MR GRAHAM DIED TODAY. The gangrene that set in when we cut off his leg was too much for the few meds we had. He was the first of our group to go. Misha’s nearly nineteen; she should be thinking about dating and holding down a job. Maybe college, if her folks can swing it. But then the greys came and everyone died, and now Misha’s on the run with a handful of other survivors, and her journal’s the only way she can deal with the horrors...
The White Seed Brings Life to Worlds Three thousand years ago, the seeds arrived from Earth on hundreds of worlds. The developed worlds formed the Network, connected only by radio and laser. Since the time of the seeds, nothing but information has traveled between the stars. Now a starship, The Child of Ambition, is changing that. Her first mission: to explore the dark worlds, the ones that failed. Kali Hakoian, pilot-astronaut and war hero, thought landing on the super-Earth of Keto would be routine. The emptiest seed world—its global ocean matted with algae and crawling with hurricanes—hides the oldest human ruins. Her crew of scientists: a dreamer, a believer, and a retired assassin. Their hypothesis—self-termination of the seed base. But when an act of sabotage strands her in the path of a superstorm, she’s forced to escape with the man she trusts the least. They may never find out what happened to the settlers—unless it happens to them. Can she trust her crew enough to find a way out of the darkness?
How does a flower grow from a seed? Why do bees visit flowers? Which flower is bigger than the wheel on a truck? In this book, you'll find the answers and lots more about all kinds of seeds and flowers and how they grow. With simple text and beautiful illustrations, plus Usborne Quicklinks to carefully selected websites with video clips and activities.
In The Throne of Psyche, Marly Youmans sweeps back and forth between what is human and what is other, binding the two together or crossing the thresholds between them. A prize-winning writer of stories and novels, she pursues tales both otherworldly and earthy with passion and formal power in this eighth book, her second collection of poetry. The title poem⿿s narrative governs the entire collection in its yoking of Eros to Psyche. Psyche is the young girl brought in fear to a marriage chamber that transforms into forest as ⿿The little stars⿿ go ⿿shrieking through the wood⿿ and her childhood innocence is ⿿struck asunder.⿿ But she is more than mortal as she passes in and out of time: the child who hears a dryad prophesy, the goddess who sits on a throne or plays ⿿in the arms of Love / As starlight steadies in his perfect flesh,⿿ the figure of meditation and grief who walks along the broken palace walls of home, the bold adventurer who has been to hell and drunk the blood of memory in the place where all she once loved is now shadow. Elsewhere in these poems are other potent narratives and revelations where mortal flesh slams into death and transformation: a woman dances with God, the poet speaks in the form of a dryad, a sister transforms into a fish and swims away, a doll is cast out from home and overtaken by a demon, the otherworldly infiltrates the leastmost dust, and a new mother walks with Death in his forest. Such metamorphoses and broodings on the door ajar between human and other remind us that Marly Youmans is ⿿the best-kept secret among contemporary American writers. She writes like an angel⿿an angel who has learned what it is to be human⿿ (John Wilson, Books & Culture).
