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Adelaide's Secret World
by Elise HurstA gorgeously illustrated picture book about creativity, making connections, and finding friendship. Sure to appeal to fans of Shaun Tan or Aaron Becker.With a poetic story and lush paintings, Elise Hurst conveys how a bit of bravery, empathy, and imagination can transform our lives.Adelaide lives in a city filled with people and wonders, but she is lonely. She is a watcher, and she sees others like her: the quiet ones, those who dance and dream alone. In a chance encounter, Adelaide meets someone who just might be a kindred spirit--and is so startled and shy she runs away! But then she gathers her courage and uses all her ingenuity to make sure that they--and all the other lonely ones--meet and connect and share their dreams.
Adel's Purr (Elements of Love)
by Sui Lynn2nd EditionElements of Love: Book OneIn a world recovering from a war that devastated humanity, Evan Halvard struggles to control a power he doesn't understand. Evan is a stone mason. He can give life to stone to create and awaken living gargoyles. When he receives a message that a large gargoyle is about to be demolished by the Church, Evan rushes to save it. After centuries of sleep, the gargoyle has no interest in a present he can't relate to. Yet, through the haze of his hibernation, a voice calls to him. He awakens restrained by those he swore to protect. Evan and Adel must work to understand the power connecting them and escape the evil hunting Evan, before the Church destroys Adel.1st Edition published by Silver Publishing, July 2011
The Adept
by Katherine Kurtz Deborah Turner HarrisHe is Sir Adam Sinclair: nobleman, physician, scholar - and Adept. A man of learning and power, he practices ancient arts unknown to the 20th century.
Adept Circle Magick: A Guide For The Advanced Wiccan Practitoner
by Kirk WhiteThe Next Step In The Journey Embark on a deeper and richer understanding of magickal living. Adept Circle Magic, written by the dean of the renowned Cherry Hill Seminary, is your companion on that path--a comprehensive and accessible guidebook that will help you develop the skills and confidence you need to become truly proficient. Adept Circle Magic covers everything a devoted student of the Craft requires to move out of the realm of novice, providing thoughtful and detailed insight into: Invoking the deities Developing intuition The complete wheel of the year Spells for healing Transformative rituals Aspecting and trances Living magickally every day Written for every Wiccan who is ready to expand his or her knowledge of the Craft, this comprehensive volume addresses the practical matters of spells, meditations, and rituals, as well as ethical and spiritual concerns important to witches of every skill level. Kirk White has been a practicing witch for more than thirty years. The past director of the University of Vermont's Parapsychology Program, he founded two pagan organizations, the Wiccan Church of Vermont and the Church of the Sacred Earth: a Union of Pagan Congregations. A longtime teacher of courses in Wicca and witchcraft. He lives on a spiritual retreat in Vermont with his wife and daughter.
ADEUS, A672E92 QUINTUS
by Cintia Cara Laurel A. RockefellerO que você faria se soubesse que o seu mundo está chegando ao fim? Após a ciência ter confirmado a iminente aniquilação do planeta A672E92 Quintus, uma equipe diplomática fica encarregada de controlar a rivalidade cega das duas casas aptas para a jornada espacial, a Cashmarie e a Xing-li. Se falharem, certamente cada homem, mulher e criança perecerá. Como a disputa entre as casas permanece, são designados dois representantes para liderar o tratado de paz, aí surge o romance com um toque extrassensorial, e torna-se lendária a luta para se despedir do A672E92 Quintus e descobrir o seu novo lar: o planeta Beinan.
Adia Kelbara and the Circle of Shamans (Adia Kelbara and the Circle of Shamans)
by Isi HendrixThe first book in a fast-paced, witty, and big-hearted debut Afrofantasy trilogy about a twelve-year-old apprenticing in the kitchens at the prestigious Academy of Shamans, who must ally with a snarky goddess and a knife-wielding warrior to save her kingdom. Perfect for fans of Amari and the Night Brothers and The School for Good and Evil.Life is tough for twelve-year-old orphan Adia. Her aunt and uncle believe she’s an ogbanje, a demon-possessed child that brings misfortune wherever they go, and Adia can’t disagree—especially when she suddenly manifests mysterious powers that she can’t control, causing an earthquake in her village.So when Adia is offered a kitchen apprenticeship at the faraway Academy of Shamans, she flees with nothing but a pouch of change, her cat Bubbles, and the hope that someone there can figure out what's wrong with her—and fix it. But just as she's settling in, Adia stumbles upon a shocking secret: Unlike her, the kingdom's emperor really is possessed—by a demon more wicked than any other. And he’s on his way to the Academy for a visit.Joining forces with a snarky goddess, a 500-year-old warrior girl, and an annoying soldier-in-training, Adia must travel through hidden realms to exorcise the emperor and save her kingdom. But to succeed, she first must come to understand the powers inside her….The fate of the world hangs in the balance.
