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The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk | David Ambrose | Charlie Monk is the ultimate spy. He has no conscience, no fear--and no memory. Dr. Susan Flemyng thinks she may have found a way to give him his memory back. As the two of them embark on a series of experiments to recover Charlie's long-lost memory, they find something terrifying in the deepest recesses of his mind. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AzSynWvYFkYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2009-09-26 | 0446566918 |
Far-Seer | Robert J. Sawyer | The Face of God is what every young saurian learns to call the immense, glowing object which fills the night sky on the far side of the world. Young Afsan is privileged, called to the distant Capital City to apprentice with Saleed the court astrologer. Buth when the time comes for Afsan to make his coming-of-age pilgrimage, to gaze upon the Face of God, his world is changed forever- for what he sees will test his faith... and may save his world from disaster! At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YiNTxagEg0AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2007-04-01 | 1429914688 |
Blue Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | The electrifying finale to the most award-winning and bestselling SF trilogy to appear in years--the sequel to Red Mars and Green Mars. The colonists on Mars have nearly succeeded in transforming or "terraforming" the red planet to produce a liveable Earth-like atmosphere, when a new ice age imperils the Martian civilization. | Life on other planets | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0ZEsAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1996 | 40829221486760 |
Seize the Night | Dean Koontz | BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City. There are no rules in the dark, no place to feel safe, no escape from the shadows. But to save the day, you must...Seize the Night. At no time does Moonlight Bay look more beautiful than at night. Yet it is precisely then that the secluded little town reveals its menace. Now children are disappearing. From their homes. From the streets. And there's nothing their families can do about it. Because in Moonlight Bay, the police work their hardest to conceal crimes and silence victims. No matter what happens in the night, their job is to ensure that nothing disturbs the peace and quiet of Moonlight Bay.... Christopher Snow isn't afraid of the dark. Forced to live in the shadows because of a rare genetic disorder, he knows the night world better than anyone. He believes the lost children are still alive and that their disappearance is connected to the town's most carefully kept, most ominous secret—a secret only he can uncover, a secret that will force him to confront an adversary at one with the most dangerous darkness of all. The darkness inside the human heart. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q9fL8YLsKNgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2007-06-15 | 0307414116 |
The Lathe Of Heaven | Ursula K. Le Guin | With a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Locus Award-winning science fiction novel by legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin, set in a world where one man’s dreams rewrite the future. During a time racked by war and environmental catastrophe, George Orr discovers his dreams alter reality. George is compelled to receive treatment from Dr. William Haber, an ambitious sleep psychiatrist who quickly grasps the immense power George holds. After becoming adept at manipulating George’s dreams to reshape the world, Haber seeks the same power for himself. George—with some surprising help—must resist Haber’s attempts, which threaten to destroy reality itself. A classic of the science fiction genre, The Lathe of Heaven is prescient in its exploration of the moral risks when overwhelming power is coupled with techno-utopianism. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EBJ5EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2022-07-19 | 1668014963 |
The Overlords of War | Gérard Klein | Time-travel, aliens, war & why we fight it. George Corson, earthman, is sent on secret mission to end a long smoldering war with the birdlike inhabitants of the planet, Uria, 6000 years in the future, only to be used as a pawn by powerful god-like beings. Is there such a thing as the ultimate weapon? Can war be ended once & for all? Is the destruction of the universe necessary to achieve peace? | Science fiction, French | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vxQVAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1973 | 55657532512425 |
The Overlords of War | Gérard Klein | Time-travel, aliens, war & why we fight it. George Corson, earthman, is sent on secret mission to end a long smoldering war with the birdlike inhabitants of the planet, Uria, 6000 years in the future, only to be used as a pawn by powerful god-like beings. Is there such a thing as the ultimate weapon? Can war be ended once & for all? Is the destruction of the universe necessary to achieve peace? | Science fiction, French | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vxQVAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1973 | 70421291560635 |
Year Zero | Rob Reid | NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on American pop songs ever since “Year Zero” (1977 to us), resulting in the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang and bankrupting the whole universe. Nick has just been tapped to clean up this mess before things get ugly. Thankfully, this unlikely galaxy-hopping hero does know a thing or two about copyright law. Now, with Carly and Frampton as his guides, Nick has forty-eight hours to save humanity—while hoping to wow the hot girl who lives down the hall from him. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pKyudCCI8m4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2012-07-10 | 0345534484 |
The Reality Dysfunction | Peter F. Hamilton | The first in the Night's Dawn trilogy, The Reality Dysfunction is a sweeping, intergalactic adventure from the master of space opera, Peter F. Hamilton. For fans of Iain M. Banks and Alastair Reynolds. An extinct race named this phenomenon 'the Reality Dysfunction'. It is a nightmare that has haunted us since the dawn of time . . . In AD 2600, the human race is finally realizing its potential. The galaxy’s colonized planets host a multitude of diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has defeated disease and produced extraordinary space-born creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive, living on the wealth created by industrializing entire star systems. And throughout inhabited space, the Confederation Navy keeps the peace. Then something goes catastrophically wrong. On a primitive colony planet, a renegade criminal encounters an utterly alien entity. And this unintended meeting triggers the release of those that should never see the light – threatening everything we’ve become . . . 'Hamilton puts British sci-fi back into interstellar overdrive' – The Times The Reality Dysfunction is followed by The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VATInWgIIScC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2008-09-04 | 0330468421 |
Sun of Suns | Karl Schroeder | It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden's nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden's spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn't bode well for Fanning's chances. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cB8lmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2007-07-31 | 0765354535 |
Robots and Empire | Isaac Asimov | Dr. Kelden Amadiro is determined to bring total annihilation of the planet Earth, but Lady Gladia vows to stop him at any cost and seal Earth's fate and all who live there. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AOAOAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1985 | 55350409694045 |
Far Edge of Darkness | Linda Evans | Sibyl Johnson is a graduate student in classical archeology. She is just this side of her Ph.D., when an anachronism at her dig in Italy causes her career to take a sudden lurch in time--and suddenly she's a slave in the very society she is studying. She, along with two others are castaways in time, victims of the same evil hand--and now they are out for vengeance. | Rome | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4tT4PAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1996 | 0671877356 |
Dead Iron | Devon Monk | Welcome to a new America that is built on blood, sweat, and gears... In steam age America, men, monsters, machines, and magic battle for the same scrap of earth and sky. In this chaos, bounty hunter Cedar Hunt rides, cursed by lycanthropy and carrying the guilt of his brother's death. Then he's offered hope that his brother may yet survive. All he has to do is find the Holder: a powerful device created by mad devisers-and now in the hands of an ancient Strange who was banished to walk this Earth. In a land shaped by magic, steam, and iron, where the only things a man can count on are his guns, gears, and grit, Cedar will have to depend on all three if he's going to save his brother and reclaim his soul once and for all... | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-9L2WS-5xb8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-07-05 | 1101516461 |
The Face of the Waters | Robert Silverberg | It is the year 2450. Humanity is scattered among the stars, which teem with intelligent life, while the home world has been destroyed by an inadvertent catastrophe two hundred years before. Thus all Earthmen are exiles, and Earth itself is only a memory. Hydros is a world of great complexity. It has almost no landmass, only a great globe-encompassing ocean with occasional tiny islands. Its seas swarm with apparently intelligent life-forms of a hundred kinds, and one - a bipedal humanoid form - has created a kind of land for itself: floating islands, woven from sea-borne materials, buffered by elaborate barricades against the ceaseless tidal surges that circle the planet. To Hydros have come an assortment of Earthmen. For them it's a world of no return: having no form of outbound space transportation. This brilliantly inventive novel tells their story, as they travel across the planet's endless ocean in search of the mysterious area from which no human has ever returned - the Face of the Waters. (First published 1991) | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zdwMdaJFggUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-09-29 | 0575106395 |
The Two Princesses of Bamarre | Gail Carson Levine | Gail Carson Levine left her mark on fantasy with her well-loved Newbery Honor Book Ella Enchanted. Now she has created another shimmering and tapestried landscape of fantasy and fairies. The two princesses of Bamarre couldn't be more different. Princess Addie is fearful and shy. Her deepest wish is for safety. Princess Meryl is bold and brave. Her deepest wish is to save the kingdom of Bamarre. They are sisters, and they mean the world to each other. Then disaster strikes, and Addie—terrified and unprepared—sets out on a perilous quest. In her path are monsters of Bamarre: ogres, specters, gryphons, and dragons. Addie must battle them, but time is running out, and the sisters' lives—and Barmarre's fate—hang in the balance. | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5HVcyNkneysC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2013-04-23 | 0062253549 |
