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	Maia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maia (Ribeira Grande) is a parish in Ribeira Grande in the Azores (an autonomous region of Portugal)
		Maia (mythology), in Greek mythology, is the eldest of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione.
		Maia is a fictional novel supposedly written by the main character in Death in Venice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maia (297 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Maia (novel)
		Maia is set in the same fantasy world as Adams's novel Shardik, which was published in 1974, about ten years before Maia.
		Maia is a beautiful 15-year-old blonde girl who lives in the Tonildan Waste with her mother Morca, her three younger sisters and her stepfather Tharrin who desires her secretly.
		Maia returns to Bekla; she is freed and celebrated as the Serrelinda (after the Serrelind district where the invasion was to occur), the luck of the city, a great heroine so loved that the soldiers themselves vote her a house, money and property.
	reference.com /browse/wiki/Maia_(novel) (1127 words)

	GameSpy.com - Review
		Maia is skilled in swordsmanship, as well as necromantic magic, flame spells, and of course, her summoning ability.
		Taurgis is Maia's confidante, general of her armies, and younger brother of her closest rival.
		The fire skill provides Maia with resistances to fire-based magic as well as a few other immunities, but the real bonus comes after extra points give her an additional 50% bonus to fire magic and attacks.
	archive.gamespy.com /reviews/september02/summoner2ps2 (1009 words)

	USM de Grummond Collection - MAIA WOJCIECHOWSKA PAPERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Maia Teresa Wojciechowska was born August 7, 1927 in Warsaw, Poland to Zofia and Zygmunt Wojciechowski, a war-time chief of staff for the Polish Air Force.
		45/8 Typescript, "a novel by Maia Rodman," 23 pp.
		Typescript, "a novel by Maia Rodman," outline, 6 pp., and pp.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~degrum/html/research/findaids/wojciech.htm (7341 words)

	Book Information: Maia :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		Maia -- growing up as eldest daughter in a poor fisherman's family in a remote corner of the (mythical) Beklan Empire, leading a quiet, sheltered life (helping with the younger children, mending her stepfather's nets, swimming in the waters of Lake Serrelind)...
		Together, sold to a powerful Beklan nobleman, they are introduced to a world of luxury and depravity, of dazzling and seductive pleasures, and are enmeshed in a web of fierce political intrigue as they spend their days (and nights) in the company of Bekla's richest, most influential, most ruthless and ambitious citizens.
		Maia is Richard Adams's most remarkable creation -- a heroine to love, in a book that enthralls.
	www.iblist.com /book9602.htm (415 words)

	Richard Adams' MAIA
		Maia is the "prequel" to Shardik by British author Richard Adams, who is best known for his first novel, Watership Down (which was made into a successful "mature audiences" animated film).
		Maia is set in a semi-barbaric land, in an era roughly corresponding to Ancient Rome.
		The life of harem slave concubines in Maia bears a sensationalized resemblance to the life of odalisques in royal Ottoman harems, though unmarred by opium addiction, the strictures of total seclusion within walls, and the risk of being stuffed into a sack and drowned at the ruler's whim.
	members.tripod.com /~zymph/booktalk/booktalk.htm (852 words)

	The GRITS Online Reading Club :: Book Review
		Maia travels from Michigan to the Caribbean island of St. Croix in search of her family's roots on the estate of Wisdom.
		After Maia finds the estate where her ancestors were slaves, Neff keeps the reader enthralled by craftily revealing the hidden secrets of Estate Wisdom.
		Maia is a strong and mystifying young woman who is dying from ovarian cancer and wants to seek out her family's history at the Wisdom Estate.
	www.thegritsbookclub.com /Reviews/Wisdom.html (362 words)

