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The World and Thorinn
by Damon Knight[from inside flaps] "Thorinn felt pretty bad. First his father and brothers (who had given him a name meaning "flea") force him down a dry well. Then he falls through the bottom. Things couldn't possibly get worse. But they do, in this warming and exciting story of Thorinn and the world he sets out to conquer, by science fiction's master Hugo-Award-winning Golden Age storyteller, Damon Knight. Damon Knight's fine novel neatly mixes science fiction and fantasy in its account of Thorinn undertaking a journey no less significant than Columbus's. Buried alive, Thorinn discovers that the only way out is down. He travels to the center of the earth, visiting strange principalities, hidden worlds encysted in mammoth caverns, old and young races, and a ruling intelligence. Through all this Thorinn succeeds (for the most part) in keeping his good heart (with a few lessons in patience along the way) and sense of curiosity. When Thorinn ultimately meets his maker, the reader exults in a story well told and a success well earned."
A World Apart
by Sam Merwin Jr.Most men of middle age would welcome a chance to live their lives a second time. But Coulter did not.
A World Apart
by Nora RobertsNora Roberts - the World's Greatest Storyteller.Kadra is a warrior - a demon slayer from another world. With her highly tuned senses and Amazonian physique she was born to fight, and lives only to protect her people. That is her duty - something she accepts without question, just as she accepts she will always be alone. But when the king of Demons escapes through a mysterious portal, Kadra must follow - and finds herself in modern day New York. This strange and dangerous city is a baffling place, even for a warrior like Kadra. And when she meets Harper Doyle, the handsome and sceptical private investigator destined to help her, things become very complicated. And exciting...
A World Apart & The Witching Hour
by Nora RobertsA World ApartKadra is a warrior - a demon slayer from another world. With her highly tuned senses and Amazonian physique she was born to fight, and lives only to protect her people. That is her duty - something she accepts without question, just as she accepts she will always be alone. But when the king of Demons escapes through a mysterious portal, Kadra must follow - and finds herself in modern day New York. This strange and dangerous city is a baffling place, even for a warrior like Kadra. And when she meets Harper Doyle, the handsome and sceptical private investigator destined to help her, things become very complicated. And exciting . . . The Witching HourA kingdom is plagued by tragedy until a wizard-god's spell brings forth a courageous and beautiful young woman who must follow her heart in love and follow her destiny in battle . . .
World at War, 1944
by Mary Pope Osborne Sal MurdoccaThe first Magic Tree House® Super Edition—and Jack and Annie’s most dangerous mission ever in the scariest time the world has ever known—World War II. With a longer story and additional facts and photographs, this is a thrilling adventure no reader will want to miss! When the magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to World War II, Europe is in trouble! It is June 1944 and the brother-and-sister team must go behind enemy lines and crack a code that could save a lot of lives. But this is war, and Jack and Annie might just be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Can they save everyone before the great battle of D-Day begins? They don’t know, but they have to try! Previously published in hardcover as Magic Tree House Super Edition #1: Danger in the Darkest Hour. Have more fun with Jack and Annie on the Magic Tree House® website at MagicTreeHouse.com. Did you know there’s a Magic Tree House book for every reader? Find the perfect book for you: Magic Tree House® Classics: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just starting to read chapter books. F&P Level M. Magic Tree House® Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced Magic Tree House® reader. F&P Level N. Magic Tree House® Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure with Jack and Annie. F&P Level P. Magic Tree House® Fact Trackers: Non-fiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House® adventures. F&P Levels N-T.
The World Awakening (Gateways to Alissia #3)
by Dan Koboldt"The World Awakening is a great conclusion to what is a very readable and highly enjoyable series. Characters that are more than the sum of their parts, a world that has so much to offer, and a story that races along apace – the Gateways to Alissia books have it all."-- SFFworldQuinn Bradley has learned to use the magic of another world. And that world is in danger.Having decided to betray CASE Global, he can finally reveal his origins to the Enclave and warn them about the company’s imminent invasion. Even if it means alienating Jillaine…and allying with someone he’s always considered his adversary.But war makes for strange bedfellows, and uniting Alissians against such a powerful enemy will require ancient enmities—as well as more recent antagonisms—to be set aside. The future of their pristine world depends on it.As Quinn searches for a way to turn the tide, his former CASE Global squad-mates face difficult decisions of their own. For some, it’s a matter of what they’re willing to do to get home. For others, it’s deciding whether they want to go home at all.Continuing the exciting adventures from The Rogue Retrieval and The Island Deception, The World Awakening is the spellbinding conclusion to the Gateways to Alissia fantasy series from Dan Koboldt.
