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"The Hobbit is one of the most widely read and best-loved books of the twentieth century. In December 2012, millions will be introduced or reintroduced to J.R.R. Tolkien's classic with the arrival of the first of two film adaptations by acclaimed director Peter Jackson. Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" is a fun, thoughtful, and insightful companion volume, designed to bring a thorough and original new reading of this great work to a general...
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A Peri Jean Mace ghost thriller volume Vol 3
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Long Roads and Dark Ends Press
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2016
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Peri Jean Mace knows ghosts create chaos in her life. She also knows the Mace Treasure spawns blood, death, and sorrow. They’re both trouble, and she wants nothing to do with either one. When a ghost steals secrets about the cursed fortune, Peri Jean is dragged kicking and screaming into the dangerous world of the treasure and the people who hunt it. Now she’s stuck between a vengeful ghost and treasure hunters willing to do anything—even murder—to...
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El gran Gatsby es una de las novelas más importantes del siglo XX y una de la más grandes historias de amor de todos los tiempos, cuyo protagonista ha sido encarnado por actores como Leonardo DiCaprio y Robert Redford.⍾La novela se ubica en los felices años veinte, un momento de optimismo inusitado pasada la Primera Guerra Mundial y la pandemia de gripe española, que, a la par de la Prohibición, produjo un estallido de riqueza y de nuevos magnates....
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Lawrence P. White
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©2017
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" The war enters its final phase . . .The Queen may have defeated the rebels, but most of them do not know it yet. Waverly's Raiders are still fully engaged as they return one world after another to the fold.It's time to take the war to the Chessori, but how? Where are they? The Chessori domain is as large as the Empire, and the Empire knows almost nothing about it. Ellie's Knights will, as always, be called to give everything that they are, but this...
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As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading-about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have consistently been among the most popular features of Tor.com....
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CreateSpace Publishing
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©2011
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"The Empire has collapsed. Aided by the Chessori, who wield an unbeatable mind weapon, Rebel domination of the sectors strengthens daily. Against such formidable opponents, hope for the future of Empire dims.The people of Earth are the only ones in the galaxy immune to the terrible mind weapon. The Chessori have been studying Earth for many years, trying to discover the reason for this immunity.The Empire asks for help, but if Earth agrees, the Chessori...
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Spirit of Empire volume Book One
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©2011
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"Looking for adventure, romance, a modern day quest in the tradition of Star Wars? Hop aboard for an epic journey that starts on Earth but spans the galaxy. Join our heroes and heroines through a five-book series as they struggle to put down an invasion that threatens galactic peace. In the process, they might even save Earth."
8) El proceso
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"El proceso" narra la historia de un hombre, Joseph K., detenido el día de su 30 cumpleaños bajo una acusación que ignora. Es más, ni sus captores ni su abogado, ni siquiera los jueces que llevan su caso, conocen cuál es la causa. K. se convierte desde ese mismo instante en objeto de una maraña legal y jurídica que nadie parece controlar realmente, pero que todos respetan y a la que todos se someten.
Todos excepto K., incapaz de aceptar un...
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Lawrence P. White
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©2012
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" Struthers has suffered serious defeats at the hands of Terran forces, but he is fighting back. First on his list: convene the Imperial Senate, name himself emperor, and officially declare Imperial Forces in rebellion. To stop him, the Queen must present herself to the senate, but the meeting will be held on Triton, Rebel headquarters. It is up to First Knight Michael Carver to find a way to spirit her into the senate and back out again. Because...
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""Ryan Britt is the Virgil you want to guide you through the inferno of geekery." --Lev Grossman, author of the bestselling Magician's trilogy Pop Culture and sci-fi guru Ryan Britt has never met a monster, alien, wizard, or superhero that didn't need further analysis. Essayist Ryan Britt got a sex education from dirty pictures of dinosaurs, made out with Jar-Jar Binks at midnight, and figured out how to kick depression with a Doctor Who Netflix-binge....
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Orgullo y prejuicio fue publicada por primera vez en 1813, y es una de las precursoras de la novela romántica. La trama se desarrolla alrededor de Elizabeth Bennet, una joven de 20 años que se caracteriza por su fuerte sentido de independencia, lo que no era común en las mujeres de su tiempo. Elizabeth, sus hermanas y sus padres viven en la finca Longbourn, una gran propiedad que ninguna de sus hijas podrá heredar cuando muera su padre, lo que...
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Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2023]
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"Geek-culture expert Ryan Britt takes us behind the pages and scenes of the science-fiction phenomenon Dune, charting the series' life from cult sci-fi novels to some of the most visionary movies of all time"--Provided by publisher.
Using original, deep-access reporting, extensive research, and insightful commentary, The Spice Must Flow brings the true popularity of Dune out into the light for the very first time. With original interviews with the...
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The papers focus on the theme of love and relationships in fantasy and science fiction, in all their forms, in different media.
Featuring papers from Josephine Maria Yanasak- Leszczynski, Cheryl Wollner, Cheryl Morgan, AJ Dalton, Tatiana Fajardo, Christina Lake, Lynn O'Connacht, Steph P. Bianchini, Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso, Barbara Stevenson, Dr. Ester Torredelforth.
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The first single-volume study of an important Lewis novel… C. S. Lewis considered his novel Perelandra (1943) among his best works. A triumph of imaginative science fiction, Perelandra-the second volume of Lewis's "Space Trilogy"-is also theologically ambitious. C. S. Lewis's Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos explores how the novel synthesizes the three traditions of cosmology, mythology, and Christianity. The first group of essays considers...
15) Loremasters and Libraries in Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Gedenkschrift for David D. Oberhelman
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David Dean Oberhelman (1965-2018) was a librarian and scholar with wide-ranging research interests, who had a long association with the Mythopoeic Society. He was an enthusiastic supporter of other scholars, a gifted editor, and an outstanding teacher. The core concept of this collection developed from panel discussions in which David drew together a group of fantasy, science fiction, and comics scholars to discuss libraries, librarians, archives,...
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A lot of people read Perry Rhodan novels. Just not here in the English speaking world. In Germany, the science fiction novels about Perry Rhodan are published once a week. They are rip roaring space operas.
There is nearly sixty years of Perry Rhodan novels. But they never took off in America.
David Macpherson picked up a bunch of Perry Rhodan novels that were translated and published in the 1970s. He reads eight of those books and takes you along...
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Science Fantasy blends science fiction AND fantasy, so it tends to be bolder and more highly colored than pure science fiction. In the middle of the last century, the British magazine SCIENCE FANTASY created its own distinctive strains of fantasy narrative, most famously by such writers as Brian W. Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, John Brunner, Michael Moorcock, and Thomas Burnett Swann, among others. This book looks closely at the whole trajectory of that...
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A fines del siglo XIX, la ciencia no era todavía como la conocemos hoy. Lejos de ser sólo un saber de especialistas, formaba parte también del universo cotidiano de las personas. Presente en todas las formas de difusión destinadas al gran público, fascinaba a quienes se dejaban encantar por sus promesas de cambio y por los potenciales mundos que permitía imaginar.
En este original libro, Soledad Quereilhac reconstruye ese clima de época que...
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The 13 essays in Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth foreground processes of making and constructing Arda– either within the Secondary world or for readers/viewers– and thus continually assert that the habitations form a vital part of the tales within that world. Because they assume a complex arrangement complete with social, familial, artistic, and political relations, cities and strongholds often define their inhabitants as crafting boundaries...
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