Wolfskin

Author : Juliet Marillier
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429934541

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Wolfskin by Juliet Marillier Pdf

Wolfskin is the first of a fantasy duet in The Light Isles series from Juliet Marillier, weaving history and folklore into a saga of adventure, romance, and magic. All young Eyvind ever wanted was to become a great Viking warrior--a Wolfskin--and perform honorable deeds out in the name of his War fathergod, Thor. He can think of no future more glorious. And the chance to make it happen is his when his older brother Ulf is brought the tale of a magical land across the sea, a place where men with courage could go to conquer a land and bring glory to themselves. They set out to find this fabled land and discover a windswept and barren place, but one filled with unexpected beauty and hidden treasures... and a people who are willing to share their bounty. Ulf's new settlement begins in harmony with the natives of the isles led by the gentle king Engus. And Eyvind finds a treasure of his own in the young Nessa, niece of the king, seer, and princess. His life will change forever as she claims his heart for her own. But someone has come along to this new land who is not what he seems. Eyvind's heartfriend, Somerled, the strange and lonely boy Eyvind befriended so long ago has a secret--and his own plans for the future. The blood oath that they swore in childhood binds them in lifelong loyalty, and Somerled is calling in the debt of honor. What he asks might just doom Evyind to kill the only thing that he has ever truly loved. Will the price of honor create the destruction of all that Eyvind holds dear? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Sharon Blackie
Publisher : September Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781912836239

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Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women by Sharon Blackie Pdf

Beautiful, rich short stories, drawing on myth and folklore to bring to life women's remarkable ability to transform themselves in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances. 'A book for all the wild women ... Foxfire, Wolfskin is simply the most perfect thing. I love each and every placement of each word. Love the wildness, the shapeshifting, the fearsomeness of it.' Jackie Morris, co-author of The Lost Words ' She lived fully, my fox, and I envied her with all my heart. I wanted to dance with her, sister or lover, across the snow-clad vastness of this land. Together, we'd create the Northern Lights. For that is what foxes do racing over the fells, whipping up the snow with their tails, the friction of it sending up sparks into the midnight sky. This is what makes the aurora's glow. Revontulet , we call it: foxfire.' Charged with drama and beauty, this memorable collection by a master storyteller weaves a magical world of possibility and power from female myths of physical renewal, creation and change. It is an extraordinary immersion into the bodies and voices, mindscapes and landscapes, of the shapeshifting women of our native folklore. Drawing on myth and fairy tales found across Europe from Croatia to Sweden, Ireland to Russia, these stories are about coming to terms with our animal natures, exploring the ways in which we might renegotiate our fractured relationship with the natural world, and uncovering the wildness and wilderness within. Beautifully illustrated by Helen Nicholson, Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women is Blackie's first collection of short stories. 'Sharon Blackie has wrought a new-old magic for our times: glorious, beautiful, passionate myths. They show who we could have been, and they give us a glimpse of a world-that-could-be.' Manda Scott, author of A Treachery of Spies and Boudica 'A deeply evocative and haunting collection ... Part rally cry, part warning, part manifesto and all parts enchanting, Sharon Blackie's Foxfire, Wolfskin is a deeply evocative and haunting collection. I want to press this powerful book into the hands of everyone I know and say listen. ' Holly Ringland, author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

Author : W.R. Gingell
Publisher : W. R. Gingell
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Wolfskin by W.R. Gingell Pdf

‘If you want adventure, you have to march right up to it and kick it in the shins...’ At fourteen, barefoot and running wild, Rose is delighted to be apprenticed to Akiva, the witch of the forest. She thinks it will be all enchantment and excitement, and not so much fuss about baths. The reality is much more sober and practical- that is, until she meets a mysterious wolf in the forest and is tricked into stepping off the path... In young, naive Rose, Bastian sees a way of escape. Cursed to remain in the shape of a wolf after running afoul of a powerful enchantress, he has lived many decades under a spell, and now he is both desperate and ruthless. But by breaking part of Bastian’s curse, Rose has caught the attention of Cassandra, the enchantress who cursed him; and Cassandra is by no means ready to forgive and forget. Meanwhile, wardens have been disappearing from the forest, one by one. Rose is certain that Cassandra is behind the disappearances, but can she and Bastian get to the bottom of the matter before Akiva disappears as well? And are Bastian’s motives entirely to be trusted? Sometimes the little girl in the red hood doesn’t get eaten, and sometimes the wolf isn’t the most frightening thing in the forest.

