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      • Adventure
        July 2020

        The Wandering Earth

        by Liu Cixin, Zhou You, Yang Guang, Peng Fang

        It was picture and popular science book, adapted form the same name’s fiction. The author, Liu Cixin, is the best famous popular science fiction author who had obtained Hugo Award, the science fiction achievement award like Nobel Prize. The works painted the sun will become red giant star so that to destroyed all solar system’s plants including the Earth. So people launched great plan to let the Earth to depart away from solar system. A quarter of the title after text was popular science article about concerning physics with lots of picture, which let readers visually and subtly understood geosciences, Astrophysical Sciences, and so on , after reading the science fiction.

      • Adventure
        July 2020

        Mirror

        by Liu Cixin, Zhang Yi, Fu Kesong

        It was a picture and popular book, adapted from the same name’s fiction, which had 16th Galaxy Award, Chinese the highest science fiction prize. In theory, if superstring computer had enough power to simulate another universe creation, the our universe can be simulated. The amazing idea was realized in this work, so a great model was created……A quarter of the title after text was popular science article about concerning physics with lots of picture, which let readers visually and subtly understood geosciences, Astrophysical Sciences, and so on , after reading the science fiction.

      • Fiction
        April 2022

        The Broken Places

        by Frances Peck

        Vancouver. A day like any other. Kyle, a successful cosmetic surgeon, is punishing himself with a sprint up a mountain. Charlotte, wife of a tech tycoon, is combing the farm belt for local cheese and a sense of purpose. Back in the city their families go about their business: landscaping, negotiating deals, skipping school. It’s a day like any other—until suddenly it’s not.   When the earthquake hits, the city erupts in chaos and fear. Kyle’s and Charlotte’s families, along with two passersby, are thrown together in an oceanfront mansion. The catastrophe and conflicts that beset these wildly different people expose the fault lines beneath their relationships, as they question everything in an effort to survive and reunite with their loved ones stranded outside the city.   Frances Peck’s debut novel recalls the humanism of Ann Patchett while interrogating the excesses of the nouveau riche like Emily St. John Mandel and Douglas Coupland.

      • Literary Fiction
        October 2021

        Icefields: Landmark Edition

        by Thomas Wharton

        In 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slips on the ice of the Arcturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slides into a crevasse, wedged upside down nearly sixty feet below the surface. As he fights losing consciousness, a stray beam of sunlight illuminates the ice in front of him and Byrne sees something in the blue-green radiance that will forever link him to the ancient glacier. In this moment, his life’s purpose becomes uncovering the mystery of the icefield that almost was his tomb. Along the way, he encounters similarly fixated individuals, each immersed in their own quest: the healer and storyteller Sara; the bohemian travel writer Freya Becker; the entrepreneur Trask; the poet Hal Rowan; and Elspeth, greenhouse keeper and Byrne's lover.   First published in 1995, Wharton’s Icefields is an astonishing historical novel set in a mesmerizing literary landscape, one that is constantly being altered by the surging and retreating glacier and unpredictable weather. Here—where characters are pulled into deep chasms of ice as well as the stories and histories they tell one another—is a vivid, daring, and crisply written book that reveals the human spirit, loss, myth, and elusive truths.   This updated Landmark Edition includes an author interview with Smaro Kamboureli and an Afterword by award-winning writer Suzette Mayr.

      • Fiction

        Bunker X Burim District​

        by Young sook Kang

        IT IS ONE YEAR AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE nicknamed ‘The Big One’ destroyed everything in Burim District, and Yujin is living in a bunker. This is the bunker Yujin found after wandering from shelter to shelter. She lives in the damp and stuffy bunker with 10 other people, surviving off any debris they can find and the survival kits occasionally distributed to them from the outside. The first thing that jumps out at readers about this book is the desolate life in the bunker and the ashen landscape of District Burim which was razed to the ground by an earthquake. Young-sook Kang, who has frequently dealt with the topics of cities and disasters in her novels, paints an even more vivid and shocking depiction of disasters in this book. In particular, the memories that South Koreans have of recent. The reason why Yujin and the other survivors of ‘The Big One’ must live in the bunker is because the government judged that Burim District was a polluted area after the earthquake, subsequently isolating it from the rest of the world. People are allowed to leave Burim District and settle in nearby N city, but in order to do this they must first put a biometric chip in their bodies and become ‘objects of management’. The people who cannot—or will not—do this have no choice but to remain in the bunker. But one day, people in gray hazmat suits come into Burim District carrying a large human-sized machine. It doesn’t take long before people start disappearing from the bunker and rumors start surfacing. Now Yujin, who has been sending people one by one to N city, begins to wonder if she can survive till the end. At the same time, while describing the history of Burim District and showing how there were already cracks and gaps existing beneath the surface of everyday life, Young-sook Kang imagines an earthquake that instantly makes the social inequalities painfully apparent. Before ‘The Big One’, Burim District was already a failing city. Although it enjoyed a short-lived boom from the iron industry, closures and suspended projects for redevelopment caused the city to be abandoned. Eventually Burim District became the home for all of society’s rejects—people who have no place to go because they have either failed in the big city or because they are sick. The image of a government that so quickly labels, isolates, and abandons a failed city where people whom no one cares for live, feels less like fiction and more like the inequalities that are present in every corner of our society today.

