{"product_id":"2940012477255","title":"The Ravens of Falkenau \u0026 Other Stories","description":"The world is a numinous place, for those who have eyes to see it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWelcome to the Numinous World, where gods and angels intervene in the lives of mortals, and a band of eternal companions unite and reunite over the centuries, striving to make the world a better place despite wars and dark ages, hatred and cruelty.  \u003cbr\u003eHere are stories from the very beginning of our history, when the Lady of Cats entered the life of a young woman and changed her forever, long ago when farmers first scraped a living from the soil.  Here too are stories of the ancient world -- of Dion, the peerless scientist of Alexandria, of Lucia, a Roman waif, of a Persian princess and her Jewish sister in law, of Lydias of Miletus who is once and always Ptolemy's man, and of a Nubian girl who begins a long journey toward a strange destiny.  \u003cbr\u003eThere are stories of the Dark Ages, of a last Roman outpost on the shores of Britain and of an Arab warrior who at last comes home to a white city on the sea, of a Scottish witch who serves the Storm Queen and fears no other magic, and a Knight Templar enslaved by the beauty of the world.  Others follow -- a messenger boy dragged into the Great Story and a desperate ride dogged by the Wild Hunt, and a mercenary captain of the Thirty Years War who finds his destiny in a remote corner of the Bohemian mountains.  \u003cbr\u003eHere too are more modern tales of the Age of Revolution, when Dion, Emrys, Sigismund and Charmian reunite in Napoleonic Paris, and at last we roll into the twentieth century with a young American girl with extraordinary oracular powers.  Of course there is also Michael, Mik-el, Mikhael, who watches over his charges as best he may, though the world may change around them.\u003cbr\u003eThese are tiny windows into a miraculous world, glimpses through a glass and darkly of all that might be -- for those with eyes to see.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ravens of Falkenau  1614 AD\u003cbr\u003eDion Ex Machina  4 BC\u003cbr\u003eCold Frontier  505 AD\u003cbr\u003eSmall Victories  1800 AD\u003cbr\u003eHow the Lady of Cats Came to Nagada  8000 BC\u003cbr\u003ePrince Over the Water 1040 AD\u003cbr\u003eHorus Indwelling  285 BC\u003cbr\u003eParadise  641 AD\u003cbr\u003eSlave of the World  1203 AD\u003cbr\u003eLittle Cat  1012 BC\u003cbr\u003eVesuvius  79 AD\u003cbr\u003eUnfinished Business  22 BC\u003cbr\u003eThe Messenger's Tale  1553 AD\u003cbr\u003eMorning Star  469 BC\u003cbr\u003eTemplar Treasure  1188 AD\u003cbr\u003eWinter's Child  1821 AD\u003cbr\u003eBrunnhilde in the Fire  1901 AD","brand":"Crossroad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152620404976,"sku":"2940012477255","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012477255_p0.jpg?v=1763569397","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012477255","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}