The Sorceress of Lansheer A Song of Silver & Gold

The Sorceress of Lansheer A Song of Silver & Gold
Author: Beverley Fowler
Publisher: BookLocker.com
Total Pages: 409
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Solzanna of Lansheer was Sorceress Advisor and Protectress of Imperial Peace in the vast Lansheean Empire. Although Feraco the Great held an uneasy throne, the threat of Solzanna’s power discouraged many a would-be rebellion. But the winds of change were blowing, and a dastardly plot was brewing in the Imperial City. Jago the Dalo was spoiling for trouble when he stumbled across it. Bored to death in somber Lansheer, he readily agreed to pit himself against the empire’s great sorceress. But as the challenge unfolds, he begins to suspect that the gods were meddling again, and perhaps he had bitten off more than he could chew.

A Song of Silver and Gold

A Song of Silver and Gold
Author: Melissa Karibian
Publisher: Hansen House
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2022-06-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781956037104

A sapphic Little Mermaid retelling perfect for fans of To Kill a Kingdom and The Shadows Between Us. Out in the open sea, it's kill or be killed. No one knows that better than Kaelyn. For the past year, Princess Kaelyn of Avalon has disguised herself as a man, Captain Kae, and led her crew into tumultuous waters to eradicate sirens on a journey fueled by revenge for the death of her brother. When they return home and experience a fatal siren attack on Avalon's harbor, Kae sets sail again to destroy the sea demons once and for all. Aqeara is a siren warrior of Meyrial, an underwater kingdom hidden from humans. When her negligence during the Avalon harbor attack causes the death of Meyrial's princess, she accepts the help of a sea witch to overturn her banishment. Aqeara is given a human body and has until the next full moon to carve out Captain Kae's heart in exchange for a spell to bring the dead princess back to life. When Kae's and Aqeara's paths cross, they fall into a whirlwind romance, complicating their respective plans. Kae must decide whether her desire for revenge against sirens overrides her feelings for the woman she's falling for, and Aqeara must choose between resurrecting the dead princess or sparing Kae's life.

The Song of Silver Frond

The Song of Silver Frond
Author: Catherine Lim
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Love stories
ISBN: 9789814346238

One morning in Singapore a respected, Chinese patriarch, head of a large household of three wives and many children, takes a walk by a cemetery. There, a young village egg-seller, Silver Frond, is amusing herself with a comic song-and-dance act about him. The meeting instantly changes their lives.

Silver and Gold

Silver and Gold
Author: Dane Coolidge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1919
Genre: Gold mines and mining
ISBN:

Empire of Silver

Empire of Silver
Author: Jin Xu
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2021-02-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300258275

A thousand-year history of how China’s obsession with silver influenced the country’s financial well-being, global standing, and political stability This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with “white metal” held China back from financial modernization. First used as currency during the Song dynasty in around 900 CE, silver gradually became central to China’s economic framework and was officially monetized in the middle of the Ming dynasty during the sixteenth century. However, due to the early adoption of paper money in China, silver was not formed into coins but became a cumbersome “weighing currency,” for which ingots had to be constantly examined for weight and purity—an unwieldy practice that lasted for centuries. While China’s interest in silver spurred new avenues of trade and helped increase the country’s global economic footprint, Jin Xu argues that, in the long run, silver played a key role in the struggles and entanglements that led to the decline of the Chinese empire.

Pathfinder Adventure Path: Hell's Rebels 4 of 6-A Song of Silver

Pathfinder Adventure Path: Hell's Rebels 4 of 6-A Song of Silver
Author: James Jacobs
Publisher: Paizo, Incorporated
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781601257956

