Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky, international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay deploys his...
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Author: Kay, Guy GavrielSummary: -
Author: Kay, Guy GavrielSummary:
In the conclusion to Kay's fantasy trilogy, five university students from our world preparing to sacrifice themselves as they enter into final battle against a power of unimaginable...
Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Kay, Guy GavrielSummary:
College students Dave, Paul, Kim, Kevin, and Jennifer return to the magical land of Fionavar to battle the minions of Rakoth Maugrim. But this time, Jennifer is pregnant with a god's baby--one...
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Author: Lewis, C. S.Summary:
Have we been taught to discount the veracity and deeper meaning of our emotional resonance with the world around us? In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis looks at the curriculum of the English...
Genre: Philosophy, Religion and spirituality -
Author: Lewis, C. S.Summary:This definitive collection of short fiction explores enduring spiritual and science fiction themes such as space, time, reality, fantasy, God, and the fate of humankind.
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Author: Alan Moore and David LloydSummary:In a near-future Britain ruled by a totalitarian regime, Evey is rescued from certain death by a masked vigilante calling himself "V," a beguiling and charismatic figure who launches a one-man...
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Author: Novik, NaomiSummary:A dazzling blend of military history, high-flying fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat adventure, Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels, set in an alternate Napoleonic era in which intelligent dragons have...
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Author: Nesser, HåkanSummary:The master of Swedish crime fiction returns with this award-winning latest entry into the Van Veeteren series. It starts with a drunk man killing a boy as he hits him with his car. Thinking no one...
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Author: Wheen, FrancisSummary:In this brilliant book, Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished...
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Author: Willocks, TimSummary:May 1565. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The largest armada of all time approaches the Knights' Christian...
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Author: Herbert, FrankSummary:
Frank Herbert's bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, the sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who...
Genre: Science fiction, Epic fiction -
Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:The likeable young Nicholas, left penniless on the death of his father, sets off in search of better prospects. His meandering route to happiness includes work as a teacher at Dotheboys Hall,...
Genre: Classic fiction, Bildungsromans -
Author: Lagercrantz, DavidSummary:The sixth Lisbeth Salander story-the crime-fiction phenomenon that has sold more than 90 million copies worldwide. Book four in the series, The Girl in the Spider's Web, starring Claire Foy,...
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Author: Herbert, FrankSummary:
The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world—and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile....
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Author: Herbert, FrankSummary:
The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! This second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange...
Genre: Science fiction, Epic fiction