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BioShock: Rapture by John Shirley
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
It's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has brought a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business has many watching their backs. America's sense of ...Show more
Broken Circle by John Shirley
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Halo (Gallery Books)
The "New York Times" bestselling series based on the blockbuster Xbox(R) games! Centuries before the Human-Covenant War would rage across the galaxy, a similar conflict erupted between the Prophets and the Elites--two alien races at odds over the sacred artifacts left by the powerful Forerunners, who di ...Show more
Build Your Own Trucks Sticker Book by John Shirley
Category: Activity Books | Series: Build Your Own Sticker Book
Helps little boys finish building each truck by sticking on its missing wheels, mirrors, headlights and other important parts. Using the sticker pages, this title lets them complete their own monster truck, army truck, fire engine, logging truck and more.
Eclipse: A Song Called Youth: Book One by John Shirley
Category: Cult Fiction
Gripping cyberpunk novel -- the first in a trilogy -- portrays clash between fascist overlords and rebels who battle mind control and weapons of mass destruction with sex and drugs and rock and roll. "Chillingly plausible." -- Kirkus Reviews.
Eclipse Corona by John Shirley
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
"John Shirley's prophet-in-the-cyberwilderness voice deserves high billing among the best." -- Roger ZelaznyThis classic of cyberpunk literature brings John Shirley's "A Song Called Youth" trilogy to a thrilling conclusion. After the fundamentalists of the Christian Fascist Second Alliance find themselv ...Show more
Eclipse Penumbra - A Song Called Youth Trilogy Book Two by John Shirley
Category: Cult Fiction
"Vivid, dense, powerful imagery ... hard to put down!" -- Washington Post"A complex, bizarre, and unique vision of the near future with a kaleidoscopic mix of politics, pop, and paranoia." -- Bruce Sterling "John Shirley was cyberpunk's patient zero, first locus of the virus, certifiably virulent. A car ...Show more
Grimm: Bk. 1: Icy Touch by John Shirley
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Back in the 19th century a Wesen and a Grimm fight to the death. The Grimm wins, but the Wesen's son escapes and vows revenge. In the present day, Captain Renard sends Nick and Hank to investigate a crime cartel named Le Touche Givre (The Icy Touch), who are involved in forced prostitution and drug push ...Show more
Halo: Broken Circle by John Shirley
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Humanity has been forced to the brink of extinction. Even as we take our first steps into space, civil strife, the enigmatic legacy of an ancient civilization, and a fanatical covenant of alien races each threaten to destroy us. All eyes turn to the Spartan super-soldiers to save us, and in particular t ...Show more
Rapture: Bioshock by John Shirley
Category: Science Fiction
After barely surviving a plane crash, a man discovers an undersea city called Rapture; a failed utopia created by Jack Ryan, a man who looked to embrace a world surrounding the objectivist ideals of Ayn Rand. Power and greed have run amok, the city has succumbed to civil war and the only question is who ...Show more
SubOrbital 7 by John Shirley
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
A routine rescue mission leaves a team of US soldiers, rescued hostages and a prisoner trapped above Earth in a suborbital craft, in this cinematic action-packed near-future thriller, perfect for fans of Tom Clancy and Jack Carr. A routine rescue mission leaves a team of US soldiers, rescued hostages an ...Show more
Visible Learning Feedback by John Hattie; Shirley Clarke
Category: Education
Feedback is arguably the most critical and powerful aspect of teaching and learning. Yet, there remains a paradox: why is feedback so powerful and why is it so variable? It is this paradox which Visible Learning: Feedback aims to unravel and resolve. Combining research excellence, theory and vast teachi ...Show more