Author: Tad Williams
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 0756404711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
With their father and brother taken from them, the royal Eddon twins Barrick and Briony have done their best to hold the kingdom together. But now Barrick has been captured in a failed war against the immortal Twilight People, and Briony has been forced to flee the castle. Everywhere in the north the fierce Twilight People, led by the ageless warrior- witch Yasammez, hold sway. Old magics are stirring beneath the ancient castle and behind the Shadowline, and the machinations of gods, fairies, and mortals threaten to spread devastation across the entire world.
Shadowplay
Author: Tad Williams
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 0756404711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
With their father and brother taken from them, the royal Eddon twins Barrick and Briony have done their best to hold the kingdom together. But now Barrick has been captured in a failed war against the immortal Twilight People, and Briony has been forced to flee the castle. Everywhere in the north the fierce Twilight People, led by the ageless warrior- witch Yasammez, hold sway. Old magics are stirring beneath the ancient castle and behind the Shadowline, and the machinations of gods, fairies, and mortals threaten to spread devastation across the entire world.
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 0756404711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
With their father and brother taken from them, the royal Eddon twins Barrick and Briony have done their best to hold the kingdom together. But now Barrick has been captured in a failed war against the immortal Twilight People, and Briony has been forced to flee the castle. Everywhere in the north the fierce Twilight People, led by the ageless warrior- witch Yasammez, hold sway. Old magics are stirring beneath the ancient castle and behind the Shadowline, and the machinations of gods, fairies, and mortals threaten to spread devastation across the entire world.
Return to the Central Sun
Author: Gary Francis Dini
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982248637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
At 450 years old, Orville Parker has hardly aged. He lives on the Planet Mirror, near the Grand Central Sun. Born on earth during the time of Galactic Contact after the Pleiadians ended thousands of years of isolation. He is given a task by the Pleiadian Elders to help facilitate the evolution of humanity, as the diaspora begins and earth’s inhabitants set forth to explore and settle throughout the galaxy. The Light and Dark face off on the Planet Tatochin where the Colonial Corporation, and its nefarious allies the Centurians and the Dravithians, enslave yet one more planet in the galaxy for their own greed. The rebels of Tatochin supported by Orville, the Pleiadians, and other secret allies, challenge these dominating forces with pluck and verve. Amidst the play of dynamic and heartfelt action, a subtle infiltration of a symbiotic life form, the Tharrr, offers the experience of unity consciousness to its host. The backdrop of blossoming new love and the striving for the spiritual ideal of harmonious living, carries the interplay of authentic and larger than life characters to a new level on the journey to Cosmic Consciousness.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982248637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
At 450 years old, Orville Parker has hardly aged. He lives on the Planet Mirror, near the Grand Central Sun. Born on earth during the time of Galactic Contact after the Pleiadians ended thousands of years of isolation. He is given a task by the Pleiadian Elders to help facilitate the evolution of humanity, as the diaspora begins and earth’s inhabitants set forth to explore and settle throughout the galaxy. The Light and Dark face off on the Planet Tatochin where the Colonial Corporation, and its nefarious allies the Centurians and the Dravithians, enslave yet one more planet in the galaxy for their own greed. The rebels of Tatochin supported by Orville, the Pleiadians, and other secret allies, challenge these dominating forces with pluck and verve. Amidst the play of dynamic and heartfelt action, a subtle infiltration of a symbiotic life form, the Tharrr, offers the experience of unity consciousness to its host. The backdrop of blossoming new love and the striving for the spiritual ideal of harmonious living, carries the interplay of authentic and larger than life characters to a new level on the journey to Cosmic Consciousness.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Shadowheart
Author: Tad Williams
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756407656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Something is awakening beneath Southmarch Castle. It falls to Princess Brionyand Price Barrick to find a way to save their world and prevent the rise of aterrible new age, in this final volume in the Shadowmarch saga.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756407656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Something is awakening beneath Southmarch Castle. It falls to Princess Brionyand Price Barrick to find a way to save their world and prevent the rise of aterrible new age, in this final volume in the Shadowmarch saga.
Shadowmarch
Author: Tad Williams
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1101462272
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
For generations the misty Shadowline has marked the boundary between the lands of men and the lost northern lands that are the lair of their inhuman enemies, the ageless Qar. but now that boundary line is moving outward, threatening to engulf the northernmost land in which humans still live--the kingdom of Southmarch. For centuries, the Eddon family has ruled in ancient, forbidding Southmarch Castle, guarding the border against the Qar's return, but now this powerful royal line has been dealt a devestating blow. The monarch, King Olin, is being held captive in a distant land, and it falls to his inexperienced heirs to lead their people in a time of growing danger and dread. It is on the two youngest Eddons that the heaviest burdens fall. The twins Barrick and Briony, who in such evil times have only each other, may lose even that bond as darkness closes over them. As the Qar's power reaches out across their land, will Southmarch Castle, the only home they've ever known, become in fact what it has long been called--Shadowmarch?
