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Forgotten Realms: R.A. Salvatore's 'Road of the Patriarch' (HC) [Novel]
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Written by R.A. Salvatore, here comes the third book in the Sellswords trilogy, following the exploits of the dark elf Jarlaxle and the assassin Artemis Entreri.

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Dragonlance: Rise of Solamnia, Volume 2â€"The Crown and the Sword PB [Novel]
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The Crown and the Sword, written by Douglas Niles, is book II in the Rise of Solamnia series, set in the world of Dragonlance by Wizards of the Coast. It takes place, by my best guess, following the events of the War of Souls. Well, what’s the War of Souls, you ask? Unfortunately, as the book doesn’t really explain and I haven’t read those books, I have no idea. I do know it involves someone named Mina, who apparently was involved to the point of having been mostly in charge. I do know a little about her, but it doesn’t exactly apply here.

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Dungeons & Dragons: Dragons: Worlds Afire HC [Novel]
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Dragons: Worlds Afire contains 4 short stories written by 4 different authors, each for a different world, but all pertaining to the giant magic lizards most of us know and love. It is published by Wizards of the Coast and is available in hardcover.

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Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt Book III: Sojourn [Novel]
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Sojourn was written by R.A. Salvatore, and is actually the third book in his Dark Elf Trilogy, sixth book written about the drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden, and third (chronologically), about Drizzt.

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"Eilistraee is the only deity to offer the drow any hope. With Lolth missing and her priestesses unable to mount a defense, the cities of the Underdark are going to fall, one by one. Soon hundreds - if not thousands or even tens of thousands - of drow will come streaming out of the Underdark, looking for refuge. Elistraee's priestesses will offer it to them. They'll help guide our people up into the light. They'll teach the drow to take their rightful place in the world - to not just survive up here, but thrive. We'll be able to reclaim our birthright. We're creating a new home on the World Above, one in which the drow can live in harmony with one another. What more noble cause can their possibly be than that?"

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These words, spoken with the raw passion and blind confidence which underlie all such statements made by the overzealous religious convert, betray both the false hope and desperate actions of the characters in Extinction, the fourth volume in R. A. Salvatore's "War of the Spider Queen" series, published by Wizards of the Coast.

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Eberron: Thieves of Blood PB [Novel]
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Thieves of Blood is Book One of the "Blade of the Flame" series by Tim Waggoner and published by Wizards of the Coast. The story follows two main characters - Diran Bastiaan, assassin-turned-priest of the Silver Flame, and Ghaji, his hulking half-orc companion and bodyguard. Diran was once a member of a secret assassin's cult that recruited its members by kidnapping young children and initiating them into the training. At the ceremony where he was inducted into the guild officially, a dark spirit was bonded to his soul to make him faster, smarter, stronger, and absolutely cold-hearted; that is, the perfect assassin.

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Forgotten Realms: The Ruin PB [Novel]
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The third book in the "Year of Rogue Dragons" trilogy by Richard Lee Byers and published by Wizards of the Coast, The Ruin opens several months after the close of The Rite. A dangerous new foe has sprung up for the seekers (as Dorn, Kara and co. have begun to be called) in the far northern reaches of the Great Glacier. They have to make their way in that direction in their quest for the end to the Rage anyway, which means that if they wish their quest to succeed they must first contend with this Ice Queen.

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Forgotten Realms: Streams of Silver (Hardcover Novel)
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Streams of Silver is R.A. Salvatore's 2nd book in the Drizzt series. That is, second written, because it's also book 5 in the Legends of Drizzt reckoning and Book 2 in the Icewind Dale Trilogy. Got all that?

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Forgotten Realms: City of Splendors PB [Novel]
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City of Splendors is penned by authors Ed Greenwood and Elaine Cunningham reenwood is responsible for many novels, notably the Elminster series set in the Forgotten Realms. He's also...y'know...the creator of the Forgotten Realms. So he's got some pretty high expectations here. The book is published by Wizards of the Coast and is available as a mass market paperback or hardcover.

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Marked for Death is the first book in The Lost Mark series by Matt Forbeck and is published by Wizards of the Coast. The story follows two friends, a human warrior and a shifter hunter, veterans of the war that spent 100 years tearing their world apart and has finally calmed down. Kandler, the human warrior, was married to an elven woman killed in the cataclysm that created the Mournlands, a vast swath of territory covered in fog so thick you can't see the hand in front of your face, and everything inside is utterly dead, though nothing decays. Burch is his shifter friend from the days of the war.