Sherwood Smith

• Jun-2026
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"Disguise your passion in masque; when the dance ends, peril begins."It's nearly fourteen years since the Norsunder War ended.  But peacetime still has surprises for The Trouble With Kings' second gen, especially those with high ambitions. ...

• Jun-2025
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Brigadoon meets Buffy In this latest addition to the Dobrenica series, Ruli, a new vampire, is trying to adjust to this change in…can you call it a life? She's lost everything. But that including her old reputation for weakness and lack of...

• Mar-2025
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The final book in the Phoenix Feather and Sagacious series, Sagacious Blade brings the story full circle.It would be difficult to find two boys more unlike.Friendly, animal-loving Ki Mek, youngest of a sprawling family of gallant wanderers, was born ...

• May-2024
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Set in the tumultuous, magic-filled history of Tribute and the Phoenix Feather quartet…The second half of the story of sixteen-year-old Lan Renti's rise to the phoenix throne begins literally in the air, as she returns to her ship of wanderers,...

• Apr-2024
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Set in the tumultuous, magic-filled history of the Phoenix Feather quartet...How did scholarly, modest Lan Renti, lowest ranking of the troubled imperial clan, rise to become the Sage Empress, first woman ruler in the long history of the Empire of a ...

• Mar-2024
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A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, Stranger captures the excitement of The Hunger Games, the immersive world of Shadow and Bone, and the special powers of The Darkest Minds. In the post-apocalyptic world of the Change, people with mutant talents are...

• Dec-2023
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The first in a series set in the world of the Phoenix Feather quartet, Tribute is inspired by the great Chinese epics such as Water Margin and Dream of Red Chamber as well as wuxia and xuanhuan series such as Nirvana in Fire and Joy of Life.Bu is twe...

• Oct-2023
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The last book in the Sartorias-deles series is here!The long series that began with Inda, continued through the Rise of the Alliance, Crown Duel, and The Norsunder War, comes at last to a resonant, deeply satisfying conclusion in Antiphony.Liere has ...

• May-2023
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Written with searing intensity, this story of the redemptive power of love amid the shambles of war and the re-emergence of ancient powers builds to a white-knuckle climax.The war is over, all but the cleanup. And the emotional recovery, with its sca...

• Dec-2022
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In the third volume of The Norsunder War, the invaders' command structure is fracturing, but they are no less dangerous. Amid widespread and wanton destruction, it seems the world itself is fighting back. A pair of brothers, one on each side, begin a...

• Dec-2022
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Written with heart-piercing vividness and sly humor, a roller coaster of emotions!Consistently brilliant, this series showcases what fantastic worldbuilding can be.The long-awaited conclusion to The Norsunder War is also the culmination to the entire...

• Nov-2022
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PRAISE FOR THE SARTORIAS-DELES SERIES: The book is set in a world so intricate and real that it's hard to step out of and hard to forget. Filled with magic and glamour, it houses a culture unique for its openness and warlike ability.... Smith's rich...

• Oct-2022
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In the recently defeated warrior-kingdom of Marloven Hess, two enemies, one a defeated king hunted by the conquerors, and the hunter who did the conquering, duel for the soul of a conflicted young teen. This short novel takes place between the events...

• Sep-2022
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Nobody sane wants war.But what happens when war comes to you?In this first volume of The Norsunder War, the allies introduced in The Rise of the Alliance find their world invaded. For Atan, Queen of Sartor, preserving lives and knowledge come before ...

• Jun-2022
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In this fantasy of manners we meet two displaced young kings, one shopkeeper's daughter who went away an ugly duckling and returns five years later a beautiful and highly skilled swan, and a young queen who is master of all she surveys . . . until sh...

• Mar-2022
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The last installment of The Phoenix Feather martial arts epic, which readers are acclaiming as a spiritual cousin to The Goblin Emperor, puts the entire Afan family in action.Inspired by the great Chinese epics such as Dream of Red Chamber as well as...

• Feb-2022
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The climax to the Rise of the Alliance saga begins with Detlev's boys taking two prisoners as they retreat to their lair on Five, the sister world that has been lifeless for nearly five thousand years. Reviled by both sides, the one thing they can tr...

