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The Last Kids on Earth and the Nightmare King by Max Brallier; Douglas Holgate (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Graphic Novels | Series: The\Last Kids on Earth Ser.
Soon to be a major NETFLIX series! 'Terrifyingly fun! Max Brallier's The Last Kids on Earth delivers big thrills and even bigger laughs.' Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid Wimpy Kid meets The Walking Dead in this hilarious series packed with monsters and zombies. In their third zombie-t ...Show more
The Last Plastic Straw - A Plastic Problem and Finding Ways to Fix It by Dee Romito
Category: Learning | Series: Books for a Better Earth Ser.
Learn how and why a useful, 5000-year-old invention has become a threat to our planet--and what you can do about it--in this history of the simple straw. From reeds used by ancient Sumerians to bendy straws in World War II hospitals, people have changed the straw to fit their needs for 5000 years. Today ...Show more
The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them'. At the end of the twentieth-century an old woman sits among the birch trees and thinks back over her life, her loves, and the joys and tragedies that have befallen he ...Show more
The Lays of Beleriand (History of Middle-Earth #3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: History of Middle-Earth S.
The third volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. This, the third volume of The History of Middle-earth, gives us a priviledged insight into the creation of the mythology of Middle-earth, through the alliterative verse t ...Show more
The Long Earth: (Long Earth #1) by Terry Pratchett
Category: Audio | Series: Long Earth Ser.
1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landcape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home o ...Show more
The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1) by Terry Pratchett
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Long Earth Ser.
"1916-the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015-Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home o ...Show more
The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett; Stephen Baxter
Category: Fiction | Series: Long Earth Ser.
The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration."2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. S ...Show more
The Long Mars: (Long Earth 3) by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: The\Long Earth Ser.
2040-2045- In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father an ...Show more
The Long Mars (The Long Earth #3) by Terry Pratchett; Stephen Baxter
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Long Earth Ser.
2040. The Long Earth is in chaos. . . . The cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption is shutting down civilization. Whole populations flee to the relative safety of myriad stepwise Earths. Sally Linsay, Joshua Valiente, and Lobsang have all been involved in the perilous post-eruption clean-up. But Joshua face ...Show more
The Long War: (Long Earth #2) by Terry Pratchett; Stephen Baxter; Michael Fenton Stevens (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: Long Earth Ser.
A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping ma ...Show more
The Lost Road (History of Middle-earth #5) by Christopher Tolkien
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: History of Middle-Earth S.
The fifth volume of the History of Middle-earth, containing the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. At the end of 1937, J R R Tolkien reluctantly set aside his work on the myths and heroic legends of Valinor and Middle-earth and began The Lo ...Show more
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