Neversfall

Neversfall
Author: Ed Gentry
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786963697

Monsters and mystery in a remote stronghold - explore the Citadels of the Forgotten Realms(R)! Neversfall was supposed to be Estagund's stronghold in the wilds of monster-ridden Veldorn, an unassailable citadel to protect the southern lands. Then the regiment holding Neversfall disappeared, leaving no hint of what took them. The replacement forces find themselves attacked from both within and without the fortress's walls. Besieged by monsters and men, a mercenary captain and an elite warrior must work together to discover out who their enemy really is.

Crash Course in Gaming

Crash Course in Gaming
Author: Suellen S. Adams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2013-11-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Video games aren't just for kids anymore. This book will describe the "why" and "how" to start or expand a video gaming program in the library, including some specific examples of how to target adult and female gamer patrons. Gaming supplies more than just visual stimulation and empty entertainment; it can also promote socialization as well as the learning of both traditional and new literacies required to succeed in the modern world. Problem-solving, multi-tasking, complex decision-making on the fly, and "reading" the combination of words and graphics are vital skills for the 21st century—all of which are required to play video games. Crash Course in Gaming discusses the pros and cons of gaming, the types of games and game systems, circulating collections, and game programs. It explains how a library's video game program can—and should—do much more than simply draw younger users to the library, providing examples of how everyone from parents to senior citizens can benefit from a patron-oriented computer gaming program. The appendices also include specific games, programs, review sources, and sources for further information.

Mistshore

Mistshore
Author: Jaleigh Johnson
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786956356

Travel to the outskirts of Waterdeep—a fantastical city teeming with secrets, where a perfect memory is a dangerous gift Although human wizard Icelin Tearn would like to forget parts of her dangerous past, she is cursed with a perfect memory—and just enough magic that danger still lurks behind every corner. When Icelin is threatened by a mysterious elf who seems to know a great deal about her history, she is forced to flee to Mistshore, a part of Waterdeep that is cloaked in mystery and often avoided. Joined by a monk named Ruen and a butcher named Sull, two accomplices she meets along the way, Icelin descends into the little-visited, unkempt parts of the City of Splendors. Here, she will learn new secrets that just may help to uncover the truth behind her haunting memories . . . Mistshore is the second book in a series of standalone novels set in Waterdeep.

The Fractured Sky

The Fractured Sky
Author: Thomas M. Reid
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786956178

War of the Spider Queen favorites Aliisza and Kaanyr Vhok struggle to escape Celestia while bound to a particularly determined angel Kaanyr Vhok, the half-fiend who once led the Scoured Legion, finds himself exactly where he wanted to be—in the heart of Heaven with his lover and consort. But what he finds is not the Celestia of his dreams. The House of Triad is falling apart, and Vhok is bound by divine oath to the whims of the renegade angel who wants to save it. Tricked by Vhok into a tortuous imprisonment in Heaven, the succubus Aliisza has learned the folly of depending on demons to keep her best interests at heart. Now, in the heart of a deeply troubled Celestia, she plans to teach her so-called lover the same hard-earned lesson.

The Doom of Kings

The Doom of Kings
Author: Don Bassingthwaite
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786956488

The return of the shifter Geth! In the wake of the Last War, a new king has risen and seeks to unite the newly formed goblin kingdom of Darguun under his rule. He seeks an ancient scepter, a symbol under which to unite his people and hires Geth, a shifter who owns one of the trio of artifacts to which the scepter once belonged, to find it. But will the artifact do what the Darguul king needs it to?

Swordmage

Swordmage
Author: Richard Baker
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786956364

Discover a whole new realm of adventure: Exiled from Myth Drannor, a swordmage returns to his childhood home to find it changed by corruption and evil Geran Hulmaster, a wandering swordmage, returns to the windswept shores of the Moonsea, where his beloved boyhood friend has been murdered. Aided by his ghostwise halfling companion, Geran begins investigating Jarad's mysterious death in the barrowfields of Hulburg—and uncovers a web of corruption that implicates the foreign merchant companies now terrorizing town. But Geran suspects their crimes do not end there. Someone has been robbing the tombs of the barrowfields, even though doing so is an act of treason—and risks incurring the wrath of Asperus, the necromancer-turned-lich who now commands the dead in the barrowfields as his slaves. Elsewhere, a Warlock Knight of Vaasa stirs the violent passions of a tribe of brutal orcs, and sends them to Hulburg bent on pillage. Now, Geran must find a way to protect his friends and family—and prevent all of Hulburg from falling into the hands of evil.

Blackstaff Tower

Blackstaff Tower
Author: Steven E. Schend
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786956135

A young group of friends must navigate conspiracy and sorcery in one of the most legendary cities of the Forgotten Realms—Waterdeep When the newest Blackstaff—a powerful wizard who defends the city of Waterdeep—is captured as part of an evil ploy for power, a motley crew of accomplices must band together to restore the Blackstaff to power and save the city. Laraelra, Meloon, Renaer and other legendary heroes of the Forgotten Realms form an unlikely team, rising above their humble origins to complete an epic quest through the City of Splendors. Together, they fight side by side in the race to reach Blackstaff Tower before the forces of evil can claim it as their own. Blackstaff Tower is the first book in a series of standalone novels set in Waterdeep.

Neversfall

Neversfall
Author: Ed Gentry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780786947829

Fantasy-roman.

Sentinelspire

Sentinelspire
Author: Mark Sehestedt
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786963778

To save the future, he must embrace his past... A ranger and his apprentice are captured by a group of assassins who demand their help in overthrowing their leader and the ruler of the fortress of Sentinelspire, the Old Man of the Mountain. Although the ranger doesn't want to help, he discovers the Old Man's plans may involve the master druid who gave him a new life--and the destruction of all he now holds dear. A series that centers on the citadels - castles, keeps, fortreeses, and watchtowers - of the Forgotten Realms world, each book in The Citadels series is a self-contained fantasy adventure.

The Pyramid Waltz

The Pyramid Waltz
Author: Barbara Ann Wright
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1602827923

To most, Princess Katya Nar Umbriel is a rogue and a layabout; she parties, she hunts and she breaks women’s hearts. But when the festival lights go down and the palace slumbers, Katya chases traitors to the crown and protects the kingdom’s greatest secret: the royal Umbriels are part Fiend. When Katya thwarts an attempt to expose the king’s monstrous side, she uncovers a plot to let the Fiends out to play. Starbride has no interest in being a courtier. Ignoring her mother’s order to snare an influential spouse, she comes to court only to study law. But a flirtatious rake of a princess proves hard to resist, and Starbride is pulled into a world of secrets that leaves little room for honesty or love, a world neither woman may survive.