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Author | : Paulette B. Alden |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1998-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780140272093 |
On her way to achieving her most important goal--that of becoming a writer--Alden had always considered motherhood, but at age 39 she faced the possibility that she had waited too long. This intimate memoir chronicles Alden's discoveries and choices, as she and her husband decide to embark on a long and difficult course of infertility treatment.
Author | : Tess Gallagher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Tess Gallagher's sixth book, a descent into the world of the dead, a remembrance of her recently deceased beloved.
Author | : Gerard Degroot |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2006-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814721133 |
A selection of the History, Scientific American, and Quality Paperback Book Clubs For a very brief moment during the 1960s, America was moonstruck. Boys dreamt of being an astronaut; girls dreamed of marrying one. Americans drank Tang, bought “space pens” that wrote upside down, wore clothes made of space age Mylar, and took imaginary rockets to the moon from theme parks scattered around the country. But despite the best efforts of a generation of scientists, the almost foolhardy heroics of the astronauts, and 35 billion dollars, the moon turned out to be a place of “magnificent desolation,” to use Buzz Aldrin’s words: a sterile rock of no purpose to anyone. In Dark Side of the Moon, Gerard J. DeGroot reveals how NASA cashed in on the Americans’ thirst for heroes in an age of discontent and became obsessed with putting men in space. The moon mission was sold as a race which America could not afford to lose. Landing on the moon, it was argued, would be good for the economy, for politics, and for the soul. It could even win the Cold War. The great tragedy is that so much effort and expense was devoted to a small step that did virtually nothing for mankind. Drawing on meticulous archival research, DeGroot cuts through the myths constructed by the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations and sustained by NASA ever since. He finds a gang of cynics, demagogues, scheming politicians, and corporations who amassed enormous power and profits by exploiting the fear of what the Russians might do in space. Exposing the truth behind one of the most revered fictions of American history, Dark Side of the Moon explains why the American space program has been caught in a state of purposeless wandering ever since Neil Armstrong descended from Apollo 11 and stepped onto the moon. The effort devoted to the space program was indeed magnificent and its cultural impact was profound, but the purpose of the program was as desolate and dry as lunar dust.
Author | : Grace Lin |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316052604 |
A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection! A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time! This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Grace Lin, author of the beloved Year of the Dog and Year of the Rat returns with a wondrous story of adventure, faith, and friendship. A fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a timeless story reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Her beautiful illustrations, printed in full-color, accompany the text throughout. Once again, she has created a charming, engaging book for young readers.
Author | : Sidney Rosen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780876146859 |
Follows the moon through its twenty-eight-day trip around the Earth and identifies its different phases.
Author | : Grant Heiken |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 1991-04-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521334440 |
The only work to date to collect data gathered during the American and Soviet missions in an accessible and complete reference of current scientific and technical information about the Moon.
Author | : Neal Stephenson |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062190415 |
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.
Author | : Jonathan Carroll |
Publisher | : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2024-08-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1625677189 |
Bones of the Moon is the story of a young woman named Cullen James who leads a dual life, one in the real world and the other in her vivid night dreams set in a magical land called Rondua. In these dreams, Cullen embarks on a quest to find the Bones of the Moon, five bones that hold power over Rondua. As the dreams intensify, they begin to impact her waking life, leading to unsettling and frightening intersections between the two worlds. Alongside an enigmatic little boy also seeking the bones, and Mr. Tracy, a dog the size of a hot-air balloon, Cullen navigates through both realms in search of these mystical bones.
Author | : McKenzie Hunter |
Publisher | : Sky Brooks World |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2017-08-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781946457981 |
"Skylar barely understands what she is, and her introduction to the supernatural world is terrifying. In her eyes, werewolves are no different than the vampires who killed her mother. As the vampires' efforts to capture her grow bolder, she reluctantly accepts the Midwest Pack's assistance. Ethan soon discovers Skylar is more than she seems -- a werewolf who can wield magic in previously unknown and dangerous ways. The list of Skylar's enemies grows, and some in the pack want to kill her to prevent a larger catastrophe. Will Ethan risk the lives of his brother and packmates to protect a woman he doesn't know?"--Amazon.com.
Author | : Thierry Legault |
Publisher | : Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
A photographic atlas of the moon with descriptions of topographical features; overlays identifying key features in photographs; and a day-to-day guide to observing the moon by eye, binoculars or telescope.