Insignia | S. J. Kincaid | What if playing computer games could save the world...and the Government's secret weapon was you? Tom Raines is suddenly recruited into the US Army to train as a virtual reality Combatant to see if he is good enough to help fight World War Three. Equipped with a new computer chip in his brain, it looks as if Tom might actually become somebody. But what happens when you start to question the rules? In this first part of a fast-paced, futuristic trilogy, S. J. Kincaid asks significant questions concerning the use of technology and the value of life. 20th Century Fox have pre-emptively bought the film rights for the first book in the series. | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H-URBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2012-08-02 | 1471400018 |
Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper | J. L. Bryan | Ellie Jordan's job is to catch and remove unwanted ghosts. Part detective, part paranormal exterminator, Ellie operates out of Savannah, Georgia, one of the oldest and most haunted cities in North America. When a family contacts her to deal with a disturbing presence in the old mansion they've recently purchased, Ellie first believes it to be a typical, by-the-book specter, a residual haunting by a restless spirit. Instead, she finds herself confronting an evil older and more powerful than she'd ever expected, rooted in the house's long and sordid history of luxury, sin, and murder. The dangerous entity seems particularly interested in her clients' ten-year-old daughter. Soon her own life is in danger, and Ellie must find a way to exorcise the darkness of the house before it can kill her, her clients, or their frightened young child. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Rkq6oQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2014-08-27 | 1500977004 |
Amped | David Browne | Once a fringe underground culture, extreme sports are now the stuff of car commercials and Olympic competitions. How did they get there - and how does it feel to be in the middle of it all? The first comprehensive account of the rise, culture, and business of action sports, Amped plunges us into this exciting world. Readers will find themselves aboard a skateboarding bus tour with superstar Tony Hawk, behind the scenes at the X Games and snowboarding contests, on the sidelines witnessing the first-ever double backflip on a motorcycle, on the road with the Warped Tour, and in the offices of the multinational corporatison that have tapped into the vast amounts of money to be made from these nontraditional sports. Based on interviews with more than one hundred athletes, managers, business executives, extreme-rock musicians, and, most importantly, the adolescent amateurs who are at the heart of this movement, Amped is not merely the story of an alternative world of sports now four decades old. It's the tale of a flourishing culture that continues to reject old-fashioned stick-and-ball sports in favor of individualistic forms of expression. The story of extreme sports speaks volumes about Generations X and Y and their divergent views on life, creativity, gratification, and identity. | Sports & Recreation | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RJpat1-UCSAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2010-12-15 | 1408820412 |
The King Beyond The Gate | David Gemmell | 'THE HARD-BITTEN CHAMPION OF BRITISH HEROIC FANTASY' - Joe Abercrombie 'HEROISM AND HEARTBREAK . . . GEMMELL IS ADRENALINE WITH SOUL' - Brent Weeks A century has passed since the heroic defence of Dros Delnoch. But the people of the Drenai face a new terror: a mad emperor kept in power by two forces of unsurpassed evil. The Joinings are werebeasts of awesome power. The Dark Templars are warrior-priests whose fighting skills are without equal. Against them, the Drenai face certain defeat. One man, an outsider hated by the Drenai for his Nadir blood, and despised by the Nadir for his Drenai ancestry, sets out to bring down the emperor. He is one man against the armies of chaos. He is Tenaka Khan - the Prince of Shadows. Novels by David Gemmell The Drenai series Legend The King Beyond the Gate Waylander Quest For Lost Heroes Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend Jon Shannow series Wolf in Shadow The Last Guardian Bloodstone Stones of Power Ghost King Last Sword of Power Hawk Queen series Ironhand's Daughter The Hawk Eternal Ancient Greece novels Lion of Macedon Dark Prince Other novels Knights of Dark Renown Morningstar | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d7c60MfYXBkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-12-01 | 1405511990 |
A Time of Changes | Robert Silverberg | Three thousand years after Earth's colonisation of the planet Borthan, stories of self-serving hypocrisy that occured among the first arrivals have bred a culture that forbids emotional sharing and denies the naturally human concept of 'self'. The result is a lasting peace, but at a terrible price. For it is a peace without love, without self, where even the mention of the word 'I' is taboo. Spurred on by the arrival of an Earthman with a self-baring drug, Kinnall Darival breaks the strict code of the Covenant to record the sordid details of his rebelious life from the days of his royal youth to self-appointed prophet of love. He begins his account with the greatest of heresies: 'I am Kinnall Darival and I mean to tell you all about myself.' Winner of the Nebula Award for best novel. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-kZsvjzmUpAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2012-03-05 | 0575106255 |
Space Winners | Gordon R Dickson | They were humanity's hope - the first young people selected to leave Earth for study in the Galactic Federation. But something went wrong in deep space. Terribly wrong. Suddenly Jim Rawlins, Ellen Bouvier, Curt Harrington, and the squirrel-like Alien philosopher Peep were castaways, stranded on the quarantined planet of Quebahr - with no training, and little hope of rescue. Between them and the Federation's emergency beacon were primitive Mauregs, aggressive Walats, lizard-like Noifs - plus danger, conspiracy and the mystery of an impending high-tech war on a backward peaceful planet. Without warning, the future of the two worlds - Earth and Quebahr - depended on three young humans' ability to adapt and survive. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H6ea-R4Noj4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-09-29 | 0575112344 |
Cry Wolf | Edo van Belkom | This Aurora Award and Silver Birch Award-winning series is the inspiration for the highly anticipated original series coming to Paramount+ When the woods become a trap, where does a wolf pack run? Everyone at Redstone High is talking about the strange Brock kids. How they keep to themselves at school—and spend way too much time in the woods. But Noble, Argus, Harlan and Tora aren’t normal teens—they were born with the power to become wolves. And the more the siblings try to hide their secret identity, the greater they struggle to fit in. Then Noble falls mysteriously ill, leaving the pack without a leader just when he’s needed the most... With a little girl lost in Redstone Forest, the authorities suspect a wolf attack. Which means the search team is intent on hunting—even killing--wolves and their kind. It’s up to the pack to find the girl and bring her back to safety--before someone finds them first. Suddenly the woods are a very scary place. With the world turned against wolves, is there anyone in the world the wolf pack can trust? Praise for Cry Wolf "...story is full of action but also interesting bits of character development.... Let's hear it for the werewolves!" — CM Magazine “[Cry Wolf] will make you want to read them all. The author has perfectly captured the essence of growing up different in a small town. Fans of the character Jacob Black from Stephenie Meyer’s series will love this wonderful series.” — YA Book Central “While obviously light on gore and violence, there’s plenty of suspense here. It’s wonderful to see kids’ issues broached in the trappings of a genre story, especially one structured to get grade-schoolers thinking and talking. All in all, Cry Wolf is a great stepping stone for monster kids who aren’t quite old enough to partake in the monster bloodshed.” — Rue Morgue “In my opinion, this book has an equal amount of thrilling, awesome, and exhilarating quality as Wolf Pack, another book in the series-but both of them are on my list of top ten books I’ve read. Cry Wolf is a thrilling and exciting book, and I would recommend it to people who love adventure books.” — Ask Pippa | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h2uGEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2022-09-20 | 1625675658 |
Intruder | Peter Blauner | He doesn't wait for an invitation... Can a good person go too far to protect his family? That is the question underlying The Intruder -- a gripping tale of a family fighting for its life. Having survived a childhood of beatings and psychological torture, successful Manhattan lawyer Jacob Schiff cherishes his stable family life with his wife, Dana, a psychiatric social worker, and their teenage son, Alex. But Jake sees it all unraveling when Dana's patient John Gates, a homeless man, starts stalking her and menacing the family. As Gates' behavior becomes even more bizarre and violent, Jake is driven to the breaking point and takes a fatal step that could destroy everything he cares about. Written with lacerating authority, The Intruder is a classic, powerful thriller that thrusts Peter Blauner into the ranks of major contemporary authors. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zh5o7wWCrnMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-04-12 | 1451651716 |
Mutation | Robin Cook | In this masterpiece of techno-medical suspense from the “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times), Robin Cook tells the explosive tale of a brilliant doctor who sought to create the son of his dreams—and invented a living nightmare... When OB/GYN and biomolecular researcher Dr. Victor Frank learns of his wife’s infertility, he initiates a bold—and dangerous—experiment. Unbeknownst to everyone, including her, Dr. Frank has adapted the methods of animal husbandry and molecular genetics to human reproduction. Fusing his wife’s eggs and his own sperm, he sets in motion the production of a superior being, his child. The result of this experiment, a son, VJ, is born to a surrogate mother and legally adopted by the Franks. To their delight, their son is physically perfect, and by the age of three, displays the complex problem-solving abilities of a prodigy. Then, without warning, VJ’s intelligence level plunges to a point appropriate to his age, but stabilizes. For the moment, Dr. Frank can breathe a sigh of relief: even if VJ is no longer the genius he was, at least he will be normal. But that relief is tragically short-lived, for all too soon VJ begins to change again. And this time, there is no cause for comfort—only terror. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z0xi6NvAwaAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 1990-02-01 | 0425119653 |
Guardians Of The West | David Eddings | BOOK 1 OF THE MALLOREON, the worldwide bestselling fantasy series by one of the godfathers of the tradition. Discover the epic stories that inspired generations of fantasy writers - from Raymond Feist's The Riftwar Cycle to George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Evil doesn’t disappear. It just changes form... The evil God Torak is slain, and Garion, the long-awaited King of Riva, hopes for peace. And for a while he gets his wish. But then a darker prophecy is revealed, and new and more insidious forces gather. As danger mounts from all quarters, and his son is kidnapped, Garion has no choice but to follow his fate, wherever it might lead... | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M5XieAfA76sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2010-02-23 | 1407056891 |
