by Alexander Start
ISBN: 1-933-01128-9Stone Thrower takes us from England to Spain just before the year 1000, the end of the first millennium. Two girls and one boy weave the tale of their intersecting lives, filled with conflict, emotion, and surprises.
The Dark Ages in which they lived were a time of ignorance and cruelty, when feudal lords held serfs in virtual slavery, where bandits on land and sea made travel perilous, and unwary people could be captured and sent to slave markets.
Yet in a few places a love of learning existed, with the promise of a better world. One of these was the Moorish city of Córdoba, a great center of civilization, where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony, a parable for our own times.
