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For adults who loved the Harry Potter series and are now looking for something new to read,
here are some reading suggestions from the Fantasy genre!
Contents:
Featured Selections!
MPL's Reader's Advisors suggest...
"A College of Magics" by Caroline Stevermer
 "Teenager Faris Nallaneen is the heir to the small northern dukedom of Galazon. Too young still to claim her title, her despotic Uncle Brinker has ruled in her place. Now he demands she be sent to Greenlaw College. For her benefit he insists. To keep me out of the way, more like it! But Greenlaw is not just any school-as Faris and her new best friend Jane discover. At Greenlaw students major in . . . magic. But it's not all fun and games. When Faris makes an enemy of classmate Menary of Aravill, life could get downright . . . deadly."
--from the publisher
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"The Books of Magic" by Neil Gaiman
"A quartet of fallen mystics dubbed the "TrenchCoat Brigade "is introduced in this first collection of the adventures of Timothy Hunter. John Constanine, the Phantom Stranger, Dr. Occult and Mister E take Hunter on a tour of the magical realms."
--from the publisher
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"A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula Le Guin
 "Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance."
--from the Publisher
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This is the first book in the Earthsea series. Check out the other books:
Book 2 - The Tombs of Atuan
Book 3 - The Farthest Shore
Book 4 - Tehanu
Book 5 - Tales from Earthsea
Book 6 - The Other Wind
"The Last Unicorn" by Peter S. Beagle
 "The Last Unicorn is one of the true classics of fantasy, ranking with Tolkien's The Hobbit, Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Beagle writes a shimmering prose-poetry, the voice of fairy tales and childhood:
"The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea."
--from the publisher
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"The War for the Oaks" by Emma Bull
 "Eddi McCandry has just left her boyfriend and their band when she finds herself running through the Minneapolis night, pursued by a sinister man and a huge, terrifying dog. The two creatures are one and the same: a phouka, a faerie being who has chosen Eddi to be a mortal pawn in the age-old war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Eddi isn't interested--but she doesn't have a choice. Now she struggles to build a new life and new band when she might not even survive till the first rehearsal."
--from Amazon.com.
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"The Summer Tree" by Guy Gavriel Kay
 "Five university students embark on a journey of self-discovery when they enter a realm of wizards and warriors, gods and mythical creatures--and good and evil… And in a marvelous land of men and dwarves, of wizards and gods, five young people discovered who they were truly meant to be. For they are a long-awaited part of the pattern known as the Fionavar Tapestry, and only if they accepted their destiny would the armies of the Light stand any chance of surviving the wrath the Unraveller and his minions of darkness intend to unleash upon the world…"
--from the publisher.
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The Summer Tree is the first book in the Fionavar Tapestry series.
Check out the next books in the series:
Book 2 - The Wandering Fire
Book 3 - The Darkest Road
...or get the whole series in one volume!
"Magician: Apprentice" by Raymond Feist
 "To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry. Yet Pug's strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos. "
--from the Publisher.
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There are three more books in the Riftwar Saga series:
2. Magician: Master
3. Silverthorn
4. A Darkness at Sethanon
"The Colour of Magic" by Terry Pratchett
 "On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle, a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naïve tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet..."
--from the cover
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This is the first book in the popular Discworld series. Check out the whole series at MPL.
"The Ropemaker" by Peter Dickinson
 "For 19 generations, the comfortably prosperous Valley has been tucked away from the outside world kept safe by powerful enchantments. When these powers begin to weaken, however, it's up to Tilja and her grandmother Meena, along with their companions, Tahl and his grandfather Alnor, to journey forth in search of a magician powerful enough to protect their home once again. In the course of this pilgrimage, Tilja who has recently and heartbreakingly learned that she possesses not a jot of the hereditary magic that would entitle her to inherit her beloved family homestead comes to understand more about the unique and valuable gift she does possess."
--Publisher's Weekly, 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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"The Stolen Child" by Keith Donohue
 "Henry Day, like Harry Potter, is transported from his ordinary life to a world of magic. In Henry's case, however, another child takes his place. Henry becomes Aniday, a changeling, never aging and living in a shadowland as the modern age encroaches. The novel follows the lives of the former human child and the changeling who takes his place: a piano prodigy whose vague memories of his former life haunt him. This exquisitely written novel also shares with the Rowling works the end of childhood and the search for true identity."
--Delbridge, M. (2007) " Is there life after Harry?" Novelist Bibliograpic Article.
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"Green Rider" by Kristen Britain
 "After an unexpected confrontation with a dying knight, Karigan G'ladheon becomes the unlikely bearer of a vital message to the king, on a mission during which she faces assassins and other deadly dangers."
--from the book cover.
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