Terry Brooks, Author Del Rey Books $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-37964-1
Fighting supernatural evil is taxing work, and Brooks's third novel of humanity's stand against the demons of the Void shows hints of battle fatigue. Fifteen years have passed since the events chronicled in Running with the Demon (1997), but neither
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Terry Brooks, Author . Del Rey $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-39766-9
Continuing the saga begun in The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Ilse Witch
(2000), bestseller Brooks opens this slick, lightweight fantasy with our band of heroes (Druids, elves, shape-shifters, Rovers, etc.) trapped on an island ruled by the evil...
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Terry Brooks, Del Rey, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-48417-8
The horrors of a war-ravaged world again invade a hard-won peace in Brooks's intense follow-up to 2008's The Gypsy Morph. Five hundred years have passed since Hawk led a tattered band of survivors into a valley protected by a magical barrier. Now...
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Terry Brooks, Author Del Rey Books $7.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-345-38674-8
Brooks's resounding, action-filled conclusion to the Heritage of Shannara series was a nine-week PW bestseller. (Mar.)
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Terry Brooks, Author Del Rey Books $16.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-345-31757-5
Brooks bestselling Shannara trilogy may have been at heart a formulaic fantasy but its vigorous storytelling and intriguing characters won many readers. In his first non-Shannara novel, he takes on another well-worn premise: the contemporary...
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Terry Brooks, Author Del Rey Books $23 (465p) ISBN 978-0-345-35695-6
Generations after the events in the The Wishsong of Shannara , the most recent volume in Brooks's bestselling series, grave danger once again threatens the Four Lands. The Federation has conquered Callahorn, the other free men and the Dwarves,...
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Terry Brooks, Author Del Rey Books $22 (334p) ISBN 978-0-345-38699-1
Brooks continues the magical adventures of Ben Holiday, ex-trial lawyer and now the reigning ruler in the Magic Kingdom of Landover. This latest installment in the series is slower and less charming than its predecessors ( Magic Kingdom for Sale--Sol
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Terry Brooks, Author Del Rey Books $22 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-38701-1
Picking up where The Tangle Box left off, Brooks continues his increasingly convoluted narrative, again following the trials and tribulations of former lawyer--and currently Landover's ruler--Ben Holiday. Even as Holiday battles evil forces to keep...
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Terry Brooks, Author Del Rey Books $25.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-345-37963-4
Brooks continues his vacation from his trademark Tolkienesque adventures (the Shannara and Magic Kingdom novels) with this urban dark fantasy, a sharp and satisfying follow-up to last year's Running with the Demon. It has been five years since...
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Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-52347-1
Celebrating the 35th anniversary of The Sword of Shannara, which launched a 20-volume bestselling saga, Brooks sets this dual-heroine quest immediately following the events of the High Druid of Shannara trilogy. After Elf-turned-Druid Aphenglow...
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Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-52350-1
Brooks, continuing his long-running Shannara high fantasy series, picks up the story begun in The Wards of Faerie just as anguish strikes Arlingfant Elessedil, the sister of doughty young Druid Aphenglow. Arlingfant is Chosen by the dying sacred...
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Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-0-345-52353-2
Thirty-six years after the publication of The Sword of Shannara, valiant elves and druids are still swiping away at evil creatures threatening to burst out of the Forbidden to threaten the Four Lands. Brooks concludes his nigh-interminable latest...
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Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-54070-6
Hundreds of years after the war against demonkind in the Dark Legacy of Shannara series, Paxon Leah and his sister, Chrysallin, are the last living descendants of the magical Ohmsford family, and they apparently possess no magic themselves. This...
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Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-54079-9
The second book in the Defenders of Shannara segment of Brooks’s legendary Shannara series (following The High Druid’s Blade) continues telling a story in which failure could cascade into catastrophe, though the main arc is far less grandiose than...
