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Cemetery World
by Clifford D. SimakEarth: expensive, elite graveyard to the galaxy. Ravaged 10,000 years earlier by war, Earth was reclaimed by its space-dwelling offspring as a planet of landscaping and tombstones. None of them fully human, Fletcher, Cynthia, and Elmer journey through this dead world, discovering human traits and undertaking a quest to rebuild a human world on Earth.
Cemetery World and Destiny Doll
by Clifford D. SimakBrave explorers encounter a dangerous new world and a terrifying future Earth in these two classic novels by the pioneering SFWA Grand Master.Cemetery World After a disastrous planet-wide war, Earth is nothing more than an elite graveyard—but Fletcher Carson is venturing back in search of a vital bounty. Fletcher, a former artist, is joined by a sentient machine, an ancient, powerful robot, and a treasure-seeking beauty. They soon discover that Earth harbors more than the carefully groomed tombstones. In the wild land beyond the cemetery there are dangerous machines, mutant creatures, and even humans who never left their home planet.Destiny Doll When a team of explorers is beckoned to a strange planet, it closes around them like a Venus flytrap. Assailed by strange perils and even stranger temptations, the small group struggles to survive as, surrounded by creatures of myth and mystery, they are stalked by a deadly nemesis. Even more peculiar is the little wooden painted doll that offers them salvation . . . or damnation.
Cendres aux Cendres: Une mini aventure Brandywine (Une mini aventure Helena Brandywine #3)
by Greg AlldredgeSituée dans l'univers d'Helena Brandywine, cette histoire est la troisième aventure des Slaughter Sisters. New York est vivante de magie. Au cœur de Chinatown, les ruelles cachent un secret. Il y a un bâtiment qui utilise la magie pour se masquer aux mortels banals qui vivent autour de lui. Un bon ami a demandé aux Slaughter Sisters de trouver une fiancée rebelle. Jusqu'où sont-ils prêts à aller? Quel nouveau monstre tente les hommes, jeunes et vieux, à leur disparition? Dans Ashes to Ashes, les soeurs Slaughter trouvent un évadé de l'enfer lui-même. Vont-ils survivre?
Cenere alla Cenere: La storia delle sorelle Massacro (Una piccola avventura di Helena Brandiwine #3)
by Greg AlldredgeNel cuore di Chinatown, i vicoli nascondono un segreto. C’è un edificio che adopera la magia per nascondersi dagli occhi indiscreti dei comuni mortali. Una cara amica chiede alle sorelle Massacro di pedinare un fidanzato che si comporta in modo strano. Fin dove sono disposte a spingersi? Quale nuova mostruosità sta attanagliando gli uomini, sia giovani che maturi? In Cenere alla Cenere le sorelle Massacro troveranno una via d’uscita dall’inferno. Ma sopravvivranno?
Cenicienta no se queda callada: Una novela gráfica poco tradicional (Caí en un cuento de hadas)
by Mari BolteKaita cae en el libro La Cenicienta y lo que encuentra allí no le causa ninguna gracia. ¿Por qué Cenicienta es la única persona que limpia? ¿Por qué la madrastra y las hermanastras de Cenicienta la tratan tan mal? ¿Por qué se queda callada? ¿Y qué rayos pasa con este baile? No hace falta decir que Kaita tiene mucho que enseñarle a Cenicienta antes de encontrar una salida de este cuento de hadas. Y con la ayuda de Kaita, Cenicienta ya no se quedará callada en esta novela gráfica poco tradicional.
