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By Lian Hearn. 2007
Heaven's Net is Wide is both the first and last volume in the Tales of the Otori. This is the…
story of Lord Otori Shigeru, the spiritual warrior-godfather who saved Takeo and raised him as his own and heir to the Otori clan. It expands on what has been only hinted at before: Shigeru's training in the ways of the warrior and feudal lord, his relationship with the Tribe of mysteriously powerful assassins, the battles that tested his skills and talents, and his fateful meeting with Lady Maruyama.By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman. 1989
The Great War of the Gods means nothing to the proud people on the mortal planet--until Akhran the Wandering God…
decrees the union of two mighty feuding clans. Though the families are fierce Warriors, they are few in number. Even the marriage of Khardan and Zohra is not enough to over power the strength of the invading army or prevent the imprisonment of their peoples. Now, with Khardan and Zohra mysteriously missing--seemingly cowards who hid from certain defeat--the two clans have lost all hope of ever again seeing their beloved open skies. But Prince Khardan and Princess Zohra, aided by the wizard Matthew, have been given another mission...a mission that at first seems less useful than counting the many grains of the desert sands, but soon proves to be of far more lasting importance.By Eddings, David.Eddings, David. 1985
Ce'Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, was confused. Everyone knew that the tales of the Orb that protected the West from…
the evil God Torak were just silly legends. But here she was, forced to join a serious and dangerous quest to recover that stolen Orb. No one believed in sorcery. Yet Garion's aunt and grandfather seemed to be the fabled sorcerers Polgara and Belgarath, who would have to be thousands of years old. Even young Garion was learning to do things that could only be sorcery. Garion! He was nothing but a farm boy, totally unsuitable for an Imperial Princess. Then why did she have such an urge to teach him, to brush his tangled hair, and to comfort him? Now he was going to a strange tower in the centre of all he believed evil, to face some horrible, powerful magician. And she wouldn't be there to watch over him...By Eddings, David.Eddings, David. 1985
The quest was over. The Orb of Aldur was restored. And once again, with the crowning of garion, there was…
a descendant of Riva Iron-Grip to rule as Overlord of the West. But the Prophesy was unfulfilled. In the East, the evil God Torak was about to awaken and seek dominion. Somehow Garion had to face the God, to kill or be killed. On the outcome of that dread duel rested the destiny of the world. Now accompanied by his grandfather, the ancient sorcerer Belgarath, Garion headed towards the City of Endless Night, where Torak awaited him. To the South, his fiancée, the Princess Ce'Nedra led the armies of the West in a desperate effort to divert the forces of Torak's followers from the man she loved. The Prophesy drove Garion on. But it gave no answer to the question that haunted him: How does a man kill an immortal God?By Lian Hearn. 2003
Takeo, heir to the great Otori clan, has pledged his life to the secret Tribe. His supernatural skills of invisibility…
and acute hearing make him their most deadly assassin. He must deny the spiritual vows of his peaceful upbringing, his birthright of wealth, land and power - and his love for Kaede. If he does not devote himself to the brutal activities of the Tribe, they will kill him. Taeko grows from boy to man, and takes a path that leads to extremes of danger, hardship and sacrifice in the bitter mountain winter. Kaede, now the valuable pawn of ruthless warlords, must use her intelligence, beauty and cunning to assert her place in a world of all-powerful men...By Lian Hearn. 2006
Lord Otori Takeo and his consort Kaede have ruled for over sixteen years. The Three Countries are rich, peaceful and…
prosperous. The sacred birds, the Honou, nest at Terayama and a fabled creature, the Kirin, has appeared on their shores. Heaven seems to smile on them. Yet their very success has attracted the attention of the distant Emperor and his general, the warlord Saga Hideki, who covet all the wealth of the Three Countries, especially Takeo's heir, his eldest daughter, Shigeko, now of marriageable age. At the same time, the violent acts and betrayals of the past will not lie buried. The renegade Tribe family, the Kikuta, seek revenge on Takeo for the murder of their leader; they have an eager ally in his brother-in-law Arai Zenko, who has never been able to forget or forgive his own father's shameful death. Everything Takeo and Kaede have achieved is threatened...By Gerald Murnane. 2000
On their vast estates, the landowning families of the plains have preserved a rich and distinctive culture. Obsessed with their…
own habitat and history, they hire artisans, writers and historians to record in minute detail every aspect of their lives, and the nature of their land. A young film-maker arrives on the plains, hoping to make his own contribution to the elaboration of this history. In a private library he begins to take notes for a film, and chooses the daughter of his patron for a leading role. Twenty years later, he begins to tell the haunting story of life on the plains...By David Eagleman. 2009
In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or…
