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Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xiii, 267 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Will we find a cure for cancer? Will humans colonize Mars? Will the asteroid hit Earth as predicted? How long will it be until peace prevails in the Middle East? Is nuclear war approaching? Sylvia answers all this and more, comforting readers and predicting what life will be like in 5, 10, 20, 100 and 500 years. She also gives her own predictions and lends a comforting and reassuring message to what the future holds for all of us.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxx, 149 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Written in the 1970s and published posthumously in Polish in 2012, Milosz's deliberately unfinished novel is set in a dystopian future where hierarchy, patriarchy, and religion no longer exist. Echoing the structure of The Captive Mind and written in an experimental, postmodern style, Milosz's sole work of science fiction follows four individuals: Karel, a disaffected young rebel; Lino, an astronaut who abandons his life of privilege; Petro, a cardinal...
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Series
Courtyards of the Others volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop returns to her world of the Others, as humans struggle to survive in the shadow of shapeshifters and vampires far more powerful than themselves... After a human uprising was brutally put down by the Elders--a primitive and lethal form of the Others--the few cities left under human control are far-flung. And the people within them now know to fear the no-man's-land beyond their borders--and the darkness......
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Series
Pub. Date
[2014].
Physical Desc
354 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Description
"After winning the trust of the terra indigene residing in the Lakeside Courtyard, Meg Corbyn has had trouble figuring out what it means to live among them. As a human, Meg should be barely tolerated prey, but her abilities as a cassandra sangue make her something more. The appearance of two addictive drugs has sparked violence between the humans and the Others, resulting in the murders of both species in nearby cities. So when Meg has a dream about...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 25 cm.
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"The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever. On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the crown. But King Jezal's son, the feckless Prince Orso, is a man who specializes in disappointments. Savine dan Glokta plans to claw her way to the top of the...
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Series
Nicci chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
512 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"Onetime lieutenant of the evil Emperor Jagang, known as "Death's Mistress" and the "Slave Queen," the deadly Nicci captured Richard Rahl in order to convince him that the Imperial Order stood for the greater good. But it was Richard who converted Nicci instead, and for years thereafter she served Richard and Kahlan as one of their closest friends-- and one of their most lethal defenders. Now, with the reign of Richard and Kahlan finally stablized,...
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Courtyards of the Others volume 4
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"Fourth in the "flawless" (The Reading Cafe) New York Times bestselling series from the author of Vision in Silver. For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity they're willing to tolerate--both within themselves and within their community ... Since the Others allied themselves with the cassandra sangue, the fragile yet powerful...
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New York Times Best Seller for Over 100 Weeks Consecutively and Over 2 Million Copies Sold!
Amazon.com's top 100 best-seller list for more than six months
Over 79 weeks on USA Today's Top 150 Best-Selling Books
7000 5-Star Reviews!
From the author that brought you The Book of Mysteries, The Mystery of the Shemitah, and The Paradigm...
Amazon.com's top 100 best-seller list for more than six months
Over 79 weeks on USA Today's Top 150 Best-Selling Books
7000 5-Star Reviews!
From the author that brought you The Book of Mysteries, The Mystery of the Shemitah, and The Paradigm...
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Series
Sevenwaters fantasies volume 5
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xi, 418 p. : geneal. table ; 24 cm.
Description
The young seer Sibeal is visiting an island of elite warriors, prior to making her final pledge as a druid, when she finds Felix, a survivor of a Viking shipwreck, who's lost his memory.
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Age of madness volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 25 cm
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Savine dan Glokta, once Adua's most powerful investor, finds her judgment, fortune, and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way. For heroes like Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall, only happy with swords drawn, peace is an ordeal to end as soon as possible. But grievances must be nursed, power seized, and allies gathered first, while Rikke must master the power of the Long Eye...
14) The lost sun
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Series
United States of Asgard volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Seventeen-year-old Soren Bearskin is trying to escape the past. His father, a famed warrior, lost himself to the battle-frenzy and killed thirteen innocent people. Soren cannot deny that berserking is in his blood-- the fevers, insomnia, and occasional feelings of uncontrollable rage haunt him. So he tries to remain calm and detached from everyone at Sanctus Sigurd's Academy. But that's hard to do when a popular, beautiful girl like Astrid Glyn tells...
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The Tanakh is an entirely original translation of the Holy Scriptures into contemporary English, based on the Masoretic--the traditional Hebrew--text. It is the culmination of three decades of collaboration by academic scholars and rabbis representing the three largest branches of organized Judaism in America. Not since the third century B.C.E., when seventy-two elders of the tribes of Israel created the Greek translation of Scriptures known as the...
16) Stars of fortune
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"To celebrate the rise of their new queen, three goddesses of the moon created three stars, one of fire, one of ice, one of water. But then they fell from the sky, putting the fate of all worlds in danger. And now three women and three men join forces to pick up the pieces... Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted by dreams and nightmares that she turns into extraordinary paintings. Her visions lead her to the Greek island of Corfu, where five...
17) Vision in silver
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Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
400 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Black Jewels Trilogy transports readers to a world of magic and political unrest-where the only chance at peace requires a deadly price... The Others freed the cassandra sangue to protect the blood prophets from exploitation, not realizing their actions would have dire consequences. Now the fragile seers are in greater danger than ever before-both from their own weaknesses and from those who seek to control...
18) Bay of sighs
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Series
Guardians trilogy (Nora Roberts) volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Mermaid Annika is from the sea, and it is there she must return after her quest to find the three stars that fell from the sky. New to this world, her purity and beauty are nothing less than breathtaking, along with her graceful athleticism, as her five new friends discovered when they retrieved the fire star. Now, through space and time, traveler Sawyer King has brought the guardians to the island of Capri, where the water star is hidden. And as...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
485 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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The Age of Darkness approaches. Who will stop it... or unleash it? For generations, the Seven Prophets guided humanity. Using their visions of the future, they ended wars and united nations-- until they disappeared a hundred years ago. All they left behind was one final prophecy, foretelling an Age of Darkness and the birth of a new Prophet who could be the world's salvation-- or the cause of its destruction. Will it be a prince exiled from his kingdom?...
20) Stars of fortune
Author
Series
Guardians trilogy (Nora Roberts) volume 1
Description
"To celebrate the rise of their new queen, three goddesses of the moon created three stars, one of fire, one of ice, one of water. But then they fell from the sky, putting the fate of all worlds in danger. And now three women and three men join forces to pick up the pieces... Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted by dreams and nightmares that she turns into extraordinary paintings. Her visions lead her to the Greek island of Corfu, where five...
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