Golem In The Gears

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345454386

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Golem in the Gears by Piers Anthony Pdf

A golem to the rescue! Grundy Golem was the size of an inconsequence, and nobody had any respect for him—including Grundy! To prove himself, he volunteered to ride the Monster Under the Bed to the Ivory Tower to find little Ivy’s long-lost dragon, Stanley Steamer. After many adventures, he reached the Tower, to learn that the evil Sea Hag kept lovely Rapunzel imprisoned there, her body destined to be used to maintain the witch’s immortality. Grundy managed to free the damsel, and they fled together. As the descendant of Jordan the Barbarian and Bluebell Elf, Rapunzel could become any size, even that of any Golem’s dreamgirl. But Grundy knew she was surely fated for someone better than he. Besides, the Sea Hag still pursued them to destroy him and get her back. And he still hadn’t found Stanley Steamer.

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Tor Fantasy
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429958585

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Vale of the Vole by Piers Anthony Pdf

When Esk, a young ogre-nymph-human, began his pilgrimage to the Good Magician Humfrey to rid himself of a seductive demoness, little did he know it would become a mission of mercy. A running river paradise and its harmless inhabitants were perishing in the wrathful wake of a greedy demon horde. Now it is up to Esk and his companions--a beautiful winged centaur named Chex and a brave burrower Called Volney--to search Xanth's treacherous reaches, gathering together a mind-boggling company of creatures to defend the precious Vale of the Vole...from beloved fantasy author Piers Anthony. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Chrissy Johnson
Publisher : Parker Mayhem
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9786763532354

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The Golem in the Gears by Chrissy Johnson Pdf

'The Golem in the Gears' by Chrissy Johnson is a compelling story about an unlikely friendship between a young inventor and a golem. When Mark, a talented engineer, stumbles upon a dormant golem deep in the heart of an ancient factory, he inadvertently awakens it. What begins as an attempt to understand the golem's origins soon turns into an adventure that reveals hidden truths about the factory's past. As Mark and the golem explore the factory's labyrinthine corridors, they uncover long-buried secrets and a conspiracy that could spell doom for the entire city. This exciting narrative combines elements of mystery and steampunk, offering a unique perspective on the enduring bond between creator and creation.

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345454317

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Source of Magic by Piers Anthony Pdf

A quest for the source of power threatened to doom the land of Xanth As a ruler of a country steeped in enchantment, King Trent was naturally curious about the source of its magic. It made sense to order Bink, the only one of his subjects immune to supernatural harm, to undertake a quest to discover the wellspring of Xanth’s uniqueness. From the beginning, Bink and his companions, Chester the centaur and Crombie, the soldier transformed into a griffin, were harried by an unseen enemy determined to thwart them. Even the power of Good Magician Humfrey, together with Bink’s protective talent, scarcely saved their lives. Then when Humfrey and Crombie turned against him, all seemed lost. But Bink's ingenuity and luck prevailed, and he reached his goal. The King’s orders had been carried out . . . But the King had not expected Bink’s next act—to destroy utterly the magic of Xanth!

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Tor Fantasy
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250238757

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Man from Mundania by Piers Anthony Pdf

For a bored, young princess of Xanth, there's nothing more exciting than a Quest. Especially when all you do is sit around Castle Roogna. But when Ivy uses the Heaven Cent, it takes her not to the top of Mount Rushmost, where the winged monsters gather, not to the sea where the merfolk swim--but to Mundania, a world much like out own (that is, boring). It is here that she meets a young college student so dull that he doesn't even believe in magic, or princesses, or Xanth! Does he have a lot to learn. Man from Mundania, the thrilling climax to the trilogy started in Vale of the Vole and continued in Heaven Cent. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Tor Fantasy
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429910372

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Heaven Cent by Piers Anthony Pdf

In the mind of Xanth's precious shapeshifting Prince Dolph, the perfect was to see the world is to search for the missing sorcerer, Humfrey. Setting off with his faithfuls companion, Marrow, an enchanted skeleton, Dolph will penetrate an island of illusion, escape a goblin kingdom, outwit a husband-hungry mermaid, save marrow from bone-starved harpies, and find romance with a slinky snake princess--all on his way to discovering a magic coin with all the answers! Heaven Cent continues the Xanth saga from bestselling fantasy author Piers Anthony. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504089432

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Question Quest by Piers Anthony Pdf

A magician sends a melancholic maiden on a rescue mission in Hell in this humorous fantasy adventure by a New York Times–bestselling author. As one of the trouble-making twins of Castle Zombie, Lacuna used to have so much fun when she was a little girl. But now at thirty-four, she’s bored stiff and wonders where her life went horribly wrong. To escape her funk, she heads to Good Magician Grey to pose a question. Of course, in Xanth, getting an answer is far from simple . . . Grey sends Lacuna to Hell in a handbasket . . . literally. There, she meets Good Magician Humfrey, who’s spent the last ten years waiting to get his wife back from a terrible demon. With her magical talents—and a few gorgons—Lacuna just might be able to help Humfrey, escape Hell alive, and fix her boring life, once and for all.