Thief of Souls | Brian Klingborg | In Brian Klingborg's Thief of Souls, the brutal murder of a young woman in a rural village in Northern China sends shockwaves all the way to Beijing—but seemingly only Inspector Lu Fei, living in exile in the small town, is interested in justice for the victim. Lu Fei is a graduate of China’s top police college but he’s been assigned to a sleepy backwater town in northern China, where almost nothing happens and the theft of a few chickens represents a major crime wave. That is until a young woman is found dead, her organs removed, and joss paper stuffed in her mouth. The CID in Beijing—headed by a rising political star—is on the case but in an increasingly authoritarian China, prosperity and political stability are far more important than solving the murder of an insignificant village girl. As such, the CID head is interested in pinning the crime on the first available suspect rather than wading into uncomfortable truths, leaving Lu Fei on his own. As Lu digs deeper into the gruesome murder, he finds himself facing old enemies and creating new ones in the form of local Communist Party bosses and corrupt business interests. Despite these rising obstacles, Lu remains determined to find the real killer, especially after he links the murder to other unsolved homicides. But the closer he gets to the heart of the mystery, the more he puts himself and his loved ones in danger. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8tT3DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2021-05-04 | 1250779065 |
Spoonbenders | Daryl Gregory | WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALIST • LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • NEBULA AWARD FINALIST ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Once they were The Amazing Telemachus Family, performers blessed with clairvoyance, telekinesis, and other psychic abilities. But then a tragic event took the magic away, and the powers that briefly made them stars of daytime TV suddenly seem more like a curse. Since their fall from grace they've been trying to lead normal lives back home in Chicago, but there's no such thing as normal for the Telemachuses. When the CIA, the mafia, and an unrelenting skeptic come calling, the family is forced to put their past behind them and unite one more time. But will it be enough to make them amazing again? | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DuKNEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2018-06-26 | 0525432418 |
Hybrids | Tanis Helliwell | Myths, religions and archeological discoveries around the world discuss the presence of intelligent non-human beings who have interbred with humans creating hybrids. Tanis Helliwell offers convincing evidence about the existence of 22 different human-hybrids (elementals, angels, dolphins, giants, dragons, centaurs, pan and many others). People who discover they are hybrids report feeling more authentically themselves-more energized, powerful and self-loving-as a result of their discovery. AM I A HYBRID? If you answer "yes" to these statements, Hybrids will be of special interest to you: I often feel I don't fit in I am hypersensitive to violence I am deeply committed to helping the Earth I would describe myself as an independent thinker I follow my own inner guidance about rightness, even if it goes against the norm As with her ground-breaking work on elementals in the classic "Summer with the Leprechauns," Tanis is, with Hybrids, once again at the forefront of an entire new genre of investigation." | Body, Mind & Spirit | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Boo-rgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2015-03-30 | 1987831012 |
The Sherwood Game | Esther M. Friesner | While working for Manifest Inc., computer wizard Carl Sherwood becomes overly involved with a new game which he is developing. | Computer adventure games | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VFsIAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1995 | 0671876414 |
Natural History | DK | A monumental and beautiful guide to Earth's wildlife and natural history--its rocks, minerals, animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms--this landmark of reference publishing has been extended and updated. In the 11 years since this book was released, thousands of new species have been identified, and new revelations have redrawn the tree of life. Already featuring galleries of more than 5,000 species, The Natural History Book now includes discoveries such as the olinguito (the "kitty bear" of the Andean cloud forest) and the painted mannakin of Peru. It takes advantage of the first living observations of the giant squid and the deep-sea anglerfish. And it has reorganized the groups of living things to reflect the latest scientific understanding. All this ensures that this, the only ebook to offer a complete visual survey of all kingdoms of life, remains the benchmark of illustrated natural history references. Written by a worldwide team of natural history experts, The Natural History Book is the perfect addition to every family bookshelf, as well as an ideal gift for any nature lover. From granites to grapevines, from microbes to mammals, The Natural History Book is the ultimate celebration of the diversity of the natural world. | Science | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G9AyEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2021-11-02 | 0744055873 |
Sorcerer's Legacy | Janny Wurts | The debut fantasy adventure novel by the author of the Wars of Light and Shadow series is “a wonderful breath of fresh air. . . . Just plain fun” (Fantasy Literature). With her husband, the Duke of Trathmere, slain in battle, Elienne becomes a captive of the loathsome Prime Inquisitor of the conquering army. Her home is now a prize of war, and Elienne swept aside in the wreckage as chattel—until the Inquisitor vows to bed her as punishment for her defiance. Locked in a dank cell awaiting her fate, Elienne is visited by a sorcerer, powerful beyond her imagining. Ielond seeks a bride for his prince, a man condemned to death by a council that has deemed him unfit for succession since he cannot father an heir. When Ielond tells Elienne she is carrying her husband’s child, the recent conception offers hope to salvage the throne. To escape the Inquisitor’s cruelty, Elienne agrees to pose her son as the royal heir. But in a battle to thwart black magic and intrigue, her bold heart will remain her own, self‑reliant invention her solitary salvation as malevolent factions coalesce against her . . . Praise for Janny Wurts “Janny Wurts builds beautiful castles in the air. . . . Every detail is richly imagined and vividly rendered.” —Diana Gabaldon “Pace and fire . . . Janny Wurts writes with astonishing energy.” —Stephen R. Donaldson | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CTESEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2021-03-09 | 1504066316 |
Dragon Run | Patrick Matthews | A boy goes on the run in this fast-paced fantasy debut. Created by dragons.That's the truth that Al has known all his life: The five mortal races were created by dragons to gather magic. Since then, the dragons have ruled the world, branding mortals according to their worth, shaping their societies, even training a lucky few to handle magic themselves. Now Testing Day is here, the day when Al will be assigned his place in the world. If his rank is high enough, he'll have everything he's ever wanted.But Al is in for the shock of his life. By the time Testing Day is over, he will be shunned . . . and targeted by the ruthless assassins known as Cullers. With no magic, little money, and a sword he's not entirely sure how to use, Al must escape into the wilderness, beginning a journey that will lead him to strange new friends, brutal enemies, and the terrifying truth about the dragons.It's one boy against the world - and some fearsome beasts - in this fun fantasy-adventure! | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rRHq9HocPZIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2013-03-01 | 0545520738 |
Daughter of Smoke & Bone | Laini Taylor | The first book in the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by award-winning author Laini Taylor Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out. When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself? | Young Adult Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cA0Mt-KEr8QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2011-09-27 | 0316192147 |
Pendragon | Stephen R. Lawhead | At the dawn of his reign, a young king confronts his destiny—and must prove his greatness . . . or lose a realm Arthur is King—but treachery runs rampant throughout the beleaguered Isle of the Mighty. Darkest evil descends upon Britain’s shores in many guises. Fragile alliances fray and tear, threatening all the noble liege has won with his wisdom and his blood. His most trusted counselor—the warrior, bard and kingmaker whom legend will name Merlin—is himself to be tested on a mystical journey back through his own extraordinary past. So in a black time of plague and pestilence, it is Arthur who must stand alone against a great and terrible adversary. For only this way can he truly win immortality—and the name to treasure above all others: PENDRAGON “Though Lawhead brilliantly creates an authentic and vivid Arthurian Britain, he never forsakes the sense of wonder that has graced the legend throughout the ages.”—Publishers Weekly | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RudUJSXbQZMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2009-10-13 | 0061802670 |
Sorcery Rising | Jude Fisher | From the barren isles of the North come the Eyrans. Hardy seafaring folk. From the South come their old enemies, the Istrians. Slave-owners, who drove the Eyrans from their lands. And from all over Elda come the nomadic peoples - the Footloose - purveyors of charms and (until now) harmless potions. But whence comes the sorcery that disrupts the annual Allfair at which they all gather? Katla Aransen and her family have sailed to the fair to trade their goods. The Vingo clan have travelled from Istria to purchase a bride for their appalling eldest son. Tycho Issian has come to sell his daughter to the highest bidder. King Ravn Asharson, Stallion of the North, seeks a political alliance; while others seek his downfall. For centuries, Elda has been bereft of magic; but this year something has changed. A mysterious force is abroad once more, and it will change the world forever... | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sMUNBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2014-11-20 | 1471141438 |
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen | Alan Garner | Susan and her brother Colin are catapulted into a battle between good and evil for possession of a magical stone of great power that is contained in her bracelet. Reissue. | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lTt4vgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2006 | 015205636X |
Midnight City | J. Barton Mitchell | Lord of the Flies meets War of the Worlds in J. Barton Mitchell's alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world where two teens and a young girl with amazing powers must stop the aliens' mysterious plan Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as the Assembly. The human adult population is gone, having succumbed to the Tone---a powerful, telepathic super-signal broadcast across the planet that reduces them to a state of complete subservience. But the Tone has one critical flaw. It only affects the population once they reach their early twenties, which means that there is one group left to resist: Children. Holt Hawkins is a bounty hunter, and his current target is Mira Toombs, an infamous treasure seeker with a price on her head. It's not long before Holt bags his prey, but their instant connection isn't something he bargained for. Neither is the Assembly ship that crash-lands near them shortly after. Venturing inside, Holt finds a young girl who remembers nothing except her name: Zoey. As the three make their way to the cavernous metropolis of Midnight City, they encounter young freedom fighters, mutants, otherworldly artifacts, pirates, feuding alien armies, and the amazing powers that Zoey is beginning to exhibit. Powers that suggest she, as impossible as it seems, may just be the key to stopping the Assembly once and for all. Midnight City is the breathtaking first book of the Conquered Earth series. | Young Adult Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mqeQPz65kqAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2012-10-30 | 1250013437 |
