Three Complete Novels (The Servants of Twilight / Darkfall / Phantoms)
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Three Complete Novels (The Servants of Twilight / Darkfall / Phantoms)
Dean R. Koontz
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ASIN: 0517064871
Release Date: 1991-07-27

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Be prepared for spine-tingling overload, as three of Dean R. Koontz's scariest stories are combined into one terrifying edition. Complete and unabridged, the three novels incorporate the essential elements of a Koontz classic: ordinary people living uneventful lives suddenly flung into a supernatural web of ghoulish horror. The Servants of Twilight pits a devoted mother against a bizarre cult intent on harming her son. Who will triumph in this tale of good versus evil? Don't be tempted to turn to the final page of this delightful yet horrific story! Darkfall plays with a fundamental human fear--that of being watched and stalked by an unknown force. This is pure, unadulterated, heart-stopping terror--nothing subtle about it. "Part of him wanted to see it, had to see it, needed to know what in God's name it was. But another part of him, sensing the extreme monstrousness of it, was grateful for darkness." Read at your peril. Koontz's third novel in the collection is Phantoms, which places the reader in a small California town, a place of swollen corpses and missing persons. Here people die "in the middle of a scream." But how they died, and why so many more are missing is just the beginning of this morbid mystery. Dean R. Koontz: Three Complete Novels is not for the faint of heart! --Naomi Gesinger

Book Description

For the first time ever, three bestselling Dean Koontz novels—The Servants of Twilight, Darkfall, Phantoms—are available in hardcover and complete in this single volume. Koontz's novels are spine-chilling and terrifying stories about ordinary people caught in nightmarish situations. Although Dean Koontz writes about the "dark side," the endings to his fast-paced, stay-up-all-night reads always show the forces of good prevailing. But it's what happens between the covers of the book and in the imaginations of the readers that has earned Dean Koontz his position at the top of bestseller lists across the country. When you begin a Dean Koontz novel, you're never sure where he's going to take you...
The Servants of Twilight
A mother and son are approached by an old lady in a southern California parking lot. It's a chance encounter that erupts into a nightmare of terror as a mother strives to protect her only child when he is threatened again and again...
Darkfall
In a city, paralyzed by a blizzard, something watches, something stalks, and the clock is ticking...A fast-paced twisting story with one of the most frightening chase scenes ever.
Phantom
The found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, three hundred fifty missing. But the terror had only begun in a tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.

These three masterful novels of suspense are guaranteed to keep you reading until you turn the last page. There's no going back once you begin a Dean Koontz novel...

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Excellent Book!.......2007-09-24

This book was awesome. It kept me engaged for several weeks, which is saying alot for a huge reader like I am.

Usually I find a book, a good 300 pages, at least, and I clobber it. It it is any good (I give it 100 pages to be good, or I am done) I will devour it, in a couple of days time. It is is *fairly* good but not too good, it might take me a couple of weeks as I will be doing something other than reading it when I have my late night reading time. For a really good book, though, it might take me a couple of nights to read it. For this book, since it contained 3 novels, it took me a couple of weeks. Honestly I was glad, because that was a couple of weeks where I didn't have to think about my next reading fix!!!!

Buy it... you will not be disappointed!

5 out of 5 stars Three Complete Novels.......2007-03-10

This made a wonderful gift and it was given to a true fan of Dean Koontz...

5 out of 5 stars Beautiful Combo.......2005-12-03

This book is probably one of the best I ever had because the novels compiled are all very thrilling and fun to read. I have read it twice and there is nothing else to do than to admire the way Dean R. Koontz writes. If you want to read something out of the ordinary, a bit on the supernatural side, along with a lot of action and twists, this is the one you need.

5 out of 5 stars Three terrific books.......2005-09-08

Wow, Phantoms, Darkfall, and The Servants Of Twilight all in one! I've read 23 Dean Koontz book so far and I can tell you that these are all five star books.

PHANTOMS is about a deserted town in the mountains where a woman and her teenage sister arrive to find most of the residents either missing or brutally murdered-even in locked rooms.

DARKFALL is about a man named Baba Lavelle out for revenge who is using voodoo to terrorize a man named Jack Dawson by sending goblin-like creatures after his two children. It's pretty intense with the things crawling through the air ducts and chasing after the family relentlessly.

