THE JOINING OF THE STONE - The Children of Ynell Book (5) Five [Paperback]

Shirley Rousseau Murphy (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Avon Flare, New York (1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380652013
• ISBN-13: 978-0380652013
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,976,930 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Shirley Rousseau Murphy grew up in southern California, riding and showing the horses her father trained. She attended the San Francisco Art institute. Shortly after graduation, she married and worked as an interior designer while her husband attended USC. "When Pat finished school, I promptly quit my job and began to exhibit paintings and welded metal sculpture in the West Coast juried shows," Murphy explains. Her work could be seen in many traveling shows in the western States and Mexico. She continues, "But when we moved to Panama for a four-year tour, in Pat's position with the U.S. Courts, I put away the paints and welding torches, and began to write."

She has published sixteen children's books, a young adult fantasy quintet, the Dragonbards fantasy trilogy, and The Catswold Portal. "It was while working on this adult fantasy that I knew I wanted to explore further the fascinating world of sentient cats. I began to see the gray tomcat, whom I knew well in real life, as a feline detective with a brash attitude--and the die was cast. I launched into the Joe Grey mystery series. I like discovering anew with each book how the three cats interact with their close-knit world of human friends--Joe Grey in-your-face abrasive, Dulcie of a gentler nature, and Kit wildly imaginative."

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5.0 out of 5 stars Now available for Kindle in an omnibus edition, February 24, 2011

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This review is from: THE JOINING OF THE STONE - The Children of Ynell Book (5) Five (Paperback)

This book and two others in the series, The Castle of Hape and Caves of Fire and Ice, are now available for Kindle in an omnibus edition titled The Runestone of Eresu. (The first two books of the series are in another omnibus, The Shattered Stone; but The Runestone of Eresu, which is for older teens and adults, can be read independently.) If you liked this book, please review it there.

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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The End, March 28, 2000

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This review is from: THE JOINING OF THE STONE - The Children of Ynell Book (5) Five (Paperback)

The fifth and final novel in the Children of Ynell series. All the sub-plots come together in a beautifully written scene.