To The Blight

Author : Robert Jordan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780765342218

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To The Blight by Robert Jordan Pdf

An American Library Association “Best Books for Young Adults” A VOYA “Best Books for Young Adults” “Jordan has come to dominate the world that Tolkien began to reveal.” —The New York Times Pursued by Trollocs and Myrddraal, Rand and his friends find refuge in the deserted city of Shadar Logoth. But their wandering—and the many dangers they face—are far from over. For from the lips of a dying Aiel girl they learn that the Dark One means to blind the Eye of the World. Having barely escaped capture and death, Rand finds himself face to face with Aginor: a wielder of the One Power and an ally of the Dark One. In the battle that follows, Rand will discover his true identity...and destiny. “The most ambitious American fantasy saga [may] also be the finest. Rich in detail and his plot is rich in incident. Impressive work, and highly recommended.”—Booklist “Recalls the work of Tolkien.”—Publishers Weekly “This richly detailed fantasy presents fully realized, complex adventure. Recommended.”—Library Journal “The definitive American fantasy saga.” —Chicago Sun-Times

Author : Alexandra Duncan
Publisher : Greenwillow Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062396994

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Blight by Alexandra Duncan Pdf

When an agribusiness facility producing genetically engineered food releases a deadly toxin into the environment, seventeen-year-old Tempest Torres races to deliver the cure before time runs out. From the author of the acclaimed American Booksellers Association’s Indies Introduce pick Salvage, which was called “Brilliant, feminist science fiction” by Stephanie Perkins, the internationally bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss. This stand-alone action-adventure story is perfect for fans of Oryx and Crake and The House of the Scorpion. Seventeen-year-old Tempest Torres has lived on the AgraStar farm north of Atlanta, Georgia, since she was found outside its gates at the age of five. Now she’s part of the security force guarding the fence and watching for scavengers—people who would rather steal genetically engineered food from the Company than work for it. When a group of such rebels accidentally sets off an explosion in the research compound, it releases into the air a blight that kills every living thing in its path—including humans. With blight-resistant seeds in her pocket, Tempest teams up with a scavenger boy named Alder and runs for help. But when they finally arrive at AgraStar headquarters, they discover that there’s an even bigger plot behind the blight—and it’s up to them to stop it from happening again. Inspired by current environmental issues, specifically the genetic adjustment of seeds to resist blight and the risks of not allowing natural seed diversity, this is an action-adventure story that is Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake meets Nancy Farmer’s House of the Scorpion.

Author : Robert Jordan
Publisher : Atom Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1904233198

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To the Blight by Robert Jordan Pdf

Despite the magical aid of Moraine Sedai and the awesome fighting skills of the warrior Lan, Rand Al'Thor and his friends have been unable to throw off the foes that pursue them. Even a detour through the ghosts of the ruined city of Shadar Logoth has failed to deter the Dark One's minions. Now the companions have a Trolloc army at their rear and eyeless shadowmen, known as Myrddraal, laying ambushes on the roads ahead. Worse still, the Dark One has dispatched his most feared general to ensure that Rand will die. Aginor is the powerful magician whose dark magic first created the Trollocs and he will stop at nothing to fulfil his master's bidding. Unless Rand can unlock the secrets of his extraordinary destiny, Aginor will destroy him and the darkness will triumph forever.

Author : Vernor Vinge
Publisher : Tor Science Fiction
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429981989

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A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge Pdf

Now with a new introduction for the Tor Essentials line, A Fire Upon the Deep is sure to bring a new generation of SF fans to Vinge's award-winning works. A Hugo Award-winning Novel! “Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.”-David Brin Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing this galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship-hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors from a destroyed space-lab. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. Tor books by Vernor Vinge Zones of Thought Series A Fire Upon The Deep A Deepness In The Sky The Children of The Sky Realtime/Bobble Series The Peace War Marooned in Realtime Other Novels The Witling Tatja Grimm's World Rainbows End Collections Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge True Names At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Mark Sonders
Publisher : Ace Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1981-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0441067093

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Blight by Mark Sonders Pdf

Author : Marc Aubin
Publisher : Crowsnest Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0921332556

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Blight by Marc Aubin Pdf

An angry mayor and civic authorities impose a narrow vision of the future on a working class neighbourhood. It's the 1960s, Lowertown, Ottawa, and the future is rolling into Canada's capital. The technocrats have plans for spiralling highways and dazzling glass towers. Religion, community, and people are a blight in the way of such progress. But the future is fighting back -- a young man in the 2000s, helped out by his neighbours, struggles to rebuild Lowertown and find his own identity. Meanwhile, a darkness named Blight slowly devours the community causing turmoil among its residents and the local French-Catholic heirarchy. Though time separates them, both the angry mayor and the young man try to change Lowertown, to unexpected results.