THE SERVANTS OF TWILIGHT is about a cult lead by a crazy old woman named Grace Spivey who is convinced that a six year old boy named Joey is the anti-christ. The family and the private eye struggling to protect them are terrorized and sent on the run, and their lives will never be the same. But wherever they go, Grave and her followers always find them....

You really can't go wrong with this set. I suggest you buy this collection, and then read:

Intensity
Watchers
Whispers
Hideaway
False Memory
Twilight Eyes







3 out of 5 stars Three confrontations with the forces of evil.......2005-04-28

This omnibus edition contains nothing apart from the text of the three books; no foreword, no afterword - not even the individual afterwords that Koontz has taken to including with re-issued editions of his older books.

This is a pity, because DARKFALL and SERVANTS were both written under pseudonyms, and Koontz' revised editions often include the story of the original author's tragic end. (There are at least five versions of the fate of "Leigh Nichols", including a tragic limbo accident.)

The individual books in this omnibus share a few characteristics apart from being written around the same time. All three with what might be termed the forces of Satan, though the situation is (of course) more complicated than that at times. Once the action gets rolling, each story occupies a very short timeframe: about 25 hours for DARKFALL, a few days for most of PHANTOMS, and similarly for THE SERVANTS OF TWILIGHT. Each has a kind of epilogue after the main event to give a little closure (although in DARKFALL's case it's quite short, not even a separate chapter).

THE SERVANTS OF TWILIGHT was first published in somewhat different form as TWILIGHT under the byline "Leigh Nichols" in 1984. The title role is a well-meaning religious sect, determined to destroy the anti-Christ. But "the anti-Christ", in this case, is a six-year-old boy, a sweet kid being brought up by his single-parent mom. Joey at first seems to be a random selection on the part of the Servants' leader.

When the Servants begin stalking Christine and her son, she hires a private investigator, Charlie Harrison, since everyone has to sleep sometime. Most of the remainder of the book is an extended chase scene, although the object is to flee rather than to catch anyone. Several of Koontz' other books have this kind of structure; SERVANTS falls into the earlier versions' simpler pattern, in which relatively isolated bad guys (rather than vast conspiracies) are chasing the good guys. Like many of Koontz' protagonists, the leads (Charlie and Christine) have troubled family backgrounds like that of the author. The main villain is schizophrenic.

--

DARKFALL was first published under the byline "Owen West" in 1984, prior to THE SERVANTS OF TWILIGHT. Like several of Koontz' earlier works, DARKFALL wasn't published under Koontz' preferred title (DARKNESS COMES, in this instance, although the story has also been known as THE PIT, which lent itself to some unfortunate jokes at the author's expense).

As in THE SERVANTS OF TWILIGHT, one of the protagonists of DARKFALL is a single parent, in this case Jack, a straight-arrow cop who is just beginning to take an interest in romance again after losing his wife to cancer. There are some similarities to the dynamic in DRAGON TEARS; Jack's partner is a very tough woman who had a rough childhood, and she's the "bad cop" of their good cop/bad cop act. (Unfortunately, it's *not* a deliberate act by the characters; like Connie in DRAGON TEARS, Rebecca really *does* lack political savvy in dealing with people.)

As in DRAGON TEARS, the partners have run into some odd phenomena on the day the story takes place, which can't be explained by any normal events. In DARKFALL, the partners are investigating a series of brutal murders in which the victims are all involved in organized crime, but the weird phenomena don't tally with a normal gang war or even a revenge killing. But the head of the family arranged for the murder of an investigative reporter some time back, whose brother turns out to be a voodoo priest from the islands...

Of the three stories in this omnibus, organized religion comes off best in DARKFALL. It happens to be the light side of voodoo that gets star treatment, though - does that matter? :) Jack and Rebecca get professional help, as it were, from a local voodoo practitioner; he comes up with an interesting philosophical defence of his religion.

--

PHANTOMS, the last story in the book, was actually published first, in 1983. Although Koontz had written several books in the interim, this was the first book under his own name since WHISPERS, and he was trying deliberately to write a very different book.

PHANTOMS was meant to be an over-the-top horror story, with a full-blown monster *but* with a scientific explanation for everything that takes place. Small town? Check. Everybody missing except a handful of main characters? Check. Gory? You bet. If you read this one alone on a dark night, don't come crying to me if you can't sleep. You've been warned.

