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Honestly, one of the best fantasy books I can recommend for anyone is The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss. It's a fully realized fantsay world, complete with its own system of magic. It starts a little slow but gets amazing very quickly, and is a more adult fantasy. I highly recommend it.

My name is Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as "quothe." Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I've had more names than anyone has a right to. The Adem call me Maedre. Which, depending on how it's spoken, can mean The Flame, The Thunder, or The Broken Tree.

"The Flame" is obvious if you've ever seen me. I have red hair, bright. If I had been born a couple of hundred years ago I would probably have been burned as a demon. I keep it short but it's unruly. When left to its own devices, it sticks up and makes me look as if I have been set afire.

"The Thunder" I attribute to a strong baritone and a great deal of stage training at an early age.

I've never thought of "The Broken Tree" as very significant. Although in retrospect, I suppose it could be considered at least partially prophetic.

My first mentor called me E'lir because I was clever and I knew it. My first real lover called me Dulator because she liked the sound of it. I have been called Shadicar, Lightfinger, and Six-String. I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them.

But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant "to know."

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.

You may have heard of me.

So begins the tale of Kvothe—from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. But The Name of the Wind is so much more—for the story it tells reveals the truth behind Kvothe's legend.

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PS Anything by Tamora Pierce will also promise a compelling, engaging read.

Some of these are from feminine perspectives, some could also be a little "girly woman" for your liking however others will have to be okay. I've left each style on and that you can come to a decision. Meryll of the Stone (Brian Caswell) Picnic at striking Rock (Joan Lindsay) Stranger with my face (Lois Duncan) enjoying Beattie Bow (Ruth Parks) My Sister Sif (Ruth Parks) Hitch hikers advisor to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) Holes (Louis Sachar) Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit Eragorn trilogy Narnia The Golden Compass Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice) Requiem for a Princess (Ruth M Arthur) watching for Alibrandi (Melina Marchetta) Angels Gate (Gary Crew) Sisterhood of the visiting Pants Pelican's Creek (Maureen Pople) The Diary of Anne Frank To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) The Shiralee (Dárcy Niland) Into the Wild (John Krakauer) Chocolat (Joanne Harris) Harp within the South; negative Man's Orange; Missus (Trilogy by means of Ruth Parks) the place the guts is (Billie Letts) My situation (Sally Morgan) Little females (Louisa may Alcott) Rebecca (Daphne De Maurier) The 3 Muskateers (Alexandre Dumas) something via the Bronte sisters or Jane Austen something you do don’t run The December Boys (Robert Noonan)

I love The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare. It'd be perfect for a trip, but you should probably get the other two (it's a trilogy) because you'll have to know what happens! The first one is called Clockwork Angel.

I also like The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare. They're making a movie about the first one City of Bones. It's a great series.

READ THESE! You won't be disappointed :)

I've got to say Name of the Wind, the first book in the Kingkiller Chronicles Triloyg, by Rothfuss is one of the best fantasy novels out there right now. It's a story within a story type book. The plot is basically this: Kvothe, a celebrated arcanist who is believed to be dead tells his story to a man who calls himself Chronicler over a three day span. Each day of the storytelling is told over the course of one of the books in the trilogy. Here is an in depth review below.

To start off, why can't we suggest A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) series? The books are excellent and seeing as you are a reader it would be a bit ignorant to ignore the series that not only says so much about the world but it is written in superb form.

Anyway, that was my rant. Here are some book recommends in no particular order.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings

Faceless by Amma Darko

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Coffeehouse Theology by Ed Cyzewski

Bat 6 by Virginia Wolff

The Shallows by Nicholas Carr

The Wind Is My Mother by Bear Heart

White Noise by Don DeLillo

The Anatomy School by Bernard MacLaverty

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges

Mariette In Ecstasy by Ron Hansen

Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

The Shack by William P. Young

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Riding in Cars with Boys by Beverly Donofrio

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Atonement by Ian McEwan

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood

The Body by Stephen King (in the book Different Seasons)

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher

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Despite being an unofficial version, Broken Sword: The Return of the Templars got enough notoriety among the fans of the series, to the extent that their legal creators gave their full support.

Plot:

It was sometime in the twenty-first century, when one discovery revolutionized the world further than any ever before it. This was the discovery of a nonlinear power, which lies inside of every living and nonliving organism on the planet. Its discoverers termed it Meteora. With it came the ability to tap into a clean, seemingly unlimited source of energy.

With further study, it was found that only a few genetically gifted individuals could use this power World War III was fought between these new beings and the United Governments of the world. After fighting to a stalemate, the governments and the beings who had access to this power, now known as Homospiritus, came to an agreement called the Accords.

