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When the kindly old aunts decide they need help caring for creatures who live on their hidden island, they decide to kidnap a few children, since adults can’t be...
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This is a story about a boy named Kester. He is extraordinary, but he doesn’t know that yet. All he knows, at this very moment, is this:
1. There is a flock of excited pigeons in his bedroom.
2. They are talking to him.
3. His life...
Eva Ibbotson’s magical novel; set in that most poignant of all times and places, Vienna before the First World War. Susanna’s dress shop stands in the delightful Madensky Square and is the very hub and heart of life. Susanna sympathizes with her...
Any technology can have commercial applications—but some come with special...
One culture may see another’s ways as so perverted that it’s hard to imagine one evolving into the other—but sometimes it’s all too...
Alien intelligence may be a lot closer than you...
In a top-secret research facility, a team of scientists receive an unexpected message from the depths of space.
At first, the blizzard of sub-nuclear particles seemed random. But soon a pattern emerges that could only have come from an alien...
“Normality” involves comparison to a standard—but how do you judge the...
One thing an explorer must have is...
Learning a whole new way of thinking, after a long life of an old one, is hard. But with a big enough...