Firebird | Marian Waller | He's Firebird - the biggest star in the world. People everywhere listen to his music and want to dance. Luisa and Carlos love his music and Luisa wants to write about him for a music magazine. But nobody seems to know anything about Firebird, except TV star Hank Fortuna, and Hank tells Luisa that Firebird has a secret - a very dangerous secret. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yWDlH5g-CQAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2002 | 1740770978 |
The Begum's Fortune | Jules Verne | ‘The Begum’s Fortune’ follows the plans of two scientists, the French physicist, Sarrasin, and German, Schultz. Each has a share in inheriting a vast fortune and sets about spending it on the project of their dreams. A humanitarian, Sarrasin builds the city, Frankville, dedicated to upholding the health of its citizens. Schultz, however, constructs Steeltown, which is devoted to the creation of weapons of war. Astonishingly prescient, ‘The Begum’s Fortune’ predicts a number of technological advances, including incendiary bombs, satellites, and even mobile phones. A taut and thought-provoking read for those with an interest in dystopian futures. Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist who became known as the ‘Father of Science Fiction.’ He wrote more than 60 novels, including ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ (1864), ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ (1870) which was also released as a film, starring James Mason, and ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ (1873), which has been released as a TV drama, featuring former Dr Who star, David Tennant. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eSLsEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2024-01-04 | 8726505657 |
The Legacy of Lehr | Katherine Kurtz | Best known for her beloved Deryni series, Katherine Kurtz rockets into new territory in this breathtaking science fiction murder mystery. The interstellar cruiser Valkyrie has been ordered to take an unexpected detour from its normal route to pick up a strange and valuable cargo. Capt. George Lutobo cannot disobey the commands of his emperor, but the idea of bringing four huge, blue-furred lionlike creatures onboard a luxury vessel makes the captain uneasy. Nor does he trust the big cats’ escorts, husband and wife scientists Mather Seton and Wallis Hamilton. Though these magnificent felines possess remarkable psychic abilities and are worshipped as deities on their home planet—and, for that reason, are essential components of the diplomatic negotiations between worlds—they are nevertheless frighteningly dangerous beasts, powerfully built, with razor-sharp claws and teeth. Soon after the creatures’ arrival, the discovery of a dead passenger, ripped to pieces and clutching a clump of blue fur, seems to justify Captain Lutobo’s fears. The killings continue, each as savage as the last, though Seton and Hamilton insist that the great felines could never have escaped from their cages. But the dark mystery only deepens when one of the imprisoned cats is murdered—the manner of its death impossible to fathom—and one terrible truth becomes frighteningly clear: No one and no thing is safe any longer aboard the Valkyrie. Thrilling, surprising, and marvelously inventive, Katherine Kurtz’s The Legacy of Lehr is an exciting science fiction adventure that displays a daringly different side of the acclaimed fantasist best known for her popular Deryni and Knights Templar fantasy series. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r3csDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2016-07-05 | 1504037596 |
The Mote in God's Eye | Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle | Science fiction-roman. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lKt5laoj1coC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 1974 | 0671741926 |
The Demon Breed | James H. Schmitz | The story of one young woman, trapped on an island where the invading Parahuans are preparing to take over the planet, her only allies three mutated and intelligent otters. Her problem is to say alive long enough to get a message away from the island to the rest of the population and the warships of the Federation. | Life on other planets | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8aBi3NABpd8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1968 | 044114246X |
Afterimage | Helen Humphreys | Inspired by the life of Julia Margaret Cameron, Afterimage is the bold and provocative story of Annie Phelan, a maid in the home of Isabel and Eldon Dashell. Isabel is experimenting with the new medium of photography, and is inspired by Annie, who becomes her muse. The two form a close relationship, but when Eldon devises his own plans for the young maid, Annie nearly loses herself, until disaster reveals her power over the Dashells’ work and hearts. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Gx3uGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2002-03-06 | 0312420641 |
Out of the Silent Planet | C. S. Lewis | "Out of the Silent Planet" by C. S. Lewis. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z07iEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2023-11-13 | 12933190263757 |
Time of the Great Freeze | Robert Silverberg | Jim Barnes and his companions travel across the frozen Atlantic to establish human contact with people in London. | Science fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DFMbAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1966 | 45708632418818 |
The Catswold Portal | Shirley Rousseau Murphy | A striking new reissue of an epic fantasy by popular Harper author Shirley Rousseau Murphy, featuring a princess's dangerous quest to reclaim her throne...and, of course, cats! There is a door in an artist's garden: an elaborate carved passageway into a realm ruled by a dark sorceress queen. There entities strange and wondrous roam the Netherworld––yet none as astonishing as the shape–shifting Catswold... Raised by the oldwitch Mag, Melissa discovers a perilous secret. She has more than one form––human girl and magical cat––and once inhabited two worlds. And it is her destiny to return to a mystic realm of wonder and terror, to do battle for her people's liberation and the crown that is rightfully hers. A man beset by tragedy, painter Braden West is intrigued by the calico cat who has charmed her way into his studio. But his "guest" is more than she seems, and Braden's very existence will be radically altered as he follows Melissa from the Hell Pit into the dread perils of an evil ruling court, thrust into the heart of a magical conflict with more at stake than he could possibly have imagined. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ij3wCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2009-10-13 | 0061740284 |
God Stalk | P. C. Hodgell | Jame is a Kencyr. Kencyrs are not native to the planet where they now live. For thirty centuries they have been the weapon that their Three-Faced God has used against the power of the Perimal Darkling. And though they have fought well, the Darkling has come to planet after planet, and the Kencyrs have moved on. Jame knows this as she stumbles out of the hilly, barren Haunted Lands into the city of Tai-tastigon. But she knows little else. She does not remember where she has been or what she has done for the last ten years of her life. Her memory goes back only a week or two¾to finding her home destroyed and all her family dead. In Tai-tastigon Jame begins a new life that seems to be at odds with all that the Kencyrs stand for. Kencyrs are honest and just, but Jame becomes an apprentice to the most renowned thief in the powerful Thieves' Guild. Kencyrs are confirmed monotheists, yet Jame explores the rituals and activities of the thousands of gods, templed and untempled, in this religious center; she even kills a god and then resurrects him. And at the inn, the Res aB'tyrr, where she lives, she finds herself using the most sacred dances of her people, dances she does not even remember learning, for the entertainment and sometimes the destruction of the inn's patrons. Within herself Jame finds power she does not want and doubts she defies her heredity to harbor. She moves through the rich and bloody stew of Tai-tastigon like a hot spice. Her probings, to find herself and to discover what her powers mean to her and her people, combined with influences already at work, very nearly destroy the city. And yet, they bring her face to face with a destiny she must accept. This is the first of several books. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TFl0CwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2007-04-01 | 1625794606 |
Star Corps | Ian Douglas | In the future, earth's warriors have conquered the heavens. But on a distant world, Humanity is in chains ... Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An -- a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But a research mission to the planet Ishtar has made a terrifying -- and fatal -- discovery: the Ahanu, ancestors of the former masters, live on, far from the reach of Earth -- born weapons and technology ... and tens of thousands of captive human souls still bow to their iron will. Now Earth's Interstellar Marine Expeditionary Unit must undertake a rescue operation as improbable as it is essential to humankind's future, embarking on a ten-year voyage to a hostile world to face an entrenched enemy driven by dreams of past glory and intent once more on domination. For those who, for countless generations, have known nothing but toil and subjugation must be granted, at all costs, the precious gift entitled to all of their star-traveling kind: freedom! | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kMGOIs60JYEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2009-10-06 | 0061978981 |
Bloodwinter | Tom Deitz | An epic new fantasy of passion, power, and the most perilous enchantment of all.... From a master of contemporary fantasy comes an unforgettable tale of heroes, heroines, and rogues whose two rival nations are scarred by suspicion, shadowed by war, and summoned to destiny by a magic that is both gift and curse. In the icy northern realm of Eron, three young artisans bound by an unspeakable act of violence arrive at an isolated gem mine on a special commission for their king. They are the arrogant but talented Eddyn; Avall, his archrival; and beautiful Strynn, newly wed to Avall...but carrying Eddyn's child. Meanwhile, to the south, in the heart of Ixti's scorpion-riddled sands and sensuous cities, a horrible accident has forced Prince Kraxxi into exile with blood on his hands and a price on his head. The four will be drawn together--and torn apart--by a magnificent find: a gem with magical properties beyond anyone's imagining or control. It is a struggle in which hidden forces pursue a frighteningly sinister agenda. For whoever possesses the gem holds the future of the world...and the power to destroy it. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TDztpv8fID4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1999 | 0553378635 |
