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The String Diaries

Stephen Lloyd Jones

Selected for the Radio 2 Book Club. He has a face you love. A voice you trust. To survive you must kill him. The rules of survival are handed from mother to daughter. Inherited, like the curse that has stalked Hannah and her family across centuries. He changes his appearance at will, speaks with a stolen voice and hides behind the face of a beloved, waiting to strike. Generation after generation, he has destroyed them. And all they could do was to run. Until now. Now, it is time for Hannah to turn and fight. THE NEW NOVEL BY STEPHEN LLOYD JONES IS AVAILABLE NOW - THE SILENCED: A DARK AND GRIPPING THRILLER

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LbQQB0BmFfwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2013-07-04

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The Amulet of Samarkand

Jonathan Stroud

Humiliated in front of everyone by hotshot wizard Simon Lovelace, Nathaniel seeks revenge by summoning the all-powerful djinni, Bartimaeus. Attempting to steal the Amulet of Samarkand, Nathaniel finds himself in a whirlwind of magical espionage, murd

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0IpuPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2004-05

1417628650

Alien Secrets

Annette Curtis Klause

This acclaimed thriller from an award-winning author finds Puck expelled from boarding school on Earth and on her way home to the planet Shoon aboard a haunted spacecraft. As she hurtles through space, she befriends a native Shoowa who is desperately seeking a stolen treasure.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NtuFMAPSSS0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1999

0440228514

The Chosen

Chaim Potok

The story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N9hUEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2022-01-11

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Shadow Magic

Nikki Van De Car

"A necessary addition to any collection on magic and witchcraft." — Publisher's Weekly From the bestselling author of Practical Magic Nikki Van De Car comes Shadow Magic, an expansive, beautiful primer on cultivating your own innate power, magic, and strength through shadow work—the mystical art of engaging with your deepest internal self. Human beings are incredibly complex. We are more than just our happiness or sunny dispositions, and we have much to offer others and ourselves even on our worst days. There is magic and energy and potential in these moments—in the shadow—and we cannot be the fullest expression of ourselves, at our most powerful, unless we embrace and embody all that we are. Shadow Magic is here to assist you in uncovering, understanding, and celebrating your own shadow. Author Nikki Van De Car teaches us to work with the shadow, rather than trying to suppress or ignore it—allowing each of us to uncover the whole, integrated witch within. Through foundational lessons on psychologist Carl Jung's concept of the shadow; explorations of magical topics like the moon, dream magic, and symbology; and rituals and spells for connecting to your own deepest self, Shadow Magic invites all of us to harness the shadow's power to bring more magic into our lives. The spells and rituals in this book will help you bring awareness and healing to whatever you may be carrying that you would rather leave behind. As you do so, you'll uncover your personal power, including abilities and gifts that you may not have recognized within yourself. You’ll work with sigil magic and symbology, with tarot and candle magic, with the moon, and with dreams. Each section includes three spells for you to try: one for creativity, one for intuition, and one for self-love. And along the way you'll encounter profiles of witches and women throughout history who embraced their own shadows, even when it wasn't popular. Throughout this book you will learn to embrace what it means to be in relationship with your own shadow, in a process of growth and exploration that will enhance all aspects of the self, allowing for a fuller, more magical life.

Body, Mind & Spirit

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nA6lEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2023-09-26

0762481501

Easy Travel to Other Planets

Ted Mooney

In Mooney's brilliant first novel, an isolated research tank in the Caribbean becomes the setting for a hauntingly erotic story of a young woman and the dolphin with whom she shares a supra-human love. It is a classic about communicating and lovemaking in a world moving much too fast, in a time not so very far away. "Substantial and moving".--Time.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=75lPXO-bLUUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1981

0374528284

Witchling

Yasmine Galenorn

We’re the D’Artigo sisters: Half-human, half-Faerie, we’re savvy—and sexy—operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But our mixed-blood heritage short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Delilah shapeshifts into a tabby cat whenever she’s stressed. Menolly’s a vampire who’s still trying to get the hang of being undead. And me? I’m Camille—a wicked-good witch. Except my magic’s as unpredictable as the weather, as my enemies are about to find out the hard way... At the Wayfarer Inn, a portal to Otherworld and the local hangout for humans and beasties alike, a fellow operative, Jocko, has been murdered. Every clue points to Shadow Wing, the soul-munching, badass leader of the Subterranean Realms. He’s made it clear that he aims to raze humankind to the ground, turning both Earth and Otherworld into his private playground. Our assignment: Keep Shadow Wing and his minions from creeping into Earth via the Wayfarer. The demons figure they’re in like Flynn. After all, with only my bumbling sisters and me standing in the way, how can they miss? But we’ve got a secret for them: Faulty wiring or not, nobody kicks ass like the D’Artigo girls...

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kYSCsor2dFEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2006-10-03

1440623643

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

An Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasures found within.

Alchemists

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z_RoMAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2013

0007492197

Dead Witch Walking

Kim Harrison

The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison's Hollows series! All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party . . . and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining—and it's Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized. A bounty hunter and a witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead . . . or undead.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uCGaW2MEWAsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2009-10-13

0061742090

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

THE TIKTOK SENSATION Discover the million-copy bestselling fantasy read. The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon an iron gates reads: Opens at Nightfall Closes at Dawn Full of breath-taking amazements and open only at night, Le Cirque des Rêves seems to cast a spell over all who wander its circular paths. But behind the glittering acrobats, fortune-tellers and contortionists a fierce competition is underway. Celia and Marco are two young magicians who have been trained since childhood for a deadly duel. With the lives of everyone at the Circus of Dreams at stake, they must test the very limits of the imagination, and of their love. Complete your collection with The Starless Sea, the second novel from the author of the The Night Circus, out now. 'The only response to this novel is simply: wow. It is a breath-taking feat of imagination, a flight of fancy that pulls you in and wraps you up in its spell' The Times

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GwAWS6C33O4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-09-15

1446468267

Destination: Void

Frank Herbert

A stranded starship’s crew races against time to create an artificial consciousness in this epic by the New York Times–bestselling author of Dune. The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hybernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship’s three Organic Mental Cores—disembodied human brains that control the vessel’s functions—go insane. An emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: to create an artificial consciousness in the Earthling’s primary computer, which could guide them to their destination . . . or could destroy the human race. This classic novel by Nebula Award winner Frank Herbert begins the epic Pandora Sequence (written with Bill Ransom), which also includes The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect, and The Ascension Factor.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LIF5EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-06-12

161475005X

Tool of the Trade

Joe Haldeman

Nick Foley is on the run. The KGB and CIA are both after him. Not suprising, since he's a Soviet sleeper whose cover has been blown, but Nick has more than state secrets to hide. If he tells a stranger to drive him a thousand miles, it'll happen; if he tells a pusher to OD on his own heroin, the pusher will do it. Nick's strange power is vital to both sides, and neither of them intend to let him keep it to himself, but neither the CIA nor the KGB can imagine Nick's final, desperate throw of the dice.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=30IhzALMrWAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-09-29

0575111569

Cyber Way

Alan Dean Foster

Homicide - or cosmic catastrophe? Detective Vernon Moody is a modern cop who likes to catch killers the modern way - with computer webs, databases and common sense. So he's not happy when his latest case revolves around the supposedly mystical properties of a lost Navaho sandpainting. Or when the painting leads him to suspect an alien presence in his modern world. No Moody's getting scared and what started out as a routine murder investigation may uncover the very nature of reality - or destroy it forever!

