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The Silent Strength of Stones

Author : Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504040252
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Silent Strength of Stones written by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards: A lonely teenager hides in the forest concealing his own magic—until a battle for survival makes hiding impossible. Summer has come to Sauterelle Lake, a vacation community in the Oregon Cascades, and seventeen-year-old Nick Verrou would rather roam the woods than work in his father’s general store. His curiosity and connection with nature have him dodging his job at every opportunity. When he meets mysterious vacationer Willow and her family—and their unnerving pet wolf—Nick discovers that others share the powers he has tried to suppress. But Nick soon learns that nature’s magic can be more dangerous than he ever imagined. Now the real trick will be surviving until autumn . . . The Silent Strength of Stones is the second novel by the author of A Red Heart of Memories and other acclaimed works. “A startling new voice in contemporary fantasy” (Locus), Nina Kiriki Hoffman “writes about magic creatively and with great feeling” (Kirkus Reviews). The Silent Strength of Stones is the 2nd book in the Chapel Hollow Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. This ebook includes the bonus story “Words of Farewell.”

Spirits That Walk in Shadow

Author : Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101097795
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Spirits That Walk in Shadow written by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Wildly inventive and surprisingly playful sci-fi thriller.”—Washington Post Roommates Jaimie Locke and Kim Calloway are each looking to find a new life at college. It’s Jaimie’s first time Outside—away from her large, complicated family and their magical traditions—and she wants to learn what nonmagical life is like. Kim is anxious to escape the depression that’s been dragging her down since last year so she can make new friends and create the art she loves. But almost as soon as they unpack, Jaimie realizes that Kim’s depression is different from normal sadness. Something outside of Kim is literally forcing her to be depressed, pursuing and draining her. Just like that, the two girls—along with Jaime’s cousins and a Presence named Rugee—try to capture and rout the creature that is following Kim. No one said that college would be easy....

Stones from the River

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439144761
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Stones from the River written by Ursula Hegi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times—“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision” (Los Angeles Times). Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he’s a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.

A Fistful Of Sky

Author : Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101208228
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book A Fistful Of Sky written by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-05-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsum LaZelle had nearly given up. She’d already watched her two older siblings experience the transition—the sudden, debilitating process that turned them from ordinary children into mages, gifted spellcasters like their beautiful mother. Perhaps she was a late bloomer, she thought until her younger siblings came into their powers as well. Now, at twenty, Gypsum fears that she must accept her fate: a mundane life without magic. She can live with being ordinary, an outsider. After all, someone in the family had to take after her father…But one day, alone at home wither family away, Gypsum falls terribly ill. And when the symptoms pass, something has changed. Something she’s dreamed of for such a long time—and suddenly, isn’t ready for at all. “One of the most original and important writers of fantasy working in America today.”—The New York Review of Science Fiction

Strength Of Stones

Author : Greg Bear
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575123427
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Strength Of Stones written by Greg Bear and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a theocratic world far into the future, cities control their own movements and organization. Constantly moving, growing and decaying, taking care of every need their inhabitants might think of, the cities have decided that humans are no longer a necessary part of their architecture, casting them out to wander in the wilderness and eke out a meager subsistence. To the exiled humans, the cities represent a paradisiacal Eden, a reminder of all they cannot attain due to their sinful and unworthy natures. But things are beginning to change. People are no longer willing to allow the cities to keep them out, choosing instead to force an entry and plunder at will. The cities are starting to crumble and die because they have no purpose or reason to continue living without citizens. One woman, called mad by some and wise by others, is the only human allowed to inhabit a city. From her lonely and precarious position at the heart of one of the greatest cities ever, she must decide the fate of the relationship between human society and the ancient strongholds of knowledge, while making one last desperate attempt to save the living cities.

Cutting for Stone

Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184001754
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Cutting for Stone written by Abraham Verghese and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

Ancestor Stones

Author : Aminatta Forna
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408825961
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Ancestor Stones written by Aminatta Forna and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but the layers of years are too many. Thus begins the gathering of her family's history through the tales of her aunts - four women born to four different wives of a wealthy plantation owner, her grandfather. Asana, Mariama, Hawa and Serah: theirs is the story of a nation, a family and four women's attempts to alter the course of her own destiny.