Timeline | Michael Crichton | In this thriller from the author of Jurassic Park, Sphere, and Congo, a group of young scientists travel back in time to medieval France on a daring rescue mission that becomes a struggle to stay alive. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Compulsive reading . . . brilliantly imagined.”—Los Angeles Times In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world, archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened up to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival—six hundred years ago. “Exciting . . . classic adventure . . . [a] swashbuckling novel . . . Crichton delivers.”—USA Today “More screams per page . . . than Jurassic Park and The Lost World combined . . . The pace will leave many breathlessly grasping for oxygen masks.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune “One of his best . . . [a] nonstop roller coaster of a novel.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UQL2n6NrQ_MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2013-01-01 | 034553901X |
The Girl in the Box | Ouida Sebestyen | "To Anybody Out There My name is Jackie McGee. I am the girl who disappeared. Listen to the news. See if other pieces of paper are scattered nearby. Maybe if you yell really loud I can hear you and yell back. I am not making this up. Please help! Left in an underground cement room by an unknown captor, Jackie has food and water but no light or human contact. She does not know when--or if--her abductor will retum. As her desperation mounts, Jackie touch-types to focus her mind: letters to her family, a story for her English class, and reflections on her life in the past few months. In her isolation and fear, Jackie is forced to test her emotional boundaries, and in doing so she finds new meaning in her past as well as rich reserves of strength and courage within herself. | Kidnapping | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qlQDAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1999-10-20 | 0440228735 |
The Goblin Wood | Hilari Bell | Makenna is a young hedge witch, forced to flee her village the day her mother is murdered for practicing magic. In the wilds of the forest, she forms an unexpected alliance with the mysterious goblins, and together they resolve to fight back against the humans and the cruel Decree of Bright Magic. But as Makenna grows more successful and her goblin army becomes stronger, her existence threatens the ruling Hierarchy's plans for the country. She evades every trap they set, until a young knight named Tobin comes to the Goblin Wood hoping to regain his lost honour. And each of them finds something else instead... | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A1k12_rn88AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2009-03-31 | 0061891002 |
School of Wizardry | Debra Doyle, James Macdonald | Twelve-year-old Randal's apprenticeship in the School of Wizardry is marred when he realizes that one of the master wizards is using evil spells to destroy the school and gain supreme power. | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6-4wItC82ZoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2000 | 0816769362 |
Transitions | William Bridges | The best-selling guide for coping with changes in life and work, named one of the 50 all-time best books in self-help and personal development Whether you choose it or it is thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. Since Transitions was first published, this supportive guide has helped hundreds of thousands of readers cope with these issues by providing an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap of the transition process. With the understanding born of both personal and professional experience, William Bridges takes readers step by step through the three stages of any transition: The Ending, The Neutral Zone, and, eventually, The New Beginning. Bridges explains how each stage can be understood and embraced, leading to meaningful and productive movement into a hopeful future. With a new introduction highlighting how the advice in the book continues to apply and is perhaps even more relevant today, and a new chapter devoted to change in the workplace, Transitions will remain the essential guide for coping with the one constant in life: change. | Self-Help | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=molzu5Uqqr4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2004-08-11 | 0738211427 |
Flatlander | Oliver Kranichfeld | It is the year 2110 when a man awakens next to the Winooski River in Vermont with a severe case of amnesia. He soon encounters the acting leader of Vermont, King Henry, and his party, and is told that Vermont is now a fiercely independent republic and that he is a Flatlander, or one who is purportedly from the Old Country. The name sticks. But there is a problem: many Vermonters have a seething hatred for Flatlanders. Henry eventually agrees to offer Flatlander citizenship, but only under the condition that he successfully complete ten quests to better the overall Republic of Vermont. He reluctantly obliges to fulfill these quests, which are made even more difficult because of the prejudices against his kind. As Flatlander embarks on a journey full of strange yet endearing characters, creatures, and legends, a magical world is brought to life as he comes closer to discovering who he once was, while piecing together an entirely new identity. In this humorous fantasy adventure, cultures and customs collide within a medieval-like Vermont as Flatlander attempts to fulfill his ten assigned quests, uncover the mystery of his past, and find his place in the world. Included are 33 beautiful black and white illustrations by Sam Balling. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=idvRDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2016-08-05 | 1491799935 |
FlashForward | Robert J Sawyer | Suddenly everyone in the world loses consciousness for two minutes. Planes fall from the sky, there are millions of car crashes, millions die. And when everyone comes round they have had a glimpse of their life in the future. When it awakes the world must live with the knowledge of what is to come. Some saw themselves in new relationships, some saw exciting new technologies, some saw the stuff of nightmares. Some, young and old alike, saw nothing at all ... A desperate search to find out what has happened begins. Does the mosaic of visions offer a clue? What did you see? Now the basis for the Channel 5 hit series FLASHFORWARD | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_3iBbf66k-oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2009-11-12 | 0575091029 |
Galatea 2.2 | Richard Powers | Read this thrilling and timely novel of the human soul from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory. After many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United States to take up a position at his former college. There he encounters Philip Lentz, an outspoken neurologist intent on using computers to model the human brain. Lentz involves the writer in an outlandish and irresistible project - to train a computing system by reading a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the machine grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own age, sex, race and reason for existing. 'An ingenious, ambitious, at times dizzily cerebral work... It soars and spins... The novel attains an aching, melancholy beauty' New York Times | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8GpkDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2019-11-07 | 1473562155 |
The Collapsium | Wil McCarthy | A MODERN SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC FROM WIL MCCARTHY In the eighth decade of the Queendom of Sol, three commodities rule the day. The first is wellstone, a form of programmable matter capable of emulating almost any substance: natural, artificial, even hypothetical. The second is collapsium, a deadly crystal composed of miniature black holes, vital for the transmission of information and matter—including humans—throughout the solar system. The third is the bitter rivalry between Her Majesty's top scientists. Bruno de Towaji, famed lover and statesman, dreams of building an arc de fin, an almost mythical device capable of probing the farthest reaches of spacetime. Marlon Sykes, de Towaji's rival in both love and science, is meanwhile hard at work on a vast telecommunications project whose first step is the construction of a ring of collapsium around the sun. But when a ruthless saboteur attacks the Ring Collapsiter and sends it falling into the sun, the two scientists must put aside personal animosity and combine their prodigious intellects to prevent the destruction of the solar system . . . and every living thing within it. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About The Collapsium: “Ingenious and witty . . . as if Terry Pratchett at his zaniest and Larry Niven at his best had collaborated.”—Booklist "Fresh and imaginative. From a plausible yet startling invention, McCarthy follows the logical lines of sight, building in parallel the technological and societal innovations."—Science Fiction Weekly "The future as McCarthy sees it is a wondrous place." —Publishers Weekly "[McCarthy] studs his narrative with far-out scientific concepts. . . . He certainly has a sense of humor."—The New York Times “An ingenious yarn with challenging ideas, well-handled technical details, and plenty of twists and turns.”—Kirkus | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Il_XDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2020-04-07 | 1625797613 |
Rainbow's End | Vernor Vinge | Robert Gu is a world-renowned poet and recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a new cure, he discovers that the world has changed. He is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he’s starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. Living with his son’s family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access and to see the digital context—through smart contact lenses. With knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. This conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert’s son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot . . . ‘In the grand tradition of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Vernor Vinge just turned the future upside-down in Rainbow's End’ Charles Stross | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AiEscCXu7TIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-12-12 | 1447217470 |
Ambassador of Progress | Walter Jon Williams | “Well-developed characters, an intriguing plot and a clear-eyed view of the double-edged sword called change make [AMBASSADOR OF PROGRESS] an engrossing book...” LIBRARY JOURNAL “Williams has an above-average knack for fast pacing, gritty realism, and high-tech details.” BOOKLIST An interstellar catastrophe has left humanity scattered on dozens of primitive worlds. Fiona is an emissary to one such world, charged with helping the inhabitants of Echidne rise from barbarism. But once she’s arrived on the planet, she finds herself in the middle of a war... the Brodaini, the world’s most ferocious warriors, have risen in revolt against their overlords. The combat soon threatens to become a war of extermination. Fiona is a neutral. But Echidne is proving a perilous place for neutrals... | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=49frCAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2015-05-02 | 0985454377 |
Dragonkeeper | Carole Wilkinson | 'The most captivating children’s book I’ve seen so far this year,' Amanda Craig, The Times Ping is a slave in a little-used royal palace on the edge of the Emperor’s kingdom. Her tyrannic master is a cruel drunk who neglects his duties as Imperial Dragonkeeper and under his watch the Emperor’s dragons have dwindled from a magnificent dozen to a miserable two. When one dragon dies, only the ancient and wise Long Danzi remains. His fate seems sealed – until Ping comes to his rescue in a moment of startling bravery that reveals her destiny as a Dragonkeeper. Pursued by the Emperor’s forces and an evil dragon hunter, Ping, Danzi, and a rat called Hua, set off on a remarkable journey across the kingdom. Bound for the Ocean, they carry a mesmerising, beautiful dragon stone that must be protected at any cost. Surviving dangers of all kinds – a shape-shifting necromancer, and a ritual sacrifice among them – the trio finally arrive at Ocean, Danzi’s final place of rest. But as her dragon-friend leaves Ping forever, the dragon stone reveals its spectacular secret... | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6Iu77e5r1LkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2011-05-13 | 0330543105 |
