Merribell
Merribell

Author: H. David Campbell

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-08-16

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1462044581

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A story for girls who love to read, and would like to experience the love that this book gives. Merribell was a lively, beautiful orphan girl whose life was changed after she was adopted, and finally found the real reason why she was chosen out of so many girls, especially being eight years old. Why her? Catherine Foster, the one who would adopt Merribell, was raised in a very wealthy home as an only child. She was very selfish and self-centered, probably because she received very little love from her parents. What made her later, want to adopt this particular orphan girl that would make such a drastic change in her future? She had experienced much sadness and tragedy in her life. Would this adoption be the start of a completely new and better life for Catherine Foster? And youll also meet Mattie, Merribells best friend, and how she became a part of Merribells life as well. I know youll enjoy the sweet love this book will put into your heart.

Brave New Worlds
Brave New Worlds

Author: John Joseph Adams

Publisher: Start Publishing LLC

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 852

ISBN-13: 159780455X

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You are being watched. Your every movement is being tracked, your every word recorded. Your spouse may be an informer, your children may be listening at your door, your best friend may be a member of the secret police. You are alone among thousands, among great crowds of the brainwashed, the well-behaved, the loyal. Productivity has never been higher, the media blares, and the army is ever triumphant. One wrong move, one slip-up, and you may find yourself disappeared -- swallowed up by a monstrous bureaucracy, vanished into a shadowy labyrinth of interrogation chambers, show trials, and secret prisons from which no one ever escapes. Welcome to the world of the dystopia, a world of government and society gone horribly, nightmarishly wrong. What happens when civilization invades and dictates every aspect of your life? From 1984 to The Handmaid's Tale, from Children of Men to Bioshock, the dystopian imagination has been a vital and gripping cautionary force. Brave New Worlds collects the best tales of totalitarian menace by some of today's most visionary writers, including Neil Gaiman, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. When the government wields its power against its own people, every citizen becomes an enemy of the state. Will you fight the system, or be ground to dust beneath the boot of tyranny?

Bible Stories for Adults
Bible Stories for Adults

Author: James Morrow

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2014-03-04

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0544343654

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Short fiction of biblical proportions—and bent—from the science fiction satirist and author of The Godhead Trilogy. James Morrow, “the most provocative satiric voice in science fiction,” unabashedly delves into matters both sacred and secular in this collection of short stories buoyed by his deliciously irreverent wit (The Washington Post). Among the dozen selections is the Nebula Award–winning story, “The Deluge,” in which a woman of ill repute is rescued by the crew of the ark, who must deal with the consequences of their misguided act of mercy. Also included is a follow-up to the Tower of Babel fable, an unprecedented nativity, and an attempt to stand so-called creation science on its head. Nothing is spared in a collection that “deliciously skewer[s] not only Judeo-Christian mythology but other sacred cows of modern society, from capitalism to New Age spiritualism” (Booklist). “Morrow’s is a blend of parody and commentary which challenges readers to reflect upon the human spiritual condition.” —Midwest Book Review

The Insulators
The Insulators

Author: John Creasey

Publisher: House of Stratus

Published: 2011-09-21

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 0755128915

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Silence reigns; there is no noise that cannot be excluded. The daily roar from factories, aircraft, and explosions can all be insulated against. Humans can also be protected from the ravages of radioactive contamination. But there is a price; the loss of man's freedom. This is the dilemma that Dr. Palfrey must solve. Can he do it?

Reality by Other Means
Reality by Other Means

Author: James Morrow

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2012-08-29

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0819575755

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This short story anthology by the author of The Godhead Trilogy “reveals him to be one of the wittiest writers of contemporary speculative fiction” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Join the Abominable Snowman as, determined to transcend his cannibalistic past, he studies Tibetan Buddhism under the Dalai Lama. Pace the walls of Ilium with fair Helen as she tries to convince both sides to abandon their absurd Trojan War. Visit the nursery of Zenobia Garber, born to a Pennsylvania farm couple who accept her for the uncanny little biosphere she is. Scramble aboard the raft built by the passengers and crew of the sinking Titanic—and don’t be surprised when the vessel transmutes into a world even more astonishing than the original Ship of Dreams. Reality by Other Means offers readers the most celebrated results from James Morrow’s decades-long career designing fictive thought experiments. Anchored by seven previously uncollected stories, this omnibus ranges from social satire to theological hijinks, steampunk escapades to philosophical antics.

The Cat's Pajamas
The Cat's Pajamas

Author: James Morrow

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1480438626

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DIVDIVA rollicking and audacious collection of stories featuring Martian invaders, time travel, voodoo queens, giant Hollywood monsters, Dr. Moreau–like mad scientists, and more/divDIV In The Cat’s Pajamas, James Morrow—called “the most provocative satiric voice in science fiction” by the Washington Post—takes the reader on thirteen wild and gleeful rides, each exploring a demented, dystopian, or provisionally desirable world./divDIV A tyrannical church wields terrifying power over people’s sex lives in the name of protecting “the rights of the unconceived.” The dead, raised by Caribbean magic, are put to benevolent use in a New Jersey suburb. A racist Supreme Court justice gets his karmic comeuppance. Columbus “discovers” a contemporary New York City. The island of Manhattan becomes a battlefield on which two alien races thrash out their philosophical disagreements. And in the remarkable title offering, a deranged doctor blesses his mutant creatures with ethical superiority, a simple matter of injecting them with a serum derived from the disembodied brain of the story’s living—and understandably bewildered—protagonist./divDIV/div/div

Dragons of a Lost Star
Dragons of a Lost Star

Author: Margaret Weis

Publisher: Wizards of the Coast

Published: 2011-05-24

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 0786954493

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New York Times bestseller: Amidst the chaos of the War of Souls, a band of brave and selfless heroes struggles against an immortal power Crying the praises of the One God, a mystical young woman named Mina has appeared out of a magical storm and overrun the land with her army of dark-armored knights. The elven land of Silvanesti has fallen prey to their might. The young elf king has fallen prey to Mina’s amber eyes. Meanwhile, the great dragon overlord Beryl launches an attack against the people living under her rule. As her dragonarmy swarms the Citadel of Light, Palin and Tasslehoff are forced to flee and are rescued only by the interference of a mysterious person from their past. The elves of Qualinesti must choose between exile from their beloved homeland or death by a dragon’s wrath. Even Goldmoon leaves her people, compelled to follow a growing river of souls that flows northward to a dark and dreaded land. It seems no one can stand against the powerful and relentless entity guiding the devastating events on Krynn. At last, one lone dragon seeks out an old enemy, vowing at any cost to find the answers to the mystery that is the One God.