Runes of the Lyre

Runes of the Lyre PDF Author: Ardath Mayhar
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479426822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Book Description
Created by the powerful Hasyisi, yet missing for centuries from its home world, the Lyre just hangs in a willow tree, waiting. Hasyih, the Heart of the Worlds, links contiguous dimensions, many worlds invisible to each other, yet accessible through doors on Hasyih, one of the keys to which is the Lyre. Now danger threatens both Hasyih and Ranuit, the only inhabited worlds in the group, and when a young girl takes the Lyre from the willow tree, a set of interlinked activities is set into motion. Moving from world to world, going into the hands of the one who needs it most at the time, the Lyre reveals its nature as not only a Key, but also as a Weapon, an Enigma, an Answer, and a resolution, affecting both Hasyih and Ranuit. And the girl Queen Yisri is the center of it all.

Runes of the Lyre

Runes of the Lyre PDF Author: Ardath Mayhar
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479426822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Book Description
Created by the powerful Hasyisi, yet missing for centuries from its home world, the Lyre just hangs in a willow tree, waiting. Hasyih, the Heart of the Worlds, links contiguous dimensions, many worlds invisible to each other, yet accessible through doors on Hasyih, one of the keys to which is the Lyre. Now danger threatens both Hasyih and Ranuit, the only inhabited worlds in the group, and when a young girl takes the Lyre from the willow tree, a set of interlinked activities is set into motion. Moving from world to world, going into the hands of the one who needs it most at the time, the Lyre reveals its nature as not only a Key, but also as a Weapon, an Enigma, an Answer, and a resolution, affecting both Hasyih and Ranuit. And the girl Queen Yisri is the center of it all.

The Riddle

The Riddle PDF Author: Alison Croggon
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763694444
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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Book Description
"First published by Penguin Books, Australia"--Copyright page.

The Lyre of Orpheus

The Lyre of Orpheus PDF Author: Christopher Partridge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199343403
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Book Description
The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces within which meaning is made. Popular music occupies a place of particular social and cultural significance. Christopher Partridge explores this significance, analyzing its complex relationships with the values and norms, texts and discourses, rituals and symbols, and codes and narratives of modern Western cultures. He shows how popular music's power to move, to agitate, to control listeners, to shape their identities, and to structure their everyday lives is central to constructions of the sacred and the profane. In particular, he argues that popular music can be important 'edgework,' challenging dominant constructions of the sacred in modern societies. Drawing on a wide range of musicians and musical genres, as well as a number of theoretical approaches from critical musicology, cultural theory, sociology, theology, and the study of religion, The Lyre of Orpheus reveals the significance and the progressive potential of popular music.

The Saga of Grittel Sundotha

The Saga of Grittel Sundotha PDF Author: Ardath Mayhar
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434402452
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Book Description
Seven-foot-tall Grittel, daughter of the Lord of Sundoth, has refused the impossible marriage arranged by her domineering mother. Now an embarrassment to her family, she is sent forth to make her own way in the world. But Grittel Sundotha is no shrinking maiden. Along the way she castrates a noble noted for his lechery; defeats the assassins he sends after her; and, having been trapped by a sorceress in an enchanted forest, winds up boiling the witch in her own cauldron, taking with her the spell book she finds there. This proves invaluable, for she finds that she has an innate gift for sorcery. When she meets a space ship's crew whose vessel has been pulled from their own dimension (where magic is impossible), into Grittel's (where technology does not work), she attempts to prove her abilities by "clearing" the Captain's head--and instead, inadvertently makes it invisible. She knows that she must find the wizard whose spell has trapped the ship, for only he can send the vessel home. But not all mages on this world practice white magic!

The Tulpa

The Tulpa PDF Author: Ardath Mayhar
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434402894
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Araminta Palomer, the oversheltered child of a wealthy family, enlivens her life by imagining a near-invisible animal playmate-Willbe. But "Minta" possesses an unsuspected psychic talent, and so she unwittingly creates a tulpa, an envisioned being that gradually becomes tangible, first to herself and then to others. Willbe seems a loving companion at first, but as Minta matures, he changes into an increasingly perilous and unreliable friend. Learning to un-create Willbe becomes Araminta's lifelong ambition, as he threatens her governess, her family -- and even herself! "Mayhar is a master at creating fantastical situations and strange creatures embedded within the everyday lives of attractive, recognizable characters. Her fans will love this new fantasy!" --Robert Reginald. First Publication in Book Form!

Deadly Memoir

Deadly Memoir PDF Author: Ardath Mayhar
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434403173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Book Description
When Margaret Thackrey, ex-government agent and writer, decides to pen her memoirs, she unwittingly gets the attention of a vicious assassin--a man whose nefarious deeds she'd nearly uncovered during her service. Now he must stop the publication of her book before his true character is revealed. He murders her husband, and stalks her from Oregon to Texas. There she must finally confront her past--and a determined, stone-cold killer! "A first-rate thriller--the almost unbearable suspense just ratchets up, chapter by chapter"--Robert Reginald.

The Absolutely Perfect Horse

The Absolutely Perfect Horse PDF Author: Ardath Mayhar
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 143440319X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Book Description
The formerly noble, now downtrodden horse known as Dogmeat helps Annie and her family reassess their values.

The Loquat Eyes

The Loquat Eyes PDF Author: Ardath Mayhar
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434457850
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Book Description
Solomon Peat, the wry narrator of Slewfoot Sally and the Flying Mule, returns with 17 more tall tales of Cotton County, Texas, including "The Day of the Boomers," "Fierce as a Banty Hen," "The Ring-Tailed Sidewinder," "The Skunk Works," "The Crooked-Tail Cow," and "The Loquat Eyes." Also featured are two original children's fantasies, "The Jeweled Mouse" and "The Kingdom of Yip."

Stay

Stay PDF Author: John Clute
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473219817
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 371

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Book Description
Stay gathers together 100,000 words of reviews, plus short fiction by John Clute, and was originally published to coincide with Loncon3 (the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention) at which he was one of the Guests of Honour. Also included is a complete reprint of the text of The Darkening Garden.

Makra Choria

Makra Choria PDF Author: Ardath Mayhar
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434403114
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Book Description
The hereditary rulers of Sherath have psychic powers that can bring great good or evil to their people. When the Makra Theora murders her father and seizes his throne, her sister, the Makra Choria, raises an army, captures her sibling, and removes the "Gift" from both of them. Then Choria tries to undo the damage that her sister has done to Sherath and the surrounding states--and to fix Theora herself, if that's possible. "A fantasy world of great beauty, beautifully realized by a master writer"--Robert Reginald.