Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Growing up between the Wizards' Wood and its marvels, and the finest university of wizardry in the world, Nick Briarwood always thought that he wanted to learn wizardry.
When his father attempts to offer him to a demon in a deal, the deal rebounded on him, and Nick survives -- but all the evidence points to his having made the deal.
Now he really wants to learn wizardry. Even though the university, the best place to master it, is also the place...
Author
Language
English
Description
The dragon must die. It haunts the land and strikes with fire and death without warning.
Prince Baudouin knows the perils, and how other knights have perish. Still, he is confident that he can slay the dragon. All he has to do is forge through the burnt wasteland about its mountain, and slay it.
All.
Author
Language
English
Description
A novelette of curses and journeys.
Avice's dreams of settling at Clearwater are dashed. The lawsuit had ended, and the lands were made over to her, but a bone wizard lays a curse on the land, and blight begins to spread. All will die before the curse as it spreads.
Neither her family nor her king are willing to help. She is left alone with only the knowledge that the mysterious Book of Bone may have the lore that she needs - if only she can find...
Author
Language
English
Description
A short story of sorcery, war, and treachery.
Apollonia proudly casts a spell for the king, to aid him in his battles, a spell that creates enchanted viewing. But when things go awry, she finds it more useful than she had ever dreamed - if only she can persuade one and all to listen to her.
Author
Language
English
Description
A short story of magic and reunions.
At long, long last. . . .
For five long years, Sanchia has held the lands of her husband alone, while he fought in the desperate war against malign shades. Much will change when he returns.
Especially because he brings the magical sword, found in the mountains, with him. And, it turns out, other things follow.
Author
Language
English
Description
Widowed, caught between two feuds, Katie was desperate enough that the Witch Prince witched her wits away, so that she let him steal her baby.Then there was no reason for him to not let the bewitchment fail, then. What, after all, could she do against him? Even the witching woman would tell her that defying the Witch Prince was beyond her power. And tell her again, when she will not listen.
Author
Language
English
Description
A short story of a curse, a king, and a child.
A warlord of fire can lay curses of fever. A woman of snow can freeze a man to death.
Pierre, knight of the king, is burning with fever from the curse of the warlord when he learns a possibility that might save him -- and the kingdom. It turns on a child.
Author
Language
English
Description
Act with care....
In the home of a wealthy but vanished family, four young people, inventorying the household, find the props for the family's amateur theaterics. But a few minutes of donning them to play at roles has consequences that none of them could have guessed. One plays a subtle courtier, one a brave swordsman, one a powerful enchantress...and one takes up the role of a princess, and goes into a forest.
Author
Language
English
Description
The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!
"Where are the lions?" Jack wonders when the Magic Tree House whisks him and his sister to the vast plains of Africa. Before he can find out, Annie starts to help hundreds of wildebeests cross a rushing river. Next they follow a honey of a bird and meet an awesome Masai warrior. Jack hopes any lions will just stay away....
Author
Language
English
Description
Enchanted pools, shadowy dragons, wolves that spring from the mists and vanish into them again, paths that are longer, or shorter, than they should be, given where they went...the Misty Hills were filled with marvels.
Madeleine still left the hills, years ago, to marry against her father's will. If her husband's family is less than welcoming, she still is glad she married him, and they have a son, two years old.
But her husband's overlord has fallen...
12) Crow Curse
Author
Language
English
Description
An ancestor's folly, stealing from a dead wizard, left them all turning to crows daily and bitterly attacking any of their number who stole from the dead.
Yet a dying wizard may hold the key of escape....
Author
Language
English
Description
In a court of decadence and intrigue, only Maya's enchantments hold in check the snow-white creatures they keep in a menagerie to amuse themselves. But when Lady Tatiana arrives, and all must outdo themselves to win her support for the king, Lord Dariko is certain that she can hold in check a gryphon as well, and will hear no warnings of danger.
Her most careful watch and her most powerful spells might not save them - but nothing else will.
15) One Name
Author
Language
English
Description
What a relief it was when the woman, how mysterious she was, offered to stand as godmother for the baby no one could provide for.
Such a relief that only the little girl's mother thinks to wonder why this woman is so intent on having a baby with the same name as herself. And no one else notices the magic on her sledge.
18) Lifestone
Author
Language
English
Description
A mysterious castle holds an evil wizard.How evil -- the knights only learn when they come to the very gate, where he can wield the Lifestone.
Author
Language
English
Description
With their lands withering for want of protection from the wind, they hear a demand from the wizard: the jewel of the tiger.Jyron, realizing it may be simpler than it looks, sets boldly out to get a jewel from the lair of a man-eating tiger. To find that simplicity does not mean ease.
Author
Language
English
Description
A short story of banishment and magical intrigues.
Cecily had been a lady-in-waiting. Exiled to Clearwater - for her health - after she angered Queen Blanche, she has nothing to do but wait.
Until an ambassador is sent there, for his health, and Cecily finds that the court intrigues reach farther than she had known they could.
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Penticton Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. Items must be over 1 year old.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service for new books published this year. Submit Request