Book Preview Cynthia crested a hill and spied the Good Magician’s castle. She paused, surveying it, her pulse accelerating with maidenly excitement. She was here; could she handle the three Challenges? She knew they would be possible but not easy. Suddenly her Question seemed foolishly inadequate. She really didn’t need to … Read more
Book Preview Prolog | PART 1. DRAGON | PART 2. DEAL | PART 3. RULE OF TEN | Chapter 1. DASTARD | Chapter 2. THREE LITTLE PRINCESSES | Chapter 3. PURPOSE | Chapter 4. EXCHANGE OF SELVES | Chapter 5. SEA HAG | Chapter 6. THREE BIG PRINCESSES | Chapter 7. HEART OF THE FOREST | Chapter 8. PTERO | Chapter 9. DEAD ENCOUNTER | Chapter 10. DASTARDLY DEAL | Chapter 11. FOR THE BIRDS | Chapter 12. MONSTER | Chapter 13. CASTLE MAIDRAGON | Chapter 14. RANDOM FACTOR | Chapter 15. PRINCESS WILD | Chapter 16. SACRIFICE | Author’s Note Read the full book by downloading it below. DOWNLOAD EPUB
Book Preview Edsel struggled with the program, but it just wouldn’t jell. The problem really was in the software, which was unusually unintelligible. How could he make it seem easy and user friendly, when its programmers had evidently labored decades to make it difficult and hostile! This was of course how he earned his living … Read more
Book Preview She approached the Good Magician’s Castle on foot an obscure woman of indeterminate age in a flowing robe, steadying herself with a staff She looked neither lovely nor regal, without being deficient in either quality. She earned a large book in the crook of her left elbow. The castle was obviously not expecting … Read more
Book Preview FAUN AND GAMES BY PIERS ANTHONY Synopsis: The latest Xanth adventure by the author of more than 20 successive New York Times bestsellers. For Forrest Faun, a young tree faun searching for a suitable spirit to save a magical tree, the astonishing world-within-a-world of the tiny planet Ptero may be … Read more
Book Preview Chapter 1. NIMBY | Chapter 2. HAPPY BOTTOM | Chapter 3. CHLORINE | Chapter 4. TROLLWAY | Chapter 5. IMP ERIAL | Chapter 6. DECISION | Chapter 7. MADNESS | Chapter 8. CATATONIC | Chapter 9. QUESTIONS | Chapter 10. PRINCESSES | Chapter 11. WILLOW | Chapter 12. COMPLICATIONS | Chapter 13. ILL WIND | Chapter 14. REVERSAL | Chapter 15. DEMON | Author’s Note Read the full book by downloading it below. DOWNLOAD EPUB
Book Preview Chapter 1: PROBLEM. It was a nice castle, with high turrets, solid walls, a deep moat, and an elevated office suite whose picture window overlooked the nearby community of nymphs. Fire cracker plants grew around the wall, useful for starting fires in the mornings, and the crackers tasted good too. The connected orchard … Read more
Book Preview Geis of the Gargoyle Book 18 in the Xanth Series Piers Anthony 1 GARY GAR The demoness formed into smoke, and then into an insidiously lovely (if you like that type) humanstyle woman. Her face was unutterably fair, her hair flowed like honey, her bosom was so full and … Read more
Book Preview Chapter 1: GLOHA Gloha flapped her feather wings until she was high above the harpy hutch. The Land of Xanth spread obligingly out below her, so that she could see all the way to its medium-far corners. There was Lake Ogre-Chobee, with its ogre tribe on the shore and its toothy reptilian swimmers. … Read more
Book Preview DEMONSDON’TDREAM-XANTH16 DEMONS DON’T DREAM – XANTH 16 1 COMPANION Dug was exasperated. “Forget it, Ed! I’m not interested in any silly computer game. They all claim to be so easy to play and so exciting, and every one of them has a squintillion stupid things you have to do … Read more
Book Preview Mela Merwoman swam restlessly around her sea cave garden, brushing the treelike seaweeds that formed the walls and canopy. Her hair swirled greenly behind her, and her flukes caused little eddies that toyed with whatever strands of hair they could catch. She swooped down near the glowing colored stones of her floor, so … Read more
Book Preview Chapter 1. Lacuna | Chapter 2. Handbasket | Chapter 3. Anything | Chapter 4. Survey | Chapter 5. Dana | Chapter 6. King | Chapter 7. Roogna | Chapter 8. Rose | Chapter 9. Magician | Chapter 10. Hell | Chapter 11. Lethe | Chapter 12. Trent | Chapter 13. Bink | Chapter 14. Gorgon | Chapter 15. Ivy | Chapter 16. Memory | Chapter 17. Bargain | Chapter 18. Change | History of Xanth | Author’s Note Read the full book by downloading it below. DOWNLOAD EPUB
Book Preview Chapter 1. Chex’s Challenge | Chapter 2. Jenny’s Journey | Chapter 3. Electro’s Exam | Chapter 4. Dolph’s Dilemma | Chapter 5. Chex’s Checks | Chapter 6. Jenny’s Jeopardy | Chapter 7. Nada’s Notion | Chapter 8. Dolph’s Direction | Chapter 9. Cheiron’s Chaos | Chapter 10. Jenny’s Jam | Chapter 11. Electro’s Empathy | Chapter 12. Dolph’s Diagnosis | Chapter 13. Chex’s Choice | Chapter 14. Jenny’s Judgment | Chapter 15. Electro’s Election | Chapter 16. Dolph’s Decision | Author’s Note Read the full book by downloading it below. DOWNLOAD EPUB
Book Preview MAN FROM MUNDANIA – XANTH 12 Chapter 1. Heaven Cent •vy woke, stretched, and opened her eyes. It was dawn; the sun had not yet quite dared show its round face, because darkness made it nervous, but soon it would get up its nerve. She looked at the Tapestry, with … Read more
Book Preview Chapter 1. Mystery Dolph made himself comfortable on Ivy’s bed and watched the Tapestry. The things its moving pictures showed were always so much more interesting than his dull life at Castle Roogna! Ivy was off at a tutoring session with Chem Centaur, so he had the Tapestry all to himself. That was … Read more
Book Preview Chapter 1. Metria It wasn’t always easy, being the son of an ogre and a nymph. Sometimes the ogre started smashing things just for the joy of it, or squeezing the juice from stones one-handed, making an awful mess. Sometimes the nymph was rather empty-minded, or threw a tantrum. That was why Esk … Read more
Book Preview Chapter 1. Quest Grundy Golem stretched and bounced off his cushion. He looked at himself in the mirror, not totally pleased. He stood the height of a normal man’s spread- fingered hand, and that was fine for sleeping on a cushion but not all that great when it came to making an impression … Read more
Book Preview Chapter 1: Ghost Quest. Ivy was restricted, for no reason at all, to Castle Roogna, and of course it was overwhelmingly boring. Her mother Irene had recently gotten quite fat in the tummy, but kept right on eating and pretending it was wonderful and didn’t seem to have much time for Ivy any … Read more