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Author : Sara Sheridan
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007352524
She was a slave. He was her master. Both of them long to be free...
Author : Alisha Sevigny
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459744301
Sesha, the daughter of the pharaoh’s royal physician, must find the precious scroll her father was transcribing before his death, not only to save the kingdom, but to also save her brother’s life.
Author : Leona Wisoker
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503244482
Book 1 of the Children of the Desert series. A THIEF CHOOSES THE WRONG VICTIM. A DESERT LORD ABANDONS HIS LANDS. A YOUNG WOMAN ACCEPTS A STEWARDSHIP. THEY ALL FIND THEIR DESTINY ON THE SANDS. When Cafad Scratha was a child, someone murdered his entire family. People have questioned his sanity ever since. As the last Scratha, he's dedicated his life to catching the murderers. Now a desert lord, one of the mysterious elite of the southlands, he stands above every mundane political imperative and rule of courtesy-or so it seems until the king of the northlands tries to bring Scratha to heel. Scratha's bizarre reaction throws the independent southlands into chaos: he hands temporary control of his family lands over to the king, takes on an assumed name, and sneaks out of the city. The king sends Alyea, a young noblewoman, to hold the ceded prize: but while she understands kingdom politics, she's quickly out of her depth in the byzantine world of the southlands. What she thought was a quick ticket to power turns out to be a dangerous assignment that may well lead her to a literal dead end. Just as trapped is Idisio, the orphaned street-thief sent by a chance encounter into Scratha's service. As his new and throughly unstable master goes undercover, Idisio finds himself drawn into the mysterious world of the desert lords and their secrets. Idisio's growing comprehension of the world he's stepped into doesn't just change his beliefs; it leads him to an unsuspected truth about himself that will change his life forever. "A storyteller with a good deal of promise." - C.J. Cherryh ..".a lushly visual and highly detailed world of desert tribes, a language of beads, and a unique way of viewing the world." -Library Journal "intriguing...engaging." -Publishers Weekly "The final product put me in awe of where the world-building skills of Wisoker are at this early stage of her career...reminiscent of something out of an Ursula K. LeGuin novel in detail and complexity. Wisoker, like the best authors of this genre, has created a completely original society upon which to tell her story." -SF Site "Secrets of the Sands, the first novel of Leona Wisoker, is a truly amazing accomplishment. Restrained yet tense, compelling, intricate and imaginative, it contains so much of the everything lacking in most modern fantasy one can find oneself moved to tears when the pages finally run out. If all first novels were this good, no television would ever be turned on again." -CJ Henderson, author of Brooklyn Knight "Leona Wisoker is a gifted storyteller and in Secrets of the Sands she has succeeded in crafting a refreshingly unpredictable tale set in a stunningly rich and detailed world." -Michael J. Sullivan, author of the Riyria Revelations series "With a flair for evoking exotic locales and an eye for detail, Leona Wisoker has crafted a first novel peopled by characters who are more than they first seem. From the orphaned street-thief who possesses an uncanny ability to read situations and people, to the impetuous noblewoman thrust into a world of political intrigue, Wisoker weaves a colourful tapestry of desert tribes, honour, revenge, and an ancient, supernatural race." -Janine Cross, author of the Dragon Temple Saga ..".Wisoker makes a praiseworthy work when it comes to world building, creating with care and without haste a strong world, one piece at a time...another unique element of the story which...certainly will be developed more in the series' next novels." -Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews
Author : Harry Thurston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781611458480
In a part of Egypt so parched that decades might pass between rainstorms, amid a sea of sand, is a green island—Dakhleh, the “everlasting oasis”—that may contain the whole of human history. In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed science writer and journalist follows an international team of archaeologists as they unlock the secrets of nearly half a million years. Using high-tech methods, these scientists have made stunning finds, including indications that Dakhleh may have been the cradle of the Nile civilization that gave rise to the pharaohs and the pyramids. They have unearthed a perfect Old Kingdom town, with palaces and temples from the Golden Age, huge caches of mummies and papyri, and the world's two oldest books, and have located an entire Roman city—a Pompeii in the middle of the desert. Blending elements of adventure narrative, travelogue, and scientific mystery, Secrets of the Sands also traces on a grand historical scale the story of how humans have interacted with the changing environment, laying bare a parable with relevance to us all about the fragile balance between humankind and our world.
Author : Fred M. White
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338099815
This is a mystery novel that tells the story of the Amory family; Sir Horace Amory, his daughter Vera, his son Dick, and the wife of his late uncle, Maria. Horace had inherited the title and property "Oversand" from his deceased uncle. Maria comes to stay at Oversand hiding a secret she kept rigidly to herself. When she wanders away from the house, she is found sitting, staring intently into those boiling, shifting grey sands, from which nothing ever emerged alive that had been engulfed in their lethal coils. What is the mystery story about the shifting grey sand? Will Lady Maria Amory finally disclose the secret?
Author : Rai Aren
Publisher : Secret of the Sands
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781419675522
A surprising adventure exploring the mysterious origins of Ancient Egypt and its enigmatic monuments, uncovering long-buried truths and a powerful secret that is as dangerous as it is awe-inspiring...
Author : Leona Wisoker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0981988237
A thief chooses the wrong victim. A desert lord abandons his lands. A young woman accepts a stewardship. They all find their destiny on the sands. Idisio cut the wrong purse and found himself bound to serve a desert lord who just gave up his wealth, his lands, and his name to wander. His new master is the lone survivor of a massacred family and might be insane, but serving him is better than life on the streets. Lady Alyea accepts the king's mission to assume stewardship of the desert lord's abandoned fortress in the hope of gaining power. But the southern desert is a harsh world of violence, suspicion, and politically tangled family clans who worship the old gods. By the time she realizes she's in over her head, it's far too late to back out. Out on the sands, the harsh glare of the sun reveals more about the world--and themselves--than they ever wanted to know.
Author : Angela Dorsey,Sharon Siamon
Publisher : PONY
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1933343273
The story of a young girl's love for her horses and the race she has across the desert to rid them of a terrible sickness. A sickness placed upon all horses by a curse, one that the Horse Angel needs help in removing.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0198387695
Author : Erskine Childers
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191503351
`About this coast... In the event of war it seems to me that every inch of it would be important, sand and all.' Executed in 1922 for his involvement in Irish republicanism, Childers in remembered most vividly for his ground-breaking spy novel, The Riddle of the Sands (1903). In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, the sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the emptiness and boredom of his life in London. He reluctantly accepts an invitation from a college friend, Davies, the shyly intrepid yachtsman, and joins him on a sailing holiday in the Baltic. The regeneration of Carruthers begins as he is initiated into the mysteries of seamanship, but the story builds in excitement as Carruthers and Davies discover a German plot to invade England. Like much contemporary British spy fiction, The Riddle of the Sands reflects the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War and the intricacy of its conception and its lucid detail make it a classic of its genre. This edition is complemented by a fine introduction which examines the novel in its political and historical context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Frederick Merrick White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:315271358
Author : Harry Collingwood
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734035272
Reproduction of the original: The Secret of the Sands by Harry Collingwood
Author : Catherine West
Publisher : Bibliotechnology Systems & Publishing Company
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0944153003
Author : Tamar Heller
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300045743
Readers have long been enthralled by the novels of Wilkie Collins, whose The Moonstone is considered the first modern detective novel, This book by Tamar Heller places Collins within Victorian literary history, showing how his fiction transforms the conventions of the traditionally female genre of the Gothic novel and can be read as a critique of the gender and class distinctions that structured Victorian society.
Author : Cynthia Rider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0192757784