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The Twisted Citadel

Author : Sara Douglass

Publisher : HarperCollins Australia

Page : 688 pages

File Size : 33,18 MB

Release : 2010-01-31

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0730400174

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The second instalment of this complex, beautiful story. Can treachery and murder offer the only path to salvation? Glass turns to flesh as DarkGlass Mountain rouses from its restless sleep to walk the land and plot the downfall of the Lord of Elcho Falling. Ishbel and Maximilian, now utterly estranged, ride for Serpent's Nest, not realising that at their backs a cadre of traitors plot their death. Axis once more takes command of the Strike Force, but it is not enough to save him from the gallows of Isaiah's generals, nor from the lover who betrays him. In Isembaard the Skraelings run amok, but they will not touch the sole survivor from the slaughter of Aqhat, who walks north with a mysterious relic of Ashdod's past. Over all hover the Lealfast, ancient creatures who hide many secrets and possess a sorcery so ancient and malignant that it threatens to curse Elcho Falling as soon as the twisted citadel rises.'a darkly sensual tale ... nothing less than you would expect from our best fantasy writer' ∗∗∗∗ BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER 'Douglass certainly has an epic imagination ... devourers of fantasy fiction will lap it up' tHE AGE



The Wayfarer Redemption

Author : Sara Douglass

Publisher : Tor Books

Page : 674 pages

File Size : 43,49 MB

Release : 2011-02-24

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1429911506

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A millennia-old prophecy was given when the Forbidden Ones were driven from Achar. And now, the Acharites witness its manifestation: Achar is under attack by an evil lord from the North, Gorgreal--his ice demons strike from the sky and kill hundreds of brave warriors in the blink of an eye. All Acharites believe the end is near. One young woman, Faraday, betrothed of Duke Borneheld, learns that all she has been told about her people's history is untrue. While fleeing to safety from the dangerous land, Faraday, rides with Axis, legendary leader of the Axe-Wielders--and hated half-brother of Borneheld--and a man Faraday secretly loves although it would be death to admit it. She embarks on a journey, which will change her life forever, in search of the true nature of her people. This grand and heroic story tells the tale of one woman's plight to learn the truth of her people and change their hearts and their minds forever. She fights against oppressive forces to share this reality and will not desist until everyone knows. . . . . The truth of the Star Gate At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.



The Infinity Gate

Author : Sara Douglass

Publisher : HarperCollins Australia

Page : 458 pages

File Size : 49,24 MB

Release : 2010-06-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0730450864

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A god remembers ... can the world forget No one is safe when even the past can't be trusted.Elcho Falling is under siege from the forces of Infinity. Axis must deal with treachery while Maximilian confronts the One in the depths of the citadel. Maximilian seems to have the upper hand, but finds his oldest ally's advice disguises a vicious motive.Meanwhile, everyone has forgotten the Skraelings, who conceal a strange, ancient secret. Now these wraiths face a choice that appears to be no choice at all: the way of Infinity, or allying themselves with the StarMan, whom they have loathed for generations.In a heart-stopping conclusion to this superb trilogy, Maximilian and his friends battle for survival from the malevolent depths of DarkGlass Mountain to the pinnacle of a crumbling Elcho Falling and beyond ... as the past reaches out to seize Axis and drag him into yet another confrontation with his hated brother, Borneheld.'thoroughly compelling ... a dark, powerful novel that will appeal to devotees of the character-driven fantasies of such authors as Robin Hobb and Robert Jordan' BOOKSELLER + PUBLISHER.



Beyond the Hanging Wall

Author : Sara Douglass

Publisher : HarperCollins Australia

Page : 44 pages

File Size : 16,76 MB

Release : 2010-10-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0730492079

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Deep beneath the seas of Escator lie the Veins - rich gloam mines worked by men sentenced to die in the darkness. Garth Baxtor, an apprentice physician, accompanies his father on Joseph's annual journey to the Veins to tend the barely remembered miners. He knows that these doomed men have experienced unimaginable despair and pain, but nothing could prepare him for what he encounters.In the dark tunnels of the mines, Garth discovers a dangerous secret when he heals a desolate criminal with a mysterious mark on his arm. Is it truly possible that the answer to Escator's greatest mystery is hidden beneath the hanging wall Could the fate of the lost Prince Maximilian finally be discovered Praise for Sara Douglass 'Douglass' books are a terrific read, compulsive page turners' Australian Book Review 'the best and most exciting writer of commercial fantasy fiction to emerge from Australia' Locus 'an epic imagination' the Age Deep beneath the seas of Escator lie the Veins - rich gloam mines worked by men sentenced to die in the darkness. Garth Baxtor, an apprentice physician, accompanies his father on Joseph's annual journey to the Veins to tend the barely remembered miners. He knows that these doomed men have experienced unimaginable despair and pain, but nothing could prepare him for what he encounters.In the dark tunnels of the mines, Garth discovers a dangerous secret when he heals a desolate criminal with a mysterious mark on his arm. Is it truly possible that the answer to Escator's greatest mystery is hidden beneath the hanging wall? Could the fate of the lost Prince Maximilian finally be discovered? Praise for Sara Douglass 'Douglass' books are a terrific read, compulsive page turners' Australian Book Review 'the best and most exciting writer of commercial fantasy fiction to emerge from Australia' Locus 'an epic imagination' the Age



