Author: A.L. Collins
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1623709873
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Twelve-year-old Belle Song finds it hard to adapt when she and her parents move to Mars and begin farming, but soon new friends introduce her to all the red planet has to offer.
Author: Ai Lynn Collins
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1623709865
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Twelve-year-old Belle Song finds it hard to adapt when she and her parents move to Mars and begin farming, but soon new friends introduce her to all the red planet has to offer.
Author: John Rogers
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806128917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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In reminiscing about his early years on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century, John Rogers reveals much about the life and customs of the Chippewas. He tells of food-gathering, fashioning bark canoes and wigwams, curing deerskin, playing games, and participating in sacred rituals. These customs were to be cast aside, however, when he was taken to a white school in an effort to assimilate him into white society. In the foreword to this new edition, Melissa L. Meyer places Roger’s memoirs within the story of the White Earth Reservation.
Author: Clark Ashton Smith
Publisher: Night Shade Books
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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"Red World of Polaris" is one of the lost stories of Clark Ashton Smith... Known to have been written, often discussed, but never seen. Until now. Night Shade Books is proud to present Red World of Polaris, a Clark Ashton Smith mini-collection. Along with the title novella, this collection includes the other Captain Volmar stories; "The Amazing Planet" and "Marooned in Andromeda." Book jacket.
Author: Marlon James
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735220190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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One of TIME’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time Winner of the L.A. Times Ray Bradbury Prize Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award The New York Times Bestseller Named a Best Book of 2019 by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, GQ, Vogue, and The Washington Post "A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman "Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The epic novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows the boy's scent--from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers--he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying? Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that's come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that's also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both.
Author: John Davies
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022638960X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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The “utterly fascinating” untold story of Soviet Russia’s global military mapping program—featuring many of the surprising maps that resulted (Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian). From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have supported a full range of military planning. For big cities like New York, Washington, D.C., and London to towns like Pontiac, MI, and Galveston, TX, the Soviets gathered enough information to create street-level maps. The information on these maps ranged from the locations of factories and ports to building heights, road widths, and bridge capacities. Some of the detail suggests early satellite technology, while other specifics, like detailed depictions of depths and channels around rivers and harbors, could only have been gained by Soviet spies on the ground. The Red Atlas includes over 350 extracts from these incredible Cold War maps, exploring their provenance and cartographic techniques as well as what they can tell us about their makers and the Soviet initiatives that were going on all around us.
Author: Ai Lynn Collins
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 1474742386
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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Winter has been rough for Belle Song and her family. Food is running low, and her mother is expecting a new baby. To restock food and medical supplies, Belle's father decides to take everyone to Tharsis City, the capital of Mars. Belle can't wait to see the amazing wonders and marvels that Tharsis City has to offer. But unforeseen dangers lurk in the city streets. Will Belle and her Nabian friend, Ta'al, be able to overcome the troubles they face at the Wonder of Mars? This Redworld sci-fi tale will capture readers' imaginations and keep them turning the page to follow Belle's newest adventure on the red planet.
Author: Karen Russell
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525656146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.
Author: A. L. Collins
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 149655891X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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During a field trip to Mount Olympus, Belle Song accidentally injures her leg on a strange rock. The rock turns out to be a rare and valuable mineral that can make space travel much more efficient. The planet's biggest mining company, BAMCorp, wants to claim the site for itself. But mining the mineral could threaten much of Mars' all-important water supply. Things soon get tense when protestors begin to clash with company officials. Belle and her classmates want to help defend Mars' water too. But they soon learn that the issue is more complex than they realized. Will a solution be reached that can prove helpful to everyone? This all-new Redworld tale will capture sci-fi lovers' imaginations and keep them turning the page to follow Belle's latest adventure on the red planet.
Author: Robert T. Bakker
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553575619
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth of conifers. She is an intelligent killer... So begins one of the most extraordinary novels you will ever read. The time is 120 million years ago, the place is the plains of prehistoric Utah, and the eyes belong to an unforgettable heroine. Her name is Raptor Red, and she is a female Raptor dinosaur. Painting a rich and colorful picture of a lush prehistoric world, leading paleontologist Robert T. Bakker tells his story from within Raptor Red's extraordinary mind, dramatizing his revolutionary theories in this exciting tale. From a tragic loss to the fierce struggle for survival to a daring migration to the Pacific Ocean to escape a deadly new predator, Raptor Red combines fact an fiction to capture for the first time the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of the most magnificent, enigmatic creatures ever to walk the face of the earth.
