Author: Kate Forsyth
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451456915
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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A new age dawns in the kingdom of Eileanan, but not without resistance. Now the Righ, Lachlan the Winged, overturns his dead brother’s decrees against witchcraft. But sixteen years of hatred and superstition have cloaked Eileanan in darkness. And though he has won the power of the Lodestar, Lachlan’s rule is challenged by a mere babe—and a civil war erupts. The flame-haired twins—Iseult the Scarred Warrior and Isabeau the apprentice-witch—must go their separate ways. Iseult to fight side by side with her husband, Lachlan. Isabeau to the Cursed Towers, to master her powers and to find the family she has never known. One woman battling for a new reign, one woman learning the old ways, their separate threads will twist and turn into a tale of mayhem, mystery, and magic.
Author: Roger Crowley
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300248857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immediacy, Roger Crowley chronicles the tumultuous and violent attack on Acre, the heaviest bombardment before the age of gunpowder, which left this once great Mediterranean city a crumbling ruin.The ‘Accursed Tower’ was the focal point of this siege. As the last garrison of the Crusader defences, it came to symbolise the disintegration of the old world and the rise of a new era of Islamic jihad. Crowley’s narrative is based on forensic research, drawing heavily on little known first hand sources, both Christian and Arabic. This is a fast-paced and gripping account of a pivotal moment in world history.
Author: Kate Forsyth
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451456890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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Named Best First Novel by Locus 'Twas a time when dragons left their lair and evil shadowed the land.... On the Day of Reckoning, the witches of Eileanan were outlawed--and violations of the new order were punishable by death. Eileanan's Great Towers, once meccas of magic and learning, were left in ruins. And now, the entire land trembles in fear.... Yet deep in the mountains, in the shadow of Dragonclaw, a young girl is being tutored in the old ways. Ignorant of her past, uncertain of her future, the foundling Isabeau will soon be forced down a dangerous path of prophesy, conspiracy, and magic. It is a world where dragons possess the key to ancient mysteries...where a lost prince will discover a strange and wondrous destiny...and where the ultimate battle between good and evil will be waged.... A new Day of Reckoning is at hand....
Author: Nevill Gauntlett M. Meakin
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Category : Assassins
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Author: Kate Forsyth
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101043601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
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One-Horn’s daughter is not like the others of her kind. Born of a human father, she lacks the horns so prized by her people and is scorned even by her own mother. Her only chance for escape is to capture one of the legendary flying horses and ride it to freedom. So this strange, feral girl begins a dangerous journey of love, death, and betrayal that will earn her a new name: Rhiannon, the rider no one can catch. Rescued and taken to the home of Lewen, a young man just beginning to understand his own magical potential, Rhiannon is fascinated by the human world and by Lewen. Together they travel through a land where the dead walk and ghosts haunt the living, a place where Rhiannon encounters dark forces that endanger all of Eileanan. But to save the land, she must convince Lewen and the other apprentice-witches to trust the word of a wild half-human girl.
Author: Andrew Suzanne
Publisher: Andrew Suzanne
ISBN: 0989125009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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When magic leaps from fairy-tale to reality at the tips of every person's fingers, chaos unfolds. Four unlikely but steadfast friends; Eris, Pird, Zook, and Sye, have their loyalty to one another tested when they find themselves at the center of an invisible war and a conspiracy three-thousand years in the making. With their home destroyed and their history a lie, they must choose to confront the faceless foe they've been chosen to destroy, or face the nameless puppeteers pulling their strings.
Author: James
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Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Author: John Clark Ridpath
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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