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The Talismans of Shannara - Terry Brooks
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Terry Brooks's The Measure of the Magic.Although some of the goals to keep Shannara safe had been met, the work of Walker Boh, Wren, an... -
The Real Story_ The Gap Into Co - Stephen R. Donaldson
Amazon.com ReviewThe Real Story is a short but intense tale set in a future in which humans travel between the stars using "gap drives," controllable brain implants are punishable.... -
The Master of Rain - Tom Bradby; Adam Mansbach
SUMMARY: Shanghai, 1926: a sultry city lousy with opium, warlords, and corruption at the highest levels. Into this steamy morass walks Richard Field, an idealistic Brit haunted by ... -
The Hidden Staircase - Carolyn Keene; Mildred A. Wirt
In seeking to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion, Nancy uses her courage and powers of deduction and tackles a situation that would have appalled a far older p... -
The Gold Coast - Nelson DeMille
From Publishers WeeklyWhat happens to a priggish, WASPy, disillusioned Wall Street lawyer when a Mafia crime boss moves into the mansion next door in his posh Long Island neighborh... -
The God Species - Mark Lynas
We humans are the God species, both the creators and destroyers of life on this planet. As we enter a new geological era - the Anthropocene - our collective power now overwhelms an... -
The Garden Party and Other Stor - Katherine Mansfield; Lorna Sage
Product DescriptionInnovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many... -
The Fountains of Youth - Brian Stableford
Credibly written but lacking in emotional range, this third installment in Stableford's Living in the Future series imagines a time when most humans--nearly immortal--aren't much p... -
The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke
From Library JournalPublished in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke's recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not nece... -
The Empire of Glass - Andy Lane
SUMMARY:After receiving a strange invitation, the first Doctor, Steven and Vicki travel to Venice in 1609, where the political machinations of humans are overshadowed by som...