Object of Balance
Object of Balance

Author: Lesley Fisher

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-05

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 149901516X

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Object of Balance is a fantasy about nine little fairies who find themselves embarking on a great quest through hostile lands to save their world, Andel. It is a race against time. They must find one of the objects the great wizards were using to keep everyone in their world safe. It has been stolen from the wizards, and it must be found and brought back before it is too late. What the creature that stole the object didn't know was that the object was keeping something even more evil back. Without the object, their world will become riddled with all the storms the elements can throw at them. It is not all bad. The fairies do find that through their travels, they meet many new creatures who become their friends and allies. Well, with the fate of the world in the balance, wouldn't you be willing to help? When the wizards told the fairies they had to go and get the object back, they were shocked. How could nine little fairies possibly do this? The object itself was bigger than all of them put together! The wizards told them they had to; there was no choice. The wizards could not go as they had to stay and hold the other evil at bay until the object was put back into its place. Still, the fairies worried but did as they were told. They would find a way! Object of Balance is a warm and wonderful tale full to the brim with many different characters that I hope everyone of all ages will love. There are ferocious dragons, a giant as tall as a mountain, ogres, witches, trolls, and so many others. It is family oriented, and it has many lessons to be learned. Enjoy!

The Unicorn Hunter
The Unicorn Hunter

Author: Che Golden

Publisher: Quercus

Published: 2015-01-06

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1623658756

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"Gripping, mystical and adventurous, young readers will be as hooked as Maddy was the minute she set foot inside that creepy as hell old castle," raved Irish World said of The Feral Child. Maddy's adventures continue in The Unicorn Hunter. The adults of Blarney have always lived in fear. The faeries of Tir na nOg exist on their doorstep, and they could unleash terror on the mortal realm at any time. But eleven-year-old Maddy is not afraid. The unicorn that holds the key to balance and peace in both worlds is injured, and Maddy knows she is the only one who can track down whoever hurt her. Can Maddy survive the force and cunning of the Tuatha, who rule Tir na nOg? Or will she end up a mere pawn in their own power games? Readers will enjoy the frank and bold heroine of Maddy, and will be dazzled by The Unicorn Hunter's evocative rendering of Irish folklore and richly imagined alternate worlds.

The Flitting: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies
The Flitting: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies

Author: Ben Masters

Publisher: Tin House Books

Published: 2024-10-01

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1959030892

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"A book with wings."—Ali Smith A deeply felt and moving memoir about how butterflies become a vital connection between a son and his dying father. The Flitting: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies is a masterful and touching memoir blending natural history, pop culture, and literary biography—delivering a richly layered and nuanced portrait of a son’s attempt, after years of stubborn resistance, to take on his dying father’s love of the natural world. With his father unable to leave the house and follow the butterfly cycle for the first time since he was a child, Masters endeavors to become his connection to the outdoors and his treasured butterflies, reporting back with stories of beloved species—Purple Emperors, Lulworth Skippers, Wood Whites and Silver-studded Blues—and with stories of the woods and meadows that are their habitats and once were his. Structured around a series of exchanges and remembrances, butterflies become a way of talking about masculinity, memory, generational differences, and ultimately loss and continuation. Masters takes readers on an unlikely journey where Luther Vandross and The Sopranos rub shoulders with the likes of Angela Carter and Virginia Woolf on butterflies and gender; the metamorphoses of Prince; Zadie Smith on Joni Mitchell and how sensibilities evolve; and the lives and works of Vladimir Nabokov and other literary lepidopterists. In this beautiful debut memoir, Ben Masters offers an intensely authentic, unforgettable portrait of a father and son sharing passions, lessons, and regrets before they run out of time.

A Dusty Brown Book
A Dusty Brown Book

Author: Carl Abrahams

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 129152357X

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Many great tales are told, and have been told for as long as man has walked the world. Some seem unreal and magical, yet still claim some truth. Folklore and myth last down the generations, but they change and are perverted until all that remain are fantastic tales hardly to be believed. But where do these tales have there beginnings? They do not sprout from the earth for man to harvest. But then do men make them up? Perhaps all answers are lost. Yet a lost thing may be found. Mayhap the answers lie hidden somewhere within the world, waiting to be discovered. Where then shall we find such knowledge? Most wisdom is often set down in word, and in the end collected into one place; such as books of lore. Will then all answers be found within such books? Perchance all the histories of these tales lie within the confines of but a single book. And what then shall that book look like? Should it be a grand book encrusted with jewels and edged of gold? Or mayhap it will be nothing more than a dusty brown book.