01217cam a2200253 4500 517224172 TxAuBib 100815s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010034093 9780441019571 0441019579 (OCoLC)555647662 TxAuBib McKillip, Patricia A. The bards of Bone Plain / Patricia A. McKillip. 1st ed. New York : Ace Books, 2010. 329 p. ; 22 cm. Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Plain--which has been studied for the last 500 years, though no one has been able to locate it as a real place. Archaeologist Jonah Cle, Phelan's father, is also hunting through time, piecing history together from forgotten trinkets. His most eager disciple is Princess Beatrice, the king's youngest daughter. When they unearth a disk marked with ancient runes, Beatrice pursues the secrets of a lost language that she suddenly notices all around her, hidden in plain sight. Women scholars Fiction. Archaeologists Fiction. Princesses Fiction. TXHSP