	Reviews: British Books
		Maia has an open mind and proves this when she accepts Miss Minton as a governess and companion even thought this tall, gaunt, fl-clad woman, "looked more like a rake than a human being." While traveling, Maia dreams about the fascinating animals and twin cousins who will welcome her in Brazil.
		Maia is not allowed to mix with either the fascinating natives around her, nor investigate the intriguing country.
		Maia is in Amazon Hell and she puts up with sour moods, a boring course of study, horrid canned food, and inferior status for most of the novel.
	www.wildewritingworks.com /rev/2britishbooks.html (1048 words)

	Amazon.com: Wisdom: Books: Heather Neff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Maia Ransom, the descendant of slaves who worked the St. Croix plantation of Wisdom a century and a half ago, visits the island for three weeks to investigate the stories told to her by her grandfather.
		Maia is dying, too, of ovarian cancer, and finds herself strangely sympathetic to the plight of the objectionable Severin, who possesses the deed to the once grand, now dilapidated estate.
		Maia is a strong female character and leads the reader through a period of growth that involves her gay friend Damien, her lover Noah, and her slave ancestor's owners, the Johanssens.
	www.amazon.com /Wisdom-Heather-Neff/dp/0345447433 (2301 words)

	Michelle Levigne, author at New Concepts Publishing - Great Books for Less
		Maia is the 'one' that Artos has been awaiting, the one clever enough to help him defeat 'the enemy,' those determined that no one in the 'world' will ever know that their world is no world at all, but a great ship designed to take the people to a new home.
		Maia knew better than to mock Seli, who had showed her where to find cracks in the Worldskin and crawl through into darkness to find the glowplants that could be used as medicine or food or even poison against the scratching night critters.
		Maia thought of the legends of times long ago, when the moon painted the world in soft silver-blue light and even the Borers had time to laugh and dance and sing at night.
	www.newconceptspublishing.com /northtothesunsouthtothemoon.htm (2346 words)

	Amazon.fr : Maia of Thebes: 1463 B.C.: Livres en anglais: Ann Warren Turner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thirteen-year-old Maia and her brother live with their aunt and their uncle, a temple priest, in ancient Thebes during the reign of Hatshepsut.
		Maia, whose brother is secretly teaching her to read and write, is inspired by the voices that only she can hear to ask a question in the temple implying her uncle has been stealing its grain.
		The violence of the times is evident when Maia casts a fishing net into the Nile and draws up a severed hand, and readers are told that losing a hand for thievery may be her uncle's punishment.
	www.amazon.fr /Maia-Thebes-Ann-Warren-Turner/dp/0439652235 (319 words)

	Full Circle: The Tale of Si’ian and Maiandria
		Maia leaned back against the wall of the cave, padded by some thick rolled furs at her back and neck, and accepted Si’ian’s limp weight easily onto her chest and belly.
		Maia tilted her head so it lay against the crown of Si’ian’s dark hair, and inhaled the warm fragrance of her love’s skin, using the sensation of Si’ian’s soft breath against her neck to push away the sharpest of the pain assailing them both.
		Hearing the soft whisper, Maia also opened her eyes, and was immediately caught by the beauty and wonder that was the warrior’s expression.
	www.ausxip.com /fanfic19/fullcircletale10.html (3743 words)

	Interviews
		Maia is in her mid-thirties and is going through a personal crisis.
		In my novel, Tonio in particular learns to look within to find who he is and outward to find his true place in the world.
		The other major difference is that novels have a life of their own that demands freedom.
	www.rgbooks.com /html/interview.htm (4338 words)

	Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson - Penguin Group (USA)
		Maia saw them as she read: fair and curly-haired and pretty; everything she longed to be and wasn’t.
		Her eyes, behind thick, dark-rimmed spectacles, were the color of mud, her mouth was narrow, her nose thin and sharp, and her fl felt hat was tethered to her sparse bun of hair with a fearsome hat pin in the shape of a Viking spear.
		Maia and Miss Minton prove more than a match for Maia’s greedy, scheming cousins; a couple of shifty private investigators; and the Amazon itself, which, of course, they grow to love for its wild strangeness and the unusual freedom it offers a sheltered young girl and her governess.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142501849,00.html (3629 words)

