It is a world like our own in every respect save one. In the 1950s,random acts of possession begin to occur. Men, women, and children are the targets of entities that seem to spring from the depths of the unconscious, avatars some call demons. The Captain, brave and self-sacrificing soldier. The Little Angel, whose kiss brings death. And others,ranging from the bizarre to the horrific.

Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead. Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more.

Whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in his hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard and a company of dwarves, Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory.

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with my sanity . 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.

From out of the night come the living dead with a single purpose: to destroy Robert Neville, the last man on earth.

The young wizard and his eager companions Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley have inspired countless children to delve into reading with a fervor rarely seen. Rowling has created a fantastic world of wizards and muggles, ghosts and trolls, and good and evil that has completely revitalized a love of reading in both kids and adults all over the world.

I enjoyed this book much more then the original Pride and Prejudice. I feel like the characters are much more dynamical. Plus the thrill of zombies make it a much more interesting book.

Raymond E. Feist's Legends of the Riftwar trilogy is set in Midkemia during the Riftwar. The first book in the series, Honored Enemy, chronicles the events of a company of weary Kingdom soldiers and a band of Tsurani invaders who, have their eyes on a frontier stockade. The only problem is that the stronghold is overrun with dark elves, an enemy of both sides.

The rebellious Valen has spent his life trying to escape his family legacy. But his fate is sealed when he winds up half-dead, addicted to an enchantment-which leads him into a world he could never possibly imagine...

With the first book of his Prince of Nothing saga, R. Scott Bakker has begun the assemblage of an all-encompassing world scarred by an apocalyptic past. In a setting that evokes both the past and the distant future, two men and two women encounter a mysterious traveler who they accompany on a great crusade.

As unwanted and rebellious boys, they find refuge in Ironhall....Years later they emerge as the finest swordsmen in the realm—A magical ritual of a sword through the heart binds each to his ward—if not the king himself, then to whomever else the monarch designates—with absolute loyalty.And the greatest Blade of them all was—and is—Sir Durendal.

Tris is the only surviving member of the royal family aside the traitor.In a land where spirits walk openly, he suspects he may be the mage heir to the power of Bava K¿aa, once the greatest sorceress of her age.Such magic would make Tris a Summoner, the rarest of magic gifts, capable of arbitrating between the living and the dead.

The dawning of the Age of Misrule, as the Celtic gods and the mythical creatures associated with them return to the modern world.The emergence of the supernatural grows quickly, leaving only the sparest of hopes for humanity's survival.

Who watches the Watchmen. Someone does. Someone who's trying to kill them all, one by one. Time's running out for the Watchmen... .

Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater.It is the story of four generations of a family, living in a house that is many houses border of an otherworld.

Jonathan Steel has no past. Three years ago, a psychopathic killer possessed by the "thirteenth" demon destroyed his life. Now, he searches the countryside for the hideous creature.

When Sinsibel decided to pull the greatest heist of his life, he looked forward to spending his riches on wine and women. Little did he know he would be ambushed in the forest, while making his getaway, then used by a witch (in the most sinister way) to bring destruction to the world. No, that wasn't the plan.