Author: Sylvia Engdahl
Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing
Keywords: star, children
Number of Pages: 726
Published: 2000-01-10
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1892065142
ISBN-13: 9781892065148

Single-volume edition of the trilogy consisting of This Star Shall Abide, Beyond the Tomorrow Mountains, and The Doors of the Universe. (All three are available individually for Kindle.) Noren knew that his world was not as it should be--it was wrong that only the Scholars, and their representatives the Technicians, could use metal tools and Machines. It was wrong that only they had access to the mysterious City, which he had always longed to enter. Above all, it was wrong for the Scholars to have sole power over the distribution of knowledge. The High Law imposed these restrictions and many o

Author: Douglas E. Templin
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: sail, star, red
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2010-01-11
List price: $36.55
ISBN-10: 144905658X
ISBN-13: 9781449056582

Red Star on the Sail is a riveting pair of stories cleverly spun together by the author; packed with page-turning romance, thrills, spine-tingling adventure and esionage. Follow the path of a young California couple in search the sailboat of their dreams, and feel the problems arising in their marriage as plans to cruise the South Pacific become complicated and confused. Shiver in the midst of a bitter winter with an unruly Russian admiral, given commandd of his country’s newest and most lethal nuclear submarine. Outbound with orders of ominous potential, America’s CIA intervenes,

Author: Andre Norton
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: star
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1557429448
ISBN-13: 9781557429445

When Raf Kurbi’s Terran spaceship burst into the unexplored skies of the Astra and was immediately made welcome by the natives of a once-mighty metropolis, Kurbi was unaware of three vital things: One was that Astra already harbored an Earth colony--descended from refugees from the world of the previous century. Two was that these men and women were facing the greatest danger of their existence from inhuman fiends who had once tyrannized Astra. Three was that the natives who were buying Kurbi’s science know-how were those very fiends--and their intentions were deadly for all humans

Author: Alan Furst
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, star
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2002-07-09
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0375759999
ISBN-13: 9780375759994

Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and becomes a full-time spymaster in Paris. As deputy director of a Paris network, Szara finds his own star rising when he recruits an agent in Berlin who can supply crucial information. Dark Star captures not only the intrigue and danger of clandestine life but the day-to-day reality of what Soviet operatives call

Author: Fletcher Pratt
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: star, blue
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2008-10-14
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1434474070
ISBN-13: 9781434474070

Lalette Asterhax could not escape her destiny. She was a hereditary witch in a world where witchcraft was banned by ecclesiastical and temporal powers. And any man who possessed her would then gain possession of her precious Blue Star…and all the powers it could bestow. Rodvard Bergelin was a reluctant revolutionary ... a rogue who had a date with destiny. Although he lusted after a rich baron’s daughter, Rodvard was ordered to seduce the saucy witch-maiden. Then all the magical powers of that strange blue jewel would be his ... for as long as he remained faithful to Lalette! "A

Authors:Robert Harding, none,
Publisher: Fideli Publishing Inc.
Keywords: star, blue
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-08-31
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 160414002X
ISBN-13: 9781604140026

Robert Harding, an ordinary salesman leading an ordinary life, finds himself set apart from his peers and never feels he quite fits in. A chance meeting with a clairvoyant who tells him he has "healing hands" and a vision of blessed Mary that resembles The Lady of Clearwater, transform his mundane life and point him in the direction of the spiritual. Feeling he must make a spiritual vision quest to the U.S., the author travels from London, England, all the way to the home of the Hopi Indians in the southwest. He encounters many interesting people and spiritual signs along the way and both b

Author: Harlow. Shapley
Publisher: Earle Press
Keywords: clusters, star
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $29.45
ISBN-10: 1406771430
ISBN-13: 9781406771435

STAR CLUSTERS Thirty-four Globular Cliutterv in ike Southern Milky Way. HARVARD OBSERVATORY MONOGRAPHS No. 2 STAR CLUSTERS BY HARLOW SHAPLEY Published for the Observatory by the McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK 370 SEVENTH AVENUE LONDON 6 8 BOUVERIE ST , E. C. 4 1930 PREFACE FOR more than five years the writing of this second monograph of the Harvard Observatory series has been in progress. Several factors have contributed to the postponement of its publication, but the chief cause of delay has been the desire to provide a revised system of parallaxes for globular clusters. All consider