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Dr. Robert Judson Cole travels from his ravaged Scotland homeland, through the operating rooms of Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich the classical medical education he received at Edinburgh University. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness.

Daniel Mahan, the legendary Shaman of the Barliona game world, has served his sentence in virtual reality. Eleven months of adventures and battles in exchange for eight years in prison isn't a bad trade-off. And yet Barliona refuses to relinquish its grip on the Shaman so easily, erasing the boundary between his two realities. It turns out that it's not so simple to leave the capsule - the Way must be completed....

The stories in this collection were first published in Analog, a science fiction magazine, between 1990 and 2011. They feature the adventures of eccentric kilt-wearing anthropologist, archaeologist, and xenologist Rhys Llewellyn and his able assistants, Yoshi Umeki and Roderick Halfax. Given my fascination with archaeology, first contact…and all things Scottish, I suppose these stories were inevitable.

In this novella set in the World of the Five Gods and four years after the events in Penric's Demon, Penric is a divine of the Bastard's Order as well as a sorcerer and scholar, living in the palace where the Princess-Archdivine holds court. His scholarly work is interrupted when the Archdivine agrees to send Penric, in his role as sorcerer, to accompany a "Locator" of the Father's Order, assigned to capture Inglis, a runaway shaman charged with the murder of his best friend.

Barliona: a virtual world jam-packed with monsters, battles - and, predictably, players. Millions of them come to Barliona, looking forward to the things they can't get in real life: elves and magic, dragons and princesses, and unforgettable combat. The game has become so popular that players now choose to spend months online without returning home. In Barliona, anything goes: You can assault fellow players, level up, become a mythical hero, a wizard, or a legendary thief.

Captain Pausert just can’t catch a break! First, he became the mortal enemy of his fiancée, his home planet, the Empire - and even the Worm World, the darkest threat to mankind in all of space. All because he helped rescue three slave children from their masters. Of course, these three young women were the universally feared Witches of Karres - but how was he to know that?! And after he defeated the Worm World (with the help of the witches, of course), the Empress herself had sent him on a secret mission to stop a nanite plague that was raging across the galaxy.

Цивилизация сгинула в огне теракта. 90% взрослых погибли, 9% стали зомби, чей мозг медленно восстанавливают наниты, превращая жизнь в компьютерную игру, где уровень растет при поглощении нанитов из чужих тел. И лишь 1% остался нормальным. Каждый спасается, как может.

Старые здания ВВУ, которые удалось отбить у бандитов путем огромных потерь, больше не пригодны для жизни. Заморозки приближаются с пугающей скоростью. Но самое жуткое еще впереди...

आपली संस्कृती नेहमी दमन करायला सांगते! शमनावर तिचा भर नाही. हे वाईट आहे. मनातल्या इच्छा पूर्ण उपभोगान्तीच नष्ट होतात. माणूस स्वच्छ मोकळा होऊन जातो. त्या दडपल्या-कृतीत आणल्या नाहीत, याचा अर्थ, त्या 'नाहीत असा होत नाही. मनाच्या सुप्त पातळीवर त्या वळवळत राहतात. त्या गुपचूपपणे पूर्ण करून घेण्याच्या हेतूनं मेंदू मार्ग शोधत राहतो, आणि ... यातूनच मग विकृतीचा जन्म होतो ! अशाच भारतीय संस्कृतीचा पाईक असणार्‍या मध्यमवर्गीय अप्पा मंडलीक याची कथा.. तो आपल्या इच्छांचे शमन करू शकेल की त्या सुद्धा मध्यमवर्गाच्या ओझ्याखाली दबल्या जातील?

Listen to storytellers, shamans, scientists, and energy healers talk about cutting edge developments in healing. Hear how how real people transform their lives and build our courage to do the same. www.shamansnotebook.com

Healing is an art, a science, but also an adventure and a mystery. Join me, shamanic sleuth, as I journey to the underworld in search of a cure for my clients as well as the collectiv . In these twisted tales of transformation, only one thing is certain: the solution is never what you expect.

Mahan's ready for new adventures - just as the gaming world of Barliona thought it was about to reenter its old comfortable rut. The winds of the Dark Forest have finally died down; Altameda has recognized its new owner while Geranika is nursing new schemes of global destruction. Would Mahan be happy with this predictable old life? We think not!

As winter takes hold of the neighborhood, Cole witnesses a brutal attack while patrolling The Overlay. Bizarre, inky-black creatures glide through the air devouring those in their path, seemingly coming from nowhere. What loosed these creatures on the Dream Realm and why do they hunt in Big Bluestem Park?

Otto is Richard Krugg's only son and heir to the Shaman's gift. Otto doesn't want it. He wants to be a fisherman. When company policies force unwelcome changes onto his life and threaten even the security of the village, Otto discovers that being a shaman isn't optional. Jimmy Pirano is caught between the devil and the deep green sea when new production quotas are handed down from corporate headquarters. Locked into a century of existing practice, Jimmy is forced to find new ways to fish....

What can a game clan accomplish without a castle? The answer is obvious: nothing. Therefore, the main objective of any leader in a game world is to acquire a base of operations. Finding himself in exactly this position, High Shaman Mahan, leader of the Legends of Barliona, accepts an offer from the Emperor and the Dark Lord to vanquish the army of Phantoms that has inhabited Altameda, the phantom castle.

Not long ago, Daniel Mahan, known to everyone as Shaman Mahan, thought that he had taken his sixth and final step in the Barliona gameworld. Yet life has other ideas. The Corporation decides to resurrect the Lord of Shadow and his entire host. The Corporation's CEO personally pushes the reset button. Geranika and his Dragon of Shadow spring back to life as, meanwhile, the Corporation makes an offer the Shaman can't refuse.

Debido al trabajo de su padre, Elena una niña que vive en Barcelona tiene que dejar su ciudad para irse de repente a vivir a un sitio completamente distinto: el Valle Sagrado de los incas en Perú Lógicamente para la niña va a ser difícil sobrellevar ese cambio tan repentino y brusco en su forma de vida, pero va a ayudarla para poder adaptarse a su nuevo entorno un personaje fascinante: un chamán llamado Galpi.

Marius Winter doesn't walk the road of the shaman-warrior alone. He has powerful allies in the Other Realms and in ordinary reality. His spirit guides are a Lakota war-chief and medicine man, First in Front; Tigre, a powerful feminine spirit who appears as a white tiger; and Burt, a spirit raven who channels an old Jewish bookie from the Bronx. Now, Marius is targeted by a powerful sorcerer. In the battle for the souls of his friends and lover, he must storm the gates of the underworld and fight through the Seven Demi-Demons of Hell to the deepest dungeons to confront Belial himself.

This unique collection, compiled especially for Naxos AudioBooks, features original recordings from 1908 to 1947 of Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Exposition Address", the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, the rarely heard humour of Charley Case, readings from "God's Trombones" by James Weldon Johnson, and much more.

Purely by chance, renowned author Mary Summer Rain met No-Eyes, a blind Chippewa visionary who lives in a small, remote cabin in the Colorado mountains. Spirit Song the first volume in Summer Rain's No-Eyes tetralogy, introduces us to this remarkable, unforgettable woman. No-Eyes teaches her about many fascinating topics, including the history of the Chippewa people, the songs of the shaman, and the healing power of medicinal herbs.