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The Third Book of Swords
Author: Fred Saberhagen
Publisher: JSS Literary Productions, LLC
Published: 2020-02-13
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0979625742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The third and final novel in 'The Book of Swords' trilogy. More stories of the twelve Swords continue with The Lost Swords series. The gods, the creators of the twelve Swords, realize their error in giving powerful Swords to humans. The humans, both good and evil, are ready to fight to the death to acquire and retain the Swords. With the Swords, new ideas and new dreams have entered the world. A change is taking place that threats the gods' very existence.
The Price of Creation
Author: Lance Conrad
Publisher: Dawn Star Press
Published: 2013-12-22
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0991023021
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Historian chances upon Surac, a land where people's destinies are defined by powerful pendants they have from birth, called Stones. Those whose Stones give them useful skills call themselves Creators, and isolate themselves from all others with a wall that splits the entire continent. When Aric, a Creator blacksmith, has a son born with a Stone that marks him for violence and destruction, they find themselves in danger from those they called their friends. When the boy, Sadavir, is ultimately banished, he discovers secrets far darker than the villagers' petty prejudices. On the far side of the wall, he learns the origin of the Stones' magic and a war that dates back centuries. As he uncovers the true power locked in the Stones, he must find a way to unite ancient enemies in order to save his family. To stop a genocide, Sadavir must face his own destiny of violence.
The Price of Nobility
Author: Lance Conrad
Publisher: Dawn Star Press
Published: 2019-02-27
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0991023013
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the king isolates himself and lets the country fall into ruin, Simeon, a soft spoken military leader takes it upon himself to make one last, desperate attempt to save the kingdom. With the Historian as a witness and his trusting younger brother at his side, Simeon joins forces with a dark mercenary, called Hunger by his enemies, to kidnap the king. When their attempts to teach him self-reliance and humility end in tragedy, king and soldier alike muse decide what they are willing to sacrifice in a war that may have already been lost.
Hank Reinhardt's Book of the Sword
Author: Hank Reinhardt
Publisher: Baen
Published: 2009-08-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781439132814
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on information from grave excavations, illustrations of battle scenes, and many classical and medieval literary sources, this book discusses how contemporaries showed swords were used and illustrates not only the beautiful form of the sword, but also its beauty of function.
The Sword
Author: Lisa Deutscher
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1783274271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A multidisciplinary overview of current research into the enduringly fascinating martial artefact which is the sword.
The First Book of Swords
Author: Fred Saberhagen
Publisher: JSS Literary Productions, LLC
Published: 2020-02-13
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0979625718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vulcan the god has a hard task to perform for his bored and restless colleagues — forge 12 magic Swords, quenched with human blood, and scatter them across the world. Each Sword possesses a different power. With them the gods will play a new, grand, and glorious Game. Mere humans foolishly striving for dominion, wealth and glory, are invited to risk their puny lives by joining in. (Later, the gods realize with horror that something has gone wrong in the forging, and with the Game. The Swords are much too powerful, controlling chance, enhancing fortune, changing destiny. And lethal even to their divine creators.) Jord the Smith, drafted to help Vulcan in his task, loses his right arm in the process (receiving the Sword Townsaver as pay). He is too weak to claim Mala, his bride-to-be, who joins a traditional fertility rite, where her partner might be the enigmatic Emperor, his face hidden by a leather mask. Nine months later, she gives birth to Mark. Thirteen years pass, then Townsaver wipes out a raiding party on orange-furred warbeasts, sent to Mark’s village. It falls to Mark to carry the blade away to hide or destroy it.
The Book of Swords: Part 2
Author: Gardner Dozois
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0008274738
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An epic collection of fantasy tales in the grand tradition, including a never-before-published A Song of Ice and Fire story by George R.R. Martin and an introduction by Gardner Dozois.
The Price of Loyalty
Author: Lance Conrad
Publisher: Dawn Star Press
Published: 2019-02-27
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0991023056
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Historian, witness of countless stories, comes upon one that may reveal something of his own. Aegon, a vile and eccentric old sorcerer, holds the key to a past the Historian has forgotten, but he's in no mood to share. Aegon is being hunted by the last of his own students, who have twisted their humanity in their thirst for power. Magic and madness are only pieces of the puzzle as the Historian moves to take control of the story, protect Aegon, and shift destiny itself. In his most personal story yet, the Historian finds that life, death, and love hang in the balance as he battles to save this story and find his own.
Records of the Medieval Sword
Author: Ewart Oakeshott
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780851155661
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An extensive and thorough study of the origins, development and usage of the glamorous two-edged knightly sword of the European middle ages, with a complete typology. Spanning the period from the great migrations to the Renaissance, this book presents a selection from a very large body of photographs and research and gives a full and detailed record of the swords of that turbulent time.
