinds savage fight for survival in a uniquely imagined, beautiful fantasy world.
Castle on the River Vistula
by Michelle TeaWhen Sophie Swankowski surfaces from the freezing waters, she finds herself in an ancient castle in Poland—and in the center of an ages-old battle. Even with her magic powers, the strength and wisdom she learns from her companions in Warsaw, and the help of her gruff mermaid guardian, Syrena, how can one thirteen-year-old from scrappy Chelsea Massachusetts, really save the world? <P><P> Luckily, Sophie won’t be alone. As she connects to other girls around the globe who have been training, just like her, for this very fight, she begins to think she just may become the hero she’s meant to be. But when she has to face the pure source of evil alone, using all the strength she has to keep it from destroying everything, how easy it would be to simply give up and join the other side...
Castle Perilous
by John DechancieCastle Perilous is a witty, whimsical 250 page fantasy novel first published in 1988 and written by the warmly recognized john DeChancie. This is the first in a series of novels highlighting exciting and bizarre adventures in Lord Incarnadine's castle, a gigantic structure of many towers and labyrinthine passages held together by a mysterious magic spell stone. In Castle Perilous, a former graduate student in philosophy accidentally stumbles into the castle through one of its many portals and discovers that it is inhabited by thieves, intriguing guests, and monsters and surrounded by a besieging army, all of whom have designs on the castle's spell stone and its fabulous treasures. Here is a sampling of the novel's tributes appearing on the preliminary pages: "John DeChancie has written a wild and original fantasy novel. Castle Perilous is just plain nifty!" -Craig Shaw Gardner "Castle Perilous. It's got everything: unremitting action, laughs, and a heart-stopping climax if ever I read one." -Esther Friesner, author of New York by Knight
Castle Perilous (Castle Perilous #1)
by John DeChancieWelcome to the wild and wacky alternate worlds fantasy series. &“I&’ve enjoyed every book DeChancie has written!&” (Steven Brust, New York Times–bestselling author). Imagine life in an ironically magical world where 144,000 doors separate fiction from reality. A place that can hypnotize even the most grounded philosophy major and deliver a fantastical rhyme to his reason. A place where a best buddy resembles a shaggy carpet, and adventures surpass a boy's dreams . . . welcome to Castle Perilous.
Castle Rock Kitchen: Wicked Good Recipes from the World of Stephen King [A Cookbook]
by Theresa Carle-SandersExplore 80 classic and modern recipes inspired by Stephen King&’s Maine, featuring dishes from the books set in Castle Rock, Derry, and other fictional towns—with a foreword from the legendary author himself.Castle Rock Kitchen is an immersive culinary experience from the mouthwatering to the macabre, with gorgeous, moody photographs to transport Stephen King fans to kitchen tables, diners, and picnic blankets across Maine. Recipes ranging from drinks to dessert (and every course in-between) are inspired by meals and gatherings from the more than forty novels and stories set in King&’s Castle Rock multiverse—a darker, more gothic version of the Maine most are familiar with. The eighty professionally developed dishes use plenty of local, down-home ingredients such as fresh seafood, potatoes, wild blueberries, and maple syrup, plus some delicacies from away—here are just a few:• Breakfast: Pancakes with the Toziers (It), Dog Days French Toast (Cujo)• Dinner: One-Handed Frittata (Under the Dome), Killer Mac and Cheese (&“Gramma&”)• Supper: Blue Plate Special (11/22/63), Whopper Spareribs (The Tommyknockers)• Fish and Seafood: Crab Canapés (Pet Sematary), Moose-Lickit Fish & Chips (The Colorado Kid)• Vegetarian: Wild Mushroom Hand Pies (Bag of Bones), Holy Frijole Enchiladas (Elevation)• Baking and Sweets: Hermits for the Road (The Long Walk), Blueberry Cheesecake Pie (&“The Body&”)• Drinks and Cocktails: Homemade Root Beer (Carrie), Deadly Moonquake (&“Drunken Fireworks&”)With a foreword written by Stephen King and story excerpts that connect the recipes to the books that inspired them, Castle Rock Kitchen delivers frightfully good food and drink.
Castle Roogna: A Spell For Chameleon, The Source Of Magic, Castle Roogna (Xanth #3)
by Piers AnthonyMillie, a ghost for 800 years wants only one man--Jonathan, and he's a zombie. To prove himself, Magician Dor volunteers to get the potion that can restore Jonathan to full life. But he has to go back through time to do it, to a peril-haunted, ancient Xanth, where danger lurks at every turn....From the Paperback edition.
Castle Spellbound (Castle Perilous #7)
by John DeChancieA Castle Perilous party leads to mayhem and misadventures. &“I&’ve enjoyed every book DeChancie has written!&” (Steven Brust, New York Times–bestselling author). There never seems to be a dull moment for the inhabitants and visitors of Castle Perilous. Adventure and folly are contagious when Lord Incarnadine hosts a legion of bizarre guests including a bunch of infuriated Greeks bearing a gift horse, reckless thieves, gladiators and painted ladies. 144,000 doors welcome the most unwelcome of partygoers to the Realms Perilous, where magic and mystery send everyone spinning in hilarious new directions.
Castle War! (Castle Perilous #4)
by John DeChancieThe residents of a magical castle are under attack from the castle&’s own evil twin in this fantasy novel from the author of Castle Perilous. Castle Perilous is still tottering from last year's battle with the Hosts of Hell, and regaining stability proves a hard balancing act. Before Jeremy can design a program to calm the tremors of the universe, an alternative wicked reality appears that threatens to topple everything! Castle P. must face its evil twin, replete with its own dastardly doppleganger army--with the shadow self ensues as Good and Evil battle it out in the 144,000th dimension!
