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The Way Between - Ari Ara series #3
Desert Song: A Girl in Exile, a Trickster Horse, and the Women Rising Up
WINNER - 2020 NAUTILUS PRIZE - SILVER MEDAL!
National Geographic says…“Kids are reading this summer...nonviolent fantasy - the Ari Ara Series by Rivera Sun.” - from National Geographic Kids , July 19, 2020
A wild ride full of danger and adventure!
Exiled to the desert, Ari Ara is thrust between the warriors trying to grab power…and the women rising up to stop them!
The world of her father's people is made of song and sky, heat and dust. Ari Ara wants nothing more than to be a proper daughter to her father, the Desert King. But nothing she does is right! She can't sing the songs correctly, her trickster horse bolts, her friend is left for dead, and Ari Ara has to run away to save him.
Every step she takes propels her deeper into trouble. A mysterious young songholder offers to guide her, a seer sends them on a wild goose chase, they rescue a young woman from a forced marriage - and accidentally set the army camp on fire! Before long, she's swept into a women's uprising against the warriors who are trying to seize power.
Ari Ara has to find her place - and her voice - in this strange culture…but time is running out. Warriors-rule rises across the desert. One by one, the women's voices are being silenced, cut from the Desert Song. Can Ari Ara and her friends restore the balance before violence breaks out?
This is Book Three of The Way Between – Ari Ara series. It is a complete story and may be read independently, but as one person said "The story of this book can stand alone but why cheat yourself?" They are fun to read in any order but best is to read the whole series!
Get them right now!...
Praise for Rivera Sun’s Ari Ara books
"...a beautiful experience...one that everyone in the world needs - now more than ever."
- Heart Phoenix, River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding
"...this book couldn't have come at a better time. "
- Patrick Hiller, Executive Director, War Prevention Initiative
"...an impressive feat an exciting story that deftly teaches ways to create a world that works for all... outstanding contribution to the field of nonviolence!"
- Kit Miller, Executive Director, M.K. Gandhi Center for Nonviolence
"Five stars. It's Harry Potter with a contemporary message."
- Gayle Morrow, retired Y/A Librarian
" ...deserves an international audience."
- Amber French, Editorial Advisor, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
"I highly recommend gathering the children around you and reading The Way Between and The Lost Heir so everyone can enjoy and embrace these masterfully-told, exciting adventures. "
- Scotty Bruer, Founder, Peace Now
"Rivera Sun's creativity, wisdom, insight and joyful nonviolent activism for all ages fills me with awe and hope. If we were all to read her books the way we have read Harry Potter's, we would be well on our way to sending a different message to our children."
- Veronica Pelicaric, Author, Pace e Bene/Campaign Nonviolence
National Geographic says…“Kids are reading this summer...nonviolent fantasy - the Ari Ara Series by Rivera Sun.” - from National Geographic Kids , July 19, 2020
A wild ride full of danger and adventure!
Exiled to the desert, Ari Ara is thrust between the warriors trying to grab power…and the women rising up to stop them!
The world of her father's people is made of song and sky, heat and dust. Ari Ara wants nothing more than to be a proper daughter to her father, the Desert King. But nothing she does is right! She can't sing the songs correctly, her trickster horse bolts, her friend is left for dead, and Ari Ara has to run away to save him.
Every step she takes propels her deeper into trouble. A mysterious young songholder offers to guide her, a seer sends them on a wild goose chase, they rescue a young woman from a forced marriage - and accidentally set the army camp on fire! Before long, she's swept into a women's uprising against the warriors who are trying to seize power.
Ari Ara has to find her place - and her voice - in this strange culture…but time is running out. Warriors-rule rises across the desert. One by one, the women's voices are being silenced, cut from the Desert Song. Can Ari Ara and her friends restore the balance before violence breaks out?
This is Book Three of The Way Between – Ari Ara series. It is a complete story and may be read independently, but as one person said "The story of this book can stand alone but why cheat yourself?" They are fun to read in any order but best is to read the whole series!
Get them right now!...
Praise for Rivera Sun’s Ari Ara books
"...a beautiful experience...one that everyone in the world needs - now more than ever."
- Heart Phoenix, River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding
"...this book couldn't have come at a better time. "
- Patrick Hiller, Executive Director, War Prevention Initiative
"...an impressive feat an exciting story that deftly teaches ways to create a world that works for all... outstanding contribution to the field of nonviolence!"
- Kit Miller, Executive Director, M.K. Gandhi Center for Nonviolence
"Five stars. It's Harry Potter with a contemporary message."
- Gayle Morrow, retired Y/A Librarian
" ...deserves an international audience."
- Amber French, Editorial Advisor, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
"I highly recommend gathering the children around you and reading The Way Between and The Lost Heir so everyone can enjoy and embrace these masterfully-told, exciting adventures. "
- Scotty Bruer, Founder, Peace Now
"Rivera Sun's creativity, wisdom, insight and joyful nonviolent activism for all ages fills me with awe and hope. If we were all to read her books the way we have read Harry Potter's, we would be well on our way to sending a different message to our children."
- Veronica Pelicaric, Author, Pace e Bene/Campaign Nonviolence
371 pages, Paperback
Published April 11, 2020
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Rivera Sun
24 books161 followersAuthor/Activist Rivera Sun has written numerous books and novels, including The Dandelion Insurrection and the award-winning Ari Ara Series. She is the editor of Nonviolence News and the Program Coordinator for Campaign Nonviolence. Her articles are syndicated by Peace Voice and published in hundreds of journals nationwide. Rivera Sun serves on the board of Backbone Campaign and the advisory board of World BEYOND War. She lives on her family's organic farm in Maine.
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October 5, 2022
Overall, I really liked the trilogy. The stories remind me of other utopian books I've read, where an underlying philosophic or social point of view is being promoted, but the vehicle is an interesting story that's fun to read. The author does a good job of evoking and comparing several very different societies and places.
This third book gives insight into a third society, one that's part of this world, and is crucial to understanding the events of the past, but not well understood by the people we got to know in the second book.
However, I did feel as though the plotline in this third book wasn't quite as well developed as in the previous two. In real life, adversarial relationships between one society and another aren't easily resolved. Real human beings are more complex than some of these fictional ones. And though that didn't bother me too much in the first two books, for some reason in this third book, it did.
Still, a good trilogy. If you liked the first two books, you'll want to read this one too.
P.S. I read this several years ago, so don't pay any attention to the "Dates read"--I don't remember the exact dates.
This third book gives insight into a third society, one that's part of this world, and is crucial to understanding the events of the past, but not well understood by the people we got to know in the second book.
However, I did feel as though the plotline in this third book wasn't quite as well developed as in the previous two. In real life, adversarial relationships between one society and another aren't easily resolved. Real human beings are more complex than some of these fictional ones. And though that didn't bother me too much in the first two books, for some reason in this third book, it did.
Still, a good trilogy. If you liked the first two books, you'll want to read this one too.
P.S. I read this several years ago, so don't pay any attention to the "Dates read"--I don't remember the exact dates.
August 15, 2022
So vivid and heart wrenching and so beautifully written.
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