Author : K. M. McKinley
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849979122
The City of Ice
K. M. McKinley
City Of Ice
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City Of Ice
John Farrow
Author : John Farrow
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443402996
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Montreal has been damaged by political uncertainty over separatism, and violent turf wars leave the police force struggling to keep the city safe. Even Sergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars appears to have been compromised. How has he managed to penetrate Montreal’s criminal elite? Who are his informants? And who is the young female operative he seems so desperate to save from the clutches of the mob?
City of Ice
Laurence Yep
Author : Laurence Yep
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0765358808
City of Ice by Laurence Yep Pdf
Two-time Newbery Honor Award-winning author Yep returns with the second book in his epic City trilogy--the action-packed sequel to the critically acclaimed "City of Fire."
City of Ice
Brian Klingborg
Author : Brian Klingborg
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472281821
City of Ice by Brian Klingborg Pdf
A BAFFLING MURDER IN RURAL CHINA. AN EXILED DETECTIVE. AND POLITICS AS DEADLY AS A KILLER. 'Parts the bamboo curtain to reveal a detailed and pacy portrait of police work and everyday life in this gripping crime thriller.' THE SUN 'City of Ice delivers everything one could want in a crime novel - insight, thrills, and entertainment.' Robert K. Tanenbaum, New York Times bestselling author In a remote Chinese town - where the theft of a few chickens counts as a major crime - a young woman is found brutally murdered...with her heart, lungs and liver removed. Inspector Lu Fei, a weary cop who fled the city, suddenly finds himself under the intense scrutiny of the ruling party in Beijing. Determined to find her killer, Lu Fei must navigate a society where politics can be deadly, corruption is rife, and the powerful are untouchable. As evidence connects the case to a string of unsolved murders, Lu must decide what he will risk in search of justice... 'City of Ice is everything a reader could want in a novel.' Jack Du Brul, New York Times bestselling author 'Klingborg truly understands how Chinese bureaucracies work; at the same time he's a wizard at believable characters, compelling situations, and a propulsive plot.' SJ Rozan, Edgar Award winner and best-selling Readers are gripped by CITY OF ICE: 'A dazzling debut...it's the perfect example of a riveting read you simply can't put down. ' ***** Goodreads Reviewer 'This slickly plotted, atmospheric thriller is compulsively readable and a fascinating exploration into a mysterious place and time.' ***** Goodreads Reviewer 'The descriptions, the emotions, the depth of characters are amazing.' ***** Goodreads Reviewer
The Book of Ice
DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
Author : DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
Publisher : Subliminal Kid Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781935613145
The Book of Ice by DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid Pdf
In light of climate change and humanitys increasingly complex and nuanced relationship with the natural world, this book serves as an accessible point of entry into complex ideas. Miller uses Antarctica as a point on entry for contemplating humanitys relationship with the natural world.
Ice Song
Kirsten Imani Kasai
Author : Kirsten Imani Kasai
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345514998
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“Reminiscent of Ursula Le Guin’s paradigm-shattering The Left Hand of Darkness, this piercingly moving story belongs in most fantasy collections.”—Library Journal There are secrets beneath her skin. Sorykah Minuit is a scholar, an engineer, and the sole woman aboard an ice-drilling submarine in the frozen land of the Sigue. What no one knows is that she is also a Trader: one who can switch genders suddenly, a rare corporeal deviance universally met with fascination and superstition and all too often punished by harassment or death. Sorykah’s infant twins, Leander and Ayeda, have inherited their mother’s Trader genes. When a wealthy, reclusive madman known as the Collector abducts the babies to use in his dreadful experiments, Sorykah and her male alter-ego, Soryk, must cross icy wastes and a primeval forest to get them back. Complicating the dangerous journey is the fact that Sorykah and Soryk do not share memories: Each disorienting transformation is like awakening with a jolt from a deep and dreamless sleep. The world through which the alternating lives of Sorykah and Soryk travel is both familiar and surreal. Environmental degradation and genetic mutation run amok; humans have been distorted into animals and animal bodies cloak a wild humanity. But it is also a world of unexpected beauty and wonder, where kindness and love endure amid the ruins. Alluring, intense, and gorgeously rendered, Ice Song is a remarkable debut by a fiercely original new writer. Praise for Ice Song “A stunning debut fantasy about love and the ties of blood.”—Armchair Interviews “Kasai’s debut is a boldly adventurous tale depicting a richly detailed world. The aspect of Traders shifting gender brings Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Left Hand of Darkness to mind, while the activities on Chen’s island are more reminiscent of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Meredith Gentry novels.”—Booklist “Ice Song is definitely a compelling read, largely due to the fact that Sorykah is such a well-developed character. She has an equally intense and complex sense of love and resentment for her children. And the fact that she exists between the world of humans and the mutants is also a source of conflict for her character . . . Ice Song is a near-perfect combination of fantasy, great storytelling and social commentary.”—Philadelphia Gay News
