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In Darkover’s dim past, before the tumultuous Ages of Chaos, small kingdoms still vied for power. But with the rise of psychic abilities called laran, unscrupulous leaders turned to half-trained sorcerers for an advantage. One such struggle arose between the realms of Hastur and its ambitious neighbor, Carcosse. Leora Hastur is still a child when her laran awakens, and the resulting crisis almost claims her life. Her beloved older sister, Neave, and her father’s small circle of telepathic workers manage to save her, but nothing can shield her from the horrors of the impending war.

Planetary Investments Unlimited — that was the company’s official name, but unofficially it was known as Worldwreckers, Inc. For a fee, its agent would infiltrate any world unwilling to give up its independence, and do enough damage that the natives would be forced to allow Terran investors to step in and salvage their planet. And now, once again, its agents were at work.

While only women can command the power of the matrix and the secret sciences which keep Darkover from Terran hands, in most respects they are still chattels. But the Free Amazons are considered equal to men, and it is they who provide the key to the Terran-Darkover dilemma.

Although Darkover was a world inhabited by humans as well as semi-humans, it was primarily forbidden ground to the Terran traders. Most of the planet’s wild terrain was unexplored...and many of its peoples seclusive and secretive. But for Andrew Carr, there was an attraction he could not evade. Darkover drew him, Darkover haunted him — and when his mapping plane crashed in unknown heights, Darkover prepared to destroy him.

The heroine, Zadieyek of Gyre has been captured and sold as a slave, who has amnesia and remembers nothing of her life before the trip across the desert with the slavers - and, due to a head injury, remembers mercifully little of that. But she does know that she would rather fight in the arena than be a harlot for the men who do…While she remains a slave, she’s quite different from the typical 'slave girl' - she grows and develops, always searching for her memory and her past, convinced that this is not how her life is supposed to be. And, of course, she's right.

After Lew Alton unwittingly roused the fire demon Sharra, the Sword of Aldones was the only weapon that could lay her to rest again. But only one man could wield the sword, and getting it was an even bigger problem.

A strange electrical power transports Mike Kenscott from the Earth he knows to the strange land of Narabedla in another man’s body. Now as Adric of the Crimson Tower, Kenscott must solve the mystery of Narabedla’s Dreamers or perish in a foreign world.

"Jadis on m'a donné les noms les plus divers : ceux de sœur, d'amante, de prêtresse, de mage et de reine." Morgane la Fée, prêtresse d'Avalon. Quand Viviane, prêtresse d'Avalon, arrive accompagnée du grand sage Merlin, Ygerne, femme du duc de Tintagel, ne peut contenir la joie de revoir sa sœur. Mais elle est de courte durée. La Dame du Lac lui annonce sa prochaine grossesse - fruit d'une union avec un autre homme - et le destin de l'enfant qu'elle portera : futur Haut Roi de Grande Bretagne, il unira et protégera les peuples présents sur ses terres.

Il quinto romanzo del Ciclo di Avalon. La storia degli avi di Morgana, costretti ad abbandonare l’isola distrutta di Atlantide, e delle due maghe potentissime che fonderanno una nuova stirpe nelle nebbiose terre della Britannia. So tutto delle fini. Sono gli inizi che non conosco. Chi erano gli antenati che hanno portato ad Avalon l’antica saggezza e l’hanno sepolta come un seme nel cuore di questa collina sacra? Tiriki, grande sacerdotessa della dea Madre, è la Guardiana della Luce, pur essendo cresciuta all’ombra della maledizione di Atlantide.

Die berühmte Artus-Sage aus weiblicher Sicht: Marion Zimmer Bradley erzählt in "Die Nebel von Avalon" die bekannte Geschichte von König Artus völlig neu. Die Fernseh- und Theaterschauspielerin Katharina Spiering verleiht dem Hörbuch mit ihrer lyrischen Erzählstimme eine ganz besondere Atmosphäre.

Sybil Ellis was a 17-year-old orphan with very few options: If she didn't want to be a governess or a companion - and she didn't - she had to marry. So she married Dr. Philip Maynard, who was old enough to be her grandfather and treated her like a daughter. In fact, he treated her like Judith, the daughter he had lost, even to calling her by that name and having all of his new servants do likewise.