• Jan-2022
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In the third volume of The Phoenix Feather epic martial arts adventure, the Redbark gang has broken up, taking different paths. Muin is rising in the imperial army; Yskanda lives day to day in the silken prison of the imperial court, hiding among his...

• Jan-2022
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Meet Detlev's boys.In volume one, A Sword Named Truth, a shaky alliance made among young rulers brought too early to their thrones survived an enchantment, commanded by Siamis, the handsome young Norsundrian. Siamis was defeated, and the world celebr...

• Nov-2021
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Long-dormant magical forces are moving again in Sartorias-deles. In volume one, A Sword Named Truth, a shaky alliance made among young rulers brought too early to their thrones survived a first foray, commanded by Siamis, the handsome young Norsundri...

• Nov-2021
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Long-dormant magical forces are moving again in Sartorias-deles. In volume one, A Sword Named Truth, a shaky alliance made among young rulers brought too early to their thrones survived a first foray, commanded by Siamis, the handsome young Norsundri...

• Oct-2021
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A generation ago, a sworn bodyguard and a reluctant bride fled an angry prince, married in secret, and vanished. That prince is now the emperor, with a very long memory.In this next volume of the epic martial arts adventure, the children of the missi...

• Sep-2021
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This four-volume feel-good pandemic project has earned praise from lovers of The Goblin EmperorTwenty-five years ago a pair of lovers ran for their lives from an angry prince and washed up on an island where they adopted new identities-and found them...

• May-2020
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The dramatic conclusion to the Lhind young adult fantasy series!When Lhind's beloved Hlanan is taken by Shinjan slavers, she leaves her self-imposed exile to rush to the rescue. But first she must face a dragon, and learn world-changing truths about ...

• Nov-2019
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In a time of rising danger, women go to war, and ghosts walk the walls...

A few years have passed since the Night of Four Kings, when the least expected candidates for rulership found themselves in charge of a disintegrating kingdom.

These y...

• Oct-2019
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In a time of change and danger, peace sparks to war, and sons become daughters...It's nearly a century after the death of Inda, the unbeatable Marlovan commander. Danet and Arrow, content in their arranged marriage, just want to live in peaceful obsc...

• Aug-2016
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CJ wrote up this adventure for her journal, though the M girls only come in at the end. It begins with two kids from Earth who discover a boy from another world being kept hostage. When they rescue him, they end up having to cross the USA before bein...

• Jun-2016
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CJ and the gang of girls from Mearsies Heili like their adventures fun and villains to be defeatable by a well-thrown prune pie. In fact, they laughed at the very idea of stories about kids who have to Save the World...Until it happens to them. Writt...

• Jan-2016
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At long last! The finale to Sherwood Smith's Oz trilogy is here! Journey back to Oz with Dori and Emma, along with old favorites like Scraps and Polychrome, as they travel through the skies over Oz. There's a plot afoot with a dastardly villain who k...

• Nov-2015
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Over the course of five books, Sherwood Smith has enthralled readers with the world of Sartorias-deles. First in the military action of the "Inda "series and then in the magic-based cultural drama of "Banner of the Damned," Smith's books are a tour-d...

• Jul-2015
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Completely revised for ebook release, in this last volume the desperate fight to recover the Panarchy of the Thousand Suns is about to commence. Brandon hai-Arkad has been crowned Emperor, but his throne remains in the hands of his enemy, Jerrod Eusa...

• Jun-2015
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In this sequel to Lhind the Thief, Lhind has gone from castoffs to silks, back alleys to palace halls -- and is not having an easy time of it. That's before she's snatched by an angry prince she'd robbed twice, who is determined to turn her over to t...

• May-2015
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REWRITTEN FOR EBOOK EDITION, WITH NEW MATERIAL. In the third volume of Exordium, this swashbuckling space opera continues with Brandon and the Rifter crew of the Telvarna arriving at the Panarchic Navy's headquarters. The Rifters are imprisoned, and ...

• May-2015
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There are secret powers that might get you locked up or spirited away. And then there are the secrets that get you shunned. The first kind are surprisingly un-useful at helping with the second.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold with...

• Sep-2014
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In 1799, all of Europe is at war.In Palermo, sixteen-year-old singer-in-training Anna Maria Ludovisi is married by her dying father to Captain Henry Duncannon, the Perennial Bachelor. Minutes after the wedding he sets sail.The threat of French invasi...

