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Endymion

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 18:40:34 PST

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The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph--the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion --with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors. Dan Simmons's Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction fie ...

Pyramids (The Book of Going Forth)

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:55:19 PST

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Being trained by the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to him by fate. He inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi rather earlier than he expected (his father wasn't too happy about it either), but that was only the beginning of his problems...

Das große Buch der chinesischen Medizin

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:55:19 PST

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Neverwhere

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:55:18 PST

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Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed -- a dark subculture flourish in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city -- a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only on ...

The Da Vinci Code

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:33:25 PST

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While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci…clues visible for all to see…and yet ingeniously ...

The Algebraist

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:33:25 PST

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It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly d ...

The Colour of Magic

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:33:25 PST

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The Colour of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the bizarre land of Discworld. His entertaining and witty series has grown to more than 20 books, and this is where it all starts--with the tourist Twoflower and his hapless wizard guide, Rincewind ("All wizards get like that... it's the quicksilver fumes. Rots their brains. Mushrooms, too."). Pratchett spoofs fantasy clichés--an ...

Diamond Throne

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:33:25 PST

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Sparhawk, Pandion Knight, and Queen's Champion have returned to Elenia after ten years of exile, only to find young Queen Ehlanda trapped in a block of ensorcelled crystal. As Sparhawk sets out to find a cure for Ehlana, he discovers that only he can defeat the evil plots that threaten her rule....

Medizin der Erde

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:28:50 PST

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Gaia

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:28:45 PST

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In this classic work that continues to inspire its many readers, Jim Lovelock puts forward his idea that life on earth functions as a single organism. Written for non-scientists, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence with which to support a new and radically different model of our planet. In contrast to conventional belief that living matter is passive in the face of thr ...

Stupid White Men

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:28:45 PST

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This text tells you everything you need to know about how the great and the good screw us over. It reveals - among other things - how "President" Bush stole an election aided only by his brother, cousin, his dad's cronies, electoral fraud and tame judges; how the rich stay rich while forcing the rest of us to live in economic fear; and how politicians have whored themselves to big business. Not t ...

Unadulterated Cat

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:28:45 PST

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The Unadulterated Cat is becoming an endangered species as more and more of us settle for those boring mass-produced cats the ad-men sell us - the pussies that purr into their gold-plated food bowls on the telly. But the Campaign for Real Cats sets out to change all that by helping us to recognise a true, unadulterated cat when we see one. For example: real cats have ears that look like they' ...

Ender's Game

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:28:44 PST

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The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic is now available in an author's definitive edition. The alien Buggers threaten humanity with extinction, and Earth's ultimate savior may be one small boy. Andrew "Ender" Wiggins thinks he is only playing computer games, but he is really commanding Earth's last great fleet. Accelerated Reader: Reading Level 5.5, 16 Points. [예스24 제공]

Hyperion

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:28:44 PST

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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire gala ...

Starship Troopers

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:28:43 PST

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Science FictionLarge Print EditionStarship Troopers is a classic novel by one of science fictions greatest writers of all time and is now a Tri-Star movie. In one of Heinleins most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankinds most frightening enemy.

Buddhism Plain and Simple

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:28:43 PST

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“A beacon light of clarity and wisdom, a sobering teacher for us all. Simple and outstanding. Highly recommended.” - Charlotte Joko Beck, author of Everyday Zen“This is. . . . about awareness. Not awareness of something in particular, but awareness itself'being awake, alert, in touch with what is actually happening. It's about examining and exploring the most basic questions of ...

A Witch Alone, New Edition

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:19:05 PST

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Invaluable to the newcomer to paganism.--Mystical Realms

Spiral Dance, The - 20th Anniversary

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:19:04 PST

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This brilliant overview of the growth, supression, and modern-day reemergence of Wicca as a Goddess-worshipping religion has left an indelible mark on the feminist spiritual consciousness. In this beautiful 20th-anniversary edition, Starhawk now reveals the ways in which the practice of ritual and Goddess religion have, in the face of a changing world, developed over the last 20 years and the w ...

Rogue Warrior

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:19:04 PST

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Richard Marcinko was the U.S. Navy's most unconventional warrior -- and its most deadly. A master practitioner of the "Let's Do It to Them Before They Do It to Us" school of survival, he was often as feared by his own high command as by the enemy. This brilliant, tough-as-nails military virtuoso of violence -- ambushes, booby, traps, exotic weaponry, high altitude parachute drops, underwater inf ...

Selbstversorgung aus dem Garten

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:19:04 PST

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Anansi Boys

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:19:01 PST

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Fat Charlie Nancy is not actually fat. He was fat once but he is definitely not fat now. No, right now Fat Charlie Nancy is angry, confused and more than a little scared - right now his life is spinning out of control, and it is all his dad's fault. If his rotter of an estranged father hadn't dropped dead at a karaoke night, Charlie would still be blissfully unaware that his dad was Anansi the sp ...

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:18:59 PST

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If You Could See Me Now

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:18:57 PST

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Tender, magical and captivating -- a story of family, friends, and the unlikeliest of romances ...What if love was right there in front of you -- you just couldn't see it? Elizabeth Egan is too busy for friends. As a reluctant mother to her sister Saoirse's young son Luke and with her own business to run, every precious moment is made to count. But with Saoirse crashing in and out of their live ...

The Pillars of the Earth

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:18:55 PST

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Das große Handbuch der Chinesischen Ernährungslehre

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:08:41 PST

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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:08:35 PST

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For years, Nadezhda and Vera, two Ukrainian sisters, raised in England by their refugee parents, have had as little as possible to do with each other - and they have their reasons. But now they find they'd better learn how to get along, because since their mother's death their aging father has been sliding into his second childhood, and an alarming new woman has just entered his life. Valentina, ...

The Chronicles of Narnia

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:08:23 PST

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Beloved by generations for more than 50 years, this classic children's series is now available in a special adult edition.

Mother Tongue

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 3:08:06 PST

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How did English, 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' become the undisputed global language? How did words like shampoo, sofa and rowdy (and others drawn from over fifty languages) find their way into our dictionary? In this revealing and often hilarious book, Bill Bryson examines the mother tongue and explores the countless varieties of English and the per ...