Il suo nome è Eilan, figlia di una famiglia druidica e dotata della Vista. Il suo fato, da sempre, è quello di diventare sacerdotessa della Dea, custode della Casa della Foresta e dell'Isola Sacra, il futuro regno di Avalon. Ma Eilan, durante le celebrazioni di Beltane, ha scelto una strada diversa. La strada della ribellione e dell'amore. Si è infatti innamorata di Gaio, un soldato di sangue misto che è arrivato in Britannia con le truppe romane per soggiogare l'antica terra dei Druidi.

En des temps reculés, à quelques jours d'accoucher, la reine Hécube reçoit un présage des dieux : son fils provoquera la chute de Troie. Aussi, lorsqu'elle met au monde des jumeaux - un garçon et une fille -, le roi Priam décide d'abandonner le nouveau-né. La princesse Cassandre, elle, deviendra prêtresse du temple d'Apollon.

Tutti conosciamo la storia della guerra di Troia. I protagonisti sono Achille, Ettore, Paride, Priamo, Aiace, Odisseo: uomini che danno grandi prove di coraggio, che combattono per l'onore di uno di loro, per il potere, per difendere la propria città o per la rabbia di una perdita che lascia un vuoto incolmabile. Uomini che uccidono, rapiscono, imbrogliano, stuprano... Ma forse la storia vera non è proprio come ce l'hanno raccontata. Molte donne l'hanno abitata e non erano solo prede da riscattare, ma regine, guerriere, sacerdotesse.

After surviving the Hunt on the Red Moon, Dane should have been happy to return to civilization, and, for a while, he was. But then he got bored. So when their proto-saurian friend Aratak asked Dane and Rianna to accompany him on a mission to a primitive world, where their fighting skills would be needed for the party's survival, Dane jumped at the chance. He should have remembered the old saying: Be careful what you wish for.

For the Hunters, the Hunt was a religion. The Sacred Prey, sentient beings collected from all over the galaxy, were literally given a fighting chance - they were allowed to choose weapons from an armory with every imaginable weapon and given time to train. Then they were taken to the place of the Hunt, where death awaited them. Those who survived until the eclipse of the red moon, however, were honored by the Hunters and rewarded with all the wealth they could desire. The trick, of course, was surviving.

Über das sagenhafte Atlantis mit den See-Königtümern und das geheime Alte Reich herrscht ein Geschlecht von Priesterkönigen, das die Naturgewalten - die schöpferischen wie die zerstörerischen - in magischen Kulten bannt. Aus der Nacht der Dämonen brechen die Menschen auf zum strahlenden Tag des Lichts. Doch die Mächte des Bösen lauern darauf, von Neuem entdeckt zu werden...

L'ascesa e la caduta di Camelot raccontata dalle donne che, insieme a Morgaine, hanno visto il mondo che conoscevano cambiare radicalmente. Fuggita da Avalon dopo aver scoperto le orribili macchinazioni della Dama del Lago, Morgaine è più che mai decisa a non essere una docile marionetta nelle mani di Viviane. Non immagina che il figlio che ha partorito e affidato a sua sorella Morgause diventerà un giorno lo strumento della distruzione del padre.

Across half a galaxy, the Terran Empire maintains its sovereignty with the consent of the governed. It is a peaceful reign, held by compact and not by conquest. Again and again, when rebellion threatens the Terran Peace, the natives of the rebellious world have turned against their own people and sided with the men of Terra - not from fear, but from a sense of dedication. There has never been open war. The battle for these worlds is fought in the minds of a few men who stand between worlds; bound to one world by interest, loyalties, and allegiance; bound to the other by love.

La bambina nata al Volgere dell’Autunno, mentre la notte cedeva all'alba, vedrà il Volgere dell'Epoca, il passaggio tra due mondi. Sono queste le parole che salutano la nascita di Eilan, figlia della Somma Sacerdotessa di Avalon, mentre sua madre esala l'ultimo respiro. Poi la piccina viene mandata dal padre, il principe Coelius, e nella sua casa viene chiamata Helena e cresciuta come una romana. Finché nel 259 d.C., compiuti dieci anni, non fa ritorno al mitico luogo in cui è venuta al mondo, per essere addestrata come sacerdotessa contro il parere di sua zia Ganeda.