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Author
Series
Luna volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The Moon wants to kill you. Whether it's being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or you just get caught up in a fight between the Moon's ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want to gain in the Moon's near feudal society. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. As the leader of the Moon's newest "dragon," Adriana has wrested control of the Moon's Helium-3 industry from the Mackenzie...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided up among its many enemies, its survivors scattered. Eighteen months have passed.
Author
Series
SF masterworks volume 72
Language
English
Formats
Description
For fans of Artemis--The visionary tour de force from "one of the grand masters of science fiction" ( The Wall Street Journal ). Widely acknowledged as one of Robert A. Heinlein's greatest works, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress rose from the golden age of science fiction to become an undisputed classic--and a touchstone for the philosophy of personal responsibility and political freedom. A revolution on a lunar penal colony--aided by a self-aware supercomputer--provides...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the small river town of La Luna, Louisiana, Calla Lily Ponder enjoys a blissful childhood at her mother's side, learns the art of healing through the humble womanly art of "fixing hair," and encounters first love with a boy named Tuck. When Tuck leaves her, Calla transforms her sorrow into inspiration and heads for the wild and colorful city of New Orleans--where she realizes the full power of her "healing hands" and Tuck presents her with an offer...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The eldest daughter is often doomed in fairy tales. But Bella vows to escape the usual pitfalls. She dons a red cloak and ventures into the forbidden forest to consult with "Granny," the local wisewoman. On the way home she's attacked by a wolf-- who turns out to be a cursed nobleman! Secluded in his castle, Bella is torn between her family and this strange man who creates marvelous inventions and makes her laugh-- when he isn't howling at the moon...
Author
Publisher
NAN A. TALESE/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 321 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From award-winning novelist Mary Morris comes the remarkable story of a remote New Mexican town coming to grips with a dark history it never imagined. In 1492, the Jewish and Muslim populations of Spain were expelled, and Columbus set sail for America. Luis de Torres, a Spanish Jew, accompanies Columbus as his interpreter. His journey is only the beginning of a long migration, across many generations. Over the centuries, de Torres' descendants travel...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages : chiefly illustrations, some color ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The world of the Lunar Chronicles comes alive in this thrilling continuation of Wires and Nerve. Iko, an audacious android and best friend to the Lunar Queen Cinder, has been tasked with hunting down Alpha Lysander Steele, the leader of a rogue band of bioengineered wolf-soldiers who threaten to undo the tenuous peace agreement between Earth and Luna.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1986
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished but aristocratic translator who has been living a life of quiet desperation in Milan. He feels underappreciated for his work, ambivalent toward his girlfriend, and tormented by a persistent sense of having been cheated by life. But when he reads about a lost Viennese novel (The House on Moon Lake) in the journals of a late esteemed literary critic, he dreams that this project will put him on the cultural and literary...
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of Neil A. Armstrong, who became the first person to walk on the moon, on July 20, 1969. This biography examines the complex legacy of Armstrong, as an astronaut and as an individual, to form a portrait of a great but reluctant hero who will forever be known as history's most famous space traveler.
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world's most innovative planetary geologists. In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon. Even in their poor resolution, the images stunned scientists: the far side is an enormous mountainous expanse, not the vast lava-plains seen from Earth. Subsequent missions have confirmed this in much greater detail. How could this be,...
12) La luna
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[30] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy sets out for a day at work cleaning the moon with his father and grandfather in their boat, La Luna.
13) Nine moons
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Restless Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction.'Women play all the time with the great power that's been conferred upon us: it's fun to think about reproducing. Or not reproducing. Or walking around in a sweet little dress with a round belly underneath that will turn into a baby to...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He's sick of being haunted by his family's past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his little brother, a supernatural wind, and the bewitching girl at his new high school. Luna Chang dreads the future. Graduation looms ahead, and her parents' expectations are stifling. When she begins to break the rules, she finds her life upended by the...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton graphic novel volume 14
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
54 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Geronimo Stilton and his cousin, Trap, journey to the Moon in order to stop the evil Pirate Cats from thwarting the Apollo 11 mission.
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Transforming the old Caffey property into Hope Springs's new community arts center won't be easy for celebrated weaver Luna Meadows, but she sees it as a labor of love. The center will honor Sierra Caffey, the best friend Luna lost years ago in a car crash. But when Angelo Caffey--Sierra's older brother and Luna's first love--returns to his family's former home demanding answers, Luna must also face her long-buried feelings for him. Angelo left Hope...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Princess Luna, the guardian of the night, peacefully rules over Equestria alongside her big sister. When the Cutie Mark Crusaders suggest she should have a holiday as equally prestigious as Celestia's Summer Sun Celebration, she declines. [But] when she realizes Celestia is orchestrating a surprise festival in her honor, she decides to have some fun and take matters into her own hooves"--Page 4 of cover.
19) A nearer moon
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Long ago the dam formed, the lively river turned into a swamp, and the wasting illness came to Luna's village, and now that her little sister is sick Luna will do anything to save her, even offer herself to the creature that lives in the swamp on the day of the nearer moon--a lonely and bitter water sprite who was left behind when her people fled through a door to another world.
20) Over the moon
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Simon Pulse pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (various pagings) : music ; 28 cm. + 1 sheet of stickers.
Language
English
Description
When Luna, the moon, descends to a small town on earth disguised as a boy named Leo, she falls in love with Prince Jack, who is in love with Felicity, a young lady of noble birth who is a bit of a tomboy, smitten with Leo, and offers sheet music for twenty songs.
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