J. M Ney-Grimm
1) Livli's Gift
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Livli struggles with a secret she keeps from everyone, even her closest friends, and she must solve the problem at its heart before she's discovered.
She's certain the answer lies in a fragment of folklore and magic half-remembered from her childhood. Almost certain.
She wouldn't need forgotten magic if only the men and women of her secluded mountain culture dwelt together. But the women-and Livli-inhabit their sister-lodge atop its lofty bluff,...
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Half the key to his escape beckons from cold solitude, the other half from hottest battle... Coehlin, a merchant-mage and sometime scholar, pursues the ordinary goal of recovering his fortune after the wars-with snatches of arcane reading on the side. All that changes when he follows his curiosity to a haunted circle of ground. Wielding philosophy and magic where he shouldn't, Coehlin metamorphoses into a monster trapped in a cursed maze. As he labors...
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He chose hell to preserve his brothers. Will his choice prove his destruction? Lord Dìs hungers. After millennia expending his immense strength to sustain hell and its shades, the dark god of the dead craves light, love, and life. But this arrogant king of the underworld is stunned when the mountain nymph he steals to be his queen-a glorious creature of sun and breeze-repudiates him and threatens his throne. Infuriated and desperate, Dìs hunts down...
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In the legendary duat - the mystical passage where the sun god Ra travels from west to east in the night, so that he rises again in the dawning - a lioness of ancient Egypt lies caged.Once she stalked the duat by Ra's side, carrying his light in her eyes and battling the monsters that assailed them.Now, tormented by confusion and her own fury, she longs to regain the unique powers which - inexplicably - elude her in captivity.Even her own name slides...
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If only Mama were well. If only Papa were . . . not like this. Clary needs a miracle, but wonders rarely step forth to solve life's problems.While her mama lies wearily abed and her papa spends the day . . . elsewhere, Clary struggles to look after her younger sister and their baby brother. And longs for more than making do. If only.Then, one spring morning, Clary and Elspeth visit the old bramble-grown quarry to pick wild cabbage leaves. Hidden within...
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Ancient, cold, and perilous.
Its truth forgotten in the mists of time, the old bridge harbors a lethal secret. Neither marble statues awakened for battle nor an ancient roadbed grown hungry, something darker and more primal haunts the stones and the wild river below.
Kimmer knows the stories, but she doesn't know why the crumbling span feels so fraught with menace. Her way home lies across the ruin. Dare she take it? Or will horror from the lost...
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The warriors of Torbellai brought back a prize in the night, and young Paitra wants to see it. Even hidden away in the armory, the artifact changed the whole mood of their mountain citadel from dread foreboding to hope. And Paitra's people need hope to turn the tide in their long war against the troll horde.
Might this small triumph presage a mightier victory?
But the warlord hid the fighters' plunder for good reason. Forged by trolls and radiating...
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North-lands spellcasters who reach too boldly for power transform into trolls-grotesque villains wielding a potent magic and destined for madness.
Spanning the North-lands history, from ancient times to the pastoral present, A Knot of Trolls features seven such evildoers. Seven trolls and the ordinary youths called by chance or by destiny to take a stand.
"The Troll's Belt" stars motherless Brys Arnsson, challenged as much by his own deceit as by...
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In a world of silenced voices, one champion vows her sister will not go unheard. Thania inhabits a far future in which digital goods and virtual reality substitute for physical products and experiences. Thania has always accepted the constraints of her culture, but when her beloved sister discovers real paints and canvas-banned as hazmat-Thania's complaisance starts to crack. After Claro publishes her subversive illegal art-putting both sisters in...
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A lost birthright and unending agony.
On a whim, the rainbow's child falls to earth, where a cruel adversary takes advantage of her innocence. Bereft of her thunder-swept heavens, she dwindles. The sky calls to her, but she cannot answer. This transcendent short story of J.M. Ney-Grimm's troll-ridden North-lands explores how inner freedom creates outer opportunities.
Earth trumps heaven until ancient music plays.
(This edition of Rainbow's Lodestone...
