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Off on a Comet (The Jules Verne Collection)
by Jules VerneBrace yourself for an out-of-this-world adventure in this Jules Verne classic following a small group of survivors set adrift in space by a comet—now with an arresting new look!A comet collides with Earth, causing a portion of the world to go floating off into space with it. On this new asteroid, thirty-six survivors of various nationalities will first need to uncover the truth of their circumstances before adapting to their new environment. But when it&’s determined the comet is on a return course to Earth, can the group survive long enough to come up with a plan to get back on the planet?
Off on a Comet!: A Journey Through Planetary Space (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Jules VerneNearly a century before space travel captured the imaginations of science-fiction writers and readers, Jules Verne envisioned an incident in which a comet impact in the vicinity of Gibraltar sends a piece of the Earth on a two-year trip around the solar system. Thirty-six unsuspecting individuals of various nationalities are swept away by the collision. The tension builds as they struggle to understand what has happened and to cope with their new environment. The involuntary travelers are forced to put aside their differences to survive in an increasingly frigid atmosphere and to try to find their way home. Verne's passion for travel and his interest in space exploration are reflected in this rollicking adventure, which is further elevated by his gift for creating a dramatic narrative and realistic personalities. This edition of Off on a Comet! features illustrations from the original French publication that complement the author's droll observations of his contemporaries' superstitions and foibles.
Off the Beaten Path
by Cari Z.When Ward Johannsen’s little girl Ava shifted into a werewolf, she was taken into custody by the feds and shipped off to the nearest pack, all ties between father and daughter severed. Ward burned every bridge he had discovering her location, and then almost froze to death in the Colorado mountains tracking her new pack down. And that’s just the beginning of his struggle. Henry Dormer is an alpha werewolf and an elite black ops soldier who failed his last mission. He returns home, hoping for some time to recuperate and help settle the pack’s newest member, a little pup named Ava who can’t shift back to her human form. Instead he meets Ward, who refuses to leave his daughter without a fight. The two men are as different as night and day, but their respect for each other strikes a spark of mutual interest that quickly grows into a flame. They might find something special together—love, passion, and even a family—if they can survive trigger-happy pack guardians, violent werewolf politics, and meddling government agencies that are just as likely to get their alpha soldiers killed as bring them home safely.
Off the Face of the Earth
by Robert T. Jeschonek Ben BaldwinWhere do all the missing children go? The answer could be more incredible than you can imagine. When a little boy disappears off the face of the Earth, his good-for-nothing father turns over a new leaf and sets out to track him down...but it takes a strange visitor from the future to point him in the right direction. Has the little boy been swept into a horrifying hell on Earth, or is he bound for a miraculous world beyond forever? His fate reveals a glorious destiny for the missing, one that rests on the shoulders of the boy's father. Can this man, plagued by his own dark demons and addictions, find redemption--and perhaps secure the future of all mankind--by making the ultimate sacrifice? This scifi masterpiece will race you out to the edge of reality and blow your mind. Award-winning science fiction author Robert T. Jeschonek has written Star Trek and Doctor Who fiction and futuristic stories for books, magazines, websites, and podcasts around the world. He won the national grand prize in the Strange New Worlds writing contest from Pocket Books. He is one of a handful of authors chosen to write stories in the Star Trek: New Frontier universe. DC Comics, Simon & Schuster, and DAW Books have published his work. His young adult urban fantasy novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, was named a Top Ten First Novel for Youth by Booklist.
Off the Wall at Callahan's
by Spider RobinsonAll the best lines from the Saloon at the far-out edge of space-time! "Off the Wall at Callahan's" is a collection of epigrams, maxims, proverbs, observations, eye-watering puns, and original song lyrics distilled from the first five volumes of the Callahan's Place series (from "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon" to "Lady Slings the Booze"). After the original Callahan's Place was destroyed, all of these gems were painstakingly deciphered from blown-up old photos of the wall behind the bar, where Callahan let his customers scrawl graffiti in place of the usual mirror. So technically, every word is "off the wall. " Further ennobled by numerous interior B& W illustrations by Phil Foglio, there are even capsule bios at the end for every person (real or imaginary) quoted in the graffiti section. Welcome to Callahan's Crosstime Saloon . . . There's no place like it in this, or any other, universe.
Office at Night
by Kate Bernheimer Laird HuntEdward Hopper's painting "Office at Night" is open to endless interpretation. In this collaborative novella, Kate Bernheimer and Laird Hunt borrow from his practice of improvising on "the facts" of observation to create a work of art, imagining the lives of its characters: stenographer Marge Quinn and her boss, the sometimes painter Abraham Chelikowsky.
