[PDF] A Casket Of Souls eBook

Author : Lynn Flewelling
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345522303

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The Nightrunners are back in this gripping novel full of Lynn Flewelling’s trademark action, intrigue, and richly imagined characters. More than the dissolute noblemen they appear to be, Alec and Seregil are skillful spies, dedicated to serving queen and country. But when they stumble across evidence of a plot pitting Queen Phoria against Princess Klia, the two Nightrunners will find their loyalties torn as never before. Even at the best of times, the royal court at Rhíminee is a serpents’ nest of intrigue, but with the war against Plenimar going badly, treason simmers just below the surface. And that’s not all that poses a threat: A mysterious plague is spreading through the crowded streets of the city, striking young and old alike. Now, as panic mounts and the body count rises, hidden secrets emerge. And as Seregil and Alec are about to learn, conspiracies and plagues have one thing in common: The cure can be as deadly as the disease.

Author : Ian Livingstone
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 9780192797919

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Sallazar, spirit guardian of the kingdom of Amarillia, leads readers on a quest to find a hidden casket needed to save the kingdom from the evil demon threatening it.

Author : Noire
Publisher : End of the Rainbow Projects
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2016-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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A collection of urban fiction presents stories of characters with unacceptable lifestyles according to mainstream society, but who find themselves open to change when they acknowledge the power of a higher being.

Author : Kristina R. Gaddy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393866815

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One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year Named one of the Most Memorable Music Books of the Year by No Depression: The Journal of Roots Music “Compelling.… [R]eveals [an instrument] intimately rooted in the African diaspora and capable of expressing flights of sorrow and joy.” —David Yezzi, Wall Street Journal An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music. In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo’s beginnings from the seventeenth century, when enslaved people of African descent created it from gourds or calabashes and wood. Gaddy shows how the enslaved carried this unique instrument as they were transported and sold by slaveowners throughout the Americas, to Suriname, the Caribbean, and the colonies that became U.S. states, including Louisiana, South Carolina, Maryland, and New York. African Americans came together at rituals where the banjo played an essential part. White governments, rightfully afraid that the gatherings could instigate revolt, outlawed them without success. In the mid-nineteenth century, Blackface minstrels appropriated the instrument for their bands, spawning a craze. Eventually the banjo became part of jazz, bluegrass, and country, its deepest history forgotten.