A sweeping epic set in medieval China; it is the story of a group of women, the Jin-Shei sisterhood, who form a uniquely powerful circle that transcends class and social custom.
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The epic story of a sisterhood where blood relations are nothing compared to the unbreakable bond of the secret sisters -- the bond of Jin-Shei.
Speculative fiction anthology - collection of short stories on the theme of migrants, immigrants, and refugees
Alma Alexander released a series of "Triads", themed collections of three short stories apiece, over the course of several years. This book, "Weight of Worlds", is a gathering of some of the best of the Triads, a substantial collection of short stories from an accoplished storyteller.
It's the Friday before a science fiction convention weekend. Hundreds of fans are lined up at the registration desk. The posters for the Media Guests of Honor aren't done, there's a problem with the Program Booklet, the Author Guest of Honor has gone AWOL, and the coffee inthe Green Room is DREADFUL The convention chair's boyfriend has just smashed up his car.And now the entire hotel has been kidnapped by time traveling androids, and taken for a quick jaunt around the Moon.At least something is going right.Welcome to AbductiCon.This is a humorous and metaphysical science fiction story of fandom, the convention culture, and the treasured tropes of science fiction.
A whispered prayer on a holy mountain: "Give me the life I was meant to live."She understood the passions and the cruelty of men; she knew the despair and the strength of women.She was born in the gutter, raised on the sands of the Hippodrome arena, grew up with the gritty, grim world of chariot racers, and animal keepers, and courtesans. Step by step she clawed her way into the halls of power, and ruled an empire of chaos and triumph and tragedy at the side of the only man who truly appreciated her for whatshe was.Empress.
"Who Knew You'd Be A True Weaver?" Great things were expected. Thea Winthrop, Double Seventh, the seventh child of two seventh children, was the very definition of magic, greatly anticipated, and in whom so much potential rested. But something was very wrong. It wasn't that she did magic badly - it was just that she couldn't seem to do any magic at all. The most magical creature alive... turned into the Girl Who Couldn't. It was not until a last-ditch effort to wake that absent magic, sent back into the past to find a glimmer of a new and unique magical identity, that Thea's world begins to change, and she learns that her greatest strength might be the powers that she had yet to discover.
Anghara Kir Hamaheir to an ancient throne, holder of a perilous gift called Sight, one who serves the dangerous and powerful Old Gods... and then sweeps them away as the Changer of DaysRed Dynan, King of Roisinan, slain in battle, leaves as his only legitimate heir a nine-year-old girl . When his bastard son Sif takes the crown for himself the rightful heir to Roisinan is forced to flee for her life. Anghara runs from one danger into the next... until she steps into the path of her destiny, and learns her true powers in the mysterious land known as Kheldrin, the Twilight Country. Forever changed by her sojourn in Kheldrin, Anghara returns to Roisinan to be met with betrayal, imprisonment, and a bitter loss of everything that she has worked so hard to understand and achieve. Anghara returns to Kheldrin to seek healing... and finds the full flowering of her fate, a transformation into the mythical Changer of Days, a bridge across the ages who makes her shattered world whole again.
There is a story behind every word. There is a word behind every story. Some concepts require a single word in other languages but paragraphs to explain in English.There are times when it is impossible to have a direct translation of something, to understand an idea at once simple to one mind and unutterably impenetrable to another-except through the bridge of story, through a literal journey into another language, another culture, another mind. The 14 stories in this book are bridges made of words-crossing into language landscapes of Japan, of Sweden, of France, of Portugal, of Tierra del Fuego-glimpses into the worldview and the mindset of cultures different enough from our own to produce a single word that encompasses a world of concepts. Translating the untranslatable. "I love Alma Alexander's writing. Reading one of her stories is like having a beautiful and intense conversation that you walk away from realizing that you've learned something you didn't know about yourself." - Leigh Grossman, author of The Green Lion and The Lost Daughters, creator of "Sense of Wonder"
On the eve of the end of the world, 20 December 2012, five friends meet in Spanish Gardens, the cafe where they had celebrated their college graduation twenty years before. Over Irish coffees, they reminisce-and reveal long-held and disturbing secrets.Each friend in turn is given a curious set of instructions by an enigmatic bartender named Ariel: "Your life is filled with crossroads and you are free to choose one road or another at any time. Stepping through this door takes away all choices except two-the choice to live a different life, or return to this one...."Each in turn passes through the portal and are faced with new lives and challenges. Their decisions show a new life-or something far worse. At the end of the world, it's a chance for redemption, or a chance to learn something about themselves.International bestselling author, Alma Alexander, mixes a world or possibilities and paths. What if you could change the past-go right instead of left, fall in love with a different person, change careers or families, or even change your sex. Midnight at Spanish Gardens brings those choices to life.
