Hilari Bell, Author . HarperCollins/Eos $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-051371-9
Magic battles magic in Bell's (Matter of Profit) winning fantasy, an inspired meditation on war, prejudice and friendship. Makenna, the 12-year-old daughter of a hedgewitch who has been drowned for using outlawed magic, learns that it is...
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Hilari Bell, Author . S&S $16.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-689-85413-2
In the bracing first installment of Bell's (The Goblin Wood
) planned three-part fantasy series, The Book of the Sorahb, the land of Farsala is facing invasion by the notoriously vicious warrior nation of Hrum. The temple priests say that the...
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Hilari Bell, Author . HarperCollins/Eos $6.99 (371p) ISBN 978-0-06-051373-3
A 12-year-old daughter of a hedgewitch who has been drowned for using outlawed magic, learns to fight in order to maintain balance in her world. In a starred review, PW
said, "Magic battles magic in this winning fantasy, an inspired meditation...
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Hilari Bell, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-059940-9
Bell visits many of the same themes as in her The Goblin Wood
, but with few of the complexities of that novel. This fable takes place in the walled medieval city of Tharn, where the people mistrust the wizards and view magic as a necessary evil....
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Hilari Bell, Author . HarperEos $15.99 (194p) ISBN 978-0-06-059943-0
Bell (The Goblin Wood
) lays out the premise before her medieval tale begins: "This is the story of Prince Perryndon, who set out to slay the black dragon guided by the words of a prophecy." Chapter heads emulate stanzas from a bard's...
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Hilari Bell, Author . S&S $16.99 (267p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0594-3
The first book in the Shield, Sword, and Crown trilogy by Bell (The Goblin Wood
) transports readers to Deorthas, a medieval kingdom tenuously divided between town dwellers and country folk, and by those who follow "the One God" versus the...
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Hilari Bell, Author . HarperCollins/Eos $16.99 (357p) ISBN 978-0-06-082503-4
This first installment of the Knight and Rogue novels, a planned heroic fantasy series, chronicles the misadventures of a sarcastic 17-year-old ex-con and his idealistic employer, who is just one year older. Sir Michael Sevenson is a knight-errant,...
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Hilari Bell, Houghton Mifflin, $16 (288p) ISBN 978-0-547-19620-6
In this disappointing science fiction/fantasy hybrid set at the end of the 21st century, humanity, after years of environmental malfeasance, has finally taken steps to clean up the planet. Unfortunately, from massive forest die-offs to increasing...
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Hilari Bell, Author Hyperion Books $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0561-7
In her first novel, Bell creates an imaginative but flawed adventure set in an underwater habitat at an unspecified future time (one reference implies that the year 2020 was some time ago). The habitat is involved in a ""sea farming"" project; a...
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