Michael Sullivan
1) Age of myth
Author
Series
Legends of the First Empire volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michael J. Sullivan's trailblazing career began with the breakout success of his Riyria series: full-bodied, spellbinding fantasy adventures whose imaginative scope and sympathetic characters won a devoted readership and comparisons to fantasy masters Brandon Sanderson, Scott Lynch, and J.R.R. Tolkien himself. Now, Sullivan's stunning hardcover debut, Age of Myth, inaugurates an original five-book series--and one of fantasy's finest next-generation...
Author
Series
Legends of the First Empire volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With Age of Myth, Age of Swords, and Age of War, fantasy master Michael J. Sullivan riveted readers with a tale of unlikely heroes locked in a desperate battle to save mankind. After years of warfare, humanity has gained the upper hand and has pushed the Fhrey to the edge of their homeland, but no farther. Now comes the pivotal moment. Persephone's plan to use the stalemate to seek peace is destroyed by an unexpected betrayal that threatens to hand...
Author
Series
Riyria chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two men who hate each other. One impossible mission. A legend in the making.
Hadrian Blackwater, a warrior with nothing to fight for, is paired with Royce Melborn, a thieving assassin with nothing to lose. Hired by an old wizard, they must steal a treasure that no one can reach. The Crown Tower is the impregnable remains of the grandest fortress ever built and home to the realm's most prized possessions. But it isn't gold or jewels that...
Hadrian Blackwater, a warrior with nothing to fight for, is paired with Royce Melborn, a thieving assassin with nothing to lose. Hired by an old wizard, they must steal a treasure that no one can reach. The Crown Tower is the impregnable remains of the grandest fortress ever built and home to the realm's most prized possessions. But it isn't gold or jewels that...
4) Age of war
Author
Series
Legends of the First Empire volume 3
Language
English
Description
The alliance of humans and renegade Fhrey is fragile-and about to be tested as never before. Persephone keeps the human clans from turning on one another through her iron will and a compassionate heart. The arrogant Fhrey are barely held in check by their leader, Nyphron, who seeks to advance his own nefarious agenda through a loveless marriage that will result in the betrayal of the person Persephone loves most- Raithe, the God Killer. As the Fhrey...
Author
Series
Riyria chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Riyria Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three times they tried to kill her. Then they hired a professional. She hired Riyria. When the last member of the oldest noble family in Avryn is targeted for assassination, Riyria is hired to foil the plot. Three years have passed since the war-weary mercenary Hadrian and the cynical ex-assassin Royce joined forces to start life as thieves for hire. Things have gone well enough until they receive the odd assignment to prevent a murder. Now they must...
Author
Series
Legends of the First Empire volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Language
English
Description
Continues the epic story of the war between humankind and the elves--and of ordinary people becoming legendary heroes. It introduces a set of new characters: the dwarves, whose magical weaponcraft could decide the war. It's up to our heroes to win over the dwarves to the side of humankind or else lose the war forever"--
"Raithe, the God Killer, may have started the rebellion by killing a Fhrey, but long-standing enmities dividing the Rhunes make...
Author
Series
Riyria chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Riyria Enterprises
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Gabriel Winter's daughter mysteriously disappears and is presumed dead, the wealthy whiskey baron seeks revenge. Having lived in Colnora during the infamous Year of Fear, he hires the one man he knows can deliver a bloody retribution - the notorious Duster. Riyria's job appears easy: discover what happened to the missing duchess and, if she lives, bring her home...if not, punish those responsible. But nothing is simple in the crowded, narrow,...
Author
Publisher
Roberts Rinehart
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
"Brendan Behan was already a legend of the literary world when he died in 1964 at the age of forty-one." "Born in Dublin in 1923 into a highly talented family forced by unusual circumstances into tenement living, his mother's Irish republican idealism and his father's literary interests were defining influences on the young Brendan. At the age of sixteen, he was arrested for possession of explosives in Liverpool during an IRA bombing campaign and...
10) Theft of swords
Author
Series
Riyria revelations volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two thieves in the wrong place at the wrong time are on the run in this fast-paced adventure fantasy"--Provided by publisher.
12) Heir of Novron
Author
Series
Riyria revelations volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Author
Series
Riyria chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Thieving assassin Royce Melborn and warrior Hadrian Blackwater are forced to work together to steal a treasure that no one can reach in the Crown Tower, an impregnable fortress that houses the realm's most prized possessions.
Author
Series
Legends of the First Empire volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The epic battle between humankind and their godlike rulers finally ignites in the masterful follow-up to Age of Myth and Age of Swords. The alliance of humans and renegade Fhrey is fragile--and about to be tested as never before. Persephone keeps the human clans from turning on one another through her iron will and a compassionate heart. The arrogant Fhrey are barely held in check by their leader, Nyphron, who seeks to advance his own nefarious agenda...
17) Rise of empire
Author
Series
Riyria revelations volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The birth of the Nyphron Empire has brought war to Melengar. To save her kingdom, Princess Arista runs a desperate gamble when she defies her brother and hires Royce and Hadrian to perform a dangerous mission behind enemy lines"--Provided by publisher.
18) Nolyn
Author
Series
Rise and fall (Michael J. Sullivan) volume 1
Publisher
Riyria Enterprises
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"After more than five hundred years of exile, the heir to the empyre is wary about his sudden reassignment to active duty on the Goblin War's front lines. His assignment to rescue an outpost leads to a dead-end canyon deep inside enemy territory, and his suspicion turns to dread when he discovers the stronghold does not exist. But whoever went to the trouble of planning his death to look like a casualty of war did not know he would be assigned to...
19) Age of Death
Author
Series
Legends of the First Empire volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Winter blankets the land, and more than just hope has died. Prevented from invading the Fhrey homeland by the tower of Avempartha, the western army seeks a way across the Nidwalden River before the fane obtains the secret of dragons. As time runs out for both humanity and the mystic Suri, the only chance for the living rests with the dead. Having made their fateful choice, can a handful of misfits do the impossible, or are they forever lost to an...
