As a newly appointed junior manager within the Laundry--the clandestine organization responsible for protecting Britain against supernatural threats--Bob Howard is expected to show some initiative to help the agency battle the forces of...
Science fiction
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Author:Stross, CharlesSummary: - Author:DiMartino, Michael Dante, Yee, F. C.Summary:
After years of searching for the next Avatar, the four nations have found peace with Avatar Yun, until Kyoshi, Yun's friend and servant, demonstrates remarkable bending abilities herself. With the identity of the true Avatar at...
- Author:McCarthy, CormacSummary:
America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with...
- Author:Clayton, EmmaSummary:
In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and...
- Author:Klassen, Jon.Summary:
Look up! From the Caldecott Medal–winning creator of the hat trilogy comes a new deadpan gem. There is a spot. It is a good spot. It is the perfect spot to stand. There is no reason to ever leave. But somewhere above there is also a...
- Author:Lawless, J.R.H.Summary:
If only fools think they can change the world, then a fool is the only one who can. Life doesn't pick winners and losers. That's for the corporations to decide. And they picked Liam Argyle for a carefree life of fame and fortune as host...
- Author:Wilson, JohnSummary:
Howard is a lonely, geeky tenth-grader dealing with a father who's had some kind of breakdown, a flaky, overprotective mother and frightening waking dreams. Then he meets Cate, a strange girl who convinces him that he is an Adept,...
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
A global blackout forces teenager Adam Daley and his neighbors to turn their community into a fortress, defending against countless enemies, but a new danger threatens to destroy them all.
- Author:Bachman, RichardSummary:
A desperate man attempts to win a reality TV game where the only objective is to stay alive in this #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman. "Tomorrow at noon, the hunt begins. Remember his face!" Ben...
- Author:Adams, DouglasSummary:
Rescued from his beloved Macintosh, The Salmon of Doubt provides us with the opportunity to linger and frolic one last time in the uniquely entertaining and richly informative mind of Douglas Adams. For the millions of readers who...
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Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, this anthology introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the...
- Author:Weinbaum, Stanley G., Campbell, John W., Del Rey, Lester, Heinlein, Robert A., Sturgeon, Theodore, Asimov, Isaac, Padgett, Lewis, Simak, Clifford D., Brown, Fredric, Leinster, Murray, Merril, Judith, Smith, Cordwainer, Bradbury, Ray, Kornbluth, C. M., Van Vogt, A. E., Matheson, Richard, Leiber, Fritz, Boucher, Anthony, Blish, James, Clarke, Arthur C., Bixby, Jerome, Godwin, Tom, Bester, Alfred, Knight, Damon, Keyes, Daniel, Zelazny, RogerSummary:
A collection of the best science fiction stories published between 1929 and 1964 as selected by Science Fiction Writers of America.
- Author:Feintuch, DavidSummary:
From a John W. Campbell Award-winning author: The original trilogy chronicling the military science fiction adventures of Nicholas Seafort. In a "splendid homage to the grand tradition of the old seafarer's tale," the Seafort Saga tells...
- Author:Silver Slayter, RebeccaSummary:
A novel of haunting beauty and ominous suspense, The Second History is a post-apocalyptic love story about a young couple embarking on a journey to understand, for the first time, what they've been hiding from all their lives. Born in a...
- Author:Brandt, ParkerSummary:
When twenty year old high school dropout Dylan Thompson comes across a strange black briefcase with his name on it, along with the name of a company that doesn't exist, his life is quickly turned upside down. Karen: a woman from...
- Author:Bird, Christopher, Tompkins, PeterSummary:
This book invokes the latest scientific discoveries to rewrite our understanding of plants and the natural world, offering insights about the unforeseen reach of sentience among plants, their ability to communicate and adapt, and their...
- Author:DiMartino, Michael Dante, Yee, F. C.Summary:
With her mentors gone, Kyoshi--the true Avatar--voyages across the Four Nations, struggling to keep the peace. But while her reputation grows, a mysterious threat emerges from the Spirit World.
- Author:Islington, JamesSummary:
It has been twenty years since the god-like Augurs were overthrown and killed. Now, those who once served them - the Gifted - are spared only because they have accepted the rebellion's Four Tenets, vastly limiting their own powers. As a...
- Author:Jordan, RobertSummary:
The Stone of Tear, fortress of legend, has been taken and Callandor, The Sword that is not a sword, is held. But for Rand al'Thor, the shepherd who has become the Dragon Reborn, it is only the beginning.
- Author:Jones, NickSummary:
Likable antiques dealer Joseph Bridgeman is back in the present and dreaming of a quiet life. But when a mysterious and enigmatic time traveler arrives in his shop, Joe learns that his first trip was just the beginning, and this time...
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