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The Garden of God is book two in H. de Vere Stacpoole's classic best selling romance trilogy. It picks up where The Blue Lagoon ended and follows. Dicky and Emmeline's child Dick, after he is rescued by his Dicky's father Aurthur. Aurthur decides to stay on the Island with Dick. Years go by Dick meets a young woman and history repeats itself. Henry De Vere Stacpoole was a best selling Irish author with more than 50 novels to his credit. After...

Ben-Hur is one of the best selling books of all times. This poignant novel intertwines the life stories of a Jewish charioteer named Judah Ben-Hur and Jesus Christ. It explores the themes of betrayal and redemption. Ben-Hur's family is wrongly accused and convicted of treason during the time of Christ. Ben-Hur fights to clear his family's name and is ultimately inspired by the rise of Jesus Christ and his message. A powerful, compelling novel.

The colony on the red planet had no need for heroes. It wanted people who knew how to solve the problem of simple survival. More than anything else it wanted independence form a doomed Earth-and it was in deadly danger of succeeding. A gripping tale of adventure, survival, and defiance set on a future Mars.

The Blue Lagoon is book one in H. de Vere Stacpoole's classic romance trilogy. Two young teens, Dick and Emmeline, are stranded on a idyllic, South Pacific island after a shipwreck. The two spend their days swimming, diving for pearls, and exploring their bountiful island. Slowly as they grow they fall into an innocent love. Ignorant of their human sexuality, they do not understand or know how to express their physical attraction to one anothe...

To translate writings, you need a key to the code-and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born ... how could the Martian be translated...? An expedition from Earth to Mars discovers a deserted city, the remains of an advanced civilization that died out 50, 000 years before. The human scientists recover books and documents left behind, and are puzzled by their contents. Will they be abl...

Rainer Maria Rilke is perhaps the most import German poet. His powerful and lyrical poetry has captured generations of readers. Both mystical and compelling his influence cannot be overstated. Collected here are more than 40 poems, full of beauty and mastery of language. It's not hard to see why Rilke remains one of the most popular and best selling poets to this very day.

Harry Thorne had lost everything: his business, the love of his life, even his own self respect. As he's contemplating suicide he's made an incredible offer. He can go back in time and switch places with a look alike who lived on Mars millions of years ago when it was a lush, beautiful planet full of promise and adventure. Seizes his last chance at salvaging his life is transported millions of years into the past to a Mars peopled with beautif...

February. The season of love. Of passion. Of confessions. Rejections. Heartbreaks. Of heartfelt desires. Of an ardor rekindled in one's essence. It was February. The season of cherry blossoms. Of paths pink strewn. A sharp, but tenacious and seasonal breeze was blowing. It could make one feel like a poet at the soul. Making one desiring to weep at how beautiful life was..

Jerry Morgan, is a man with no future on Earth, he is offered a new life on Mars and he takes it. He starts out his new life on Mars on the wrong foot by meeting a princess and killing the fearsome-looking Martian he wrongly believes is menacing her. Which in actuality is the princess's beloved pet. From there Morgan becomes entangled in the politics of the Byzantine Martian royal court, spurns the advances of a would-be lover, escapes his h...

Ghazar P'arpec'i's History of the Armenians was written at the end of the fifth or beginning of the sixth century. The first book of this three-book work begins with information concerning the division of Armenia between the Byzantine and Sasanian empires (in 387), and describes the invention of the Armenian alphabet and the abolition of the monarchy in the Iranian-controlled eastern sector (428) to the death of Catholicos Sahak (439). Book II...

A ray of fire, green, mysterious, stabs through the night to Dan on his ship. It leads him to an island of unearthly peril. Jack Williamson was awarded the Grand Master by the Science Fiction Fantasy Writers of America, he is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and he received the Stoker Award and World fantasy awards for life time achievements. He is the author of the Legion of Space series.

No mortal had ever seen the Martians, but they had heard their whisperings without knowing the terrible secret they kept hidden. Frank Belknap Long Was a winner of bothe the World Fantasy Award and the Stoker Award. His work appeared in such seminal magazines as Weird Tales, Astounding, and Unknown.

No mortal had ever seen the Martians, but they had heard their whisperings without knowing the terrible secret they kept hidden. Frank Belknap Long Was a winner of bothe the World Fantasy Award and the Stoker Award. His work appeared in such seminal magazines as Weird Tales, Astounding, and Unknown.

Adria has been treated poorly all her life because she is human. But one day, while trying to save other people, a secret appears regarding her heritage. On a quest for answers, Adria leaves her home planet along with two friends. Together, they find help along the way. Will Adria's questions be answered? Will she find out more than she bargained for? This sci-fi dystopian novel, The Rightful Heir, will bring adventure to you.

Brave, chivalrous, loyally faithful to his plighted word, scrupulously heedful of his own and others' honour, Gawain stands before us in this poem. We take up Malory or Tennyson, and in spite of their charm of style, in spite of the halo of religious mysticism in which they have striven to enwrap their characters, we lay them down with a feeling of dissatisfaction. How did the Gawain of their imagination, this empty-headed, empty-hearted world...

A gripping tale of the planet Mars and the terrible monstrosity that called its victims to it from afar-a tale of Northwest Smith. An atmospheric science fiction horror story that you will not soon forget.

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Collected here in a massive, one thousand page volume are 42 stories and one novel dealing with Mars or Martians. The Anthology opens with Roger Zelazny's incomparable, Hugo nominated "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" and closes with Allen Steele's Hugo award winning the "Emperor from Mars." A wonderful anthology full of classic stories by some of science fiction's best writers. Roger Zelazny Stanley G. Weinbaum Jerome Bixby Robert F. Young Harry Ha...

The greatest cracksman in the Galaxy-The Nebula ... mocked by a gay voice that called herself Andromeda, who led him into danger-and into the hands of his enemy! Phil Hanley came out of the managing editor's office and strode savagely to his desk in the paper littered city room. It was one P.M., between editions, and the reporters and copy-desk men of the Martian Globe were taking things easy for the moment. Hanley slumped into his chair, ki...

It talks about real problems, and offers real solutions. - Jamie This book? It's all about dad! Leave the pregnancy info, basic baby care how-to's, and developmental milestones subjects to other books. In less than 100 pages, you will find tips and tricks for making parenting less stressful and more enjoyable.Discover how to adjust to your new role while still preserving your identity. Learn techniques for managing your day and expectation...