The World Before (Wess'har #3)
by Karen TravissEbook edition. Three strikingly different alien races greeted the military mission from Earth when it reached the planet called Bezer'ej. Now one of the sentient species has been exterminated—and two others are poised on the brink of war.The fragile bezeri are no more, due to the ignorant, desperate actions of human interlopers. The powerful wess'har protectors have failed in their sworn obligation to the destroyed native population—and the outrage must be redressed. But those who are coming to judge from the World Before -- the home planet, now distant and alien to the wess'har, whose ancestors left there generations ago -- will not restrict their justice to the individual humans responsible for the slaughter. Earth itself must answer for the genocide. And its ultimate fate may depend on a dead woman: former police officer Shan Frankland, who became something far greater than human before destroying herself in the vast airless depths of space.
The World Before (Wess'Har #3)
by Karen TravissThree strikingly different alien races greeted the military mission from Earth when it reached the planet called Bezer'ej. Now one of the sentient species has been exterminated--and two others are poised on the brink of war. The fragile "bezeri" are no more, due to the ignorant, desperate actions of human interlopers. The powerful "wess'har" protectors have failed in their sworn obligation to the destroyed native population--and the outrage must be redressed. But those who are coming to judge from the World Before -- the home planet, now distant and alien to the wess'har, whose ancestors left there generations ago -- will not restrict their justice to the individual humans responsible for the slaughter. Earth itself must answer for the genocide. And its ultimate fate may depend on a dead woman: former police officer Shan Frankland, who became something far greater than human before destroying herself in the vast airless depths of space.
A World Below
by Wesley KingA class field trips turns into an underground quest for survival in the latest middle grade novel from the author of Edgar Award winner OCDaniel. <P><P>Mr. Baker’s eighth grade class thought they were in for a normal field trip to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. But when an earthquake hits, their field trip takes a terrifying turn. The students are plunged into an underground lake…and their teacher goes missing. They have no choice but to try and make their way back above ground, even though no one can agree on the best course of action. The darkness brings out everyone’s true self. Supplies dwindle and tensions mount. Pretty and popular Silvia does everything she can to hide her panic attacks, even as she tries to step up and be a leader. But the longer she’s underground, the more frequent and debilitating they become. Meanwhile, Eric has always been a social no one, preferring to sit at the back of the class and spend evenings alone. Now, he finds himself separated from his class, totally by himself underground. That is, until he meets an unexpected stranger. Told from three different points of view, this fast-paced adventure novel explores how group dynamics change under dire circumstances. Do the students of Mr. Baker’s class really know each other at all? Or do they just think they do? It turns out, it’s hard to hide in the dark.
A World Between
by Robert M. HerzogParts of the world have disappeared. For a while, nobody notices. Or cares. But as an increasing number of voids disrupt the fabric of reality, threatening the foundation of our world, they propel some of the greatest minds on the planet to determine what force, godlike or human, is behind the change. Now they must race to stop a dread emptiness before it leads to global oblivion. A breathtaking novel that thrills on both an epic and human scale, A WORLD BETWEEN is an adventure at the frontiers of consciousness, where fractal geometry, quantum physics, and politics collide to create a story unlike any you've ever read.
A World Between
by Norman SpinradPacifica was a monument to freedom and equality-until the off-worlders came. The Femocrats, a party of female separatists, and the Transcendental Scientists, an institute of technofascists dedicated to male supremacy. Carlotta Madigan, Pacifica's prime minister, and Royce Lindblad, her handsome young lover and media adviser, had to find a way to stop the Pink and Blue War-without becoming casualties themselves.
A World Between
by Norman SpinradPacifica was a monument to freedom and equality-until the off-worlders came. The Femocrats, a party of female separatists, and the Transcendental Scientists, an institute of technofascists dedicated to male supremacy. Carlotta Madigan, Pacifica's prime minister, and Royce Lindblad, her handsome young lover and media adviser, had to find a way to stop the Pink and Blue War-without becoming casualties themselves.
The World Between Blinks #1
by Ryan Graudin Amie KaufmanBestselling authors Amie Kaufman and Ryan Graudin invite readers into a wondrous world where lost things are found, and where two cousins must come face-to-face with the impossible…Whenever Jake and Marisol get together, adventure follows. They have their late Nana to thank for that. Her epic trips and treasure hunts were legendary. <P><P>With the whole family reuniting for one last summer vacation at Nana’s home, the cousins are prepared for an extraordinary trip of their own. Following a map Nana left behind, Jake and Marisol sneak out to a nearby lighthouse—then accidentally slip into another world! The World Between Blinks is a magical place, where all sorts of lost things and people wind up. Everywhere they turn, the cousins find real mysteries from history and a few they thought were just myths, from pilot Amelia Earhart to the fabled city of Atlantis. <P><P>But the man who holds the key to Jake and Marisol’s journey home doesn’t want to be found . . . and if the cousins don’t catch him fast, they could end up lost in this world forever. <P><P>This first book in an exciting, fast-paced fantasy adventure series—featuring fun, interesting facts about history––is perfect for fans of Chris Colfer’s Land of Stories and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s The Missing series!
