The Glass Maker's Daughter

The Glass Maker's Daughter
Title The Glass Maker's Daughter PDF eBook
Author V. Briceland
Publisher Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages 0
Release 2009
Genre Fantasy
ISBN 9780738714240

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Magic lies at heart of the medieval city of Cassaforte, and when the magic begins to unravel, corruption threatens the kingdom. As she battles against dark forces, Risa's untapped powers rise to the surface, leading her toward her true fate.

The Glassmaker's Daughter

The Glassmaker's Daughter
Title The Glassmaker's Daughter PDF eBook
Author Dianne Hofmeyr
Publisher Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Total Pages 35
Release 2018-04-03
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 178603381X

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Daniela the glassmaker's daughter is grumpy and never smiles. Her father promises a beautiful glass palace to anyone who can make her laugh. People come from far and wide to try their luck in amusing Daniela. But mask makers, lion tamers and magicians cannot raise a smile from the princess. It is only when a young apprentice makes the first looking glass that Daniela learns to smile – at her own grumpy reflection! This beautiful fable set in sixteenth-century Venice features stunning illustrations from award-winning artist Jane Ray alongside a poetic text. Named one of Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year, 2018!

The Clockmaker's Daughter

The Clockmaker's Daughter
Title The Clockmaker's Daughter PDF eBook
Author Kate Morton
Publisher Washington Square Press
Total Pages 496
Release 2019-05-21
Genre Fiction
ISBN 145164941X

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of the New York Times bestseller Homecoming—“An ambitious, compelling historical mystery with a fabulous cast of characters…Kate Morton at her very best.” —Kristin Hannah “An elaborate tapestry…Morton doesn’t disappoint.” —The Washington Post "Classic English country-house Goth at its finest." —New York Post In the depths of a 19th-century winter, a little girl is abandoned on the streets of Victorian London. She grows up to become in turn a thief, an artist’s muse, and a lover. In the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she travels with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a bend of the Upper Thames. Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gunshot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time. It is not until over a century later, when another young woman is drawn to Birchwood Manor, that its secrets are finally revealed. Told by multiple voices across time, this is an intricately layered, richly atmospheric novel about art and passion, forgiveness and loss, that shows us that sometimes the way forward is through the past.

The Glassblower's Children

The Glassblower's Children
Title The Glassblower's Children PDF eBook
Author Maria Gripe
Publisher New York Review of Books
Total Pages 177
Release 2019-08-13
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1681373785

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By the Winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Children's Literature Albert the glassblower and Sofia are the loving parents of little Klas and Klara. Albert makes the most beautiful glass bowls and vases (unfortunately they are so impractical that no one will buy them), while Sofia supports the family by working in the fields. Every year Albert goes to the fair to try to sell his wares, and sometimes Sofia and the children go too. At the fair the family meets Flutter Mildweather, a weaver of magical rugs that foretell the future, and Klas and Klara come the attention of the splendid Lord and Lady of All Wishes Town, who have everything they want except for one: children. Full of curious and vivid characters—like the one-eyed raven Wise Wit, who can only see the bright side of life, and the monstrous governess Nana, whose piercing song can shatter glass—The Glassblower’s Children also ponders such serious matters as what it means to find meaningful work and the difference between what you want and what you need. In The Glassblower’s Children Maria Gripe has drawn on fairy tales and Norse myths to tell a thrilling story with a very modern sensibility.

The Watchmaker's Daughter

The Watchmaker's Daughter
Title The Watchmaker's Daughter PDF eBook
Author C. J. Archer
Publisher
Total Pages 0
Release 2023-06-15
Genre
ISBN 9781922554574

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India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether, India takes employment with the only person who'll accept her - an enigmatic and mysterious man from America. A man who possesses a strange watch that rejuvenates him when he's ill. Matthew Glass must find a particular watchmaker, but he won't tell India why any old one won't do. Nor will he tell her what he does back home, and how he can afford to stay in a house in one of London's best streets. So when she reads about an American outlaw known as the Dark Rider arriving in England, she suspects Mr. Glass is the fugitive. When danger comes to their door, she's certain of it. But if she notifies the authorities, she'll find herself unemployed and homeless again - and she will have betrayed the man who saved her life. With a cast of quirky characters, an intriguing mystery, and a dash of romance, THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER is the start of a thrilling new historical fantasy series from the author of the bestselling Ministry of Curiosities, Freak House, and Emily Chambers Spirit Medium books.

Sisters of Glass

Sisters of Glass
Title Sisters of Glass PDF eBook
Author Stephanie Hemphill
Publisher Ember
Total Pages 162
Release 2013-03-12
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 030798141X

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In fifteenth-century Venice, when a new young glassblower arrives to help the family business, Maria, who longs to be a glassblower herself, finds herself drawn to him.

The Iron Dragon's Daughter

The Iron Dragon's Daughter
Title The Iron Dragon's Daughter PDF eBook
Author Michael Swanwick
Publisher Open Road Media
Total Pages 348
Release 2016-05-31
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1504025660

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A New York Times Notable Book: “Combining cyberpunk’s grit with dystopic fantasy, this iconoclastic hybrid is a standout piece of storytelling” (Library Journal). Jane is trapped as a changeling in an industrialized Faerie ruled by aristocratic high elves and populated by ogres, dwarves, night-gaunts, and hags. She is the only human in a factory where underage forced labor builds cybernetic, magical dragons that are weaponized and sent off to war. When the damaged dragon Melanchthon tempts Jane with promises of freedom, the stage is set for a daring escape that will shake the foundations of existence. Combining alchemy and technology, a coming-of-age story like no other, The Iron Dragon’s Daughter takes place against a dystopic mindscape of dark challenges and class struggles that force Jane to make costly decisions at every turn. A finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1994 Locus Award, The Iron Dragon’s Daughter a is one-of-a-kind melding of grimdark fantasy and cyberpunk grit from the Nebula Award–winning author of Stations of the Tide. It engages the reader in a nihilistic world in which nothing is as it seems and everything comes at a steep and often horrific price.