The Place of Truth

Author : Christian Jacq
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743403495
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Place of Truth written by Christian Jacq and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume IV in the Stone of Light series. An unknown traitor undermines the security of the Place of Truth. Will Paneb reveal the culprit in time? Read on ...

The Thread That Binds the Bones

Author : Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504040244
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Thread That Binds the Bones written by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bram Stoker Award: Tom can see ghosts—and that’s the least of his gifts. Now he must harness his newfound magic to save Chapel Hollow. A drifter trying to hide his extraordinary powers—and find a place where he belongs—Tom Renfield has recently settled in the small Oregon town of Arcadia. But when Laura Bolte gets into his cab, he’s plunged deep into a world of magic he didn’t even know existed. The pair is thrown together by supernatural forces, and Tom learns that Laura is the gifted daughter of an ancient family who lives in the nearby enclave of Chapel Hollow. But the mysterious clan has dark—and dangerous—secrets. If Tom is to have any hope of finding the kinship he’s been looking for, he and Laura must find a way to protect the home of her ancestors and the innocent citizens of Arcadia. The debut of a Philip K. Dick Award nominee who has been called “this generation’s Ray Bradbury,” The Thread That Binds the Bones is an extraordinary fantasy novel by the author of A Fistful of Sky and The Silent Strength of Stones (TheSunday Oregonian). The Thread That Binds the Bones is the 1st book in the Chapel Hollow Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. This ebook includes the bonus stories “Lost Lives” and “Caretaking.”

Throwing Stones at the Moon

Author : Sibylla Brodzinsky
Publisher : McSweeney's
ISBN 13 : 193636591X
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Throwing Stones at the Moon written by Sibylla Brodzinsky and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly five decades, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary militias, and the country’s own military. Civilians in Colombia have to make their lives despite the threat of torture, kidnapping, and large-scale massacres—and more than four million have had to flee their homes. The oral histories in Throwing Stones at the Moon describe the most widespread of Colombia’s human rights crises: forced displacement. Speakers recount life before displacement, the reasons for their flight, and their struggle to rebuild their lives. Among the narrators: JULIA, a hospital union leader whose fight against corruption led to a brutal attempt on her life. In 2009, assassins tracked her to her home and stabbed her seven times in the face and chest. Since the attack, Julia has undergone eight facial reconstructive surgeries, and continues to live in hiding. DANNY, who at eighteen joined a right-wing paramilitary’s enormous training camp in the Eastern Plains of Colombia. Initially lured by the promise of quick money, Danny soon realized his mistake and escaped to Ecuador. He describes his harrowing escape and his struggle to survive as a refugee with two young children to support.

Five smooth stones

Author : Ann Fairbairn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Five smooth stones written by Ann Fairbairn and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Champlin is a black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans who makes his way up the ladder of success, only to sacrifice everything to lead his people in the civil rights movement. Sara Kent is the white girl who loves David from the moment she first sees him, and who struggles against his belief that a marriage for them would be wrong in the violent world he has to confront. And the "five smooth stones" are those the biblical David carried against Goliath."--Amazon.com website

A Red Heart of Memories

Author : Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0441007686
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Red Heart of Memories written by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matilda "Matt" Black possesses the unique ability to speak with inanimate objects and witness the dreams of other people. Alone, yet never lonely, she’s now found a kindred spirit in Edmund Reynolds—a wandering witch of a spiritual quest to help those in need. Together, these two special people who live outside normal reality will embark on an odyssey of the imagination. They will look into the darkest depths of the past. And they will encounter things both wonderful and terrifying. “A Red Heart of Memories is full of beautiful, impossible magic. Hoffman has a unique talkent for manking prose soar.”—SF Site “…Hoffman’s best and most complete novel to date.”—Locus

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312144520
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-05-15 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annual collection of outstanding science fiction stories, showcasing the highest levels of creativity and craft in the genre.

