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The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Quartet #3) by Ursula Le Guin
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Earthsea
Written by award-winning fantasy writer LeGuin, this book is the second in the Earthsea Cycle trilogy. A mature Sparrowhawk goes on a sailing journey to find the caue of evil disturbances in the world of Earthsea. Winner of the National Book Award.
The Farthest Shore: The Third Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: The\Earthsea Quartet Ser.
The third book of Earthsea in a beautiful hardback edition. Complete the collection with A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan and Tehanu. With illustrations from Charles Vess Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world and its wizards are losing their magic. Despite being wearied with age, ...Show more
The Fifth Season by N K Jemisin
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Broken Earth
In a post-apocalyptic world plagued by natural diasters, Essun lives in a small comunity barricaded against the outside world. When her husband relizes that she and her children are orogenes with the ability to manipulate seismic energy, he kills their son and kidnaps their daughter. Against the backdro ...Show more
The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD by N. K. Jemisin
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: The Broken Earth Trilogy
Winner of the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel Book 1 in the record-breaking triple Hugo-Award-winning trilogy ***A New York Times Notable Book*** ***Shortlisted for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus Awards*** ***The inaugural Wired.com book club pick*** THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS ...Show more
The Forest in the Sea - Seaweed Solutions to Planetary Problems by Anita Sanchez
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Books for a Better Earth Ser.
Meet an unlikely climate change hero: the wet, slimy stuff known as seaweed. Imagine forests where you can float weightlessly among schools of fish. Huge green pastures where sea turtles graze. Forests that capture carbon from seawater and breathe out oxygen. The answers to many of our planet's prob ...Show more
The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms by DARWIN, CHARLES
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
This book, published in 1881, was the result of many years of experimentation and observation by Darwin in the open-air laboratory of his garden at Down House in Kent. As he wrote in his introduction, the subject of soil disturbance by worms 'may appear an insignificant one, but we shall see that it pos ...Show more
The Great Barrier Reef by Helen Scales
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Earth's Incredible Places Ser.
A vibrant guide to the Great Barrier Reef full of surprising factoids and retro illustrations, perfect for children curious about life under the sea. Now in paperback! "A very good book for beefing up the coral reef section, or for niche projects on climate change." --School Library Journal Did ...Show more
The Great Barrier Reef - An Environmental History by Ben Daley
Category: Nature | Series: Earthscan Oceans Ser.
The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem. Designated a World Heritage Area, it has been subject to increasing pressures from tourism, fishing, pollution and climate change, and is now protected as a marine par ...Show more
The Green Planet by Simon Barnes; Kim Smith (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Educational | Series: BBC Earth
Accompanying a major BBC series from the team behind Planet Earth II and presented by David Attenborough, a fascinating exploration of the hidden life of plants - by Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Barnes.There's something new under the sunPlants live secret, unseen lives - hidden in their magical ...Show more
The Growth of Cities by Robert Snedden
Category: Fiction | Series: Earth's Changing Landscape S.
The History of Middle Earth (Book 10): Morgoth's Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: History of Middle-Earth Ser.
The first of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien's epic tale of war. After the The Lord of the Rings was at last achieved, J R R Tolkien turned his attention once again to 'the Matter of the Elder Days'. The text of the Annals of Aman, the 'Blessed Land' ...Show more
The History of Middle-Earth (Boxed Set 2): the Lays of Beleriand, the Shaping of Middle-Earth & the Lost Road by Christopher Tolkien; J. R. R. Tolkien (Original Author)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\History of Middle-Earth Ser.
Second in a series of hardback boxed sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dustjackets. Includes THE LAYS OF BELERIAND, THE SHAPING OF MIDDLE-EARTH and THE LOST ROAD, which contain the early myths and legends that led to the writings of THE SILMARILLION ...Show more