Doomstalker | Collections | The Huntington

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Warlock
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The world grows colder with each passing year, the longer winters and ever-deepening snows awaking ancient fears within the Dengan Packstead, fears of invasion by armed and desperate nomads, attack by the witchlike and mysterious Silth, able to kill with their minds alone, and of the Grauken, that desperate time when intellect gives way to buried cannibalistic instinct, when meth feeds upon meth. For Marika, a young pup of the Packstead, loyal to pack and family, times are dark indeed, for against these foes, the Packstead cannot prevail. But awakening within Marika is a power unmatched in all the world, a legendary power that may not just save her world, but allow her to grasp the stars themselves.
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Passage at arms
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The ongoing war between Humanity and the Ulat is a battle of attrition that humanity is unfortunately losing. However, humans have the advantage of trans-hyperdrive technology, which allows their climber fleet, under very narrow and strenuous conditions, to pass through space almost undetectable. Passage at Arms tells the intimate, detailed and harrowing story of a climber crew and its captain during a critical juncture of the war. Cook combines speculative technology with a canny and realistic portrait of men at war and the stresses they face in combat. Passage at Arms is one of the classic novels of military science fiction.
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The girl with the crazy brother
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Dana's fears and worries about moving across the country and making friends at a new school are made worse when her older brother is diagnosed as schizophrenic.
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Remarks on an article in the Biblical repertory and Princeton review : concerning a recent discourse delivered before the convention of Congregational ministers of Massachusetts
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Reply to an anonymous review, in the Biblical repertory, October 1850, of the author's convention sermon, "The theology of the intellect and that of the feelings."
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The misadventures of Marjory
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Much too pretty for her own good, Marjory brings out the protective instinct in men. While away at a secretarial school she discovers that her older brother plans to marry. Annoyed that someone else has usurped her long-held spot in his affections, she rushes home to stop the wedding. When she cannot, she runs off to Columbus to start a new life. One misadventure after another ensues as she meets some very interesting characters and finds romance along the way.
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Melting point
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"I live in a meltdown period, when old norms of politics, religion and even photography are changing. Melting is a transformation, one form dissolves, another emerges. When I face endings I sometimes fear what comes after. As I raise the camera to my eye and see the world's complexity, my fears melt. I'm graced with fresh energy. In working from the paradox of a curious melding of beauty and fear these photographs emerged"--From introduction.
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