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16 produkter
Ancient Light
Av Mary Gentle
E-bok, 2013
44 kr
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This gracefully written sequel to Golden Witchbreed powerfully depicts the impact of a high-technology civilization on a decaying planet. Ten years after having served as Earth''s first envoy to Orthe, which is struggling to survive after a planetwide holocaust millennia ago, Lynne de Lisle …
Ash
A Secret History
Av Mary Gentle
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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For the beautiful young woman Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armour and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. She has fought her way to the command of a mercenary company, and on her unlikely shoulders lies the destiny of a Europe threatened by the …
Golden Witchbreed
Av Mary Gentle
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Orthe - half-civilized, half-barbaric, home to human-like beings who live and die by the code of the sword. Earth envoy Lynne Christie has been sent here to establish contact and to determine whether this is a world worth developing. But first Christie must come to understand that human-like is not …
Ilario: The Lion's Eye
A Story of the First History, Book One
Av Mary Gentle
E-bok, 2009
131 kr
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Abandoned and alone, the fosterling Ilario grows up as the King''s Freak, surrounded by all the pomp, intrigue, and danger of the Iberian court. Fleeing a failed treacherous attack, Ilario crosses the sea to Carthage, where the mysterious Penitence shrouds the sky in darkness. There, a strange and …
Ilario: The Stone Golem
A Story of the First History, Book Two
Av Mary Gentle
E-bok, 2009
131 kr
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The dramatic conclusion to Ilario: The Lion''s Eye! Fleeing a surprise treacherous murder attempt, the former King''s Freak and would-be painter Ilario has run to Carthage, the city-state under perpetual darkness, in search of freedom. But strange plots are afoot, and a tenuous, complicated …
Sundial in a Grave: 1610
A Novel
Av Mary Gentle
E-bok, 2009
119 kr
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"It''s about sex, and cruelty, and forgiveness." Thus begins a sweeping historical adventure about two dueling swordsmen and the plot to kill a king in the grand tradition of Dorothy Dunnett and Alexander Dumas. The year is 1610. Continental Europe is briefly at peace after years of war, but Henri …
Black Opera
Av Mary Gentle
Häftad, 2013
493 kr
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Conrad Scalese is a writer of librettos for operas in a world where music has immense power. In the Church, the sung mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick. Opera is musicodrama, the highest form of music combined with human emotion, and the results of the passion it engenders …
Black Opera
Av Mary Gentle
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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Conrad Scalese is a writer of librettos for operas in a world where music has immense power. In the Church, the sung mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick. Opera is musicodrama, the highest form of music combined with human emotion, and the results of the passion it engenders …
Hawk in Silver
Av Mary Gentle
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Teenaged Holly finds a strange coin which leads her and her friend Chris into strange adventures with the magical people of the Hollow Hills.
1610: A Sundial In A Grave
Av Mary Gentle
E-bok, 2014
44 kr
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The year is 1610. Continental Europe is briefly at peace after years of war, but Henri IV of France is planning to invade the German principalities. In England, only five years earlier, conspirators nearly succeeded in blowing up King James I and his Parliament. The seeds of the English Civil War …
Grunts
Av Mary Gentle
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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What is an orc? An orc is an 18 stone fighting machine, made of muscle, hide, talon and tusk, with a villainous disposition and a mean sense of humour. And, of course, an orc is a poor dumb grunt - the much abused foot soldier of the Evil Horde of Darkness. The usual last battle of Good against …
Rats and Gargoyles
Av Mary Gentle
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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It is a nameless city somewhere between past and future, a mythic realm at the "heart of the world," where wicked Rat Lords have reduced all humankind to slaves, and god-daemons make the decision to end all existence. This energizes a compelling quest for survival, and prompts the powerful White …
Architecture of Desire
Av Mary Gentle
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Mercenaries in lace and steel roam the countryside and the heads of criminals are impaled on London Bridge. The characters'' relationships are played out in the shadow of the hangman''s rope. Sequel to Rats and Gargoyles.
Ilario
The Lion''s Eye
Av Mary Gentle
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Abandoned and alone, the fosterling Ilario grows up as the King''s Freak, surrounded by all the pomp, intrigue, and danger of the Iberian court. Fleeing a failed treacherous attack, Ilario crosses the sea to Carthage, where the mysterious Penitence shrouds the sky in darkness. There, a strange and …
Cartomancy
Av Mary Gentle
E-bok, 2016
51 kr
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Mary Gentle is one of Britain''s most outstanding writers of imaginative fiction, able to move seamlessly from science fiction to fantasy within the same story. Following on from the success of ASH, 1610: A SUNDIAL IN A GRAVE and the omnibus volumes WHITE CROW and ORTHE, comes CARTOMANCY, the …