Cursed | Thomas Wheeler | Look out for the original series starring Katherine Langford coming soon to Netflix! The Lady of the Lake is the true hero in this cinematic twist on the tale of King Arthur created by Thomas Wheeler and legendary artist, producer, and director Frank Miller (300, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City). Featuring 8 full-color and 30 black-and-white pieces of original artwork by Frank Miller. Whosoever wields the Sword of Power shall be the one true King. But what if the Sword has chosen a Queen? Nimue grew up an outcast. Her connection to dark magic made her something to be feared in her Druid village, and that made her desperate to leave… That is, until her entire village is slaughtered by Red Paladins, and Nimue’s fate is forever altered. Charged by her dying mother to reunite an ancient sword with a legendary sorcerer, Nimue is now her people’s only hope. Her mission leaves little room for revenge, but the growing power within her can think of little else. Nimue teams up with a charming mercenary named Arthur and refugee Fey Folk from across England. She wields a sword meant for the one true king, battling paladins and the armies of a corrupt king. She struggles to unite her people, avenge her family, and discover the truth about her destiny. But perhaps the one thing that can change Destiny itself is found at the edge of a blade. | Young Adult Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0eesDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2019-10-01 | 1534425330 |
Railhead | Philip Reeve | Zen Starling is a petty thief from the filthy streets of Thunder City who aimlessly rides the rails of the Network. When the mysterious stranger Raven offers Zen a chance to escape the squalor of the city and live the rest of the day in luxury, Zen can't believe his luck. But the offer just might bring everything in this galaxy and the next to the end of the line. | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KFwvCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2016-01-01 | 1630790486 |
Crossing the Line | SWEETRAX | Sa simula pa lang, Maddi has always been at the receiving end of JB's endless taunting. Kaya nang malasing at biglang nagpahayag ng tunay na nararamdaman si JB, Maddi thought that it was just another ruse to rile her up. But it wasn't, and for once, he is actually honest and serious about his feelings. Though unsure, Maddi takes the leap and falls for JB. It was all fun and games, until fate decides to test their bond. Sa bawat balakid na kanilang kinakaharap, Maddi and JB will have to know what lines they are willing to cross for the sake of their relationship. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tNZkEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2019-06-03 | 20331935165502 |
Something More | Sarah Ban Breathnach | From the author of the bestselling "Simple Abundance" comes a provocative and powerful life "bible" for women around the world. In this insightful and eloquent book, Sarah Ban Breathnach explores the nine stages necessary to living authentically: Sensing, Surviving, Settling, Stumbling, Selling Out, Starting Over, Searching, Striving, and finally, Something More. | Religion | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fac1AQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2009-11-29 | 0446571229 |
The Foretelling | Caroline Crane | Drafted into telling fortunes at a fund-raising carnival, Angela Dawn prepares herself by studying a book on palmistry, never dreaming that lives will be changed by her predictions. On carnival night, Angela sees thngs she does not want to see. For two people, she forecasts an early death. One receives her warning; the other does not. For her best friend she predicts a head injury and possible suicide. When an accident makes the first part come true, the prophecy threatens to become self-fulfilling. Will the rest happen, too? The most glowing future goes to wealthy Glen Fabian. Glen is too sophisticated to believe in fortune-telling, until the fulfillment of a tragic prophecy makes it all seem possible. But there will be a high price to pay for his success. Angela stands by helplessly as lives are shattered all because her predictions are taken seriously. No one believes her when she tries to convince them it was only in fun. As for herself, which will be her fate-the happy marriage or the early death? Here is a chilling story of terror triggered by an innocent game, with few winners and many losers. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cIRUSvC20kgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2001-10 | 0595202470 |
Earth Abides | George.R. Stewart | In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence. Eventually he returns to San Francisco and encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, living like their pioneer ancestors, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their resources, and gradually they return to a simpler way of life. A poignant novel about finding a new normal after the upheaval of a global crisis. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=awj0CQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2015-06-30 | 1473214335 |
Into the Looking Glass | John Ringo | WORST TWO OUT OF THREE When a 60 kiloton nuclear explosion destroys the University of Central Florida, terrorism is the first suspect. But terrorists don't generally leave doorways to another world in their wake. Or, rather, a generator of doorways to multiple other worlds. With time of the essence, the Secretary of Defense scrounges up the nearest physicist with a high level security clearance. With doctorates in everything from nuclear physics to electrical engineering, William Weaver, PhD, is the egghead's egghead. On the other hand, with skills in everything from mountain biking to screaming electric guitar, he's also fast enough and tough enough to survive when the alien gates start disgorging "demons." As a snap decision, he appears to be the perfect choice, smart, tough and capable. Now if he could only patch things up with his girlfriend, get his boss off his back and get his cellphone bill paid. Oh, yeah, and figure out why the heck these gates keep opening. Okay, so sometimes he's got priority issues. As the gates spread and evil aliens spread with them, it is up to Weaver and SEAL Command Master Chief Miller to find a way to stop the proliferation and close the hostile gates. The problem being that the only way they can see to save the earth is destroy it. Then there's not going to be any more girlfriends or cellphones or bosses . . . Hmmm... Okay, two out of three of those are bad. They're really, really bad. Bad on toast. Bad like the Pacific is watery. Every day a Monday, bad. One and a half at the very least. Worst two out of three. Gotta prioritize. Guess Weaver and Miller are just gonna have to save the world. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V7N0CwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2005-06-01 | 1618244841 |
Fortress in the Eye of Time | C. J. Cherryh | Deep in an abandoned, shattered castle, an old man of the Old Magic muttered almost forgotten words. His purpose -- to create out of the insubstance of the air, from a shimmering of light and a fluttering of shadows. that most wonderous of spells, a Shaping. A Shaping in the form of a, young man who will be sent east on the road the old was to old to travel. To right the wrongs of a long-forgotten wizard war, and call new wars into being. Here is the long-awaited major new novel from one of the brightest stars in the fantasy and science fiction firmament.C.J.Cherryh's haunting story of the wizard Mauryl, kingmaker for a thousand years of Men, and Tristen, fated to sow distrust between a prince and his father being. A tale as deep as legend and a intimate as love, it tells of a battle beyond Time, in which all Destiny turns on the wheel of an old man's ambition, a young man's innocence, and the unkept promised of a king to come. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BlAvuwI05zsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2009-10-13 | 0061743933 |
Synners | Pat Cadigan | In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. To be a Synner is to join the online hardcore, an outlaw band of hackers, simulation pirates, and reality synthesizers hooked on artificial reality and virtual space. Now you can change yourself to suit the machines - all it costs you is your freedom, and your humanity. Synners shows us a world perilously close to our own. A constant stream of new technology spawns new crime before it hits the streets, and the human mind and the external landscape have fused to the point where any encounter with "reality" is incidental. Equal parts thrill-ride and cautionary tale, this classic novel by the Queen of Cyberpunk offers us a terrifying glimpse into the future of our race. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel, 1992 | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ydcwgQ_3dGQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2012-10-01 | 0575119551 |
Dragon's Bait | Vivian Vande Velde | In this fantasy adventure, a teenage girl accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death by dragon finds an unexpected friend—and maybe something more. Fifteen-year-old Alys is not a witch. But that doesn’t matter—the villagers think she is and have staked her out on a hillside as a sacrifice to the local dragon. It’s late, it’s cold, and it’s raining, and Alys can think of only one thing—revenge. But first she’s got to escape, and even if she does, how can one girl possibly take on an entire town alone? Then the dragon arrives—a dragon that could quite possibly be the perfect ally…. An ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age “Wicked wit and charm . . . as well as a gutsy heroine and a sexy dragon.” —Booklist “Alys herself is a worthy heroine, with a capricious gift for irony. A thoughtful mainstream fantasy.” —Publishers Weekly “[A] dark, bittersweet romance.” —Kirkus Reviews | Young Adult Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HBzOSEe-eMsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2003-04-01 | 0547416946 |
Replay | Ken Grimwood | At forty-three Jeff Winston is tired of his low-paid, unrewarding job, tired of the long silences at the breakfast table with his wife, saddened by the thought of no children to comfort his old age. But he hopes for better things, for happiness, maybe tomorrow ... But a sudden, fatal heart attack puts paid to that. Until Jeff wakes up in his eighteen-year-old body, all his memories of the next twenty-five years intact. If he applies those memories, he can be rich in this new chance at life and can become one of the most powerful men in America. Until he dies at forty-three and wakes up in his eighteen-year-old body again ... and again in a continuous twenty-five year cycle each time starting from scratch at the age of eighteen to reclaim lost loves, make a fortune - or remedy past mistakes. A novel of gripping adventure, romance, and fascinating speculation on the nature of time, Replay asks the question: "What if you could live your life over again?" | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RlNrDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2019-02-21 | 1473226392 |
