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The Secrets of Jin-shei

Alma Alexander
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Author : Alma Alexander
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A group of women, the jin-shei sisterhood, form a uniquely powerful circle that transcends class and social custom. They are bound together by a declaration of loyalty that transcends all other vows, even those with the gods, by their own secret language, passed from mother to daughter, by the knowledge that some of them will have to pay the ultimate sacrifice to enable others to fulfill their destiny. The sisterhood we meet run from the Emperor's sister to the street-beggar, from the trainee warrior in the Emperor's Guard to the apprentice healer, from the artist to the traveller-girl, herself an illegitimate daughter of an emperor and seen as a threat to the throne. And as one of them becomes Dragon Empress, her determination to hold power against the sages of the temple, against the marauding forces from other kingdoms, drags the sisterhood into a dangerous world of court intrigue, plot and counterplot, and brings them into conflict with each other from which only the one who remains true to all the vows she made at the very beginning to the dying Princess Empress can rescue them. An amazing and unusual book, based on some historical fact, full of drama, adventure and conflict like a Shakespearean history play, it's a novel about kinship and a society of women, of mysticism, jealousy, fate, destiny, all set in the wonderful, swirling background of Syai, a fantasy kingdom inspired by Imperial China.

The Secrets of Jin-shei

Alma Alexander
The Secrets of Jin shei Book PDF

Author : Alma Alexander
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062026378

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The epic story of a sisterhood where blood relations are nothing compared to the unbreakable bond of the secret sisters -- the bond of Jin-Shei.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Book PDF

Author : Lisa See
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408821626

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Pdf

Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything.

The Secrets of Jin-Shei

Alma Alexander
The Secrets of Jin Shei Book PDF

Author : Alma Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : China
ISBN : 0007163754

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A sweeping epic set in medieval China; it is the story of a group of women, the Jin-Shei sisterhood, who form a uniquely powerful circle that transcends class and social custom.

The Embers of Heaven

Alma Alexander
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Author : Alma Alexander
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007204076

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This novel begins 400 years after eight women pledge themselves as sisters in the name of jin-shei, the unbreakable bond. In 18th century Syai, and its capital city of Linh-an, things have changed beyond recognition.

Blindsight

Peter Watts
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Author : Peter Watts
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429955195

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Blindsight by Peter Watts Pdf

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Hidden Queen

Alma Alexander
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Author : Alma Alexander
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061833779

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The life Anghara knows has ended; everyone she loved is dead or doomed. And now she must flee far from her home or die at the hands of her half-brother Sif. A defenseless child is adrift in an unfamiliar world, pursued by the minions of a false king whose brutality knows no bounds. But Anghara has a great destiny that reaches beyond the borders of the troubled realm she must one day rule -- and a miraculous gift to be awakened in secret and fortified in a distant desert land at once beautiful, mysterious, and perilous: an awesome and frightening power called Sight.

Changer of Days

Alma Alexander
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Author : Alma Alexander
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061834073

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The child Anghara Kir Hama was forcedto flee the kingdom she rightfully ruled, escaping the murderous wrath of her brother, the usurper, who would see her dead to secure the throne. But her years spent in a strange desert land -- honing the miraculous power called Sight -- have forever changed the young queen. And now it is time to claim what is hers. But treachery greets Anghara upon her return to a realm suffering under the cruelty of the bloodthirsty tyrant Sif. In the dungeons of her enemy, she awaits an inevitable death, robbed of the gift that set her apart from all others. Yet those who have sworn to defend her will not rest until their cherished queen is safe, including one whose noble heart belongs to her alone. For young Anghara's remarkable destiny is greater than crowns and countries -- greater even than the fearsome Old Gods who must stand down to make way for the Changer of Days.

Worldweavers: Spellspam

Alma Alexander
Worldweavers Spellspam Book PDF

Author : Alma Alexander
Publisher : HarperTeen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060839600

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Worldweavers: Spellspam by Alma Alexander Pdf

Thea and her friends try to stop an outbreak of a new brand of magic that is attacking the students at Wandless Academy, a school supposedly shielded from spells, that works through computers, which should be impervious to magic.

