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1) Driftwood
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fame is rare in Driftwood--it's hard to get famous if you don't stick around long enough for people to know you. But many know the guide, Last, a one-blooded survivor who has seen his world end many lifetimes ago. For Driftwood is a strange place of slow apocalypses, where continents eventually crumble into mere neighborhoods, pulled inexorably towards the center in the Crush. Cultures clash, countries fall, and everything eventually disintegrates....
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Isabella, Lady Trent, known as the world's preeminent dragon naturalist, writes her memoir detailing how she sought true love and happiness despite her lamentable eccentricities; and of her thrilling expedition to the perilous mountains of Vystrana, where she made the first of many historic dragon discoveries that would change the world forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
"Attentive readers of Lady Trent's earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that would one day lead her to becoming the world's premier dragon naturalist. Now, in this remarkably candid second volume, Lady Trent looks back at the next stage of her illustrious (and occasionally scandalous) career. Three years after her fateful...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Within the Sanctuary of Wings is the conclusion to Marie Brennan's thrilling Lady Trent Memoirs After nearly five decades (and, indeed, the same number of volumes), one might think they were well-acquainted with the Lady Isabella Trent--dragon naturalist, scandalous explorer, and perhaps as infamous for her company and feats of daring as she is famous for her discoveries and additions to the scientific field. And yet--after her initial adventure in...
Author
Series
Varekai novellas volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
101 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
She comes into existence atop a flat, rough slab of stone. She had no memory. She is not alone, and is bound to a task they set. She sets off on an unexplained quest which she feels she needs to complete. Along the way, the obstacles will continue to grow, and the final choice will be the biggest sacrifice.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the renowned granddaughter of Isabella Camherst (Lady Trent, of the riveting and daring Draconic adventure memoirs) Audrey Camherst has always known she, too, would want to make her scholarly mark upon a chosen field of study. When Lord Gleinheigh recruits Audrey to decipher a series of ancient tablets holding the secrets of the ancient Draconean civilization, she has no idea that her research will plunge her into an intricate conspiracy, one...
Author
Series
Onyx Court volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
526 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seven years after her sweetheart disappears and nobody believes her claim that he was stolen by faeries, Eliza stumbles into the faerie kingdom hidden beneath Queen Victoria's London and learns that the underground railway is posing an unprecedented threat on the faeries and the humans they protect.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Iconoclastic scientist Isabella, Lady Trent of Scirland, embarks on a two-year global voyage, hoping to determine the relationships among the endless varieties of dragon.
Author
Series
Onyx Court volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
494 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Onyx Court volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the thirty years since Elizabeth I ascended her throne, fae and mortal politics have become inextricably entwined, in secret alliances and ruthless betrayals whose existence is suspected only by a few. Two courtiers, both struggling for royal favor, are about to uncover the secrets that lie behind these two thrones. And a faerie lady's courage and loyalty are about to be tested.
11) In ashes lie
Author
Series
Onyx Court volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 438 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
London, 1666. In the house of a sleeping baker, a spark leaps free of the oven -- and ignites a blaze that will burn London to the ground. While the humans struggle to halt the conflagration that is devouring the city street by street, the fae pit themselves against a less tangible foe: the spirit of the fire itself, powerful enough to annihilate everything in its path. Mortal and fae will have to lay aside the differences that divide them, and fight...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Even those who take no interest in the field of dragon naturalism have heard of Lady Trent's expedition to the inhospitable deserts of Akhia. Her discoveries there are the stuff of romantic legend, catapulting her from scholarly obscurity to worldwide fame. The details of her personal life during that time are hardly less private, having provided fodder for gossips in several countries. As is so often the case in the career of this illustrious woman,...
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