The Ice Orphan
Title | The Ice Orphan PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen O'Neal Gear |
Publisher | Astra Publishing House |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2022-11-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0756415896 |
This third book in a cli-fi series from a nationally-recognized anthropologist explores a frozen future where archaic species struggle to survive an apocalyptic ice age. It’s been 925 summers since the Jemen introduced zyme, a bioluminescent algae, into the world’s ocean and unwittingly triggered an ice age that has consumed most of the planet. All but a handful of Jemen flew to the stars, but before they left, they recreated several extinct species that had thrived in the last ice age. After almost a thousand summers, the archaic hominins that struggle along the edges of massive glaciers are dwindling. All they have to save them is a dying quantum computer called Quancee and her student, a Denisovan man named Lynx. When the last Jemen, Vice Admiral Jorgenson, tells Lynx he’s going to dismantle Quancee and use her parts to create a new computer, Lynx is stunned. But while Lynx battles to save Quancee, the quantum computer has other priorities. Before she dies, she has to save a special boy who cannot save himself. Meanwhile, in the lodges of the Sealion People, a sick boy on the verge of manhood hears voices, including an old woman who sings to him. When Jawbone goes on his first quest to find a spirit helper, that same old woman finds him, and his life will never be the same.
The Ice Lion
Title | The Ice Lion PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen O'Neal Gear |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2021-06-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0756415845 |
Teen members of a group of archaic humans, Lynx and Quiller, flee the increasing coldness and monstrous predators for a new land, where they meet a strange old man who tells them how to save the world.
The Adult Orphan Club
Title | The Adult Orphan Club PDF eBook |
Author | Flora Baker |
Publisher | Flora Baker |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2020-06-20 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1838063501 |
A vulnerable, honest and deeply personal guide to finding your way through grief. Flora Baker was only twenty when her mum died suddenly of cancer. Her coping strategy was simple: ignore the magnitude of her loss. But when her dad became terminally ill nine years later, Flora was forced to confront the reality of grief. She had to accept that her life had changed forever. In The Adult Orphan Club, Flora draws on a decade of experience with grief and parent loss to explore all the chaotic ways that grief affects us, and how we can learn to navigate it. Written with the newly bereaved in mind and packed with practical tips and advice, this book guides the reader through every step of their grief journey and opens up the death conversation in an honest, heartfelt and accessible way. Whether you’re grieving your own loss or supporting someone else through grief, The Adult Orphan Club will show you that you’re not broken, and you’re not alone.
The Ice Monster
Title | The Ice Monster PDF eBook |
Author | David Walliams |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2021-03-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0062561138 |
Hailed as “the heir to Roald Dahl” by The Spectator, the UK’s #1 bestselling children’s author, David Walliams, will have fans of Jeff Kinney and Rachel Renee Russell in stitches! David Walliams burst on to the American scene with his New York Times bestseller Demon Dentist, and now he’s bringing his signature humor to this story of a ten-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth. When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster—a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole—she’s determined to discover more.... Luckily, a chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, sparking the adventure of a lifetime—from London to the heart of the Arctic!
Orphan Ahwak
Title | Orphan Ahwak PDF eBook |
Author | Raquel Rivera |
Publisher | Orca Book Publishers |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2007-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1554695163 |
Aneze, a young Inuit girl, is left for dead after her village is ripped apart by a wife-raid; her father and brother are killed and her mother is kidnapped. Aneze is the only survivor. She renames herself Orphan Ahwak as she struggles to survive on her own, first in the forest and then in a remote world of tundra and sea-ice. She endures cold and hunger and befriends people whose customs are completely foreign to her. Through it all she remains determined to become a hunter and to find a place in an often hostile and terrifying world.
Orphan of Antarcia
Title | Orphan of Antarcia PDF eBook |
Author | Alain Paris |
Publisher | Humanoids Inc |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2015-04-29 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1594658609 |
A heroic fantasy epic and rite of passage tale set in a mythical pre-glacial Antarctica.
Orphan Monster Spy
Title | Orphan Monster Spy PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Killeen |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2019-02-19 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0451478754 |
"Like Inglourious Basterds for tweens, this clever YA title features Sarah, a blond, blue-eyed Jewish girl in 1939 Germany."--The New York Post After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah finds herself on the run from the Nazis in Third Reich-ruled Germany. While trying to escape, Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox full of weapons. He's part of the secret resistance against the Reich, and he needs her help. Sarah is to hide in plain sight at a boarding school for the daughters of top Nazi brass, posing as one of them. She must befriend the daughter of a key scientist to gain access to the blueprints for a bomb that could destroy the cities of Western Europe, and steal them. Sarah may look like the rest of the girls, innocent, blonde-haired, and young, but she refuses to become one of the monsters she's surrounded by. She's a brilliant con artist, convincing them she's one of them even as she lives in terror of being found out. And she's determined to get her revenge on them all.