For centuries, the Great Bell was silent...It remained undisturbed, nearly forgotten by history, hidden away in the ruins of an abandoned fortress. The enchantments within its iron slumbered, its secrets protected by silence. Until someone discovered how to ring the Bell, other secrets would remain safe.One day, while running an errand, a young store clerk took a wrong turn, then another, until he found himself deep within the old fortress where the Great B...

Like a dark jewel, there are many facets to a curse,as The Bellringer now learns...The conspiracy has formed. Robby will make his bid to become King. First he must go to the mythical place called Griferis, on the far side of the world. But no sooner than their journey begins, Robby and his band of friends face delay and obstacle. Along the way, they make new acquaintances, people both inscrutable and mysterious.Lord Tallin, brooding and powerful, hau...

Dreamwalking is real.And Robby has proof...As he and his companions continue westward, Robby's secret dreamwalking lessons begin. Soon his skills will exceed those of his teacher. His companions do not know that Robby is testing his limits. They watch with dismay as he grows weaker day by day. But they, too, are being tested.Ullin leads them onward, but a dark apparition dogs him, bent on driving him into madness. Sheila seems to be the target of Ull...

Who Comes to Rule the Darkness?Who Comes to Remake the World?A New King, like no other before...The Dramatic Conclusion of The Year of the Red Door.The world teeters on the brink of destruction. There is only one hope. Only one chance to keep old promises, to heal old wounds, and to end, once and for all, the conflicts that torment the world.There is only one way to do it.And only one person who can b...

Tallinvale is surrounded.And there's no way out...Lord Tallin's plan has worked. He has drawn a massive army to Tallinvale and it now surrounds his city. The enemy prepares to deliver a devastating blow. The people of Tallinvale must hold out, and Lord Tallin must permit them to suffer until the time is right to unleash his secret weapon. It is a colossal gamble, meant to buy Robby the time he needs. But the Redvest enemy has a secret weapon of its own....

In the year 316 of the Third Age, a group of men and women compiled a collection of information and resources that would shed light on how the previous age ended and how their own epoch began. Working at the Great Library of Darini, they assembled this companion using records, documents, and first-hand accounts gathered from decades of expeditions. This Companion is the result of their work.You've read the story. Now read the stories behind the story!...

A ghost tour team mines the Steel City's past for the stories of spirits that stalk its streets today.Founded amidst the bloodshed of the French and Indian War, Pittsburgh is haunted by the ghosts of its gritty and sometimes violent past. Many believe American industrialist Henry Clay Frick still inhabits Clayton, one of the last surviving homes on Millionaires' Row. The spirit of Kate Soffel lingers at the Allegheny County Jail, where she helped plot the escape of...

Welcome to the Thumar Saga– a diverse world where the founding families face imminent disaster threatening their planet. Sacrifices must be made, alliances forged, and destinies rewritten in this thrilling fusion of science fiction, adventure, action, and romance. Love and duty entangle the hearts of Captain Derak Jamar III, risen from the slums of Earth, and Thumarian elite, Ambassador Shesain Andehar. Before he can truly understand her and this marvelous planet with their strange courtin...

This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary activity but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on or breaking away from other thoughts, especially those by thinkers who had come before, thinking is always plural, relational. This “singular plural” dimension of thought in Nancy’s philosophical writings demands explication.In this book, some of today’s leading scholars in the theoretical hu...

The Orion Syndicate strikes at the heart of Thumar, on Thumar! The results are disastrous, launching the inner galaxy into a bloody, drawn-out war.President Remor Andehar is engulfed in a perfect storm of events that threaten to tear Thumar’s once harmonious culture apart at the seams risking a phalanx of political and revered cultural customs. A charismatic senator, guided by a Syndicate agent, is challenging Thumar’s most beloved, centuries-long practice and demanding immediate c...

Seeing new media art as an entry point for better understanding of technology and worldmaking futuresIn this challenging work, a leading authority on new media art examines that curatorial and aesthetic landscape to explore how art resists and rewires the political and economic structures that govern technology. How do inventive combinations of artistic and theoretical improvisation counter the extent to which media art remains at risk, not just from the quarantine...

Derak, Shesain, and the time crew are unexpectedly thrust 600 years into Thumar’s past. A planet wide plague is raging that our intrepid time travelers were destined to cure. They return to the future to discover that they’re actions dramatically changed their original timeline. With help from Derak’s brother, Robert, and the mysterious Time Lords of the universe, they set out across time, space, and dimension to fix their time paradox. Can they stop the space-time-continuum from tearing i...