Castle Warlock: A Homely Romance (The Cullen Collection #24)
by George MacDonaldA novel of a son&’s worldly and spiritual inheritance set in the majestic Scottish Highlands—by the nineteenth-century British author of Mary Marston. Thematically linked to Mary Marston which preceded it, MacDonald here poignantly depicts the father-son relationship as he had earlier that of father and daughter. MacDonald&’s storytelling power again returns to the highlands of Scotland, setting his narrative in the hills south of Huntly. We encounter vivid descriptions of that wild terrain, including snowstorms, summer joys, harvests, along with MacDonald&’s trademark mysteries, inheritances, treasures, and, of course, romance. Castle Warlock is one of the most thoroughly Scottish of MacDonald's novels, and is a favorite with many for its spiritual, relational, and natural splendor. Castle Warlock is unique among MacDonald&’s titles, being first published in America in 1881, six months in advance of its British counterpart of 1882. This new edition by MacDonald biographer Michael Phillips streamlines the occasionally ponderous Victorian narrative style and updates the thick Doric brogue into readable English.
Castles in their Bones
by Laura SebastianBorn to rule. Raised to deceive.The plot: overthrow a kingdom. The goal: world domination. The plan: marriage.Empress Margaraux has had plans for her daughters since the day they were born. Princesses Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz will be queens. And now, age sixteen, they each must leave their homeland and marry their princes. Beautiful, smart, and demure, the triplets appear to be the perfect brides - because Margaraux knows there is one common truth: everyone underestimates a girl. Which is a grave mistake. Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz are no innocents. They have been trained since birth in the arts of deception, seduction, and violence with a singular goal - to bring down monarchies - and their marriages are merely the first stage of their mother's grand vision: to one day reign over the entire continent of Vestria. The princesses have spent their lives preparing, and now they are ready, each with her own secret skill, and each with a single wish, pulled from the stars. Only, the stars have their own plans - and their mother hasn't told them all of hers. Life abroad is a test. Will their loyalties stay true? Or will they learn that they can't trust anyone - not even each other?Laura Sebastian stuns in this new trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Ash Princess. A spellbinding story of three princesses and the destiny they were born for: seduction, conquest, and the crown.
Castles in Their Bones (Castles in Their Bones #1)
by Laura SebastianA spellbinding story of three princesses and the destiny they were born for: seduction, conquest, and the crown. Immerse yourself in the first book in a new fantasy trilogy from the author of the New York Times bestselling Ash Princess series.Empress Margaraux has had plans for her daughters since the day they were born. Princesses Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz will be queens. And now, age sixteen, they each must leave their homeland and marry their princes. Beautiful, smart, and demure, the triplets appear to be the perfect brides—because Margaraux knows there is one common truth: everyone underestimates a girl. Which is a grave mistake. Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz are no innocents. They have been trained since birth in the arts of deception, seduction, and violence with a singular goal—to bring down monarchies— and their marriages are merely the first stage of their mother&’s grand vision: to one day reign over the entire continent of Vesteria. The princesses have spent their lives preparing, and now they are ready, each with her own secret skill, and each with a single wish, pulled from the stars. Only, the stars have their own plans—and their mother hasn&’t told them all of hers. Life abroad is a test. Will their loyalties stay true? Or will they learn that they can&’t trust anyone—not even each other?
Castles in their Bones (Castles in their Bones)
by Laura SebastianBorn to rule. Raised to deceive.A new trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Ash Princess.The plot: overthrow a kingdom. The goal: world domination. The plan: marriage.Trained for from birth in espionage and seduction, the triplet princesses of Bessemia must travel to three distant lands to marry three princes and enact their Queen mother's plan to rule from sea to sea. But when they arrive, each sister discovers her task is not so simple, and their mother's motives may not be what they seem.(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Castles Made Of Sand (Gollancz S. F. Ser.)
by Gwyneth JonesThe BOLD AS LOVE series is a world of daring, dread and enchantment, a world that could almost be ours: a brilliant combination of myth, magic and pop culture.Ax Preston, Sage Pender and Fiorinda, charismatic leaders of the Rock-n-Roll Reich, have beaten the cascade of disasters that followed the collapse of the former United Kingdom. Now they have to find some resolution to the impossible dynamics of their own relationship, while the world keeps falling apart. There are fearsome things going on in England''s rural hinterland, and in Continental Europe the green nazis are planning a final solution to desperate environmental damage. But there''s nothing the Triumvirate can''t handle - until Fiorinda''s father, a monster of the kind the world has never before known, reaches out to reclaim his magical child, the flower-bride.And that''s when darkness falls over Ax''s England . . .Harrowing . . . enchanting - a dark fairy tale with an epic sweep, set in a world very like our own.
Castleview
by Gene WolfeA Lincoln-Mercury dealer opposes Queen Morgan le Fay in a small town in northwestern Illinois; the plot involves the primal rite of sacrificing the king to ransom the sun. Horses, cars, pretty women and frightened men are involved in large numbers; so are a sly dog and part-time plastic surgeon, a tough tomcat (formerly of the FBI and CIA), an occasionally French girl in training as a vampire, and an actual vampire. There are lots of chases and fights, and a good deal of shooting. And this is just what the author says about the story--imagine the critics reaction.