Adicción (Medianoche #Volumen 2)
by Claudia GrayTras una larga temporada sin verse, Bianca y Lucas buscan la forma de infringir las estrictas normas de la academia Medianoche para poder continuar con su intensa y complicada historia de amor. Pero ¿hasta dónde están dispuestos a llegar? Nadie sabe tan bien como ellos que el amor mata o muere... Segunda entrega de la serie paranormal romántica «Medianoche». «Seguíamos cogidos de la mano cuando entramos en el gran vestíbulo, donde había unos cuantos alumnos haciendo tiempo entre clases. Noté su mirada clavada en nosotros, hambrienta y ávida; estaban tan sedientos de chismes nuevos como de sangre. Al pie de las escaleras que conducían a los dormitorios de las chicas, Balthazar se inclinó y me besó en la mejilla. Noté sus labios frescos al rozar mi piel. Mientras subía las escaleras, intenté pensar en cómo iba a explicar aquello a Lucas...» En el internado Medianoche,el amor no es un juego...
Adiós, Robinson y otras piezas breves
by Julio CortázarAdiós, Robinson reúne tres obras de teatro breves y un guion de radioteatro que conservan el estilo del absurdo, el sarcasmo y la subversión que caracteriza la obra de Julio Cortázar. Este volumen reúne las obras de teatro de Julio Cortázar: Dos juegos de palabras (que contiene Pieza en tres escenas y Tiempo de barrilete, ambas escritas a finales de los años 40 y que poseen numerosos rasgos del teatro del absurdo mezclados con poesía); Nada a Pehuajó, de los años 70, probablemente su pieza más representada tanto en Argentina como en diferentes partes del mundo, un texto lleno del sarcasmo y el irónico escepticismo que caracteriza gran parte de su obra, y finalmente Adiós, Robinson, un guion de radioteatro, también de los años 70, su particular adaptación de Robinson Crusoe, la famosa novela de Daniel Defoe, que se destaca por sus meditaciones anticolonialistas y que reflexiona sobre la soledad, siempre con el humor por bandera. Con este volumen, el autor nos demuestra, una vez más, que no hay género que pueda eludir la impronta única y característica que lo distingue como uno de los grandes maestros de la literatura argentina del siglo XX. La crítica dijo... «Cortázar nos ha dejado una obra tal vez inconclusa pero tan bella e indestructible como su recuerdo.»Gabriel García Márquez «Ningún otro escritor dio al juego la dignidad literaria que Cortázar, ni hizo del juego un instrumento de creación y exploración artística tan dúctil y provechoso. La obra de Cortázar abrió puertas inéditas.»Mario Vargas Llosa «Cortázar es casi un Bolívar de la literatura latinoamericana. Es un hombre que nos ha liberado, que nos ha dicho que se puede hacer todo.»Carlos Fuentes «»Prosa hecha de aire, sin peso ni cuerpo pero que sopla un ímpetu y levanta en nuestras mentes bandadas de imágenes y visiones, vaso comunicante entre los ritmos callejeros de la ciudad y el soliloquio del poeta.»Octavio Paz «Cortázar es el mejor.»Roberto Bolaño
The Adjacent
by Christopher PriestTibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie has been killed by insurgent militia. IRGB is a nation living in the aftermath of a bizarre and terrifying terrorist atrocity - hundreds of thousands were wiped out when a vast triangle of west London was instantly annihilated. The authorities think the terrorist attack and the death of Tarent's wife are somehow connected. A century earlier, a stage magician is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. On his journey to the trenches he meets the visionary who believes that this will be the war to end all wars.In 1943, a woman pilot from Poland tells a young RAF technician of her escape from the Nazis, and her desperate need to return home. In the present day, a theoretical physicist stands in his English garden and creates the first adjacency. THE ADJACENT is a novel where nothing is quite as it seems. Where fiction and history intersect, where every version of reality is suspect, where truth and falsehood lie closely adjacent to one another.It shows why Christopher Priest is one of our greatest writers.