Author : Andrew Spittal
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781398474321

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Prince Karl and the Wolf Skin, and Other Stories by Andrew Spittal Pdf

Discover the fantastical world of fairy tales in this captivating collection of 28 short stories. From a living man made entirely of wax to a secret cave of gnomes brewing magical beer, to a prince facing a ferocious giant wolf and a joust fought on the backs of donkeys and pigs. Each story is filled with laughter, tears, magic, and morality, featuring daring knights, bold seafarers, and the occasional monster. Perfect for bedtime reading, this enchanting book will captivate young and old alike with its unique and imaginative tales

Author : Lara Moreno
Publisher : Structo Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780995632035

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Wolfskin by Lara Moreno Pdf

Sofía is thirty-five and her husband has left her. Her father died the year before, and her mother is living in the Canary Islands with a new partner. Sofía flees the city with her young son, seeking refuge in her father's house on the southern coast of Spain, where she spent summers as a girl. Her younger sister, with whom she has a close but uneasy relationship, joins her. Living together again, the sisters face their present as well as their childhood and tangled past. A novel from one of Spain's most remarkable authors, Wolfskin is an intimate meditation on ambivalence and motherhood, eroticism and disappointment, family violence and failure, and ultimately, the possibility—or impossibility—of living with those you love.'Lara Moreno writes with the austerity of a watchmaker: she gives you the impression that her prose reaches the reader after a thousand polishes, where the functionality of each word has been meticulously analyzed.' – Care Santos, El Cultural'Lara Moreno's prose disquiets the reader, not only for the strangeness of reality she describes, but through ellipsis, the gaps and the holes that complete the discourse.' – Sònia Hernández, La Vanguardia

Author : Jason Gurley
Publisher : Jason Gurley
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Wolf Skin by Jason Gurley Pdf

He remembers video games. His mother’s cooking. His father’s awkward sense of humor. He remembers air conditioning and warm beds and graduation. But all of that was before the end of the world. Now he is a survivor, one of them – part of a roving clan of killers that combs through the ruined neighborhoods and towns, looking for things to steal, men to butcher, women to enslave and abuse. Then he meets a woman who could kill him without blinking, and together they escape the world that was...

Author : Kunibert Bering,Rolf Niehoff
Publisher : wbv Media GmbH & Company KG
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783763975730

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Visual proficiency - A perspective on art education by Kunibert Bering,Rolf Niehoff Pdf

Every day, over a million images are uploaded to flickr. This is a striking example of the so-called »flood« of images that emerged with the beginning of the digital age. A generation of adolescents has already been socialised with this flood of images and deals with it on a daily basis, both in their networks and elsewhere. Art education thus faces significant challenges: art is the only school subject that deals with the problems inherent in images as images, making them the focus of pedagogic activity. This volume presents both the foundations for engaging with the phenomenon of the »image« in a competent and historically informed manner as well as the perspectives for art education that arise from these foundations. It is based upon the conviction that providing orientation in a world defined by images does not mean following solely a technocratic, functionalist or even neoliberal »concept of education«. Quite the contrary: »providing an orientation« for how to deal with images in a world that is dominated by them is a crucial part of the holistic development of young people's personalities. The volume's main focus lies upon the new functions taken on both by the image and by art more generally. It takes into account aspects of globalisation and participation and also includes more unusual views (often from a cross-media perspective) of art and its historical repertory, which even current image creation is unable to dispense with. The volume also deals extensively with architecture and the images it conveys.

