The books will mainly be sorted by author, and the new additions will be in bold for a period of about a week (depends how often I can update.). she receives a mysterious parcel of books containing old Celtic legends about stone monuments and a mysterious singing stone. The will to take one's place in the world. Tim Blake Nelson earns special attention as the singing cowboy Buster Scruggs. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. It'll be updated as often as I'm able to do so, so come back often! :) Director: Will Gluck Stars: Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes. This list, however, should eleveate some of the hassle attributed to trying to find good reading material. Well, I don't know if you've noticed or not, but there aren't a whole lot of good books out there for youth these days. Harry Melling on Portraying Edgar Allen Poe, The Always Present Harry. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Books Worth Reading and Authors Worth Checking Out Rickie Lee Jones on Reconnecting with Her Past & Singing the American Songbook. McConnell, San Antonio Public LibraryĬopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. Kay's relocation to the present and her budding romance with the young man in the nearby apartment is a satisfying outcome, with time-travel still an option. Despite some plot weaknesses and patches of graceless writing (and Kay's speech made more colloquial than Aherne's to underscore the time-gap), this reads and paces well.

She travels to Ireland and is transported back to an ancient time where sorcery and.

Melling's interpretation of Celtic themes is ingenious and inventive, and the device of restoring the De Danaan to their lost status as gods is magically imagined. Strange dreams and images have haunted Kay Warrick throughout her life. Melling has a protagonist (from Canada, I think) who travels back in. Ultimately, their quest will redeem the ancestors and reconcile warring invaders and settlersmoral concerns that mirror modern ones. But thats the only way they can use magic is by singing. She and a De Danaan foundling, Aherne, are charged with finding the lost treasures of the De Danaans. Following anonymous clues and increasingly strong dream-visions, modern-day Kay travels to Ireland and enters the Bronze-Age. Grade 6-8 A time-fantasy and coming-of-age romance in which orphan Kay seeks her origins and finds her ancestors in a supernatural past.

The Singing Stone by O.R. Melling