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Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-54082-9
Lazy writing and unremarkable characters and situations will leave readers disappointed in Brooks’s third Defenders of Shannara epic fantasy (after The Darkling Child) and 28th overall Shannara novel. At a high-level summit to be held in the city of
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Terry Brooks, Author Del Rey $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-45112-5
In bestseller Brooks's satisfactory conclusion to his High Druid of Shannara trilogy (after 2004's Tanequil ), young Pen Ohmsford retrieves the ""darkwand,"" whose magic will allow him to enter the Forbidding and find his aunt Grianne Ohmsford, the...
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Terry Brooks, Author . Del Rey $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-43572-9
This last installment of the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy, which chronicles the exploits of the remaining adventurers who set out in Ilse Witch
(2000) and staggered through the tribulations of Antrax
(2001), may not be up to the standard...
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Terry Brooks, Author . Del Rey $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-43573-6
Bestseller Brooks's first book in a new trilogy treads complacently along the well-worn path of its predecessors. Set 20 years after the conclusion (in 2002's Morgawr) of the three-volume Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, it introduces the next...
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Terry Brooks, Author . Del Rey $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-43574-3
Make a wish on an Elfstone and anything can happen, including a fresh second installment (after 2003's Jarka Russ
) in Brooks's bestselling High Druid fantasy trilogy, part of the long-running Shannara series whose magic has been showing...
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Terry Brooks, Author . Del Rey $26.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-345-48408-6
In this exciting first of a new fantasy trilogy, bestseller Brooks effortlessly connects the Tolkien-infused magic of his Shannara books (First King of Shannara
, etc.) with the urban, postapocalyptic world of his Word and the Void series (Running...
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Terry Brooks, Author . Del Rey $26.95 (379p) ISBN 978-0-345-48411-6
Extinction or survival? Brooks keeps readers hanging with the hair-raising second installment (after 2006's Armageddon's Children
) of a trilogy blending his bestselling Shannara and Void series. A plague-ridden future Earth faces...
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Terry Brooks, Author . Del Rey $26 (328p) ISBN 978-0-345-45852-0
Fans of Brooks's magic kingdom of Landover will welcome this title, the first new book in the series since 1996's Witches' Brew
. Ben Holiday's daughter, Mistaya, is now 15 and currently suspended from her private girl's...
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Terry Brooks, Author Del Rey $19.95 (423p) ISBN 978-0-345-36298-8
The second installment of Brooks's new series, after The Scions of Shannara , follows Walker Boh as he reluctantly seeks the Black Elfstone, needed to bring back vanished Paranor, a quest laid on him by the shade of the Druid Allanon as part of the...
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Terry Brooks, Author Del Rey $22 (403p) ISBN 978-0-345-36299-5
Finely tuned and occasionally elegiac, this third volume of Brooks's projected Heritage of Shannara tetralogy follows Wren Ohmsford in her search for the last of the Elves, part of the quest set for her by the shade of the Druid Allanon as her role...
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Terry Brooks, Author Del Rey $22 (453p) ISBN 978-0-345-36300-8
Brooks brings his best-selling tetralogy, which began with The Scions of Shannara , to a resounding, action-filled conclusion. The three quests set by the Druid Allanon to save the Four Lands have been fulfilled, but the results are endangered or...
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Terry Brooks, Author Random House Inc $23.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-39652-5
You can't find the Four Lands on any map of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth; but, given all the elves, dwarves, warlocks, trolls and gnomes that run rampant in the setting of Brooks's many Shannara novels (The Talismans of Shannara, etc.), readers can
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Terry Brooks, Author Del Rey $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-345-37962-7
The genius of Brooks lies in his inspired joining of different worlds in one intricate tale. Here, for instance, are teen romance, satanic horror, elfin fantasy and Native American mythology, among other elements. Nest Freemark, a 14-year-old in an...
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Terry Brooks, Author Ballantine $26.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-345-39654-9
Echoing with the themes, traditions and enchantments of Brooks's earlier Shannara novels, this lively new adventure, set a generation later, combines the familiar quest format used in The Sword of Shannara with an array of well-defined characters...
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Terry Brooks. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (96p) ISBN 978-1-59606-307-5
This coda to Brooks's mega-selling Shannara series is essentially prose adaptation of his 2008 graphic novel, Dark Wraith of Shannara. It is some years since innkeeper's son Jair Ohmsford and a band of warrior colleagues helped to destroy the...