--

For more detailed discussion of the contents of this book, I recommend consulting reviews for the three individual books.

Content warnings: Like a number of Koontz' books, these contain a few explicit sex scenes and quite a lot of violence. Organized religion gets somewhat unusual treatment.

But these are Koontz books. Bad things happen, some people are rotten, and organizations may fail to protect people properly, but individual good guys can manage to come through horrific episodes without being turned into monsters, even if they may suffer greatly in the process.

Comfort books. The first two rate about 4 stars, but PHANTOMS brings down the average.
The Servant's Tale (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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Margaret Frazer
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ASIN: 0425143899

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Christmas at St. Frideswide........2003-07-17

It's a very cold Yuletide at St. Frideswide in the 1433. All the sisters are either sick or recovering from colds. Sister Frevisse is also not feeling herself, but she is thrown into another murder investigation when a village lad is found dead. Before they even get anywhere with that, another murder takes place. Who is killing people in what is supposed to be a religious and joyous season? Sister Frevisse must find out. Can she solve it before an even more grotesque murder happens? This is a good book. Ms. Frazer must use extensive research since her period detail and characterization is very good. Even so, it is a very dark and disturbing tale.

4 out of 5 stars A bleak cold winter.......2000-12-12

We visit the fifteenth century priory of St. Fridewides in a bleak cold winter in Margaret Frazer's book the Servant's Tale. all the sisters have caught the rheum (or flu) and a group of players(actors)bring in a badly injured man. His wife, Meg is a servant to the priory and badly wants a better life for herself and her children. This seems unlikely to happen with a maimed husband who was somewhat shiftless in the first place and given to drink.

Before long we have a murder and the players are the chief suspects. Our medieval sleuth Sister Frevisse, wants to disprove this, because of her beginning friendship with this group of people.

I was not as fond of this book as I was with the others in the Sister Frevisse series. Frazer does her usual superb research and brings the fifteenth century to life. Her characters are interesting and you want to find out more about them. This novel is very bleak and sad. I knew who was the villain immediately and hoped I was somehow wrong.

5 out of 5 stars Traveling Actors meet murder and prejudice in the cloister........1999-01-21

Margaret Frazer has done her research well as she guides us through the medieval landscape of traveling Players, the ordeal of patronage and prejudice, murder and mayhem in village and cloister. The reader is there in 15th century England, cold, fearful, hungry, but soon warmed,and well fed through the kindness and Benedictine ethics of the Sisters. The 20th century does not intrude here except in the discovery that people are universally the same: good, silly, corrupt, flawed no matter what time frame in which they might have lived. Murder is murder, but here, with a lively twist. The incisive, wise Sister Frevisse carefully asserts her strength, protecting the players. Why? She collects the facts overcoming all impediments and finally, is amazed, herself, when the truth of the murders is revealed. Terrific read, excellent research into the period and in the realistic portrait she paints of wandering theatre troupes. A book with authentic historical information combined with a page turning mystery.Read it and you will be eager to consume the rest of her work too!
A Pickpocket's Tale
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • My daughter loved it!
  • History comes to life in a survey of their family's changes.
  • A 2007 Association of Jewish Libraries Notable Book for Older Readers
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  • My Fair Lady meets The Midwife's Apprentice.
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Karen Schwabach
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ASIN: 037583379X
Release Date: 2006-10-24

Book Description

Molly Abraham is a kinchin mort: a ten-year-old thief trying not to starve on the London streets. But everything changes for Molly when she is sentenced to be transported to the American colonies. She becomes an indentured servant to a kind Jewish family in New York City, and Molly has it good. So why is it that all she wants to do is go back to London?

Karen Schwabach uses richly detailed descriptions and authentic period language to bring history to life. She skillfully explores the subjects of Jewish culture in Colonial America and London street culture in this gritty yet heartwarming debut novel.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars My daughter loved it!.......2007-09-03

I had my daughter write a little "book report" about The Pickpocket's Tale after she devoured it during our family vacation this summer. In part, she wrote "I liked the book because it was realistic and was full of suspense. I also liked that the author used Thieve's cant and a real time & place."