Empress

Evelyn McCune
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Author : Evelyn McCune
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307775900

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"McCune has recreated the splendor and intrigue of the imperial court in the Tang dynasty...giving us entertaining and informative access to a brilliant time and a complex woman." JEFFREY RIEGEL Chair, Department of East Asian Languages University of California, Berkeley Sweeping through exotic, turbulent seventh-century China, EMPRESS is the captivating epic of one extraordinary woman who would become the only female emperor in all of China's history. The story of Wu Jao, set against the backdrop of medieval China, reveals not only an age of horrifying barbarism, daring treachery, and precarious power, but also an eternal culture of sophistication and enlightenment.

Empress Orchid

Anchee Min
Empress Orchid Book PDF

Author : Anchee Min
Publisher : HMH
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547347202

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“A fascinating novel, similar to Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha . . . A revisionist portrait of a beautiful and strong-willed woman” (Houston Chronicle). A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year From Anchee Min, a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young concubine who becomes China’s last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and weaves an epic of the country girl who seized power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When China is threatened by enemies, she alone seems capable of holding the country together. In this “absorbing companion piece to her novel Becoming Madame Mao,” readers and reading groups will once again be transported by Min’s lavish evocation of the Forbidden City in its last days of imperial glory and by her brilliant portrait of a flawed yet utterly compelling woman who survived, and ultimately dominated, a male world (The New York Times). “Superb . . . [An] unforgettable heroine.” —People “A sexually charged, eye-opening portrayal of the Chinese empire . . . with heart-wrenching scenes of desperate failure and a sensuality that rises off its heated pages.” —Elle

Embers of Heaven: A Jin-shei Novel

Alma Alexander
Embers of Heaven A Jin shei Novel Book PDF

Author : Alma Alexander
Publisher : Mystique Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1950565254

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Embers of Heaven: A Jin-shei Novel by Alma Alexander Pdf

The International Bestselling Sequel to The Secrets of Jin-sheiFour hundred years after the events in The Secrets of Jin-shei, the Syai Empire is on the brink of civil war. A new voice preaching equality promises hope for the downtrodden, but the ensuing people's revolution brings terror, reeducation camps, and a chance of brutal retribution or even death to anyone seen as embracing the old ways.An outsider and a child of two worlds, Amais searches her ancestral home, the land of Syai, for the lost magical bond of jin-shei, the women's oath. Her quest will bring her to the very man who may destroy her and her family... and who has an improbable hold on her heart. As individuals, they are antagonists, even enemies-and yet, as two halves of a whole, they are the last hope for the survival of Syai...

Spring Moon

Bette Bao Lord
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Author : Bette Bao Lord
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780060599751

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At a time of mystery and cruelty ... in an ancient land of breathtaking beauty and exotic surprise ... a courageous woman triumphs over her world's ultimate tragedy. Behind the garden walls of the House of Chang, pampered daughter Spring Moon is born into luxury and privilege. But the tempests of change sweep her into a new world -- one of hardship, turmoil, and heartbreak, one that threatens to destroy her husband, her family, and her darkest secret love. Through a tumultuous lifetime, Spring Moon must cling to her honor, to the memory of a time gone by, and to a destiny, foretold at her birth, that has yet to be fulfilled.

The Porcelain Dove, Or, Constancy's Reward

Delia Sherman
The Porcelain Dove Or Constancy s Reward Book PDF

Author : Delia Sherman
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : PSU:000032462791

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The Porcelain Dove, Or, Constancy's Reward by Delia Sherman Pdf

Narrated by the family's chatterbox chambermaid, it is a rich, sinister, and funny novel of romance, sorcery, and aristocracy.

Toads and Diamonds

Heather Tomlinson
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Author : Heather Tomlinson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781429922333

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Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson Pdf

Diribani has come to the village well to get water for her family's scant meal of curry and rice. She never expected to meet a goddess there. Yet she is granted a remarkable gift: Flowers and precious jewels drop from her lips whenever she speaks. It seems only right to Tana that the goddess judged her kind, lovely stepsister worthy of such riches. And when she encounters the goddess, she is not surprised to find herself speaking snakes and toads as a reward. Blessings and curses are never so clear as they might seem, however. Diribani's newfound wealth brings her a prince—and an attempt on her life. Tana is chased out of the village because the province's governor fears snakes, yet thousands are dying of a plague spread by rats. As the sisters' fates hang in the balance, each struggles to understand her gift. Will it bring her wisdom, good fortune, love . . . or death? Toads and Diamonds is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.