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The Mountains of Parnassus
by Czeslaw Milosz Stanley BillThe Nobel laureate's unfinished science fiction novel--available in English for the first time ever Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz was one of the twentieth century's most esteemed poets and essayists. This outstanding translation of his only hitherto unavailable work is classic Milosz and a necessary companion volume for scholars and general readers seeking a deeper understanding of his themes. Written in the 1970s and published posthumously in Polish in 2012, Milosz's deliberately unfinished novel is set in a dystopian future where hierarchy, patriarchy, and religion no longer exist. Echoing the structure of The Captive Mind and written in an experimental, postmodern style, Milosz's sole work of science fiction follows four individuals: Karel, a disaffected young rebel; Lino, an astronaut who abandons his life of privilege; Petro, a cardinal racked with doubt; and Ephraim, a potential prophet in exile. The original manuscript of this work is held at the Beinecke Library, and this edition will include photographs of the draft.
The Mountains of the Moon (Unicorn's Secret #4)
by Kathleen DueyHeart must get her beloved unicorns to the safety of the Mountains of the Moon, but the Mountains are guarded by Lord Dunraven's men. It takes a miracle--but an even bigger miracle awaits her there.
The Mourning Woods
by Rick GualtieriThree words: Vampires versus Sasquatch. Bill Ryder: undead geek, dateless dweeb, and legendary vampire is back in his wildest adventure yet. A war is brewing between ancient enemies from the dawn of time. If it can't be stopped, the veil will be lifted and all of humanity's darkest nightmares will be unleashed to wreak havoc. Bill and his friends are the only chance we have. . . Lord help us all The vampire nation dispatches Bill to a faraway land to broker peace, but it's not going to be easy. His enemies want him dead. Hell, some of his allies do too. Danger lurks at every turn and in places where he least expects it. Now Bill must rely on his friends, master his fledgling powers, and use every four-letter word in his arsenal to stop the war, uncover the conspiracy, and solve the mystery that lies at the heart of the Mourning Woods. ********** The Mourning Woods (the Tome of Bill, part 3) is 90,000 words of foul-mouthed horror hilarity by Rick Gualtieri, author of Bill the Vampire and Scary Dead Things.
The Mouse Knight
by Cutter HaysOnce upon a time there was a little mouse born with the power to read. In the back room of a pet store, he read the classic tales of the Arthurian knights over the shoulder of the manager on break. Then one day, he was sold as snake food. But this mouse had other plans.... Defeating the dragon he becomes the first mouse knight. He then sets out to free his family from certain doom at the hands of uncaring humans. With no place to go, and no way of knowing what awaits him he and the other escapees seek out other rodents... ...and find that they are not alone! There exists a vast underground kingdom of mice who hail the little one as their hero. He then makes it his holy quest to find the mythical "kind human," the one person in the world who loves mice. With his faithful squire, a guardian rat, and a mouse named "bigfat" he sets out on an impossible journey across the fields of fate. Far beyond the borders of the mouse kingdom they set out to find the kind human-or perish trying. They journey to save their own kind and teach them they are worth more than 99 cent snake food. And maybe, if he is very lucky, the mouse knight will earn his greatest wish - a name! This is his story...one of love, hope, and mighty courage in the heart of a tiny mouse who would not accept his dismal fate.
The Mouse's Terrible Halloween
by True Kelley Steven LindblomOn Halloween, the mouse family, Mums, Dad, Emily, and Fred have adventures picking a pumpkin, deciding on their costumes and going to parties. One party is especially out of this world! A fun, surprising, read alone or aloud book for ages 6-9. Some pictures are described.
The Mousechildren and The Famous Collector
by Warren FineThe book begins: When we discovered the mousehole, we discovered the mousehole house, where mousefamilies live who won't always be mousefamilies. We discovered everything at least once, and made new things up. Inside the town, we discovered gardens. This story is those things we discovered, this story is those things we made up. In the mousehole house, we invented many rooms, where new mousechildren were born in the dark. Follow the fantastic metamorphosis of two mousechildren, who eventually sing: "Saw freed caw low saw sale..."
