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Author: Terry Brooks Publisher: Del Rey ISBN: 0593357396 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 414
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The electrifying first novel of an all-new fantasy series from the legendary author behind the Shannara saga, about a human girl struggling to find her place in a magical world she’s never known “Enticing . . . Brooks’s fans will be thrilled to have a new series to savor.”—Publishers Weekly At nineteen, Auris Afton Grieg has led an . . . unusual life. Since the age of fourteen, she has been trapped in a Goblin prison. Why? She does not know. She has no memories of her past beyond the vaguest of impressions. All she knows is that she is about to age out of the children’s prison, and rumors say that the adult version is far, far worse. So she and some friends stage a desperate escape into the surrounding wastelands. And it is here that Auris’s journey of discovery begins, for she is rescued by a handsome yet alien stranger. Harrow claims to be Fae—a member of a magical race that Auris had thought to be no more than legend. Odder still, he seems to think that she is Fae as well, although the two look nothing alike. But strangest of all, when he brings her to his wondrous homeland, she begins to suspect that he is right. Yet how could a woman who looks entirely Human be a magical being herself? Told with a fresh, energetic voice, this fantasy puzzle box is Terry Brooks as you have never seen him before, as one young woman slowly unlocks truths about herself and her world—and, in doing so, begins to heal both.
Author: Terry Brooks Publisher: Del Rey ISBN: 0593357396 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 414
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The electrifying first novel of an all-new fantasy series from the legendary author behind the Shannara saga, about a human girl struggling to find her place in a magical world she’s never known “Enticing . . . Brooks’s fans will be thrilled to have a new series to savor.”—Publishers Weekly At nineteen, Auris Afton Grieg has led an . . . unusual life. Since the age of fourteen, she has been trapped in a Goblin prison. Why? She does not know. She has no memories of her past beyond the vaguest of impressions. All she knows is that she is about to age out of the children’s prison, and rumors say that the adult version is far, far worse. So she and some friends stage a desperate escape into the surrounding wastelands. And it is here that Auris’s journey of discovery begins, for she is rescued by a handsome yet alien stranger. Harrow claims to be Fae—a member of a magical race that Auris had thought to be no more than legend. Odder still, he seems to think that she is Fae as well, although the two look nothing alike. But strangest of all, when he brings her to his wondrous homeland, she begins to suspect that he is right. Yet how could a woman who looks entirely Human be a magical being herself? Told with a fresh, energetic voice, this fantasy puzzle box is Terry Brooks as you have never seen him before, as one young woman slowly unlocks truths about herself and her world—and, in doing so, begins to heal both.
Author: Madison Smartt Bell Publisher: Doubleday ISBN: 0385541619 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 726
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The first and definitive biography of one of the great American novelists of the postwar era, the author of Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Sunrise, and a penetrating critic of American power, innocence, and corruption Robert Stone (1937-2015), probably the only postwar American writer to draw favorable comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, and Joseph Conrad, lived a life rich in adventure, achievement, and inner turmoil. He grew up rough on the streets of New York, the son of a mentally troubled single mother. After his Navy service in the fifties, which brought him to such locales as pre-Castro Havana, the Suez Crisis, and Antarctica, he studied writing at Stanford, where he met Ken Kesey and became a core member of the gang of Merry Pranksters. The publication of his superb New Orleans novel, Hall of Mirrors (1967), initiated a succession of dark-humored novels that investigated the American experience in Vietnam (Dog Soldiers, 1974, which won the National Book Award), Central America (A Flag for Sunrise, 1981), and Jerusalem on the eve of the millennium (Damascus Gate, 1998). An acclaimed novelist himself, Madison Smartt Bell was a close friend and longtime admirer of Robert Stone. His authorized and deeply researched biography is both intimate and objective, a rich and unsparing portrait of a complicated, charismatic, and haunted man and a sympathetic reading of his work that will help to secure Stone's place in the pantheon of major American writers.
Author: Florence Ekstrand Publisher: ISBN: 9781575340357 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 62
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This history and tradition of Sweden's Lucia celebration, with tips on celebrating your own Lucia. This new edition has been revised and updated, and includes recipes and up-to-date resources. Black and white illustrations throughout.
Author: Janet Berliner Publisher: St Martins Press ISBN: 9780312063177 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 389
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Two young boys, a Catholic and a Jew, declare themselves blood brothers in Berlin at the dawning of the Nazi regime until love for the same woman divides them, in an alternate history fantasy
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226584011 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 225
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The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and certainly the fullest statement of his political philosophy. Written and first read during the prolonged, tragic world war between totalitarian and democratic forces, Niebuhr’s book took up the timely question of how democracy as a political system could best be defended. Most proponents of democracy, Niebuhr claimed, were “children of light,” who had optimistic but naïve ideas about how society could be rid of evil and governed by enlightened reason. They needed, he believed, to absorb some of the wisdom and strength of the “children of darkness,” whose ruthless cynicism and corrupt, anti-democratic politics should otherwise be repudiated. He argued for a prudent, liberal understanding of human society that took the measure of every group’s self-interest and was chastened by a realistic understanding of the limits of power. It is in the foreword to this book that he wrote, “Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” This edition includes a new introduction by the theologian and Niebuhr scholar Gary Dorrien in which he elucidates the work’s significance and places it firmly into the arc of Niebuhr’s career.
Author: Cormac McCarthy Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307762483 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 209
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From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance. "Like the novelists he admires-Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner-Cormac McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themselves." —Washington Post Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Author: Huey Howard Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1456822837 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 111
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Growing up in the country and raised in a farming family, Huey L. Howard Sr. always wanted to be an author. When he isn't busy running and maintaining his agriculture and cattle business , he would spend his off time writing poems and short stories. Huey always wanted to be an author. Huey would sat and look into the sky and write great poems. But never pursued publishing, until the death of his mother, who inspired him to continue writing and publishing his creative thoughts. Huey has spent most of his life helping people, creating new inventions, reconstructing his home. Skillful with his hands, full of dreams for tomorrow.
Author: Diane Bentley Baker Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1465326804 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 258
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Diane Bentley Baker, originally from San Mateo, California, has been a spinner and dyer for almost 35 years. After a long career as a word processor, she now lives with her husband and a long yellow cat in Eugene, Oregon. She teaches in the fiber arts and is an avid photographer, poet and writer. Some of her articles can be seen in Spin-Off Magazine and various fiber arts newsletters.
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