The red tree

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Raymond E. Feist and Stephen Abrams

"After inheriting the mantle as leader of Sorcerer's Isle, Magnus, Pug's son, unearthed his father's journal. Rather than consigning it to the library shelf, Magnus reorganized its contents and inserted some of his own observations and clarifications of his father's life. Here for the first time, father and son are united in a single story that charts the evolution of Midkemia itself. Complete with hand-drawn maps, which Pug collected throughout his life, that detail changes in Midkemia's geography as war ravages the land and physically alters the landscape, the book is part journal and part atlas. With thirty pieces of specially commissioned artwork that bring key moments in the Chaoswar Saga to vivid life, it delivers an in-depth look into the world of Midkemia as never seen before"--Jacket.

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Moira J. Moore

While defending the duchy of Westsea, Shield Lee Mallorough and Source Shintaro Karish find their bond threatened by the arrival of Lee's family who inform her that long before she was trained as a Shield, she was betrothed as part of an alliance with another merchant clan--and her fiancé is insisting that she fulfill her contract.

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A.M. Dellamonica

"As soon as Sophie Hansa returned to our world, she is anxious to once again go back to Stormwrack. Unable to discuss the wondrous sights she has seen, and unable to tell anyone what happened to her in her time away, Sophie is in a holding pattern, focused entirely on her eventual chance to return. With the sudden arrival of Garland Parrish, Sophie is once again gone. This time, she has been called back to Stormwrack in order to spend time with her father, a Duelist-Adjudicator, who is an unrivaled combatant and fearsome negotiator. But is he driven by his commitment to seeing justice prevail, or is he a sociopath? Soon, she discovers something repellent about him that makes her reject him, and everything he is offering. Adrift again, she discovers that her time spent with her father is not without advantages, however, for Sophie has discovered there is nothing to stop her from setting up a forensic institute in Stormwrack, investigating cases that have been bogged down in the courts, sometimes for years. Her fresh look into a long-standing case between two of the islands turns up new information that could get her, and her friends, pulled into something bold and daring, which changes the entire way she approaches this strange new world"--Jacket.

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Andre Norton

The offspring of Simon Tregarth, half earthling, half witch-brood, realized that they alone could perceive the four directions -- for everyone else, there was no East! It was a blank in the mind, a blank in legend and history. And when new menaces threatened, the Tregarths realized that in that mental barrier there lay the key to all their world. Somewhere to the unknown eastward must lie the sorcery that had secretly molded their destinies!