Secret Sacrament Terrified a young Navaron child watches helplessly from his hiding place as a young Shinili woman is brutally beaten and abused by a group of drunken Navaron men Too frightened to answer her pleas fo
Terrified, a young Navaron child watches helplessly from his hiding place as a young Shinili woman is brutally beaten and abused by a group of drunken Navaron men Too frightened to answer her pleas for help, the child runs away, taking with him the sacred bone carving of the Shinili people In doing so, he forever binds himself and his fate to them Gabriel is no ordinaryTerrified, a young Navaron child watches helplessly from his hiding place as a young Shinili woman is brutally beaten and abused by a group of drunken Navaron men Too frightened to answer her pleas for help, the child runs away, taking with him the sacred bone carving of the Shinili people In doing so, he forever binds himself and his fate to them Gabriel is no ordinary boy His life is now marked out for greatness by powers beyond his understandingHe s never wanted to follow in his father s footsteps and become a wealthy, sea faring merchant, celebrated by all in the ancient empire of Navora but cold and distant to his family Haunted by a terrible childhood secret Gabriel spurns family tradition and duties as the eldest son, to pursue a life of helping others Derived from a deep sense of guilt and strange mysterious visions Gabriel knows that he is destined to become a healer, with the power to decipher dreams, no matter what his overbearing family argues But against his will, Gabriel finds himself caught up in the power struggles of a corrupt Empire, endangering all that he loves His decision to hold true to his destiny is one that will cost him dearly, and one that threatens to tear apart the entire Navoran Empire but which might just end up saving an entire people.
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Ï Secret Sacrament || µ PDF Read by ↠ Sherryl Jordan
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Sherryl Jordan
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Ï Secret Sacrament || µ PDF Read by ↠ Sherryl Jordan
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Award winning New Zealand author Sherryl Jordan began her writing career with picture books, but soon moved on to novels for older readers Her breakthrough came with Rocco, published in the United States as A Time of Darkness, and since that time she has gone on to pen many titles for young adult and juvenile readers that have been published both in her native New Zealand and throughout the world The recipient of a 1993 fellowship to the prestigious writing program at the University of Iowa, Jordan used her time in the United States to speak widely at schools and conferences about her books, which blend fantasy with bits of science fiction and romantic realism All my young adult novels have been gifts, she noted in the St James Guide to Children s Writers I don t think them up They hit me over the head when I least expect them overwhelm me with impressions, sights, and sounds of their new worlds enchant me with their characters and dare me to write them.