Officer-Cadet (Dirigent Mercenary Corps #1)
by Rick ShelleyA military academy reject seeks to prove himself among the ranks of mercenaries in this classic military science fiction action series opener.The year is 2804 AD. Humanity has colonized the universe. But the authority of the Confederation of Human Worlds is spread thin. Where the Army of planet Earth cannot reach, mercenaries must keep the peace—and the Dirigent Mercenary Corps are the best of the best.Lon Nolan wasn’t supposed to be serving with the DMC. He’d earned his place at the elite North American Military Academy, and he’d excelled there. But when he’s kicked out of the Academy on trumped-up charges, he’s left with no choice: join the DMC or go home.So join he does, going from top of his class to bottom rung in the DMC. To become an officer, he’ll have to survive his first taste of combat with his new army, and if he fails, he won’t lose just his honor, but his life . . . The Dirigent Mercenary Corps books are classics of military science fiction. Rick Shelley was himself a veteran of the U.S. Army, and his experience and knowledge shine through on every page.
Ogopogo Odyssey
by Maggie Parr D. A HawesThis enchanting story will delight any child who loves to believe. While visiting his grandparents’ vineyard in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada, Colin has a chance meeting with the famous lake creature known as the Ogopogo. This is a summer adventure he will never forget!
Ogre Enchanted
by Gail Carson LevineSet in the world of the Newbery Honor-winning Ella Enchanted, this tale by beloved author Gail Carson Levine stars a clever heroine who is determined to defy expectations—and outwit a fairy’s curse.Evie is happiest when she is healing people, diagnosing symptoms and prescribing medications, with the help of her devoted friend (and test subject) Wormy. So when Wormy unexpectedly proposes to her, she kindly turns him down; she has far too much to do to be marrying anyone. And besides, she simply isn’t in love with him. But a certain meddling fairy named Lucinda has been listening in, and she doesn’t approve of Evie’s rejection. Suddenly, Evie finds herself transformed from a girl into a hideous, hungry ogre! Stuck in this new and confusing form, Evie now has only sixty-two days to accept another proposal—or else be stuck as an ogre forever.
Ogre, Ogre: The Autobiography Of Piers Anthony To Age 50 (Xanth #5)
by Piers AnthonySmash, himself, was part ogre. Although ogres were considered so stupid they coud hardly speak, and spent their time eating young girls, seven assorted females had suddenly turned to him for guidance and saftety? In Xanth, one visit to the Good Magician Humfrey worked wonders....From the Paperback edition.
Ogres of Ohio (American Chillers #2)
by Jonathan RandI almost didn't hear my dad ask the question. I was looking out the rain-streaked car window, staring up at the big, two-story house that was now our home. "It's ...it's huge," I replied, trying not to sound nervous. But I was. I was really nervous. There was something about the house that was just... Creepy.
Ogú y Mampato en la ciudad azteca
by Themo Lobos¡Hola, soy Mampato! Un niño con una suerte tremenda: puedo viajar al pasado o al futuro cuando yo lo desee. Y Ogú, mi gran amigo cavernícola, siempre me acompaña en mis aventuras. Esta vez los invitó al siglo XVI, al antiguo México, para encontrarnos con sus originales habitantes: los aztecas. Allí conoceremos su gran ciudad flotante ?Tenochtitlán? y nos enteraremos del verdadero misterio de su calendario: ¿realmente se avecina el fin del mundo? ¡Los espero!
Oh God, The Sun Goes
by David Connor"A highly original and engagingly odd book." - Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World"...wondrous...mysterious...Connor lands plenty of stimulating riffs on themes of memory, love, and loss, all in lyrical prose and suffused with surreal imagery." - Publishers WeeklyAn "indescribable marvel" (Jonathan Lethem) of a debut novel from a brilliant new voiceThe sun has disappeared from the sky. No one can explain where it has gone, but one wayward traveler is determined to try. As our unnamed narrator begins his odyssey across the parched landscapes of the American Southwest, he is drawn into a web of illusion and mystery, a shifting astral mindscape that shimmers with the aftermath of loss—and the promise of redemption.Oh God, the Sun Goes is a hallucinatory and deadpan picaresque that suddenly swerves into a love story of soaring poignance. Truly &“the stuff that dreams are made of&” – or maybe nightmares?Apocalyptic, mesmerizing, and utterly unique, Oh God, the Sun Goes introduces readers to a young and keenly inventive mind.4 one of a kind illustrations within and on the outside a cool holographic foil stamp cover.
