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Thomas Lourds novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
428 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
When the ancient ruins of Atlantis are discovered along the Spanish coast, linguist and archaeologist Thomas Lourds joins a violent competition to be the first of its explorers, an effort marked by a series of puzzles that must be solved in order to gain entry into the lost civilization.
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Series
Kystrom chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
602 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Refugee, criminal, and linguist Sean Wren is made an offer he knows he can't refuse: life in prison, 'voluntary' military service--or salvaging data in a long-dead language from an abandoned ship filled with traps and monsters, just days before it's destroyed in a supernova... In the bowels of the derelict ship, surrounded by horrors and dead men, Sean slowly uncovers the truth of what happened on the ship, in its final days and the terrible secret...
3) Earthsong
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Series
Native tongue volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 236 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"In the concluding book of the Native Tongue trilogy, women are forced to abandon their secret language, Láadan, and find new ways to save Earth from humanity's destructive and oppressive behaviors."--
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Series
Portuguese irregular verbs series volume 2
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Professor Dr. von Igelfeld practices veterinary medicine without a license, transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate and is mobbed by marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise ship.
6) Lexicon
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Emily Ruff belongs to a secretive, influential organization whose "poets" can break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. Then she makes a catastrophic mistake and falls in love with Wil Jamieson who holds the key to a secret war between rival factions of "poets." In order to survive, Wil must journey to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, as the world crashes toward a Tower of Babel...
Author
Series
Native tongue volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 425 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"In the second book of the Native Tongue trilogy, a small group of women linguists have developed a women's language, Láadan, but their resistance is threatened by a group of priests who uncover their plan to spread the language throughout the world."--
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The second book of Lewis's sci-fi trilogy, this is a sharp, sophisticated fantasy that deals with an old problem, temptation, in a new world, Perelandra. "Mr Lewis has a genius for making his fantasies livable".-The New York Times. Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which Perelandra is the second volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George...
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Raisa Susanto volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"The double murder of a married couple in a small Washington town draws FBI forensic linguist Raisa Susanto into an investigation that mirrors a decades-old crime. Twenty-five years ago--to the day--Alex Parker murdered his parents, then took his own life, leaving behind a note admitting everything. Raisa, paired with forensic psychologist Callum Kilkenny, uses her skills to read between the lines. Especially now that paranoid postings on a conspiracy...
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