{"product_id":"livlis-gift-j-m-ney-grimm-9780615743080","title":"Livli's Gift","description":"\u003cp\u003eLivli struggles with a secret she keeps from everyone, even her closest friends, and she must solve the problem at its heart before she's discovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe's certain the answer lies in a fragment of folklore and magic half-remembered from her childhood. Almost certain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe wouldn't need forgotten magic if only the men and women of her secluded mountain culture dwelt together. But the women-and Livli-inhabit their sister-lodge atop its lofty bluff, while the men live apart in their brother-lodge several valleys away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnless she can force a change, Livli stands to lose everything . . . including the most precious thing in her life: her son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA story of secrets, shibboleths, and deep-forged strength told with all the insight and engaging intimacy that J.M. Ney-Grimm brings to epic fantasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKAUNIS CLAN SAGA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Hammarleeding people dwell in the high mountain valleys of J.M. Ney-Grimm's North-lands. They wield a tribal magic born of dance and song and the flow of sacred waters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRitual and tradition hold a special place in Hammarleeding culture. Their rites are beautiful and uplifting, but they underpin a way of life that features many thou-shalt-nots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn each story of the Kaunis Clan Saga, one woman-or one man-challenges the shibboleths that threaten her-or his-particular bright dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarvet's Wanderyar (1)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrossing the Naiad (2)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLivli's Gift (3)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter Glory (4)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach installment presents a unique protagonist from a fresh generation of the family. The stories stand alone and need not be read in order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eLIVLI'S GIFT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...fascinating and insightful...\" -P. Saternye\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I started reading and couldn't put it down. I love the world and the characters...\" -Diane Riggins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEXCERPT FROM \u003ci\u003eLIVLI'S GIFT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMmm.\u003c\/i\u003e It was so peaceful in the library.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe memory of her departure from home intruded on Livli's quietude. \u003ci\u003eThere\u003c\/i\u003e was an unpeaceful scene: Thoivra shrieking and shaking her finger at a horrified brother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoor skinny Issat had no idea he wasn't welcome in the foyer of Kaunis-lodge. He figured he was walking with Livli for the first leg of his journey to Tukeva. And she was going out the front door. Why shouldn't he?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThoivra told him why. \u003ci\u003eThis is the lodge, not the healing spa. Get out!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLivli shook her head. \"Ugh! I don't want to think about Thoivra right now,\" she told herself. \"I want to enjoy not being in the same place she is. Enjoy my break from the bustle of the spa. Enjoy Siajotti's tranquility.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough her earliest memory of Siajotti-lodge was the reverse of serene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ.M. Ney-Grimm lives with her husband and children in Virginia, just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She's learning about permaculture gardening and debunking popular myths about food. The rest of the time she reads Robin McKinley, Diana Wynne Jones, and Lois McMaster Bujold, plays boardgames like \u003ci\u003eSettlers of Catan, \u003c\/i\u003e rears her twins, and writes stories set in her troll-infested North-lands. Look for her novels and novellas at your favorite bookstore-online or on Main Street.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. M. 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