The Mousehunter #2: The Curse of Mousebeard (The Mousehunter #2)
by Alex MilwayAcross the Seventeen Seas lies a world filled with spies, ship battles, and secrets. . . . For many years, a curse has condemned Captain Mousebeard, the feared mousehunting pirate, to a life at sea, never to set foot on dry land. But the dastardly Isiah Lovelock, Mousebeard's mortal enemy, is growing in power, and only Captain Mousebeard is brave enough to stop him. In order to stand a chance against Lovelock, the fearless Emiline and her friends-now fugitives themselves- must help the captain break the curse before his fate is sealed forever. Their adventure takes them to Norgammon, a mythical land of lost mice. There, they are introduced to a wonderful and dangerous assortment of mouse species, and a terrifying battle awaits them. Will Emiline and her crew be able to escape their enemies' claws unscathed?
The Mousehunter (Mousehunter Ser. #2)
by Alex MilwayIn Emiline's world, there are thousands of species of mice, some rarer than others. Mousehunters travel the world collecting the rarest and most special breeds, from the wily and deadly Sharpclaw Mouse to the dog-sized Elephant Mouse and the quick-as-lightning Comet Mouse. For Emiline, a mousekeeper in the employ of wealthy Isiah Lovelock, there is no greater dream than becoming a famous mousehunter. So when she is given the opportunity to join the hunt for the legendary pirate Mousebeard, she sets off on the most dangerous, most thrilling, most swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. The Mousehunter is an extremely accessible, dark and thrilling story, featuring original black & white illustrations, maps and character portraits.
The Mouth of the Dark (Fiction Without Frontiers)
by Tim Waggoner"A wild trip that keeps you wondering what the hell is going on, it&’s an amazing experience. It is highly entertaining read." - Sci-Fi & ScaryJayce&’s twenty-year-old daughter Emory is missing, lost in a dark, dangerous realm called Shadow that exists alongside our own reality. An enigmatic woman named Nicola guides Jayce through this bizarre world, and together they search for Emory, facing deadly dog-eaters, crazed killers, homicidal sex toys, and – worst of all – a monstrous being known as the Harvest Man. But no matter what Shadow throws at him, Jayce won&’t stop. He&’ll do whatever it takes to find his daughter, even if it means becoming a worse monster than the things that are trying to stop him.FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
The Mucker
by Edgar Rice BurroughsBilly Byrne was a product of the streets and alleys of Chicago's great West Side. From Halsted to Robey, and from Grand Avenue to Lake Street there was scarce a bartender whom Billy knew not by his first name. And, in proportion to their number which was considerably less, he knew the patrolmen and plain clothes men equally as well, but not so pleasantly. His kindergarten education had commenced in an alley back of a feed-store. Here a gang of older boys and men were wont to congregate at such times as they had naught else to occupy their time, and as the bridewell was the only place in which they ever held a job for more than a day or two, they had considerable time to devote to congregating. They were pickpockets and second-story men, made and in the making, and all were muckers, ready to insult the first woman who passed, or pick a quarrel with any stranger who did not appear too burly. By night they plied their real vocations. By day they sat in the alley behind the feedstore and drank beer from a battered tin pail. The question of labor involved in transporting the pail, empty, to the saloon across the street, and returning it, full, to the alley back of the feed-store was solved by the presence of admiring and envious little boys of the neighborhood who hung, wide-eyed and thrilled, about these heroes of their childish lives. Billy Byrne, at six, was rushing the can for this noble band, and incidentally picking up his knowledge of life and the rudiments of his education. By the time he became an adult, he was another thing entirely. . . .
The Mud Rose (Time Rose Ser. #Vol. 2)
by Renee DukeNo one knows what happened to the little Princes of the Tower. That’s what Dane, Paige, and Jack are told when they start working on a medieval documentary for Dane and Paige’s filmmaker father. But then an ancient medallion transports them back to the fifteenth century and gives them a chance to discover the truth about the mysterious disappearance of young King Edward the Fifth and his brother Richard, Duke of York. But they’d better be careful. The princes are definitely in danger, and the person responsible for their disappearance just might decide that their new friends should disappear as well.
The Mud Trolls (Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading Grade 1)
by Nancy Wallace Tom BonsonNIMAC-sourced textbook
The Muggots: Book 8 (Nelly the Monster Sitter #8)
by Kes GrayNelly is as busy as ever monster-sitting strange and unusual monster babies. With inviting Huffaluks to her birthday barbeque, struggling to frighten Muggots to sleep and stopping Thermitts from melting, Nelly's monster-sitting adventures continue to be full of surprises!The Muggots need scaring to get to sleep but nothing frightens them anymore. Its Nelly's job to spook the giant spiders, without getting scared herself!
