Peek, Tom
Summary: "Mauna A Novel of Hawai'i is a gripping tale of clashing passions—science and spirituality, vengeance and compassion, fear and courage—set atop Hawaiʻi’s 14,000-foot Mauna Kea, realm of revered goddesses and star-wise explorers. A young vagabond running from America’s turmoil is forced to confront his own grief and rage on an embattled holy mountain in the Pacific. There he encounters a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: All Night Books, an imprint of Easton Studio Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEELemberg, R. B.
Summary: "Wind: To match one's body with one's heart. Sand: To take the bearer where they wish. Song: In praise of the goddess Bird. Bone: To move unheard in the night. The Surun' do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But Uiziya now seeks her aunt Benesret in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon Publications 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEMLessing, Doris May
Summary: In a world destroyed by environmental damage, a people trek north in search of the remnants of civilization. They include two children and it is through their eyes that the novel analyzes the real meaning of civilization.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFlamingo 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESFeehan, Christine
Summary: "Gideon "Eagle" Carpenter is used to rolling with the punches life has thrown at him. It's the only thing that's kept him alive. He and his team of GhostWalkers have seen and experienced it all. He does his best to live with all the sins written on his soul. Then he hears the laughter of a woman with the ability to erase--even for a few previous moments--the darkness of his past. Laurel "Rory"...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEESuri, Tasha
Summary: "A nobleman's daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri's captivating, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy. The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and an exiled...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Feehan, Christine
Summary: Gideon "Eagle" Carpenter hopes he can persuade Laurel "Rory" Chappel to take a chance on him. But soon life conspires against him, forcing the GhostWalker to risk everything to protect the woman he loves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023