Author : Juliet Marillier
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429913546

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Foxmask by Juliet Marillier Pdf

Foxmask is the second book of a fantasy duet from Juliet Marillier, weaving history and folklore into a saga of adventure, romance, and magic. The Norseman Eyvind, a fierce and loyal Wolfskin, came to a new land on top of the world to find his destiny. With his priestess bride Nessa he saved the land and weathered the treachery that was caused by Eyvind's blood-sworn friend Somerled. After much pain and sorrow the two lovers have managed to create a society where the Norse warriors and the gentle folks of the Orkney Isles live and thrive in contentment at last. A decade and more has passed since the devastating events of the creation of the settlement and Eyvind and Nessa have watched their children grow and thrive in peace. But not all on the islands are content or at peace. Thorvald, the young son of Margaret, widow of the slain king and Eyvind's war leader, has always felt apart and at odds with all he knows. He learns upon his coming to manhood that he is not his father's son but that of the love that Margaret bore for the hated Somerled and that Somerled was not killed for his treachery but sent on a boat, adrift with little more than a knife and skein of water, doomed to the god's will. Thorvald is determined to find a boat and cast off to the West in a desperate bid to find a father he never knew...and to find out if he is made of the same stuff as the heinous traitor. The tragedy of this scheme would be horrific enough...if it were not for the fact that Creidhe, the winsome daughter of Eyvind and Nessa has loved Thorvald since birth and unbeknownst to him conspires to go along on this most perilous of quests. What happens to them on their journey of discovery will ultimately change the lives of all they know and love...and will doom (or redeem) an entire people. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Sandi Ault
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101206621

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Wild Indigo by Sandi Ault Pdf

Bureau of Land Management Agent Jamaica Wild has witnessed the death of a Tanoah Pueblo man who was trampled by buffalo. After the tribal government and local paper make allegations that Jamaica caused the stampede, she is determined to solve this mystery. But what is revealed is a greater secret regarding Tanoah Pueblo-one that threatens its future and its past.

Author : Leslie A. Sconduto
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786452163

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Metamorphoses of the Werewolf by Leslie A. Sconduto Pdf

The mythical werewolf is known for its sudden transformation under the full moon, but the creature also underwent a narrative evolution through the centuries, from bloodthirsty creature to hero. Beginning with The Epic of Gilgamesh, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and an account in Petronius’ Satyricon, the book analyzes the context that created the traditional image of the werewolf as a savage beast. The Catholic Church’s response to the popular belief in werewolves and medieval literature’s sympathetic depiction of the werewolf as victim are presented to support the idea of the werewolf as a complex and varied cultural symbol. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : George W. Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Northwest, Pacific
ISBN : PRNC:32101074863174

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A History of the Hunt Family from the Norman Conquest, 1066 A.D, to the Year 1890 by George W. Hunt Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113267780

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Canadian Geographic by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher : Random House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448173013

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Blood Feud by Rosemary Sutcliff Pdf

Jestyn the Englishman had once been Thormod the Viking's slave, but after saving Thormod's life he became his shoulder to shoulder man and sworn brother in the deadly blood feud to avenge Thormod's murdered father, a feud that would take them all the way to Constantinople.

Author : Chaim Bentorah
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449761691

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Biblical Truths from Uncle Otto's Farm by Chaim Bentorah Pdf

Learn spiritual truths from the adventures of the animals on Uncle Otto's farm. These stories can be used for children groups and sermon illustrations. Some children may be too old for animal stories, but most adults may just be old enough.

Author : Modern Language Association of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015048893153

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Publications of the Modern Language Association of America by Modern Language Association of America Pdf

Vols. for 1921-1969 include annual bibliography, called 1921-1955, American bibliography; 1956-1963, Annual bibliography; 1964-1968, MLA international bibliography.