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David Eddings, bibliography
Crime-novels"High Hunt" (1973)
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His debut. A thriller about five men whose conflicts with each other will show during a deerhunt.
Synopsis: The group around dan's brother had been held together by a mutual taste for liquor and endless arguments. Now, high in the mountains on a quest to see who could bag the biggest deer, old jealousies and hatreds were being dusted off and revived. Everyone knew an explosion was coming. No one knew who would survive. And none of them were willing to turn back.
"The Losers" (1992)
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Synopsis: Raphael Taylor was a golden boy--blond, handsome, charming, a gifted athlete and a serious student, an angel in every way. Damon Flood was a scoundrel--a smooth, smilling, cynical devil, as devious and corrupt as Raphael was open and innocent. The day Raphael met Damon was the day he began his mysterious fall from grace. And the golden boy fell very fast and very far....
"Regina's Song" (2002)
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Synopsis: A brutal serial killer stalks the Seattle nights. Regina Greenleaf was one of the victims. Her beautiful twin sister, Renata, is deeply traumatized. Renata barely knows she's alive. She talks only rarely, and then always in twin-speak, the special language she and Regina made up long before they'd learned to speak English. When there had been two of them, they used to swap names. At school, they'd swapped the ribbons in their hair that were the only way of telling them apart. They were so close to each other, they might as well have been one person. Mark, a college lecturer in English, is Renata's friend and her post-trauma protector. He's the only person Renata recognizes and will talk to. She agrees to attend his classes, and with the help of Mark's room-mates Renata seems to be coming to terms with her loss. But the number of murders in Seattle rises, and Mark has some dreadful suspicions. If he says anything, it's guaranteed to send Renata back to the hospital. But if he doesn't, there may be blood on his conscience...
The Belgariad series
"Book One: Pawn of Prophecy" (1982)
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Synopsis:
Garion the farm boy did not believe in magic dooms, but then he did not know that soon he would be on a quest of unparalleled
magic and danger when the dread evil God Torak was reawakened.
"Book Two: Queen of Sorcery" (1982)
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Synopsis:
The master Sorcerer Belgarath and his daughter Polgara were on the trail of the Orb of Aldur, stolen by a priest of Torak. With
them went Garion, a simple farm boy, who had never believed in sorcery and wanted no part of it. Yet as they traveled the
power grew in him, forcing him to acts of wizardry he could not accept.
"Book Three: Magician's Gambit" (1983)
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Synopsis: Ce'Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, had joined a dangerous mission to recover the stolen Orb that
supposedly protected the West from the evil God Torak. And somehow, she found herself feeling quite tender
for Garion, the innocent farm boy, who would be forced into the strange tower in the center of all evil to
retrieve the Orb by himself.
"Book Four: Castle of Wizardry" (1984)
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Synopsis:
The Orb protecting the West from the evil God Torak was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Or so Garion thought.
But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion--and the little princess Ce'Nedra.
"Book Five: Enchanter's End Game" (1984)
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Synopsis:
With the crowning of Garion, there was a descendant of Riva Iron-grip to rule as Overlord of the West once again. But the
Prophecy was unfulfilled. In the East, the evil God Torak was about to awaken and seek dominion. Somehow, Garion had to
face the God, to kill or be killed.
The Mallorean-series
"Guardians of the West" (1987)
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Synopsis:
Garion had slain the evil God Torak and had been crowned King of Riva. The Prophecy was fulfilled--or so it seemed. And
then again, Garion found himself a pawn, caught between the two ancient Prophecies, with the fate of the world somehow
resting on him.
"King of the Murgos" (1988)
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Synopsis: Guided by the Orb of the God Aldur, Garion and Ce'Nedrea begin a great quest to rescue their kidnapped child. Making their
way through the foul swamps of Nyisssa, then into the lands of the Murgos, they must ultimately face a horrible danger--to
themselves and all mankind....
"Demon Lord of Karanda" (1988)
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Synopsis:In an adventurous sequel to THE MALLOREAN, David Eddings tells the story of King Garion's abducted infant son and
his efforts to save him. Unfortunately, he and his friends are detained by the friendly, but determined Zakath, who refuses to
let them leave. As a horde of demons ravage the Cities and a plague lets loose its terrors, Garion has little time left to reach
his destination, or the kidnapper wins by default.
"Sorceress of Darshiva" (1989)
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Synopsis: As the bestselling THE Mallorean series contnues, Garion is pursuing Zandramas, in the form of a great dragon flying over
them, across the known world. With the forces of evil threatening on both sides, Garion still had to get to the Place Which Is
No More, as the Seeress of Kell had warned, but they had no idea where that might be....
"The Seeress of Kell" (1991)
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Synopsis:
Concludes the bestselling Malloreon saga. This culmination of an unparalleled quest across strange lands and among strange
peoples is a magnificent fantasy of man, kings, sorcerers, and gods caught in the seven-thousand-year war between two
ancient, opposing destinies battling to determine the fate of all creation.
