The "forgotten" planet had been seeded for life, first with microbes and later with plants and insects. A third expedition, intended to complete the seeding with animals, never occurred. Over the...
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Author: Leinster, MurraySummary:
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Author: MELVILLE, HermanSummary:
Supremo capolavora di questo autore Americano che viene riconosciuto come un gigante fra tutti i letterati USA. L'atteggliamento di Batleby, chiuso nel suo dignitoso silenzio, induce a profonde...
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Author: LASENBY, JackSummary:
Aunt Effie has six gigantic pig dogs, twenty six nieces and nephews and a never-ending supply of stories. She also has the ability to transport her nieces and nephews into her stories, which are...
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Author: SILVERBERG, RobertSummary:
This novel takes us to a strange and distant world dominated by a gigantic mountain, Kosa Saag. No human lowlander has ever reached its peak although countless have tried and perished. This is the...
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Author: Cobb, William J.Summary:
Goodnight, a fishing town on the Gulf Coast of Texas, is slowly being swallowed by an increasingly lifeless sea. Shrimpers and fishermen, with nothing to catch, watch their vessels rot in the...
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On July 2, 1992 the once-gigantic Newfoundland cod fishery was shut down. Twelve years later, 70,000 people had left, and coastal communities were struggling to survive. The blow to the culture...
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Author: Charles, NormaSummary:
Winner of the British Columbia Year 2000 Book Award Star Girl is a pint-sized superhero with gigantic appeal for 10-year-old Sophie, a French Canadian girl about to make a cross-Canada move with...
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Author: Inglis, KateSummary:
Contains things disgusting, rude, repulsive and crush-like in nature. It also includes the most gigantic party ever seen, a rampaging woodship, random explosions, a prison, an escape, inventions,...
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This piece was created to mark the tenth anniversary of an environmental catastrophe in the North Atlantic. The gigantic Northern Cod Stock discovered by European fishermen five centuries ago...
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Author: Taylor, GeneSummary:
When Everett Coleman’s longtime enemy JB Sanderson dies, Everett’s nephew Blake comes to visit his uncle. He worries JB’s death might have a negative effect on the old man, despite Everett and JB’...
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Author: Alexander, CarolineSummary:
With richly evocative images and wonderfully entertaining anecdotes, Caroline Alexander transports you to the dense interior of equatorial Gabon. In One Dry Season, she chronicles her adventures...
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Author: Banks, ChrisSummary:
Consciousness and nostalgia in the Swipe Right age This collection attempts to find poetry, or what Gwendolyn MacEwen once called "a single symmetry," amid the chaos of 21st-century life. A...
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Author: Banks, ChrisSummary:
Consciousness and nostalgia in the Swipe Right age
This collection attempts to find poetry, or what Gwendolyn MacEwen once called “a single symmetry,” amid the chaos of 21st-...
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Author: Burroughs, Edgar Rice, St. John, J. AllanSummary:
When John Carter goes to sleep in a mysterious cave in the Arizona dessert, he wakes up on the planet Mars. There he meets the fifteen foot tall, four armed, green men of mars, with horse-like...
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Author: FOSTER, Alan DeanSummary:
This book is the first in the series of novelizations of the episodes of the animated Star Trek series. The episodes featured are: Beyond the Farthest Star - the Enterprise investigates an unusual...