The 100th volume of the Pathfinder Adventure Path! The time has come to take back the Silver City of Kintargo! Too long has the diabolic Lord-Mayor Barzillai Thrune inflicted upon his citizens cruelties and increasingly oppressive laws. In A Song of Silver, the heroes of the beleaguered city finally strike back, and as their rebellion mobilizes in the city streets to stand against the corrupt government s minions, the heroes themselves must strike at the sources. Rescuing old heroes from forgotten prison cells, reclaiming control of historic and key locations, and the performance of an ancient song that was used years ago to protect the city from Hell s agents are but the preamble for the decisive battle, an assault on the enormous Temple of Asmodeus! A Song of Silver is a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 10th-level characters. The adventure continues the Hell s Rebels Adventure Path, an urban- and political-themed campaign that focuses on a rebellion against one of the Pathfinder Campaign Setting s most infamous nations devil-haunted Cheliax. In celebration of the Adventure Path s one-hundredth volume, this special oversized installment also features several new monsters, revelations about the dead god of humanity Aroden, a brand new Pathfinder Journal, a poster map depicting a key battlefield in the adventure, and a huge retrospective of the prior 16 Adventure Paths wherein additional never-before-statted NPCs for each are presented in full detail, both to expand the options of previous Adventure Paths or to provide new friends and foes for Hell s Rebels and all the Adventure Paths to come! Each monthly full-color softcover Pathfinder Adventure Path volume contains an in-depth adventure scenario, stats for several new monsters, and support articles meant to give Game Masters additional material to expand their campaign. Pathfinder Adventure Path volumes use the Open Game License and work with both the Pathfinder RPG and the world s oldest fantasy RPG."

Jewelry: How Much Is Too Much?

Jewelry: How Much Is Too Much?
Author: Doug Batchelor
Publisher: Amazing Facts
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2008-02-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781580190817

Almost everyone would agree that there's some point where enough jewelry is enough. Well, what is that point? In this book, Doug Batchelor challenges you to find out for yourself what God's Word says on this fascinating subject.

Stalin's Quest for Gold

Stalin's Quest for Gold
Author: Elena Osokina
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501758527

Stalin's Quest for Gold tells the story of Torgsin, a chain of retail shops established in 1930 with the aim of raising the hard currency needed to finance the USSR's ambitious industrialization program. At a time of desperate scarcity, Torgsin had access to the country's best foodstuffs and goods. Initially, only foreigners were allowed to shop in Torgsin, but the acute demand for hard-currency revenues forced Stalin to open Torgsin to Soviet citizens who could exchange tsarist gold coins and objects made of precious metals and gemstones, as well as foreign monies, for foods and goods in its shops. Through her analysis of the large-scale, state-run entrepreneurship represented by Torgsin, Elena Osokina highlights the complexity and contradictions of Stalinism. Driven by the state's hunger for gold and the people's starvation, Torgsin rejected Marxist postulates of the socialist political economy: the notorious class approach and the state hard-currency monopoly. In its pursuit for gold, Torgsin advertised in the capitalist West, encouraging foreigners to purchase goods for their relatives in the USSR; and its seaport shops and restaurants operated semilegally as brothels, inducing foreign sailors to spend hard currency for Soviet industrialization. Examining Torgsin from multiple perspectives—economic expediency, state and police surveillance, consumerism, even interior design and personnel—Stalin's Quest for Gold radically transforms the stereotypical view of the Soviet economy and enriches our understanding of everyday life in Stalin's Russia.

Song for a Princess

Song for a Princess
Author: Rachael Mortimer
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0545248353

There once lived a little bird who loved words. He loved them more than he loved worms. Shiny words-"Star, Moon." Happy words-"Kiss, Smile." Colorful words"Rainbow, Sunshine... " Every day in the palace garden, the princess shares stories with her firend. The little bird loves these tales, and lines his nest with all the happy words he hears. But one day the princess falls sad and silent. Her friend has gone away. What can the birds do to make her smile once more? The peacock shows off his beautiful plumes, the magpie brings silver and gold, the jackdaws put on an aerial show, but the princess barely lifts her head to look. Then the little bird thinks of all the special words he tucked away. Stringing them together, he trills a soothing tune. The princess realizes she never has to be lonely-old friends can be found in comforting memories and, if she listens, new friends can be found for a song.