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A portentous song sparks an unlikely adventure in this lighthearted contemporary fantasy by the Nebula Award–winning author of The Healer’s War.   Colin Songsmith sings a song to an old witch who takes an unlikely revenge. The witch’s granddaughter rescues him from the dire threat of being eaten alive by the cat. She hears the song, which happens to concern her recently married sister and a gypsy. Convinced that she has to save her sister, she...

Scarborough Fair and Other Stories includes ten works by the author of the Nebula Award–winning The Healer’s War and many other novels. In “Final Vows, ” Mu Mao the Magnificent, the feline bodhisattva from Scarborough’s novel Last Refuge, helps guide a reincarnated cat in solving the mystery of his own betrayal and murder. “Whirlwinds” takes place on the Diné Trail of Tears, when the US military force-marched ninety-five hundred Navajo people ...

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough’s Godmother puts a new twist in contemporary fantasy with the assertion that fairy godmothers exist here and now, and they have magical power that allows them to intervene in real-world problems. What if someone wished for a fairy godmother would help the entire city of Seattle? An overworked, overstressed social worker named Rose Samson does just that when she makes an idle wish on a mustard seed. Felicity Fortune of...

Winner of the 1989 Nebula Award Award for Best Novel of 1988. "A brutal and beautiful book" that follows the surreal, fantastical journey of a Vietnam War nurse (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). A literary departure for acclaimed fantasy author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer's War draws on her personal experience as an army nurse in Da Nang to create a classic novel of the Vietnam War, enriched with a magical, mystical twist. Lt. Kitty Mc...

Cindy Ellis knows about fairy godmothers. Her almost-stepdaughter is studying to be one and she is a close personal friend of Felicity Fortune, an Irish godmother. But she didn't suspect when she picks up Grandma Webster that the elderly, seemingly lost American Indian woman in traditional dress was a magical godmother too. When a self-serving skinwalker/witch inflames tensions between neighbors and pits sisters against each other in the best ...

Dear Rosie, Being an apprentice fairy godmother is complicated. Not only do I have to go out and find good deeds to do, but for a sidekick I have that hit man that Felicity changed into a toad. I wanted to take the cat but she seems to have had a big funeral to attend. Felicity isn't around much. She keeps disappearing through a door in the guestroom that opens on the side of a hill. The swimming pool is weird too, and I could have sworn I saw...

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's The Godmother puts a new twist on contemporary fantasy with the assertion that fairy godmothers exist here and now, and they have magical power that allows them to intervene in real-world problems.What if someone wished a fairy godmother would help the entire city of Seattle? An overworked, overstressed social worker named Rose Samson does just that when she makes an idle wish on a mustard seed. Felicity Fortune of ...

Scarborough Fair and Other Stories includes ten works by the author of the Nebula Award-winning The Healer's War and many other novels. In "Final Vows, " Mu Mao the Magnificent, the feline bodhisattva from Scarborough's novel Last Refuge, helps guide a reincarnated cat in solving the mystery of his own betrayal and murder. "Whirlwinds" takes place on the Diné Trail of Tears, when the US military force-marched ninety-five hundred Navajo people ...

A portentous song sparks an unlikely adventure in this lighthearted contemporary fantasy by the Nebula Award-winning author of The Healer's War. Colin Songsmith sings a song to an old witch who takes an unlikely revenge. The witch's granddaughter rescues him from the dire threat of being eaten alive by the cat. She hears the song, which happens to concern her recently married sister and a gypsy. Convinced that she has to save her sister, she t...

Queen Verity is queen only because her mother has said she has to be. She agrees because, after all, somebody has to liberate the dragons who have long toiled in the boiler room bowels of the city. Now that they are free, nobody has any idea what to do with them or how to feed them.Everyone is used to dragons being docile cogs in the machinery of industry, tamed into tranquility by food treated with a hypnotic tranquilizer, now largely destroy...

Der vierte Band der »Geschichten aus Argonia«: Prinzessin Bronwyn hat Jack geheiratet und ist nun Prinzessin von Ablemarle geworden. Sie hat inzwischen noch drei Brüder bekommen, deren jüngster, Rupert, sie zur Taufe ihres ersten Kindes besuchen will. Aber da erscheinen die Magier der Firma Mukbar, Maschkent & Mirza GmbH und berufen sich auf einen alten Vertrag, wonach ihnen das Kind die ersten 15 Jahre seines Lebens übergeben werden muß, und ...

