*Maddy touched the final rune. She spoke the cantrip.* *The Hill opened . . .* Maddy Smith has always been an outsider. Born with a rusty-coloured rune on her hand - what the villagers call a *ruin*mark - she is scarred by this symbol of the old gods, a sign of *magic.* And everyone knows that ma
Runemarks
β Scribed by Harris, Joanne
- Publisher
- Random House, Inc.;Random House Children's Books
- Year
- 2009;2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 621 KB
- Edition
- Reprint
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0375844457
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β¦ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
The major fantasy debut from bestselling author Joanne Harris, now in paperback.Seven o'clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins have been at the cellar again. Not that anyone would admit it was goblins. In Maddy Smiths world, order rules. Chaos, old gods, faeries, magicall of these were supposedly vanquished centuries ago. But Maddy knows that a small bit of magic has survived. The ruinmark she was born with on her palm proves itand makes the other villagers fearful and suspicious that she is a witch.But the mysterious traveler One-Eye sees Maddys mark not as a defect, but a destiny. And Maddy will need every scrap that One-Eye can teach her about runes, cantrips, and glamoursevery ounce of magic she can commandif she is to survive that destiny. * Harris creates a glorious and complex world replete with rune-based magical spells, bickering gods, exciting adventures and difficult moral issues.Publishers Weekly, Starred
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