Red Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | Another timeless masterpiece in the Voyager Classics series | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OVTX6eVzpQ0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2013-04-11 | 0007401701 |
Bugs | Annabelle Lynch | There are thousands of bug species in the world; beginning readers are introduced to some of them in this high-interest title, which covers big bugs, small bugs, flying bugs, water bugs, and more! Simple, clear language and a manageable word are ideal for young readers. They will learn what bugs are, their important body features, how they eat, and how they hatch from eggs. Colorful photographs support the engaging text, which encourages to read and share with a companion. Nonfiction text features, such as a table of contents, captions, and word bank, support the text. A simple picture quiz completes a comprehensive learning experience. | Juvenile Nonfiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bSJhDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2015-12-15 | 1508190607 |
Adaptation | Michael R. Rose, George V. Lauder | The study of evolutionary adaptation returns to the center stage of biology with this important volume. This innovative treatise discusses new developments in adaptation, with new methods, and new theoretical foundations, achievements, and prospects for a rich intellectual future. It is an insightful reintroduction to the themes that Darwin and his successors regarded as central to any profound understanding of biology. | Science | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W5lNlsWejbQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 1996-09-22 | 0125964218 |
High Wizardry | Diane Duane | When a gifted little wizard begins experimenting with her new skills, her big sister and friend must save her from evil in this continuing fantasy series. Young wizards Nita and Kit face their most terrifying challenge yet: Nita’s little sister, Dairine. Not only is Dairine far too smart for a ten-year-old, she also recently has become a wizard, and worse yet, a wizard with almost limitless power. When Dairine’s computerized wizard’s manual glibly sends her off on her novice adventure—her Ordeal—Kit and Nita end up chasing her across the galaxy, trying to catch up with Dairine before she gets into trouble so deep that not even her brains can rescue her. Praise for High Wizardry “Duane is tops in the high adventure business. . . . This rollicking yarn will delight readers.” —Publishers Weekly “High Wizardry is . . . high entertainment.” —Locus “Harry Potter fans will enjoy this third book in Diane Duane’s Wizardry series.” —School Library Journal | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rG1qihoYHG4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2003-10-01 | 0547540302 |
An Enemy Reborn | Michael A. Stackpole, William F. Wu | In the New York Times–bestselling author’s epic fantasy sequel to A Hero Born, a new power arises as chaos overtakes Reality. As a Chaos Rider, Locke ventured into the realm where time and change rage out of control. Though he set out to find his lost father, he must now become the hero he has been seeking. The Seal of Reality has been broken, and the Wildness that was once kept at bay is unleashed upon the world. Behind this devastation is an evil more ancient and more awesome than Fialchar himself. The only hope of defeating this new Darkness is with an unlikely alliance of Empire and Chaos forces, led by an untried swordsman from beyond time. An Enemy Reborn is the final installment of the Realms of Chaos duology. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zo6rEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2017-03-02 | 1614754519 |
The Disappeared | Roger Scruton | The Disappeared is a story of our times, of kidnap and rescue, of abuse and healing. It is the story of Stephen, a teacher whose love for the pupil who shares his dreams brings him face to face with ruin; of Sharon, the child of a feckless stepmother, and her criminal abusers; of Laura, the investigative high-flyer, now faced with rape and sexual slavery; of Justin, environmentalist and Heavy Metal fan, whose obsession with Muhibbah, rescued from forced marriage, spells disaster for them both. It is the story of a police force fearful of charges of racism, and a social worker, Iona, expected to make a viable community from fragments that will not join. With dizzying speed The Disappeared uncovers the chaotic underworld of a Yorkshire city, its characters eventually stumbling across one another in a single catastrophe. A victim may bring redemption: but who will it be? | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gZHmBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2015-02-26 | 1448214998 |
The Myriad | R. M. Meluch | The U.S.S. Merrimack was the finest battleship class spaceship in Earth's fleet, able to stand up against the best the Palatine Empire could throw at them, even able to attack and kill swarms of the seemingly unstoppable Hive. But nothing could have prepared the captain and crew of the Merrimack to face the Myriad-three colonized worlds in the midst of a globular cluster that the Hive had somehow overlooked. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qFiJEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2006-01-03 | 1101099348 |
The Glitch in Sleep | Michael Wexler, John Hulme | Ever wondered if the world around you was not as it appeared? That there was something bigger going on you couldn't quite put your finger on? Welcome to The Seems, a secret organisation that makes sure our world keeps running. From weather, to sleep, to nightmares, The Seems is behind everything, keeping things ticking over. Unless there's a Glitch, which is where Becker Drane comes in. Becker has the coolest job of any 7th grader - he works as a Fixer for The Seems. When a Glitch is reported in the Department of Sleep, Becker is dispatched to fix it, but he's not so sure this is a routine mission. Could the Bed Bugs, who are behind our Worst Nightmares, be responsible for the problems? Or maybe it's The Tide, an underground organisation bent on destroying The Seems? No matter what, Becker's in for an adventure, and it'll take all his training, a little luck, and the coolest ToolsTM known in (or out of) The Seems to Fix the problem | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lyZJoB8pxbsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2010-12-15 | 1408820897 |
The Blue World | Jack Vance | Over twelve generations the descendents of a space crash on a world completely covered in water had managed to adapt to their marine culture. Living in villages built on giant clumps of sea plants, they survived on the flora and fauna of the sea. But they have always been at the mercy of the kragen - gigantic squid-like monsters that prey on their fish flocks, and on them. The biggest of these is King Kragen, with whom the colonists can communicate, who has to be appeased. But one man has had enough of a life of slavery and sacrifice. But how can he convince his fellow men that King Kragen must be killed? And how can that be achieved in a world without weapons? | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KdL2wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2003 | 0575073489 |
Cosm | Gregory Benford | After an accident in a brilliant young physicist's most ambitious experiment, it appears: a wondrous sphere the size of a basketball, made of nothing known to science. Before long, it will be clear that this object has opened a vista on an entirely different universe, a newborn cosmos whose existence will rock this world and test one woman to the limit: the physicist who has ignited this thrilling adventure. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iSoZYV0qYIQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-09-29 | 0575118458 |
How I Magically Messed Up My Life in Four Freakin' Days | Megan O'Russell | Enjoy How I Magically Messed Up My Life in Four Freakin' Days, book one in The Tale of Bryant Adams, a new humorous fantasy series by Young Adult author Megan O'Russell. Things not to do when you find out you’re a wizard: #1 Do not destroy your dad’s apartment with magical fire. You WILL NOT get the security deposit back. #2 Do not form an alliance with the guy who is trying to murder you. This will end badly. #3 Do not drag the girl you’re desperately in love with into your wizard mess. You risk her watching you fail miserably. #4 Under no circumstances should you get in the middle of an epic magical battle. Death will happen. Lots of death and bad things. I found a magic cell phone, opened an app I shouldn't have, burned down my high school's theatre, and it was all downhill from there. A seer guarded by the undead is my only hope for keeping my mom alive, and I'm pretty sure the cops are after me for destroying my dad's penthouse. But it gets better! Now I'm stuck being the sidekick to the guy who got me into this mess in the first place. It'll be a miracle if I survive until Monday. How I Magically Messed Up My Life in Four Freakin' Days is a whirlwind ride through a magical world. If you love to laugh, crave adventure, and wish you were a wizard, join Megan O'Russell's 550,000+ satisfied readers. Order your copy and join this magical journey now! *** How I Magically Messed Up My Life in Four Freakin' Days is perfect for fans of Kami Garcia, Rick Riordan, Jeff Strand, Terry Pratchett, Ransom Riggs, Missy Sheldrake, Anthea Sharp, J. C. Gilbert, Meg Collette, and TR Cameron. | Young Adult Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Uvj2DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2020-08-13 | 16636807038309 |
Wolves | Emily Gravett | Rabbit borrows a book about wolves from the library. He can't put it down! But soon a sinister figure with sharp claws and a bushy tail starts to creep right off the pages. You won't believe your eyes – but if you're a rabbit, you probably should. Brilliantly witty, ingeniously constructed, and with amazing artwork throughout, Wolves has thrilled critics and booksellers alike. Wolves was Emily Gravett's debut book, winning her the Macmillan Prize for Illustration and her first CILIP Kate Greenaway Award. | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ID8mEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2021-04-15 | 1529083672 |
Reckoning | Deva R. Woodly | "Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements is an analysis of the emergence of the Movement for Black Lives, its organizational structure and culture, and its strategies and tactics, while also laying out and contextualizing the social movement's unique political philosophy, Radical Black Feminist Pragmatism, along with documenting measurable political effects in terms of changing public meanings, public opinion, and policy. Throughout the text, the author interweaves theoretical and empirical observations, rendering both an illustration of this movement and an analysis of the work social movements do in democracy"-- | History | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9WLvEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2022 | 0197603955 |
Celestial Matters | Richard Garfinkle | A thousand years after Alexander the Great, the Greek Empire has expanded over the world with the help of advanced technology. Its plans for Total Domination of the entire planet will be complete once the war with the empire of the middle kingdom has been won. The scientist Aias, commander of the celestial ship Chandra's Tear, prepares to embark on a secret mission to the sun, to steal a piece of the purest elemental fire. This ultimate piece of celestial matter will form the basis for a weapon capable of decisively ending the war with the Taoists of the Far East. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=026DIan75zAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 1997-06-15 | 1466838973 |