• Nov-2013
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Lhind has been on the run all her life. Stealing what she needs, using magic for disguise, she never stays anywhere long. Lhind even has secrets from herself, for she has few memories, and those are troubling. But life is good until she gets caught b...

• Sep-2013
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Two novelettes about Mel's and Vidanric's older two offspring, Prince Alaraec ("Court Ship") and Elestra ("Beauty").In the latter, the middle child, who thinks of herself as the plain one of the three Renselaeus siblings, goes into the throne room to...

• Aug-2013
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As a child, Sherwood Smith was always on the watch for magic: no fog bank went unexplored, no wooden closet unchecked for a false back, no possible magical token left on the ground or in the gutter. In these nine stories, the impossible becomes possi...

• Jun-2013
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• Dec-2012
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With two bossy older sisters, Joe doesn't like girls. Nan doesn't have any friends. Joe and Nan would never have spoken if they hadn't both reached for the same odd little book on a shelf in their favorite part of the library, the adventure stories. ...

• Nov-2012
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Kim Murray is happily planning her wedding when she finds herself pulled two centuries back in time. It's 1795, the rise of Napoleon, and Kim is now a guardian spirit for a twelve-year-old kid who will either become Kim's ancestor . . . or the timeli...

• Sep-2012
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This light-hearted Regency folly stars Miss Clarissa Harlowe who wants a quiet life -- but falls in love with a smuggler, the marquess of St. Tarval. Tarval's sister, Lady Kitty, is determined to write a dramatic Gothic to save her brother's mortgage...

• Sep-2012
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In this sequel to The Spy Princess, Lilah, newly made a princess, teams up with Atan, the hidden princess of the oldest country in the world, Sartor, to free the kingdom from a century of enchantment.Capture, escape, a forest beyond time, ancient bei...

• Aug-2012
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SHE READ ABOUT ADVENTURES -- BUT THE ONE SHE HAD WAS THE BEST OF ALL. When bored and curious twelve-year-old Lady Lilah decides to disguise herself one night and sneak out of the palace, she learns more than she bargained for. One, the country is ...

• Apr-2012
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Princess Lasva is about to be named heir to her childless sister, the queen. But, when the queen finally bears an heir, Lasva's future is shattered. Grief-stricken, she leaves her country of Colend and falls into the arms of Prince Ivandred of Marlov...

• Sep-2011
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With the man she loves set to marry a look-alike princess, Kim Murray returns to California from the magical country of Dobrenica to heal her broken heart. But family politics soon have her leaving for London, where she is forced into a duel with a D...

• Mar-2011
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Siamis said, "Your young friend Liere is not going to enjoy the trap she's walking into, I fear. But you figured that out, did you not? Why didn't she listen to you?" "To snap her fingers under your nose," Senrid retorted."Irresistible." Siamis smile...

• Oct-2010
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After journeymage Wren and Queen Teressa argue over wicked Hawk Rhiscarlan,Wren leaves the magic school seeking Prince Connor.Wren is aboard a smuggler,fighting pirates with magic when Teressa flirts with Hawk, who upsets her court as Tyron-the next ...

• Sep-2010
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In this new fantasy series, a young woman takes her own destiny by the hand-and the hilt. California girl Kim Murray is unsatisfied with grad school and restless in life. Modern men disappoint her, and she studies ballet and fencing because they r...

• Aug-2009
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Inda had been exiled to sea for ten long years -- the innocent victim of political vengeance against his noble family. But as a natural military prodigy, he had thrived in exile, establishing a life as the leader of a mercenary marine company. And at...

• Jan-2009
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"I am Princess Cherene Jennet Sherwood of Mearsies Heili, hater of evil, foe to all villains, and wielder of the prune pie of justice!"

That's how CJ Sherwood introduces herself when she lands into her craziest adventure yet. In this, the second ...

• Aug-2008
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This prequel to Crown Duel is about the early life of Vidanric Renselaeus, Marquis of Shevraeth, who as a courtly, well-mannered teen coached in the noble art of dueling, finds himself thrown into the infamous cavalry command academy in Marloven Hess...

