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The deadly hoax (A Unicorn book)
Par Scott Corbett, Emilie McLeod. 1981
Morgan and Sid are chosen by the alien Spicartans to be witnesses to the beginnings of a galactic empire's intervention…
in Earth's affairs. They pretend to go along with the plans while trying to prevent the destruction of a nuclear power plant. Grades 5-8. 1981.The dark crusade (Dark wing series. #4.)
Par Walter H Hunt. 2005
An overly confident alien menace is forced to confront a zor human alliance that has been forewarned, their insidious plans…
of infiltration now exposed. But all is not what it seems to be; the "vuhl menace" may not be the ultimate enemy, and the powerful puppetmasters that have lurked in the shadows have entered the endgame where ancient alien prophecies may have already determined the outcome. The fate of sentient life in the galaxy lies in the balance. Sequel to "The dark ascent". c2005.The dark path
Par Walter H Hunt. 2003
Man and zor, once sworn enemies engaged in a mutual campaign of xenocide, now live side by side. The war…
is over, and Admiral Marais, the legendary "Dark Wing" - both Angel of Death and Species Saviour - is long dead, though some of his companions and participants in that great war still survive and have even chosen to live among the zor. Now a mystery from the past has become a threat to the present when an unholy menace jeopardizes both humans and zor alike. Whole space fleets have disappeared, with survivors stricken mad. And now man and zor must join forces to meet this adversary head on. Sequel to "The dark wing". Followed by "The dark ascent". 2003.The comet's curse: a Galahad book (Galahad. #1.)
Par Dom Testa. 2009
After a comet's tail delivers a virus that decimates Earth's adult population, 251 teens blast off on the Galahad to…
colonize another planet. But soon they discover a saboteur is on board, and they race to uncover the culprit's identity. Followed by "The Web of Titan". Winner of the EVVY Award for Best Young Adult Book. For senior high and older readers. 2005.The dark ascent (Dark wing ; #3)
Par Walter H Hunt. 2004
The war between humans and the zor race, aliens with a religious devotion to their hero, Qu'u, and to a…
lost magic sword, the gyaryu, is now long past. They work together to battle a race of mind-controllers, the vuhl. Jackie Lappierre finds herself appointed to retrieve the sword and use its powers to confront the vuhl. Some strong language, and some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "The dark path", followed by "The dark crusade". c2004. (Dark wing ; 3)The dark: new ghost stories
Par Ellen Datlow. 2003
16 new ghost stories, varied in locale, period, and style, including westerns, faux memoirs, and romance. In Glenn Hirshberg's "Dancing…
Men," the ghost is the shadow of the Holocaust, which haunts a survivor of the concentration camps. A grandfather clock is animated by the spirit of a murder victim in "The Ghost of the Clock", while the lingering influence of a madwoman who terrorizes a child appears in "Feeling Remains". Some descriptions of violence and strong language. 2003.The day of the dolphin
Par Robert Merle. 1969
The crystal singer (Crystal singer trilogy ; #1)
Par Anne McCaffrey. 1983
When Killashandra's plans for an operatic career are frustrated, she decides to become one of the crystal singers, wealthy prima…
donnas who cut crystals from the rocks with their singing voices. Followed by "Killashandra" (DC33032). 1983. (Crystal singer trilogy ; 1)The courts of chaos (Amber novels. #5.)
Par Roger Zelazny. 1978
The sustained order on Amber has been disrupted and destructive forces loom. To save his world, Corwin, prince of blood,…
embarks on a perilous journey that will take him to challenge the stronghold of Chaos. Sequel to "The hand of Oberon". Followed by "Trumps of doom". 1979, c1978. (Amber novels ; 5)The cursed
Par Dave Duncan. 1995
Gwin has lost her husband to war and her children to a plague. Desolate, she nurses her stricken neighbours. But…
those who survive the plague are cursed with terrible abilities and are cast out. Gwin shelters a young girl, and this act changes her world forever. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1995.The crystal drop
Par Monica Hughes. 1992
Drought and the hole in the sky have destroyed Megan and Ian's world. They are alone now, except for an…
uncle who lives far away. Together they embark on the journey to find him, travelling through a dangerous world with one souvenir from home -- the crystal drop, a promise of water. For Junior high readers. 1992.The complete robot
Par Isaac Asimov. 1982
The city of Ember (The city Of Ember Ser. #1)
Par Jeanne DuPrau. 2003
A city planned to survive for two hundred years, now in year 241, suffers shortages - and a secret message-bearing…
box is missing. Independent-thinking twelve-year-olds Doon and Lina exchange obligatory jobs and make a discovery that could change their known world. Bestseller. Grades 5-8. 2003.The cloud walker: a novel
Par Edmund Cooper. 1973
Two world-wide civilisations have been destroyed by the products of their own technology. In the third world, dominated by the…
Luddites, all machinery is banned, and Kieron, determined to build a flying machine, has to use it to avenge an attack on his community at Arundel. 1973.The city & the city
Par China Mieville. 2010
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge…
of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borlú must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. Strong language. 2010.The Chronoliths
Par Robert Charles Wilson. 2001
Scott Warden is studying Thai beach culture and struggling to support his wife and daughter when a large monument appears…
in the jungle. The artifact is a chronolith commemorating the conquest of Thailand--20 years in the future. When Warden returns to the U.S., more chronoliths appear, to devastating effect. As the chronoliths approach America, Scott joins Hitch Paley and Sue Chopra in a race to find a way to change the future.The book of M: a novel
Par Peng Shepherd. 2018
One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man's shadow disappears. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads…
like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories. Ory and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Then one day Max's shadow disappears too. Max runs away, and Ory, desperate to find his wife, follows her trail across a perilous world. 2018.The boy on the bridge
Par Mike Carey. 2017
Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the…
boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived. 2017.The bone clocks: a novel
Par David Mitchell. 2014
Following a huge fight with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is…
no typical teenage runaway: a sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people," Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life. For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics - and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly's life, affecting all the people Holly loves - even the ones who are not yet born. Bestseller. 2014.The children of men
Par P. D James. 1992
In 2021, infertility has spread like a plague, and no babies have been born for a quarter of a century…
anywhere in the inhabited world. The old are driven to despair and suicide, the young are beautiful, violent, and cruel, and the middle-aged try to sustain normality under the rule of the Warden of England. When Theo Faron, an Oxford historian, meets a women who is one of a group challenging the regime, he is drawn into unimaginable horrors. 1992.