Sun Stone

Two family’s passage from Norway to North America, during the Viking age is the framework of this story. More importantly, how the Vikings may have navigated, what foods they may have eaten, how they may have prayed, and traded form the heart of the story. It based on what might be true, or at least imagined possible. Stories told by the author’s father—and his father—are the basis of this narrative journey.

Dancing on the Sun Stone is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women’s lives and gendered politics in Mexico. In this important work, scholar Marjorie Becker focuses on the complex Mexican women of rural Michoacán who performed an illicit revolutionary dance and places it in dialogue with Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz’s signature poem, “Sun Stone”—allowing a new gendered history to emerge. Through this dialogue, the women reveal intimate and intellectual complexities of Mexican women’s gendered voices, their histories, and their intimate and public lives. The work further demonstrates the ways these women, in dialogue with Paz, transformed history itself. Becker’s multigenre work reconstructs Mexican history through the temporal experiences of crucial Michoacán females, experiences that culminate in their complex revolutionary dance, which itself emerges as a transformative revolutionary language.

Discover the fantastic story of the Sun Stone ! It was 40 000 years ago, just after the first Indians settled in North America. To save her tribe, a young Indian, Little Daisy, goes to look for the Sun Stone. Little Daisy has just celebrated its twelfth summer. One morning, on returning to her village, she discovers that all inhabitants are petrified. Only the grandmother can still speak. Before she freezes, she tells her that a sorcerer has cast a spell on the Inikawas to change them into stone statues. There is only one way to break the spell: bring back the Sun Stone, a crystal found on top of the West Moutains. For this she must cross the great prairie But the wild beasts are not the only dangers of the prairie. However, Little Daisy has an incomparable asset: a tough tenacity. She will cross many obstacles in order to deliver her own, aided by her courage and knowledge of nature and the hunt from her people.

"A metaphysical encyclopedia of more than three hundred crystals, minerals, and gemstones, detailing their applications for self-healing and spiritual and emotional development, along with vivid color photographs of each stone"--Provided by publisher.

A Study Guide for Octavio Paz's "Sunstone," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Far, far away, at the end of the earth, there were two very different islands. One island was quite big and the other very small. The people on the islands were also different. While the people who lived on the big island were always working, the people on the small island were living in the daytime. On the big island there was a king who ruled the whole day. But on the small island there was no government. The people solved their problems together. Everything changed when a big sailing ship came to the two islands. It was commanded by a general who persuaded the king of the big island to build a new palace. Since there were soon not enough stones and earth on the big island, the king had them brought here from the small island. Finally a golden stone was washed up on the beach of the big island. According to an old legend, the stone appeared when people had broken the laws of the sea. Soon after, a great storm gathered over the islands...

A half-dwarven wizard. A group of misfit adventurers. The fall of a once powerful race. After fires devastated her homeland, Thea moved to Neusee in search of a job to help her family. There Thea spends each day more uneventful than the last working at a weaponry stall. But one fateful day changed everything for her. Not far from Neusee, the Sunstone, an ancient artifact of great importance to the Druids, was stolen. Now Thea will guide a group of adventurers in search of the stone. But even with indescribable magical power, saving the Sunstone won't be an easy feat. Join Thea as she fights against a powerful evil in a new fantasy novel from Sheridan Strang.

Nobel laureate Octavio Paz's premier long poem "Sunstone" is now a handsome illustrated paperbook. Presented here in a new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this is the 1957 poem that helped established Paz as a major international figure. Includes beautiful illustrations from an 18th-century treatise on the Mexican calendar.