Author: Monica Hughes
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780887765100
Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The community of the planet of Isis, misled by power-hungry space captain Michael Joseph Flynn, moves down the path of destruction until Moira, the captain's daughter, exposes his self-serving designs.
The Isis Pedlar
Author: Monica Hughes
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780887765100
Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The community of the planet of Isis, misled by power-hungry space captain Michael Joseph Flynn, moves down the path of destruction until Moira, the captain's daughter, exposes his self-serving designs.
Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780887765100
Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The community of the planet of Isis, misled by power-hungry space captain Michael Joseph Flynn, moves down the path of destruction until Moira, the captain's daughter, exposes his self-serving designs.
The Isis Trilogy
Author: Monica Hughes
Publisher: Tundra Books
ISBN: 0735262713
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This newly designed paperback edition brings together the stories of an acclaimed trilogy, first published between 1980 and 1982, by an internationally renowned author of fantasy and science fiction. The Keeper of the Isis Light is the first book in Monica Hughes' acclaimed trilogy, and it is the story of Olwen Pendennis, the Keeper of the Isis Light. She and her companion, Guardian, have lived alone on the remote planet Isis since the death of her parents. Now, colonists from an overcrowded and polluted Earth have landed and are settling in the valleys. Olwen fears these new inhabitants may ruin her world forever, and it seems she may be right. Years later, in Hughes' sequel, The Guardian of Isis, the planet remains pristine and remote, even after the arrival of settlers from Earth. Over time, the settlers have abandoned the technological knowledge of their ancestors and replaced it with myth. But one young man seeks the truth, and he soon gets the chance to find it. The final chapter in the Trilogy, The Isis Pedlar, brings the devious Michael Joseph Flynn and his daughter, Moira, to Isis. Michael's magic firestone, his strangely delicious ambrosia and his mysterious Forever Machine are beguiling to the humble members of the Isis community. Only Moira can expose this smooth-talking pedlar for the charlatan that he is. But will she be able to do it in time to save the simple agricultural community? This trilogy is a testament to Hughes' enormous talent for writing thought-provoking speculative fiction.
Publisher: Tundra Books
ISBN: 0735262713
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This newly designed paperback edition brings together the stories of an acclaimed trilogy, first published between 1980 and 1982, by an internationally renowned author of fantasy and science fiction. The Keeper of the Isis Light is the first book in Monica Hughes' acclaimed trilogy, and it is the story of Olwen Pendennis, the Keeper of the Isis Light. She and her companion, Guardian, have lived alone on the remote planet Isis since the death of her parents. Now, colonists from an overcrowded and polluted Earth have landed and are settling in the valleys. Olwen fears these new inhabitants may ruin her world forever, and it seems she may be right. Years later, in Hughes' sequel, The Guardian of Isis, the planet remains pristine and remote, even after the arrival of settlers from Earth. Over time, the settlers have abandoned the technological knowledge of their ancestors and replaced it with myth. But one young man seeks the truth, and he soon gets the chance to find it. The final chapter in the Trilogy, The Isis Pedlar, brings the devious Michael Joseph Flynn and his daughter, Moira, to Isis. Michael's magic firestone, his strangely delicious ambrosia and his mysterious Forever Machine are beguiling to the humble members of the Isis community. Only Moira can expose this smooth-talking pedlar for the charlatan that he is. But will she be able to do it in time to save the simple agricultural community? This trilogy is a testament to Hughes' enormous talent for writing thought-provoking speculative fiction.
The Isis Pedlar
Author: Monica Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749702151
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The community of the planet of Isis, misled by power-hungry space captain Michael Joseph Flynn, moves down the path of destruction until Moira, the captain's daughter, exposes his self-serving designs.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749702151
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The community of the planet of Isis, misled by power-hungry space captain Michael Joseph Flynn, moves down the path of destruction until Moira, the captain's daughter, exposes his self-serving designs.
The Guardian of Isis
Author: Monica Hughes
Publisher: London : H. Hamilton
ISBN: 9780241105979
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
By the year 2136 AD the life of the settlers on Isis has regressed amd much technical knowledge lost due to the dictatorial rulings of the President who controls all of the population, except one.
Publisher: London : H. Hamilton
ISBN: 9780241105979
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
By the year 2136 AD the life of the settlers on Isis has regressed amd much technical knowledge lost due to the dictatorial rulings of the President who controls all of the population, except one.
The Keeper of the Isis Light
Author: Monica Hughes
Publisher: Thorndike Press
ISBN: 9780783892955
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Olwen, who lives alone on the planet Isis with her faithful robot, falls tragically in love with an arrival from earth who is unaware that her natural form has been hidden in a humanlike space suit.
Publisher: Thorndike Press
ISBN: 9780783892955
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Olwen, who lives alone on the planet Isis with her faithful robot, falls tragically in love with an arrival from earth who is unaware that her natural form has been hidden in a humanlike space suit.
Invitation to the Game
Author: Monica Hughes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671866923
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671866923
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
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.
Devil on My Back
Author: Monica Hughes
Publisher: Bantam Books
ISBN: 9780553255676
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
When the slaves rebel against the rigid social order imposed on the colony by the all-controlling computer, Tomi, the son of the colony Overlord manages to escape beyond the computer's reach and discovers what it is like to be free.
Publisher: Bantam Books
ISBN: 9780553255676
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
When the slaves rebel against the rigid social order imposed on the colony by the all-controlling computer, Tomi, the son of the colony Overlord manages to escape beyond the computer's reach and discovers what it is like to be free.
The Mad Minute
Author: Paul Joseph Shoecraft
Publisher: Dale Seymour Publications
ISBN: 9780201071405
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"The Mad Minute" takes the "dull" out of the drill, allowing students to achieve instant recall of number facts after only six to eight weeks of working one minute a day.
Publisher: Dale Seymour Publications
ISBN: 9780201071405
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"The Mad Minute" takes the "dull" out of the drill, allowing students to achieve instant recall of number facts after only six to eight weeks of working one minute a day.
Propertius in Love
Author: Sextus Propertius
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520935845
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520935845
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself.
Mighty Lewd Books
Author: J. Peakman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230512577
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230512577
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.