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cePBYyeV_e0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2013-02-25

0575131926

The Steel of Raithskar

Randall Garrett, Vicki Ann Heydron

When the fireball hit the cruise ship, Richard Carillo was already on his way out - a terminally ill language professor. He regained consciousness as a well man in the desert... only it wasn't a desert on Earth, and he was a man only because he was still male. More surprises awaited him in the exotic city of Raithskar - he was called Markasset, a master swordsman, son of a powerful leader, and a man on the run, accused of murder and the theft of a precious, sacred jewel. With the aid of Keeshah, a great war-cat with which he shared a telepathic link, he set out to clear his newfound name...

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yUQzCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2015-08-27

147320111X

Green Thumb

Rob Thomas

Winner of two National Science Fairs for his work on plant life, thirteen-year-old Grady Jacobs isn't exactly Mr. Popularity. But he doesn't care. He's spending the summer with the famous botanist Dr. Phillip Carter in the Amazon jungle trying to save the rain forest with a new species of super trees. Although his duties are mostly relegated to kitchen patrol, Grady stumbles on a startling discovery: a binary system of sounds that enables him to control the movement of trees. Even as Grady discovers the tree language, he realizes that Carter's super trees aren't replenishing the Amazon's ecosystem -- they're killing it. When his unauthorized experiments are discovered, Grady flees from Carter's camp and finds refuge with the Urah-wau Indian tribe. but even with the tribe's help and the secret tree language, can Grady stop Carter's super trees? With his keen eye for popular culture now trained on the environment, award-winning author Rob Thomas tells a coming-of-age story bursting with action and adventure. Hanh on to that vine: It's going to be a wild ride.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ICjLIhKe2RUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2012-06-12

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The Marked Man

Charles Ingrid

After destroying the environment humans turn to genetic manipulation in search of a way to survive the world they've created.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5N9M_qheODEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1989

0886773962

The Children of the Wind

Geraldine Harris

The fate of the Galkian Empire is in the hands of Prince Kerish-lo-Taan as he journeys into dangerous lands to find the seven keys that will release the savior of Galkis and thus save the Empire from destruction.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CKfdzUeDlPUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-04

1612320449

Fanglith

John Dalmas

Children from outer space land in medieval Europe to find their parents.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tr69MA2eSLgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1985

0671559885

The Artificial Kid

Bruce Sterling

In a future world of rampant inequality, a martial-arts video star finds himself in a real fight for survival, in this novel by the author of Schismatrix. Founded centuries ago by the enigmatic genius Moses Moses, the planet Reverie can either be heaven or hell, depending on whether you live on or above it. The superrich orbit the world in luxury abodes, keeping their sometimes-lethal ennui at bay by watching homemade sex and violence videos created by the peons dwelling on the coral continents miles beneath them. The most popular entertainer of all is the Artificial Kid, an unbeatable combat artist whose bloody, self-produced martial arts videos have made him beloved both above and below. But the Kid is about to stumble onto something no one was ever meant to discover—a mind-boggling conspiracy of science and antiquity that forces him to run for his life into the strange and dangerous wilderness known as the Mass. And when Moses Moses returns to Reverie after seven hundred years of cryogenic sleep, things are about to get much worse. Written long before the era of YouTube, Ultimate Fighting, and reality TV, Bruce Sterling’s prescient, thoughtful, and wildly satiric novel previews the nascent cyberpunk sensibilities of the acclaimed author’s later works.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=46E8BQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2014-12-30

1497688108

Heart's Blood

Juliet Marillier

Whistling Tor is a place of secrets, a mysterious, wooded hill housing the crumbling fortress of a chieftain whose name is spoken throughout the district in tones of revulsion and bitterness. A curse lies over Anluan’s family and his people; those woods hold a perilous force whose every whisper threatens doom. For young scribe Caitrin it is a safe haven. This place where nobody else is prepared to go seems exactly what she needs, for Caitrin is fleeing her own demons. As Caitrin comes to know Anluan and his home in more depth she realizes that it is only through her love and determination that the curse can be broken and Anluan and his people set free.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uEVDqT1w2IIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-07-22

1447207386

The Turning Place

Jean E. Karl

Nine short stories reveal various aspects of future life on Earth and other planets.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B48uDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2016-06-20

0486804593

Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming

Roger Zelazny, Robert Sheckley

Azzy Elbub, demon, has his sights set on the Millenial Evil Deeds Award, given to the being whose acts do the most toward reshaping the world. But his evil plans go far astray. ...

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V0GtFFhDUvIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1992

0553299352

Dragonfire

Humphrey Hawksley

At 0500 on Tuesday 3 May 2005, a lone Antonov-32 transport flies through the dawn light over the Himalayas and approaches the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Its destination is the notorious Drapchi Prison, where some of the most revered Tibetan leaders are being held. The aircraft's loading bay is lowered. The sky is filled with mushroom grey parachutes. In a few minutes, troops of the People's Republic of China are fighting invaders. Far to the West, Pakistani FCI multi-role combat aircraft roar across the Line of Control and pound the strategic outpost of Kargil. Heliborne troops follow to raise the national green crescent flag on Indian territory. Suddenly the three-sided war so dreaded in Asia - India versus China and Pakistan - is happening. Nuclear arsenals are being readied in all three countries...

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PrfVs_NtQ8YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2001-10-01

174328036X

Cusp

Robert A. Metzger

In 2031, a solar flare of incalculable power shifts the Sun’s position as two immense walls erupt out of the earth, encircling it along the equator and from pole to pole. The climatic and geographical chaos that follows pushes civilization to the brink of destruction, and brings about a new world order. Twenty years later, as a fractured humanity struggles to solve the mystery of the Rings that straddle Earth, an enigmatic entity is pushing its own plan for human evolution, using the supercomputer known as CUSP—the first computer designed to run on the software of the human mind. “Metzger takes cutting-edge science, roils it with startling action, and grabs you on a rocket-propelled ride. Cusp is hard science fiction at its best.”—David Brin “Audacious.”—Science Fiction Weekly “Minds will boggle at the extravagance of Metzger’s imagination.”—Kirkus Reviews

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZHYJCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2005-01-04

1101208368

The Flight of the Horse

Larry Niven

Mind bending stories of Svetz, the Time Retrieval expert.

Fantasy fiction, American

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R8pKAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1973

34654138008256

Less Than Human

David Livingstone Smith

Winner of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines "Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." "Dog." "Beast." These and other monikers are constantly in use to refer to other humans—for political, religious, ethnic, or sexist reasons. Human beings have a tendency to regard members of their own kind as less than human. This tendency has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, and the slave trade possible, and yet we still find it in phenomena such as xenophobia, homophobia, military propaganda, and racism. Less Than Human draws on a rich mix of history, psychology, biology, anthropology and philosophy to document the pervasiveness of dehumanization, describe its forms, and explain why we so often resort to it. David Livingstone Smith posits that this behavior is rooted in human nature, but gives us hope in also stating that biological traits are malleable, showing us that change is possible. Less Than Human is a chilling indictment of our nature, and is as timely as it is relevant.