	Maia - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Maia
		Identified by the Romans with an ancient Italian goddess of spring, also Maia (or Maiesta), she was celebrated in May, the month reputedly named after her.
		Maia was believed to have given birth to Hermes in a grotto on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia.
		He made seven portions; one of these he set apart for Mercury the son of Maia and the nymphs, praying to them as he did so; the others he dealt out to the men man by man.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /MAIA (198 words)

	Romance Novels and Parenting Articles by Isabelle Kane/Caroline Akervik - Excerpts and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Maia looked so carefree, freckled, and happy smiling at her from the deck of some yacht.
		Maia was wearing a halter top and shorts, and sitting next to a very solemn boy of about ten.
		Maia was squinting her green eyes right at the camera.
	www.isabellekane.com /wst_page2.html (2479 words)

	Elizabeth Lynn--Dragon's Treasure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Two survive: healer Maia Unamira diSorvino, and her half-brother Treion, leader of the bandits (Treion, unbeknownst to Karadur, may be Karadur’s bastard brother).
		Maia flees to the house her mother once lived in, which stands on Karadur’s land.
		The ultimate impression is less of a high fantasy novel than of a series of jewel-like cameos in a high fantasy setting.
	www.sff.net /people/victoriastrauss/ReviewDragon'sTreasure.html (548 words)

	Maia Publishing Services
		Based in central London, Maia Publishing Services offers a range of publishing business consultancy services, focussed particularly on the needs of smaller and medium-sized book publishing companies, while occasionally undertaking specific tasks for larger firms on a one-off basis.
		Maia also maintains long-term relationships with companies as diverse as Laurence King Publishing in the UK and Paravia Bruno Mondadori and Il Saggiatore Group in Italy.
		In addition, Maia is sometimes able to provide introductions to appropriately-skilled consultants working in specialised areas.
	www.maiaps.com /index.html (94 words)

	Amazon.com: Maia: Books: Richard George Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I had seen somewhere that they feature in Maia too, and from page 750 if not earlier it was only the hope of coming to that bit that was keeping me going.
		Maia is a very lovable character- she is someone who you want to succeed.
		As a novel, the sex hopelessly overwhelms the semblance of plot.
	www.amazon.com /Maia-Richard-George-Adams/dp/0394528573 (1903 words)

	MIAS-2 microscopy readers
		MAIA SCIENTIFIC was the only company able to provide the optimum combination of flexibility, system availability, and imaging and analysis quality to meet our demanding specifications.
		TAP's adoption of the MAIA SCIENTIFIC platform is another endorsement of the strength of the technology.
		MAIA SCIENTIFIC, (previously known as Union Biometrica NV - ESO) a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard Bioscience, develops, manufactures and markets novel instrumentation and applications for high-throughput / high information content screening.
	www.maia-scientific.com /Press/0405TAP_MAIA.htm (929 words)

	GCC for Computational Biology and Medicine
		Maia is pursuing a series of experiments to modify a host genome and explore how such modification affects the proteome.
		Maia will randomly introduce novel catabolic genes for sucrose uptake obtained from a distantly related bacterial species (Bacillus subtilis) into the chromosome of a laboratory-evolved strain of Escherichia coli.
		Maia will determine specific perturbations in global gene expression resulting from the successful incorporation of foreign DNA by measuring total gene expression of ancestral and evolved strains using microarrays.
	cohesion.rice.edu /centersandinst/gcc/cbm_about.cfm?doc_id=8678 (506 words)

	Literary Reflections Essays: The Two-Year-Old's Personal Laundress, the Writer and the Mom
		Maia tells me she wrote a poem and is going to read it to everyone.
		I finish my reading, and Maia clambers toward me, asks me to lift her up into my arms and, before a room filled with unfamiliar adults, she recites her verse, written with the help of her dad a few hours before, in a loud clear voice.
		Maia flashes through her bath, jumps into her pajamas and creeps into the room.
	www.literarymama.com /litreflections/archives/001271.html (1794 words)

