Author: Andre Norton Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497657059 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 217
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An orphan girl battles an evil mage in this “stunningly vivid” fantasy from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Scent of Magic (Starlog). A mage, seeking to enslave the Valley and destroy the Forest, has brutally sundered a family. A mother has fled into the woods with her infant girl-child, while the depraved sorcerer holds the babe’s twin—a boy—captive in a black tower. The mother dies but the girl survives. Adopted by the strange denizens of the Forest—safe from the mage’s malevolent influence—she grows to young womanhood, cultivating a cherished skill that has been denied the others of her kind: the ability to truly hear the sounds of her world. But her future will be fraught with trial and terror, for only she can smash the chains that shackle the Balley and its inhabitants. It is her destiny to confront sorcerer and demon minions, and to oppose the one she must conquer and free: the magician’s protégé and her most powerful adversary. Her bane and blood. Her brother.
Author: Mallory Loehr Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0679892176 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 130
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While on a family camping trip, Sam, Polly, and Joe receive three feathers that lead them on a magical flying adventure. Simultaneous.
Author: David Muench Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co. ISBN: 1558687459 Category : Natural bridges Languages : en Pages : 209
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Celebrated landscape photographer Muench turns his keen photographic eye to the mystery of the sculpted earth with spectacular photos of natural arches, land bridges, windows, sea stacks, caves, and sea arches.
Author: Masaaki Tachihara Publisher: Stone Bridge Press ISBN: 096281377X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 161
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Kase, a designer of gardens, and Mizue, the wife of his client, begin an affair, leading to the crumbling of Mizue's carefully structured home life
Author: Patrick Rothfuss Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0756405890 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 674
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In these pages you will come to know Kvothe the notorious magician, the accomplished thief, the masterful musician, the dragon-slayer, the legend-hunter, the lover, the thief and the infamous assassin.
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101147067 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 512
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The New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.
Author: Phoebe Stone Publisher: Little Brown & Company ISBN: 9780316815802 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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Who hasn't wondered what's going on when the wind outside your window blows and howls all night long? In this magical explanation for stormy weather, one small child joins the wild and woolly Wind Bears as they cavort in the moonlit sky to music performed by the stormy night band.
Author: James George Frazer Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 843
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The Golden Bough is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. The book documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the globe. Frazer attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought. The influence of The Golden Bough on contemporary European literature and thought is substantial.
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Author: Patrick Rothfuss
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