The World Between Blinks #2: Rebellion of the Lost
by Amie Kaufman Ryan GraudinBestselling authors Amie Kaufman and Ryan Graudin invite readers back to the wondrous world where lost things are found in this second book of an exciting, fast-paced middle-grade fantasy adventure series. Perfect for fans of Chris Colfer’s Land of Stories and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s The Missing!When Jake and Marisol return unexpectedly to the World Between Blinks, they find that nothing is as they left it. The Administrator is on an unstoppable mission, ordering his Curators to catalog absolutely everyone and everything as if they're exhibits in a museum. With rebels like Amelia Earhart and Queen Nefertiti facing the threat of their hourglasses of memories being flipped, Jake and Marisol, along with Marisol’s big brother, Victor, must locate a mysterious item known as the Rocket. This unknown object is their only chance to defeat the Administrator—before everything that makes the World wonderful is lost, in a whole new way.…Propelled by a page-turning mystery and plenty of action, this sequel also features fun, interesting facts about history and engaging back matter that helps readers separate fact from fiction!
The World Beyond
by Ray CummingsOut of nowhere came these grim, cold, black-clad men, to kidnap three Earth people and carry them to a weird and terrible world where a man could be a giant at will.
World Beyond Pluto
by Stephen MarloweStephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser) was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. This is one of those stories.
The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence
by Alexei Panshin Cory PanshinThe world in which we live has been shaped by the myths of science fiction. In that vast imaginative universe of mystery and endless possibility, the darkest nightmares and the grandest aspirations of scientific man have been given life -- from Frankenstein to Galactic Empire. Looking through the mirror of past science fiction at the reflections of literary inventors such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, we can discover the series of steps that led our society to its current state of great accomplishments and even greater confusion. And in the Golden Age stories of writers like Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and A.E. van Vogt we can discern a mythic prevision of the crucial values, attitudes, and intuitions that underlie the coming age of higher consciousness and holistic understanding. Addressing both those who love science fiction and those who have never read it, The World Beyond the Hill recounts the most central stories of the genre, how they came to be written, and what fundamental human questions they attempted to answer. By telling both the story of science fiction and the stories of science fiction, Alexei and Cory Panshin take us on a journey through the most wonder-filled regions of imagination and bring us home with new insight into our culture, our nature, and our goals. The World Beyond the Hill is a synthesis of remarkable originality. It is both high- quality literature written with clarity, grace, and warmth, and a unique work of research and scholarship. It is biography, history, and social psychology, but most of all it is the recounting of the dream of unknown things, of higher possibilities and of the human quest for transcendence in visions of the mythical but emergent world beyond the hill.
World Defying God: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Yan YangTianIn this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, my energy is the sword light, my will is the sword's blade, I pierce through the universe, and I pierce through the heavens! Lin Feng was originally an S class hitman in China, but after passing through to the body of a 100 meridians genius, his cultivation greatly improved and he became the world's number one genius.
World Defying God: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Yan YangTianIn this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, my energy is the sword light, my will is the sword's blade, I pierce through the universe, and I pierce through the heavens! Lin Feng was originally an S class hitman in China, but after passing through to the body of a 100 meridians genius, his cultivation greatly improved and he became the world's number one genius.
World Defying God: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Yan YangTianIn this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, my energy is the sword light, my will is the sword's blade, I pierce through the universe, and I pierce through the heavens! Lin Feng was originally an S class hitman in China, but after passing through to the body of a 100 meridians genius, his cultivation greatly improved and he became the world's number one genius.
World Defying God: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Yan YangTianIn this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, my energy is the sword light, my will is the sword's blade, I pierce through the universe, and I pierce through the heavens! Lin Feng was originally an S class hitman in China, but after passing through to the body of a 100 meridians genius, his cultivation greatly improved and he became the world's number one genius.
World Defying God: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Yan YangTianIn this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, my energy is the sword light, my will is the sword's blade, I pierce through the universe, and I pierce through the heavens! Lin Feng was originally an S class hitman in China, but after passing through to the body of a 100 meridians genius, his cultivation greatly improved and he became the world's number one genius.
World Defying God: Volume 6 (Volume 6 #6)
by Yan YangTianIn this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, my energy is the sword light, my will is the sword's blade, I pierce through the universe, and I pierce through the heavens! Lin Feng was originally an S class hitman in China, but after passing through to the body of a 100 meridians genius, his cultivation greatly improved and he became the world's number one genius.
World Defying God: Volume 7 (Volume 7 #7)
by Yan YangTianIn this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, my energy is the sword light, my will is the sword's blade, I pierce through the universe, and I pierce through the heavens! Lin Feng was originally an S class hitman in China, but after passing through to the body of a 100 meridians genius, his cultivation greatly improved and he became the world's number one genius.
World Defying God: Volume 8 (Volume 8 #8)
by Yan YangTianIn this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, I am the only one who exists in this world, my energy is the sword light, my will is the sword's blade, I pierce through the universe, and I pierce through the heavens! Lin Feng was originally an S class hitman in China, but after passing through to the body of a 100 meridians genius, his cultivation greatly improved and he became the world's number one genius.