The Welkening: A Three Dimensional Tale

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Simon 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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Two Beginnings
2
The Commiseration
9
Over the River and to the Wood
20
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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Dr. Gregory Spencer is professor of communication studies at Westmont College in Southern California. He specializes in rhetorical theory and criticism, religious rhetoric, and media ethics. Dr. Spencer’s teaching has been noted for its creativity.

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