Llewellyn, Sam - The Well Between the Worlds (Monsters of Lyonesse)

Ein Beitrag von Bettina von Allwörden (Meister)

Buchcover - Well between the Worlds The Well Between the Worlds (Monsters of Lyonesse)
Sam Llewellyn
352 pages, 8,99
April 6th 2009
English
ISBN: 978-1407102405
Publisher: Scholastic

If something can swim, it has to be a monster. And if a person can swim, it must be a "mix", a hybrid creature, half man, half monster, because people do not swim.

This is just one of the rules that govern the lives of people in the land of Lyonesse. Water is vital, but also threatening, and therefore anything that comes out of the water and isn't a fish.

When Idris Limpet, the son of a simple fisherman's family, falls out the window of a tower, hits the water - and survives, he is confronted with this knowledge, and the consequences it has for a man, if one is believed to be such a hybrid being.

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Season of Secrets - Dwell in the mystery

Ein Beitrag von Bettina von Allwörden (Meister)

Season of Secrets -
Dwell in the mystery

Autumn is coming - inevitably, as the tides, day and night they alternate, the seasons.

Today is the first afternoon of this summer, where we have an almost autumnal afternoon, with clouds, with a blanket in the chair, a cat, a cup of coffee, a book.

It and is just the perfect moment to re-dedicate myself to that book that I have jealously been guarding over the summer, and which reads best starting Sept 22nd, because, strictly speaking, it starts around that day.

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The Secret Garden - About its era and the author, medicine and magic

Ein Beitrag von Bettina von Allwörden (Meister)

The Secret Garden -
About its era and the author, medicine and magic

As the daughter of a wealthy English couple, Mary Lennox grows up in India. Largely ignored and neglected by her parents, she is left to the care and education of Indian servants.

The drama that takes place is, even for that time, frightening: During an outbreak of cholera in the region where the house of her parents is, nearly all residents die, including their parents. Those who survived, have fled the place. Mary could only avoid an infection since she didn't dare to leave her room - so she survived. When they find her, now an orphan, she is being sent to a distant relative in England, which now - as her guardian - is responsible for her.

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... Ari Berk on popular writing, modern mysticism and its creatures

Ein Beitrag von Bettina von Allwörden (Meister)

... Ari Berk on popular writing, modern mysticism and its creatures

Ari Berk is a professor, an illustrator, an author ... a highly interesting person to talk to. After having had the opportunity to read a variety of his books, including "How to be a Viking", "The Secret History of Giants" (review in German only) and ".... MERMAID LINK EINFÜGEN", we thought we really should talk to him about what he does.

No wonder, the result is more than only one interview. After the first interview on the "Order of the Golden Quills", we continue with a more sophisticated talk about his work.

He is a professor at the Central University of Michigan and his page of the university-website names (among others) "Folklore Belief and Custom in Rural Britain, Celtic Mythology and American Indian Ethnography as his research interests.

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ENGLISCH Berk, Ari - Mermaids

Ein Beitrag von Horst Hermann von Allwörden

Mermaids
Secret Histories
by Ari Berk (author),
Illustrations by W. Anderson, G. Chalk, M. Dangler
23 pages / £ 12,99
English
ISBN-13: 978-1840113389
Templar Publishing (2. March 2009)

Once again Professor Ari Berk opens the secret library of the "Order of the Golden Quill" and allows the astonished reader got get insights into the "Secret Histories" - this time on "Mermaids - Merfolk and Deep Creatures".

So we encounter the merfolk of all kinds. We learn something about them, their language, communication, forms, their origins and much more ...

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... Joshua Mowll on the Guild of Specialists, universes, and age bands

Ein Beitrag von Bettina von Allwörden (Meister)

... Joshua Mowll on the Guild of Specialists, universes, and age bands

Who will ever dare to say books were boring! In Germany Dressler is has the publisher who has succeeded in securing the rights for publishing the glorious trilogy of the Guild of Specialists by Joshua Mowll for the German-language market: Following first two volumes of "Operation Red Jericho" and the 2nd volume "Operation Typhoon", the third volume titled "Operation Storm City" is already available in England for some time, having been published in England in autumn 2008.

Originally coming from graphic design, Joshua Mowll was working as an illustrator for various newspapers, especially for the "Mail on Sunday". His ingenious idea of the "Guild Trilogy" won several awards, including an award for innovative children's books in 2006.

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