Bøger af Melissa Scott

Space opera Fallen by genre legend Melissa Scott, companion to her acclaimed Finders, is a seamless fusion of adventure, myth, and far-future science-a bold re-imagining of the Atreides, Daedalus, and the Titans.

Melissa Scott has done a lot of yoga. Along the way, she's learned lessons about acceptance, overcoming, and inner strength. In White Girl in Yoga Pants, she meditates on those lessons and applies them to both the everyday and extraordinary experiences that make up the tapestry of life. With humor, vulnerability, and grace, she shares inspiring stories about using yoga to heal from an eating disorder and sexual assault. She discusses her frustrations and hopes for these divisive political times. She talks about the unique struggles women and yogis face in the social media age. And above all, she offers gratitude for the divine strength that keeps us all moving forward. Rooted in lessons from both on the mat and out in the world, this collection of essays is a love letter to the human spirit from one white girl in yoga pants.

The best way to travel & experience the world is to immerse yourself into the culture, language & lifestyle of the place you are visiting. But let's face it, language isn't something that comes easy to many. This book was designed to help you get your foot in the door when it comes to cultural exploration by offering easy-to-remember short cuts in common words & phrases. The main thing to remember is to say the English words quickly without any emphasis on enunciation. The number of syllables spoken, along with placement of vowel sounds & consonants, will give the listener a sense of what you are saying. Some linguaphiles may roll their eyes at this practice but pay them no heed. Attempting to say something in another language with the slightest butchering of the words is more appreciated than not even trying. You'll get more in return with your efforts. Master foreign language phrases. Short cuts to learning foreign phrases. Greetings and expressions for travelers.

"Rejected by his aristocratic family, Gil Irichels has been making his living as a traveling cursebreaker until a series of suspicious deaths leave him the sole heir to the family's house and fortune. As he struggles to find a place in the seaborne city of Bejanth, he stumbles on a dangerous secret: someone is unraveling the web of magic on which the city depends--and it may already be too late to repair."--Page [4] of cover.

Water Horse is Elric meets The Fisher King with the vividly drawn inhabitants of this universe seamless fusions of Elf & Dwarf: how life might have been in Moria or Erebor, with water & wood to leaven stone and original magic.

Cassilde Sam is a barely solvent salvage operator, hunting for relics in the ruins left by the mysterious Ancestors—particularly the color-coded Elements that power most of humanity’s current technology, including the ability to navigate through hyperspace. Cassilde is also steadily fading under the onslaught of Lightman’s, an incurable, inevitably fatal disease. She needs one last find big enough to leave a legacy for her partner and fellow salvor Dai Winter.When their lover and former colleague Summerlad Ashe reappears, offering them a chance to salvage part of an orbiting palace that he claims contains potentially immense riches, Cassilde is desperate enough to take the gamble, even though Ashe had left them both to fight on the opposite side of the interplanetary war that only ended seven years ago. The find is everything Ashe promised. But when pirates attack the claim, Cassilde receives the rarest of the Ancestors’ Gifts: a change to her biochemistry that confers near-instant healing and seems to promise immortality.But the change also drags her into an underworld where Gifts are traded in blood, and powerful Gifts bring equally powerful enemies. Hunted for her Gift and determined to find Gifts for her lovers, Cassilde discovers that an old enemy is searching for the greatest of the Ancestral artifacts: the power that the Ancestors created and were able to barely contain after it almost destroyed them, plunging humanity into the first Long Dark. Haunted by dream-visions of this power whispering its own version of what happened, Cassilde must find it first, before her enemy frees it to destroy her own civilization.