Books with title Swords of the Six

The Helveti nation has endured a siege of dragons for fifteen bloody years. The ravenous beasts can only be taken down by teams of elite fighters, led by Sword Bearers wielding ancient weapons. Even with all they can do, the cost of human life has driven the Helveti to the brink of annihilation. As the people contemplate the possibility of ultimate defeat, tragedy strikes again.Artair, one of their greatest Sword Bearers, is taken in the night by new and powerful enemies. Carried to a foreign land, his battle for his life and his homeland reaches new levels of ferocity. With his true enemies revealed, he must fight men, dragons, and worse to gain a chance for his people......a chance to survive.

Tommy, a kitchen girl at Flamant Castle, dreams of becoming a knight - and when she is made the Keeper of the Blades, caring for all the swords in the castle armoury, it seems like her dream might come true. But then Sir Walter's most valuable sword goes missing from the sword room. Will Tommy be able to find it before she is sent back to the kitchen in disgrace?Introducing a feisty new character for girls (and their parents and teachers) who love adventure and want an alternative to 'pink' books. Created by Frances Watts, a CBCA Award Winner and author of the huge bestseller Kisses for Daddy.

A GYPSY GIRL. A BLUE-BLOODED BOY. A PASSION THAT TRANSCENDS ALL BOUNDARIES. AND A DARK HEARTED MAN WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO GET WHAT HE WANTS. Summer 1875. Fifteen year old Romany gypsy Elvie Carey, finds herself witness to a tragic accident. She is left with a strange blood-coloured stain on her palm, and a terrible sense of foreboding. A tarot card reading confirms that there is grave danger ahead. But, passionately drawn to aristocrat Edward Hartley, she soon becomes tangled in a terrifying web of danger, at the heart of which is a dark and sinister stranger.Elvie must draw on her gypsy wisdom and her love for Edward to face her final confrontation with the King of Swords.Excerpt:Elvie turned and began to run, her feet catching in the folds of her dress. Running into the wind, she could hear nothing, but every few moments, inclined her head slightly to the right or left, and saw, out of the corner of her eye, the terrifying figure of the man and beast that were bearing down on her.She could smell the lake somewhere in front of her, near now, very near. She sobbed, expecting any moment to feel her foot alight upon nothingness, accompanied by the lurching of her heart as she fell down the steep bank. She could smell the dank mustiness that awakened in her mind, images of corpses and death and earthy decay. She could see no way out this time, and her thoughts were as dark as the black stallion that pursued her.Finally it was almost upon her. She turned her head slightly and could see its white breath billowing like a dragon’s. She heard the crack of the whip before she felt the pain, as the cord lashed the side of her face and across her shoulder. She stumbled and fell face down into the snow, fingers sinking down to the frozen mud underneath that signalled the edge of the lake’s bank. Scrambling backwards, she managed to get herself into a standing position as the man dismounted and grabbed his walking stick from the horse’s girth. He said nothing, but his gaze never left her as he walked haltingly forwards, his stick dragging a furrowed scar through the virgin snow, like a knife tearing into taut white flesh.

The Two Swords is the third and final book in the latest trilogy from R. A. Salvatore, which once again features his popular dark elf character Drizzt Do’Urden™. The original release of this title had the highest debut ever on The New York Times bestseller list for a Salvatore title with Wizards of the Coast at number four. The title stayed in the top 20 for five weeks. Both of the previous titles in the series, The Thousand Orcs and The Lone Drow, were also New York Times bestsellers upon hardcover release, and The Thousand Orcs hit the list upon mass-market release as well.