The Adjacent
by Christopher PriestTibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie has been killed by insurgent militia. IRGB is a nation living in the aftermath of a bizarre and terrifying terrorist atrocity - hundreds of thousands were wiped out when a vast triangle of west London was instantly annihilated. The authorities think the terrorist attack and the death of Tarent's wife are somehow connected. A century earlier, a stage magician is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. On his journey to the trenches he meets the visionary who believes that this will be the war to end all wars.In 1943, a woman pilot from Poland tells a young RAF technician of her escape from the Nazis, and her desperate need to return home. In the present day, a theoretical physicist stands in his English garden and creates the first adjacency. THE ADJACENT is a novel where nothing is quite as it seems. Where fiction and history intersect, where every version of reality is suspect, where truth and falsehood lie closely adjacent to one another.It shows why Christopher Priest is one of our greatest writers.
The Adjacent
by Christopher PriestThe eagerly anticipated new novel from "one of the master illusionists of our time." (Wired) In the near future, Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed--annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces its target to a triangular patch of scorched earth. A century earlier, Tommy Trent, a stage magician, is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. Present day. A theoretical physicist develops a new method of diverting matter, a discovery with devastating consequences that will resonate through time.
Adjacentland
by Rabindranath MaharajToday is a new day but yesterday was the same day. A man awakens with no memory in a strange, rundown institution. Struggling to make sense of his surroundings, he begins to piece together the story of his life from clues someone has left for him—drawings that line the walls of his room and fragments of letters hidden in the lining of his jacket. When he leaves his room to venture into the surrounding Compound, he encounters a group of oddly familiar people that urge him to undertake a desperate mission. In dreamlike prose, award-winning novelist Rabindranath Maharaj weaves a story of fragments in which our narrator comes to believe he was once a comic book writer who warned against humanity's reliance on artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, his caretakers try to convince him he's insane. Soon he uncovers more clues that suggest memory is stored outside the body, and he learns of Adjacentland, a primitive land of outsiders where human imagination still survives. Together with a motley group of inmates from the Compound, he decides he must make his way there. In this brilliant, unsettling novel, Maharaj asks us, "What happens to the soul when all minds are tied together?"
Admiral
by Sean DankerFIRST IN A NEW MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION SERIES"I was on a dead ship on an unknown planet with three trainees freshly graduated into the Imperial Service. I tried to look on the bright side." He is the last to wake. The label on his sleeper pad identifies him as an admiral of the Evagardian Empire--a surprise as much to him as to the three recent recruits now under his command. He wears no uniform, and he is ignorant of military protocol, but the ship's records confirm he is their superior officer. Whether he is an Evagardian admiral or a spy will be of little consequence if the crew members all end up dead. They are marooned on a strange world, their ship's systems are failing one by one--and they are not alone.From the Hardcover edition.
Admiralty: The Collected Short Stories Volume 4
by Poul AndersonPoul Anderson's stories are classics from the golden age of science fiction and beyond. A master storyteller, Anderson wrote tales ranging from the immediate to the distant future, from Earth to far-flung galaxies, from hard science fiction to fantasy - all the elements stirred and blended as only Anderson could!ADMIRALTY is the fourth volume of The Collected Works of Poul Anderson and collects his best works from a writing career that spans over 50 years.This volume contains 23 stories including:Goat Song (Hugo and Nebula winner)Operation ChangelingThe Adventure of the Misplaced HoundDelenda EstLodestarThe PugilistMariusInside StraightPlus the revised version of 'Black Bodies' and an afterword by Poul Anderson discussing 'Eutopia'
Adolescents Only
by Irving Cox Jr.Elvin wasn't sure how it had started--maybe it was the Schermerhorn twins--or the mysterious "meteorite"--or else the world had gone crazy . . . .
