Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this riveting story of the first great epic-lost to the world for 2,000 years, and rediscovered in the nineteenth century
Composed by a poet and priest in Middle Babylonia around 1200 bce, The Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed later stories that would become as fundamental as any in human history, The Odyssey and the Bible. But in 600 bce, the clay tablets that bore the story were lost-buried...
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
A military research station buried in the remote Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California broadcasts a frantic distress call that ends with a chilling order: "This is sierra, victor, whiskey. There's been a breach. Failsafe initiated. No matter the outcome: Kill us... kill us all." The site is part of TECOMM, the U.S. Army Test Command. When help arrives to investigate, they discover that everyone in the lab is dead -- not just the scientists,...
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Cotton Malone's teenage son has been kidnapped, and an anonymous e-mail from those responsible proves they will stop at nothing to get their hands on a coveted prize: the legendary lost Library of Alexandria, which vanished 1,500 years ago.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Delve further into the secrets of the Lost Library world with these collected short stories!
Clara and Logan's stories include: Rage, Forgiveness, Love, and Moving.
Also included is:* Revealed, Max Thornton's introduction to the Texas Lycan pack, * Krampus Gone Wild, a Christmas story featuring Lizzie and John, and * The Covered Mirror, a Halloween story set in the Lost Library world. Author's Note: The stories included in this collection have been...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.
All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins.
Table of Contents
• The Eye of the Goddess - Samuel Parr
• The Lost Library - Mahmud El Sayed
• By the Scars Shall You Know - Daniel Ausema
• The Girl Who Drew the World - L.D. Oxford
• The Heebie-Jeebie Beam - E.C. Fuller
Cover art by Carol Wellart.
66) Spirited Legacy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Spectral visitations in a magical library
Lizzie receives an offer she can't refuse: an internship working in the Lost Library, home to hundreds of spelled books. And, to make the deal even sweeter, her prospective boss has offered to act as her magic mentor. What's a girl to say, but yes? Except...there are the questions of her unresolved love affair, her recently acquired archenemy, and a haunting past.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The 11th novelette in The Refuse Chronicles.As with most novelettes of The Refuse Chronicles, these stories revisit secondary or incidental characters from The Symbiot-Series."Seven Days in Pnakotus" features Dr. Genevieve Cadeaux of "The Hunt: Symbiosys".Set in the desert wasteland of Australia, this 11th chronicle returns to a very basic style of horror.The orbiting A.I., Sentinel has located the lost Library City of Pnakotus. A UNCGSC...
Author
Language
English
Description
Not only is the Earth HOLLOW, but it is inhabited by Advanced Civilizations! Discover the existence of people who live in peace and brotherhood in the Center of our Earth, which is HOLLOW, with an Inner Central Sun, and oceans and mountains still in their pristine state. Visit the Library of Porthologos where all Earth's records are preserved. Discover the Lost Library of Alexandria! YES - Our Earth Is HOLLOW "And there's more to the Core than...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Part Indiana Jones, part Chessmen, The Baetylus Stone, by Michael Lee Morrison is all adventure." - Graham Brown, author of The Eden ProphecyHaunted by the sins of his father from WWII, Cason Lang has been ostracized by the academic and archaeological communities alike. Having spent the last decade trying to claw his way out of his father's shadow, he is presented with a unique opportunity promising to fulfill just that. The Huntsmen, a secret government...
Author
Language
English
Description
"While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves--Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe's libraries and bookshops, large and small, the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.
Forty-eight great science fiction and fantasy stories and an equally great serialized novella. All the stories we published in 2022.
Contents
From the Editor
January
• My Synthetic Soul - Karris Rae
• In the House of Geometers - David Cleden
• Silo - J.S. DiStefano
• Shades of the Sea - J.A. Prentice
February
• A Lie in the Sand - Devin Miller
• Heartbeat...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Making his first appearance in The Refuse Chronicles' novelette, Das Ghul, now the Māori chieftain's full story is told!Follow the 1850 Māori warrior in his nautical adventure to the South Pacific gyre, from forbidden and lost islands, cannibalistic tribes, volcanic isles, sleeping tiki-gods, and discover the Secret of the Lost Library City itself!From the wastes of the Australian Great Sandy Desert to the desolate tundra of Grænland. From his...
Author
Language
English
Description
The journey of a lifetime; find out why book clubs everywhere are taking the challenge to solve the riddle! Old Flames and Heroes is a swashbuckling tale of luck, love, and lake monsters which will sweep your whole family into a wondrous adventure, from the mind of award-winning novelist Mord McGhee. Read and see why this novel was a Silver Falchion Finalist, Top Ten Fantasy, and Newbery nominee.Giant bears, singing pirates, boogeymen, and heroes....
Author
Series
Don Rosa library volume 5
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Scrooge McDuck strikes Klondike gold in the latest collection of the world-renowned Duck comics.
75) Paradise lost
Author
Language
English
Description
"John Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free will, and divinity, and one of the most, beautiful works in world literature. Extracted from the Modern Library's highly acclaimed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this edition reflects up-to-date scholarship and includes a substantial introduction, fresh commentary, and other features - annotations...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A satire directed against intellectual pride and pedantry. The King of Navarre and three of his lords vow to spend three years in study and not to see any women. But when the Princess of France arrives with her three ladies, the men break their vow and fall in love with them.
77) The lost stone
Author
Series
Kingdom of Wrenly volume 1
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Lucas, Prince of Wrenly, is eager to explore and Clara, daughter of the queen's seamstress, knows the kingdom well, so they team up to find a lost jewel and visit all of the land's main attractions as they search.
78) Swann's way
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Presents the first book of Proust's monumental work "Remembrance of Things Past", introducing such themes as the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories.
79) Lost illusions
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucien Chardon, an aspiring young author, leaves his small provincial hometown and attempts to succeed in Parisian literary circles of the early nineteenth century.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people...
Didn't find it?
Didn't find it in the Minuteman Library Network? Request it from other Massachusetts library systems.
Can't find what you are looking for? Recommend it to your local library as a future purchase. Suggest a Purchase