Sword and Sorceress IV
7 best books like Sword and Sorceress IV (Marion Zimmer Bradley): To the Lighthouse, Asimov's Science Fiction July/August 2019, The Department of Sensitive Crimes, From the Earth to the Moon, The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, De Zevensprong, At Eighty-Two: A Journal
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and...
Asimov's Science Fiction July/August 2019
Just the cover story - Suzanne Palmer’s long novella “Waterlines” - is worth the price of admission for Asimov’s 2019 summer issue. A sharply written thriller set in a mostly frozen remote planet, where a human colony coexists with a subaquatic alien species, also non-native to the planet....
The Department of Sensitive Crimes
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 1524748218 |
The Department of Sensitive Crimes is Scandinavian Blanc, vastly different from Scandinavian Noir. There is nothing noir about the world of Ulf Varg, Detective Inspector in the Sensitive Crimes Department of the Criminal Investigation Authority for the city of Malmö, Sweden. Ulf is concerned...
From the Earth to the Moon
| Author | Jules Verne |
| ISBN | 1598184547 |
Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness! But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had...
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
| Author | Florence Williams |
| ISBN | 0393355578 |
From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection...
| Author | Tonke Dragt |
| ISBN | 9025844391 |
Frans van de Steg, teacher, devoted time at the end of each school day to telling tall tales. A born storyteller, he entranced his students with yarns about his adventures, shipwrecks and desert island escapades as hero, Frans the Red. One day, he told his class that he was expecting a letter and headed...
Sarton’s own title for her last journal was Kairos: “a unique time in a person’s life; an opportunity for change.” It chronicles roughly 13 months, from July 1993 to August 1994; Sarton died in July 1995 of a recurrence of breast cancer. After 15 years in the small town of Nelson, New Hampshire,...
