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Author: Alisa J. Golden
Publisher: Union Square & Company
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781600595875
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Materials & methods, Folded books, Simply glued, Simply sewn, Scrolls & accordions, Movable books, The codex, Codex variations, Envelopes & portfolios, Cover techniques, Boxes & slipcases, Ideas & concepts - Table des matières
Author: Sofia Samatar
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: 2016-02-15
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1618731157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Four women — a soldier, a scholar, a poet, and a socialite — are caught up on opposing sides of a violent rebellion. As war erupts and their loyalties and agendas and ideologies come into conflict, the four fear their lives may pass unrecorded. Using the sword and the pen, the body and the voice, they struggle not just to survive, but to make history. Here is the much-anticipated companion novel to Sofia Samatar’s World Fantasy Award-winning debut, A Stranger in Olondria. The Winged Histories is the saga of an empire — and a family: their friendships, their enduring love, their arcane and deadly secrets. Samatar asks who makes history, who endures it, and how the turbulence of historical change sweeps over every aspect of a life and over everyone, no matter whether or not they choose to seek it out. Sofia Samatar is the author of the Crawford, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy award-winning novel A Stranger in Olondria. She also received the John W. Campbell Award. She has written for the Guardian, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and many other publications. She is working on a collection of stories. Her website is sofiasamatar.com.
Author: Dion Fortune
Publisher: Weiser Books
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1609255216
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Winged Bull is a tale of magic and sexuality. Down on his luck, Ted Murchison invokes the Winged Bull, a god of ancient Babylon, to come to his aid. Immediately, he is drawn into a vortex of weird events in which he is asked to rescue the daughter of an old friend from the clutches of a black magician.
Author: Li-Young Lee
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
Published: 2013-03-15
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1938160053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"It has true spiritual importance for contemporary American literature."—Edward Hirsch Upon its initial publication, acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's memoir The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995), received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. In lyrical prose, Lee's extraordinary story begins in the 1950s when his parents fled China's political turmoil for Indonesia. Along with many other Chinese members of the population, his family was persecuted under President Sukarno. Falsely accused and charged for crimes against the state, his father spent a year and a half in jail as a political prisoner, half of that time in a leper colony. While his entire family was being transported to a prison colony, they escaped and fled to Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, and back to Hong Kong where his father rose to prominence as an evangelical preacher. Eventually, the family sought asylum in the United States in 1962. When the author was six, they emigrated to a small town in western Pennsylvania where his father became a Presbyterian minister. This reissued edition contains a new foreword by the author and never-before-seen photos of the family from different stages of their journey. Li-Young Lee is the author of four critically acclaimed books of poetry that have garnered such awards as the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University; the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; the Writer's Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation; and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Author: Griffin Brady
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
Published: 2020-09-04
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9781735455815
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exploiting Muscovy's Time of Troubles, Poland has invaded the chaotic country. Twenty-two-year-old Jacek Dąbrowski is an honorable, ferocious warrior in a company of winged hussars-an unrivaled, lethal cavalry. When his lieutenant dies in battle, Jacek is promoted to replace him, against the wishes of his superior, Mateusz, who now has more reason to eliminate him. Jacek dedicates his life to gaining the king's recognition and manor lands of his own. Consequently, he closely guards his heart, avoiding lasting romantic entanglements. Unscathed on the battlefield, undefeated in tournaments, and adored by women eager to share his bed, Jacek has never lost at anything he sets out to conquer. So when he charges toward his goals, he believes nothing stands in his way. Upon his return from battle, Jacek deviates from his ordinarily unemotional mindset and rescues enemy siblings, fifteen-year-old Oliwia and her younger brother, Filip, from their devastated Muscovite village. His act of mercy sets into motion unstoppable consequences that ripple through his well-ordered life for years to come-and causes him to irretrievably lose his heart. Oliwia has her own single-minded drive: to protect her young brother. Her determination and self-sacrifice lead her to adopt a new country, a new religion, and a new way of life. But it's not the first time the resilient beauty has had to remake herself, for she is not what she appears to be. As Jacek battles the Muscovites and Tatars threatening Poland's borders for months at a time, Oliwia is groomed for a purpose concealed from her. All the while, Mateusz's treachery and a mysterious enemy looming on the horizon threaten to destroy everything Jacek holds dear.