5 out of 5 stars History comes to life in a survey of their family's changes........2007-02-04

Karen Schwabach's A PICKPOCKET'S TALE tells of a tough ten-year-old pickpocket in 1730s London who becomes an indentured servant to a Jewish family in New York City. Banished to America, Molly only wants to go home, even though her employers are good to her. History comes to life in a survey of their family's changes.

5 out of 5 stars A 2007 Association of Jewish Libraries Notable Book for Older Readers.......2007-01-28

In 1730, Molly is a ten-year-old orphan who is convicted of pick-pocketing in London and deported to America. Even though her mother was Jewish, Molly is unfamiliar with Jewish customs and rituals. When a Jewish family in the new settlement of New York purchases Molly to be their indentured servant, she learns to follow and respect the Jewish traditions as well as the more civilized lifestyle of a "nib cull." She also learns about the importance of family, forgiveness, and faith. Karen Schwabach's rich descriptions of the food, clothing, living conditions, and scenery are impressive. Her use of the London dialect Flash-cant, used by pickpockets, while adding authenticity and flavor, weighs down the dialogue at times and may frustrate some readers. However, the unique plot, multi-dimensional characters, suspense, and excitement will make this meticulously researched novel a favorite among historical fiction fans. A map of the city of New York and an author's note providing historical background is appended along with a glossary of Flash-cant words and phrases. A great choice for a book club discussion and a fantastic tie-in for students learning about early-American history - highly recommended!

5 out of 5 stars A MUST READ for Kids of All Ages.......2006-11-16

Ever since Karen told me that this book was comming out I have been waiting for the day I could buy it. This book is wonderful! The historical detail is great. From the expression of Jewish culture, to the use of 'Flash' talk, to the straightfoward way she presents the life of the poor in London Karen has done an excellent job. This is one that you will not want to put down I read it the day that I recieved it. You will fall in love with Molly and her story.

4 out of 5 stars My Fair Lady meets The Midwife's Apprentice........2006-11-13

Molly is saved from London hanging or prolonged imprisonment by a benefactor who arranges for her to be sent to New York where she learns about her Jewish ancestry, and her obligations to the world. A good slice of history, lots of slang used by the street urchins of the day, Flash-cant. Might be interesting to read aloud to kids who have crossed over to the dark side of the law.
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    Six Servants
    S Goloshapov , and J. Grimm
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    A Servant's Tale: A Novel
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • A tale of survival and dignity
    • this book slowly drew me in
    • A beautifully textured character study
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    A Servant's Tale: A Novel
    Paula Fox
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    Luisa de la Cueva was born on the Caribbean island of Malagita, of a plantation owner's son and a native woman, a servant in the kitchen. Her years on Malagita were sweet with the beauty of bamboo, banana, and mango trees with flocks of silver-feathered guinea hens underneath, the magic of a victrola, and the caramel flan that Mama sneaked home from the plantation kitchen. Luisa's father, fearing revolution, takes his family to New York. In the barrio his once-powerful name means nothing, and the family establishes itself in a basement tenement. For Luisa, Malagita becomes a dream. Luisa does not dream of going to college, as her friend Ellen does, or of winning the lottery, as her father does. She takes a job as a servant and, paradoxically, grows more independent. She marries and later raises a son alone. She works as a servant all her life. A Servant's Tale is the story of a life that is simple on the surface but full of depth and richness as we come to know it, a story told with consummate grace and compassion by Paula Fox.

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    5 out of 5 stars A tale of survival and dignity.......2007-01-25

    In this moving tale, Paula Fox tells the story of Luisa Sanchez who was born on the Spanish-speaking Caribbean island of San Pedro in the 1930s. After spending her childhood there with the members of her family her father decides to move to New York where Luisa's fate is to become a maid like her mother.
    Readers won't let themselves in for 300 pages of misery because the novel is built on an astonishing sensitivity to the inner lives of its characters, a sensitivity which is conveyed clearly and honestly. Although Luisa struggles desperately to survive in spite of emotional, financial and racial adversity, it is a feeling of understanding she provokes more than that of pity.
    It is also of course a book about the trials of immigrant life and about the tensions within the family circle which cause us to make decisions the consequences of which one only fully understands later in life. So Luisa's father is responsible for the decision to leave Malagita and he's the only one who wants to be in New York. Her mother refuses to learn English and soon dies of cancer and Luisa defies her father's wishes to become educated and aligns herself with her mother and becomes a maid.
    So Luisa orchestrates her life by sticking to one persistent dream: returning to her beloved Malagita. She actually says that it is the very monotony of her servant's life that freed her to return in her thoughts to Malagita. Like so many exiles she is there but not there in the lives of wealthy New Yorkers, a group of hilarious and exotic characters marvellously drawn.
    Though Luisa's fate is tragic the author gives her so much dignity that it is not possible to see her as pathetic.