City of Ice
Laurence Yep
Author : Laurence Yep
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429996631
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Two-time Newbery Honor Award-winning author Laurence Yep returns with the action-packed sequel to the critically-acclaimed City of Fire From the islands of Hawaii, Scirye and her loyal companions pursue the villainous Mr. Roland and evil dragon Badik all the way to the city of Nova Hafnia in the Arctic Circle. With the help of a trader, Prince Tarkhun, and his daughter Roxanna, the companions chase their enemies into the vast and desolate Wastes. Scirye and her friends are determined to stop Mr. Roland from getting his hands on the second of the Five Lost Treasures of Emperor Yü, which will give him the power to alter the very fabric of the universe. But few who enter the Wastes ever return, and Scirye has no choice but to call on the spirit of the North for help. As wild and unpredictable as the Arctic itself, will the spirit turn out to be friend or foe? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
City on Ice
Matt Sims
Author : Matt Sims
Publisher : High Noon Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781634022958
City on Ice by Matt Sims Pdf
Near the South Pole, on a rock surrounded by ice there is a small city called McMurdo Base. How did it get there? What is it like there? And why do people live in all that cold? Explore a hidden city, a floating town, a city on ice, a city that is sinking, one with many forgotten tunnels, and a military base inside a mountain. Learn about these fascinating places. City on Ice is one of 6 books in a set called City Secrets, which is part of the Sound Out Phonics Based Chapter Books series. City Secrets (Sound Out Levels 5 and 6) focus on the following skills: contractions, one-syllable spelling patterns, tense endings, word endings, compound words, prefixes and suffixes, and simple two-syllable words. Readers will not be able to tell that each book is written using controlled vocabulary. This audio edition features professional narration and highlights text as it is read. The reader may turn narration on or off while reading.
City of Ice and Dreams
J.G. Follansbee
Author : J.G. Follansbee
Publisher : Fyddeye Media / Joseph G. Follansbee
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780984905478
City of Ice and Dreams by J.G. Follansbee Pdf
What if the key to your past lay at the South Pole? In 2261, Sento, a beautiful, intelligent, tormented young woman, is obsessed by Isorropia, a city in Antarctica that is half-myth, half-legend. Surviving a shipwreck, Sento resolves to trek south with immigrants on a suicidal one-way journey across the melting ice. She leads the pilgrims across a raging river, weeps beneath a massive natural sculpture draped with blue ice, and defends an endangered fur seal. Meanwhile, in the secretive city, First Citizen Elita Soares watches the growing threat of the pilgrim train. She wants no more climate refugees within the city walls. When Elita learns her half-sister may be among the immigrants, she vows to stop the newcomers at all costs. Will the pilgrims reach the fabled city before Antarctica's harsh climate kills them? And why is Elita afraid of her half-sister? City of Ice and Dreams is a dystopian thriller full of action and suspense. The author is a winner of awards in the Writers of the Future program, including an honorable mention for his novelette, The Mother Earth Insurgency, the first book in this series. The other books in the climate fiction series Tales From A Warming Planet include Carbon Run and Restoration. Categories: dystopian, thrillers, adventure, science fiction, climate fiction
Ice Walker
James Raffan
Author : James Raffan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501155383
Ice Walker by James Raffan Pdf
From bestselling author James Raffan comes an enlightening and original story about a polar bear’s precarious existence in the changing Arctic, reminiscent of John Vaillant’s The Golden Spruce. Nanurjuk, “the bear-spirited one,” is hunting for seals on Hudson Bay, where ice never lasts more than one season. For her and her young, everything is in flux. From the top of the world, Hudson Bay looks like an enormous paw print on the torso of the continent, and through a vast network of lakes and rivers, this bay connects to oceans across the globe. Here, at the heart of everything, walks Nanurjuk, or Nanu, one polar bear among the six thousand that traverse the 1.23 million square kilometers of ice and snow covering the bay. For millennia, Nanu’s ancestors have roamed this great expanse, living, evolving, and surviving alongside human beings in one of the most challenging and unforgiving habitats on earth. But that world is changing. In the Arctic’s lands and waters, oil has been extracted—and spilled. As global temperatures have risen, the sea ice that Nanu and her young need to hunt seal and fish has melted, forcing them to wait on land where the delicate balance between them and their two-legged neighbors has now shifted. This is the icescape that author and geographer James Raffan invites us to inhabit in Ice Walker. In precise and provocative prose, he brings readers inside Nanu’s world as she treks uncertainly around the heart of Hudson Bay, searching for nourishment for the children that grow inside her. She stops at nothing to protect her cubs from the dangers she can see—other bears, wolves, whales, human beings—and those she cannot. By focusing his lens on this bear family, Raffan closes the gap between humans and bears, showing us how, like the water of the Hudson Bay, our existence—and our future—is tied to Nanu’s. He asks us to consider what might be done about this fragile world before it is gone for good. Masterful, vivid, and haunting, Ice Walker is an utterly unique piece of creative nonfiction and a deeply affecting call to action.