Citadel on the Mountain

Author : Richard Wertime

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 26,78 MB

Release : 2003-05-16

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0374529140

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A warped dream, an overbearing father, and his son A handsome, brilliant man, the author's father-irascible, strong-willed, a compulsive womanizer-stands at the center of this strangely compelling story. In the mid-1970s, after a life in government service, which was shadowy in its depths, Ted Wertime built a fortress-like house on a mountaintop in south-central Pennsylvania. He had forged for himself a secondary career as a highly respected historian of ancient science and technology, and was convinced that it was his fate to lead a sweeping revolution that would cleanse the United States of energy abuse, political corruption, and an odd assortment of social ills. His "citadel" would serve as his revolutionary headquarters. He, his wife, and Joan, the last and most troubled of his succession of mistresses, lived in the house together in a bizarre ménage à trois. His dream was to recruit his four sons to take part in his cause. The author, Richard Wertime, is the second-oldest son. Citadel on the Mountain is the story of his struggle to escape from a domineering and, at times, hypnotizing father who sought to control the sexual and professional lives of his offspring.



Sword & Citadel

Author : Gene Wolfe

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 415 pages

File Size : 32,14 MB

Release : 1994-10-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0312890184

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A Major work of twentieth-century American Literature.



Threshold

Author : Sara Douglass

Publisher : Tor Books

Page : 569 pages

File Size : 27,55 MB

Release : 2004-07-11

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1429911522

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Following the success of The Wayfarer Redemption series, Sara Douglass brings us a beautifully crafted novel in Threshold, a standalone prequel to the Darkglass Mountain trilogy. Over the hot southern land of Ashdod looms the shadow of Threshold, a massive pyramid which the Magi of Ashdod are building to propel themselves into Infinity, a plane of existence that holds the promise of technological magics and supposedly unimaginable power. For decades, thousands of slaves have lost their lives in the construction of this edifice. Now that this construction is almost complete, the Magi need only to add the finishing touches, and they will let nothing stand in the way of achieving their desire. The Master of the Magi, a young and ambitious man, ready to do anything for power, sees the glassworker slave Tirzah as a plaything, a trifle to relieve the tensions of the day. He senses that under her placid façade Tirzah is hiding something, but try as he may to see beneath her surface, she remains an enigma. What he does not know is that her secret is the knowledge of forbidden magic. That she senses the inherent power in glass and can communicate with it-and that the glass in Threshold screams to her in pain. For it knows what neither Tirzah nor any of the Magi suspect. That something waits in Infinity, watching, biding its time, and when the final glass plate is laid and the capstone cemented in blood, it plans to use Threshold to step from Infinity into Ashdod... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.



The Serpent Bride (The Darkglass Mountain Trilogy, Book 1)

Author : Sara Douglass

Publisher : HarperCollins UK

Page : 676 pages

File Size : 32,22 MB

Release : 2014-03-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0007405820

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The Serpent Bride is the first book in the Darkglass Mountain trilogy, revisiting the tempestuous magical world of Tencendor with all it’s strange and wonderful inhabitants.



The Infinity Gate

Author : Sara Douglass

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 580 pages

File Size : 17,18 MB

Release : 2011-07-26

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0060882204

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Tencendor is no more. The land is gone. But a few SunSoars still remain. And a new foe walks the world. Ishbel Brunelle, priestess of the Serpent Coil, and Maximilian, the Lord of Elcho Falling, have raised the magic of Elcho Falling, and found new allies against the darkness in the mysterious Lealfast. And more crucially still, Axis SunSoar, former god and current hero, has rediscovered the magical Star Dance and revived his legendary Strike Force to push back the evil hordes commanded by the DarkGlass Mountain. But their enemy grows stronger through blood and betrayal, the Lealfast have their own agenda, and when unexpected treachery threatens, Axis SunSoar must face a darkness greater than any he has ever known.



The Grand Conjunction

Author : Sean Williams

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 340 pages

File Size : 27,53 MB

Release : 2009-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780441017133

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Six hundred thousand years after Imre Bergamasc's abdication, a rebellion is brewing underneath the veneer of civilization and Imre's unexpected and unwelcome return threatens the fate of humanity and ignites a war that could destroy the seemingly peaceful galaxy. Original.