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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: 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 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 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 Sauron Defeated: the End of the Third Age by Christopher Tolkien
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: History of Middle-Earth S.
In the first part of this book, the author completes his account of the writing of "The Lord of the Rings" - beginning with Sam's rescue of Frodo and giving a different account of the Scouring of the Shire. The second part is an edition of "The Notion Club Papers" written by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Science Timeline Wallbook - Unfold the Story of Science - From The Stoneage to Today by Christopher Lloyd (Illustrator); Patrick Skipworth (Illustrator); Andy Forshaw (Illustrator)
Category: Children's | Series: What on Earth Wallbook Series
Take a trip back in time more than 2,500 years to the first ever Olympic Games - then journey through hundreds of the most extraordinary stories of sport through to the present day. This unique history of sport includes a two-metre long fold-out timeline containing more than 1,000 pictures and captions ...Show more
The Sea - Nature and Culture by Richard Hamblyn
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Earth Ser.
Sailing across time and geography, the imaginary and the real, The Sea chronicles the many physical and cultural meanings of the watery abyss. This book explores the sea and its meanings from ancient myths to contemporary geopolitics, from Atlantis to the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Richard Hambly ...Show more
The Severed Tower by J. Barton Mitchell
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: The\Conquered Earth Ser.
J. Barton Mitchell's sci-fi tour de force Conquered Earth series set in an alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world returns as the children forge deeper into the most dangerous lands in search of The Severed TowerHolt, Mira, and Max have fled Midnight City with Zoey after watching her repel an entire Assemb ...Show more
The Shaping of Middle-Earth by J. R. R. Tolkien; Christopher Tolkien
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: The\Histories of Middle-Earth Ser.
Poems and prose, maps and chronologies, detours and diversions along the road to Middle-earth . . . Christopher Tolkien has gathered archival materials that his late father, J. R. R. Tolkien, used to create the world and the history behind his classic stories. This fourth volume of The History of Middle ...Show more
The Shaping of Middle-Earth (History of Middle-earth #4) by Christopher Tolkien
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: History of Middle-Earth S.
The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. In this fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth, the shaping of the chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor is spread bef ...Show more
The Stone Sky (#3 The Broken Earth) by N. K. Jemisin
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Broken Earth Trilogy Ser.
The shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016, and The Obelisk Gate, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2017. Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel ...Show more