Posts Tagged ‘venice’
Looking For Marco Polo
Random House, 2009
Fiction
ISBN: 0375833218
304 pages
Synopsis
Eleven-year-old Mark’s anthropologist father has disappeared in the Gobi desert while tracing Marco Polo’s ancient route from Venice to China. His mother decides they must go to Venice to petition the agency that sent Mark’s father to send out a search party. Anxious about his father and upset about spending Christmas away from home, Mark gets a bad asthma attack in the middle of the night. …
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The Glass Word
Original German Edition: Loewe Verlag GmbH, Bindlag, 2002
English translation: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2008
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0689877919
282 pages
Synopsis
Emerging from Hell on the back of Vermithrax, the obsidian lion, just after Merle has rescued Junipa, they trio is met by an eerie winter landscape completely immersing none other than the vast deserts of Egypt. Now charging into the heart of the empire that has recently laid waste to their entire world, they must find a way to stop the sphinxes from awakening the Son of the Mother, the great patriarch of their race. …
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The Stone Light
Original German Edition: Loewe Verlag GmbH, Bindlag, 2002
>English translation: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2007
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0689877897
350 pages
Synopsis
Merle carries the Flowing Queen inside her, and the two are riding Vermithrax, the obsidian lion, all on their way to Hell to petition Lord Light to rescue Venice from the invading Egyptian empire. However, there is much more awaiting them than they originally anticipate as nightmarish creatures emerge from the deep and a mysterious stone light seems to be emitting consciousness and seeking to gain control over anything it comes in contact with. …
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The Water Mirror
Original German Edition: Loewe Verlag GmbH, Bindlag, 2001
English translation: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2005
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0689877870
250 pages
Synopsis
Merle is an orphan who has recently been apprenticed by a famous mirror maker in Venice in a world where the mystical and mythical are commonplace—city guards who ride stone lions, mermaids throughout the canals, and Merle herself has a hand mirror made of water. …
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