Author: H G Wells
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: comet, days
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-01-10
List price: $9.90
ISBN-10: 1846377978
ISBN-13: 9781846377976
""The World’s Great Age begins anew, The Golden Years return, The Earth doth like a Snake renew Her Winter Skin outworn: Heaven smiles, and Faiths and Empires gleam Like Wrecks of a Dissolving Dream.""
Author: John Christopher
Publisher: Borgo Press
Keywords: comet, year
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1587153955
ISBN-13: 9781587153952
Author: Jan Brett
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Keywords: lives, nine, comet
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2001-05-21
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0698118944
ISBN-13: 9780698118942
It all begins when Comet walks away from the lighthouse close to his birthplace on Nantucket Island. He visits a garden, a bookstore, a boat, and a party, and at each place he gets into trouble and loses one of his lives. Comet starts to worry. He longs for a home, a place where he’ll be safe. Will he find one before he uses up all nine lives?"Brett’s style is deliciously intricate and detailed. Charming."-USA Today"Brett’s many avid fans are sure to love this book."-School Library Journal"As always, Brett captures the essence of her setting . . . in a luscious and loving tri
Author: Ed Simpson
Publisher: Samuel French
Keywords: comedy, loomis, comet
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 1996
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0573695474
ISBN-13: 9780573695476
Author: Pierre Bayle
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: comet, occasion, thoughts, various
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2000-04
List price: $58.50
ISBN-10: 079144547X
ISBN-13: 9780791445471
The appearance of this comet caused so many panicked inquiries to be made of Pierre Bayle, one of the Enlightenment’s greatest thinkers, that he decided to formally respond to them, hence the present work, which first appeared in 1682. The book’s principle task was to undermine the influence of "superstition" in political life, and it was here that Bayle made the notorious suggestion, unique in the history of political thought until then, that a decent society of atheists is possible in principle. There is no other English translation of this book in print--the only other version w
Author: Helen M. White
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: stories, comet, tale
Number of Pages: 285
Published: 1984-05-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0873511697
ISBN-13: 9780873511698
Eight extraordinary tales prove Helen White’s conviction that true stories about real people can be as entertaining as fiction. Her cast of characters features forgotten (often unlikely) heroes, frustrated reformers, eccentric entrepreneurs, and everyday Minnesotans caught in strange circumstances. Each of their stories presents a slice of life from bygone days.
Author: Pierre Bayle
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: comet, occasion, thoughts, various
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2000-06
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0791445488
ISBN-13: 9780791445488
The appearance of this comet caused so many panicked inquiries to be made of Pierre Bayle, one of the Enlightenment’s greatest thinkers, that he decided to formally respond to them, hence the present work, which first appeared in 1682. The book’s principle task was to undermine the influence of "superstition" in political life, and it was here that Bayle made the notorious suggestion, unique in the history of political thought until then, that a decent society of atheists is possible in principle. There is no other English translation of this book in print--the only other version w