Cenicienta y la zapatilla de cristal: Cuento de hadas clásico
by Federica Leva Aurora Stella¿Quién no conoce a Cenicienta, el cuento de hadas que siempre ha hecho soñar a las niñas y a menudo también a las mujeres adultas? Una chica hermosa y amable, una madrastra malvada, dos hermanastras envidiosas y un príncipe al que conquistar. ¿Podrá Cenicienta alcanzar su felicidad para siempre? Para ustedes, el famoso cuento de Charles Perrault retranscrito y enriquecido con nuevos detalles (pero siempre fiel al original), e ilustrado en color. Edad de lectura: de 5 a 99 años (porque nunca se es demasiado joven, ni demasiado viejo para soñar)
Cenizas a las Cenizas: Una mini aventura de Brandywine (Miniaventuras de Brandywine, #3 #3)
by Greg AlldredgeAmbientada en el universo Helena Brandywine, esta historia es la tercera aventura de Las Hermanas de la Matanza Nueva York está viva con magia. En lo profundo del corazón de Chinatown, los callejones esconden un secreto. Hay un edificio que usa magia para enmascararse de los mortales mundanos que viven a su alrededor. Un buen amigo les pidió a las Hermanas de la Matanza que buscaran una novia rebelde. ¿Hasta dónde están ubicados a llegar? ¿Qué nuevo monstruo está tentando a los hombres, jóvenes y viejos a su muerte? En Cenizas a la Cenizas, las Hermanas de la Matanza encuentran un escape del infierno. ¿Sobrevivirán?
Cenizas de medianoche
by Lara Adrian Violeta LambertUn día, a la caída de la noche, Clare Roth se ve obligada a huir de su hogar por culpa de una ardiente amenaza venida del mismo infierno. De entre las llamas y las cenizas, emerge un oscuro guerrero, Andreas Reichen, un antiguo amante que ahora se ha convertido en un extraño ávido de venganza. Encerrada en su fuego abrasador, Clare no podrá combatir ni su furia salvaje ni el deseo que la atrapa y sumerge en ese mundo de oscuridad eterna y placer infinito. Nada detendrá a Andreas en su empeño de acabar con el vampiro responsable de liquidar a los hermanos de su raza . . . Aunque para ello tenga que utilizar a la mujer que un día fue su amante como señuelo de su arriesgada misión. Pero incluso sabiendo que lo que guía a su mortal enemigo es la sed de sangre, no dudará en utilizar a Clare para que le conduzca hacia él. Un viaje cargado de peligro y deseos profundos que arden en combustión instantánea, un peligroso yugo que se cierne sobre ambos en forma de oscura seducción, se unen para formar esa fina línea que separa al cazador de su presa y que son los que alimentan las llamas de una ardiente pasión que puede arrasar con todo lo que se encuentra en su camino.
Cenotaph Road
by Robert E. VardemanThe tale is told, if you lie down in the crypt of a long-dead hero, when the moon is full and the clock strikes midnight, you will be transported ... elsewhere. Dar-elLan-Martak hoped the tale was true. Unjustly accused of murder by the gray soldiers his world had come to know and hate. Lan desperately needed to go elsewhere before the sheriff's spells reduced him to nothingness. Carrying only his sword and a small knowledge of magic, Lan "walked" the Cenotaph Road. What he found on the other side only increased his desire for vengeance: an arachnid assistant, more paths down the Cenotaph Road, and gray soldiers in every world ...
Census: A Novel
by Jesse BallAfter a devastating revelation, a father and son journey across a tapestry of towns in award–winning author Jesse Ball’s thought-provoking novel Census.When a widower learns he doesn’t have long left to live, he wonders who will care for his adult son whom he fiercely loves—a son with Down syndrome. With no recourse in mind and a desire to see the country, the man becomes a census taker for a mysterious governmental bureau and takes his son on the trip. Traveling into the country, through towns named only by ascending letters of the alphabet, father and son encounter a wide range of human experience. While some townspeople welcome them into their homes, others who bear the physical brand of past censuses on their ribs are wary of their presence. Pressing toward the edges of civilization, the landscape grows wilder, and the towns grow farther apart and more blighted by industrial decay. As they approach “Z,” the man confronts a series of questions: What is the purpose of the census? Is he complicit in its mission? And just how will he learn to say good-bye to his son? Mysterious and evocative, Census is a novel about free will, grief, the power of memory, and the ferocity of parental love. “A vital testament to selfless love; a psalm to commonplace miracles; and a mysterious evolving metaphor. So kind, it aches.” —David Mitchell“[Jesse Ball] has combined Kafka’s paranoia with Whitman’s earnest American grain to found a fictional kingdom of genial doom and melancholia.” —New York Times“Truly otherworldly writing in the best ways that Borges and Calvino have shown to be possible.” —Forbes
Centaur Aisle (Xanth #4)
by Piers AnthonyDor agreed to act as King of Xanth so long as Trent was gone for a week. But the weeks passed and Trent did not return. Dor knew he had to rescue his king but with no magic powers, how could it be done...?From the Paperback edition.