Author: Christopher Moore
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0061807680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Readers new to the work of Christopher Moore will want to know two things immediately. First: Where has this guy been hiding? (Answer: In plain sight, since he has a cult following.)...[H]e writes laid back fables straight out of Margaritaville, on the cusp of humor and science fiction.”—Janet Maslin, New York Times Whale researcher Nathan Quinn has a problem. It’s not a new problem; in fact, it’s been around for nearly 20 million years. And Nate’s spent most of his adult life working to solve it. You see, although everybody (well, almost everybody) knows that humpback whales sing (outside of human composition, the most complex songs on the planet) no one knows why. Nate, a Ph.D. in behavior biology, intends to discover the answer to this burning question—and soon. Every winter he and Clay Demolocus, his partner in the Maui Whale Research Foundation, ply the warm waters between the islands of Maui and Lanai, recording the eerily beautiful songs of the humpbacks and returning to their lab for electronic analysis. The trouble is, Nate’s beginning to wonder if he hasn’t spent just a little too much time in the sun. Either that, or he’s losing his mind. Because today, as he was shooting an I.D. photo of a humpback tail fluke, Nate could’ve sworn he saw the words “Bite Me” scrawled across the whale’s tail. . .
Author: Sam Morton
Publisher:
Published: 2017-08
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780999059104
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →They rode through the night like ghosts crossing the border. Moving through the wall built a thousand years before by the Romans to keep them out of england, they stole horses and cattle from the wealthy earls to the south. These were the horsemen from Annandale, the River Esk and the debatable land on Scotland's border. For five hundred years they formed their own armies, foutht in Scotland's great battles from Robert Bruce to Mary Queen of Scots and into Ireland. These men and women of the clan Johnston/e, Douglas and Scott defied tyrannical rule earning a freedom that would influence politics and religion around the world.
Author: Amelia Kinkade
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781481977944
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Princess Penelope finds her way into an Inner Kingdom inside the earth where she discovers that all the beautiful things in the Outer World—color, good smells and tastes, dance, the rhythm of the seasons, the laws of the Universe like gravity, the ability to dream, and even the ability to heal—are all ruled by Elementals (fairy creatures) who initiate beauty, harmony, and grace in the Outer World. Her brother, Kam, is tricked into going into the Inner Kingdom with a magical gun that can actually destroy the elementals, convinced that he is the prophesized “Wing One,” a child of royal birth with magical powers. Penny has the ability to talk to animals and also these elementals. She goes into this Inner Kingdom to repair the damage her brother is heaping on the spirits because as he destroys the elementals, the Outer World starts to collapse. Through her journey she discovers that she has the powers within her to help every creature she meets on her pathway. Through her journey of learning about compassion, courage, intuitive communication, selfless generosity, unconditional love, and true friendship, she finds her own strength and in the process restores both the Inner and Outer worlds to a new level of beauty and harmony. The Winged One is, in short, a spiritual manual to help children find true meaning in life and discover their interconnectedness with Nature and how they can contribute to the world.
Author: Phaedron
Publisher: Toad Hall Incorporated
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780963749833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Holy Order of the Winged Disk, headed by Phaedron Stone, is an old magical organization dedicated to Hermetic, Qabalistic, Gnostic, Rosicrucian, and Alchemical practices. These traditional teachings were passed down verbally from Adept to initiate. For the first time, this knowledge has been compiled in a single volume. This esoteric "white" magic is used for daily living, enlightenment, and spiritual growth. The teachings form a serious, spiritual path to magical experiences which can unveil the secrets of the cosmos. In addition, the book contains specific information about the use of herbs, the tarot, astral projection, and seasonal celebrations.
