Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 184767965X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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As the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside. Struggling to make sense of her new wartime life, she is given a copy of a book of ancient Norse myths and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, Byatt’s mesmerising tale - inspired by the myth of Ragnarok - is a landmark piece of storytelling from one of the world's truly great writers.
Author: Mickey Zucker Reichert
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1101663898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Book one of the acclaimed, bestselling epic fantasy Renshai Chronicles—discover the intricate Renshai universe, infused with Norse mythology, tangled intrigue, and cataclysmic magical battles. They’ve survived the end of the universe. But now, nearly three hundred years after the time of Ragnarok—the death battle of the gods—humankind faces a new and potentially fatal trial. The balance between Law and Chaos has long been maintained by the rulers of Bearn, but with the current king dying, a new keeper of neutrality must be found among his heirs. When the search becomes desperate, a small band forms in secret to seek out the last possible heir. The team—consisting of the king’s granddaughter, a knight in training, an apprentice bard, a young and untested Renshai warrior, and a fickle thief—struggle to survive the perils of the wild as well as enemies equipped with magical powers. And if any of them actually reach their goal, can they bring the one remaining heir back to Bearn alive?
Author: Tim Korklewski
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472832825
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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The end of the Aesir has come, but not as the prophecies foretold. The dread dragon Niddhoggr has devoured the roots of the World Ash, Yggdrasil, and the great tree has toppled onto its side, crashing the realms of mortal and supernatural together. With the gods dead and the fires of ruin consuming the world, your war clan of Viking warriors know what they must do to survive the destruction of the Nine Realms and restore order: they must become the new gods! Ragnarok is a campaign-driven skirmish game in which players form a Viking war clan seeking to prove itself worthy of becoming the new pantheon. The use of a mechanic called Godspark means that battles are no longer determined by merely striking an opponent and dealing damage. Instead, warriors will be pushing, throwing, and crashing their opponents around the battlefield, making their very environment a weapon. As the war clans develop, they may gain glorious new powers that will bring them closer to godhood, or win the respect of the denizens of the realms, allowing them to bring dire wolves, dwarves, and even the dreaded giants into their war clans. With strategic gameplay and epic storytelling, players must write their own sagas and tell of how their war clans have, through blood and steel, clawed their way up from ruin to stand before the halls of Valhalla.
Author: Shinya Umemura,Takumi Fukui
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974729419
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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The valkyrie Brunhilde has convinced the gods to give humanity a chance at redemption through combat in the Valhalla arena. Seeking a quick end to the proceedings, the gods present their first fighter, Thor, the Norse god of thunder. Facing him is a warrior said to be the strongest in the history of mankind, the legendary general Lü Bu! -- VIZ Media
Author: Andrew M. Tanner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 527
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Six friends go hiking in Iceland and are dragged into the middle of a bizarre plot to end all Worlds. Inner Sol, 2147 An Insurgence Raider soars past a constellation of Habitats - gigantic space stations where billions of people have been exiled from Earth by the Terrestrial Governing Authority. Yarielis has no idea her autism makes her the ideal biological component of a battle-hungry sentient spaceship named Olga. Or that her brother Loucas is the key to triggering a rebellion against TGA oppression. Hunted as criminals, siblings from Puerto Rico are thrust into the center of an epic struggle waged across the colonized solar system. Post-America, 2041 Rival factions vie for control of hundreds of nuclear weapons lurking under the former state of Montana, their silos guarded by a UN-backed private military organization calling itself the Missoula Regiment. Kim, Timur, and Patrick appear in the middle of a firefight, mistaken for new recruits by former U.S. Army sergeant Sandra Chavez, a woman with the dust of way too many deployments on her combat boots. And the friends' appearance in Idaho has immediate consequences certain to plunge the region into a new round of violence. Europe, 1944 Adolf Hitler and his vicious Nazi regime are less than a year from total defeat. A group of military officers, desperate to prevent