Scholarly Magics Author: Caroline Stevermer
	Book Information Book Type: Hardcover Members Wishing: 2 Rating: 4 ISBN-13: 9780739443170 - ISBN-10: 0739443178 Publication Date: 2004 Book Reviews

[This edition includes two novels: A College of Magics and A Scholar of Magics.] Faris Nallaneen is eighteen, tall and gawky and redheaded. She's also the Duchess of Galazon, if she can keep her wicked uncle Brinker from seizing power. To get her ou of the way, Brinker ships her off to Greenlaw College, where young women with talent can learn magic. And when she walks through the gates of Greenlaw--the visible built of oak, the invisible built of the Dean's will--her life changes. She will make a friend, the sity and accomplished young English scholar Jane Brailsford. She'll make a deadly enemy, Menary Paganell, heiress to the kingdom of Aravill--to which Faris also has a claim. And--although it isn't exactly taught there--she'll learn magic. Magic which will save her life, her friends, and ultimately, the world. Glasscastle is Greenlaw's male equivalent, but Samuel Lambert doesn't go there as a student. He's a sharpshooter from Wyoming, late of Kiowa Bob's Wild West Show, and the senior fellows of Glasscastle want his skill with a pistol for their top secret Agincourt Project. Samuel anticipates no danger (apart from English snobbery and cooking), and his life looks good when his host's sister, Jane Brailsford, comes for a visit. Until, that is, he finds himself caught up in a whirwind of assaults, abductions, secret weapons, and sinister (thought courteous) dons. It's almost too much for him . . . though not, of course, for Jane . . .