Adorable Ghost Husband: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Tian JiuPicking up a Barbie, she happily carried it back to her dorm, as if it was her daughter's …But, who can tell me what's going on with the arrogant ghost sitting across from me!You gave my daughter back to me, ah ah ah ah!
Adorable Ghost Husband: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Tian JiuPicking up a Barbie, she happily carried it back to her dorm, as if it was her daughter's …But, who can tell me what's going on with the arrogant ghost sitting across from me!You gave my daughter back to me, ah ah ah ah!
Adorable Ghost Husband: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Tian JiuPicking up a Barbie, she happily carried it back to her dorm, as if it was her daughter's …But, who can tell me what's going on with the arrogant ghost sitting across from me!You gave my daughter back to me, ah ah ah ah!
Adorable Ghost Husband: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Tian JiuPicking up a Barbie, she happily carried it back to her dorm, as if it was her daughter's …But, who can tell me what's going on with the arrogant ghost sitting across from me!You gave my daughter back to me, ah ah ah ah!
Adorable Ghost Husband: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Tian JiuPicking up a Barbie, she happily carried it back to her dorm, as if it was her daughter's …But, who can tell me what's going on with the arrogant ghost sitting across from me!You gave my daughter back to me, ah ah ah ah!
Adorable Ghost Husband: Volume 6 (Volume 6 #6)
by Tian JiuPicking up a Barbie, she happily carried it back to her dorm, as if it was her daughter's …But, who can tell me what's going on with the arrogant ghost sitting across from me!You gave my daughter back to me, ah ah ah ah!
The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Saga #1)
by Mary E. PearsonWho is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers? This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for acclaimed author Mary Pearson. Set in a near future America, it takes readers on an unforgettable journey through questions of bio-medical ethics and the nature of humanity.
The Adorned
by John TristanMy name is Etan, and I am Adorned.A living piece of art, I exist to please the divine rulers of Kered. With nowhere to turn after my father died, I tried my luck in the capital city. Little did I know how quickly I would be robbed, beaten and forced to sell myself into servitude. But I was lucky enough to gain the attention of Roberd Tallisk, an irascible but intriguing tattoo artist who offered to mark me with enchanted ink for the enjoyment of the nobles. I was given a chance to better my station in life, and I could not refuse.But the divine rulers want not only the art but the body that bears it. In their company I can rise above the dregs of society and experience a life most only dream of, at the cost of suffering their every desire as a pawn in games of lavish intrigue. Their attention is flattering, but I find I'd rather have Tallisk's. Caught between factions, I learn that a revolution is brewing, one that could ruin Kered-and Roberd and myself along with it...101,000 words
Adrenaline Rush (The Capes #2)
by Rebecca RoyceAce Hudson has worked for his brother, Draco, at Powers, Inc. since it opened. Spending his days trying to balance his job with taking care of his teenage brother, Lael, he uses his nights to overcome the overabundance of adrenaline in his body that makes him lose control. He also happens to have a secret crush on a celebrity chef who makes home-cooked meals look sexier than they have a right to be.Alice Styles runs an empire based on her ability to make people want to eat what she cooks. When she’s nearly killed on live television in a situation straight out of one of her childhood nightmares, she reluctantly asks Ace Hudson to help keep her safe. Starting out with instant dislike and finding their way to mutual pleasure, Ace and Alice do not have an easy path to love. But their egos and personal barriers are nothing compared to the looming threat just waiting for a moment to possess Alice. This title has been previously published and has been re-edited for your enjoyment.
Adrift
by Rob Boffard"An edge-of-the-seat epic of survival and adventure in deep space." - Gareth L. Powell, BSFA Award-Winning authorSigma Station. The ultimate luxury hotel, in the far reaches of space.For one small group, a tour of the Horsehead Nebula is meant to be a short but stunning highlight in the trip of a lifetime.But when a mysterious ship destroys Sigma Station and everyone on it, suddenly their tourist shuttle is stranded.They have no weapons. No food. No water. No one back home knows they're alive.And the mysterious ship is hunting them.For more from Rob Boffard, check out:The Outer Earth TrilogyTracerZero - GImpactOuter Earth (Omnibus Edition)