Germany's complete annihilation, are about to attempt his assassination - and fail. Eryn finds herself face to face with the Fuhrer himself in Rastenburg, Prussia on 20 July - and she knows just enough about Operation Valkyrie to change the course of history. But helping the German Resistance overthrow the Nazis means Eryn is trapped on the wrong side of the lines in the bitter final year of the Second World War, a rebel officer named Hans Lewinsky by her side - true motivations unknown. The Metaverse On top of everything - there's something much, much worse on the way - for everyone in the Nine Worlds. Turns out, mythology really is garbled memory of the true nature of reality. And all beings, mortal and god alike, must prepare to face their final Twilight... Ragnarok! Excerpts from reader reviews" Enough to keep my overactive, well-read, and picky mind happy." Austinmom" Really got sucked into the world of this book. " rchuask"Not only is the lore treated well but the descriptions of the timelines the six friends are thrust into are also very realistic. " R.Bowman"Andrew Tanner has a wild imagination and fresh ideas." Amazon Customer"I would highly recommend to anyone with an imagination and inquisitive nature." Sherman"I am intrigued to anticipate where this Saga will take me in future books in the series. Well done!" dst
Author: Dennis J. Barton
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462024785
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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In a world where the old gods of all religions have returned to rule the earth, and North America is ruled by the ancient Norse pantheon, Lucky is the sheriff of Ragged Rock County, where all types of mythical monsters live apart from normal humans. Lucky was appointed to this position by his old college pal, the Norse god Thor. It's a dangerous life but a good one, keeping order among frost-giants, vampires, were-beasts and other frightful creatures, and Lucky does well for his wives and his children. But, in the course of his daily duties on Midgard, his official visits to Asgard, and a series of flashbacks to his college days with Thor, Lucky begins to suspect that all is not as it seems. When the sheriff's station is destroyed by a mysterious and powerful new monster, Lucky is drawn into a web of danger and intrigue and must seek the deeply-hidden truth.
Author: Ingri D'Aulaire
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book jackets
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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A collection of the myths of the Norsemen, containing stories of the gods Odin, Thor, Loki, Njord, Frey, and the others of the Aesir.
Author: Tim Korklewski
Publisher: Osprey Games
ISBN: 1472832817
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Ragnarok is a campaign-driven skirmish game in which players form a Viking war clan seeking to prove itself worthy of becoming the new pantheon. The use of a mechanic called Godspark means that battles are no longer determined by merely striking an opponent and dealing damage. Instead, warriors will be pushing, throwing, and crashing their opponents around the battlefield, making their very environment a weapon. As the war clans develop, they may gain glorious new powers that will bring them closer to godhood, or win the respect of the denizens of the realms, allowing them to bring dire wolves, dwarves, and even the dreaded giants into their war clans. With strategic gameplay and epic storytelling, players must write their own sagas and tell of how their war clans have, through blood and steel, clawed their way up from ruin to stand before the halls of Valhalla. The end of the Aesir has come, but not as the prophecies foretold. The dread dragon Niddhoggr has devoured the roots of the World Ash, Yggdrasil, and the great tree has toppled onto its side, crashing the realms of mortal and supernatural together. With the gods dead and the fires of ruin consuming the world, your war clan of Viking warriors know what they must do to survive the destruction of the Nine Realms and restore order: they must become the new gods!
Author: Myung-Jin Lee
Publisher: TokyoPop
ISBN: 9781591825913
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Terry Unger
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781462083329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Wodan sat back in his High Seat as he looked back over the last ten years. The mess known as Discovery Center had been eliminated and Midgard was free....... Morgan vividly remembered the conversation that he and his sister had with his goddess birth mother, the Morrigan, and Freya before the Discovery Center assault. Morgan found out that, had Freya had a different disposition, she would have been chosen as his goddess birth mother and not the Morrigan. That fact did not sit well with him, when he considered that Freya wanted to seduce him to piss off the Morrigan....... Freya had picked up the slack for Sunny, preforming the various duties that fell to Sunny after her mother Ginas death. It appeared to Freya, and too many other gods and goddesses, that Sunny was a woman beyond redemption.......
