BOOK: New young reader's paperback time-travel novel set in 10th century Alania (amazon.de)

By: Anne Hart

This Medieval Princess Raziet in the 10th Century Caucasus Mountains Seeks to Do Acts of Kindness

My life adventure is resilience and to find a voice that resonates all of my confidence. Now in my youth just before I will become sixteen years of age, my confidence speaks all about lighting a wonderful brightness and walking out of the darkness of insatiable banalities. With the renewal of spring, the world is repaired, and the gardens bloom in my magnificent Alania. I walk up steep hills and ride far to remember each intimate glimpse of blooms on trees and to listen as waterfalls whisper. We have come up here all the way from Sarkel to remain here in the mountains, close to my childhood home.
To insure my confidence, my voice, and my resilience, here I light the eternal flame to brighten the damp room. I am Raziet, now called Serakh. I am Karachaian-Balkarian, and from my grandfathers, of sweet Alania. I am partly Khazar and partly from the peoples that dwell by Mount Elbrus. I am all of them, all mixed together for generations. My many ancestors came from Persia, the Kavkaz, the Steppes, and beyond where the sky rides the moon.
I am the tamga of the horse, the orchards, my pet wolf, and the open grasslands. And today, I am here, not where the Volga meets the Caspian, but with our friends and my cousin breathing deeply the sparkling air beneath my Mount Elbrus. We wait in our aoul. We are all of my magnificient Alania, and here now, in this land of orchards to the north, the scent of the birch trees, the patina, the starlight, my venture, value, and vision. Sit at my table and experience the eternal light of Khazaria and the rest of these mountains and rivers from the Caucasus to the seas of Pontus and Meotis. We are all one from many in the joy of life and we are here to do acts of kindness.

Written in the first person as a teenage princess of the royal Khazar family in the year 965, CE, the protagonist writes in her diary in the novel, "My life adventure is resilience and to find a voice that resonates all of my confidence. Now in my youth just before I will become sixteen years of age, my confidence speaks all about lighting a wonderful brightness and walking out of the darkness of insatiable banalities."

"With the renewal of spring, the world is repaired, and the gardens bloom in my magnificent Alania. I walk up steep hills and ride far to remember each intimate glimpse of blooms on trees and to listen as waterfalls whisper. We have come up here all the way from Sarkel to remain here in the mountains, close to my childhood home. To insure my confidence, my voice, and my resilience, here I light the eternal flame to brighten the damp room."

The novel notes, "I am Raziet, now called Serakh. I am Karachaian-Balkarian, and from my grandfathers, of sweet Alania. I am partly Khazar and partly from the peoples that dwell by Mount Elbrus. I am all of them, all mixed together for generations. My many ancestors came from Persia, the Kavkaz, the Steppes, and beyond where the sky rides the moon."

"I am the tamga of the horse, the orchards, my pet wolf, and the open grasslands. And today, I am here, not where the Volga meets the Caspian, but with our friends and my cousin breathing deeply the sparkling air beneath my Mount Elbrus. We wait in our aoul.

We are all of my magnificient Alania, and here now, in this land of orchards to the north, the scent of the birch trees, the patina, the starlight, my venture, value, and vision. Sit at my table and experience the eternal light of Khazaria and the rest of these mountains and rivers from the Caucasus to the seas of Pontus and Meotis. We are all one from many in the joy of life and we are here to do acts of kindness."

The novel is written by the same novelist who wrote another young reader novel, titled Proper Parenting in Ancient Rome. See:

Proper Parenting in Ancient Rome: A Time-Travel Novel of Love as Growth of Consciousness & Peace in the Home

• Published: February, 2007
• Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
• Pages: 162
• Size: 6x9
• ISBN: 9780595429776

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Both novels are written for readers age 12-18 and their parents to read and discuss family values and issues in the both novels. The author's other novels are listed at http://www.iuniverse.com and can be browsed online at the publisher's site.

The author has written numerous novels for families including Dogs with Careers: Ten Happy Ending Stories of Purpose and Passion, which contains a novel followed by numerous short stories with happy endings that follow, for all ages and all types of holiday reading. Browse Dogs with Careers at the publisher's site >>>

ADVENTURES IN MY BELOVED MEDIEVAL ALANIA AND BEYOND A Time-Travel Novel Set in the 10th Century Caucasus Mountains - By Anne Hart

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• Published: February, 2009
• Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
• Pages: 324
• Size: 5x8
• ISBN: 9781440119552

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