Author: Anne Ursu
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141690591X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 531
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As Philonecron plots to destroy the gods, transform the Underworld, destroy humanity, and remodel Olympus, Mr. Metos takes thirteen-year-old cousins Charlotte and Zee to join the Prometheans, who have an age-old weapon that may help protect them.
Author: Annette Marie
Publisher: Red Winter Trilogy
ISBN: 9781988153117
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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With a traitorous deity poised to destroy her world, Emi must break the curse that binds Shiro's magic. But once the ancient power in him awakens, the yokai she loves will be changed forever. As the gods gather to wage war, Emi and Shiro must gamble everything to turn the tide against their immortal foes-even if it means losing each other.
Author: William Sheehan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521444897
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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This, the first full-length biography of Edward Emerson Barnard, tells the remarkable tale of endurance and achievement of one of the leading astronomers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Through his career, Barnard scoured the heavens endlessly, leaving an astonishing legacy of observations - of planets, satellites, comets, double stars, bright and dark nebulae, and globular clusters - that make him one of the greatest observers of all time.Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book includes many of Barnard's famous wide-field photographs of comets and the Milky Way. It provides a complete history of Barnard's fascinating life and work, and offers unusual insight into the astronomers he knew and observatories with which he was associated and will be of interest to astronomers and historians of science.
Author: Allan Batchelder
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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TARMUN VYKERS His awestruck opponents call him The Reaper, an iron-willed man with no memory of his past, a ruthless champion who has risen to the level of death incarnate. But The Reaper has collected a legion of enemies as he cut a bloody swath through the greatest of heroes and villains. And these dogs have finally had their day, exacting a revenge both cruel and creative. Wandering lost, horribly disfigured and unable to fight, Vykers stumbles across the bones of a half-buried skeleton that can transform his ruined body in an inconceivable way. But first he must make a devil’s pact with… ARUNE A secretive, ghostly sorceress with ambitions of her own. If Vykers wants to wield a sword again, he must surrender to Arune that which he holds most dear. But can he trust this ethereal enchantress to hold up her end of their dangerous bargain? Vykers has few good choices, and he must make them quickly, for an impossibly talented and savage wizard has arisen to threaten all of humanity… THE END OF ALL THINGS Once an autistic boy hardly able to speak, The End has evolved into a supernatural terror bent on extinguishing all life. A fearsome and unequaled tactician, The End is the only person who doesn’t fear “The Reaper.” To have any hope of defeating this bloodthirsty mage, Vykers must gather the strangest, most dangerous cohort of killers ever assembled. Then he must seek out the only weapon that can defeat this terrible adversary… THE EPIC BATTLE Behold the greatest clash of men, monsters, and Fey that the kingdom has ever known. Vykers, at the head of his outnumbered contingent, launches a desperate attack against The End, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. But The End is a creature worthy of his name. He has forged a secret weapon, a wicked and terrible instrument that will break through Vykers’ defenses and exact a devastating toll. Only one thing is certain, this extraordinary battle will end in a way that no one could have predicted!
Author: Timothy Egan
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547416865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men to fight the fires, but no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan recreates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, and the larger story of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, that follows is equally resonant. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. Even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by his rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service in ways we can still witness today. This e-book includes a sample chapter of SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER.
Author: Brenda Gartin
Publisher: Brenda Gartin
ISBN: 0988747138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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In an old southern small-town neighborhood, near a cypress forest that eases into a brackish inlet… Ember is taking a break from her nursing career to get her nightmares under control when she learns that Genesis, the dark and dreamy man that has just moved into the big old house next door, is an ancient Immortal. He seriously wants her--but there are other Immortals and they all seem to want her. One of them even believes he has a legitimate claim. When the monster from her nightmares finds her and plans to claim her for himself, she wishes it was just a dream. Fate may have decreed that he could not be eternally bound to Ember, but Genesis can’t help loving her and he won’t give up until he saves her from his ancient Immortal enemy, Beokahn.
Author: Gene Doucette
Publisher: Gene Doucette
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Author: Anne Ursu
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141690588X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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After her cousin Zee arrives from England, thirteen-year-old Charlotte and he must set out to save humankind from denizens of the underworld, Nightmares, Death, Pain, and a really nasty guy named Phil.
Author: Keri Arthur
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 045141957X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Emberly Pearson, a phoenix capable of taking on human form and cursed with the ability to foresee death, faces a deadly threat when she tries to save a man she once loved from meeting his prophesied fate.
Author: Deidre Knight
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451225382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Searching the world for the other half of his soul, the woman who can release him from his immortal prison, Ajax Petrakos finally finds her in Shay Angel, the youngest of a powerful demon-hunting clan who draws the deadly attention of Ajax's worst enemy. Original.
