04483cam a2200709 i 4500 351609640 TxAuBib 20120101120000.0 980722s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 98037954 9780553108033 $25.95 0553108034 $25.95 TxAuBib rda Martin, George R. R. A clash of kings : book two of A song of ice and fire / George R.R. Martin. New York : Bantam Books, 1999. 761 p. : maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier song of ice and fire, A ; 2 "Spectra.". Sequel to: A game of thrones. Maps on lining papers. Replacement. Sequel to: A game of thrones. "Time is out of joint. The summer of peace and plenty, ten years long, is drawing to a close, and the harsh, chill winter approaches like an angry beast. Two great leaders--Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon--who held sway over an age of enforced peace are dead ... victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns, as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms prepare to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. As a prophecy of doom cuts across the sky--a comet the color of blood and flame--six factions struggle for control of a divided land. Eddard's son Robb has declared himself King in the North. In the south, Joffrey, the heir apparent, rules in name only, victim of the scheming courtiers who teem over King's Landing. Robert's two brothers each seek their own dominion, while a disfavored house turns once more to conquest. And a continent away, an exiled queen, the Mother of Dragons, risks everything to lead her precious brood across a hard hot desert to win back the crown that is rightfully hers. A Clash of Kings transports us into a magnificent, forgotten land of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare. It is a tale in which maidens cavort with madmen, brother plots against brother, and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, the price of glory may be measured in blood. And the spoils of victory may just go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel ... and the coldest hearts. For when rulers clash, all of the land feels the tremors. Audacious, inventive, brilliantly imagined, A Clash of Kings is a novel of dazzling beauty and boundless enchantment--a tale of pure excitement you will never forget." --Amazon. Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.5 49.0 146645. 20120101. Locus Awards, 1999. Kings and rulers Fiction. Courts and courtiers Fiction. Princesses Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Monarchy Fiction. Imaginary places Fiction. Imaginary wars and battles Fiction. Civil war Fiction. Alchemy Fiction. Magic Fiction. Good and evil Fiction. Alchemy. fast Civil war. fast Courts and courtiers. fast Good and evil. fast Imaginary places. fast Imaginary wars and battles. fast Inheritance and succession. fast Kings and rulers. fast Magic. fast Monarchy. fast Princesses. fast Science fiction. fast Fantasy fiction. fast Fiction. fast Fantasy fiction. fast Science fiction. fast A song of ice and fire ; 2. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0414/98037954.html Publisher description https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random058/98037954.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/98037954.html Sample text