The Muller-Fokker Effect
by John SladekThis novel is about the first truly modern man. His name's Bob Shairp, and he gets completely turned into data and stored on computer tape. (How modern can you get?) Actually, there are quite a few other modern characters (though none so modern as Bob) in this book. There's Wes Davis, who knows the U.S. Army is part of a Black Conspiracy. And Billy Koch, the great faith-healing evangelist who orders a robot replica of himself to share the burden of crusading. And Glen Dale, editor of Stagman magazine and, strangely enough, a v*rg*n. And Wise Bream, god of the Utopi Indians. And others, too numerous to enumerate
The Muller-Fokker Effect (Gateway Essentials #141)
by John SladekThis novel is about the first truly modern man.His name's Bob Shairp, and he gets completely turned into data and stored on computer tape. (How modern can you get?)Actually, there are quite a few other modern characters (though none so modern as Bob) in this book. There's Wes Davis, who knows the U.S. Army is part of a Black Conspiracy. And Billy Koch, the great faith-healing evangelist who orders a robot replica of himself to share the burden of crusading. And Glen Dale, editor of Stagman magazine and, strangely enough, a virgin. And Wise Bream, god of the Utopi Indians. And others, too numerous to enumerate.
The Multiplex Man
by James P. HoganRichard Jarrow, a mild and unassuming teacher, wakes up in a hotel room in a strange city with no memory. Everyone he knows treats him as a stranger. The government and secret police think he knows the whereabouts of a missing scientist named Ashling who was planning to defect to the Offworld colonies. Finding Ashling will be the key to Jarrow finding out what happened to himself.
The Multiplying Menace
by Amanda MarroneTwelve-year-old Maggie Malloy can make wishes come true. But she's learned that people like magic better in storybooks than in real life, and longs to find someone who understands her power. When she's forced to spend a year with her grandmother, Maggie discovers an old magic repair shop--and the owner, Mr. McGuire, is a real magician, just like Maggie! She becomes Mr. Maguire's apprentice and learns how to repair cauldrons, break disfiguring hexes, and mend magic hats that won't stop duplicating rabbits. But Maggie is in more trouble than she bargained for when an evil magician, Milo the Magnificent, comes to town with his deadly magic act....
The Multiplying Menace Divides! A Math Adventure
by Pam CalvertPeter matched wits with the Multiplying Menace once before, but this time Rumplestiltskin has changed the equation. With help from his sidekick, the witch Matilda, Rumpelstiltskin is dividing the kingdom into frogs. It's up to Peter and his dog, Zero, to find a solution that will break the Great Divide and bring everything back to normal.
The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)
by Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla Sáez de Adana, FranciscoThe Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives considers the concept of the multiverse beyond the immediacy of being merely an excuse or scenario for the development of stories, instead positioning the multiverse as a theoretical method in which speculative fiction narratives can explore diverse issues to bridge ideas across cultural, social, and philosophical analysis.Taking a cross-cultural approach, the book centres around the critical engagements that literary and media texts have with the representations of the multiverse, beyond considering this subject as a mere rhetorical flourish or a passing fad. A diverse and international team of authors engage with the multiverse from the point of view of “other worlds,” understanding it not as the appearance of another independent world, but as the collision of two or more different worlds into one of them. From this key finding, the multiverse encourages us to pay attention to the influence that fiction exerts on narratives and world-building, providing possible frameworks to rethink critical aspects of temporality, space, self, society, and culture in contemporary times.This pioneering work will interest students and scholars working in the areas of media and cultural studies, comparative literature, popular culture studies, speculative fiction, and transmedia studies.
The Mummy or Ramses the Damned: A Novel (Ramses the Damned #1)
by Anne RiceHe was Ramses the Damned in ancient Egypt, but awoke in opulent Edwardian London as Dr. Ramsey, expert in Egyptology. He mixes with the aristocrats and samples their voluptuous lifestyle, but it is for his beloved, Cleopatra, that he longs, and will do anything to be with....From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Mummy!: A Victorian Tale of the 22nd Century
by Jane Webb LoudonWithin a decade of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, another Englishwoman invented a foundational work of science fiction. Seventeen-year-old Jane Webb Loudon took up the theme of reanimation, moved it three hundred years into the future, and applied it to Cheops, an ancient Egyptian mummy. Unlike Shelley's horrifying, death-dealing monster, this revivified creature bears the wisdom of the ages and is eager to share his insights with humanity. Cheops boards a hot-air balloon and travels to 22nd-century England, where he sets about remedying the ills of a corrupt government.In recounting Cheops' attempts to put the futuristic society to rights, the young author offers a fascinating portrait of the preoccupations of her own era as well as some remarkably prescient predictions of technological advances. The Mummy! envisions a world in which automatons perform surgery, undersea tunnels connect England and Ireland, weather-control devices provide crop irrigation, and messages are transmitted with the speed of cannonball fire. The first novel to feature the concept of a living mummy, this pioneering tale offers an engaging mix of comedy, politics, and science fiction.
