Waiting for the Galactic Bus

Waiting for the Galactic Bus

Author: Parke Godwin

Publisher: Doubleday Books

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 9780385246354

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Having been stranded on Earth for several million years, after creating the human race, two intergalactic brothers must prevent the birth of a child who could doom humankind


Sherwood

Sherwood

Author: Parke Godwin

Publisher: Ibooks

Published: 2006-06-01

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9781596873957

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A first installment of an epic series based on Robin Hood mythology finds sixteen-year-old Edward Aelredson, a lesser Saxon landowner, witnessing the conquest of his Anglo-Saxon England by William of Normandy in 1066, an event after which he transforms into an artful outlaw. Reprint.


All We Could Have Been

All We Could Have Been

Author: TE Carter

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Published: 2019-04-23

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1250172950

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From TE Carter, All We Could Have Been is a powerful and heartbreaking look at the assumptions we make about people and how one person’s actions can affect everyone around them. Five years ago, Lexi witnessed something that shattered her very core. To cope, she moves from town to town, desperate to hide the darkest of family secrets. In every location, she assumes a new name and flies under the radar as long as she can before anyone figures out who she is—who she’s related to. Lexie now lives with her aunt, has minimal interaction with her parents, and has no communication with her brother. But the pain is always there. After starting her newest school, all she wants is to just live life. But how can she when the past keeps threatening to drag her back?


The Story of the Stone

The Story of the Stone

Author: Barry Hughart

Publisher: Spectra

Published: 2011-08-17

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0307800970

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Set in a mythical, medieval China where folklore and history are indistinguishable, a dead monk, an ancientand now missingmanuscript, and a ghostly murderer entice the venerable Master Li and his faithful companion Number Ten Ox into the Valley of Sorrows for a deadly and uproarious confrontation with the long-dead Laughing Prince.


Sophie's World

Sophie's World

Author: Jostein Gaarder

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2007-03-20

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 1466804270

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.


Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

Author: William A. Senior

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780873385282

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Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant' examines Donaldson's first three novels in an attempt to define their place in the fantasy canon. The book begins with an extensive introduction to the fantasy genre in which W.A. Senior eloquently defends fantasy against charges of being mere escapism, or simply juvenile, and not warranting serious critical consideration.


An Informal History of the Hugos

An Informal History of the Hugos

Author: Jo Walton

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 1466865733

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Engaged, passionate, and consistently entertaining, An Informal History of the Hugos is a book about the renowned science fiction award for the many who enjoyed Jo Walton's previous collection of writing from Tor.com, the Locus Award-winning What Makes This Book So Great. The Hugo Awards, named after pioneer science-fiction publisher Hugo Gernsback, and voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Society, have been presented since 1953. They are widely considered the most prestigious awards in science fiction. Between 2010 and 2013, Jo Walton wrote a series of posts for Tor.com, surveying the Hugo finalists and winners from the award's inception up to the year 2000. Her contention was that each year's full set of finalists generally tells a meaningful story about the state of science fiction at that time. Walton's cheerfully opinionated and vastly well-informed posts provoked valuable conversation among the field's historians. Now these posts, lightly revised, have been gathered into this book, along with a small selection of the comments posted by SF luminaries such as Rich Horton, Gardner Dozois, and David G. Hartwell. "A remarkable guided tour through the field—a kind of nonfiction companion to Among Others. It's very good. It's great."—New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing on What Makes This Book So Great At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


The Last Rainbow

The Last Rainbow

Author: Parke Godwin

Publisher: Avon Books

Published: 1995-11

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780380780006

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Tells a saga of two lovers--an untried, young priest who would one day be known as St. Patrick, and Dorelei, young ruler of the people called Faerie--who together discover a miraculous, unimaginable, new world