Im dritten Band der »Geschichten aus Argonia« wird von Bronwyn - Brüllos und Bernsteinweins Tochter - berichtet. Sie ist das Ebenbild ihres Vaters: groß, stürmisch, tolpatschig, gutmütig, laut und von unstillbarem Tatendrang und Kampfesmut erfüllt. Nur die Wahrheit sprechen kann sie nicht, weil ein Fluch auf ihr lastet, den bisher keiner lösen konnte. Da Kronprinz H. Würdigmann der Würdige die Gesellschaft der Zigeunerkönigin Xenobia dem Thron...

Was alles passieren kann, wenn ein unternehmender junger Mann einen Djinn in seine Gewalt bekommt und sich bei ihm drei schöne, möglichst exotische Frauen für seinen Harem bestellt! Nicht nur, daß die drei Damen einander erst unter ungewöhnlichen Umständen kennenlernen, sie müssen auch schon bald - noch dazu in Begleitung ihrer zänkischen, alten Schwiegermutter - eine mühselige und aufregende Reise antreten, denn ein unglückseliger Zufall hat ...

Zweiter Band der »Geschichten aus Argonia«: Auf Burg Eiswurm, Herrn Wilhelm Sturmhaubs Landsitz, wird mit gewaltigem Gepränge die Taufe der kleinen Prinzessin Bronwyn gefeiert. Graf Brüllo ist inzwischen König von Argonia geworden und Bernsteinwein Königin. Auch Gretchen Grau wird bei diesem Anlaß zur Prinzessin erhoben, was ihr gar nicht recht ist ... (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

Um die aus den Fugen geratenen Familienverhältnisse der Ebereschs wieder in Ordnung zu bringen, machen sich Gretchen Grau, die Herdhexe, und Colin Liedschmied, ein fahrender Sänger, auf die Reise nach Ablemarle, um Näheres über das mysteriöse Verschwinden Frau Ebereschs zu erfahren. Was passiert, wenn Hexen der verschiedensten Disziplinen, feuerspeiende Drachen, Zauberer mit überaus bösen Absichten, Hausgeister, verwunschene Könige und einige ...

The Tour Bus of Doom rolls into a small coastal town, spewing zombies to rampage down the main street. To the beat of eerie drum music, they loot, kidnap, and zombie-fy innocent citizens. Spam the cat, self-appointed feline defender of the town, watches in horror from the rooftops. When the zombies abduct Spam's jeweler friend and take over the nursing home, Spam is certain they are also responsible for the disappearance of his next-door neigh...

What you see (at first) is not what you get in this collection of nine previously published tales of shape shifting and transformation. An Alaskan student of wildlife biology finds it difficult to write convincingly about what she knows. A proud and beautiful princess loses her popularity when cursed (in a way probably familiar to many readers) by a wicked enchanter. A lonely Cajun fiddler has a close encounter with his royal but scaly ancesto...

Encuadernación: Rústica con solapas Colección: Solaris ficción , 173Nadie le dijo a la teniente Kitty McCulley que eso era lo que tenía que hacer una enfermera. Nadie le dijo que a Vietnam no iba a curar pacientes, sino a contemplar, impotente, su dolor. Que no estaba allí para aliviar el sufrimiento ajeno, sino para convertirse en objeto del desprecio de sus congéneres, y de su lujuria. Que no salvaría las vidas de las víctimas, sino que los ...

In these stories, a parade of fascinating felines tell tales of their lives. Guinevere's cat, Gray Jane, tells what really happened at Camelot from her cat's eye view atop the queen's canopy bed. An Egyptologist's cat, Shuttle, wards off a vengeful mummy by doing a favor for Bastet, the cat goddess. A Scottish cat, Tinkler Tam, stalks body snatchers through a gothic Edinburgh. Mu Mao the Magnificent, a bodhisattva cat who is the last tomcat in...

Spam the cat thought he'd seen a lot of the world in his nine months of life. After all, he was the foremost vampire hunter of Port Deception, WA. (SPAM VS THE VAMPIRE)! This was his first Christmas, however, and from what he'd heard on TV, on Christmas all was supposed to be calm, all was supposed to be bright. The deer and Renfrew the raccoon had other ideas however. In an attempt to keep Renfrew, aka "The UPS Bandit" from ruining a lot of C...