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1101462272
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
For generations the misty Shadowline has marked the boundary between the lands of men and the lost northern lands that are the lair of their inhuman enemies, the ageless Qar. but now that boundary line is moving outward, threatening to engulf the northernmost land in which humans still live--the kingdom of Southmarch. For centuries, the Eddon family has ruled in ancient, forbidding Southmarch Castle, guarding the border against the Qar's return, but now this powerful royal line has been dealt a devestating blow. The monarch, King Olin, is being held captive in a distant land, and it falls to his inexperienced heirs to lead their people in a time of growing danger and dread. It is on the two youngest Eddons that the heaviest burdens fall. The twins Barrick and Briony, who in such evil times have only each other, may lose even that bond as darkness closes over them. As the Qar's power reaches out across their land, will Southmarch Castle, the only home they've ever known, become in fact what it has long been called--Shadowmarch?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368800663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368800663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
The Abode of Snow. Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, Through the Upper Valley of the Himalaya
Author: Andrew Wilson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385524334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385524334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Shadowrise
Author: Tad Williams
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1101458038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
A year ago, the March Kingdoms were at peace, the Eddon family held the throne, and all was right in Southmarch Castle. Now the family has been shattered. King Olin Eddon is a prisoner and his heir is slain. The royal twins Barrick and Briony have done their best to hold the kingdom together, but now Barrick has been captured and Briony has been forced to flee the castle. Old magics are stirring beneath the ancient castle and behind the Shadowline, and the machinations of gods, fairies, and mortals threaten to spread devastation across the entire world.
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1101458038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
A year ago, the March Kingdoms were at peace, the Eddon family held the throne, and all was right in Southmarch Castle. Now the family has been shattered. King Olin Eddon is a prisoner and his heir is slain. The royal twins Barrick and Briony have done their best to hold the kingdom together, but now Barrick has been captured and Briony has been forced to flee the castle. Old magics are stirring beneath the ancient castle and behind the Shadowline, and the machinations of gods, fairies, and mortals threaten to spread devastation across the entire world.
The Abode of Snow
Author: Andrew Wilson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385394570
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385394570
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Nature's Embrace
Author: Satsuki Kawano
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824833724
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Based on extensive fieldwork, Nature’s Embrace reveals the emerging pluralization of death rites in postindustrial Japan. Low birth rates and high numbers of people remaining permanently single have led to a shortage of ceremonial caregivers (most commonly married sons and their wives) to ensure the transformation of the dead into ancestors resting in peace. Consequently, older adults are increasingly uncertain about who will perform memorial rites for them and maintain their graves. In this study, anthropologist Satsuki Kawano examines Japan’s changing death rites from the perspective of those who elect to have their cremated remains scattered and celebrate their return to nature. For those without children, ash scattering is an effective strategy, as it demands neither a grave nor a caretaker. However, the adoption of ash scattering is not limited to the childless. By forgoing graves and lightening the burden on younger generations to care for them, this new mortuary practice has given its proponents an increased sense of control over their posthumous existence. By choosing ash scattering, older adults contest their dependent status in Japanese society, which increasingly views the aged as passive care recipients. As such, this study explores not only new developments in mortuary practices, but also voices for increased self-sufficiency in late adulthood and the elderly’s reshaping of ties with younger generations. Nature’s Embrace offers insightful discussion on the rise of new death rites and ideologies, older adults’ views of their death rites, and Japan’s changing society through the eyes of aging urbanites. This book will engage a wide range of readers interested in death and culture, mortuary ritual, and changes in age relations in postindustrial societies.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824833724
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Based on extensive fieldwork, Nature’s Embrace reveals the emerging pluralization of death rites in postindustrial Japan. Low birth rates and high numbers of people remaining permanently single have led to a shortage of ceremonial caregivers (most commonly married sons and their wives) to ensure the transformation of the dead into ancestors resting in peace. Consequently, older adults are increasingly uncertain about who will perform memorial rites for them and maintain their graves. In this study, anthropologist Satsuki Kawano examines Japan’s changing death rites from the perspective of those who elect to have their cremated remains scattered and celebrate their return to nature. For those without children, ash scattering is an effective strategy, as it demands neither a grave nor a caretaker. However, the adoption of ash scattering is not limited to the childless. By forgoing graves and lightening the burden on younger generations to care for them, this new mortuary practice has given its proponents an increased sense of control over their posthumous existence. By choosing ash scattering, older adults contest their dependent status in Japanese society, which increasingly views the aged as passive care recipients. As such, this study explores not only new developments in mortuary practices, but also voices for increased self-sufficiency in late adulthood and the elderly’s reshaping of ties with younger generations. Nature’s Embrace offers insightful discussion on the rise of new death rites and ideologies, older adults’ views of their death rites, and Japan’s changing society through the eyes of aging urbanites. This book will engage a wide range of readers interested in death and culture, mortuary ritual, and changes in age relations in postindustrial societies.