Science

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rWAiRrm3LkcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-03-01

1429968567

The Empire of Time

David Wingrove

The ultimate time travel thriller -- genre-busting and epic in every way. There is only the war. Otto Behr is a German agent, fighting his Russian counterparts across three millennia, manipulating history for moments in time that can change everything. Only the remnants of two great nations stand and for Otto, the war is life itself, the last hope for his people. But in a world where realities shift and memory is never constant, nothing is certain, least of all the chance of a future with his Russian love.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BOKPEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2016-03-22

0091956153

Cathy's Book

Jordan Weisman, Sean Stewart

Emma - I know it sounds crazy. You (and Mum!) will be wondering where I've been disappearing to, and when I'll be back. That's why I'm leaving you all this evidence - in case something happens and I DON'T come back. Look at everything in my book. Call the phone numbers. Check out the websites. But, you can't tell ANYBODY about it, unless you want to end up in over your head, like me. But don't worry, I'll be OK (I think). Hey, maybe this is the beginning of a new life for me. For sure it's the end of the old one. Call me. Love, Cathy This book reaches beyond the written word to interact with teenage girls in ways they are quite familiar with in other areas of their lives. From instant-messaging to text-messaging, from surfing the web to having their own sites, the age-old story of 'boy dumps girl and girl wins boy back' is lifted from the page to our three-dimensional, 21st-century world.

Teenage girls

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=piYVAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2007

0747588627

A Choice of Gods

Clifford D. Simak

The Earth's population was more than eight billion. One day they were there, the next they were gone - all except the guests at a family birthday party, a small tribe of American Indians, and, of course, the robots. Technology disintegrated, the Indians went back to nature, and the rest developed new and extraordinary powers. As for the robots, some went to live with the remnants of humanity, others gathered in their own community and commenced work on the Project, work which was baffling in all its fantastic electronic complexity. Then one day a traveller returned from the stars - and the idyllic existence of the last of Earth's humans was threatened.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1VdDstjI4HIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-09-29

0575122528

Cradle of Saturn

James P. Hogan

"THAT PLANET HAS NO RIGHT TO BE THERE!" Among the Saturnian moons, farsighted individuals, working without help or permission from any government, have established a colony. They call themselves the Kronians, after the Greek name for Saturn. Operating without the hidebound restrictions of bureaucratic Earth, the colony is a magnet, attracting the best and brightest of the home world, and has been making important new discoveries. But one of their claims -- that they have found proof that the Solar System has undergone repeated cataclysms, and as recently as a few thousand years ago -- flies in the face of the reigning dogma, and is under attack by the scientific establishment. Then the planet Jupiter emits a white-hot protoplanet as large as the Earth, which is hurtling sunwards like a gigantic comet that will obliterate civilization....

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8SNhEl5leWcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2000-05-01

0671578669

Raft

Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series! A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere. Five hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stow away on a flying tree - just one of the many strange local lifeforms - carrying trade between the Belt and the Raft. And what he finds will change his world...

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4tseMp7L1eUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2013-01-24

057512797X

Clade

James Bradley

From the author of bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club pick, The Resurrectionist, and one of The Guardian's top eco-fictions, comes a provocative, urgent novel about time, family and how a changing planet might transform our lives. On a beach in Antarctica, scientist Adam Leith marks the passage of the summer solstice. Back in Sydney his partner Ellie waits for the results of her latest round of IVF treatment. That result, when it comes, will change both their lives and propel them into a future neither could have predicted. In a collapsing England, Adam will battle to survive an apocalyptic storm. Against a backdrop of growing civil unrest at home, Ellie will discover a strange affinity with beekeeping. In the aftermath of a pandemic, a young man finds solace in building virtual recreations of the dead. And new connections will be formed from the most unlikely beginnings.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bQMvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2017-09-05

1785655485

The Birthgrave

Tanith Lee

She woke from a sleep of countless years, reborn from the heart of a raging volcano. Her body was a masterpiece all men desired, her face a monstrosity that must go masked. Warrior, witch, goddess and slave, she was doomed to travel through a world of barbaric splendour, helped and betrayed by her lovers, searching for escape from the taint of her forgotten race, and the malice of the demon that haunted her.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=49D1CAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2015-05-29

0575120835

A World Called Solitude

Stephen Goldin

Birk Aaland is a political outcast from Earth's tyranny, and has been living for years on a planet inhabited solely by robots, ever since his ship crashed here. Now another ship has crashed, and there is again a single survivor -- a woman who's desperate to warn Earth of an alien invasion. But Birk is perfectly happy with his current exile -- until a twist of fate intervenes, causing each of them to re-evaluate their lives and their total existence.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gVt_-pIxGDoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-10-07

1466341254

Emergence

David R. Palmer

After a bionuclear war destroys most of humanity, a young women seeks other survivors.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1BtbAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1990

78422265213630

The Magic Meadow

Alexander Key

In the dark of a grim hospital ward, five children escape to another world They call themselves the incurables. They are five children doomed to spend their lives in Belleview’s Ward Nine, unable to walk, care for themselves, or even take a trip outside. Their days are gloomy, but they have one another, and at night they play the game. Whispering about places that could never be, they build worlds so vivid that they almost seem real. And then one night, their dreams come true. While the others sleep, Brick closes his eyes and thinks harder than he ever has about the place he calls the Magic Meadow—a lush hill where dandelions grow. When he opens his eyes, he has been transported. The meadow is real, and with his friends at his side, he will return there again and again—to learn, to walk, to live.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZbT3AwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2014-07-29

1497652618

The Dinosaur Four

Geoff Jones, Dave Kang, Sandstone Editing

They came for the coffee and wound up in the Cretaceous. A ticking sound fills the air as Tim MacGregor enters The Daily Edition Cafe, hoping to meet his new girlfriend for coffee. Moments later, a chunk of building is transported 67 million years back in time, along with everyone inside. Ten unlikely companions find themselves in a world of dinosaurs and prehistoric reptiles. Several survivors compete for leadership as they search for a way home, while one member of the group plots to keep them all trapped in the past..."

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0my2oQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2014-05-24

1499677014

The Neutronium Alchemist

Peter F. Hamilton

Dark powers have been unleashed across the galaxy. Will the Alchemist be humanity's saviour – or its doom? Following on from The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist is the second epic novel in the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. A seemingly unstoppable force has entered our universe, and we are confronted by our most primal fear. Those who have succumbed to its horror have acquired godlike powers. Yet their actions are far from divine. As they advance from planet to planet, these powerful individuals leave slaughter and mayhem in their wake. The Confederation Navy is dangerously overstretched, as whole worlds fracture and collapse. And a dark messiah prepares to invoke his own version of the final night. In such desperate times, a powerful new weapon could cause yet more terror, but Dr Alkad Mzu is determined to retrieve the Alchemist – and complete her thirty-year-old mission to slay a star. However, as she works to obtain it, others have their own ideas on how to use this ultimate doomsday device . . . The Neutronium Alchemist is followed by The Naked God.

Fiction

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2008-09-04

0330466453

Vampire Dreams

Katherine X. Rylien

Nine stories, most—but not all—featuring vampires. A vampire and a sorceress take a wrong turn while evading pursuit, ending up someplace they don’t want to be. An old man with bad intentions lures two little girls into a deserted playground. On a lighter note, a vampire reluctantly shares his old farmhouse with an eccentric sculptor (she has a lease).

Fiction

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2020-10-25

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The Singer of All Songs

Kate Constable

This is Book One of a captivating fantasy saga of adventure and magic. In the world of Tremaris, magic is fading away. Calwyn knows nothing of the world beyond - she lives quietly attending the bees and learning of the chantment of ice-call. But then comes Darrow with terrible stories of fear and hatred in the Outlands, where chanters are persecuted and magic is a dying art. Defying the Head Priestess, Calwyn and Darrow embark on a journey through strange and wondrous places. But, evil stalks them at every turn, and soon they are caught up in a dangerous adventure, pitted against the sorcerer Samis who seeks the ultimate power of the Singer of all Songs.

Juvenile Fiction

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2005-03-01

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Deathstalker

Simon R. Green

Owen Deathstalker, last of the infamous warrior Clan, always considered himself more of a writer than a fighter, preferring his history books to making any actual history with a sword. But books won’t protect him from Her Imperial Majesty Lionstone XIV, who just Outlawed and condemned Owen to death, without any explanation, reason, or warning. No wonder she’s called the Iron Bitch. Now, on the run from Imperial starcruisers, shady mercenaries, and just about everyone else in the Empire, Owen’s options are limited. Though the name Deathstalker still commands respect in certain quarters, out on the Rim, Owen is lucky he can cobble together a makeshift team of castoffs, including an ex-pirate, a cyborg, and a bounty hunter. But allies won’t be enough to save him. If he’s to live, Owen can either run forever...or take down the corrupt Empire. To do that, he’ll need the fabled Darkvoid Device—an artifact dating back to the first Deathstalker and perhaps the only weapon powerful enough to help this ragtag rebellion win. The time has come for Owen to finally embrace his Deathstalker heritage...and all the blood and death that go along with it. Deathstalker is the first book in New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green’s beloved space opera series.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9xoqDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2016-05-04

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Last Son of Krypton

Michael Dahl

The distant planet Krypton faces total destruction. Before it explodes, the scientist Jor-El and his wife Lara send their only son into outer space. Later, the child's rocket crashes into a Kansas cornfield where a farmer and his wife discover the boy and his strange powers.

Juvenile Fiction

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2010

1406214841

Sphere

Michael Crichton

From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Congo comes a psychological thriller about a group of scientists who investigate a spaceship discovered on the ocean floor. In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface, a huge vessel is unearthed. Rushed to the scene is a team of American scientists who descend together into the depths to investigate the astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship, but apparently it is undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old, containing a terrifying and destructive force that must be controlled at all costs.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t4b69z5hs58C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2012-05-14

0307816486

Enchantress from the Stars

Sylvia Engdahl

Rediscover this beloved Newbery Honor-winning classic, Featuring a brand-new cover and a foreword by Lois Lowry! Elana, a member of an interstellar civilization on a mission to a medieval planet, becomes the key to a dangerous plan to turn back an invasion. How can she help the Andrecians, who still believe in magic and superstition, without revealing her own alien powers? At the same time, Georyn, the son of an Andrecian woodcutter, knows only that there is a dragon in the enchanted forest, and he must defeat it. He sees Elana as the Enchantress from the Stars who has come to test him, to prove he is worthy. One of the few science fiction books to win a Newbery Honor, this novel continues to enthrall readers of all ages. Critical acclaim for Enchantress from the Stars: A Newbery Honor Book A Junior Library Guild selection An ALA Notable pick Winner of the Phoenix Award Finalist for the Book Sense Book of the Year Award

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zRNODwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2018-04-10

1681198460

Thief's Magic

Trudi Canavan

FORGET WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT THE NATURE OF MAGIC. In a world where an industrial revolution is powered by magic, Tyen, a student of archaeology, unearths a sentient book called Vella. Once a young sorcerer-bookbinder, Vella was transformed into a useful tool by one of the greatest sorcerers of history. Since then she has been collecting information, including a vital clue to the disaster Tyen's world faces. Elsewhere, in an land ruled by the priests, Rielle the dyer's daughter has been taught that to use magic is to steal from the Angels. Yet she knows she has a talent for it, and that there is a corrupter in the city willing to teach her how to use it -- should she dare to risk the Angels' wrath. But not everything is as Tyen and Rielle have been raised to believe. Not the nature of magic, nor the laws of their lands... and not even the people they trust. AN EPIC NEW FANTASY ADVENTURE BEGINS.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pMrIoQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2015-05-05

0316209252

A Fire Upon the Deep

Vernor Vinge

Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space - from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these 'zones of thought', but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artefact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines - an alien race with a harsh medieval culture - and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue party, not entirely composed of humans, must free the children - and retrieve a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uRjpxtbshBYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2013-01-24

057512881X

The Monsters of Otherness

Kaza Kingsley

Trouble is brewing in quiet, pleasant Alypium, and only Erec Rex can make it better. All of the baby dragons have mysteriously disappeared, and King Piter has lost the trust of his people. Worse, the evil Stain brothers will become the new rulers of the Kingdom of the Keepers unless Erec returns to Alypium and challenges them. but if Erec becomes king, the power of the royal scepter could destroy him completely. As Erec performs deadly quests in pursuit of the throne, he discovers that the right path brings many risks and few rewards -- and when he must delve into the Substance that holds our world together, he must summon all of his strength just to survive.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-wUIxVG34FcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2009-03-28

1416985573

Double Identity

Margaret Peterson Haddix

So my only protection is a kindergarten teacher and a ninety-eight-pound female minister....And they don't even believe I'm in danger. As Bethany approaches her thirteenth birthday, her parents begin acting more oddly than usual: Her mother cries constantly, and her father barely lets Bethany out of his sight. Then one morning he hustles the entire family into the car, drives across several state lines -- and leaves Bethany with an aunt she never knew existed. Bethany has no idea what's going on. She's worried that her mom and dad are running from some kind of trouble, but she can't find out because they won't tell her where they are going. Bethany's only clue is a few words she overheard her father tell her aunt Myrlie: "She doesn't know anything about Elizabeth." But Aunt Myrlie won't tell Bethany who Elizabeth is, and she won't explain why people in her small town react to Bethany as if they've seen a ghost. The mystery intensifies when Bethany gets a package from her father containing four different birth certificates from four states, with four different last names -- and thousands of dollars in cash. And when a strange man shows up asking questions, Bethany realizes she's not the only one who's desperate to unravel the secrets of her past. In this exhilarating thriller, Margaret Peterson Haddix crafts a taut story so full of twists and turns, readers will be gripped until the startling conclusion.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JbXIM7KdQX8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2008-06-20

1439106657

The Outcasts

William Alexander Fraser

The story of A'Tim the Outcast who was half Wolf, half Huskie Dog. He was an Outcast because neither side of the house of his ancestry recognized him. He was an outcast vagabond on the southern prairie, close to the Montana borderland.

Animals

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k1QCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

1901

68349288361698

White Light

Ronald J. Friis

White Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco examines the interplay of complementary images and concepts in the award-winning Mexican writer's cycle of poems from 1979 to 2018. Blanco’s poetic trilogy A la luz de siempre is characterized by its broad range of form and subject and by the poet's own eclectic background as a chemist, maker of collages, and musician. Blanco speaks the language of the visual arts, science, mathematics, music, and philosophy, and creates work with deep interdisciplinary roots. This book explores how polarities such as space and place, reading and writing, sound and silence, visual and verbal representation, and faith and doubt are woven through A la luz de siempre. These complements reveal how Blanco’s poetry, like the phenomenon of white light, embraces paradox and transforms into something more than the sum of its disparate and polychromatic parts.

Literary Criticism

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_9ZOEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2021-11-12

1684483476

The Dragon's Tooth

Nathan D. Wilson

When their parents' seedy old motel burns down on the same night they are visited by a strange man covered in skeleton tattoos, Cyrus, Antigone, and their brother Daniel are introduced to an ancient secret society, and discover that they have an important role in keeping it alive.

Apprentices

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q4isAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2011

1299272835

Freddy's Final Quest

Dietlof Reiche

Freddy the golden hamster and his animal cohorts, along with a computerized, robotic golden hamster, travel back in time to Assyria, where some of them are captured by crusaders and Freddy gets a taste of undomesticated living.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mcPrAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2007

96285050379612

Flight into Danger

John Castle, Arthur Hailey

When George Spencer, a salesman trouble-shooter, managed late one night to catch the last seat on a charter plane at Winnipeg, there was nothing to distinguish the flight from hundreds of others which take place all over the world every day. The fifty-odd passengers were ordinary, intelligent people out to enjoy themselves at an important ball game. The crew were well-trained and efficient. The aircraft was a four-engined luxury plane of the type you would see at any large airport. True, they were late arriving at Winnipeg from Toronto due to local ground fog, but there was nothing alarming in that. It was soon after they had begun the last leg of their journey, across 1,500 miles of rugged mountainous country to Vancouver, that things started to happen - things that could happen anywhere. The reader shares the nerve-wracking tension of an appalling emergency nearly four miles above the earth, learns something of what it means to attempt to control a modern airliner, and follows step by step the urgent developments on the ground. Flight into Danger is a unique collaboration between John Castle and Arthur Hailey, two writers who have each established for himself a considerable reputation for fully-documented, completely realistic suspense. It was originally published in the USA under the title Runway Zero-Eight.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gSuGDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2015-10-01

0285643223

Almuric

Robert E. Howard

Almuric is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert E. Howard. It was originally serialized in three parts in the magazine Weird Tales beginning in May 1939. The novel features a muscular hero known on earth as Esau Cairn, a complete misfit in modern America who "belongs in a simpler age". Exploited by a corrupt political boss whom he finally kills with his bare hands, Cairn must flee. A sympathetic scientist helps him get through space to a world known as Almuric where he finds frightening monsters and beautiful women.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wMmjEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2022-11-22

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Gladiator

Ridley Scott, Walter Parkes, Sharon Black, Diana Landau, David Franzoni

The official illustrated companion book to the winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Russell Crowe), Costume Design, Sound, and Visual Effects. Director Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Alien) brings the glorious battles of the ancient Roman arena back to the big screen. Set against the splendor and barbarity of the Roman Empire in AD 180, Gladiator tells an epic story of courage and revenge: The great Roman general Maximus (Russell Crowe) has been forced into exile and slavery by the jealous heir to the throne, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix). Trained as a gladiator, Maximus returns to Rome, intent on avenging the murder of his family by Commodus, now emperor. The one power stronger than that of the emperor is the will of the people, and Maximus knows he can attain his revenge only by becoming the greatest hero in all the Empire. Russell Crowe heads up an international cast that includes Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielson, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, and Richard Harris. Directed by Ridley Scott from a script by David Franzoni and John Logan, Gladiator is produced by Franzoni, Douglas Wick, and Branko Lustig, with Walter F. Parkes serving as executive producer. This is the official full-color companion book, featuring excerpts from the screenplay, historical sidebars and illustrations, details on period costumes and epic set designs, behind-the-scenes photographs from the location filming, and interviews with the screenwriters, actors, and director.

Performing Arts

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2000

1557044317

Spirits in the Wires

Charles de Lint

At a popular Newford online research and library Web site called the Wordwood, a mysterious crash occurs. Everyone visiting the site at the moment of the crash vanishes from where they were sitting in front of their computers. Christy Ridding's girldfriend Saskia disappears right before his eyes, along with countless others. To rescue their missing friends, Christy and his companions must journey into Newford's otherworld, where the Wordwood, it transpires, has a physical presence of its own...

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i2wcmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2004-09-01

0312869711

The Children of Tomorrow

Om Swami

'I realize now more than ever that the future of our world rests entirely on our children. On their tender shoulders rests a great nation, a baffling world and a beautiful planet. It is, therefore, my dharma to share what I know so a parent's hand is raised only to protect their child.'Penning his thoughts on the art of spiritual and mindful parenting, Om Swami sheds light on many a scenario where parents and children don't always see eye-to-eye. Believing that the right guidance at the right time can make any child recognize their true potential, the author shares some extraordinary insights based on his own knowledge gleaned from experience and various psychological studies that can help steer your child in the right direction. Touching upon parenting challenges, building the right pillars of guidance and nurturing core values, this book has all you need to raise happy, healthy children.

Family & Relationships

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hcWMDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2019-04-16

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Factoring Humanity

Robert J. Sawyer

A twenty-first-century scientist sacrifices her family life to decipher the strange signals coming from interstellar space, messages that show her how to build an extraordinary machine that allows one to travel via the mind.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4fxjjOdye3wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2003-11-21

0765309033

Treason

Ruth R. Greig

Commander of mercenaries Lucius Aurelius has been charged with treason. Can he escape justice to save himself and his family from the weight of his crime, from death?

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iNHNwnUFjocC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2005

1412049253

Enemy of the State

Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills

“In the world of black-op thrillers, Mitch Rapp continues to be among the best of the best” (Booklist, starred review), and he returns in the #1 New York Times bestselling series alone and targeted by a country that is supposed to be one of America’s closest allies. After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history—the evidence against the powerful Saudis who coordinated the attack would be buried and in return, King Faisal would promise to keep the oil flowing and deal with the conspirators in his midst. But when the king’s own nephew is discovered funding ISIS, the furious President gives Rapp his next mission: he must find out more about the high-level Saudis involved in the scheme and kill them. The catch? Rapp will get no support from the United States. Forced to make a decision that will change his life forever, Rapp quits the CIA and assembles a group of independent contractors to help him complete the mission. They’ve barely begun unraveling the connections between the Saudi government and ISIS when the brilliant new head of the intelligence directorate discovers their efforts. With Rapp getting too close, he threatens to go public with the details of the post-9/11 agreement between the two countries. Facing an international incident that could end his political career, the President orders America’s intelligence agencies to join the Saudis’ effort to hunt the former CIA man down. Rapp, supported only by a team of mercenaries with dubious allegiances, finds himself at the center of the most elaborate manhunt in history. With white-knuckled twists and turns leading to “an explosive climax” (Publishers Weekly), Enemy of the State is an unputdownable thrill ride that will keep you guessing until the final page.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aZavDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2017-09-05

1476783543

Dream Park

Larry Niven

A gaming park where visitors come to have their fantasies fulfilled turns into a nightmare when a game turns to murder.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P5R0gTTQ3kEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1982

0441167276

Forever Peace

Joe Haldeman

In the year 2043, the Ngumi War rages. Limited nuclear strikes have been used on Atlanta and two enemy cities, but the war goes on, fought by 'soldierboys' - indestructible war machines operated by remote control by soldiers hundreds of miles away. Julian Class is one of these soldiers, and for him war is truly hell. The psychological strain of being jacked-in to his soldierboy - and the genocidal results - are becoming too much to bear. Now he and his companion, Dr Amelia Harding, have made a terrifying scientific discovery, which could literally take the universe back to square one. Except that for Julian, the discovery isn't so much terrifying as tempting... Winner of the Hugo Award for best novel, 1998 Winner of the Nebula Award for best novel, 1998 Winner of the John W. Campbell Award for best novel, 1998

Fiction

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2011-11-14

0575111453

The Court of the Air

Stephen Hunt

Targeted for their possession of a magical secret that has forced them into lives of hardship, street-wise Molly and sheltered Oliver find themselves on the run in the company of outlaws and spies who assist their efforts to counter ancient enemies of the state.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ve51ldGW7SUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2009-03-31

0765360225

The Traitors

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Reproduction of the original: The Traitors by E. Phillips Oppenheim

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LMBcDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2018-05-23

3732685705

An Exchange of Hostages

Susan R. Matthews

Under Jurisdiction torture isnt about truth. Its about terror. The Jurisdictions Bench has come to rely on the institutionalized atrocities of the Protocols to maintain its control of an increasingly unstable political environment. When Andrej Koscuisko, a talented young doctor, reports to orientation as a Ships Inquisitor he will discover in himself something far worse than a talent for inflicting grotesque torments on the Benchs enemies. He will confront a passion for the exercise of the Writ to Inquire whose intensity threatens to consume him utterly. As he struggles to find some thread of justice and compassion under the Law, as he fights to hang on to what remains to him of his sanity, he will make powerful enemies who are eager to use his knowledge, his empathy, his passion against anyone who challenges the Bench. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Advance Praise for An Exchange of Hostages: A grisly and absorbing work -- a truly disturbing exercise in psychological inquiry. Susan R. Matthews has envisioned her future society well....Matthews greatest achievement may well be the empathy she wins for both the avid abhorrence with which Koscuisko contemplates his own actions and the stricken loyalty with which the slaves assigned to him view himself. Other writers have approached these themes -- Gene Wolf and Elizabeth A. Lynn leap to mind -- but none to my knowledge have plunged the reader so deeply into them. Susan R. Matthews simply doesnt flinch. In that, An Exchange of Hostages can stand comparison to Dostoyevskys The Possessed. -Stephen R. Donaldson A very intense novel. An absorbing and frightening character study...the more you learned about the situation these people were trapped in, the more horrifying it became....An extremely talented writer. I cant wait to see what she does next. -Martha Wells Powerful, insidious, and insightful -- a singular accomplishment for a tenth novel, let alone a first. -Melanie Rawn

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SnF0CwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

1997-04-01

1625792573

Erebos

Ursula Poznanski

Translation of German book with same title.

Computer games

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DQ_NygAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2012

1554513723

To Our Children's Children

Bob Greene

A warm, accessible, step-by-step guide to creating precious personal histories from the memories of older people, by the best-selling author of Hang Time and his sister, journalist D. G. Fulford.

Reference

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HzuNEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1993-02-01

0385467974

Transmaniacon

John Shirley

John Shirley’s Debut Novel! Ben Rackey, Professional Irritant: A man who is assigned to steal the Exciter—a device that can amplify and release strong, hostile human emotions in anyone, anywhere. The Exciter can turn suppressed anger into a full-scale war. With the power to psychically manipulate crowds of people, Rackey can demolish The Barrier, an invisible wall of densely flowing ions entirely enclosing the continental United States...and escape. BEN RACKEY Foremost Professional irritant, remarkable in acting both as burglar and inciter in the bizarre and pleasure-seeking world of the 22nd century is a fearless, ruthless man of ingenuity, completely overwhelmed with his own strength. His latest and most dangerous assignment is to steal THE EXCITER. A dangerous and fragile device for the augmentation of the telepathic transfer of mania. By seeking out and amplifying strong, hostile human emotions, the exciter can turn a street brawl into a full scale war. As soon as Ben has possession if it he will have the power to destroy THE BARRIER. Conceived as the perfect defense against nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare, it was activated in 1989 - an invisible screen of densely flowing ions entirely enclosing the continental zone labeled "The United States." Once the barrier is demolished Ben can escape.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3oriDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2016-09-06

1633553728

The Day of the Star Cities

John Brunner

Earth is invaded by an alien race, causing panic for months as all the atomic weapons and fissionable material on Earth to blow up suddenly.

End of the world (Astronomy)

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=igc_AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1965

83184307535253

The Planiverse

A.K. Dewdney

A classic book about life in a two-dimensional universe, written by a well-known author. Now brought back into print in this revised and updated edition, the book is written within the great tradition of Abbott's Flatland, and Hinton's famous Sphereland. Accessible, imaginative, and clever, it will appeal to a wide array of readers, from serious mathematicians and computer scientists, to science fiction fans.

Science

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gkrxBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2012-12-06

1461301998

Olivia Kidney

Ellen Potter

Twelve-year-old Olivia explores her new apartment building and finds a psychic, talking lizards, a shrunken ex-pirate, an exiled princess, ghosts, and other unusual characters. Ages 9+.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=emDDYz4wWHAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2005

0330420798

Blood Music

Greg Bear

Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the authorities rule that he has exceeded his authorization, Vergil loses his job, but is determined to take his discovery with him.

Holistic nursing

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S09RkgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1985

1596871067

This Is How It Ends

Kathleen MacMahon

The Richard & Judy Bookclub pick from the author of Nothing But Blue Sky, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, 2021 This is when it begins Autumn, 2008. This is where it begins The coast of Dublin. This is why it begins Bruno, an American, has come to Ireland to search for his roots. Addie, an out-of-work architect, is recovering from heartbreak while taking care of her infirm father. When their worlds collide, they experience a connection unlike any they've previously felt, but soon their newfound love will be tested in ways they never imagined possible. This is how it ends . . .

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DqciNoCFJSsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2012-05-03

0748132198

Time for the Stars

Robert Anson Heinlein

For a telepathic twin on an exploratory space voyage only a few years pass, yet, when he returns to Earth his brother is ready to celebrate his ninetieth birthday.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EOqldvpkf9wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1990

068419211X

Banewreaker

Jacqueline Carey

Following the triumphant success of her Kushiel series (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar), Jacqueline Carey now turns her hand to another startling fable, an epic tale of gods waging war in their bid to control an entire universe and the mortals they use as chess pieces in a most deadly game. Once, the Seven Shapers dwelled in accord. First-born among them was Haomane, Lord-of-Thought and with his brother and sister gods, the Seven drew upon of the power of the Souma, claimed a race of beings for their own and began Shaping the world to their will. But Haomane saw the ways of this new world and was displeased. For in his younger brother Satoris, once called the Sower, Haomane thought too prideful and in his gift, the quickening of the flesh too freely to the races...and to that of Man in particular. Haomane asked Satoris to withdraw his Gift from Men but he refused. And so began the Shapers' War. Eons have passed. The war that ensued Sundered the very world. Haomane and his siblings lay to one end of a vast ocean unable to touch their creations, Satoris and the races of the world on the other. Satoris has been broken and left adrift among the peoples of the world and is reviled, with most of the races believing that it was he alone who caused the rift and depriving them of the balm of the Seven. He sits in Darkhaven, controlling his own dominion--seeking not victory but neither vengeance. But still Haomane is not content. Through Haomane's whispers in the minds and hearts of the races of the world come a prophecy that if Satoris were defeated, the world could be made whole and all would bask in the light of the Souma again. And the few who stay by Satoris are viewed as the ultimate evil. And so the races come together to defeat Satoris, a being who helped engender them all but who is caught in his elder brother's warp. Strong storytelling with evocative, compelling, and unforgettable characters, Banewrecker ultimately asks the question: If all that is considered good considers you evil, are you? 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=jkfoZ_lMO64C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2005-08-01

1429910941

Great Sky River

Gregory Benford

The Family had never seen a manhunter like it. And when its machine-mind engulfed Cap'n Fanny, they knew Mantis was no simple killing-mech. A collector of human minds, a plunderer of living personalities, Mantis was a weaver of complex, murderous illusions. But why, Killeen wondered, did it indulge in such elaborate variations on slaughter when in a single blast it could destroy the remnants of Mankind? His answer lay waiting in Mantis's extraordinary sensorium, in the museum of living ghosts and defiled spirits which drove the heart of the machine . . .

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m7qPC03vz1MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2013-03-18

0575118172

Lord Foul's Bane

Stephen R. Donaldson

“Covenant is [Stephen R.] Donaldson's genius!”—The Village Voice He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, because he dared not believe in this strange alternate world on which he suddenly found himself. Yet the Land tempted him. He had been sick; now he seemed better than ever before. Through no fault of his own, he had been outcast, unclean, a pariah. Now he was regarded as a reincarnation of the Land's greatest hero—Berek Halfhand—armed with the mystic power of White Gold. That power alone could protect the Lords of the Land from the ancient evil of the Despiser, Lord Foul. Except that Covenant had no idea how to use that power. . . .

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9bEqU8bzdUEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2012-05-16

0307818659

Star of the Unborn

Franz Werfel

A satiric fantasy predicting the shape of things to come.

German fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w6I0AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1946

35800854426689

Once a Witch

Carolyn MacCullough

Tamsin is raised believing that she alone in her witch family lacks a magical "Talent," but when her sister is taken by an old rival of the family in an attempt to change the balance of power, Tamsin discovers her true destiny.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mlqrQwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2010-09

0547417306

Special Deliverance

Clifford D. Simak

They were six ill-assorted players of the strangest game ever devised. Set on a strange planet, they knew neither its rules or its aim. There was the giant blue cube, the ruined city, the singing tower, the roaring wall of Chaos - all deadly dangerous, all part of the challenge that the unwilling travellers must confront. But what was it all for - and would they survive to find out?

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ojWpDZV145cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-09-29

0575122633

Relic Tech

Terry W. Ervin II

The Silicate War has been over for fifteen years, and the tension among the dominant galactic races is growing. Many fear that the Umblegarri, the ancient alien race that ushered humanity into the interstellar galactic community during the Silicate War, have been targeted for conquest by the Crax and their allies. It's no longer speculation. The invasion is underway and Kra finds himself strapped to a hospital bed, critically injured and surrounded by hostile corporate lawyers, high ranking military and intelligence officials, ambitious members of the criminal justice apparatus, and an Umbelgarri diplomat. All are demanding answers or their pound of flesh. Krakista Keesay, a Class 4 Security Specialist, doesn't have the answers they demand. Why did he sabotage a top secret research facility? What was he doing on a quarantined planet? Why did he set up the civil transport Kalavar for destruction? Is that all? Not even close. Kra turns to his only option: Allow his brain to be hooked up to an experimental device so that he might prove his innocence. Or lose his mind.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iLFjDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2018-07-11

81419010441494

The Galaxy Primes

Edward Elmer Smith

The big psionicist's expression of saturnine, almost contemptuous amusement had not changed; his voice came flat and cold. “The less you say, Doctor Bellamy, the better. Obstinate, swell-headed women give me an acute rectal pain. Pitching your curves over all the vizzies in space got you aboard, but it won't get you a thing from here on. And for your information, Doctor Bellamy, one more crack like that and I take you over my knee and blister your fanny...FROM THE BOOKS.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nlTNEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2023-07-27

97729242304029

Rocheworld

Robert L. Forward

Powered by a revolutionary, laser-driven stardrive, the first interstellar spaceship would reach the double planet that circled Barnard's Star in a mere 20 years. Some of the world's finest scientists were aboard the ship--prepared for adventure, danger and the thrill of scientific discovery.

Human-alien encounters

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7NIMAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1990

0671698699

Running With The Demon

Terry Brooks

***50 MILLION TERRY BROOKS COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD*** THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES IS NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES 'Terry's place is at the head of the fantasy world' Philip Pullman It is the beginning of the hottest July in decades, and two men have come to Hopewell, Illinois. One is not human, a dark servant of the Void, who will use the anger and frustration of the community to achieve a terrible secret goal. The other is John Ross, a Knight of the Word. While he sleeps, he lives in the hell the world will become if he fails to change its course on waking. John Ross has been given the ability to see the future. But does he have the power to change it? At stake is the soul of a fourteen-year-old girl and the lives of the people of Hopewell. And that's just the beginning. This Fourth of July, while friends and families picnic in Sinnissippi Park and fireworks explode in celebration of freedom and independence, the fate of Humanity itself will be decided . . . Praise for Terry Brooks: 'A master of the craft . . . required reading' Brent Weeks 'I can't even begin to count how many of Terry Brooks's books I've read (and re-read) over the years' Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind 'I would not be writing epic fantasy today if not for Shannara' Peter V. Brett, author of The Painted Man 'If you haven't read Terry Brooks, you haven't read fantasy' Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon The Word and the Void: RUNNING WITH THE DEMON A KNIGHT OF THE WORD ANGEL FIRE EAST

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aJdCTfsodXQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2012-02-23

1405515732

The Elder Gods

David Eddings, Leigh Eddings

A new world and a glorious story destined to reach the biggest audience yet.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f8WmpXxe_AoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2010-03-25

0007368046

Time's Eye

Arthur Charles Clarke, Stephen Baxter

Sir Arthur C. Clarke is a living legend, a writer whose name has been synonymous with science fiction for more than fifty years. An indomitable believer in human and scientific potential, Clarke is a genuine visionary. If Clarke has an heir among today's science fiction writers, it is award-winning author Stephen Baxter. In each of his acclaimed novels, Baxter has demonstrated dazzling gifts of imagination and intellect, along with a rare ability to bring the most cerebral science dramatically to life. Now these two champions of humanism and scientific speculation have combined their talents in a novel sure to be one of the most talked-about of the year, a 2001 for the new millennium. TIME'S EYE For eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankind-- until they act. In an instant, Earth is carved up and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the planet and every living thing on it no longer exist in a single timeline. Instead, the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants. Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Are these technologically advanced devices responsible for creating and sustaining the rifts in time? Are they cameras through which inscrutable alien eyes are watching? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still? The answer may lie in the ancient city of Babylon, where two groups of refugees from 2037--three cosmonauts returning to Earth from the International Space Station, and three United Nations peacekeepers on a mission in Afghanistan--have detected radio signals: the only such signals on the planet, apart from their own. The peacekeepers find allies in nineteenth-century British troops and in the armies of Alexander the Great. The astronauts, crash-landed in the steppes of Asia, join forces with the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan. The two sides set out for Babylon, each determined to win the race for knowledge . . . and the power that lies within. Yet the real power is beyond human control, perhaps even human understanding. As two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting. . . .

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QEPhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2004

43523185007588

Too Far

Rich Shapero

Blaze a trail with two wayward kids as they explore a private forest whose supernatural potentials illuminate the triumphs and follies of desperate imagination.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WUogEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2010-06-06

097188014X

The Night Watch

Sarah Waters

I thought everything would change, after the war. And now, no one even mentions it. It is as if we all got together in private and said whatever you do don't mention that, like it never happened. It's the late 1940s. Calm has returned to London and five people are recovering from the chaos of war. In scenes set in a quiet dating agency, a bombed-out church and a prison cell, the stories of these five lives begin to intertwine and we uncover the desire and regret that has bound them together. Sarah Waters's story of illicit love and everyday heroism takes us from a dazed and shattered post-war Britain back into the heart of the Blitz, towards the secrets that are hidden there. Olivier-nominated playwright Hattie Naylor has created a thrilling and theatrically inventive adaptation of a great modern novel. The stage adaptation of The Night Watch was premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, on 16 May 2016.

Performing Arts

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FhNNDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2016-07-28

1350014087

Tau Zero

Poul Anderson

The epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew to a planet some thirty light-years distant. But, because the ship will accelerate to close to the speed of light, for those on board subjective time will slow and the journey will be of only a few years' duration. Then a buffeting by an interstellar dustcloud changes everything. The ship's deceleration system is damaged irreperably and soon she is gaining velocity. When she attains light-speed, tau zero itself, the disparity between ship-time and external time becomes almost impossibly great. Eons and galaxies hurtle by, and the crew of the Leonora Christine speeds into the unknown.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nev4rcC76pcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2010-12-30

0575088044

The Secret of the Ninth Planet

Donald Wollheim

While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved. In this book I have assumed that the many researchers now actually at work on this problem will achieve such a result in the next decade. It is not at all impossible that they may—for we all know that the more minds that work at a problem, the sooner it will be solved. The discovery of a means of negating, reversing or otherwise utilizing the immense force of gravitation for space flight purposes is now thought to be within the bounds of probability. It should occur some time within the next hundred years, possibly in even the short period I assume here. Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The whole timetable of our conquest of the planets in our solar system would be tremendously speeded up, from hot Mercury all the way out to frigid Pluto. In describing the visits of the spaceship Magellan to the planets, I have endeavored to adhere to known facts and the more reasonable assumptions about each of these worlds. The planet Pluto, however, deserves further comment, occupying as it does both an important role in this adventure and a unique one in actual astronomical lore.

Young Adult Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B9N4DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2017-09-22

3962555560

Journey Outside

Mary Q. Steele

The Raft People live in darkness and travel a circular journey on an underground river. One boy finds his way outside and tries to learn as much as possible so he can ultimately lead his people to the Better Place.

Children's stories

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tXyk20U7zLwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1991

0440845262

Starfarers

Poul Anderson

Starfarers is the story of an expedition into the far reaches of the galaxy, where answers to mankind's greatest questions await. The saga begins when evidence of an advanced civilization is discovered by SETI astronomers. "Trails" observed in the sky are thought to be from starships travelling at the speed of light, an enigma that spurs scientific minds until this breakthrough is achieved by mankind as well. An expedition is then mounted and an eclectic team of scientists chosen to journey into the sector where the intelligent life is allegedly located. But because the destination of the starship, Envoy, and her crew is 60,000 light-years away, the time required to reach the point of origin of the signals and return is 120,000 years - longer than Homo sapiens has been on Earth. And though the crew is ready to face the ramifications of such a trek, no one is prepared for what awaits them at the outer edge of the cosmos - or back at the planet they once called home. Starfarers is a story of patience and immediacy, but most of all of courage. It is a saga for anyone who has ever felt the emptiness of life on Earth and found the missing substance in the spaces between the stars.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qQe83hks6VkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-09-29

0575108983

The Killing Star

Charles Pellegrino, George Zebrowski

A near-future thriller of a devastating alien invasion from the paleontologist who inspired Jurassic Park and the award-winning science fiction author. There were always those who disagreed with broadcasting signals into the deepest reaches of outer space, because our mere existence could be taken as a threat. They were right to be concerned . . . In the spring of 2076, just days short of America’s tricentennial celebrations, every inhabited surface in the solar system gets wiped out by a catastrophic storm of relativistic bombs, flaming swords that pierced the sky. The only two survivors left on Earth exist in a submersible that had been exploring the Titanic’s final resting place on the bottom of the North Atlantic. In space, only the settlers in small, asteroid-based colonies have gone unnoticed by the aliens—for now. But any sign of life, any call for help, might bring the Intruders straight to them. These far-flung survivors are now on their own, stalked by a ruthless, faceless enemy straight out of the nightmares of humanity’s greatest minds—those lone voices whose warnings went ignored. “[A] novel of such conceptual ferocity and scientific plausibility that it amounts to a reinvention of that old Wellsian staple, [alien invasion].” —The New York Times Book Review “Relentless . . . The ultimate disaster novel . . . A thought-experiment and warning.” —The Denver Post “A whirlwind of ideas . . . full of action and danger . . . Pellegrino and Zebrowski are working territory not too far removed from Arthur C. Clarke’s, and anywhere Clarke is popular, this book should be, too.” —Booklist

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nJj0EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2024-01-23

1504090837

A Maze Of Death

Philip K. Dick

From Hugo Award–winning author Philip K. Dick, A Maze of Death is a sci-fi murder mystery set on a mysterious planet where colonists experience unexplained shifts in reality and perception. Delmak-O is a dangerous planet. Though there are only fourteen citizens, no one can trust anyone else and death can strike at any moment. The planet is vast and largely unexplored, populated mostly by gelatinous cube-shaped beings that give cryptic advice in the form of anagrams. Deities can be spoken to directly via a series of prayer amplifiers and transmitters, but they may not be happy about it. And the mysterious building in the distance draws all the colonists to it, but when they get there each sees a different motto on the front. The mystery of this structure and the secrets contained within drive this mind-bending novel.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=omRyjWBYTmcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

2013-04-16

0544018494

Central Heat

David Dvorkin

When aliens remove the sun, life survives in military bunkers under the earth and in lunar bases. Underground America devolves into a religious-military dictatorship. Jonathan Holroyd escapes to the surface and finds a new world warmed by an artificial sun, and only slightly more freedom than in the dying world he left behind. He rises to a position of power. But now the aliens are coming back.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_GcIBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2010-05-05

96582695183801

The Covenant Rising

Stan Nicholls

In a land where magic defines the social order, the ruling tyrants alone control the most powerful sorcery ... One of the last of a massacred race of warriors -- an unparalleled swordsman magically afflicted by spells of blind, uncontrollable rage -- Reeth Caldason wanders Bhealfa seeking vengeance ... and freedom from his strange malady. Now word has come from a sorcerer's apprentice of a mysterious Covenant in the capital city, a secretive society that may provide the escape Reeth desires. But forming an uneasy alliance with the youthful messenger could ultimately prove disastrous -- for the road they musttravel together leads into the sordid heart of a perilous conspiracy of treachery, tyranny, necromancy, and death.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zWO5npKDHcIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2009-10-13

0061828130

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

Italo Calvino

A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest. But the real hero of them all is you, the reader. 'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell 'A writer of dizzying ambition and variety, each of his stories is a fresh adventure into the possibilities of fiction' Guardian

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R9qnfnugEOsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2010-12-23

1446414337

Mutineer's Moon

David Weber

MUTINY For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the Moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face of the enemy. The mutiny was never resolved-Dahak was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crew on prehistoric Earth. Dahak has been helplessly waiting as the descendants of the loyal crew regressed while the mutineers maintained control of technology that kept them alive as the millennia passed. But now Dahak's sensors indicate that the enemy that devastated the Imperium so long ago has returned-and Earth is in their path. For the sake of the planet, Dahak must mobilize its defenses. And that it cannot do until the mutineers are put down. So Dahak has picked Colin Maclntyre to be its new captain. Now Maclntyre must mobilize humanity to destroy the mutineers once and for all-or Earth will become a cinder in the path of galactic conquest. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KqR0CwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

1994-10-01

1618241206

And the Devil Will Drag You Under

Jack L. Chalker

Asmodeus Mogart was not a bad fellow, as demons go. Having gotten in trouble back in the home office, he had been assigned to duty on Earth. There he toiled, doing the kinds of things demons do and turning into something of a drunk. Then a rogue asteroid threatened to crash into Earth and destroy all life on the planet - demons included! There had to be a better way. Mac Walters and Jill McCullough, holding a private wake for their world in a Reno bar, were more than startled when a strange-looking little drunk told them they could save the world. All they had to do was enter five alternate universes and steal a demon-guarded jewel in each. Clearly, the man was crazy. But they had nothing better to do than go along with the gag. Then they each found themselves, naked and alone, on a hostile alien world!

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GUHJAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2013-10-02

057509785X

Blindsight

Peter Watts

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. 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=FVMzz-xINLsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2006-10-03

1429955198