Centaur Rising
by Jane YolenOne night during the Perseid meteor shower, Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm. About a year later, one of their horses gives birth to a baby centaur. The family has enough attention already as Arianne's six-year-old brother was born with birth defects caused by an experimental drug—the last thing they need is more scrutiny. But their clients soon start growing suspicious. Just how long is it possible to keep a secret? And what will happen if the world finds out?At a time when so many novels are set in other worlds, Jane Yolen imagines what it would be like if a creature from another world came to ours in this thoughtfully written, imaginative novel, Centaur Rising.A Christy Ottaviano Book
Centaur School #5
by Lucy Coats Brett BeanIs Demon up to the challenge?Beasts of Olympus is a series of illustrated chapter books set in a magical Ancient Greece where strange things still walk the Earth. In the fifth book, Chiron the centaur teaches Demon to make his own cures for sick mythical beasts. But Demon must put his new skills to the test right away in order to save an ailing phoenix before it's too late!
Centauriad #1: Daughter of the Centaurs (Centauriad #1)
by Kate KlimoMalora knows what she was born to be: a horse wrangler and a hunter, just like her father. But when her people are massacred by batlike monsters called Leatherwings, Malora will need her horse skills just to survive. The last living human, Malora roams the wilderness at the head of a band of magnificent horses, relying only on her own wits, strength, and courage. When she is captured by a group of centaurs and taken to their city, Malora must decide whether the comforts of her new home and family are worth the parts of herself she must sacrifice to keep them.Kate Klimo has masterfully created a new world, which at first seems to be an ancient one or perhaps another world altogether, but is in fact set on earth sometime far in the future.From the Hardcover edition.
Centauriad #2: A Gathering of Wings (Centauriad #2)
by Kate KlimoIn A Gathering of Wings, Malora leaves the safety of Mount Kheiron for the bush and the bustling city of the Ka in search of Sky, the stallion who used to lead Malora's herd of horses. Accompanied by her closest friends, Malora is faced with making decisions about her future in new ways.
Center Land: Libro tres del viaje de Kendra (El viaje de Kendra #3)
by Eileen SheehanViajar al centro de la tierra para recuperar a su hijo de Center Land, es lo suficientemente intenso, teniendo que lidiar con mujeres rebeldes amazonas, animales prehistóricos y... sí... ¡los extraterrestres y zombis que pensaban que habían dejado en la superficie están ahí también! ¿No hay escapatoria del horror? Tienen un plan para acabar con los alienígenas y los zombis de una vez por todas... pero... ¿funcionará? La respuesta está en "Center Land", libro tres de la serie de suspenso y romance apocalíptico, El viaje de Kendra. Lo que dicen los lectores: "... Lo que sucede durante sus aventuras bajo tierra es simplemente alucinante. Nos encontramos frente a zombis, extraterrestres, Center Land, Amazonas, el virus, el romance, el amor, las realizaciones, el intento de asesinato, el secuestro ... lo que sea, hay algo para todos en este libro. ¡ME ENCANTÓ esta lectura! "
Center of Gravity
by Ian DouglasIn the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology.The warlike Sh'daar are determined that this monumental milestone will never be achieved by the creatures known as human.On the far side of known human space, the Marines are under siege, battling the relentless servant races of the Sh'daar aggressor. With a task force stripped to the bone and the Terran Confederation of States racked by dissent, rogue Admiral Alexander Koenig must make the momentous decision that will seal his fate and the fate of humankind. A strong defensive posture is futile, so Koenig will seize the initiative and turn the gargantuan Star Carrier America toward the unknown. For the element of surprise is the only hope of stalling the Sh'daar assault on Earth's solar system--and the war for humankind's survival must be taken directly to the enemy.
