The Sword of Knowledge

The Sword of Knowledge PDF Author: C. J. Cherryh
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 9780671876456
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A three-in-one volume combines the works of four popular authors, and includes "A Dirge for Sabis," "Wizard Spawn," and "Reap the Whirlwind."

The Sword of Knowledge

The Sword of Knowledge PDF Author: C. J. Cherryh
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 9780671876456
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
A three-in-one volume combines the works of four popular authors, and includes "A Dirge for Sabis," "Wizard Spawn," and "Reap the Whirlwind."

By the Sword

By the Sword PDF Author: Mercedes Lackey
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1101127260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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Granddaughter of the sorceress Kethry, daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run the family keep since her mother's untimely death. Yet now at last her brother was preparing to wed, and when his bride became the lady of the keep, Kerowyn could return to her true enjoyments - training horses and hunting. But all Kerowyn's hopes and plans were shattered when her anscestral home was attacked, her father slain, her brother wounded, and his fiancee kidnapped. Drive by desperation and the knowledge that a scorcerer had led the journey which would prove but he first step on the road to the fulfillment of her destiny.

Wizard Spawn

Wizard Spawn PDF Author: C. J. Cherryh
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 9780671698386
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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It has been 500 years since the fall of the Sabirn Empire, and the Sabirn people languish beneath the iron rule of the Ancar. But rumors fly that some Sabirn retain ancient occult knowledge, readying themselves to strike back at their hated masters.

Theonite

Theonite PDF Author: M. L. Wang
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535051026
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Joan Messi has spent thirteen lonely years hiding her supernatural abilities from her parents, her classmates, and everyone in her white bread suburban community. However, her little world of secrets is shattered when a pair of strangers arrive from a parallel dimension on the hunt for a nameless criminal. Now, after a lifetime of wondering how she got her powers, Joan might have found the beginnings of an answer. For Daniel Thundyil and his father, elemental powers and ego-maniacal supervillains are nothing new-although this is the first time a mission has brought them to a parallel dimension. Daniel's main concern in this new world isn't the looming threat of a godlike killer; it's fitting in at a school where the food is flavorless, everyone writes backwards in an ancient alphabet, and all the racial hierarchies seem to be reversed.

A Dirge for Sabis

A Dirge for Sabis PDF Author: C. J. Cherryh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671698249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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It is a grim time for the Empire of Sabis. The barbarian hordes are invading, yet no one in the capital city wants to believe the growing danger. No one, that is, except the philosopher-scientist, Sulun, and his followers. Advertising in Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle.

A Cavern of Black Ice

A Cavern of Black Ice PDF Author: J. V. Jones
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429975970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 794

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HIGH ADVENTURE ON THE SWORD EDGE OF DESTINY A Cavern of Black Ice is the first book in J.V. Jones's Sword of Shadow series As a newborn Ash March was abandoned--left for dead at the foot of a frozen mountain. Found and raised by the Penthero Iss, the mighty Surlord of Spire Vanis, she has always known she is different. Terrible dreams plague her and sometimes in the darkness she hears dread voices from another world. Iss watches her as she grows to womanhood, eager to discover what powers his ward might possess. As his interest quickens, he sends his living blade, Marafice Eye, to guard her night and day. Raif Sevrance, a young man of Clan Blackhail, also knows he is different, with uncanny abilities that distance him from the clan. But when he and his brother survive an ambush that plunges the entire Northern Territories into war, he yet seeks justice for his own . . . even if means he must forsake clan and kin. Ash and Raif must learn to master their powers and accept their joint fate if they are to defeat an ancient prophecy and prevent the release of the pure evil known as the End Lords. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Privilege of the Sword

The Privilege of the Sword PDF Author: Ellen Kushner
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553902830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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From the award-winning author of Swordspoint comes a witty, wicked coming-of-age story that is both edgy and timeless. . . . Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power and prestige in the city’s labyrinth of streets and ballrooms, theatres and brothels, boudoirs and salons. Into this alluring and alarming world walks a bright young woman ready to take it on and make her fortune. A well-bred country girl, Katherine knows all the rules of conventional society. Her biggest mistake is thinking they apply. Katherine’s host and uncle, Alec Campion, the capricious and decadent Mad Duke Tremontaine, is in charge here—and to him, rules are made to be broken. When he decides it would be far more amusing for his niece to learn swordplay than to follow the usual path to ballroom and husband, her world changes forever. And there’s no going back. Blade in hand, it’s up to Katherine to find her own way through a maze of secrets and betrayals, nobles and scoundrels—and to gain the power, respect, and self-discovery that come to those who master. . . . “Unholy fun, and wholly fun . . . an elegant riposte, dazzlingly executed.”—Gregory Maguire, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked

Living by the Sword

Living by the Sword PDF Author: Kristen Brooke Neuschel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501752138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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Sharpen your knowledge of swords with Kristen B. Neuschel as she takes you through a captivating 1,000 years of French and English history. Living by the Sword reveals that warrior culture, with the sword as its ultimate symbol, was deeply rooted in ritual long before the introduction of gunpowder weapons transformed the battlefield. Neuschel argues that objects have agency and that decoding their meaning involves seeing them in motion: bought, sold, exchanged, refurbished, written about, displayed, and used in ceremony. Drawing on evidence about swords (from wills, inventories, records of armories, and treasuries) in the possession of nobles and royalty, she explores the meanings people attached to them from the contexts in which they appeared. These environments included other prestige goods such as tapestries, jewels, and tableware—all used to construct and display status. Living by the Sword draws on an exciting diversity of sources from archaeology, military and social history, literature, and material culture studies to inspire students and educated lay readers (including collectors and reenactors) to stretch the boundaries of what they know as the "war and culture" genre.

Plowshares Into Swords

Plowshares Into Swords PDF Author: David Ekbladh
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226820491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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Book Description
Introduction: Knowledge in Exile -- The League Is the Thing: International Society's Super-University -- Plowshares into Swords: Knowledge, Weaponized -- Internationalist Dunkirk: International Society in Exile -- The Rover Boys of Reconstruction: International Society in the American World -- Coda: Great Leaps Forward.

The Sunflower Sword

The Sunflower Sword PDF Author: Mark Sperring
Publisher: Andersen Press USA
ISBN: 1467744352
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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In a land filled with fire and smoke and endless fighting, where knights fight dragons, there lives a little knight who wants to be big like the others, and fight like the others, and have a sword like the others. But his mother won’t let him. Instead of a sword, she gives him a sunflower, which, as it turns out, can be mightier than a sword.