Author : Patrick F. McManus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743280482

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The Blight Way by Patrick F. McManus Pdf

A new series by the author of The Bear in the Attic finds Idaho sheriff Bo Tully's hopes about a rekindled romance with his high-school sweetheart challenged by his father's upcoming seventy-fifth birthday celebration and a ranch murder involving numerous possible suspects. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Author : Robert Jordan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781429977678

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From The Two Rivers by Robert Jordan Pdf

An American Library Association "Best Books for Young Adults" A VOYA "Best Books for Young Adults" For Rand al'Thor and his pals, life in the sleepy village of Emond's Field has been pretty dull. Until the appearance on festival night of Moiraine, a mysterious woman who claims to be an Aes Sdeai—a magician who can wield the One Power. Soon after, the village is attacked by Trollocs—a savage tribe of half-men half-beasts. Rand's father is nearly killed. But for Rand, the news gets worse. It was not the village the Trollocs were after, Moiraine tells him. It was you, Rand. Rand and his friends are forced to flee. But his escape will bring him face to face with the Dark One...the most powerful force of evil in the universe. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Edward Colver
Publisher : Last Gasp
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0867196696

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Blight at the End of the Funnel by Edward Colver Pdf

For over 25 years, Edward Colver has documented the Soutehrn California punk rock scene. This book serves not only as a testament to his impressive career. Photos of bands include Christian Death, the Vandals. Agent Orange, Circle Jerks and countless others. This is atimeless coffee table of an important underground photographer. Edward Colver was the preeminent Los Angeles Punk photographer.' - Steven Blush, author of American Hardcore.'

Author : Lora Senf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781665902687

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The Clackity by Lora Senf Pdf

To rescue her aunt from the ghost of a serial killer, twelve-year-old Evie Von Rathe embarks on a journey into a strange world filled with hungry witches, ghosts, and a story thief, all while trying to fulfill her deal with the Clackity.

Author : Evie Manieri
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765332356

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Fortune's Blight by Evie Manieri Pdf

King Daryan struggles to maintain stability in his kingdom, while his comrades go home to fight for Shadar independence and the key to peace in Norland may lie with an elderly prisoner in Ravindal castle.

Author : Robert Jordan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312850098

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The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan Pdf

The Wheel of Times turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, and Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Author : Athena Farrokhzad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1938247213

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White Blight by Athena Farrokhzad Pdf

Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida. "This vital book exposes the dense tectonics churning beneath migrant dreams. Accusatory, loving, full of grief and sage truths, Athena Farrokhzad's WHITE BLIGHT speaks eloquently to the troubled inheritance of diasporic survival. Through a litany of terse voices, Jennifer Hayashida's sensitive translation describes the nexus of filial obligations and projections under which the narrator sinks from view. The intense beauty of devastation and the poignancy of betrayal emerge with startling frankness: 'Your family will never be resurrected like roses after a fire.' 'I have spent a fortune for your piano lessons / But at my funeral you will refuse to play.' These white lines make me ask, what has been bleached out in all of our stories? I read this book, and I remembered my humanity." Sueyeun Juliette Lee Translator bio: Poet, translator and visual artist Jennifer Hayashida was born in Oakland, CA, and grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm and San Francisco. She received her B.A. in American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and completed her M.F.A. in poetry from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She is the recipient of awards from, among others, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts, PEN, the Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony. Recent translation projects include Ida Borjel's Miximum Ca'Canny The Sabotage Manuals you cutta da pay, we cutta da shob (Commune Editions, 2014) and Karl Larsson's FORM/FORCE (Black Square Editions, 2015); previous work includes Fredrik Nyberg's A Different Practice (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007), and Eva Sjodin's INNER CHINA (Litmus Press, 2005). She is Director of the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College, The City University of New York."

Author : Kristine Ong Muslim
Publisher : Unnamed Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1939419565

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The Age of Blight by Kristine Ong Muslim Pdf

Age of Blight explores a kind of post-future, in which the human race is finally abandoned to the end of its history. Muslim's poetic vignettes explore the nature of dystopia itself, often to darkly humorous effect, as when the spirit of Laika (the Russian space dog that perished on Sputnik 2) tries to befriend a satellite, or when Beth, the narrator's older sister, returns from the dead. The collection is illustrated throughout by the charcoal drawings of RISD artist Alessandra Hogan.

Author : Karen Miller
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748119424

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A Blight of Mages by Karen Miller Pdf

'A writer who seems set to rule the genre' - Waterstones Books Quarterly 'A Blight of Mages is an intoxicating and heart-wrenching story depicting two young people torn by desire and ability' - British Fantasy Society Hundreds of years before the great Mage War, a land lies, unknowing, on the edge of catastrophe . . . Barl is young, impulsive and wants to explore her raw magical potential. But Dorana's rigid class system means that only those with the right pedigree are trained. Desperate to learn, Barl lets her eagerness lead her to rebellion and disgrace. She faces the possibility of never using her powers again - until she meets Morgan Danfey, who sits on the Mage Council itself. Together, they realise they can create an extraordinary new magic. But the lure of this great power reveals a darkness in Morgan which will bring their land to its knees. From the bestselling Karen Miller comes a compelling fantasy novel set in the world before The Innocent Mage - the age before the great Mage War . . . Books by Karen Miller: Kingmaker, Kingbreaker Series The Innocent Mage The Awakened Mage A Blight of Mages Godspeaker Empress of Mijak The Riven Kingdom The Hammer of God Fisherman's Children The Prodigal Mage The Reluctant Mage Tarnished Crown The Falcon Throne Prince of Glass