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The Nomad of Time

by Michael Moorcock

Three novels: The Warlord of the Air, The Land Leviathan, and The Steel Tsar. A British officer is sent into a timestream, landing in different worlds.

Dolly and the Starry Bird (Johnson Johnson #4)

by Dorothy Dunnett

Johnson Johnson and his yacht Dolly are in Rome, trying to solve the mystery of a headless camera thief.

The Glass Bead Game

by Hermann Hesse Clara Winston Richard Winston

This novel is set in the future, looking back at the life history of Joseph Knecht, Magister Ludi, who plays the Glass Bead Game.

The Mysterious Rider

by Zane Grey

Rancher Bill Bellounds had brought up Columbine as if she was his own daughter. She had agreed to marry his son, a drunkard and thief, but then a strange little man came to work on the ranch.

A Translation Guide to the Lymond Chronicles

by Nancy Means Wright Dorothy Dunnett

Translations of the many French, Latin, Spanish and German phrases in the 6-volume Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett.

The Goddess Path: Myths, Invocations & Rituals

by Patricia Monaghan

Call the goddess into your life with beautiful and ancient invocations. Awaken to her myths and rediscover her symbols. Create your own rituals to honor the lessons she has to teach. This book will help you nurture your own connection to the goddess and share in her boundless wisdom through celebration, prayer, and ritual.

The Serpent and the Rope

by Raja Rao

A portrayal of East meeting West through Rama, an Indian, and Madeleine, a French girl, who meet at a French university shortly after World War II.

Death in Midsummer and Other Stories

by Yukio Mishima

10 short stories by the famed Japanese playwright and novelist.

Rebel Heiress

by Jane Aiken Hodge

A Regency romance about Henrietta Marchmont who comes to London to claim her place in the Marchmont dynasty, but meets with unexpected complications of the head and heart.

You Are All Sanpaku

by Sakurazawa Nyoiti William Duffy

A macrobiotic diet can eliminate fatigue, renew sexual potency, cure insomnia, increase memory, heighten precision in thought and action, control and direct appetite, and more.

Ritual in the Dark

by Colin Wilson

Novel about a sex-killer who targets young women, mainly prostitutes, who are found battered and mutilated in the dark corners of East End.

Listen to the Warm

by Rod Mckuen

Love, loneliness, alienation, and the need for human contact are the themes of McKuen's poems.

Anthology of Japanese Literature, From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

by Donald Keene

A sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety and unusual beauty, every genre and style, from poems to plays to novels.

A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought #1)

by Vernor Vinge

Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit the far reaches of space, from the Transcend where dwell superintelligent entities to the Unthinking Depths where only simple creatures and technologies can function. These "regions of thought" are a mystery, but when scientists in the Straumli Realm discover and release an ancient Transcendent artifact, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.<P><P> Only a single ship escapes, aboard it a family of scientists with their two children. When they land on a planet in the Slowness the parents are killed and the children taken captive by the Tines: aliens of a medieval society locked in a bitter power struggle. The fate of races, worlds -- interstellar civilization -- depends on a rescue mounted by a crew of humans and aliens that is racing toward Tinesworld -- and a Countermeasure that, if they can trigger in time, may stop the Blight that will otherwise bring a new dark age to the galaxy.<P> Hugo Award winner.

Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

This novel chronicles an entire lifetime in the course of a single day, a day which is the last in the tragic life of alcoholic British consul Geoffrey Firmin. Set in Quahnahuac Mexico, against the backdrop of a conflicted Europe during the Spanish Civil War, it is a gripping novel of a man's compulsive alienation from the world and those who love him. A classic novel.

The Proteus Operation

by James P. Hogan

Alternate history novel where the US is still fighting the Nazis in the 1970s

The Two-Headed Reader, Being His Two Most Celebrated Novels

by Richard Condon

Condon's highly individualistic novels: The Oldest Confession, and The Manchurian Candidate

Men, Women and Pianos: A Social History

by Arthur Loesser

A piano's-eye view of the social and philosophical history of Western Europe and the United States from the 17th century to the 1950s, with glances forward and back.

Facing the Music: An Irreverent Close-up of the Real Concert World

by Henri Temianka

An entertaining account of a virtuoso violinist's life on and off concert tours.

The Magic Bus

by Maurice Dolbier

It was an ordinary bus until a little boy discovered the gold button on its dashboard ... and then the most exciting things happened!

Hadley Course Catalog

by The Editors at the Hadley School for the Blind

The course catalog from the Hadley School for the Blind, detailing their tuition-free distance education programs. With more than 100 courses across four program areas, find the course that is right for you, and join the 10,000 individuals worldwide who call themselves Hadley students.

Liszt

by Sacheverell Sitwell

Biography of the famous composer, a man of extraordinary magnetism and a pianist of unsurpassed virtuosity. Bibliography and a catalog of Liszt's works included.

Ten Days' Wonder

by Ellery Queen

DESCENT INTO DARKNESS When Howard Van Horn staggered into Ellery Queen's apartment, the young man was clearly in trouble. His expensive clothing was torn to rags, his handsome face was pounded to a pulp, and the blood on his hands and clothes was not all his own. What was worse, Howard Van Horn had no idea of what he had done and what had been done to him during the past nineteen days. Ellery Queen knew and liked Howard. He had no choice but to agree to try to get to the bottom of the nightmare that was destroying Howard's mind and life. Little did Ellery Queen suspect that his own nightmare had just begun ...

Hangman's Holiday

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4 Lord Peter Wimsey tales, 6 Montague Egg stories, and 2 other stories from one of the great mystery writers

The Dreaming City

by Michael Moorcock

Elric, the Prince of the Dragon Isle, must fight to save his Ruby Throne - the throne that he hates!

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