    4 out of 5 stars this book slowly drew me in.......2005-05-09

    I had a hard time getting into this book, but I'm glad I stuck with it. I did grow to care about Luisa and looked forward to reading what would come next for her, her son, the people she worked for, and even her father (to a much lesser extent). Interesting message in that some people do not aspire to have lofty careers, and that they're okay with it, even if the people around them want more for them.

    5 out of 5 stars A beautifully textured character study.......2004-01-13

    Luisa Sanchez is a tropical flower, born of a Spanish island nobleman and a peasant servant, who as a young girl is uprooted and replanted in a succession of dreary apartments in New York City's Spanish Harlem. She in turn takes up the servant's life, moving from observant, opinionated child to a stoic onlooker whose pragmatic eye registers every detail of her employers' lives. She is less acute in self-knowledge; even as she stands apart from those for whom she works, she stands apart from her own emotional center, reporting in measured tones her own surprise at the riptides in her life that stir and thwart her, the people who slip past her defenses to touch her more deeply than a husband or a lover.

    A Servant's Tale is a fascinating, beautifully-textured character study of a difficult woman, who has trained herself to be invisible and outwardly tractable but maintains an inner dignity that will not allow her, ultimately, to run from herself. There are no car chases or earth-shattering events here; Luisa has no time for the upheaval of the 40s, the politics of the 50s, the 60s' "revolution" or the sea changes of the years after. She keeps on keeping on, doing what she must to hold together her life and that of her son Charlie, the one person she loves deeply, simply; the one person who can cause her soul-crushing pain.

    It is Fox's writing that makes all the difference, breathing life into her characters and their neuroses and sometimes psychoses. She made me care about Luisa's world, about her peculiar morality, her stubborn privacy, her dogged instinct to survive and, ultimately, that lightening-rod of practical intelligence, bound up and obscured beneath all those years of servitude, that I expect to see her through the years beyond the last page.

    This is, in my opinion, an excellent book. It's a quiet book, and the small print makes it significantly denser than its 321 pages would imply, but the strength of its prose and images and the unique view from inside of this woman who can be as much of a mystery to herself as she is to her employers kept me interested, and made me resent the intrusions of my own life that forced me, all too many times, to put it down. It's the first of Fox's books I've ever read, and it won't be the last.

    Susan O'Neill
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    1 out of 5 stars skip this one.......2003-07-20

    This is one of the most repugnant,confusing,immeasurably insipid novels I've ever read. This comes from someone who has a 3000 book library. It is almost impossible to find words to describe how awful this book is...but I'll try. The characters had no redeeming traits, so were not at all likable or interesting. Great books have you wondering what will happen to the denizens of the pages. They draw you in to the story. A Servants Tale kept me hoping this torture would end quickly. Paula Fox, by all accounts, is a fine, cultured writer. Let's hope A Servants Tale is not indicative of her other work.
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      Raymond E. Feist , and Janny Wurts
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        Margaret Frazer
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          The cross and the shamrock, or, How to defend the faith: An Irish-American Catholic tale of real life, descriptive of the temptations, sufferings, trials ... and female servants of the United States
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            English That for Me and Your Humble Servant: Two Nights of Storytelling
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              English That for Me and Your Humble Servant: Two Nights of Storytelling
              Eamon Kelly
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              Daughters of the Sunstone: Darkchild, Bluesong, Starsilk
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                Daughters of the Sunstone: Darkchild, Bluesong, Starsilk
                Sydney J. Van Scyoc
                Manufacturer: Nelson Doubleday
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                ASIN: B000CPJDNS