The Garden of Swords by Max PembertonSir Max Pemberton (19 June 1863 – 22 February 1950) was a popular British novelist, working mainly in the adventure and mystery genres. He was educated at St Albans School, Merchant Taylors' School, and Caius College, Cambridge. A clubman, journalist and dandy (Lord Northcliffe admired his 'fancy vests'), he frequented both Fleet Street and The Savage Club.Pemberton was the editor of boys' magazine Chums in 1892–1893 during its heyday. Between 1896 and 1906 he also edited Cassell's Magazine, in which capacity he published the early works of R. Austin Freeman and William Le Queux.His most famous work The Iron Pirate was a best-seller during the early 1890s and it launched his prolific writing career. It was the story of a great gas-driven iron-clad, which could outpace the navies of the world and terrorised the Atlantic Ocean. Other notable works included Captain Black (1911).During January 1908, Pemberton had a story entitled Wheels of Anarchy published by Cassell & Company (London). This story was based upon notes that were written by Bertram Fletcher Robinson shortly before he died in January 1907. It is an adventure tale about anarchists and assassins that is set across Europe. The novel's hero and narrator, Bruce Driscoll, a recent Cambridge graduate, appears to be modelled upon Fletcher Robinson. Wheels of Anarchy by Max Pemberton was republished in December 2010.Pemberton was member of a criminology literary society known as 'Our Society' along with eleven other notable members including Bertram Fletcher Robinson and Arthur Conan Doyle.In 1920, Pemberton founded the London School of Journalism, wrote a biography about Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and was knighted. He was married to Alice Tussaud, granddaughter of Madame Marie Tussaud and daughter of Joseph Tussaud.

Luan wanted to be a warrior, but he never expected to be fighting in a world beyond his own.At the age of thirteen, Luan sets off with his uncle’s sword on his back, answering the call to defend his land. To journey through the wilds is dangerous enough, but when Luan rescues a young girl he finds himself pursued by a band of brutal slavers. Fleeing across the country, Luan doesn’t know that just one wrong step will put him on a different path entirely, a path to the spirit world, where immortals and demons vie for supremacy in an eternal war. Will Luan survive to begin his training as a warrior? Find out by getting The Path of Swords now!Described as "Wonderfully imagined" and "skilfully crafted", The Path of Swords is the first novella in the Song of Amhar fantasy series. Set in an alternate Iron Age where the world of the spirit is always close by, the series follows the adventures of Luan, a boy training to become one of the Klaideem, elite warriors who dedicate their life to the service of the kingdom.

Old Père Bonot, sunning himself before the doors of a café by the minster, held the Courrier du Bas-Rhin in his hand, and vouchsafed to Rosenbad, the brewer, and to Hummel, the vintner, such particulars of the forthcoming wedding as he found to be good. A glass of coffee stood at Père Bonot’s elbow; his blue spectacles rested high upon a forehead where no wrinkles sat; the smoke from his cigarette hung in little white clouds about his iron-grey hair. He sat before the great cathedral of Strasburg; but the paper and its words carried him away to a little village of the mountains where, forty years ago, he had knelt at the altar with Henriette at his side, and an old priest had blessed him, and he had gone out to the sunny vineyards, hand in hand with[2] his girl-wife to their home in a forest of the Vosges. There were tears in old Bonot’s eyes when he took up the Courrier again.

Stormi Claver is a seventeen-year-old girl living in a land driven by prejudice and fear. When Stormi is captured by Rylan, the rogue Finin prince, she fears her death is near, for their clans share a common curse – to war with one another until none remain. Her fear heightens when she learns Rylan is taking her to the Temple of the Swords – home of the evil Goddess that cursed their clans; a place where no Claver has ever left alive. Stormi knows her brother, Gideon, pursues her rescue, but her captor continues to evade him. While the desire to kill one another burns strong in Stormi and Rylan, they find themselves working together toward a common goal – to retrieve their clan swords from the temple and break the curse that is devastating their people. Gideon is forced to abandon Stormi’s rescue when he learns the Finins are plotting a war against the Claver’s homeland of Malinna. With war at hand and the curse consuming their clans, Stormi and Rylan must battle friend and foe to defeat the curse while Gideon, aided by a mysterious, dark ally, raises an army to battle the blood-thirsty Finin forces that have set out to annihilate the Clavers.Young adult readers will be swept away to a world of dark secrets and vengeance, where the triumph of good over evil lies within the hands - and heart - of a young, captive girl. “Quest of the Swords: Swords of Blood” tells a story about finding the strength to love and trust in the face of hatred and war; about the power of the human spirit to defy the destiny thrust upon it. With open hearts and minds, and a dash of courage, even the most difficult of circumstances can be overcome.