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The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzéard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks throu ...Show more
The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love' On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile'i however is determined to defy destiny and become the first to survive. Across the sea, Alice Shih's life is inte ...Show more
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
Escape to the ocean with the entrancing, unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year - as read on BBC Radio 4. 'Mesmerising' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'A unique talent' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Wonderful' BRIDGET COLLINS 'Brilliant' CLARE CHAMBERS Near the island of Black Conch, a fisherman sings to himself w ...Show more
The Obelisk Gate by N K Jemisin
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Broken Earth
2017 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Novel"Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season Continuing the trilogy that began with the award-winning The Fifth SeasonWinner of the Hugo AwardShortlisted for the Nebula, Audie, and Locus AwardsThe inaugural Wired.com book club bookNew York T ...Show more
The Obelisk Gate: The Broken Earth, Book 2, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD by N. K. Jemisin
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Broken Earth Trilogy Ser.
Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel Book 2 in the double Hugo-Award-winning trilogy The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun has found shelter, but not her missing daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a reque ...Show more
The Other Wind by Ursula K Le Guin
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Earthsea Cycle
The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. The dead are pulling him to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea. Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage. Ged tells him to go to Tenar, Tehanu, and the young king at Havnor. They are joined by amber-eyed Irian, a fierce dragon able t ...Show more
The Other Wind (#6 Earthsea) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Earthsea
The wizard Alder comes from Roke to the island of Gont in search of the Archmage, Lord Sparrowhawk, once known as Ged. The man who was once the most powerful wizard in the Islands now lives with his wife Tenar and their adopted daughter Tehanu. Alder needs help: his beloved wife died and in his dreams s ...Show more
The Other Wind (Earthsea #6) by Ursula K Le Guin
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Earthsea
The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. The dead are pulling him to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea. Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage. Ged tells him to go to Tenar, Tehanu, and the young king at Havnor. They are joined by amber-eyed Irian, a fierce dragon able t ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived'An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by ...Show more
The Peoples of Middle-Earth by Christopher Tolkien
Category: Fiction | Series: The History of Middle-Earth
This final volume in
The Plague Forge (Dire Earth Cycle #3) by Jason M. Hough
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: The\Dire Earth Cycle Ser.
After discovering the first key in the wreckage of a crashed Builder ship, Skyler Luiken and his crew follow the migrating aura towers in search of the four remaining relics. But time is running out: the team learn that the next Builder event will be the last, and one of the objects has already fallen i ...Show more
The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel
Category: Fiction | Series: Earth's Children Series: Book 4
Ayla the orphan and Jondalar the traveller leave the safety of the land of the mammoth hunters and embark on a seemingly impossible journey. On their way, they brave savage enemies in their search for the place that will become home. Paperback (A-Format)