• Aug-2008
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• Jul-2008
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EXILE'S RETURN Indevan-Dal was the second son of the Prince and Princess of Choraed Elgaer. It had been Inda's fate, as second son, to be his family's Shield Arm and spend his adult life protecting the lands his brother would one day inherit -- and ...

• Jun-2008
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• Mar-2008
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Rhis is a sixteen-year-old princess from the tiny mountain kingdom of Nym.She longs for romance, but nothing ever happens in Nym, until she receives an invitation to a celebration for Prince Lios of Vesarja, the largest kingdom around.Lios is as hand...

• Feb-2008
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• Dec-2007
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When Sherwood Smith was eight years old, a girl named Clair walked into her dreams, bringing hints of a world where girls could adventure, live on their own, and best of all, didn't have to grow up.

Clair traveled about looking for girls who need...

• Sep-2007
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In this fantasy prequel to A STRANGER TO COMMAND, the kids on the good side are united in one thing: regarding Senrid as a villain.So what do you do when you're fifteen, supposedly king of one of the most powerful kingdoms in the world, but all you h...

• Aug-2007
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Attending the King's Military Academy had been Inda's greatest dream. But Academy reality is far from what he'd imagined-for by defending the second son of the king, Inda becomes embroiled in a vicious political struggle among the nobility that he ha...

• Aug-2006
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Big trouble is brewing in Oz! Sinister clouds boil ominously over the Emerald City, Dorothy has gone missing, and there are rumblings of rebellion in the Nome Kingdom. So a desperate plea for help goes out from Princess Ozma to two resourceful sis...

• Nov-2005
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R and R Between a Rock and a Hard Place Dylan Hunt and the Crew of the Andromeda Ascendant have been fighting the good fight to re-establish the Systems Commonwealth. They need some serious rest and relaxation. Fortunately, they arrive at Paradise...

• Jul-2005
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THE FATE OF THE SAECOND SON Indevan-Dal was the second son of the Prince of Choraed Elgaer. Tradition dictated that when his older brother Tanrid inherited the realm, Inda would be his brother's Shield Arm -- his military champion. Tanrid,'as heir, ...

• Jan-2005
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Meet Em and Dori, two modern-day descendants of Dorothy Gale (yes, THAT Dorothy), who follow in her famous footsteps to the magical land of Oz -- and adventure.

Dori loves reading all of the wonderful old Oz books, imagining what it would be...

• Aug-2002
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• Aug-2001
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Cece Robin is a simple fourth-grade schoolteacher. A chance meeting with a splinter group of the Resistance changes her life. She would never dream of getting involved in their plot to assassinate the Taelon leader Zo'or she'd never kill anyone-n...

• Aug-2000
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"By believing, one sees." Bradford Ellis believes in progress--and in fixing other people's problems. His latest case study, a poor seamstress named Lucy Beale, resents his meddlesome attempts to improve her life. But when a small, stately ship--t...

• 1998
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Young Countess Meliara swears to her dying father that she and her brother will defend their people from the growing greed of the king. That promise leads them into a war for which they are ill-prepared, which threatens the very people they are tryin...

• Jan-1998
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Based on the novels by Mary Norton, a fun-filled movie novelization recounts the adventures of the Borrowers who live beneath the floorboards of the Lender home, which is slated for demolition by the evil Ocious Potter to make way for a slum called P...

• 1997
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Young Countess Meliara swears to her dying father that she and her brother will defend their people from the growing greed of the king. That promise leads them into a war for which they are ill-prepared, which threatens the very people they are tryin...

• Mar-1995
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When the evil Andreus's hunger for power leads to war, Wren and her friends are thrust into the middle of the struggle. Teressa is heir to the throne, Tyron her chief magicmaker, and Prince Connor a reluctant warrior. As allies die and others disappe...

• Apr-1993
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Yearning for adventure, Wren journeys to find her family, but her travels are threatened by an assortment of shady characters, as well as by her traveling companion's preoccupation with magic. Reprint....

• Sep-1990
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All her life Wren has hoped for an adventure. Now she has one -- with a kidnapped princess, a handsome prince, and a magician. What does it matter if the princess is only Tess, her best friend from the orphanage; if the prince is a youngest son with ...