Author : Anna Lee Waldo
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312198435
A twelfth-century Welsh woman gives birth to a child prophesied to lead his people and, in the process, becomes a formidable player in the socio-religious activities of her day
Author : Judith Duerk
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1880913631
Long ago before the patriarchal period, in many places on Earth, the Goddess was worshipped. Circle of Stones draws us into a meditative experience of the lost Feminine and creates a space for us to consider our present lives from the eyes of women's ancient culture and ritual. Incorporating the most ancient symbol of spirituality-the circle of stones-Duerk weaves stories, dreams, and visions of women to lead each reader into a personal yet archetypal journey, posing the reflective question, "How might your life have been different if . . ."Complete with reading group guide.
Author : Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Publisher : Apple
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439062596
Cristyn Stone is unhappy about spending her summer in a small town in Wales while her father researches a book. The 16th-century stone house they are staying in holds a haunting secret. Strange noises, weird dreams, a girl ghost, and a mysterious connection to her late mother draw 14-year-old Cristyn deeper into the mystery.
Author : Catherine Fisher
Publisher : Hachette Children's
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 144490292X
In an absorbing mystery thriller, a teenage girl with a past arrives in a city: new name, new identity, new foster family. She has chosen the city herself, and is fascinated by its harmony and beauty, but is clearly in fear of discovery. She is nursing a secret from her early childhood, a secret that produces new terrors for her the moment she fears her identity has been spotted. A parallel narrative tells of a young architect's apprentice, Zak, in 1750 - working with Jonathan Forrest, a man obsessed with past Druidic mysteries and a new architectural vision for the city. He plans to create the world's first circular terraced street, the King's Circus - a plan greeted with scorn and derision. Zac soon realises there's more than just obsession with an architectural vision; there is some secret associated with building a hidden chamber in the centre of the Circus. But Zac himself has his own confused and highly destructive agenda ... These narratives are framed by the voice of Bladud - mythical first builder of the city, destined to die in trying to fly. And ultimately his narrative brings all together in a clever and brilliantly intriguing climax.
Author : Elly Griffiths
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1328974642
In a chilling entry to the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a ghost from their past, just as their future lands on shaky ground. DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters. They are anonymous, yet reminiscent of ones he has received in the past, from the person who drew him into a case that's haunted him for years. At the same time, Ruth receives a letter purporting to be from that very same person--her former mentor, and the reason she first started working with Nelson. But the author of those letters is dead. Or is he? The past is reaching out for Ruth and Nelson, and its grip is deadly.
Author : Anthony Tuck
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1627873074
Author : A.J. Lake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1408829967
At the end of the last book, evil Loki tricked Elspeth into freeing him of his bonds. Now Edmund and Elspeth are desperately searching for his trail, but the fire and destruction they expect does not materialise. Loki is strangely elusive. Instead they find unusual emblems carved along the route they take. They also find a young boy, lost and wandering in the confusion of displaced families, as they travel further south and closer to the war between Visigoths and invading English. Edmund and Elspeth can't help feeling they are being led further and further into a trap, but have no choice other than to follow even the smallest clues. As they continue on their treacherous journey, the young boy begins to behave strangely, and it soon becomes clear he knows something about Loki and where they might find him - but maybe Loki has found them first . . .
Author : Erynn Rowan Laurie
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2012-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781905713776
A Circle of Stones, originally published in 1995, offers a unique approach to meditation and Otherworld journeying in a Celtic Pagan context through the use of prayer beads as a focus for understanding early Gaelic cosmology and ways to journey through its three realms of land, sea, and sky. With chapters on ritual, altars, journeying, and communicating with deities, this short book has provided seekers with tools for their spiritual work for nearly twenty years. This new edition offers a much improved pronunciation guide for the Irish and Scots Gaelic in the text, and a new foreword that offers context for the book's historical place in the emergence of Celtic Reconstructionist Pagan spirituality.
Author : Colin Richards
Publisher : Windgather Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1909686131
Of all prehistoric monuments, few are more emotive than the great stone circles that were built throughout Britain and Ireland. From the tall, elegant, pointed monoliths of the Stones of Stenness to the grandeur of Stonehenge and the sarsen blocks at Avebury, circles of stone exert a magnetic fascination to those who venture into their sphere. In Britain today, more people visit these structures than any other form of prehistoric monument and visitors stand in awe at their scale and question how and why they were erected. Building the Great Stone Circles of the North looks at the enigmatic stone structures of Scotland and investigates the background of their construction and their cultural significance.
Author : Gillian G. Tan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0295999497
This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the milk production of their herd for sustenance. Gillian Tan’s story, based on her own experience of living through seasonal cycles with the people of Dora Karmo between 2006 and 2013, examines the community’s powerful relationship with a Buddhist lama and their interactions with external agents of change. In showing how they perceive their environment and dwell in their world, Tan conveys a spare beauty that honors the stillness and rhythms of nomadic life.