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0380757494

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Visual Guide to Xanth by Piers Anthony Pdf

Bursting with exquisitely detailed maps, charts, and illustrations, here'e an indispensable addition to the amazing Anthony Xanthian anthology that no true "Xanthophile" will want to be without.

Author : Josepha Sherman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1450 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317459378

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Storytelling by Josepha Sherman Pdf

Storytelling is an ancient practice known in all civilizations throughout history. Characters, tales, techniques, oral traditions, motifs, and tale types transcend individual cultures - elements and names change, but the stories are remarkably similar with each rendition, highlighting the values and concerns of the host culture. Examining the stories and the oral traditions associated with different cultures offers a unique view of practices and traditions."Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore" brings past and present cultures of the world to life through their stories, oral traditions, and performance styles. It combines folklore and mythology, traditional arts, history, literature, and festivals to present an overview of world cultures through their liveliest and most fascinating mode of expression. This appealing resource includes specific storytelling techniques as well as retellings of stories from various cultures and traditions.

Author : Helene Wecker
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007527151

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The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker Pdf

‘One of only two novels I've ever loved whose main characters are not human’ BARBARA KINGSOLVER For fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock. ‘By far my favourite book of of the year’ Guardian

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Xanth (Imaginary place)
ISBN : UOM:39015014756285

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The Magic of Xanth by Piers Anthony Pdf

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345454379

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Crewel Lye by Piers Anthony Pdf

A knight of ghosts and shadows! Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna now, spending his time with little five-year-old Ivy and watching his own past unfold on the magic tapestry. But once he had been a valorous knight, riding his ghost horse Pook on a fabulous and dangerous mission. He had been betrayed with a cruel lie by two wily magicians and the woman he loved. He had been killed at the end, and his bones had been scattered. Now he could not even remember where they had been buried. That was important, because Jordan's talent had been to recover from almost any injury, provided enough of his body could be assembled to grow together again. But all that had been four hundred years before. Nobody who was alive today knew or cared where his bones might be. It was hardly the proper ending for a gallant adventure!

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345536440

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A Spell for Chameleon (The Parallel Edition... Simplified) by Piers Anthony Pdf

Piers Anthony’s bestselling Xanth series is one of the cornerstones of fantasy, a lively and whimsical interpretation of a genre often criticized for taking itself too seriously. Anthony’s first Xanth novel, A Spell for Chameleon, was initially edited to target a more traditional audience. Now, in an eBook exclusive, A Spell for Chameleon has been reworked line by line—its language matching the simpler, playful way with words that made Piers Anthony an enduring fan favorite. Xanth is an enchanted land where magic rules, a land of centaurs and dragons and basilisks where every citizen has a unique spell to call their own. For Bink of North Village, however, Xanth is no fairy tale. He alone has no magic. And unless he gets some—and fast!—he will be exiled. Forever. But the Good Magician Humfrey is convinced that Bink does indeed have magic. In fact, both Beauregard the genie and the magic wall chart insist that Bink has magic as powerful as any possessed by the King, the Good Magician Humfrey, or even the Evil Magician Trent. Be that as it may, no one can fathom the nature of Bink’s very special magic. This is even worse than having no magic at all . . . and he still faces exile!

Author : Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781593767532

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Negative Money by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Pdf

Finalist for the New England Book Award From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges of great lack and great abundance, of financial and emotional margins Negative Money follows a speaker continually coming of age while probing the binary thresholds of racial and gender identity, violence and safety, security and precarity, love and loneliness. For readers of Readers Claudia Rankine, Torrey Peters, Ocean Vuong, and Jericho Brown, NBA nominated Lillian-Yvonne Bertrams’s poems are innovative, conceptually thoughtful work. Through experimentation and muscular lyricism, Bertram maintains a style that observes a speaker’s attempt to understand and exert multiple identities within the binary confines of race and gender. Playing and gliding from acrostics to sonnets to maps, these compassionate, cerebral, and irreverent poems plainly recognize the larger and potentially escapable oppressive systems that dominate all of our lives by narrating the exhaustion that comes from living under constraining systems of relentless extraction, systems whose powers fracture all attempts at genuine love and intimacy.

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307815644

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Being a Green Mother by Piers Anthony Pdf

Orb had a rare gift--the magic which manifested whenever she sang or played her harp. No one could resist her music. But she knew that greater magic lay in the Llano, the mystic music that controlled all things. The quest for the Llano occupied Orb's life. Until she met Natasha, handsome and charming, and an even finer musician. But her mother Niobe came as an Aspect of Fire, with the news that Orb had been chosen for the role of Incarnation of Nature--The Green Mother. But she also warned of a prophecy that Orb was to marry Evil. Could she be sure that Natasha was not really Satan, the Master of Illusion, laying a trap for her...?