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In time, we all become men of sorrow, women of sorrow, people of sorrow. John Claypool echoed this truth in the preface to his book Tracks of a Fellow Struggler, and it is a bitter truth indeed.
In the passing of youth, the loss of love or health, the flight of safety, the death of our beloved-sorrow comes.
This collection of photos, poetry, and memoir presents the words and works with which I expressed my own painful sadness, my rage, and my sense...
12) The Kite Climber
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An army poised for battle. A hamlet of innocent villagers in the wrong place at the wrong time. A young kite climber who seizes a ridiculous chance... The troll-lord's army abducts young Andraia and forces her to serve as a kite climber-a girl light and nimble enough to climb the tethers of the great war kites, and clever enough to relay the report from each scout stationed aloft. But when Andraia sees her home village sitting squarely before the...
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He would be king one day, and called as king to be wise for his people. But wisdom-and kindness-no longer come to him.Brychan, princess in a corner of a Wales that never was, requires a unicorn's horn to mend what is broken within him.The ancient fables speak of unicorn miracles, but if she finds the magical beast of fable, will the powers of his horn prove to be living truth? Or lying legend?About the Author J.M. Ney-Grimm lives with her husband...
14) Fate's Door
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Secrets, like troubles, come in threes. When you possess one of either, two more arrive to keep it company.Nerine, a sea nymph of the ancient world, knows too much about both.Each morning, in the chill before the sun's rising, Nerine and the three Fates stand under the mighty branches of the World Tree, gazing into the depths of the root-girdled Well of Destiny to master the dooms they must bring to life that day.When the dawn's visions show Nerine's...
15) Skies of Navarys
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Two friends. Two opinions. One dilemma.
On fabled Navarys-the Atlantis of the North-lands-Liliyah studies energea as all thirteen-year-olds do, devoting her mornings to mastering the music that controls her magic. Afternoons, she hobnobs with the artisan crafters and shopkeepers who built the island city-state into the trade capital of the world.
Her friend Mago faces struggles unsuspected by carefree Liliyah. His father, a renowned inventor, succumbs...
16) Star-drake
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Gefnen-troll-herald and hound for Koschey the Deathless-hunts life across the moors of the far north.
Not deer, not pheasant, not meat for the table. His master eats choicer fruits. When the piercing scent of youth tingles his senses, Gefnen focuses his chase. The prey-a boy-lacks guardians strong enough to best a troll. Swift triumph awaits.
But other seekers tilt the chances of this game. Spirit of storm, poignant memories of a sea-prince, and...
17) Troll-magic
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What if Beauty faces not only her angry Beast and his curse, but a curse threatening every mage alive?
As a bespelled north-bear, Prince Kellor fights confused rage and wracking pain. Any curse possesses loopholes, but his requires his childhood friend to put her head in the noose for him.
Elle lost track of Kellor long ago and now longs to play flute in the city. But her father insists she forget her musical ambition and marry a local lad. Interrupting...
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Fantasy mixed with history-bright, ancient, and vivid. Three novels. Caught in Amber When young Fae awakens in a locked and deserted castle, she remembers nothing. Who she is, where she comes from, none of it.A mythic tale of family and betrayal told with all the twists and moments of sheer joy that J.M. Ney-Grimm brings to epic fantasy.Blood Silver In a mythical Ireland that never was, mortal villages perch all unknowing beside enchanted knolls....
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With the hot breath and snapping jaws of the hounds too close behind, he runs . . . Beran creates magical marvels at his forge. Obsessed with his art, he ignores the people of his household and town. When a corrupt and jealous rival falsely accuses the smith of a dangerous crime-and makes it stick-Beran lacks allies. Turned over to a violent religious sect for execution, Beran refuses to go tamely, but the manhunt on his heels makes escape unlikely....
20) Titan Invictus
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What if you fail to wake from dream's beguiling beauty? Exhausted but fulfilled by the labor of primordial creation, a god of the ancient world lies sleeping. When the legions of an aggressive empire march to conquer his river valley, burning villages and salting fields, the river people beg their god to awaken and lend them his strength. But slumber's thrall holds him fast. Unless the dreaming titan wins free to take up his daylight calling, his...