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Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
"What does walking with Jesus look like in this life? The Pilgrims Progress is one of the greatest Christian classics of all time, answering that question and illustrating the deepest struggles Christians face as they walk with God in this life. Since its publication in 1678, it has been the most widely read Christian book other than the Bible. From the dark confines of a prison cell, John Bunyan wrote a book that transformed not only his experience...
Author
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"When the person he loves most dies in tragic circumstances, the mysterious protagonist of The Map of Chaos does all he can to speak to her one last time. A session with a renowned medium seems to offer the only solution, but the experience unleashes terrible forces that bring the world to the brink of disaster. Salvation can only be found in The Map of Chaos, an obscure handwritten mathematical treatise that he is desperate to uncover. In his search,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
574 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the person he loves most dies in tragic circumstances, the mysterious protagonist of The Map of Chaos does all he can to speak to her one last time. A session with a renowned medium seems to offer the only solution, but the experience unleashes terrible forces that bring the world to the brink of disaster. Salvation can only be found in The Map of Chaos, an obscure handwritten mathematical treatise that he is desperate to uncover. In his search,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (63 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
Español
Description
Follows a scientist who uses his time machine to journey into the future where he finds the world with two human races, the peaceful Eloi and the violent Morlocks.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (69 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Follows a scientist who uses his time machine to journey into the future, where he finds the world with two human races, the peaceful Eloi and the violent Morlocks.
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London, 1896. Andrew Harrington's lover Marie Kelly was murdered by Jack the Ripper and he longs to turn back the clock and save her. Meanwhile, Claire Haggerty, forever being matched with men her family consider suitable, yearns for a time when she can be free to love whom she choses. As their quests converge, it becomes clear that time is the problem -- to escape it or to change it. Hidden in the attic of popular author -- and noted scientific speculator...
Author
Language
English
Description
Lady Evelyn Herbert was the daughter of the Earl of Carnarvon, brought up in stunning Highclere Castle. Popular and pretty, she seemed destined for a prestigious marriage, but she had other ideas. Instead, she left behind the world of society balls and chaperones to travel to the Egyptian desert, where she hoped to become a lady archaeologist, working alongside her father and Howard Carter in the hunt for an undisturbed tomb. In November 1922, their...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When H.G. Wells left school in 1880 at the age of thirteen he looked destined for obscurity. Defying expectations, he went on to become one of the most famous writers in the world, remaining active into the era of the atomic bomb, which he had predicted thirty years earlier. Along the way he created classic science-fiction tales such as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, reinvented the Dickensian novel in Kipps and The...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
594 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a New York socialite challenges her millionaire suitor to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," three fantastical adventures in time travel and mystery ensue.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
611 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
London, 1896. Andrew Harrington's lover Marie Kelly was murdered by Jack the Ripper and he longs to turn back the clock and save her. Meanwhile, Claire Haggerty, forever being matched with men her family consider suitable, yearns for a time when she can be free to love whom she choses. As their quests converge, it becomes clear that time is the problem -- to escape it or to change it. Hidden in the attic of popular author -- and noted scientific speculator...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dorothy Richardson is existing just above the poverty line, doing secretarial work at a dentist's office and living in a seedy boarding house in Bloomsbury, when she is invited to spend the weekend with a childhood friend. Jane has recently married a writer who is hovering on the brink of fame. His name is H.G. Wells, or Bertie, as they call him. Bertie appears unremarkable at first. But then Dorothy notices his grey-blue eyes taking her in, openly...
19) H.G. Wells
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
79 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
13 videodiscs (50 min. each) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This series, which profiles 13 giants of 20th-century fiction and the influences that shaped their work, was compiled in part from the archives of the BBC. Excerpts from personal diaries, footage never before viewed by American audiences, remembrances of contemporaries, and comments by literary experts offer insight into the creative psyche of each writer.