Bard

This is the tale of the coming of the Irish to Ireland, and of the men and women who made that emerald isle their own.

THE ANCIENT MAGIC OF IRELAND LET LOOSE IN THE STRINGS OF A HARP.... The wilderness of oak, ash, and thorn that men call the Forest of Andred existed long before the Saxons entered Britain, or Caesar's legions pressed against Kentish resistance, and even before the first iron-using Celts set foot on the island. Here lives the clan of mandrake-the strange, gnarled vegetable folk. Here trods the unicorn, with blue vapor curling softly from nostrils soft as a woman's breast and dainty, precise hooves lethal as maces. Here are the sacred groves long abandoned, where Druids once fed the trees with human blood. Through this forest of sorcery and a society governed by the sword travels Felimid mac Fal, Bard of Erin, descendant of Druids and the Tuatha de Danann-the ancient faery race of Ireland, armed only with his harp and the fierce magical power of his poetry....

A Bard's Tale is a collection of poems inspired by Ireland and her people. This is an interesting work that anyone is sure to enjoy. There are poems about the author's family and tales about the heros of Ireland's troubled history. The author has studied Ireland's history and is striving to find peace and resolution for Ireland's troubles. This collection is lyrically, thoughtfully, and passionately written. Witness this young man's work that as singer/songwriter Larry Kirwan of the Irish band Black 47 says reflects "the ever-growing American search for roots and meaning in a television-addicted, mall-focused society."Open this book and have a pint with Justin R. Romine -- you are sure to enjoy his company. Take pleasure in these descriptive stories about Ireland, love, life and even death. A Bard's Tale is exactly what the title suggests: a storyteller's tale. Kirwan says, "His most personal poems search for love in a world gone sterile."

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

Daniel's Guide to Early Retirement: 1: Intercept illegal money transfer from mafia boss. 2: Hide out in super exclusive Full Immersion Virtual Reality game until the heat is off. 3: Roll a bard. Max out charisma. Live it up. 4: Profit. With all the pesky planning out of the way Daniel set out to realize his ultimate dream: gaining enough money to buy a tropical island and spend his days playing the violin and RPGs. What could possibly go wrong? Disclaimer: There shall be no harems in this series. Overpowered, perfect protagonists will not be tolerated and excessive cursing will result in donations to the swear jar.

From Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author behind HBO’s hit series True Blood and NBC’s Midnight, Texas, the second installment in a mystery series that pulls no punches... When Lily Bard agrees to open the gym for her sometime-boyfriend, it’s a sign of something she’s rejected for years—connection. Trust. The beginnings of being part of a community. And when she finds the corpse of a murdered bodybuilder waiting for her, it’s a sign she doesn’t know nearly as much about the home she’s chosen as she thought. Shakespeare, Arkansas has seen three unsolved, seemingly unconnected murders in two months, and the town is tense with suspicion and rage. Lily’s contact on the police force develops an ulterior agenda. An anonymous white supremacist group is papering cars and threatening worse to come. And there’s a new man in town, someone whose face reminds Lily of the darkest time in her past... Shakespeare needs answers, and Lily can’t rest until she has them. But there’s no telling how deep the rot spreads. And if she can’t trust anyone, she’ll be facing it down alone.

Documents the romantic story of the making of the First Folio, relating how a few years after a virtually unknown Shakespeare died, his former partners, friends and actors gathered his surviving manuscripts, unaware that they would create one of the most important English-language books ever published.