The Martian Chronicles

The Martian Chronicles

Author: Ray Bradbury

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-04-17

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1451678193

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The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.


Flame and Shadow

Flame and Shadow

Author: Sara Teasdale

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-15

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Flame and Shadow" by Sara Teasdale. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.


Another End of the World is Possible

Another End of the World is Possible

Author: John Halstead

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-07-02

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 0359765106

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In these essays, activist and author, John Halstead, takes us from a 2016 environmental protest at a Midwestern tar sands refinery to a mid-20th century Mexican cornfield stricken with blight to a bloody sacrifice to the Mother Goddess in ancient Rome, and from ancient pagan myths to the latest superhero movies to speculative fiction about a biocentric community of the future. In so doing, he explores the intersection of climate change and capitalism, hope and despair, death and denial, hubris and hero myths, love and limitations, popular culture and storytelling, and what it would really mean for our relationship with the natural world if we were to admit that we are doomed.


The Language of Spring

The Language of Spring

Author:

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2003-04-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0807068608

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The Language of Spring collects some thirty of the most evocative English-language poems on the experience of spring. The poems range from the traditional and formal (Gerard Manley Hopkins"s "Spring" and Edna St. Vincent Millay"s "English Sparrows") to the contemporary, experimental, and diverse (Henry Reed"s "Naming of Parts," Marie Ponsot"s "Mauve," and William Carlos Williams"s "The Widow"s Lament in Springtime"). Each poem beautifully illuminates another small spot of time in the enthralling season of renewal. Other contributors include: Maxine Kumin (the volume"s title is adapted from her poem), Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Richard Wright, John Updike, Walt Whitman, Yusef Komunyakaa, e. e. cummings, D. H. Lawrence, Claude McKay, Jane Kenyon, Sara Teasdale, Philip Larkin, Anne Sexton, James Tate, and A. R. Ammons.


The World Without Us

The World Without Us

Author: Alan Weisman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-08-05

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780312427900

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A penetrating take on how our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence


The Stories of Ray Bradbury

The Stories of Ray Bradbury

Author: Ray Bradbury

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2010-04-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0307269051

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One hundred of Ray Bradbury’s remarkable stories which have, together with his classic novels, earned him an immense international audience and his place among the most imaginative and enduring writers of our time. Here are the Martian stories, tales that vividly animate the red planet, with its brittle cities and double-mooned sky. Here are the stories that speak of a special nostalgia for Green Town, Illinois, the perfect setting for a seemingly cloudless childhood—except for the unknown terror lurking in the ravine. Here are the Irish stories and the Mexican stories, linked across their separate geographies by Bradbury’s astonishing inventiveness. Here, too, are thrilling, terrifying stories—including “The Veldt” and “The Fog Horn”—perfect for reading under the covers. Read for the first time, these stories become as unshakable as one’s own fantasies. Read again—and again—they reveal new, dazzling facets of the extraordinary art of Ray Bradbury.


By the Waters of Babylon

By the Waters of Babylon

Author: Stephen Vincent Benet

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-08-24

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781517031244

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The north and the west and the south are good hunting ground, but it is forbidden to go east. It is forbidden to go to any of the Dead Places except to search for metal and then he who touches the metal must be a priest or the son of a priest. Afterwards, both the man and the metal must be purified. These are the rules and the laws; they are well made. It is forbidden to cross the great river and look upon the place that was the Place of the Gods-this is most strictly forbidden. We do not even say its name though we know its name. It is there that spirits live, and demons-it is there that there are the ashes of the Great Burning. These things are forbidden- they have been forbidden since the beginning of time.


The Necromancer's House

The Necromancer's House

Author: Christopher Buehlman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1101625899

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“You think you got away with something, don’t you? But your time has run out. We know where you are. And we are coming.” Andrew Ranulf Blankenship is a stylish nonconformist with wry wit, a classic Mustang, and a massive library. He’s also a recovering alcoholic and a practicing warlock. His house is a maze of sorcerous booby traps and escape tunnels, as yours might be if you were sitting on a treasury of Russian magic stolen from the Soviet Union thirty years ago. Andrew has long known that magic is a brutal game requiring blood sacrifice and a willingness to confront death, but years of peace and comfort have left him more concerned with maintaining false youth than with seeing to his own defense. Now a monster straight from the pages of Russian folklore is coming for him, and frost and death are coming with her.