"Belgarath the Sorcerer" (1996?)
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Synopsis:
Here, at last--the life story of Belgarath the Sorcerer and the great struggle that went before the Belgariad and The Malloreon.
Only one man could tell of those near-forgotten times, when gods still walked the lands, giving comfort and counsel to their
mortal children. Eddings joins forces with his wife, Leigh, on a journey to the awesome beginning of the desperate conflict
between two mortally opposed Destinies.
"Polgara the Sorceress" (1997?)
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Synopsis:
Her mind guided by a mother she will not see again for centuries, Polgara beings life in the Vale, growing up in her uncle's
Beldin's tower and in the prehistoric Tree that is the heart of that magical place. There she first learns the reaches of her
powers and assumes the bird shapes that will serve her on her far-flung travels. As her adventures carry her far from the
safety of the Vale, her spellbinding fate unfolds. For Polgara is destined to be guardian of the world's last, best hope: the heir to
the Rivan throne.
The Elenium books
"The Diamond Throne" (1989)
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Synopsis: Sparhawk, Pandion Knight, and Queen's Champion have returned to Elenia after ten years of exile, only to find young Queen
Ehlanda trapped in a block of ensorcelled crystal. As Sparhawk sets out to find a cure for Ehlana, he discovers that only he can
defeat the evil plots that threaten her rule....
"The Ruby Knight" (1990)
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Synopsis:
Ehlana, Queen of the Elenia, has been poisoned. Sustained in a deep enchantment, she can only exist while the Knights aiding
the magic still live. But now the Knights are dying--one each month--and it is up to Sparhawk, Knight and Queen's Champion,
to find the cure for the poison before his beloved Queen perishes.
"The Sapphire Rose" (1991)
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Synopsis: Finally the knight Sparhawk had come to possess Bhellion, the legendary jewel of magic. With it, he frees Queen Ehalana from
the crystalline cocoon that preserves her life, but Bhellion carries dangers of its own. And now Sparkhawk is being stalked by a
dark lurking menace that is only the beginning of his troubles....
The Tamuli books
"Domes of Fire" (1992)
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Synopsis: Danger stalked Queen Ehlana's realm. When an ambasador from the far-off Tamul Empire begged for help, Sparhawk,
Ehlana's champion and Prince Consort, was the Emperor's last hope. For surely the knight who had killed the evil God Azash
could prevail against the terror in Tamul. But waiting for him was a glittering court seething with corruption, treachery--and
the greatest danger Sparhawk would ever face!
"The Shining Ones" (1993)
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Synopsis:
The glowing evildoers, the dreaded Shining Ones, are destroying the world, and Sparhawk must retrieve Bhelliom, the sapphire
rose, from the bottom of the ocean to stop them--and to control the Stone of Power before they do.
"The Hidden City" (1994)
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Synopsis:
Refusing to give in when his enemies take his beautiful wife hostage, the Pandion Knight Sparhawk and his companions are
forced to confront Tamuli's dark past while resisting the powers of an evil jewel called Klael.
"The Talumi Omnibus" (1999)
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This omnibus consists of all three books in the Tamuli Trilogy.
"The Rivan Codex : Ancient Texts of the Belgariad and the Malloreon" (1998?)
by David and Leigh Eddings
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Synopsis: A behind-the-scenes tour of how the worlds were created.
"The Redemption of Althalus" (2001)
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Synopsis: Burglar, armed robber and sometime murderer, our hero Althalus is commissioned to steal a book from the House at the End of the
World by a mysterious cloaked stranger named Ghend. At the House at the End of the World, he finds a talking cat in the same room
as the book Ghend described. What he can't find once he's in the house is the door by which he entered. Only 2467 years and an ice
age later does Althalus re-emerge with the cat, Emmy. He's read the book written by the god Deiwos, whose evil brother Daeva is
trying to unmake the world. Emmy is in fact their sister and she's setting out to save the world with Althalus to help her. No easy task.
First there is a quest to unearth the magical knife that will enable Emmy to assemble her band of essential helpers: Eliar (young
soldier), Andine (leader of a small country), Bheid (black-robed priest), Gher (ten-year old orphan), Leitha (telepath/witch). Battles
follow against Gelta the Queen of Night and the armies of Daeva involving many devious manoeuvres in and out of the House where
Doors can be opened to any place at any time. Daeva has his Doors, too. When Daeva can't win through battle, he tries revolution.
When Dweia (Emmy) can't win any other way, Althalus will persuade her to lie, cheat and steal - reciprocating the lessons in truth,
justice and morality Emmy has been giving him for some while. The existence of the world hangs in the balance and love cannot be
guaranteed to triumph in this glorious epic fantasy.