Dawn Of The Sorcerer

Gianna is a young novice in one of Earth's oldest secret societies. She faces a nigh-impossble task: search the Archives for references to the recent Blood Moon. Jake craves challenge. He stagnates in his hometown, but feels it hides his greatest challenge yet. What Gianna and Jake each find will change the world. If you love stories where Earth is a high-magic world... If you love stories with intelligent animal companions... If you love Contemporary / Urban Fantasy... Make Dawn of the Sorcerer your next read.

The sorcerer is an ambitious man driven by power and self-righteousness. He has a plan to bring down the kingdom of Amarul. Using ancient magic, the sorcerer bends time and space to his will. This sets in motion a chain of events even he cannot control. The sorcerer's game draws many players. Caught in his web, their lives will change forever. Old rivals and young heroes will emerge from the shadows to challenge or aid the sorcerer as the kingdom plummets towards a fate unknown.

Chrio Warren had a charmed childhood as a sorcerer's son. Magic is life and purpose, even if his best friend Fehr is only a wizard. The golden child, everyone's favorite, faces huge life changes as he moved into his teenage years. His world was turned upside down, leading to him needing to go out and find a mentor for the magic that had outpaced his father's teaching. With his friend Fehr at his side, he is ready to take on the world! Lareah seems a great location... until everything starts to fall apart. Ranger Amalmamir, the captain of the guard, and many others think he's behind some nefarious trouble. To make it worse, the trouble he thought he had left behind may have followed him. He'll have to become an adult, setting aside any last bits of his childhood, if he wants to survive the trials and tribulations that go way beyond what a young man should have to face.

The Dawn of Magick is the first story of Donothor. The tragic fantasy chronicles the lives and deeds of many ilks of the world Sagain. Threads of fate and Magick intertwine the doomed world of sorcery with three other worlds. When the story begins, Sagain is a pastoral mundane world dominated by preternatural beings called Old Ones. Nature's most powerful forces foment a cataclysm and kindle the flicker of Magick. The flicker grows into a blaze and creates great artifacts. The power of Magick descends along family lines. As sorcerers live longer and grow more powerful, greed and competition lead to conflict. Orders of Light and Dark Sorcery choose leaders and allies, create citadels and seven fantastic wonders, and rip Sagain and its people through their ageless conflict. Spells cast by avaricious sorcerers bring forces of evil to Sagain. This begins a conflict that stretches across space and time. Powerful spells enable the imprisonment of consummate evil and facilitate the escape of a fortunate few from the doomed world. What is the source of Magick? What are the powers of the thirteen and two staves? What roles have the mysterious Old Ones, the old wanderer Confusious, Iyaca Vassi, and the Orders of Light and Dark Sorcery in the story? Does only evil lurk behind the dark walls of Koorlost, the citadel of Dark Sorcery? Does only good reside within the alabaster walls of the Laurels and its Tower of Radiance, the citadel of Light Sorcery? Are dragons, the great wyrms of the skies, good or evil? What threads connect four worlds? Ripples that began long ago in a doomed world create great waves in Donothor, Parallan, and...a blue world. The story continues in Deathquest to Parallan, the Orb of Chalar, the Death of Magick, and the Chalice of Mystery.

"Kitchen Confidential" meets "Heat" in the first behind-the-scenes portrait of the world's best restaurant and the aspiring chefs who toil to make it so exceptional. Elected best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine an unprecedented five times, El Bulli is the laboratory of Ferran Adria, the maverick creator of molecular gastronomy. Behind each of the thirty or more courses that make up a meal at El Bulli is a small army of young cooks who do the work of executing Adria's vision in exchange for nothing more than the chance to learn at his hands. Granted unprecedented access to this guild system, Lisa Abend follows the thirty-five stagiaries of the 2009 season as they struggle to master the grueling hours, cutting-edge techniques, and interpersonal tensions that come with working at the most revered restaurant on earth.

All is not well in the kingdom of Rhyngill. Despite regular payment of tithes, including PAYE (Pay As You Eat), the citizens are all tired and underfed. Firkin, a lad who is definitely alpha plus in the get-up-and-go department, blames the king, and sets out to find an assassin who will rid the kingdom of its ruler. But little does he know that the real villain is someone else entirely - or that the origins of his friends' troubles involve lemmings, pigeons and heavy earth-moving equipment. It takes a pieman, a magician and a knight with a North Country accent to help Firkin see the error of his ways!

High Sorcerer Feline of the Ellfs escapes from the Skethrylln of the Adlamar Spiral to discover that L'Enfant de La Lune escaped from the torches of the Celts. Feline quickly resumes his interrupted mission to fall under attack by an ancient enemy. With his life under threat from the Gaelic War Goddess and his freedom threatened by the Skethrylln he escaped Feline must call upon the aid of another sorcerer to help him reclaim La Lune's half of Porpoise's separated soul while keeping this helper's purpose a secret from Moon Child and her foster-mother Artemis, Greek Goddess of the Moon and hunt.

High Sorcerer Feline of the Ellfs escapes from the Skethrylln of the Adlamar Spiral to discover that L'Enfant de La Lune escaped from the torches of the Celts. Feline quickly resumes his interrupted mission to fall under attack by an ancient enemy. With his life under threat from the Gaelic War Goddess and his freedom threatened by the Skethrylln he escaped Feline must call upon the aid of another sorcerer to help him reclaim La Lune's half of Porpoise's separated soul while keeping this helper's purpose a secret from Moon Child and her foster-mother Artemis, Greek Goddess of the Moon and hunt.