Oh My Goddess! Volume 1 (Oh My Goddess!)
by Kosuke FujishimaAlone in his dorm on a Saturday night, Nekomi Tech's Keiichi Morisato dials a wrong number that will change his life forever — reaching the Goddess Technical Help Line. Granted one wish by the charming young goddess Belldandy — a wish for anything in the world — Keiichi wishes she would stay with him always! Complications are bound to ensue from this; the immediate first being the new couple getting tossed out of the dorm — it's males only!As the hapless student and his mysterious "foreign beauty" ride around looking for a new place to stay — risking the different dangers of seeking shelter with an otaku convinced Belldandy is an imaginary woman, and a Zen priest convinced she's a sinister witch — Keiichi's still got his classes on Monday morning! How is his new "exchange student" companion going to be received on the N.I.T. campus? A little too well for normal life to ever return…
Oh My Goddess! Volume 10
by Kosuke FujishimaIt'll be one, two, three strikes you're out for the N.I.T. Softball Club if Keiichi can't help his sister win against their campus rivals-but with the Goddesses stepping up to bat, it's not going to be the old ball game! Then, it's an unrelaxing hot springs vacation when Mara returns to challenge Urd to the most feared battle imaginable-karaoke! Plus four pages of color, ten Mini-Goddess strips, a message from creator Kosuke Fujishima, and your fan art and letters!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 11
by Kosuke FujishimaIf three goddesses are good, surely four must be better? Not for Keiichi, whose strange power to attract divine trouble has just dialed "P" for Peorth — Belldandy's rival in the helping-humans-out-by-phone biz. But Peorth wonders why Belldandy's still hanging around Keiichi if she's really fulfilled his wishes, and is determined to provide him better "service" — no matter how fast he tries to run! Plus six pages of twelve, color Mini-Goddess strips, a message from creator Kosuke Fujishima, and your fan art and letters!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 12
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside-down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions! Maybe you think Peorth couldn't cause any more trouble — well, think again! Determined to provide Keiichi "better service" than Belldandy, she's dragging him out on a date . . . having studied human mating customs through shojo manga! But what is the secret slight from long ago that truly drives Peorth's efforts against her rival?
Oh My Goddess! Volume 13
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside-down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!Learning to ride a bicycle is a little like encountering first love — a lot of panicked flailing and falling down! Skuld, who's suddenly doing both of those things at once, can't understand why her dear sister Belldandy, who's always there to help, wants her to work this out on her own. But of course, Belldandy knows a wisdom Skuld needs to learn...
Oh My Goddess! Volume 14
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!Get a job! That's what you hope a college education can do for you — but when Keiichi applies to put his knowledge to work in a custom-bike shop, he finds it's not going to be as easy to graduate college as he thought! And it could be that no one's leaving Nekomi Tech ever again, when it falls under the mind-bending influence of two of the most sinister forces known to man — Mara's magic and Sayoko's ego!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 15
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!The battle to control the minds of every student at Nekomi Tech comes to its showdown, as the power behind Queen Sayoko's throne is revealed at last! Then it's back to good old-fashioned campus rivalries, as Megumi squares off against a different kind of royalty... the one who rules the road on the Inokuradai Pass!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 16
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!After epic mishaps such as Belldandy and Keiichi's hands becoming unable to part, or Skuld's robot Banpei falling in love, what harm could the arrival of a cute young boy at the temple do to its residents? They say when disaster strikes, time seems to slow down... the problem is, it's slowing down for everybody — for real!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 17
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandyinto college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turnedupside down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!Peorthreturns to Earth to try to reverse the slowdown of universal time at its source the demon boy whose mysterious obsession with a goddess is literallybringing the world to a halt! What is the secret of his link with Belldandy a link Belldandy is not allowed to remember?
Oh My Goddess! Volume 18
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi’s residence, his personal life has been turned upside-down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!Who would have ever thought one of Skuld's inventions could go wrong? Er...don't answer that, but her tinkering with the time-space continuum has left Belldandy and Keiichi trapped inside their own living room — because it's now infinitely big! And, uncanny events await them outside as well, as a ghost haunts the mountain pass between the two campuses of N.I.T., causing Bell and K1 to do a night ride in tandem to solve the mystery!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 19
by Kosuke FujishimaCollege life is never easy . . . all right, sometimes it is, but never at Nekomi Tech! No sooner do Keiichi and Belldandy solve the mystery of the Phantom Racer, then they get entangled in the schemes of Professor Morozumi. Better known on campus as "Dr. Moreau" for his obsession with making machines walk on two legs, this mad scientist will stop at nothing to pursue his dream . . . including kidnapping Banpei''s "girlfriend," the Welcome Robot!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 2 (Oh My Goddess!)
by Kosuke FujishimaNow that Keiichi and the goddess in his life are the hot item on campus, they find themselves constantly putting out fires! First, to raise money for the N.I.T. Motor Club, they get roped into posing nude together for a life drawing class — even though, as Keiichi's sister correctly guesses, they haven't even kissed yet! Then his "buddies" in the club stake Bell-chan as the wager in a funnybike race — but Keiichi has trouble seeing the humor when it starts coming apart at high speed! After all this, Keiichi just wants to relax and watch some home videos… except this video introduces (literally) a second goddess into his life — Belldandy's "sophisticated" older sister, Urd!