      • Fiction
        November 2019

        Hide

        by S.J. Morgan

        It’s 1983 in Thatcher’s Britain. Alec Johnston has left his comfortable family home in Cardiff and taken a flat with bikers Minto, Stobes and Black. There he meets Sindy, Minto’s strange and vulnerable young girlfriend. When she starts to view Alec as a possible saviour from her abusive relationship, it earns Alec a big target on his back.Hide takes us on a dark, unsettling journey: one that begins in a small town in Wales and continues through the vast Australian outback. As the threats get closer, Alec fears this is one journey from which he may never return.

      • Fiction
        June 2020

        No Signal

        Is it too late?

        by Jem Tugwell

        No Signal is a mind-blowing near future crime thriller from an author with ingenious world building skills.   Back Blurb: Can a game change the world?The Ten are chosen – they are reckless, driven and strong.They are tested. Ten become Four.In a country where everyone is tracked, how can the Four hide from the police? DI Clive Lussac hates the system that controls everything, but he's ill and it’s helping him. He must decide: conform or fight. As Clive's world unravels, he and his partners DC Ava Miller and DS Zoe Jordan can’t believe the entry price to the game.They strive to answer the real questions.Why does the ultimate Augmented Reality game have four different finishes?And how is a simple game wrapped up in politics, religion and the environment?

      • Fiction
        April 2023

        Pirates of the Sub-Sahara

        by Omoruyi Uwuigiaren

        After his escape, a sailor immediately seeks to settle old scores. He meets a dangerous man who knew the gunmen that killed his father. But in the process, he comes to learn the true cost of vengeance. In the Gulf of Guinea, dark spirits roam free.

      • Fiction
        August 2017

        Into the Maze

        by Euan McAllen

        The Maze divides up the land, isolating communities and loved ones, and hated ones. On the Outside, the League of Monasteries rules supreme. On the Inside, the Kingdom rules in ignorance of its own isolation, free of all Gods. At its centre, the Village struggles to survive. This is a story of confusion, conflict, deception and double-crossing between members of a dysfunctional Royal Family. It is also the story of a despotic Chief Monk, and the story of an orphaned village girl wishing for a better life. By the end the emotional complexity, hurt and betrayals overwhelms all.

      • Fiction
        December 2015

        Last Call & other short stories

        by Edited by P Comley, Contributions from: Robert Hull, Claire Lawrence, Jane Connolly, Vanessa Horn, Myra King, Carol Fenlon, Gail Landon, Gabrielle Mullarkey, Juliet Robinson, Linda Tyler

        From Swiss mountain ranges to small-town Canada, across urban and rural landscapes, local and faraway. These stories - of fictitious canines, portrayed in many different circumstances, as their 'jobs' dictate or their conditions demand - take the reader on countless memorable journeys that amazingly are also able to reflect that 'vast, often unfathomable melting-pot of human emotions and intentions'. Celebrate this compelling variety of tales written by ten different authors who were selected as the best from a large number of submissions to the 2015 Ouen Press 'working dogs' short story competition.

      • Fiction

        A Season, and A Time

        by Jenny Gill

        The 6th book in the Southhill Sagas, set in Surrey, to the South of London – each book stands alone When Rhona’s family throws a surprise party for her sixtieth birthday, you might think she is the woman who has it all – she has her health, a lovely home, a good marriage, and a loving daughter, even a part time job which she enjoys.    But ever present is the tragedy from seventeen years before – the tragedy that has driven a wedge between Rhona and her husband John.   Now John seems to be playing a lot more bridge, more evenings and even playing at the weekends, ever since he has found a new partner, a woman called Grace, who even joins him on a bridge club holiday.  Then suddenly her world falls apart Not only is Rhona is ousted from her part time job, but only one day later her husband leaves her.  He doesn’t spell it out but it is obvious to Rhona that he is leaving her for Grace, that Grace has become more than just his bridge partner.  Rhona has to take stock of her life and decide what it is she wants to do, and how she is going to move forward.  Meanwhile her daughter Jo has a different agenda – she wants to get her parents back together.  A family story of heartache, love, despair but above all hope

      • Adventure
        November 2013

        Wasteland Survival Guide

        by Sean-Michael Argo

        Shoot first. Fight dirty. Get paid. Bronco is a gunslinging wastelander of dubious moral character & questionable sanity... and he is here to show you how to survive and thrive in the strangest of futures. This guide contains useful information on a variety of topics such as scavenging tactics, guns & ammo, dystopian societies, psycho mutants, bloodthirsty cannibals, and radiation zombies. Get ready for tall tales of gratuitous violence, misguided heroism, foul language, rampant hedonism, and heavy doses of gallows humor in this bizzaro take on the post-apocalypse.

