Forgotten Realms

In sylvan shadows is the second novel in a new series (the cleric quintet, set in the forgotten realms tm fantasy world) involving a young scholar-priest Cadderly, who is cloistered away in an ancient library in the mountains. Trouble has spread from his home to a neighboring forest, where the resident elves are being slaughtered & their ruling prince placed in jeopardy. Cadderly must stop the onslaught, but even his powerful companions cannot shelter him from the trials he must face. Salvatore also wrote canticle, the first book in this series, as well as the ice wind dale trilogy & the dark elf trilogy. These include New York Times bestsellers the Crystal Shard & Sojurn respectively. He has a fast-paced, rollicking style that is immensely popular, but also presents extremely strong characters that the readers come to admire & respect.

When the Harpers judged The Nameless Bard responsible for the death of his apprentices, they sentenced him to exile and obscurity. Now the Harpers are reconsidering their decision, but with the arrival of the monster Grypht, Nameless' new trial dissolves in a string of disappearances and murder. It is up to the bard's friends, Alias the swords-woman, Akabar the mage, Dragonbait the paladin, and Olive Ruskettle the thief, to prove one enemy is behind all the chaos—the ancient evil god, Moander the Darkbringer. Unless Alias and her companions can find Nameless and convince him to sacrifice some of his precious power, Moander will return to claim the Realms.

The holy hammer of the Church of Tyr was captured by the evil god Bane two decades ago. When Bane was destroyed, the relic vanished. The legacy of recovering the lost item was granted to a paladin before his birth. Now the young warrior must fulfill his destiny and return the enchanted hammer to the forces of good in the land of the Moonsea. Danger, deception, and loyal friends will accompany him on his fateful journey.

Isolated in the barren stretches of Icewind Dale the villages of Ten-Towns come under attack by a tribe of barbarians. In the midst of battle a young barbarian named Wulfgar ends up owing five years of his life to a grizzled dwarf. With the help of Drizzt, a renegade dark elf, the dwarf strives to mold the barbarian into a warrior with both brawn and brains. Meanwhile, there is no peace for the people of Ten-Towns. The fractioned tribes of barbarians continue to pose a threat, and Wulfgar may be the only person who can avert a deadly battle. But an even more dire menace appears when a weak-willed apprentice mage stumbles upon a magical crystal shard. The evil shard directs the hapless mage onto a course of destruction that all of Icewind Dale may be powerless to stop. from the paperback

The epic tale of everyone's favorite dark elf, Drizzt Do'Urden, reaches new heights!Drizzt Do'Urden struggles with his own inner voices, voices that call him back to the pitiless depths of the Underdark. But louder still are the voices of his newfound friends, and the dream that drives Bruenor Battlehammer on to reclaim Mithral Hall. Time and again they're told to turn back, that some dreams can never be fulfilled, but on they fight -- together.From the Paperback edition.

Adrift in a strange world, the half-demon Vheod embarks on a quest to rid his new home of a powerful demon lord... but before this unspeakable evil can be destroyed, it will have to be released! Monte Cook recounts the adventures of a new kind of hero in the Forgotten Realms setting.

He thought it was a game...He thought no one would get hurt...He thought he could trust a tanarukk bandit...He thought he was hired for his skill and cunning...He thought it was just another victim, just another mark...He thought he could do his job without turning the entire city against him... he was wrong.A series that brings to life the people who survive on the fringes and in the shadows of the Forgotten Realms® world - The Rogues.

Her name is Alias, and she is in big trouble. She is a sell-sword, a warrior-for-hire, and an adventuress. She awoke with a series of twisting, magical blue sigils inscribed on her arms and no memory of where she got them. Determined to learn the nature of the mysterious tattoo, Alias joins forces with an unlikely group of companions: the halfling bard, Olive Ruskettle, the southern mage, Akabar, and the oddly silent lizard-man, Dragonbait. With their help, she discovers that the symbols hold the key to her very existence. But those responsible for the sigils aren't keen on Alias's continued good health. And if the five evil masters find her first, she may discover all too soon their hideous secret.

Bhaal must be stopped! Someone is sabotaging the iron mines of the Sword Coast, pushing powerful realms toward a bloody war, and a young mercenary toward an unimaginable secret. Evil gods, giant spiders, murderous doppelgangers, flesh-eating ghouls, and wicked Zhentarim come to life in the action-packed novelization of the Baldur's Gate computer game from BioWare and Interplay.

Deep within the heart of Stardeep, valiant warriors protect the innocents around them from the horrors and madness confined within the fortress, but evil may escape when the only key to the dungeons beneath falls into unwitting hands.

This anthology presents thirteen of your favorite Ed Greenwood stories taken from over fifteen years of Forgotten Realms novels. In addition, this anthology contains three brand new stories by Ed Greenwood! Adventure across the myriad faces of Faerûn with warriors like Mirt the Moneylender and Alusair the Steel Regent, and with wizards like Elminster the Sage of Shadowdale and his three charges, Dove, Storm, and Laeral, as they roam the Realms, protecting the innocent from villainy, the ignorant from deception, and the insane from themselves. Contents "Not the Most Successful of Feasts", "Dark Talons Forbear Thee", "The Whispering Crown", "So High a Price", "One Comes, Unheralded, to Zirta", "A Dance in Storm's Garden", "A Slow Day in Skullport", "Bloodbound", "How Wisdom Came to the Maimed Wizard", "The Eye of the Dragon", "Nothing but Trouble", "The Grinning Ghost of Taverton Hall", "The Place Where Guards Snore at their Posts", "Living Forever", "The Long Road Home"

In the sequel to The Gossamer Plain, the succubus Aliisza and Kaanyr Vhok, the half-demon former commander of the Scoured Legion, find themselves trapped in Celestia, bound by divine oath to the whims of a determined angel.

The millennia-old history of Faerûn is punctuated by wars both local and world-spanning. This anthology of all new stories are set against the backdrop of a dozen of those conflicts. From forest elf assassins to jungle-dwelling halflings, from the mighty Seven Sisters to primitive goblins, warriors in every form struggle for their place in the Forgotten Realms world.

Hell hath such fury. On the world of his birth he's all but a god, but when an ancient evil banishes him to the depths of the Nine Hells, he's just another lost soul. Elminster, Sage of Shadowdale, Chosen of Mystra, faces his most desperate struggle—to survive, to escape, to cling to his very sanity—and all the forces of the inferno are rallied against him. Captured by a powerful demon, the Forgotten Realms legendary wizard is imprisoned in hell and tortured for his most prized and valuable possession—his mind. To resist means certain death, but to give in means absolute madness

"Arvin, a young rogue working the humanoid-serpent city of Hlondeth, must fight to stop Sibyl and her puppet organization The Pox from turning all humans into freakish tainted ones--slaves to heartless, serpentine master"--Cover.