The Books Of Great Alta

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504034517

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Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen Pdf

A warrior woman and her dark twin are destined to remake the world in this “powerful” tale, the first in a trilogy by a World Fantasy Award winner (Newsweek). Legend foretold the child named Jenna, who was three-times orphaned before she could crawl, a fate that would leave her in the hands of women who worshipped the benevolent goddess Great Alta. In this world without men, Jenna comes of age, learning quickly the skills of close combat. But her most powerful gift lies elsewhere: a mirror sister who emerges only in the darkness—a twin named Skada—and shares the soul of the young, white-haired warrior who might well be the goddess reborn. But if Jenna is, in truth, the one whose coming is awaited, there is cause for great alarm among those who rule the Dales, for the prophecy speaks of upheaval and change, and a devastating end of all things. An incomparable world-builder and one of America’s premier fantasists, the remarkable Jane Yolen begins a three-part saga as inventive, intelligent, and exciting as anything that has ever been produced in the literature of the fantastic. Brilliantly contrasting the “true” story of Jenna with the later myths, poetry, and so-called scholarship that her coming engendered, Yolen creates a culture as richly imagined as those found in the acclaimed novels of Ursula K. Le Guin. A truly magnificent work, Sister Light, Sister Dark takes fantasy fiction to wondrous places it has never gone before.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504034524

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White Jenna by Jane Yolen Pdf

Nebula Award Finalist: A long-awaited savior joins forces with her dark twin to confront the evil threatening their land in the second book of the acclaimed epic fantasy the Great Alta Saga Grown to young womanhood in the mountain region of the Dales and trained for combat by the all-female followers of the goddess Great Alta, Jenna reluctantly accepts the fact that she might well be the Anna, the warrior queen who has long been prophesied. Orphaned three times while still a small child, the now-teenage Jenna is compelled to lend her support and skills to the Dales’ rightful king and his brother, Carum, who holds her heart, for the reign of evil usurper Lord Kalas threatens the future of every worshipper of Alta. But Jenna does not ride alone. Whenever darkness falls, she and her companions—a young priestess in training and an aging warrior—are joined by Skada, white-haired Jenna’s dark sister, who shares her destiny and her soul. But even their combined powers may not be enough to defeat the entrenched malevolence that means to destroy everything and everyone they hold dear. A finalist for the Nebula Award for best novel, Jane Yolen’s White Jenna is a wondrous tale of duty, destiny, peril, romance, and fantasy. Interspersed with the myths and poetry the story engendered, it is a brilliantly imaginative creation of a world, a culture, and their enduring lore.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429915656

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The One-Armed Queen by Jane Yolen Pdf

In the twilight of a lost age of high mages, the great warrior Queen called White Jenna found a frail, one-armed child on the field of battle. In the way of the Hames of the Dales, she adopted the child, named her Scillia, and made the girl her heir, destined to rule as Queen at Jenna's passing. But Jenna's natural son Jem, younger than Scillia, has been raised in the kingdom of their enemies as a hostage and foster son. He had been taught to resent his foster sister's power and covet the throne for himself and his Garun masters, unleashing a terrible time of bloodshed and betrayal.

Author : Mercedes Lackey
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101118375

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Alta by Mercedes Lackey Pdf

In the second novel in national best-selling legend Mercedes Lackey's richly-conceived new Joust series, the dragonrider Vetch escapes to Alta, the subjugated land of his birth. There, he hopes to teach his people to raise and train dragons-and build an army that will liberate his homeland.

Author : Rabih Alameddine
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802157829

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The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION By National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island. Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them. Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina's singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis.

Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780374722388

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Desert Oracle by Ken Layne Pdf

The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

Author : Nora M. Patti
Publisher : Antahkaranah, LLC.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0965599000

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I Am That I Am - Alta Major by Nora M. Patti Pdf

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 031286258X

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The Books of Great Alta by Jane Yolen Pdf

This acclaimed and well-beloved feminist classic introduces readers to White Jenna, born in sorrow, raised among warrior women, and taught to call forth her shadow sister under the light of the moon.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504045551

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The Great Alta Saga by Jane Yolen Pdf

A warrior and her dark sister join forces to dismantle and remake their embattled world in this epic fantasy saga from a Nebula Award–winning author. One of fantasy fiction’s preeminent practitioners, Jane Yolen creates a world and mythology that are richly enthralling and vibrantly alive in this acclaimed trilogy. Sister Light, Sister Dark: Three-times orphaned and raised secretly by the acolytes of the goddess Alta, the child Jenna studies the ways of the warrior in preparation for the day that has been prophesied. For she may well be the goddess reborn who, with the aid of Skada—her mirror twin who can reveal herself only in darkness—is fated to bring devastation to the world. White Jenna: Grown to young womanhood, the warrior Jenna offers her allegiance to the rightful king of the Dales—and her heart to his brother, Carum—joining the fight against the malevolent usurper Kalas. But the powerful despot appears unstoppable, dedicated to the destruction of the worshippers of Alta, the society of women in which the orphaned Jenna was lovingly raised. The One-Armed Queen: Having fulfilled an ancient prophecy, the Queen of the Dales must now keep her faltering kingdom safe from a looming terror, and prepare her chosen successor—a one-armed orphan girl she discovered on the battlefield—for the grim responsibilities of rule. A sweeping adventure of destiny, peril, magic, and romance, The Great Alta Saga is a magnificent feat of storytelling that ingeniously blends world-building, myth, poetry, and song.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
ISBN : OCLC:36383784

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The Books of Great Alta by Jane Yolen Pdf

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0765343584

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White Jenna by Jane Yolen Pdf

In this sequel to "Sister Light, Sister Dark," the saga of Jenna, thrice prophesied White Queen, and her dark sister, Skada, continues as they cross a battle-torn land to save their true-born king.

Author : Don D'Ammassa
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438109091

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Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction by Don D'Ammassa Pdf

Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction provides comprehensive coverage of the major authors and works in these popular genres. Each entry includes a brief discussion of the author's life and work and includes a full bibliography. Each entry on

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1787 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781857432695

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International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 by Europa Publications Pdf

Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.

Author : Mary L. Warner
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 0810854309

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Adolescents in the Search for Meaning by Mary L. Warner Pdf

As is painfully evident from the reports of school shootings, gang violence, dysfunctional family life, and from statistics on adolescent suicide, many teens live troubled lives. Even those who live a normal life still face the challenges adults face, but teens are also engaged in establishing independence and finding their identity. However, few adolescents have the same resources as adults for surviving life challenges. Building from the idea that story is a powerful source of meaning, particularly those stories that resonate with our own lives, this book suggests that the stories of other young adults offer a resource yet to be fully tapped. Adolescents in the Search for Meaning begins from the perspective of young adults by sharing the results of a survey of over 1400 teens and also includes the insights of authors of Young Adult Literature. The book presents over 120 novels that teens have identified as meaningful as well as books recommended by YA authors and experts in the field of YA literature. For any teacher, librarian, parent or counselor wanting to reach young adults, this book is ideal.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : American literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HN4JJT

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The American Bookseller by Anonim Pdf