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Author: Diane Duane Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780152052072 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 452
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Nita's little sister Dairine signs her up for a wizardly "cultural exchange" program, sending Nita and her partner Kit halfway across the galaxy. But nothing about wizardry--not even vacation--is simple enough.
Author: Diane Duane Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780152052072 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 452
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Nita's little sister Dairine signs her up for a wizardly "cultural exchange" program, sending Nita and her partner Kit halfway across the galaxy. But nothing about wizardry--not even vacation--is simple enough.
Author: Thom L. Nichols Publisher: Thom L Nichols ISBN: 145151297X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
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It is that time of the year again, the Apprentice Festival. It's the time that all thirteen year old boys and girls become men and women. They enter into an apprenticeship that will become their career for the rest of their lives. It's supposed to be one of the best days of his life. But, everything keeps going wrong. Even though Lee ends up being the laughing stock of the festival, even though he falls off of the bridge into the moat, even though he is caught playing dress up at a make believe tea party, Lee is positive that he is going to be chosen as the new Wizard's Apprentice. Unfortunately everything continues to go wrong. Embarrassed and humiliated, Lee walks off of the stage and into more trouble. With the help of his best friend Wanda, the recently proclaimed adults discover the hidden world of the elves. After managing to be blamed for stealing the Zodiac Arsenal artifacts, discovering a different type of magic and destroying all of the magic back on Earth, they are forced to defeat a wizard, befriend a dragon and try to save the city. While trying to accomplish everything, they are forced to teach Lee's worst enemy how to use magic that he twists around and uses against them.
Author: Katherine Abetz Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1666736023 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 268
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In a world of increasingly strident identity politics, a theological approach, claiming no more than the outworking of subjectivist sentiment, offers no remedy. What if a key factor in this predicament is a misrepresentation of the operation of metaphor? This acknowledged building-block of language looks set to become a mere component of the wearer’s spectacles. The consequences for theology, philosophy, literature, and even the sciences are yet to be charted. This book takes readers on a journey to the Land of Oz and asks whether our culture, while discarding past errors, can reconnect with the spiritual bonds that underpin language, truth in its various forms, and identity. Companions on the road are Dorothy and her friends, Sallie McFague and the Wizard, Paul Ricœur and C. S. Lewis, and others.
Author: Charles C. Mann Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307961702 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 641
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From the bestselling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493—an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.
Author: Eric Flint Publisher: Baen Books ISBN: 0743435249 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 346
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Benvenuti Sfondrati-Piccolomini, an artist-swordsman, finds himself accidentally caught in a desperate attempt to save the realms of Grotum from invasion by the Ozarean Empire.
Author: Cassandra Rose Clarke Publisher: Watkins Media Limited ISBN: 1908844752 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 295
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Hanna has spent her life hearing about the adventures of her namesake Ananna, the lady pirate, and assassin Naji. She dreams of the same adventures, but little does she know she is about to tumble into one of her own. Hanna is apprenticed to a taciturn fisherman called Kolur, and, during a day of storms and darkness, are swept wildly off course. In this strange new land, Kolur hires a stranger to join the crew and, rather than heading home, sets a course for the dangerous island of Jadanvar. As Hanna meets a secretive merboy, and learns that Kolur has a deadly past, she soon realises that wishing for adventures is a dangerous game - because those wishes might come true.
Author: Lawrence Watt-Evans Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1434408736 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 412
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In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title) -- here is the fifth Wildside Double: the two-volume "War Surplus" series by Lawrence Watt-Evans, "The Cyborg and the Sorcerers" and "The Wizard and the War Machine." THE CYBORG AND THE SORCERERS The cyborg code-named "Slant" was sent out as an Independent Reconnaissance Unit during an interstellar war between Earth and its colonies. The fighting ended three hundred years ago, but Slant's computer does not admit this -- he is compelled to carry on as if the war were still raging. Then he comes across a planet where his sensors register ''gravitational anomalies.'' The computer interprets these as enemy weapons research. The local inhabitants call the anomalies ''magic.'' THE WIZARD AND THE WAR MACHINE At the end of The Cyborg and the Sorcerers, Sam Turner was making a life for himself on the planet Dest. He thought he had left the long-lost interstellar war between Earth and its rebellious colonies behind him forever. "Forever" turned out to be eleven years. That was how long it took for another Independent Reconnaissance Unit to respond to the distress call his ship had sent before it was destroyed. And this one made his own berserk killer computer look sane.
Author: Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant Publisher: Library of Alexandria ISBN: 1465602976 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 849
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The Methvens occupied a little house in the outskirts of a little town where there was not very much going on of any description, and still less which they could take any share in, being, as they were, poor and unable to make any effective response to the civilities shown to them. The family consisted of three personsÑthe mother, who was a widow with one son; the son himself, who was a young man of three or four and twenty; and a distant cousin of Mrs. Methven's, who lived with her, having no other home. It was not a very happy household. The mother had a limited income and an anxious temper; the son a somewhat volatile and indolent disposition, and no ambition at all as to his future, nor anxiety as to what was going to happen to him in life. This, as may be supposed, was enough to introduce many uneasy elements into their joint existence; and the third of the party, Miss Merivale, was not of the class of the peacemakers to whom Scripture allots a special blessing. She had no amiable glamour in her eyes, but saw her friends' imperfections with a clearness of sight which is little conducive to that happy progress of affairs which is called "getting on." The Methvens were sufficiently proud to keep their difficulties out of the public eye, but on very many occasions, unfortunately, it had become very plain to themselves that they did not "get on." It was not any want of love. Mrs. Methven was herself aware, and her friends were in the constant habit of saying, that she had sacrificed everything for Walter. Injudicious friends are fond of making such statements, by way, it is to be supposed, of increasing the devotion and gratitude of the child to the parent: but the result is, unfortunately, very often the exact contrary of what is desiredÑfor no one likes to have his duty in this respect pointed out to him, and whatever good people may think, it is not in itself an agreeable thought that "sacrifices" have been made for one, and an obligation placed upon one's shoulders from the beginning of time, independent of any wish or claim upon the part of the person served. The makers of sacrifices have seldom the reward which surrounding spectators, and in many cases themselves, think their due. Mrs. Methven herself would probably have been at a loss to name what were the special sacrifices she had made for Walter.
Author: Diane Duane
Author: Diane Duane
Author: Thom L. Nichols
Author: Katherine Abetz
Author: Charles C. Mann
Author: Margaret Oliphant
Author: Eric Flint
Author: William Francis Barry
Author: Cassandra Rose Clarke
Author: Lawrence Watt-Evans
Author: Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant