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The Parasite War

Timothy R. Sullivan

A combat veteran leads a rag-tag group of survivors in an all-out war against invading aliens! The world's cities have been destroyed by a ghastly holocaust from space. The few remaining souls eke out an existence in the ruins, ransacking skyscrapers for food, and living in the city's sewers like vermin. Alex Ward, a man who has lost everything, and a beautiful woman named Jo, unite the survivors to battle the slithering menace of the Colloids, parasites whose seed has drifted through space for millions of years in search of the perfect world for their depredations - Earth! When Alex and Jo discover the Colloids' ultimate biological purpose, the motley band of guerillas are put to the test in a monstrous battle for the future of mankind!

Fiction

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2011-12-12

0575127325

Sparrowhawks

Ben Crane

Flying imprint sparrowhawks is often unfairly portrayed as being overly complex and highly technical. Sparrowhawks - A Falconer's Guide aims to paint a far more informed picture, and to perhaps dispel some of the myths. Written with the beginner in mind, it is based on considerable first-hand experience of the author and a number of other respected falconers from the United Kingdom, Croatia, Ireland and Turkey who have specialized in flying sparrowhawks. By drawing comparisons with some of the most ancient trapping and training techniques of the East, and by making a connection with modern Western falconry practices, this remarkable book encapsulates the timeless beauty and joy of sparrowhawking, which crosses all cultures. Topics covered include: equipment, preparing to receive your sparrowhawk chick and imprinting; training, behaviour, quarry, entering, field craft and hawking in many different types of terrain; methodologies of captive breeding in the West; problems associated with the rehabilitation and release of wild sparrowhawks in the United Kingdom and finally, the vitally important subject of sparrowhawk health and welfare. Superbly illustrated with over 200 colour photographs.

Nature

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

2014-05-31

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Inverted World

Christopher Priest

A uniquely powerful novel of a society in decay. On a planet whose very nature is a mystery a massive decrepit city is pulled along a massive railway track, laying the line down before it as it progresses into the wilderness. The society within toils under an oppressive regime, its structures always on the point of collapse, the lives of its individuals lived in misery. No one knows where they are going, why they are going or what they will find when they get there. The ending of the novel provides one of the most profound twists in SF. Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1974. Christopher Priest is a genre-leading author of SFF fiction. His novel, THE PRESTIGE, won a number of awards and was adapted into a critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film directed by Christopher Nolan (TENET, INCEPTION) starring Hugh Jackman (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, X-MEN), Christian Bale (THE BIG SHORT, BATMAN BEGINS), Michael Caine (THE ITALIAN JOB) and Scarlett Johansson (MARRIAGE STORY, THE AVENGERS).

Fiction

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2010-05-13

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Being of Two Minds

Pamela F. Service

Connie Hendricks was a typical American teen except for her dizzy spells, when she would pass out. When this happened, she entered the mind and soul of Prince Rudolph, the fourteen-year-old heir apparent of Thulgaria, a small European country. Prince Rudolph had spells too, when he entered Connie's mind and life. Everything was just fine, and their "trick" was their special secret -- until Rudolph was kidnapped while Connie was inside his mind . . .

Juvenile Fiction

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1992-10-24

0449704157

Bazil Broketail

Christopher Rowley

From an award-winning science fiction author comes a rousing dragon fantasy debut reminiscent of dragon mistress Anne McCaffrey's bestselling works. Aided by a hideous terror known as the Doom, dark forces have kidnapped the heir to the throne of Marneri. Now it falls to Battle Dragon Bazil Broketail and his Orphanboy Relkin to rescue her and save their world. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Broketail, Bazil (Fictitious character)

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1992

0451452062

Cobra

Timothy Zahn

EARTH'S ONLY HOPE WAS THE COBRAS The colony worlds Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision. It would attack the aliens not from space, but on the ground¾with forces the Trofts did not even suspect. Thus were created the Cobras, a guerilla force whose weapons were surgically implanted, invisible to the unsuspecting eye, yet undeniably deadly. But power brings temptation, and not all the Cobras could be trusted to fight for Earth alone. Jonny Moreau would learn the uses¾and abuses¾of his special abilities and what it truly meant to be a Cobra. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Fiction

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2015-05-13

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Farthest Star

Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson

A duplicate of Ben Pertin was teleported to the farthest edge of the galaxy to investigate a cosmic anomaly traveling towards earth.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ewjDG06JS78C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1975

0345243307

Futuretrack 5

Robert Westall

In the highly organized society of twenty-first-century Britain the system is not to be questioned, but Kitson, a young computer wizard, and his partner Keri are determined to find answers to some important questions.

Juvenile Fiction

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1983

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West of Eden

Harry Harrison

In this brilliant acclaimed novel dinosaurs still rule the Earth. The cosmic catastrophe that ended the Age of the Dinosaurs 65 million years ago never happened. The evolution of the great reptiles continued, climaxing with the Yilanè, the most intelligent and advanced race on Earth. But when the onset of a new Ice Age forces them to cross the ocean to explore and colonize a vast contingent, they clash violently with a savage new breed of mammal that they have never before encountered. Mammals that walk erect, hunt and use crude stone tools - and weapons . . .

Fiction

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2011-09-29

0575115610

The Dark Tide

Alicia Jasinska

A gripping, dark enemies to lovers LGBTQ+ YA fantasy about two girls who must choose between saving themselves, each other, or their sinking island home. Every year on St. Walpurga's Eve, Caldella's Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace. An innocent life to be sacrificed on the full moon to keep the island city from sinking. Lina Kirk is convinced her brother is going to be taken this year. To save him, she enlists the help of Thomas Lin, the boy she secretly loves, and the only person to ever escape from the palace. But they draw the queen's attention, and Thomas is chosen as the sacrifice. Queen Eva watched her sister die to save the boy she loved. Now as queen, she won't make the same mistake. She's willing to sacrifice anyone if it means saving herself and her city. When Lina offers herself to the queen in exchange for Thomas's freedom, the two girls await the full moon together. But Lina is not at all what Eva expected, and the queen is nothing like Lina envisioned. Against their will, they find themselves falling for each other as water floods Caldella's streets and the dark tide demands its sacrifice. Perfect for fans of: The Wicked Deep and A Curse So Dark and Lonely Witchy tales Dark fantasy fiction LGBTQ books Enemies to lovers romance Praise for The Dark Tide: "Striking the perfect balance, The Dark Tide demands to be read in one held breath as its tide bears down on all."—Foreword, Starred Review "A dark scenic adventure, sensitively written for romantics, Jasinska's debut novel is a fantasy of promises, betrayal, unrequited love, and black magic."—School Library Journal, Starred Review "The Dark Tide is the dark, queer fantasy of your dreams that's part beauty and the beast, part something entirely new and original... a lush world that begs to be lived in... It's beautiful, and fast paced, and everything I ever want from a fairy tale."—Cat VanOrder, Bookmarks (Winston-Salem, NC) "Fans of the enemies-to-lovers trope will be ecstatic with this book...The Dark Tide offers an exciting and immersive story with a strong feminist slant that subverts common YA tropes and forges its own original path."—The Nerd Daily

Young Adult Fiction

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2021-07-01

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The Dark Abyss

Lazaro M. Perez

Omi is a twenty year old warrior from the Ibukun tribe. Today is his last mission, a mission that could prove deathly for everyone who is involved. Go alongside him, as he travels the jungle of Dawoya, and unveils the mystery of the Dark Abyss, with the help of two Orishas, and other enigmatic allies.

Fiction

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

2014-05-19

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions' is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. It was first published in 1884. The book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.

Self-Help

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_1M-DgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2021-01-01

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Territory

ETH Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute, Roger Diener, Liisa Gunnarsson, Mathias Gunz, Vesna Jovanović, Marcel Meili, Christian Mueller Inderbitzin, Christian Schmid

Between 2008 and 2014, ETH Studio Basel, under the guidance of Roger Diener and Marcel Meili, has been investigating the process of urbanisation taking place outside cities. Territory - in the context of this investigation denotes both: the surroundings that a city subsumes into its own structure and the core city itself, which is the centre of this process of urbanisation, or "confiscation". Investigated were six regions on six continents: The Nile Valley with the dense corset of natural landscape surrounding a linear city; Rome-Adria, where territorial cells have formed within the territory, spawning an urban type of tremendous dynamism; Florida, presenting highly complex patterns of territorial organisation; Vietnam's Red River Delta, where recent reform exposed traditional settlement and cultivation of the delta to freer forces; Oman, where urbanisation of a territory essentially means reclaiming the desert with the immediate necessity to develop a system for water distribution; and Belo Horizonte, where natural conditions likewise play a major role in organising the territory as surface mining entails huge transformations of the natural terrain. The new book features two introductory essays on ETH Studio Basel's research approach and on terminology, concise illustrated reports on the six regions, and four concluding topical essays.

Cities and towns

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2016

3038600237

Warspite

Iain Ballantyne

“The dramatic career of the Queen Elizabeth class super-dreadnought, which fought with such distinction throughout two World Wars . . . a great story.” —White Ensign Association No warship name in British naval history has more battle honors than HMS Warspite. While this book looks at the lives of all eight vessels to bear the name (between 1596 and the 1990s), it concentrates on the truly epic story of the seventh vessel, a super-dreadnought battleship, conceived as the ultimate answer to German naval power, during the arms race that helped cause WW1. Warspite fought off the entire German fleet at Jutland, survived a mutiny between the wars and then covered herself in glory in action from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean during WW2. She was the flagship of Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham when he mastered the Italian Navy in the Mediterranean, her guns inflicting devastating damage on the enemy at Calabria in 1940 and Matapan in 1941. She narrowly avoided destruction by the Japanese carrier force that devastated Pearl Harbor. She provided crucial fire support for Allied landings in Sicily, Italy, Normandy and Walcheren. A lucky ship in battle, she survived dive-bombers off Crete and glide bomb hits off Salerno. But this is not just the story of a warship. Wherever possible the voices of those men who fought aboard her speak directly to the reader about their experiences. Warspite is also the story of a great naval nation which constructed her as the ultimate symbol of its imperial power and then scrapped her when the sun set on that empire.

History

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

2010-09-22

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Winterbirth

Brian Ruckley

An uneasy truce exists between the thanes of the True Bloods. Now, as another winter approaches, the armies of the Black Road march south, from their exile beyond the Vale of Stones. For some, war will bring a swift and violent death. Others will not hear the clash of swords or see the corpses strewn over the fields. Instead, they will see an opportunity to advance their own ambitions. But soon, all will fall under the shadow that is descending. For while the storm of battle rages, one man is following a path that will awaken a terrible power in him -- and his legacy will be written in blood.

Fiction

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

2008-05-01

0316068063

The Sword of Shannara

Terry Brooks

An epic fantasy of gnomes, trolls, dwarfs and elves in which a simple man, Shea Ohmsford, is pitted against the greatest power of evil the world has ever known. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Fiction

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

1977

78352236911124

Starman's Quest

Robert Silverberg

The Lexman Spacedrive gave man the stars - but at a fantastic price. Interstellar exploration, colonisation, and trade became things of reality. The benefits to Earth were enormous but, because of the Fitzgerald Contraction, a man who shipped out to space could never live a normal life on Earth again. Travelling at speeds close to that of light, spacemen lived at an accelerated pace. A nine-year trip to Alpha Centauri and back seemed to take only six weeks to men on a spaceship. When they returned, their friends and relatives had aged enormously in comparison, old customs had changed, even the language was different. Alan was a spacer, just like his whole family - until, suddenly and without intending to, he in turn jumped ship and remained on Earth. There were times he regretted that. Earth was a bewildering and utterly hostile place. To stay alive, he had to play a ruthless game - and he couldn't even find anyone to tell him the rules. . . . First published in 1958.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EdtnBlPR1mQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-09-29

0575105933

Hot Time in the Old Town

Edward P. Kohn

One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York City heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and upstart Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who arrived in New York at the height of the catastrophe. Showing how Bryan's hopes for the presidency began to flag just as a bright, young police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt was scrambling to aid the city's poor, Hot Time in the Old Town vividly captures both the birth of the Progressive Era and one of New York's greatest--yet least-remembered--tragedies.

History

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=40FNSZYPljsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-03

1459612566

The Boy who Reversed Himself

William Sleator

When Laura discovers that the unpopular boy living next door to her has the ability to go into the fourth dimension, she makes the dangerous decision to accompany him on his journeys there.

Juvenile Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d3dIW3LKCncC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1998

0140389652

Lifeboat

John R. Stilgoe

The fire extinguisher; the airline safety card; the lifeboat. Until September 11, 2001, most Americans paid homage to these appurtenances of disaster with a sidelong glance, if at all. But John Stilgoe has been thinking about lifeboats ever since he listened with his father as the kitchen radio announced that the liner Lakonia had caught fire and sunk in the Atlantic. It was Christmas 1963, and airline travel and Cold War paranoia had made the images of an ocean liner's distress--the air force dropping supplies in the dark, a freighter collecting survivors from lifeboats--seem like echoes of a bygone era. But Stilgoe, already a passionate reader and an aficionado of small-boat navigation, began to delve into accounts of other disasters at sea. What he found was a trunkful of hair-raising stories--of shipwreck, salvation, seamanship brilliant and inept, noble sacrifice, insanity, cannibalism, courage and cravenness, even scandal. In nonfiction accounts and in the works of Conrad, Melville, and Tomlinson, fear and survival animate and degrade human nature, in the microcosm of an open boat as in society at large. How lifeboats are made, rigged, and captained, Stilgoe discovered, and how accounts of their use or misuse are put down, says much about the culture and circumstances from which they are launched. In the hands of a skillful historian such as Stilgoe, the lifeboat becomes a symbol of human optimism, of engineering ingenuity, of bureaucratic regulation, of fear and frailty. Woven through Lifeboat are good old-fashioned yarns, thrilling tales of adventure that will quicken the pulse of readers who have enjoyed the novels of Patrick O'Brian, Crabwalk by G nter Grass, or works of nonfiction such as The Perfect Storm and In the Heart of the Sea. But Stilgoe, whose other works have plumbed suburban culture, locomotives, and the shore, is ultimately after bigger fish. Through the humble, much-ignored lifeboat, its design and navigation and the stories of its ultimate purpose, he has found a peculiar lens on roughly the past two centuries of human history, particularly the war-tossed, technology-driven history of man and the sea.

Biography & Autobiography

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KvB6NPbSByAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2003

0813922216

Sign of the Labrys

Margaret St Clair

Earth was a weird and dire place after the plagues. The few humans who survived could not bear the touch of each other; they lived in the enormous, endless caverns hacked out of the bowels of the earth for the bombs that never came. And on one man rested the hopes of the world, though he did not know it. Sam Sewell only knew he had to journey, despite forbidding perils from the darkness of the past, into the ultimate fastnesses of the unknown to rescue the timeless wisdom of the witch Desponia . . .

Fiction

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

2017-04-27

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America 2040

Evan Innes

Relations with the Soviet Union reach a perilous state and the president of the United States initiates a daring mission for a select group of courageous pioneers. Led by Captain Duncan Rodrick, a man of strength and daring, the most advanced spaceship ever designed prepares for an incredible journey across the universe Bu on board the ship itself is an enemy willing to die destroy them all a woman whose beauty may ignite a lethal fire of passion, and a stowaway whose bravery embodies the intrepid spirit of America's past. This epic shows the spirit of the pioneers where 20th century daring dreams become the mission of tomorrow's boldest trailblazers.

Fiction

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

1986

055325541X

The Highwayman

Alfred Noyes

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding- Riding-riding- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door. In Alfred Noyes's thrilling poem, charged with drama and tension, we ride with the highwayman and recoil from the terrible fate that befalls him and his sweetheart Bess, the landlord's daughter. The vivid imagery of the writing is matched by Charles Keeping's haunting illustrations which won him the Kate Greenaway Medal. This new edition features rescanned artwork to capture the breath-taking detail of Keeping's illustrations and a striking new cover.

Juvenile Nonfiction

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

2013-12-12

0192738054

Scout's Progress

Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

A CLASSIC OF THE LIADEN UNIVERSE®! All of her life, Aelliana Caylon has lived by the rules of her overbearing brother, the head of the Caylon family. Though she is a brilliant mathematician, he has convinced her that she has no worth beyond what value she might have in an arranged marriage. Then, on a dare, she plays a game of chance—and wins a starship. It is her way to escape her home, her planet, her drab life—if she can qualify as a pilot. Enter the accomplished Scout and Master Pilot known only as Daav. Aelliana hires him as her instructor. She finds him gifted teacher. He finds her a quick study. And they also find an unexpected attraction, one that could have dangerous repercussions for them both . . . About Dragon in Exile: “[S]prawling and satisfying. . . . Space opera mixes with social engineering, influenced by Regency-era manners and delicate notions of honor. . . . it’s like spending time with old friends.”—Publishers Weekly About Necessity's Child: “Compelling and wondrous, as sharp and graceful as Damascus steel, Necessity's Child is a terrific addition to Lee & Miller's addictive series.”—Patricia Briggs About the Liaden Universe® series: “Every now and then you come across an author, or in this case, a pair, who write exactly what you want to read, the characters and personalities that make you enjoy meeting them. . . . I rarely rave on and on about stories, but I am devoted to Lee and Miller novels and stories.”—Anne McCaffrey “These authors consistently deliver stories with a rich, textured setting, intricate plotting, and vivid, interesting characters from fully-realized cultures, both human and alien, and each book gets better.”—Elizabeth Moon “[D]elightful stories of adventure and romance set in a far future . . . space opera milieu. It’s all a rather heady mix of Gordon R. Dickson, the Forsythe Saga, and Victoria Holt, with Lee and Miller’s own unique touches making it all sparkle and sizzle. Anyone whose taste runs toward SF in the true romantic tradition can’t help but like the Liaden Universe.”—Analog “[T]he many fans of the Liaden universe will welcome the latest . . . continuing young pilot Theo Waitley’s adventures.”—Booklist on Saltation “[A]ficionados of intelligent space opera will be thoroughly entertained . . . [T]he authors’ craftsmanship is top-notch.”—Publishers Weekly on Lee and Miller’s popular Liaden Universe® thriller I Dare

Fiction

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2023-02-28

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The Lovers

Vendela Vida

“Vendela Vida has written a riveting and suspenseful novel about an American woman’s voyage to self-discovery.” —Joyce Carol Oates “Stunning. A masterful meditation on grief and love. The Lovers is a sensational novel from one of our finest writers at the height of her craft.” —Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries In 2007, Vendela Vida’s novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. With her new novel, The Lovers, former Kate Chopin Writing Award winner Vida tells a powerful and beautiful tale of a widow returning alone to the site of her honeymoon in Turkey, and her subsequent journeys through her past and her present.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3RIy3LA_QfMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2010-06-22

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The Dueling Machine

Ben Bova

The trouble with great ideas is that someone is sure to expend enormous effort and ingenuity figuring out how to louse them up. Ben Bova weaves a tale of wonder and science fiction splendor with one of his many masterpieces, The Dueling Machine!

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yPF4DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2018-01-30

1531265561

The Halfmen of O

Maurice Gee

On holiday, Susan is spirited away down a disused mineshaft by Odo and his Deathguard. Her dangerous adventures provide exciting fantasy for older readers. Age 10+ 192 pages

Adventure

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

1985-01-11

0140317120

The Practice Effect

David Brin

From one of the most critically acclaimed and well-loved authors of contemporary science fiction, a highly imaginative and exciting story as only David Brin can write . . . “High spirits and inventiveness . . . Dennis's adventures, which can only be called rollicking, are legion.”—Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Physicist Dennis Nuel was the first human to probe the strange realms called anomaly worlds—alternate universes where the laws of science were unpredictably changed. But the world Dennis discovered seemed almost like our own—with one perplexing difference. To his astonishment, he was hailed as a wizard and found himself fighting beside a beautiful woman with strange powers against a mysterious warlord as he struggled to solve the riddle of this baffling world. “A delightful, often very witty story, with the underlying thoughtfulness we expect from David Brin.”—Poul Anderson

Fiction

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

2009-12-23

0307575020

Jimmy Coates: Assassin?

Joe Craig

While escaping from the strange men that are after him in London, Jimmy discovers he possesses many unusual talents for an eleven-year-old boy.

Juvenile Fiction

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

2006-08-01

0060772654

The Left Hand of God

Paul Hoffman

The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman is the gripping first instalment in a remarkable trilogy. "Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary." The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast and desolate place - a place without joy or hope. Most of its occupants were taken there as boys and for years have endured the brutal regime of the Lord Redeemers whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose - to serve in the name of the One True Faith. In one of the Sanctuary's vast and twisting maze of corridors stands a boy. He is perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old - he is not sure and neither is anyone else. He has long-forgotten his real name, but now they call him Thomas Cale. He is strange and secretive, witty and charming, violent and profoundly bloody-minded. He is so used to the cruelty that he seems immune, but soon he will open the wrong door at the wrong time and witness an act so terrible that he will have to leave this place, or die. His only hope of survival is to escape across the arid Scablands to Memphis, a city the opposite of the Sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely Godless, and deeply corrupt. But the Redeemers want Cale back at any price... not because of the secret he now knows but because of a much more terrifying secret he does not. The Left Hand of God is a must read. It is the first instalment in a gripping trilogy by Paul Hoffman. Imagine if Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials met Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose. Fans of epic heroic fiction will love this series. Praise for Paul Hoffman: 'This book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself' Conn Iggulden 'Tremendous momentum' Daily Telegraph 'A cult classic . . .' Daily Express

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=glm88C-wiPEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2010-08-19

0141969121

Friday

Robert Anson Heinlein

Friday is a secret courier and ardent lover. Employed by a man she only knows of as "Boss," she is given the most awkward and dangerous cases, which take her from New Zealand to Canada, and through the new States of America's disunion, all the way out into the stars and the new colony of Botany Bay. Thrust into one calamity after another, she uses her enhanced wits and very many skills to evade, seduce or even kill her way out of any sticky situation she finds herself in. For she is both superior and inferior to the average human. As an AP--artificial person--the best humanity has to offer has been written into Friday's DNA. Yet she is often treated like a second class citizen--if she were ever able to claim citizenship. Her mother was the test tube and her father the knife, as the saying goes, so she has less rights than the biologically-born human, and no soul, according to the church.

Artificial intelligence

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

2017-11-09

161242385X

Briefing for a Descent Into Hell

Doris Lessing

A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Fiction

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2012-11-01

000737867X

The Age of Miracles

Karen Thompson Walker

Julia struggles as she comes of age when she learns, along with the rest of the world, that the Earth has begun to slow its rotation, drastically changing gravity and the environment.

Bildungsromans

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2014-06

1484427432

The Keeper of the Isis Light

Monica Hughes

Olwen Pendennis is the Keeper of the Isis Light. She and her companion, Guardian, have lived alone on the planet Isis since the death of her parents. But then a group of colonists arrives on Isis from Earth, settling in the valleys – the only places where they can breathe and not be harmed by the planet’s harsh sun. Olwen fears these new inhabitants may ruin her world forever, and at first, it appears she is right.

Juvenile Fiction

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2000

0887765084

The Stand

Stephen King

#1 BESTSELLER • The apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting—and eerily plausible—as when it was first published. • The tie-in edition of the nine-part CBS All Access series starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, and James Marsden. A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them—and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.

Fiction

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

2008-06-24

038552885X

Beyond the Barrier

Damon Knight

He reached for Churan's throat and his hands closed on air... ...yet the alien had not moved. With a chill of terror, Naismith realized that his arm had passed completely through the ugly, green-skinned body. The aliens' laughter swelled out, malicious and mocking. Behind him, Lall's voice said, "A nice try. But not good enough."

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dZk46iaENlAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2013-05-06

0575111259

Labyrinth of Worlds

Adrian Cole

The epic adventure reaches its zenith, as humankind fights for its very existence. The fearsome armies of the Csendook, sworn destroyers of the human race, have discovered their hidden sanctuary, all but guaranteeing their victory. With the final confrontation at last at hand, the renegade hero Ussemitus struggles to unite humans and the warriors of Innasmorn. But in the face of impending doom, the corrupt master of Man's last citadel seeks to harness the dark and elemental powers of the planet called Mother of Storms in his attempt to win back an empire. All realize that so much more is at stake, with the impending devastation that threatens to unravel the fabric of many worlds.

Fiction

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

2014-11-27

1473206871

Invitation to the Game

Monica Hughes

Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in their "Designated Area" until the government invites them to play The Game.

Juvenile Fiction

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1993-06

0671866923

The Ultimax Man

Keith Laumer

"In the next few days you will master the rules and techniques for every activity, skill, talent, sport and art ever mastered by any human being anywhere. You will be as expert at clipping flints as at architectural drawing. You will be able to juggle, walk a tightrope and add the numerals on the sides of passing freight cars as fast as any idiot savant. You'll absorb all the information in all the books - the human race's entire heritage of knowledge..." This was only the beginning of the experiment that was to turn a petty thief into the mos brilliant and powerful man ever to hold the earth in thrall. This was only the first step on the path of conquest mapped out for - THE ULTIMAX MAN.

Fiction

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

2016-02-29

147321596X

Finders Keepers

Will, William Lipkind, Nicolas

Two dogs each claim a bone they have found and ask passersby for help in deciding ownership.

Caldecott Medal

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

1951

58185361256354

Keeper of the Children

William H. Hallahan

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Search for Joseph Tully delivers “a mixture of horror and occultism told with driving force” (The New York Times). Eddie Benson is a typical middle-class father with a secure job, a home in suburban Philadelphia, and a seemingly happy family. For Benson life holds no fear or terror. Then something unusual happens. One day his daughter, Renni, a normal, fun-loving fourteen-year-old, disappears. Soon after, Eddie finds her wandering the streets of Philadelphia with a band of children. Dressed in orange robes, they bear drums and tambourines and cymbals. Moving through the crowds, they dance and sing and proffer metal bowls for coins. The children refuse to return to their homes. The youngsters, their parents have learned, are living with a mysterious Tibetan monk with strange, otherworldly powers. What follows is a series of bone-chilling incidents, each more violent than the last, all inexplicable. Only Eddie Benson will not abandon hope. And to rescue his child, Eddie must run a terrible risk, one that could cost him his life and his soul. “Hallahan improbably makes it work. . . . A careful and serious writer, making the absurd plausible and wringing satisfying suspense out of it.” —Too Much Horror Fiction

Fiction

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

2019-10-22

1504059026

Brain Wave

Poul Anderson

'Imagine that tomorrow neurotic response is so accelerated on this earth that an I.Q. of 500 is commonplace, a moron has the thinking capacity of yesterday's intellectual. Poul Anderson's detailedly plausible exploration of his theme makes for an unusually satisfying and stimulating book.'

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6XPjwOPOH-EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2011-09-29

0575109068

Babel-17

Samuel R. Delany

In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten invasion, but in order to counter the threat, the messages must first be understood. Joint winner of the Nebula Award for best novel, 1966

Fiction

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

2010-11-11

0575101830

THE TRIGAN EMPIRE

Mike Butterworth - Don Lawrence

The story is set A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away... on the planet Elekton, which has twin suns and twin moons (although another "moon", Gallas, falls to the planet in an early story). The Trigans look basically human, although they stand 12 feet tall (in the stories they appear normal since everything else that looks vaguely Earth-like is also twice the as tall); the Trigan race looks Aryan, but there are no black people, apart from the occasional dark-skinned tribe that pops up in a supporting role, generally depicted as primitive but friendly. The main recurring non-white races are green-skinned, ranging from yellowish to turquoise with little consistency between episodes. The Lokans, enemies of the Trigans, are pale olive green, and look like a cross between very ugly black people and Yellow Peril-type orientals. In fact, they were yellow, in the early stories. Daveli are a more turquoise colour, and are very good-looking. Their chief, Imbala, is Trigo's blood brother, and Imbala's son Keren is one of the good guys, usually the only non-white among the good guys.

Comics & Graphic Novels

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

1978

83326271498734

The Pit Dragon Trilogy

Jane Yolen

Dragon's blood -- Heart's blood -- A sending of dragons.

Dragons

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hrrvjF5Jm9MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api

1987

1568659008

Mortal Engines

Stanislaw Lem

'On one side of the ducats was stamped the radiant profile of Archithorius, on the other - an image of his six hundred arms' Mortal Engines is a selection of the best of Stanislaw Lem's extraordinary miniature space epics, chosen by his heroic translator Michael Kandel, who has somehow battled through Lem's jokes, parodies, fabricated technological terms and unreliable robots and brilliantly converted them from Polish into English. Encompassing his Fables for Robots and stories from his protagonists Ijon Tichy (from The Star Diaries) and Pirx the Pilot, this is a highly entertaining but also deeply alarming view of the glories and absurdities of Outer Space.

Fiction

http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gx0XDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api

2016-10-01

0241269083