The Ghost From The Grand Banks

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0553293419

High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters. Rebellion is unthinkable and impossible....

Author	Brian Herbert
ISBN	0553580272

Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide. By his death in 1986, Herbert had completed six novels in the series, but much of his vision remained unwritten. Now, working from his father's recently discovered files, Brian Herbert and...

Author	Ben Bova
ISBN	0812579402

The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered with clouds of sulfuric acid. The atmosphere is a choking mixture of carbon...

Author	Pete Fromm
ISBN	0312422725

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of...

Author	Terry Tempest Williams
ISBN	0679752560

Williams often writes about things I care quite a bit about: Utah's natural beauty and/or quirky culture; environmental activism; birds; mythology; traveling; Edward Abbey; water & hiking & animals in the wild. She writes about the trails I walk on, the mountains I climb, the rivers I traverse....