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Terry Brooks, Author, Dick Hill, Read by , read by Dick Hill. Brilliance Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-5039-2
Brooks's 1994 novel creates a vast imaginary world telling the tale of the mysterious Tangle Box that threatens the Kingdom of Landover. With his trademark straightforward approach, Dick Hill brings this story to life in a realistic and...
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Terry Brooks, Author, Dick Hill, Read by , read by Dick Hill. Brilliance Audio $38.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-2256-6
In a postapocalyptic America, legions of demons and mutants known as "once-men" roam the landscape. Two teens, Logan Tom and Angel Perez, are the last surviving Knights of the Word, and may be humanity's last hope against the forces of...
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Terry Brooks, read by Rosalyn Landor. Random House Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 14.5 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-307-91364-7
A standout performance from narrator Rosalyn Landor brings to life this new installment in Brooks’s popular fantasy series. Set immediately after the High Druid of Shannara trilogy, Elf-turned-Druid Aphenglow Elessedil discovers an ancient diary...
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Terry Brooks, Author, Betsy Mitchell, Editor , intro. by Elizabeth George. Del Rey $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-345-45828-5
"If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical," Brooks asserts in this succinct and warmhearted autobiographical meditation on the writing life. He views his success as a miracle and credits
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Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-39148-0
The first volume of Brooks’s quartet, which will bring this decades-old Shannara epic fantasy saga to a close, works best for readers at opposite poles: series devotees who are conversant with the lengthy backstory, and newcomers who can focus on...
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Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-553-39151-0
Although Brooks’s prose and characters remain unremarkable, he does a better job of juggling multiple story lines in this middle volume of his final Shannara epic fantasy trilogy than in its predecessor, The Black Elfstone. The prior volume ended...
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Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-39154-1
The penultimate chapter of Brooks’s venerable Shannara epic fantasy series (after 2018’s The Skaar Invasion) doesn’t suggest that the wrap-up will justify fans’ investment. Both the storyline and characters fail to engage, despite the high stakes...
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Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $28.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399178-54-2
Brooks returns to the epic fantasy world he debuted in 1977’s The Sword of Shannara for a final, by-the-numbers adventure that picks up the story from 2019’s The Stiehl Assassin as the residents of the Four Lands continue to confront the invasion of
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Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $28.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-525-61996-3
Though Brooks states, “For me, writing a short story is much harder than writing a novel,” the 11 entries in this confident collection demonstrate his considerable skill in using the short format to further explore his established fantasy worlds. “Im
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Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-35738-5
Bestseller Brooks’s first fantasy since retiring the long-running Shannara series offers an enticing new mystery while delivering enough familiar elements—in both tone and worldbuilding—to make his fans feel right at home. Nineteen-year-old Auris...
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Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-35741-5
Bestseller Brooks returns with this spellbinding sequel to Child of Light, beginning with a goblin attack that disrupts the peaceful life that Sylvan fae Auris Afton Grieg has made with her newfound family in Viridian Deep. The goblins kidnap Auris’s
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Edited by Shawn Speakman. Grim Oak, $30 (768p) ISBN 978-1-944145-23-1
This powerhouse addition to the Unfettered series continues the tradition of donating proceeds to authors struggling with medical bills and boasts an incredible lineup of stories by pillars of the fantasy genre, many of whom contributed works set in
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Terry Brooks. Grim Oak, $28 (376p) ISBN 978-1-944145-20-0
After his extremely popular (and massive) Shannara series of heroic fantasy novels, Brooks takes an unexpected turn to a smooth standalone near-future dystopia. Teenage Ash Collins runs from the authorities after his scientist father is murdered....
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Terry Brooks. Del Rey, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-12977-7
Bestseller Brooks’s third Viridian Deep epic fantasy (after Daughter of Darkness) turns the focus from Auris to her adoptive sister, Charlayne, who, three years before the book begins, ran away from the fae land of Viridian Deep to the human world...
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