The Ancient Greek tale of Odysseus, cursed to wander the perilous world on his epic voyage home. The decade-long Trojan War has come to an end and Odysseus, the King of Ithaca instrumental in...
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Author: HomerSummary:
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Author: Nero, Robert W.Summary:
Poetry or potsherds? That's the surprising dilemma one of Canada's well-known nature writers confronts in The Site: A Personal Odyssey, a highly personalized account of a lifetime's...
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Author: SCHUBERT, L. ASummary:
The story continues in describing the pitfalls of the business world involving a prawn fishing disaster in the Gulf of Carpentaria and experiences in Karratha at the onset of the gas project. It...
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Author: HomerSummary:
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Author: Gayton, DonSummary:
Okanagan Odyssey is a quirky and lyrical examination of British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. Sticking to the backroads and byways, Gayton gently pokes and prods local ecosystems, histories,...
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Author: Rosen, Jurgen von, Rosen, Martha vonSummary:
Baroness Martha von Rosen, a Baltic German aristocrat, and her memories of the last year of the Second World War and the diary of her late husband, Baron Jürgen von Rosen, taken prisoner by the...
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Author: Roy, PhilipSummary:
In the third volume of the Submarine Outlaw series, Alfred sets off in his submarine up the dark and wilful St. Lawrence River. With Hollie and Seaweed, his dog and seagull crew, Alfred follows...
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Author: Saeed, AishaSummary:
The world's #1 female Super Hero, Wonder Woman, is back in another breathtaking adventure! This time, Diana will travel to the Underworld to take on Hades--but will she make it out alive?...
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Author: SCHUBERT, L. ASummary:
A family escaping from religious persecution in Prussia to settle in South Australia in 1838 migrate to Western Australia in 1929. The Odyssey moves away from the family home to the Pilbara and...
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Author: CLARKE, Arthur CSummary:
The joint US/USSR space exploration begins. A sentinel, left on the Moon by the Star people, warns them of man's development and leads the expedition survivor to join them at the Galaxy'...
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Author: Clarke, Arthur C.Summary:
The classic science fiction novel that changed the way we looked at the stars and ourselves. From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the outer...
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Author: Colfer, ChrisSummary:
When the twins and their friends enter worlds crafted from Conner's imagination, finding allies no one else could have ever dreamed of, the race begins to put an end to the Masked Man's reign of...
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Author: CLARKE, Arthur CSummary:
A joint U.S.-Soviet space crew sets out on a mission to the moons of Jupiter to learn what happened to the spaceship `Discovery' and its captain. They must also investigate the cosmic...
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Author: Manguel, AlbertoSummary:
No one knows if there was a man named Homer, but there is little doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature. The Iliad and the Odyssey-with their...
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Author: Gupta, AshisSummary:
The Siberian Odyssey of Hans Schroeder is the ironic and tragic story of a young German mesmerized by the Hitler Youth aura who finds himself on the Russian front where he is taken prisoner. Years...
Genre: Historical fiction