Center of Gravity
by Ian DouglasIn the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology.The warlike Sh'daar are determined that this monumental milestone will never be achieved by the creatures known as human.On the far side of known human space, the Marines are under siege, battling the relentless servant races of the Sh'daar aggressor. With a task force stripped to the bone and the Terran Confederation of States racked by dissent, rogue Admiral Alexander Koenig must make the momentous decision that will seal his fate and the fate of humankind. A strong defensive posture is futile, so Koenig will seize the initiative and turn the gargantuan Star Carrier America toward the unknown. For the element of surprise is the only hope of stalling the Sh'daar assault on Earth's solar system--and the war for humankind's survival must be taken directly to the enemy.
Central Park Knight (Piers Knight)
by C. J. HendersonProfessor Piers Knight is the Brooklyn Museum's very own Indiana Jones. His specialties include lost civilizations, arcane cultures, and more than a little bit of the history of magic and mysticism. What his contemporaries don't know is that in addition to being a scholar of all these topics, he is also proficient in the uses of magical artifacts.Knight receives a chilling message from Tian Lu, a former lover and an agent for the Chinese government. Years ago, they made a frightening discovery at an archeological dig when out of the depths rose… a living, fire-breathing dragon. Now, the dragons are waking from their slumber before their scheduled time. And one particularly diabolical dragon is set on eliminating the others and taking over the world. As civilization plunges into panic, Knight, Lu, Knight's seventeen-year-old techie intern George Rainert, and an untrustworthy dragon ally must use all their resources-- magical and otherwise--to stop the destruction before it's too late. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Centuries of June: A Novel
by Keith DonohueKeith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking "the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder" (Audrey Niffenegger). His first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller, and his second novel, Angels of Destruction, was hailed as "a magical tale of love and redemption that is as wonderfully written as it is captivating" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Centuries of June is a bold departure, a work of dazzling breadth and technical virtuosity.Set in the bathroom of an old house just before dawn on a night in June, Centuries of June is a black comedy about a man who is attempting to tell the story of how he ended up on the floor with a hole in his head. But he keeps getting interrupted by a series of suspects--eight women lying in the bedroom just down the hall. Each woman tells a story drawn from five centuries of American myth and legend in a wild medley of styles and voices.Centuries of June is a romp through history, a madcap murder mystery, an existential ghost story, and a stunning tour de force at once ingenious, sexy, inspiring, and ultimately deeply moving.
Century Rain
by Alastair ReynoldsThree hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose. Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Somewhere on this alternate planet is a device capable of destroying both worlds at either end of the wormhole. And Verity must find the device, and the man who plans to activate it, before it is too late--for the past and the future of two worlds...
Century Rain
by Alastair ReynoldsPart SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir crime, CENTURY RAIN is as astonishing bestseller from Alastair ReynoldsThree hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise in invaluable.Using a back door into an unstable alien transit system, Auger's faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely?CENTURY RAIN is a jaw-droppingly good SF thriller, packed with pace, adventure, brilliant storytelling and with twists that will keep you guessing to the end.
Century Rain
by Alastair ReynoldsPart SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir crime, CENTURY RAIN is as astonishing bestseller from Alastair ReynoldsThree hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise in invaluable.Using a back door into an unstable alien transit system, Auger's faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely?CENTURY RAIN is a jaw-droppingly good SF thriller, packed with pace, adventure, brilliant storytelling and with twists that will keep you guessing to the end.
Century Rain (Gollancz S. F. Ser.)
by Alastair Reynolds"Century Rain fuses time-travel, hard SF, alternate history, interstellar adventure and noir romance to create a novel of blistering powers and style."-SF RevuPart SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir crime, Century Rain is as astonishing international bestseller from Alastair Reynolds.Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise in invaluable.Using a back door into an unstable alien transit system, Auger's faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely?Century Rain is a jaw-droppingly good SF thriller, packed with pace, adventure, brilliant storytelling and with twists that will keep you guessing to the end.
Century of the Manikin
by E. C. TubbPeaceful, happy, non-violent . . . the perfect society? Or was it? As chief of Propaganda and Emotional Control, Joseph P. Lincoln had experience in coping with every potential threat to the system. But even he was ill-prepared to deal with the amazing woman from the past, whose arrival soon threw Lincoln's carefully ordered world into total chaos. CENTURY OF THE MANIKIN is wise, witty and a unique treatment of the problems of cryogenesis.