      • Fiction
        March 2019

        Flocks of One

        by John Morano

        Glyde, Gonzo, and Azul have one thing in common: they’re all flying as flocks of one. Other than his father, Lupé, Glyde has never seen a pure Guadalupe petrel, so when he hears of a similar petrel in danger, he implores his father to join him in a daring rescue attempt. Along the way, Glyde is joined by Gonzo, an endangered ivory-billed woodpecker, Zomis, the last remaining passenger pigeon, and a barred owl who speaks only in Shakespearean English. Meanwhile, after losing his mate and being smuggled out of the shrinking Caatinga, Azul finds himself in the care of a celebrated conservationist. However, not everything is as it seems, and the Spix’s macaw must fight to return to the place he knows best. But with a disappearing habitat and without a mate, can his journey lead him home? The John Morano Eco-Adventure Series is back with a fourth installment that asks the question: What does it mean to be home in a changing world? As the climate warms and habitats are lost, will the man-flock help the birds before it's too late, or will these flocks of one become flocks of none? Featuring a special introduction by Andrew Sharpless, CEO of Oceana.

      • Fiction
        April 2018

        Out There, Somewhere

        by John Morano

        When Maputa is caught in a fishing net off the coast of the Comoros, neither she nor the fishermen believe she will survive. But rather than meeting the Spirit-fish, the ancient coelacanth finds herself on display as a living fossil at SeaTopia on the Florida coast. There she joins a motley crew of captive sea creatures and the man-tide who both confine and care for them—including Samantha, a neglected teen who finds purpose at the aquarium.At SeaTopia, the sea creatures and the man-tide both must navigate the complex world of care, captivity, and conservation. When the man-tide destroys the ocean and its inhabitants, are Maputa and her friends better off in the freedom and danger of the wild or the protection and confinement of the aquarium? Or does the Spirit-fish have another plan in mind?Readers of previous books in The John Morano Eco-Adventure Series will recognize the universal themes and may even spot a familiar character or two! Like A Wing and a Prayer and Makoona, this latest book continues the focus on environmental concerns, friendship, and self-awareness that are key concepts for the series, and can be enjoyed on its own or shared with the family.

      • Fiction
        April 2016

        A Wing and a Prayer

        by John Morano

        Lupé might be the very last Guadalupe petrel alive, and he knows the best way to save his flock is to find the Islands of Life and a mate. The problem is the well-meaning man-flock that's decided to keep him safe... in a cage. But Lupé has hatched an escape plan all his own!Told in a 'Disneyesque' style, "A Wing and a Prayer" will have you smiling and laughing as you're introduced to wonderful characters but also important themes, especially the environment.Often compared to works such as "Jonathan Livingston Seagull," "Watership Down," and "The Jungle Books," this 25th Anniversary Edition also features an introduction by ​Mark Tercek, President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy.

      • Fiction
        March 2017

        Makoona

        by John Morano

        Makoona features an introduction by Kathryn Fuller, President of World Wildlife Fund. Welcome to the inspiring story of Binti, a female octopus who lives in the Makoona coral reef, and Kemar, a Cambodian boy who fishes the reef. As a mollusk without a shell, Binti believes she's missing something...but the reef is a dangerous place to search for anything, let alone the shell that will fulfill her and enable her to communicate with the spirit-fish. Helped by her friends and a psychedelic octopus who speaks Grateful Dead lyrics (with the band's permission!), the search is on. Fifteen-year-old Kemar, a boatperson fleeing the Khmer Rouge, fishes the waters around Makoona where he crosses the path of a strange octopus and befriends both a Vietnam vet and an old American mechanic who claims she was once a world famous aviator.

      • Fiction
        February 2018

        Kumakana

        A Gronups Tale

        by Kevin Price (author), Judith Price (Illustrator)

        At thirteen, Lavender Jensen is headstrong and determined, bored and reckless, until one day she crosses the line … This magical realism adventure takes the reader into the spiritual wonderland of the Australian bush in a way that has never before been explored. Dynamic illustrations by Judith Price add to the way allegory bends the real.

      • Fiction
        May 2016

        Behind the Wire

        by Rachel Amphlett

        Dan Taylor is trying to keep a low profile when an old friend contacts the Energy Protection Group seeking his help. The man’s daughter is alone in North Africa, and her life is in grave danger. Thrust back into active duty, Dan soon realises that getting Anna to safety is only half his problem. The forensic accountant holds the key to preventing Western Sahara from descending into chaos, and exposing the puppet masters behind an imminent coup d’etat. With a group of militants in pursuit and willing to do anything to stop him, Dan must draw on old survival skills and luck to make his way across the desert landscape and ensure Anna and the evidence she has in her possession reach safety. Behind the wire lies a secret – a secret that people will kill to protect.

      • Fiction

        Habu Patch

        by David Alexander

        Habu Patch by David Alexander No one has written a technothriller about the legendary SR-71 Blackbird quite this powerful or half this good. Habu Patch is raw-edged excitement ... David Alexander makes the SR-71 stand on its tail and do tricks when danger rides the skies over Russian airspace as a last-ditch military action takes place below. The sky's no limit for this mega-thriller from one of the top authors in the field. The stakes have never been higher. Catch this plane if you can. Habu Patch ... A breathtaking achievement by author David Alexander featuring high-adrenaline excitement from cover to cover

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