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Like most humans Rain had always thought the land of Faerie to be part of a bedtime story, a land where fair maidens had wings and handsome young men with pointed ears and magical powers slew dragons. A place so saturated with magic as to exist in another realm altogether, ruled by a kind and benevolent Queen. Reality and fantasy are rarely the same. Rain joins in the search for Aurelia, Cyprian's sister, finding herself pulled into this strange land by the spirit of Faerie itself. With the aid of Cyprian's childhood friend Kheelan she must make sense of clues, both found and given, in order...

"The South Africa Reader" is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the "Reader" provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped its history and continue to pose challenges to its future, particularly violence, inequality, and racial discrimination. Among the selections are folktales passed down through the centuries, statements by seventeenth-century Dutch colonists, the songs of mine workers, a widow's testimony before...

The South Africa Reader is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the Reader provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped its history and continue to pose challenges to its future, particularly violence, inequality, and racial discrimination. Among the selections are folktales passed down through the centuries, statements by seventeenth-century Dutch colonists, the songs of mine workers, a widow's...