Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
The Tablet
Author: Into the Mist
Author: Anne RenaudPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554887593
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Describes the building and early voyages of the steamship and explains how the great ocean liner sank to the bottom of the Saint Lawrence River in 1914.
Dagger of Bone
Author: R. K. ThornePublisher:
ISBN: 9781950993000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Two fates intertwine to fight a great evil. No magic means no future for Nyalin moLinali. Marriage means misery for Lara, daughter of the clan leader of the Bone Clan. When Lara can sense Nyalin's magic when no one else can, the two join forces and gamble on each other in search of an extraordinary magic-and a better life for them both.
Pearson's Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular culture
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Vol. 49, no. 9 (Sept. 1922) accompanied by a separately paged section entitled ERA: electronic reactions of Abrams.
The Supplement to the Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Author: Ulmy Sabyon - Meongseong's Time - The Death of an Empress
Author: Serge B. CharleboisPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 110571523X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
ULMY SABYON - Myeongseong's Time - The Death of an Empress Is the saga of Jason Nelson Morley, a school teacher from Canada, on his way to teach in Australia. A typhoon destroys the ship he is on and he is stranded in a strange land, the land of the Hermit Kingdom. The year is 1895. It is a time when Korea is under siege by the Japanese Imperial Military. Experience Jason's assimilation in to the Korean culture, a forbidden love for the first lady in waiting to the Empress, and his unlikely friendship to a secret assassin. His drama and his denouement conclude in an exciting and unforgettable story.
Catherine & Diderot
Author: Robert ZaretskyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674737903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb. In October 1773, after a grueling trek from Paris, the aged and ailing Denis Diderot stumbled from a carriage in wintery St. Petersburg. The century’s most subversive thinker, Diderot arrived as the guest of its most ambitious and admired ruler, Empress Catherine of Russia. What followed was unprecedented: more than forty private meetings, stretching over nearly four months, between these two extraordinary figures. Diderot had come from Paris in order to guide—or so he thought—the woman who had become the continent’s last great hope for an enlightened ruler. But as it soon became clear, Catherine had a very different understanding not just of her role but of his as well. Philosophers, she claimed, had the luxury of writing on unfeeling paper. Rulers had the task of writing on human skin, sensitive to the slightest touch. Diderot and Catherine’s series of meetings, held in her private chambers at the Hermitage, captured the imagination of their contemporaries. While heads of state like Frederick of Prussia feared the consequences of these conversations, intellectuals like Voltaire hoped they would further the goals of the Enlightenment. In Catherine & Diderot, Robert Zaretsky traces the lives of these two remarkable figures, inviting us to reflect on the fraught relationship between politics and philosophy, and between a man of thought and a woman of action.
The Pleasure Cats of Nova Playa
Author: A. MalonePublisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1528999290
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Pleasure Cats of Nova Playa is a story of sex, drugs, alcohol, violence and techno music. Set in the fictional sun soaked Mediterranean resort of Playa Nova where underground, under town, cats mirror the excesses of the sunseekers above. Into this bustling, vibrant underground city arrives the beautiful Napoleona, a charming and cunning cat with a past, but with her eyes fixed squarely on the future, and in particular the coming winter. In the summer the cats feast and party, but the cold desolate winter threatens to thin them out. She encounters new dangers, especially Count Luciano, the second in command to King Louie, gangsters with pretensions of nobility. The pursuit of power and pleasure seems to have no bounds in this subterranean city. How far will Napoleona go to ensure the party never ends?
Telephony
Author: Exodus: The Archimedes Engine
Author: Peter F. HamiltonPublisher: Random House Worlds
ISBN: 0593357671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 929
Book Description
Explore EXODUS, a new sci-fi action-adventure RPG coming soon from Archetype Entertainment featured in this epic novel from legendary author Peter F. Hamilton. Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. Traveling in massive arkships, these brave pioneers spread out across the galaxy to find a new home. After traveling thousands of light-years, one fleet of arkships arrived at Centauri, a dense cluster of stars with a vast array of potentially habitable planets. The survivors of Earth signaled to the remaining arkships that humanity had finally found its new home among the stars. Thousands of years later, the Centauri Cluster has flourished. The original settlers have evolved into advanced beings known as Celestials and divided themselves into powerful Dominions. One of the most influential is that of the Crown Celestials, an alliance of five great houses that controls vast areas of Centauri. As arkships continue to arrive, the remaining humans and their descendants must fight for survival against overwhelming odds or be forced into serving the Crown Dominion. Among those yearning for a better life is Finn, for whom Earth is not a memory but merely a footnote from humanity’s ancient history. Born on one of the Crown Dominion worlds, Finn has known nothing but the repressive rule of the Celestials, though he dreams of the possibility of boundless space beyond his home. When another arkship from Earth, previously thought lost, unexpectedly arrives, Finn sees his chance to embrace a greater destiny and become a Traveler—one of a group of brave heroes dedicated to ensuring humanity’s future by journeying into the vast unknown of distant space.