Author: Arthur Olney FrielPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia)
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
The River of Seven Stars
Author: Arthur Olney FrielPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia)
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Seven-Star Bird
Author: David DanielPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
David Daniel explores a city-entire lives-swept clean off the map in this haunting debut As breezes lap the shallow-tugged tide flow And swallows twitter and skirt the dusk, We lie within the wreckage of the stars- The moon spill, our planets' pull-this sad machine.
River of Stars
Author: Guy Gavriel KayPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101608935
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
“River of Stars is a major accomplishment, the work of a master novelist in full command of his subject.”—Michael Dirda, in The Washington Post “Game of Thrones in China.”—Salon.com Ren Daiyan was still just a boy when he took the lives of seven men while guarding an imperial magistrate. That moment on a lonely road changed his life in entirely unexpected ways, sending him into the forests of Kitai among the outlaws. From there he emerges years later—and his life changes again, dramatically, as he circles toward the court and emperor, while war approaches Kitai from the north. Lin Shan is the daughter of a scholar, his beloved only child. Educated by him in ways young women never are, gifted as a songwriter and calligrapher, she finds herself living a life suspended between two worlds. Her intelligence captivates an emperor—and alienates women at the court. But when her father’s life is endangered by the savage politics of the day, Shan must act in ways no woman ever has. In an empire divided by bitter factions circling an exquisitely cultured emperor who loves his gardens and his art far more than the burdens of governing, dramatic events on the northern steppe alter the balance of power in the world, leading to events no one could have foretold, under the river of stars.
The Wreck of the River of Stars
Author: Michael FlynnPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429973951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Michael Flynn has written the best SF in the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein of the last decade. His major work was the Firestar sequence, a four-book future history. "As Robert A. Heinlein did and all too few have done since, Michael Flynn writes about the near future as if he'd been there and was bringing back reports of what he'd seen," said Harry Turtledove. Now, in this sweeping stand-alone epic of the spaceways, Flynn grows again in stature, with an SF novel worthy of the master himself. Indeed, if Heinlein's famous character, the space-faring poet Rhysling, had ever written a novel, this would be it. This is a compelling tale of the glory that was. In the days of the great sailing ships, in the mid-twenty-first century, when magnetic sails drew cargo and passengers alike to every corner of the solar system, sailors had the highest status of all spacemen, and the crew of the luxury liner the River of Stars, the highest among all sailors. But development of the Farnsworth fusion drive doomed the sailing ships, and now the River of Stars is the last of its kind, retrofitted with engines, her mast vestigial, her sails unraised for years. An ungainly hybrid, she operates in the late years of the century as a mere tramp freighter among the outer planets, and her crew is a motley group of misfits. Stepan Gorgas is the escapist executive officer who becomes captain. Ramakrishnan Bhatterji is the chief engineer who disdains him. Eugenie Satterwaithe, once a captain herself, is third officer and, for form's sake, sailing master. When an unlikely and catastrophic engine failure strikes the River, Bhatterji is confident he can effect repairs with heroic engineering, but Satterwaithe and the other sailors among the crew plot to save her with a glorious last gasp for the old ways, mesmerized by a vision of arriving at Jupiter proudly under sail. The story of their doom has the power, the poetry, and the inevitability of a Greek tragedy. This is a great science fiction novel, Flynn's best yet. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Revelation
Author: Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857861018
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
The Jewel of Seven Stars
Author: Bram StokerPublisher: BompaCrazy.com
ISBN:
Category : Archaeologists
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Under Heaven
Author: Guy Gavriel KayPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110118700X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Award-winning author Guy Gavriel Kay evokes the dazzling Tang Dynasty of 8th-century China in an masterful story of honor and power. It begins simply. Shen Tai, son of an illustrious general serving the Emperor of Kitai, has spent two years honoring the memory of his late father by burying the bones of the dead from both armies at the site of one of his father's last great battles. In recognition of his labors and his filial piety, an unlikely source has sent him a dangerous gift: 250 Sardian horses. You give a man one of the famed Sardian horses to reward him greatly. You give him four or five to exalt him above his fellows, propel him towards rank, and earn him jealousy, possibly mortal jealousy. Two hundred and fifty is an unthinkable gift, a gift to overwhelm an emperor. Wisely, the gift comes with the stipulation that Tai must claim the horses in person. Otherwise he would probably be dead already...
The Star at the End of the River
Author: Paul VincentPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450282423
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
From an early age, author Paul Vincent has been drawn to the night. With hope and joy, he has looked forward to sunsets and oncoming nights, a attitude counter to a thousand common religious metaphors. In The Star at the End of the River, Vincent shares his important life experiences in order to illustrate how to transform conventional religious ideas about darkness. Bringing to bear his forty years' experience as an amateur astronomer, Vincent shows how sustained night-sky observation enhances the human receptivity to transcendent departure. He examines one of the many treasures of the heavens, a star-which, under the paradoxes of the mystical journey, is the most apt symbol of the human hope for eternal happiness. The Star at the End of the River proposes a new kind of mysticism-an ascent, not of a mountain, as in the traditional metaphor, but of an inclined plane. Vincent sketches a spiritual journey of marked gradualism and invites contemplation of the mystical power of such pedestrian experiences and objects as supermarket aisles, interior stairways, gooseflesh, and penmanship.
The Great Mother, Alchemy and David Jones
Author: Birgit Dyone EdwallPublisher: Author House
ISBN: 1418423939
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This is a book about sacred symbols from all over the world. All told by beings protected by the Great Mother, she who once was the very Heart and Soul of every godchild. And still is! Tumbling through the tale, the Little people, will share their gifts with the readers. Here you will find the mystical quintessence, the treasures, the alchemical gems, long sought in many legends, lores and mysteries created on Earth. The great plunge into the wet is a great lesson for Heart to redefine her positions, while she highlights the pollution of Mother Earth. The Great Mother is Mother Nature, the archetypal woman in God and the long lost Goddess. Her story, with the wee folks illustrious wits and zealous labours, is personally and magnificently told Time Lords, shape shifters and animals will speak; a Sun master will rise above the horizon. A Star temple will emerge from the very land of the Grail, the land of Merlin, and also, of a mystical David Jones! Readers will be given insight into the craft of rolling the rocks, or true Masonry, as it has never been done before. The question may arise, did one half of soul miss out on something vitally important while stuck head-long on working the physical gold?
The River and the Desart
Author: Miss Pardoe (Julia)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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