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Herald Mags, the King of Valdemar's Herald Spy, has been developing a network of young informants who operate on the streets and also in the halls and kitchens of the wealthy and highborn. His wife Amily is King's Own Herald and finds it useful to be underestimated for there are dark things stirring in the shadows of Haven. Someone has discovered many secrets of the women of the Court and the Collegia and is using those secrets to terrorize and bully...
7) Changes
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Series
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DAW Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The orphan Magpie pursues his quest for his parents' identity with burning urgency--while also discovering another hidden talent and being trained as an undercover agent. Shy Bardic Trainee Lena has to face her famous but uncaring father, one of Valdemar's most renowned Bards. And Healing Trainee Bear must struggle against his disapproving parents, who are pressuring Bear to quit the Healers' Collegium because he lacks the magical Healing Gift.
8) Foundation
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Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
Description
In this chronicle of the early history of Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey's bestselling world, a thirteen-year-old orphan named Magpie escapes a life of slavery in the gem mines when he is chosen by one of the magical Companion horses of Valdemar to be trained as a Herald. Thrust into the center of a legend in the making, Magpie discovers talents he never knew he had--and witnesses the founding of the great Heralds' Collegium.
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Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 26
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English
Description
High Magic had been lost to Valdemar centuries ago when the last Herald-Mage gave his life to save the kingdom from destruction by dark sorceries. Yet now the realm is at risk again. And Elsperth, Herald and heir to the throne, must take up the challenge, abandoning her home to find a mentor who can awaken her untrained mage ablities.
10) Beyond
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Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Duke Kordas Valdemar, the ruler of a small, bucolic duchy within the Eastern Empire, formulates a plan to allow him and his people to flee from the Empire's militant and tyrannical leaders after a mage discovers a way to place a Gate so far from the Empire that the Emperor cannot follow or find them.
12) Brightly burning
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Distributed by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
©2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Lackey's first major stand-alone novel set in Valdemar tells the legend of Lavan Firestorm, a young man blessed and cursed with a special talent for starting fires. His legend has haunted the darkest corners of Valdemar, yet the truth has never been told.
13) Arrow's fall
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Valdemar universe. Heralds of Valdemar volume 3
DAW book collectors volume no. 732
Heralds of Valdemar trilogy volume 3
DAW book collectors volume no. 732
Heralds of Valdemar trilogy volume 3
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
Talia, Herald to the Queen of Valdemar, travels to a neighboring realm to investigate a prince's proposal to marry the Queen's heir, but discovers an evil plot to destroy Valdemar.
14) By the sword
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Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 30
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English
Description
Granddaughter of a sorceress and daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run the family keep since her mother's untimely death. Now all of her hopes and plans to return to training horses and hunting have been shattered by an attack on her ancestral home, the death of her father, the wounding of her brother and the kidnapping of his fiance.
15) Into the west
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Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Baron Valdemar and his people have found a temporary haven, but it cannot hold all of them, or for long. Trouble could follow on their heels at any moment, and there are too many people for Crescent Lake to support. Those who are willing to make a further trek by barge on into the West will follow him into a wilderness depopulated by war and scarred by the terrible magics of a thousand years ago and the Mage Wars. But the wilderness is not as empty...
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Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Arrow's fall: Talia, Herald to the Queen of Valdemar, travels to a neighboring realm to investigate a prince's proposal to marry the Queen's heir, but discovers an evil plot to destroy Valdemar.
Arrow's flight: Talia, having mastered her psychic and empathic powers, is chosen to be a Herald by the Companions, but must face a testing period before she becomes the Queen's protector.
Arrows of the queen: Talia, a runaway Holdgirl, is chosen to become...
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Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Heralds Mags and Amily must continue to protect the realm of Valdemar while raising their children and preparing them to follow in their footsteps...The oldest, Justyn, has the Gift of animal Mindspeech--he can talk to animals and persuade them to act as he wishes. Justyn's dream is to follow in his father's footsteps as a Herald Spy, but has yet to be Chosen by his horse companion...Mags proposes that Justyn join a group of traveling players and...
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Mags was once an enslaved orphan living a harsh life in the mines until the King's Own Herald discovered his talent and trained him as a spy. Now a Herald in his own right, at the newly established Heralds' Collegium, Mags has found a supportive family, including his Companion Dallen. Although normally a Herald in his first year of Whites would be sent off on circuit, Mags is needed close to home for his abilities as a spy and his powerful Mindspeech...
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