For many hundreds of years the realms of Circadian Middle Earth have known only peace and security. Governed by the cosmic harmony established long ago by King Ardiel, whose awesomely crafted harp, the Talamadh, first bound together the heavens and the earth, the folk of Middle Earth have lived simple, unfettered lives amid "the great chain of being." But that binding is beginning to unravel. The intimate connections between the things of heaven and the things of earth are being torn asunder. As the Great Sidereal Age draws toward a dire close, moral and social decay has taken hold in the land. Chaos and misrule are afoot, as are treachery and injustice. Evil figures are growing in power.... In Flight to Hollow Mountain, Mark Sebanc's exciting first entry into Circadian Middle Earth, the Talamadh has been stolen from Wilum, the Hordanu or Chief Bard, in whose care it traditionally rests in the remote highland shire of Lammermorn. To a young lad named Kalaquinn, on whose shoulders the role of hero has been untimely placed, falls the adventure-filled task of recovering the harp and restoring the harmony to the land and its inhabitants.

Flight to Hollow Mountain (Talamadh, Vol 1)

Literature & Fiction

Sebanc, Mark

United States

Eerdmans Pub.Co.

Crouan, the author of several studies on liturgical questions including the book The Liturgy Betrayed presents another penetrating work on the state of the Eucharistic Liturgy, the problems and errors that still exist, and how to correct these abuses. The responses Crouan has received to all of his writing and speaking on this topic from Catholics of every stripe show the weariness and confusion of many of the faithful regarding the Sacred Liturgy. Crouan says that the great majority of Catholics need and want, not celebrations that are "pastorally correct", but a Eucharistic liturgy that offers all the guarantees of Catholicity and leads them to an authentic contemplation of the mysteries being celebrated. He expresses the urgency needed to examine what is going on in parish churches, and to clarify matters by acknowledging the liturgical errors in order to establish a greater fidelity to the real teaching of Vatican II and the Roman Missal.

The Liturgy After Vatican II: Collapsing or Resurgent?

Crouan, Denis

Religion & Spirituality

Ignatius Press

Darkness looms over the ancient world of Ahn Norvys, and the Great Harmony of Ardiel lies rent asunder. Prince Starigan, heir to the throne, has been abducted and power has been usurped by a traitorous cabal In the mountainous highlands of Arvon is the small but ancient community the Stoneholding, which has held out against the gathering forces of the evil Ferabek. Here by tradition, from earliest times, the High Bard has resided as guardian of the Sacred Fire, as well as the golden harp called the Talamadh. But in his search for the lost prince, Ferabek has attacked the Stoneholding with his Black Scorpion Dragoons and razed it to the ground. Wilum, the aged High Bard was forced to flee for his life with a ragged band of survivors, including Kalaquinn Wright, the wheelwrights’s son. Kal, green in years and understanding, was torn from his pastoral life in a remote highland clanholding, and thrust out onto a broader stage in a journey of danger and escape, discovery and enlightenment. Now, as night covers Ahn Norvys, he must save what remains of the hallowed order of things and seek his destiny, a destiny that lies far beyond the Stoneholding. He must somehow find Prince Starigan and rekindle the Sacred Fire.

The Stoneholding (Legacy of the Stone Harp: Book One)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Anderson, James G.

Fantasy

Baen

As shadows loom over the World of Ahn Norvys, one Song, one Harp, and one Man are all that stand between the dark night of chaos and the dawn of harmony and order.

The Stoneholding: Legacy Of The Stone Harp Book One

Baen Books

Second in a New Trilogy of Epic Fantasy in the Tradition of Tolkien. In the wake of the catastrophic invasion that has levelled the Stoneholding, the last bastion of order in the world of Ahn Norvys, Kalaquinn Wright Pursues the mission entrusted to him. Freshly invested as High Bard, sets forth across lands that lie under a dark cloud of uncertainty and strife, charged with the task of finding the lost Prince Starigan. This is but the first step in rekindling the Sacred Fire and restoring peace to a broken world. The task, however, will not be an easy one, for the Talamadh, the golden harp that binds together heaven and earth in sacred harmony, remains in the clutches of the tyrant Ferabek. After securing safe haven for the remnant folk of his clanholding, Kal and his companions venture into the lowlands of Arvon, a palce of looming danger. Despite the adversities of a world sinking into the world sinking into the twilight of darkness and chaos, the young Holdsman keeps faith and its sustained by the loyalty of friends, the resources he begins to discover in himself, and unwavering hope. In his quest for the lost prince, moreover, Kal learns that royalty is to be founsd in unexpected quarters. By fate's caprice, Kal falls prey to his enemies. In the trail that befalls him, his mettle is tested, and he draws upon an inner strength that he has never known before. He also discovers that the Talamadh, with which Ardiel, once High King of Arvon, inaugurated the Great Harmony, though weak falerting, still retains a vestige of its ancient potency. But will it be enough to stem the tide of chaos that floods over darkling fields of Arvon?

The Darkling Fields Of Arvon (Legacy of the Stone Harp)

The second entry in the Legend of the Stone Harp saga, a high fantasy epic with echoes of such classic series as Patricia McKillip’s Riddlemaster tales and Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time chronicle. A young bard must regain the lost World Harp before an evil lord brings on a new age of darkness.The second entry in the Legend of the Stone Harp saga, a high fantasy epic with echoes of such classic series as Patricia McKillip’s Riddlemaster tales and Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time chronicle.Talamadh. The World Harp. Possess it and yours is the power of Heaven and Earth. The player may strum harmony into existence–as did the Bards of the Stoneholding for generations. But now the World Harp belongs to an evil lord bent on world domination and destruction. A broken world’s only hope is a young bard on the run across a war-torn landscape in a desperate quest to find a princely warrior before Talamadh sings out the final chord that plunges his world into eternal darkness.About the Stoneholding series: “[A] world of fantasy that is both as familiar as a folktale, yet still refreshingly new at every turn.”—Best-selling Map of Bones author James Rollins.

Darkling Fields of Arvon (2) (Legacy of the Stoneharp)

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