Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Celestial kingdom volume 1
Description
"An enthralling debut fantasy inspired by the legend of Chang'e, the Chinese moon goddess, in which a young woman's quest to free her mother sets her on a dangerous path and pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm. Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing the elixir of immortality. But when Xingyin's magic flares...
2) In the light of the moon: thirteen lunar tales from around the world illuminating life's mysteries
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
172 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
305 pages : map ; 25 cm
Description
Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.
4) The moon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
48 pages :billustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Description
Human beings first set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, marking one of the most important events in the history of space exploration. Since then, scientists have continued to learn more about Earth's sole natural satellite. Readers will learn what it is like to walk on the surface of the moon and what role the satellite plays in the solar system. They will also find out how scientists first began studying the moon and how they are continuing their...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1993].
Physical Desc
xv, 185 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne's prophetic novel of man's race to the stars is a story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination. With broad satire as well as scientific acumen, From the Earth to the Moon spins a tale set in 1865 about a group of men who decide to build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"In a world in which women feel increasingly disconnected-from their inner selves, each other, and the world, Lunar Abundance offers a path to reconnection, with results that you can actually see. It shows how by tuning into the natural rhythm of lunar ebbs and flows, you can connect with work, relationships, your body, and surroundings on a higher level than ever before, becoming more productive and self-aware in the process." --provided by publisher....
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
368 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Description
On July 20, 1969, in one of the iconic moments of the twentieth century, Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon, and the distant object that had fascinated mankind for millennia suddenly got much closer. Rick Stroud has been obsessed with the moon since childhood, and here provides the culmination of that passion--an original and absorbing account of all things lunar, a book that celebrates the physics that created the moon and the technology...
Author
Description
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets"--
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe...
10) Moon globe
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 globe : color, plastic coated paper gores over plastic core, mounted on plastic base ; 31 cm in diam
Description
This extraordinary 12" diameter globe accurately depicts the geographical features of the Earth's moon, including craters, seas and mountain ranges. NASA approved.
11) Artemis: a novel
Author
Description
Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.
15) A kite for Moon
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
A young boy, seeing that Moon is lonely, sends up a kite to cheer her then, after growing up and learning many things, he becomes the first human to visit her. Dedicated to Neil Armstrong and written in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the first U.S. moon landing.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"If you decide to go to the moon," writes Faith McNulty, "read this book first. It will tell you how to get there and what to do after you land. The most important part tells you how to get home. Written in the second person, the text allows the reader to participate in every aspect of the journey, from packing ("don't forget your diary and plenty of food") to liftoff (at first you'll feel heavy; don't worry") to traveling through space (where "the...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xx, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
Throughout history, the influence of the full Moon on humans and animals has featured in folklore and myths. Yet it has become increasingly apparent that many organisms really are influenced indirectly, and in some cases directly, by the lunar cycle. Breeding behaviour among some marine animals has been demonstrated to be controlled by internal circalunar biological clocks, to the point where lunar-daily and lunar-monthly patterns of Moon-generated...
Author
Series
Starry River of the Sky volume 1
Appears on list
Description
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Description
High up in the sky, the Moon has spent her whole life watching the happenings of Earth below, from dinosaurs roaming to planes taking flight, hoping for a visitor, until one day in 1969 when a spaceship soars from Earth. Includes Earth timeline and a history of space exploration.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request