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Series
Earthsea volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sorcerer Alder has the power of mending, but it may have become the power of destruction: every night he dreams of the wall between the land of the living and the land of the dead, and the wall is being dismantled. If the wall is breached, the dead will invade Earthsea. Ged, once Archmage of Earthsea, sends Alder to King Lebannen. Now Alder and the king must join with a burned woman, a wizard of forbidden lore, and a being who is woman and dragon...
Author
Language
English
Description
No one steps on Archer land. Not if they value their life. But when Meredith Hayes overhears a lethal plot to burn the Archer brothers off their ranch, a twelve-year-old debt compels her to take the risk. Fourteen years of constant vigilance hardens a man. Yet when Travis Archer confronts a female trespasser with the same vivid blue eyes as the courageous young girl he once aided, he can't bring himself to send her away. And when an act of sacrifice...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2015
Edition
Revised, updated, and expanded edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects the complete lyrics of the songs of Patti Smith, supplemented with images of the original manuscripts.
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Series
Publisher
The Rosen Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With this fun and informative volume, young would-be astronauts can find out more about space without setting foot on a rocket or space station. From history about humankind's dreams of space travel to weird facts about what space does to the human body, this out-of-this-world book will draw in developing readers with unusual information and bright photographs."--Amazon.
Publisher
ChiZine Publications
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
From Ellen Datlow, award-winning and genre-shaping editor of more than fifty anthologies, and twenty of horror's established masters and rising stars, comes an all-original look into the beautiful, terrible, tragic, and terrifying. Wander through visions of the most terrible of angels, the Seven who would undo the world. Venture through Hell and back, and lands more terrestrial and darker still. Linger a while in childhoods, and seasons of change...
Author
Series
Harvard classics volume 6
Language
English
Description
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Robert Burns - Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) called himself "an Aeolian harp strung to every wind of heaven." His first volume of poems, entitled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was published in 1786. An immediate success, it established Burns's poetic reputation, which has grown over two centuries to the point where he is not only the Scottish national poet but the object of a cult unique in British poetry.
The...
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An amusing and informative illustrated guide to life beyond our own planet that covers everything from training for and living in space to the future of space travel and tourism. Now that suborbital space tourism is predicted to become a billion-dollar industry in the next ten years and NASA has announced its plans for landing humans on Mars in the 2030s, the dream of traveling and living in space is taking on new reality. But given that life on...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"No single work was more important in the revolution in close reading that electrified African American literary studies in the nineteen eighties than was Robert Burns Stepto's From Behind the Veil, a work as deeply insightful as it was engagingly written. Stepto reminded us, after Keats, that one dives into the lake not merely or necessarily to swim to the other side, but to enjoy the dive. Let us hope, at the end of another era of reductive thematic...
13) Complete poems
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[1959]
Physical Desc
3 preliminary leaves, 1-268 pages, 2 leaves : illustrations ; 20.3 cm
Language
English
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (286 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's one crazy adventure after another for human boy Finn and his best friend, Jake, a 28-year-old dog with magical powers. They're out to have the most fun possible and they sure do find it exploring the Land of Ooo! Whether it's saving Princess Bubblegun, battling zombie candy, taunting the Ice King, or rocking out with Marceline the Vampire Queen, with Finn and Jake it's always an adventure.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kafka?s Last Trial begins with Kafka?s last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring himself to burn the unpublished works of the man he considered a literary genius?even a saint. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka?s writing, rescuing his legacy from obscurity and physical destruction. The story of Kafka?s posthumous...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of his generation. Banneker then wrote what would become a...
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvi, 607 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of the greatest "team of rivals" since the days of Lincoln. In a lifetime shaped by politics, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proved himself a master manipulator. But when war in Europe and Asia threatened America's shores, FDR found himself in a world turned upside down, where his friends became his foes, his enemies his allies. To help wage democracy's first "total war," he turned to one of history's most remarkable triumvirates. Henry...
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Untold adventures of a young Han Solo! You've seen Han escape the mean streets of Corellia by joining the Imperial Navy. But how does a thief used to the chaos of back alley brawls adjust to the order and discipline of the military? Not very well! And Han's dream of becoming a pilot is quickly grounded as he realizes he may not even survive basic training. After a wild sequence of events lands him in the brig overnight, Han is given one last shot...
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