Two Hawks from Earth

Two Hawks from Earth
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 135
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ISBN-10 : 9781504067119
ISBN-13 : 1504067118
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Two Hawks from Earth by : Philip José Farmer

From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Riverworld series: An alternate history classic in which the American continents never existed. Two Hawks from Earth, an expanded and revised version of Philip José Farmer’s The Gate of Time, is the story of an Iroquois pilot in World War II. First Lt. Roger Two Hawks is on a bombing run over Romania when his aircraft is shot down and collides with a German plane midair. Two Hawks bails out and survives, but when he reaches the ground, gone are the suburbs he saw from the sky. Instead, there are dirt roads, trees, farms, and an unsettling quiet. Then Two Hawks sees the soldiers: fur-clad men with shiny steel helmets shaped like wolf heads and armed with swords and arrows. Soon he comes to understand that, though a world war still rages, the Americans are absent—because they don’t exist, and neither does the land they’d come from. With his modern-day military and technical knowledge, Two Hawks becomes a prize that both armies covet. But he’ll have to learn to play by the rules of a new realm in order to survive—and live to see another world . . . Praise for Philip José Farmer “An excellent science fiction writer.” —Isaac Asimov “[Farmer’s work is a] blend of intellectual daring and pulp fiction prose.” —The New York Times “Farmer offers his audience a wide-screen adventure that never fails to provoke, amuse, and educate. . . . His imagination is certainly of the first rank.” —Time on The World of Tiers

The Dig

The Dig
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Publisher : Coffee House Press
Total Pages : 111
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ISBN-10 : 9781566893947
ISBN-13 : 1566893941
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dig by : Cynan Jones

"Jones's sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscape—for its colors, its creatures, its textures, its scents—is absolutely magnetic."—Sarah Waters "A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."—The Guardian "It is a book about the essentials: life and death, cruelty and compassion. It is a book that will get in your bones, and haunt you."—Daily Telegraph "Cynan Jones's fourth novel, The Dig, is an extraordinarily powerful work—not in spite of its brevity but because of it. . . . In its marriage of profound lyricism and feeling for place, deep human compassion and unflinching savagery, this brief and beautiful novel is utterly unique."—Financial Times Built of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a farmer struggling through lambing season, The Dig unfolds in a stark rural setting where man, animal, and land are at loggerheads. There is no bucolic pastoral here: this is pure, pared-down rural realism, crackling with compressed energy, from a writer of uncommon gifts. Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron, Wales, in 1975. He is the author of three novels, The Long Dry (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), Everything I Found on the Beach (2011), and The Dig (2014), winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. He is also the author of Bird, Blood, Snow (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. The Dig is his first novel published in the United States.

Of Mist and Stone

Of Mist and Stone
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 107
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ISBN-10 : 0976802295
ISBN-13 : 9780976802297
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Of Mist and Stone by : John Two-Hawks

Travel through a mystical portal into a forgotten world of celestial cycles, synchronistic rhythms, cosmic alignment and sacred vibrational power. The ancient Celts and Indigenous peoples are as two branches from the same tree; distinct, yet inextricably woven together with roots that reach deep into the mysteries of the earth.In this fascinating book, John Two-Hawks - who descends from both Celtic and Indigenous people himself - invites the reader to step through the veil of time, journey into the mist and glimpse the astonishing parallels and oneness of two ancient worlds from beyond the sacred stones.

As the Hawks Free of Earth's Bounds

As the Hawks Free of Earth's Bounds
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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages : 696
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ISBN-10 : 9781477158005
ISBN-13 : 1477158006
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis As the Hawks Free of Earth's Bounds by : Otis Hammonds

The Magic Labyrinth of Philip José Farmer

The Magic Labyrinth of Philip José Farmer
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Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages : 102
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ISBN-10 : 9780893702588
ISBN-13 : 0893702587
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis The Magic Labyrinth of Philip José Farmer by : Edgar L. Chapman

Dr. Chapman provides the first comprehensive examination of Farmer's major themes and fiction, from his earliest writings to his bestseller, The Gods of Riverworld.

Ghost Hawk

Ghost Hawk
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 336
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781442481411
ISBN-13 : 1442481412
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Ghost Hawk by : Susan Cooper

At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.

The Eye of the World

The Eye of the World
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 753
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ISBN-10 : 9780312850098
ISBN-13 : 0312850093
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis The Eye of the World by : Robert Jordan

The Wheel of Times turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, and Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

To Your Scattered Bodies Go

To Your Scattered Bodies Go
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 9780575119666
ISBN-13 : 0575119667
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis To Your Scattered Bodies Go by : Philip Jose Farmer

All those who ever lived on Earth have found themselves resurrected - healthy, young, and naked as newborns - on the grassy banks of a mighty river, in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food, but with no clues to the meaning of their strange new afterlife, billions of people from every period of Earth's history - and prehistory - must start again. Sir Richard Francis Burton would be the first to glimpse the incredible way-station, a link between worlds. This forbidden sight would spur the renowned 19th-century explorer to uncover the truth. Along with a remarkable group of compatriots, including Alice Liddell Hargreaves (the Victorian girl who was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland), an English-speaking Neanderthal, a WWII Holocaust survivor, and a wise extraterrestrial, Burton sets sail on the magnificent river. His mission: to confront humankind's mysterious benefactors, and learn the true purpose - innocent or evil - of the Riverworld . . . Winner of the Hugo Award for best novel, 1972

Leaving the World

Leaving the World
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 692
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ISBN-10 : 9781439180815
ISBN-13 : 1439180814
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Leaving the World by : Douglas Kennedy

#1 International Bestseller “In this surging epic, a veritable decathlon of the spirit, Kennedy incisively dramatizes the enigma of chance, petty cruelty, and catastrophic evil, ‘unalloyed grief,’ and the tensile strength concealed beneath our obvious vulnerability.” —Booklist (starred review) On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents: she would never get married, and she would never have children. But life, as Jane comes to discover, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo. And then Jane becomes pregnant. Motherhood turns out to be a great welcome surprise—but when a devastating turn of events tears her existence apart she has no choice but to flee all she knows and leave the world. Just when she has renounced life itself, the disappearance of a young girl pulls her back from the edge and into an obsessive search for some sort of personal redemption. Convinced that she knows more about the case than the police do, she is forced to make a decision—stay hidden or bring to light a shattering truth. Leaving the World is a riveting portrait of a brilliant woman that reflects the way we live now, of the many routes we follow in the course of a single life, and of the arbitrary nature of destiny. A critically acclaimed international bestseller, it is also a compulsive read and one that speaks volumes about the dilemmas we face in trying to navigate our way through all that fate throws in our path.

The Journal of Experimental Zoology

The Journal of Experimental Zoology
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 632
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015001287716
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis The Journal of Experimental Zoology by : Ross Granville Harrison

A separate section of the journal, Molecular and developmental evolution, is devoted to experimental approaches to evolution and development.