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                Three Novels in one binding.
                Daughters of the Sunstone: Darkchild; Bluesong; Starsilk
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                  Daughters of the Sunstone: Darkchild; Bluesong; Starsilk
                  Sydney J Van Scyoc
                  Manufacturer: Nelson Doubleday
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                  ASIN: B00072BIKW
                  Starsilk
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                  • "Someday, someone would have to go..."
                  Starsilk
                  Sydney J. Van Scyoc
                  Manufacturer: Berkley
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                  ASIN: 0425080773

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                  5 out of 5 stars "Someday, someone would have to go...".......2002-04-21

                  ...And today is that day, when one of the Terlath family searches for Birnam Rauth, the lost explorer whose cloned 'sons' were sent to spy on the people of Brakrath, but chose to stay. Various crashed star-trader ships have been found, bearing the alien singing silks, and one does not sing, but rather speaks in the voice of Birnam Rauth, pleading for rescue from alien captivity. Iahn has long wished to go, but cannot be allowed to leave Brakrath for fear of capture by the Benderzic - he knows too much.

                  This story alternates between the viewpoints of Reyna Terlath, youngest daughter of Khira, and the alien Tsuuka, of the world from whence the silks come.

                  Khira Terlath has had three daughters by Iahn, her permanent mate, breaking both the traditions of not taking a permanent mate and of spacing a barohna's children decades apart. The technology of the outworld Arnimi has revealed that none of them had the potential to become barohnas, so if they undertake the traditional hunt for bronzing prey at their second majority (15), they'll be throwing their lives away for nothing. After the death of their eldest daughter, Iahn, insistent that the others be forbidden to go despite the decree of the Council of Bronze that the Arnimi knowledge not be revealed with its subsequent disruption of Brakrathi culture, has left Terlath on a long visit to his brother - and their second daughter, Aberra, died on the mountain 3 weeks ago, having nerved herself to go without telling anyone. Having lost Aberra, Khira fears that she will also lose Iahn - and so she breaks the decree, and forbids her last remaining daughter (Reyna) to go, seeing her begin to train in this year of her second majority.

                  But Reyna protests; a palace daughter has only one destiny and one purpose: to meet her beast and bronze, or to die. So Khira offers a choice: that Reyna seek prey elsewhere, and undertake the hunt for Birnam Rauth, and Reyna accepts this honorable alternative. Juaren, a hunter of Brakrath's outlands who is more than he seems, petitions to go with her, and together they explore the world that Danior, Reyna's brother, saw in the starsilk, searching for Birnam Rauth, and the answer to the mystery of how his voice came to be captured in the starsilk.
                  Starsilk
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                    Starsilk

                    Manufacturer: Putnam Berkley
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                    Binding: Mass Market Paperback
                    ASIN: B000HTA9IW
                    Daughers of the Sunstone (darkchild, Bluesong, Starsilk)
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                      Daughers of the Sunstone (darkchild, Bluesong, Starsilk)
                      Sydney J Van Scyoc
                      Manufacturer: Nelson Doubleday
                      ProductGroup: Book
                      Binding: Hardcover
                      ASIN: B000KK8WK0
                      Daughters of the Sunshine (Darkchild, Bluesong and Starsilk)
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                        Daughters of the Sunshine (Darkchild, Bluesong and Starsilk)

                        Manufacturer: Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
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                        ASIN: B000FABNDI
                        DAUGHTERS OF THE SUNSTONE, Darkchild, Bluesong, Starsilk
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                          DAUGHTERS OF THE SUNSTONE, Darkchild, Bluesong, Starsilk
                          Sydney J. Van Scyoc
                          Manufacturer: Nelson Doubleday
                          ProductGroup: Book
                          Binding: Hardcover
                          ASIN: B000VBGK3Y
                          DAUGHTERS OF THE SUNSTONE:  SUNSTONE SCROLLS: Darkchild; Bluesong; Starsilk (Dark Child; Blue Song; Star Silk)
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                            DAUGHTERS OF THE SUNSTONE: SUNSTONE SCROLLS: Darkchild; Bluesong; Starsilk (Dark Child; Blue Song; Star Silk)
                            Sydney J. Van Scyoc David Heffernan;
                            Manufacturer: Nelson Doubleday
                            ProductGroup: Book
                            Binding: Hardcover
                            ASIN: B000U32WA8

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                            6. Act of Mercy (Sister Fidelma Mysteries)
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                            9. Animal Appetite
                            10. Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970 (Getty Trust Publications: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities)

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