The Mummy's Curse: Book 2 - A time-travelling adventure to discover the secrets of Tutankhamun (The Butterfly Club #2)
by M.A. BennettWould you risk the future to change the past?Greenwich, London, 1894.Luna, Konstantin and Aidan are time-travelling thieves, stealing artefacts from the future to bring progress forward. And they are about to venture on their most treacherous mission.For The Butterfly Club have their eyes on a shiny new prize. In Egypt's Valley of the Kings a man named Howard Carter will stumble upon an unimaginable treasure – Tutankhamun's mummy: the greatest archaeological discovery of all time.The three children are given an impossible task: travel to 1922 and uncover the mummy first. But when the time-thieves disturb Tutankhamun's long sleep they wake something else too – a deadly and ancient curse. And now they must face the terrifying consequences of their actions...
The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt (Johnny Dixon #2)
by John BellairsA clever young man and an eccentric professor search for a missing fortune, in this spooky adventure full of &“marvelous surprises&” (Publishers Weekly) H. Bagwell Glomus built an empire out of cereal. In the 1920s, his Oaty Crisps were the most popular breakfast in the United States, and Mr. Glomus was the wealthiest man in the little town of Gildersleeve, Massachusetts. But he was not a happy man. In 1936, he took his own life and his will was never found. Legend has it that his last will and testament is hidden somewhere in his office, but so far, no one has been able to find it and claim the $10,000 reward. Yet, no one has looked as hard as Johnny Dixon. A precocious young boy who&’s happier reading old books than playing outside, Johnny has a best friend in the eccentric old Professor Childermass, who knows every detail of Mr. Glomus&’s story—except the location of the will. Together, along with a new pal from Boy Scout camp named Fergie, they intend to crack the puzzle—but before they can claim their prize, they must defeat an ancient evil force: a living mummy intent on destroying them. From the award-winning author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls, the Johnny Dixon stories are a refreshingly old-fashioned series of adventure and supernatural mystery. In the world of young adult suspense, few authors have the magic touch of John Bellairs.
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
by Max Allan CollinsDoomed by a double-crossing sorceress to spend eternity in suspended animation, China's ruthless Dragon Emperor and his ten thousand warriors have laid forgotten for eons, entombed in clay as a vast, silent terra-cotta army. But when dashing adventurer Alex O'Connell is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents, Rick and Evelyn O'Connell. As the monarch roars back to life, our hero finds his quest for world domination has only intensified over the millennia. Striding the Far East with unimaginable supernatural powers, the Emperor Mummy will rouse his legion as an unstoppable, otherworldly force.unless the O'Connells can stop him first.
The Munchkin Book: The Official Companion - Read the Essays * (Ab)use the Rules * Win the Game
by James LowderWith 18 exclusive Munchkin® game rules! By gently – and sometimes not so gently – mocking the fantasy dungeon crawl and the sacred cows of pop culture, the Munchkin card game has stabbed and sneaked and snickered a path to the pinnacle of success. Along the way, it has sold millions of copies, been translated around the world, and spawned more than two dozen sequels and supplements. More fun than a Chainsaw of Bloody Dismemberment and more useful than a Chicken on Your Head, The Munchkin Book is a lighthearted and suitably snarky celebration of all things near and dear to the munchkin heart, featuring exclusive content from: Munchkin's designer and Steve Jackson Games president Steve Jackson Munchkin's signature artist John Kovalic (creator of web comic Dork Tower) Steve Jackson Games' "Munchkin Czar" Andrew Hackard CEO of Steve Jackson Games Phil Reed The Munchkin Book also includes a foreword by New York Times bestselling author and Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood, an introduction by editor James Lowder, and contributions from notable mavens of geek culture, including: Andrew Zimmerman Jones David M. Ewalt Jennifer Steen Joseph Scrimshaw Randy Scheunemann Jaym Gates Dave Banks Matt Forbeck Christian Lindke Bonnie Burton Colm Lundberg Liam McIntyre