Code 23: By law, all children born who are capable of using Meteora will be taken for safety reasons to Gardens to learn to control their powers, and serve the greater good of the commonwealth. Which meant to become a soldier in the army of the new world order. Tenchi was four years old when they came for him. Despite the best efforts by his mother to keep him hidden and safe, he was taken by force to Juneau Gardens, which is the home of the Homospiritus and the new governing order of the former United States of America, now named Juneau.

Eventually, he is sent on a mission where he encounters terrorists with nuclear arms who have also taken their own dark dive into the use of Meteora, only to corrupt it. Tenchi is given the chance to abandon his mission and continue his own, which has always been to return to his mother. But now he is faced with a choice, to return home or to fight to secure and prevent the misuse of The Sword of Heaven, an ancient weapon of unparalleled power forged of Meteora itself. If not kept in check, The Sword will throw the world into an apocalyptic age from which we may never recover, a fate that will visit both Homospiritus and humankind alike.

Gardens and the Warrior of Heaven

There are hundreds of books. I like history some and non fiction. Biography are great works and you could find out some interesting things. have been reading about Truman and find it good while in school learned very little about him. Go to the library and talk to the people there and they can help you so much.

If you’re looking for “popular”/bestseller, this is not for you. But if not, then check out Landwhig’s Pride-the fifth token of life. It’s a fantasy with a mythical tone, and very unpredictable. If you don’t mind reading a black female character you may enjoy this book

http://www.landwhigspride.com/

Try Phase One: Identify

http://www.amazon.com/Phase-One-Identify-Territory...

From author Rose Wynters, comes a new zombie horror series set in Pleasant, Louisiana. Can this checkout girl learn how to survive in a world full of zombies?

Tabitha Alexander is an 18 year old that has just graduated from high school. Working as a checkout girl in the small town of Pleasant, her long-term goals for the future don't go beyond enjoying the upcoming summer and enjoying her freedom. Maybe even possibly finding a boyfriend.

Fate has something else in store for her, though.

One night, right before closing time, her world is turned completely inside out with the first screams and sounds of gunfire that tear through the darkness. Nothing will ever be the same again..... If she even survives.

This is book one in a new series called, Territory of the Dead. Best suited for ages 16 and over.

This book tells you how the nightmare began...... Pleasant will never be the same again.

Word count: 22,388 Novella

Excerpt:

I pulled into the driveway in my little car, but didn't stop there. Instead, I made a sharp turn to the right, pulling right up in the grass in front of the door. Our residential neighborhood was a lot quieter than the main part of town, but I'd still passed zombies on my way here. I wasn't chancing a late-night stroll from the garage.

The headlights of my car was a dead giveaway to any zombies close by. Quickly, I shut them off and surveyed the area. So far it was quiet, no red eyes glaring at me in the darkness. Turning off the interior light before it could come on, I grabbed my purse and threw the door open.

As I ran up the steps, the front door opened. Someone had been watching and waiting for me to get home. As soon as my foot hit the top step, my mother grabbed me and pulled me in.

“Thank God, you're alive,” she said, her voice thick with worry. She pulled me into her arms and hugged me tightly. “We were trying to call you, over and over again. When we didn't get an answer, well, we thought the worse. Your dad was about to go out and start searching.”

I thought of the last place I saw my phone. It was lying underneath the cash register at the store, and there it would remain. It wasn't like I'd be returning for it. Having a cell phone was the least of my worries now. I had no intentions on being separated from my parents again.

I watched my dad shut and lock the door before turning around to look at us. He was tall and stocky, with graying hair and a round face. He was pleasant looking, with a cheery, boisterous personality to match. So it made this night all the more horrific when I looked down and saw the rifle gripped tightly in his hands.

The nearly invisible age lines on his face were creased with stress. His face was pale, dreadfully so. I disentangled myself from my mom and walked over to him. “Dad,” I said, my voice sounding as terrified as I felt. I hadn't cried until now, but suddenly I couldn't stop the tears that flooded my eyes and face. “What is happening out there?”

He released a long sigh, the noise loud in the silence of our home. It was obvious my parents were on their way to bed when all hell broke lose. He was wearing his usual cotton pajamas, but had a robe on. My mom was wearing a long nightgown. It was what she called her granny gown, but she definitely wasn't a grandma. I was their only child, and I didn't have any children. After all, I was only eighteen.

We heard a loud crash from somewhere close by, and my mom jerked in reaction. It was followed by screams and the sound of gunshot. Dad went into the living room quickly and turned the lamp off, casting the room in shadows.

Silently, Mom and I followed him over to the large, picture window that looked out over our front yard. We didn't live in the elite part of town, but we didn't live in the worst part either. Houses here were anywhere from twenty to forty feet apart. I couldn't see anything moving in the darkness, but that didn't mean there wasn't anything out there. The zombies were just ............