	Maia (Beklan Empire, book 2) by Richard Adams
		Maia is a fifteen-year-old peasant beauty growing up in poverty beside Lake Serrelind.
		Seduced by her stepfather and betrayed by her jealous mother, Maia finds herself in the hands of slave-traders to be sold as a concubine.
		Proclaimed as a heroine, she finds that one sinister result of fame is to have enemies in high places and Maia has to struggle for survival through treachery, cruelty, lost love and a final flight through a wild empire to escape a crumbling regime.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /a/richard-adams/maia.htm (170 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Dragon's Treasure
		Two survive: healer Maia Unamira diSorvino, and her half-brother Treion, leader of the bandits (who, unbeknownst to Karadur, may be Karadur's bastard brother).
		The threads of plot that bind these lovely images together are loose and light, sometimes knotting into dramatic confrontations but often vanishing entirely as Lynn explores odd corners of her world and of her characters' personal experiences.
		This may not be a novel of great deeds or startling adventure, but its very quietness is something to savor, and both the world and the characters -- as well as Lynn's beautiful writing -- are well worth revisiting.
	www.sfsite.com /04a/dt173.htm (687 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		In this regard, the novel reminds us of Ulysses by James Joyce, a novel in which the story is narrated as a continuous discourse with the punctuation being left to the reader.
		Events evolve around Maya and Maia, strange yet ordinary happenings that Nukila presents to the readers alternately in the first-person (as Maya) or in a third-person or omniscient point of view.
		Only when you have completed the novel can you think back and reflect on the novel and enjoy your impression of these events and characters and then you wish to read it again for the sheer enjoyment of Nukila's plastic sentences.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20030803.G01 (1017 words)

	Maia Press - News
		An extensive illustrated extract of Michael Arditti's new novel, A Sea Change, was published in the Independent on Sunday on 17th September 2006.
		The Maia Press editorial director, Maggie Hamand, met Dreda while teaching one of her creative writing courses at The Groucho Club in London and was instantly struck by her writing voice.
		A novel essentially embedded in its setting which poignantly brings alive both the profound affection and the conflict between an Afrikaaner farmer's wife and her fl servant at a time of violence and terror.
	www.maiapress.com /news.php (2867 words)

	David Brin's Official Web Site: My Other Science Fiction Novels
		The title of my new novel -- the most original thing I've done in years -- is Kiln People, which received four SECOND PLACE awards: the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel; the 2003 Locus Award; the 2003 Arthur C. Clarke Award; and the 2003 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
		Against this background, the novel highlights the love affair of Ortho biologist Saul Lintz, who helped create the Percells, and Percell computer engineer Virginia Herbert, who is pioneering a biologically based computer possessing genuine artificial intelligence.
		In Glory Season (NOMINEE: 1994 Hugo award for best novel), young Maia is fast approaching a turning point in her life.
	www.davidbrin.com /othersfbooks.html (1483 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Glory Season by David Brin
		Hugo and Nebula award-winning author David Brin is one of the most eloquent, imaginative voices in science fiction. Now he returns with a new novel rich in texture, universal in theme, monumental in scope--pushing the genre to new heights.
		On her far-reaching, perilous journey of discovery, Maia will endure hardship and hunger, imprisonment and loneliness, bloody battles with pirates and separation from her twin. And along the way, she will meet a traveler who has come an unimaginable distance--and who threatens the delicate balance of the Stratoins' carefully maintained, perfect society....
		Both exciting and insightful, Glory Season is a major novel, a transcendent saga of the human spirit.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553567670 (133 words)

	Shardik Summary / Study Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Maia (1985) is an odd sequel to Shardik.
		It continues the theme of the enslavement of children, but instead of depicting physical cruelty, it recounts the hedonistic life of a fifteen-year-old concubine named Maia.
		Although this novel explores the corrupt core of a civilized empire, it totally lacks the attention to natural landscape and the epic vocabulary that gives Shardik its power.
	www.enotes.com /shardik-qn/66952 (121 words)

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