The Green Man

Author : Ellen Datlow
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504060385
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Green Man written by Ellen Datlow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the mythology of the Green Man and the power of nature, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, and others serve up “a tasty treat for fantasy fans” (Booklist). There are some “genuine gems” in this “enticing collection” of fifteen stories and three poems, all featuring “diverse takes on mythical beings associated with the protection of the natural world,” most involving a teen’s coming-of-age. Delia Sherman “takes readers into New York City’s Central Park, where a teenager wins the favor of the park’s Green Queen.” Michael Cadnum offers a “dynamic retelling of the Daphne story.” Charles de Lint presents an “eerie, heartwarming story in which a teenager resists the lure” of the faerie world. Tanith Lee roots her tale in “the myth of Dionysus, a god of the Wild Wood.” Patricia A. McKillip steeps her story in “the legend of Herne, guardian of the forest. Magic realism flavors Katherine Vaz’s haunting story. Gregory Maguire takes on Jack and the Beanstalk, and Emma Bull looks to an unusual Green Man—a Joshua tree in the desert” (Booklist). These enduring works of eco-fantasy by some of the genre’s most popular authors impart “a real sense of how powerful nature can be in its various guises” (School Library Journal). “A treasure trove for teens and teachers exploring themes of ecology and folklore.” —Kirkus Reviews “The stories are well-written and manage to speak to both the intellect and the emotions.” —SF Site

Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

Author : Don D'Ammassa
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140630
Total Pages : 2061 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction written by Don D'Ammassa and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on the horror and fantasy genres of fiction, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

Black Swan, White Raven

Author : Ellen Datlow
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497668603
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Black Swan, White Raven written by Ellen Datlow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark and decidedly grown-up stories inspired by fairy tales—from New York Times bestsellers Karen Joy Fowler, Joyce Carol Oates, Susanna Clarke, and more. This collection from World Fantasy Award–winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling proves that fairy tales don’t have to be for little children and that happily ever after doesn’t necessarily mean forever. Here, the plights of Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel, and others are reimagined by some of today’s finest literary talents. Hansel and Gretel make several appearances, not the least being at their trial for the murder of a supposedly helpless old woman. The real, shocking reason for Snow White’s desperate flight from her home is revealed. And the steadfast tin soldier, made flesh and blood, pays a terrible price for his love and devotion. The twenty-one stories and poems in this collection run the gamut from triumphant to troubling to utterly outrageous, like Don Webb’s brilliant merging of numerous tales into one wild, hallucinogenic trip in his “Three Dwarves and 2000 Maniacs.” All in all, they mine the fantastical yarns we loved as children for new and darker gold. Includes stories by Michael Cadnum, Karen Joy Fowler, Michael Blumlein, Nalo Hopkinson, Esther M. Friesner, Joyce Carol Oates, Steve Rasnic Tem, Garry Kilworth, Anne Bishop, Gregory Frost, Sten Westgard, Midori Snyder, Harvey Jacobs, Don Webb, Bruce Glassco, Pat Murphy, John Crowley, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Susanna Clarke, Nancy Kress, and Jane Yolen.

Past Lives, Present Tense

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101191163
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Past Lives, Present Tense written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-12-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pick a famous historical figure and experience your own life as that person. What would you do? Excel in science under the extraordinary influence of Leonardo da Vinci? Spice up your daily grind with a dash of Mata Hari? Unnerve your neighbors as Edgar Allan Poe? Or, for those who like to live dangerously, there are whispers of a black market where no one is forbidden. A word of caution: Previous performance does not guarantee future predictability. And in the hands of these masters of science fiction and fantasy, your experience of past lives reborn may not be at all what you expect. Edited by Nebula Award-Winning Author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. Featuring fifteen new stories by Elizabeth Moon, Carole Nelson Douglas, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jerry Oltion, Rod Garcia y Robertson, and others.