The Riddles of Epsilon
8 best books like The Riddles of Epsilon (Christine Morton-Shaw): Star of the Morning, Icefall, The Mage's Daughter, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature, The Folk of the Faraway Tree, A Presocratics Reader, The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600, L'allieva
| Author | Lynn Kurland |
| ISBN | 0425212122 |
From the USA Today bestselling author comes the first in a magical romantic fantasy trilogy.
Darkness covers the north, since the black mage has begun his assault on the kingdom of Neroche. Legend has it that only the two magical swords held by Neroche's king can defeat the mage. Now the fate...
| Author | Matthew J. Kirby |
| ISBN | 0545274249 |
Trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen sea, Solveig, along with her brother the crown prince, their older sister, and an army of restless warriors, anxiously awaits news of her father's victory at battle. But as winter stretches on, and the unending ice refuses...
It's official, I've fallen totally and completely in love with this series! Kurland writes with the perfect balance of romance and fantasy and it is absolutely spectacular. The world that she has created is beautifully magical and just so detailed, I've become enthralled by it. I love the growth we've...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0521477352 |
To me, this might be C. S. Lewis' best book. I will have to cop to not really liking the Narnia books (too allegorical and those British schoolchildren are pretty annoying), and while I do quite like his "Space Trilogy" I think that Lewis was much better as a writer of academic non-fiction than he was as a...
| Author | Enid Blyton |
| ISBN | 0749732105 |
"A land at the top of a tree!" said Connie. "I don't believe a word of it."
Jo, Bessie and Fanny are fed up when Connie comes to stay - she's so stuck-up and bossy. But they don't let her stop them having fun with their tree-friends, Silky, Moon-Face and the Saucepan Man. Together they climb through...
| Author | Patricia Curd |
| ISBN | 0872203263 |
"What are the Isles of the Blest? Sun and Moon. What is the oracle at Delphi? The tetractys, which is the harmony in which the Sirens sing."
Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras
This is a brilliant but compact collection of Presocratic thought. If you haven't yet read much of the early philosophers...
| Author | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0521639905 |
The Measure of Reality discusses the epochal shift from qualitative to quantitative perception in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. This shift made modern science, technology, business practice, and bureaucracy possible. It affected not only the obvious - such as measurements...
Alice Allevi è una giovane specializzanda in medicina legale. Ha ancora tanto da imparare e sa di essere un po' distratta, spesso sbadata. Ma di una cosa è sicura: ama il suo lavoro. Anche se l'istituto in cui lo svolge è un vero e proprio santuario delle umiliazioni. E anche se i suoi superiori non la...
