A cosmic extravaganza THE UNIVERSE AND A MAN NAMED CROYD "The policy of Sol Galaxy as that of planetary self-determination is historic hypocrisy. They will smother my Moudjinn, and when they find out about us, out here between galaxies, they wi...
Once again the astonishingly inventive mind of Ian Wallace has come up with a novel jampacked with new conceptions, mind-boggling conflicts, and edge-of-the-seat excitement. Ian Wallace, author of A VOYAGE TO DARI and CROYD, is unlike any other scien...
WELCOME TO PLANET TUROUOIS -- where the marvels of technological progress have turned the seas to acid, and the air outside the great domed city to poisonous gas -- where the affluent, exquisitely civilized ruling class has devised a program of...
There was only one way to reach Iola where an interstellar distress signal had originated. For Iola belonged to a small group of stars cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the close presence of an all-enveloping black hole. The only way to reach Io...
They discovered a vast comet far out between the stars. Within its icy core were two beings, frozen in still life for thousands of years. One was human, a Prometheus figure. But the other, locked with the first in a tableau of eternal combat, was Luc...
Dhurk hoped that if he could win acceptance by his beloved Hreda, it would bring him to the top of his wonder world's most advanced strata. And in the way of many a fickle folklore princess, Hreda set him a task. Her cosmic museum would not be comple...
Accompanying her father and brother Eugene on their annual winter camping trip, nine-year-old Abigail is enchanted by the seasonal wilderness and helps rescue a fawn that has become tangled in a fishing line....
Chin Chiang has long dreamed of dancing the dragon's dance, but when the first day of the Year of the Dragon arrives and he is to dance with his grandfather, he is sure he will shame his family and bring bad luck to everyone....
Trapper Jack has only nine toes. The tenth, according to Josh's new friend, Gabe, is safe inside an empty tobacco tin behind the bar at the Sourdough Saloon. This rollicking tall tale, set in the Yukon, sends two boys and a three-legged dog on an ast...
Blowing dust is about all you can see from a farm on the prairies in the 1930s. Even worse, Andre and Elise s father has gone in search of work and he may not be home for Christmas.
The day he left their mother set an extra place at the table in ...
Ian Wallace has created a very beautiful book in which he explores the relationship between a young girl and a young widow.Merna was married to the owner of Gully’s store. Located on the main street of a small town on the ocean shore, Gully’s sel...
James is following in his father's footsteps, and today for the first time he will descend deep into the caves below the Atlantic Ocean to begin to learn the coal miner's work.The story follows him down into the pit, where the pit ponies live out the...
One of the loveliest of all carols, the Huron Carol was written by Father Jean de Brébeuf, a French Catholic priest who settled among the Huron people in the early 1600s. Despite his missionary zeal, Brébeuf was sensitive to the Hurons's beliefs. H...
When the intense heat drives young Brando to sleep on the porch, he is awoken around midnight by a cat from a nearby graveyard. Together, Brando and Graveyard Cat embark upon a rollicking adventure: leaping up to the rings of Saturn, visiting the Arc...
Learn to speak the language of your dreams with this fascinating guide to the 100 most common dreams -- why we dream them, what they mean, and how they can help us in everyday lives We all dream, but our dreams often seem to be bizarre and co...
Born in 1914, Joe Purdon was one of North America’s early conservationists. After stumbling as a child upon a cluster of Showy Lady’s Slippers in bloom, Joe dedicated his life to protecting these rare orchids. In this picture book, award-winning ...
"Dr Orpheus finds a future Earthworld caught in a double-destructive pincers between benign enslavement by the miracle drug Anagonon and hideous enslavement by invaders from a far galaxy. To meet this twofold threat, Croyd must exercise his amazing a...