The Ice House
Monica Sherwood
Author : Monica Sherwood
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316705325
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With shades of When You Reach Me, The Thing About Jellyfish, and Bridge to Terabithia, and a big, timely climate hook at its core, here is a heartfelt middle grade debut about the inevitability of change that will resonate profoundly during these extraordinary times. Spring has arrived, and yet an unyielding winter freeze has left Louisa snowed into her apartment building for months with parents coping with extreme stress, a little brother struggling with cabin fever, and—awkwardly—her neighbor and former close friend, Luke. The new realities of this climate disaster have not only affected Louisa's family, but when Luke's dad has an ice-related accident and it's unclear if he'll recover, both families' lives are turned upside down. Desperate to find an escape from the grief plaguing their homes, Louisa and Luke build a massive snow fort in their yard. But their creation opens up an otherworldly window to what could lie ahead, and sets them on a mission: to restore the universe to its rightful order, so the ice will melt and life will return to "normal". With a deft combination of heartfelt prose and a touch of magic, Monica Sherwood's affecting debut novel is a relatable story of families grappling with—and emerging from—a different kind of quarantine.
Pushing Ice
Alastair Reynolds
Author : Alastair Reynolds
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575087729
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds Pdf
First contact with extraordinary aliens, glittering technologies that could destroy the universe in a nanosecond, huge sweeping space operas: Alastair Reynolds is back! Some centuries from now, the exploration and exploitation of the Solar System is in full swing. On the cold edge of the system, Bella Lind, captain of the huge commercial spacecraft Rockhopper IV, helps fuel this new gold rush by attaching mass-driver motors to organic-rich water-ice comets to move them back to the inner worlds. Her crew are tough, blue-collar miners, engineers and demolition experts. Around Saturn, something inexplicable happens: one of the moons leaves its orbit and accelerates out of the Solar System. The icy mantle peels away to reveal that it was never a moon in the first place, just a parked spacecraft, millions of years old, that has now decided to move on. Rockhopper IV, trapped in the pull, is hurled across time and space into the deep, distant future, arriving in a vast, alien-constructed chamber. And the crew are not alone, for each chamber contains an alien culture dragged into this cosmic menagerie at the end of time. The crew of the Rockhopper IV know a lot about blowing up comets, but not much about first contact with ultra-advanced aliens. They have two things to worry about: can they (and their new alien allies) negotiate their way through each harrying contact? And can they assimilate the avalanche of knowledge about their own future - including all the glittering, dangerous technologies that are now theirs for the taking - without destroying themselves in the process?
Twelve Kinds Of Ice
Ellen Bryan Obed
Author : Ellen Bryan Obed
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547529325
Twelve Kinds Of Ice by Ellen Bryan Obed Pdf
“This is a joyful, spirited gem of a book, as bracing and glorious as a perfect stretch of ice.” –Newbery Honor author Joyce Sidman With the first ice—a skim on a sheep pail so thin it breaks when touched—one family’s winter begins in earnest. Next comes ice like panes of glass. And eventually, skating ice! Take a literary skate over field ice and streambed, through sleeping orchards and beyond. The first ice, the second ice, the third ice . . . perfect ice . . . the last ice . . . Twelve kinds of ice are carved into twenty nostalgic vignettes, illustrated in elegantly scratched detail by the award-winning Barbara McClintock.
Ink and Ice
Erin McRae,Racheline Maltese
Author : Erin McRae,Racheline Maltese
Publisher : Avian30
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781393802563
Ink and Ice by Erin McRae,Racheline Maltese Pdf
Growing up on an isolated island in the middle of Lake Erie, Aaron Sheftall learned to skate as a young child when extreme weather would cut his off his small community -- and its legends about a lost colony of seals -- from the rest of the world. Now an elite figure skater, Aaron dreams of getting to the Olympics. Yet competition is fierce and in a sport filled with injuries and drama, careers are short. But when a fluke accident changes the stakes for the entire U.S. team, Aaron sees his chance. Zack Kelly used to be a war reporter. But a successful book about his time covering global conflicts, an unsuccessful marriage, and a dose of PTSD have sidelined him from the journalism game. When an old friend calls him with a long-form assignment about competitive figure skating, Zack has no idea what he's getting into. He also doesn't care -- it's a change of scenery and a paycheck. Thrown together under circumstances neither of them are initially enthused about, Aaron and Zack ultimately embark on an unlikely -- and ill-advised -- romance about trust, myth, and what it really means to be comfortable in your own skin. Ink and Ice is part of the same series as After the Gold. The books can be read in any order. Katie and Brendan’s story continues here as a key part of Aaron’s coaching team.
City Boy
A. Wasp
Author : A. Wasp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1696973317
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City Boy is a first time gay, fish out of water, May/December love story with a happy ending. It features snarky siblings, a dirty-talking farmer, lots of food, and big choices. (No poultry was harmed in the making of this book.) When a blown tire leads directly to mind-blowing sex with a white knight named Dakota, pro-hockey player Bryce Lowery discovers he is most definitely gay. Being with Dakota opens up a whole new world and Bryce can't imagine life without him. But Dakota refuses to be Bryce's dirty little secret. If he wants to keep his new love, he's either going to have to come out publicly or retire and walk away from a contract worth millions of dollars. Follow the money or follow his heart? Either way, he loses.