The first volume in a fantasy trilogy, which tells of a group of mammoths which have survived on a remote Siberian island. Their way of life is threat <more...>ened when a party of Russian sailors is shipwrecked on the island. Can the mammoths survive?

Even as a young calf, Longtusk understood the hardships the few remaining of his ancient kind had encountered when the glaciers retreated and grassy f <more...>orests stole over the vast tundra the herds called home. Worst of all was when the Fireheads came, cruel, two-legged beasts, who kill for pleasure. At a tender age, Longtusk became their prisoner, hobbled, abused, and stripped of his freedom. But through toil and terror, Longtusk never forgot his Clan, and he learned crucial, intimate knowledge of the Fireheads' ways, though at a terrible price. Now the time is rapidly approaching when he will have to clash with those who seek to destroy every living trace of his proud breed. And Longtusk must not shun the twisted path in front of him or what he is destined to become: the greatest hero of them all.

The daughter of Silverhair, lcebones has awakened from her strange sleep of a thousand years in a place she does not recognize, surrounded by others o <more...>f her gargantuan race who have grown soft and slow on the generosity of their captors. But the human masters are gone, abandoning the mammoths to the harsh realities of a distant, frozen world. And so it falls to Icebones to unite this ragged band and lead them on a remarkable quest for safety. But the journey must wind through a landscape of unimaginable dangers. And the safe haven they seek may be no more than legend. Still lcebones must persevere, for only she carries the accumulated knowledge of mammoth history — and only she can achieve the glory foretold in songs older than time.

Reports that a lizard-like reptile is attacking infants and infirm people in coastal towns on the island of Costa Rica are attributed by the natives t <more...>o the "hubia," or "raptor," are ignored by the authorities. That is, until an American doctor working in Costa Rica treats two patients who have both been attacked by the "hubia." Their test results, which indicate that they have been poisoned by a mysterious venom, are passed down to Dr. Alan Grant, a renowned paleontologist who is working on a dinosaur dig in Montana with his associate, Ellie Sattler.

In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his <more...> only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival–six hundred years ago...

Clare and her brother are used to strange animals as their father is a zoo vet. When he gets the chance to join an expedition in an unexplored part of <more...> the Mexican Jungle they are very excited even before they arrive, but nothing could prepare them for this new world, and the strange creatures in it.

fter Geraden, accused of murdering his brother, has escaped through a mirror to some unknown place, Terisa Morgan and the entire kingdom of Mordant mu <more...>st struggle against the monstrous evil set loose on the land.

Small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody's idea of a hero, least of all his own. Then, through the pages of an ancient, mysterious book <more...>, he discovers the enchanted world of Fantastica, and only Bastian himself can save the fairy people who live there.

Evil has come to a distant land high among the snow-capped mountains of Midkemia. Razing village after village, slaughtering men, women, and children <more...>without mercy, an exterminating army wearing the colors of the Duke of Olasko puts a small nation to the sword. And when the carnage is done, one, and only one, survivor remains: a young boy named Kieli, who is a youth no longer.

In the mountains of Midkemia, a boy came brutally of age in blood and in terror. And now he lives for one purpose alone... revenge! An exceptionally <more...>skilled swordsman, young Tal Hawkins was the only survivor of the massacre of his village, rescued, recruited, and trained by the mysterious order of magicians and spies, the Conclave of Shadows. Now one of the secret society's most valuable agents, he gains entrance into the court of Duke Olasko, the bloodthirsty and powerful despot whose armies put Tal's village to the sword, by posing as a nobleman from the distant Kingdom of the Isles. But the enemy is cunning and well protected, in league with the foul necromancer Leso Varen, dark master of death-magic, and to gain the Duke's trust and confidence, Tal Hawkins must first sell his soul.