The Welkening: A Three Dimensional TaleSimon and Schuster, 15/06/2010 - 413 من الصفحات A fantasy novel in an alternate world. Lizbeth, Bennu, Len, and Angie are misfits, and they know it. They are often overlooked and ostracized for being overweight, short, airheaded, or wearing coke-bottle glasses. When bullies inflict a wound to Len's head, the four friends find themselves suddenly thrust into an alternative dimension—the realm of Welken, an idyllic kingdom under attack by Morphane the Soul Swallower. The noble defender Piers urges the four to aid his beleaguered land. But their insecurities hold them back until several mysterious adventures reveal that the weaknesses so disdained in their own world are weapons of great power in Welken. Victory is far from certain, however, as the enemy resorts to shape-shifting and deception, finally storming the Welkeners with an army of slaves. Unless the misfits find the courage to wield their weapons and turn the battle, Welken will fall into the death grip of Morphane. |
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The Lesson | 25 |
THE HEART OF FEAR | 33 |
A Terrible Good | 34 |
The Voice in the Wilderness | 44 |
And Though This World with Devils Filled | 48 |
THE SOUL OF ADVENTURE | 209 |
On the Thresholds | 210 |
A Full Compass of Doors | 220 |
Snappy Escapades | 232 |
Fatagar | 238 |
Waiting and Wanting | 248 |
Singing the Last Verse | 258 |
How Many Eyes Does It Take to See? | 270 |
Should Threaten to Undo Us | 58 |
The Flame Leaps into Darkness | 67 |
Jellyfish and WaterFunnels | 84 |
The Window under the Mountain | 95 |
Something about Fours | 107 |
Rationalizations Resistance and the River of Light | 111 |
Catching a Glimpse | 122 |
THE STRENGTH OF HISTORY | 135 |
Choosing to Be Chosen | 136 |
Overlapping Seams | 147 |
Faith to Move Molehills | 160 |
Not Everyone on the Other Side of the Tracks Has a Heart of Gold | 169 |
Commissioning the Commiseration | 183 |
Abus Too True | 201 |
Riddling While Rome Turns | 283 |
Revolutionary Insights | 292 |
Manors and Manners | 297 |
TO MAKE THE WELKEN RING | 307 |
Switch | 308 |
A Kiss of Fire | 318 |
Retracing Reerasing | 332 |
A Sentence or Two for Ollie | 342 |
Soliton | 347 |
One Little Word Shall Fell Him | 357 |
The Silence the Talk the Furious Fire | 364 |
The Welkening | 372 |
Three Endings | 384 |
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Akhenaten amulet Angie's arms asked Basala beast Bebba Bennu and Angie C'mon called Charlotte door Durrow Ellen Eye of Horus eyes face Fatagar feel feet finger fire four friends front Ganderst Hall Gandric glimpse Goffer grabbed ground hair hand head heard held Josh knew lantern leaned legs Len rose Len's light Lizbeth felt Lizbeth looked Lizbeth saw Lizbeth thought Lizbeth turned Malleal Mama Misfits Mook Mook's Morphane Morphane's moved museum Odin Ollie path Percy and Bones Pict Piers Piers walked Piers's Prester John Primus Hook pulled pushed Quadrille rock scarab seemed shook shoulders shouted side smiled Soliton stared step stood stopped Sutton and Zennor Sutton Hoo tell Terz Terz's Tetragrammaton there's thing tiles Tommy took tree Vida Bering voice wait walked wall Wasan Sagad watched waved Welken What's whispered worried Yeah yelled