City Of Illusions | Ursula K. Le Guin | 'She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES 'A tour de force' EVENING STANDARD 'A wonderfully mordant analyst of human weakness' Martin Amis Earth, like the rest of the Known Worlds, has fallen to the Shing. Scattered here and there, small groups of humans live in a state of semi-barbarism. They have lost the skills, science and knowledge that had been Earth's in the golden age of the League of Worlds, and whenever a colony of humans tries to rekindle the embers of a half-forgotten technology, the Shing, with their strange, mindlying power, crush them out. There is one man who can stand against the malign Shing, but he is an alien with amber eyes and must first prove to paranoid humanity that he himself is not a creature of the Shing. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wZswCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2015-10-01 | 1473205867 |
Neverness | David Zindell | An epic masterwork of science fiction, Neverness is a stand-alone novel from one of the most important talents in the genre. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qi43DgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2017-03-23 | 000739795X |
Mall Purchase Night | Rick Cook | When Andy Westin became a security guard at Black Oak Mall, he had no idea what he was getting into. For it seems that this particular mall was built on an elven power source--a gateway between Elfland and Earth--making it a source of apocalyptic conflict. | Shopping malls | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nPUKAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1993 | 0671721984 |
Pirates of the Thunder | Jack L. Chalker | A mothballed space fleet, the great ships were silent and shut down. Each up to fourteen kilometres long, they had been circling Jupiter in their hundreds for nearly a millennium. To the little band of fugitives, they were both their hope for the future and a terrible reminder of the past. Once they had been the slave ships of their time, transporting whole populations of unwilling humans to the star colonies at the behest of the Master System. Now, reactivated, one might not only help them escape the Master System but take them in search of the five gold rings that were the key to its control and their freedom. Cautiously, nervously, their craft edged towards the huge empty hull that loomed in the sky before them... | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yz5pbeO0ti8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2013-04-29 | 057510175X |
The Orphan | Thomas Otway | Reproduction of the original: The Orphan by Thomas Otway | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g8BcDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2018-05-23 | 3732685969 |
The Joy Machine | James Gunn | Timshel was once the vacation spot of the galaxy, full of culture, natural beauty, and friendly, hospitable inhabitants. But now Timshel has cut itself off from the universe. No one is allowed to enter or leave. Concerned, the Federation has sent agents to investigate, but none have returned. Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship EnterpriseTM are shocked to discover the truth: the people of Timshel have succumbed to an insidious new technology that guarantees every citizen total pleasure, a soul-destroying ecstasy that has enslaved their entire civilization. Kirk and Spock have faced many threats before, but now they face the most seductive menace of all: perfect happiness. And the rest of the Federation may soon fall under the irresistible control of the Joy Machine. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=siQxHeX-7-QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2000-09-22 | 0743420314 |
Warriors of Alavna | N.M. Browne | When Dan and Ursula become lost in a thick mist, they have no idea that once they step out of the other side they will find themselves in an England of thousands of years ago and embroiled in a civil war between ancient Britons and Romans. Soon they will have to rely on strengths that neither of them knew they had as they battle both physical and magical enemies, not only to ensure their own safety, but also to try and help save the lives of the Combrogi who face the might and power of the Roman army. In this powerful and sweeping epic novel, survival depends on learning magical arts and respecting codes of behaviour that pre-date all modern life. It is a difficult world to survive in. Are Dan and Ursula able to master all they need to know in time to ensure that they do not become victims of a time far harsher than any they could ever have imagined? | Juvenile Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gQh-rGXYmFAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2011-09-05 | 1408826275 |
Broken Symmetry | Jack Ridl | The straightforward language and universal subject matter make Broken Symmetry a profound collection of poetry that will appeal to readers of all backgrounds. | Literary Criticism | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ydIDJgh1F-IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2006-03-21 | 0814335209 |
The God Box | Alex Sanchez | Paul, a religious teen living in a small conservative town, finds his world turned upside down when he meets Manuel—a young man who says he’s both Christian and gay, two things that Paul didn’t think could coexist in one person. Doesn’t the Bible forbid homosexuality? As Paul struggles with Manuel’s interpretation of the Bible, thoughts that Paul has long tried to bury begin to surface, and he finds himself re-examining his whole life. This is an unforgettable book on an extremely timely topic that strives to open minds on both ends of the spectrum. | Young Adult Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OD1mZhFvtzsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2010-12-14 | 1442428872 |
The Turing Option | Harry Harrison, Marvin Minsky | A young genius is hunted by killers. His sole hope for survival lies in the brain power of the intelligent being he has created. The Earth's first machine intelligence becomes the key to a harrowing battle. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5Z8BAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2013-11-28 | 0575115912 |
Pushing Ice | Alastair Reynolds | Pushing Ice is the brilliant tale of extraordinary aliens, glittering technologies, and sweeping space opera from award-winning science fiction author Alastair Reynolds. 2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. And they're good at it. The Rockhopper is nearing the end of its current mission cycle, and everyone is desperate for some much-needed R & R, when startling news arrives from Saturn: Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed. As layers of camouflage fall away, it becomes clear that Janus was never a moon in the first place. It's some kind of machine -- and it is now headed toward a fuzzily glimpsed artifact 260 light-years away. The Rockhopper is the only ship anywhere near Janus, and Bella Lind is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever out of reach. In accepting this mission, she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny -- for Janus has more surprises in store, and not all of them are welcome. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zMS9DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2020-04-21 | 0316462691 |
Dangerous | Milo Yiannopoulos | The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. Now, finally, Dangerous, the most controversial book of the decade, is tearing down safe spaces everywhere. | Humor | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Wd09swEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 2017 | 069289344X |
The Shattered World | Michael Reaves | A millennium ago magicians fought a war, and smached the world into a thousand pieces. In partial expiation of these same sorcerers cast spells to set the fragments to floating about each other in the Abyss, to inform them with a proper gravity, and to supply them and the space that seperates them with an atmosphere that men and beasts may breathe. But that was long ago; in a thousand years even sorcerers grow old, and so do their spells. Now the doom that was forstalled is at hand. Already pieces of the Shattered World begin to collide. Soon all will meet, and coalesce, and melt into molten chaos. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6E6p1GlfQ6gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | 1985-03 | 0671559516 |
Geomancer | Ian Irvine | The war has been raging for a hundred years … and humanity is close to defeat. Santhenar is locked in conflict with the lyrinx – intelligent, winged predators from the Void who are desperate to gain their own world. And despite the development of mechanical battle clankers, and mastery of the crystals that drive them, humanity is losing. The enemy is destroying its nodes of magical power, one by one. Tiaan, a clever but naïve crystal worker in a clanker manufactory, is testing a new kind of crystal when she overhears an enchanting young man, Minis, speaking from far away. The crystal has woken her gift for geomancy, the most powerful of all the Secret Arts, and the most perilous. It is a talent that both humanity and its enemies are desperate to control. Falsely accused of sabotage by Irisis, a malicious rival, Tiaan flees for her life. But soon she is stalked by the outcast, wingless lyrinx, Ryll, who plans to use her in his dreadful flesh-forming sorcery. From afar, Minis advises and guides Tiaan and she now sees him as more than a friend. Aching for him, Tiaan follows his instructions all the way to Tirthrax, the tallest mountain in all the Three Worlds, where a nightmare awaits her … You won’t want to miss this edge-of-the seat epic fantasy series by a million-selling author. What reviewers say about the Three Worlds books “A compelling adventure in a landscape full of wonders.” – Locus “A page-turner of the highest order … Formidable!” – SFX on Geomancer “It is the most engrossing book I’ve read in years.” – Van Ikin, Sydney Morning Herald “Readers of Eddings, Goodkind and Jordan will lap this one up.” – Starlog “Utterly absorbing.” Stephen Davenport, Independent Weekly “For sheer excitement, there’s just no one like Irvine.” SFX on The Destiny of the Dead “As good as anything I have read in the fantasy genre.” – Adelaide Advertiser Reviews and Honours for The Well of Echoes Scrutator, Honourable Mention, 2003 Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel, and listed in the Sydney Morning Herald’s BEST BOOKS OF 2003. Chimaera listed in the Sydney Morning Herald’s BEST BOOKS OF 2004. 'Ian Irvine is arguably the most inventive fantasy author to emerge in recent years. A page-turner of the highest order ... Irvine can now consider himself comfortably ranked next to the works of Robert Jordan and David Eddings and, more appropriately, the mighty Anne McCaffrey. Formidable!' SFX 'This is, attractively, grimmer and grittier than most fantasy novels with a real sense of industrial squalor and a society in paranoid melt-down – and with a neatly unpleasant set of twists at the end.' Roz Kaveney, Amazon.uk 'Ian Irvine has produced one of those rarities in the fantasy genre, and that is a unique, well-thought-out world coupled with a well-written storyline. A gripping read.' Enigma 'Irvine imagines the epic landscape through which the characters move in persuasive detail and describes it powerfully. The misery of the manufactory's oppressed children and fearful adults is effectively communicated and elaborated. Driven by fear and inadequacy ... they cheat, lie and betray others in the cause of their own ambition, but are nonetheless sympathetically portrayed.' Australian Book Review. | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cJGfBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api | 2001-09-10 | 35037367344861 |
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