you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages, in some you are recreated based on your credit card records, and in others you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been. In these short tales, Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions and offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here and now. His stories are rooted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence: a mixture of hope, love and death that cuts through human nature at innovative angles.By Scarlett Thomas. 2007
A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dreamworld called the Troposphere? Renegade academic…
Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists - especially Thomas Lumas and The End of Mr. Y, a book no one alive has read. When she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, Ariel is launched into an adventure of science and faith, consciousness and death, space and time, and everything in between. Seeking answers, Ariel follows in Mr. Y’s footsteps: She swallows a tincture, stares into a black dot, and is transported into the Troposphere - a wonderland where she can travel through time and space using the thoughts of others. There she begins to understand all the mysteries surrounding the book, herself, and the universe. Or is it all just a hallucination?By Stephen King. 2003
Determined to reach the Dark Tower, gunslinger Roland and his companions emerge from the forests in the Mid-World on a…
path that leads to a tranquil valley community of farmers and ranchers in the borderlands. Beyond the town, the rocky ground rises towards the dark source of affliction. Danger is imminent - the Wolves of the Calla are gathering, their unspeakable depredation poised to threaten the soul of the community. Roalnd and his companions must venture all as they face an unknown adversary. And the future of the Mid-World once again faces crimson chaos.By Stephen King. 2006
The final volume sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster mix of exhilarating triumph and aching loss. His band of pilgrims…
united, though scattered. Susannah-Mia has been carried off to give birth in New York. Terrified of what may happen, Jake, Father Callahan and Oy follow. Roland and Eddie are in Maine, looking for the site on Turtleback Lane which will lead them to Susannah. Yet they come to realise that the world they need to escape is the only one that matters. And finally, his every step shadowed by a terrible and sinister creation, Roland closes in on the Dark Tower...By Stephen King. 2004
To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of…
Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah...and terrifying to the "daughter of none" who shares her body and mind. Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but also on securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to the Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining ka-tet climbs to the Doorway Cave...and discovers that magic has its own mind. It falls to the boy, the billy bumbler, and the fallen priest to find Susannah-Mia, who in a struggle to cope with each other and with an alien environment-"go todash" to Castle Discordia on the border of End-World. In that forsaken place, Mia reveals her origins, her purpose, and her fierce desire to mother whatever creature the two of them have carried to term.By John Ajvide Lindqvist, Ebba Segerberg. 2009
The lights are refusing to go out all over Stockholm. There's a mysterious problem in the power system. Every appliance…
in the city is going at full blast and the entire population is struck by blinding headaches. The pressure builds to an intolerable pitch and then...stops. Moments later, in morgues and cemeteries across Stockholm, the dead start to rise, not the nameless zombies of classic horror - but real dead people: mothers, children, grandchildren and spouses. Desperately loved, bitterly missed and now 'reliving'. Which is not, it turns out, the same as being alive.By David Eddings, Leigh Eddings. 1997
Polgara is the pre-eminent woman in all the world. She could have chosen any king or emperor for a husband…
and lived in a palace. She chose instead a simple country blacksmith, Durnik, and lives on a remote farmstead, content with her twin children and busy life. But in the dead of winter, her peace of mind is ruined when her nephew, the Rivan King Garion, and his wife Ce'Nedra visit. Having read Belgarath's story, Ce'Nedra feels cheated. The Old Wolf left out so much, writing nothing of Polgara's years at Vo Wacune, nor what happened at Gar og Nadrak. Ce'Nedra wants Polgara to finish her story - for the sake of her son Geran who will one day be the Rivan King. There are two worlds running side by side, and if Geran doesn't know about them, evil may once more rise from the City of Endless Night. Ce'Nedra is no match for Polgara, who has no desire to tell her tale. However, Polgara herself is no match for the wolf Poledra, her mother - who orders her to tell it anyway. And so, finally, the full truth of the Belgariad is revealed, the story of wizardry and politics, doom and evil, love and magic. Above all, the story of Polgara, a beautiful woman whose constancy and inner power have been the foundation of all the luck and love that have saved the world.By Jane Yolen. 1992
It is an old, old tale, the German story of Briar Rose, the Sleeping Beauty. Now one of America's most…
celebrated writers tells it afresh, set this time in the forests patrolled by the German army during World War II. A tale of castles, of mists and thorns, of a beautiful sleeping princess, and an astonishing revelation of death and rebirth.