Ice

A former "Newsweek" reporter offers a sparkling illumination of ice, the natural phenomenon whose ebbs and flows over ti... (more)

A former "Newsweek" reporter offers a sparkling illumination of ice, the natural phenomenon whose ebbs and flows over time help shape the world in which we live. of photos. (less)

As a brewing ice storm approaches, and despite the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly Helton,... (more)

As a brewing ice storm approaches, and despite the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly Helton, combat veteran Gabriel McQueen makes the long haul to the middle of nowhere to find out whether she is safe and sound. Spotting strangers in Lolly's home--one of them packing a weapon--Gabriel rescues Lolly from her captors ... but when the escape is discovered, the heat--and the hunt--are on. (less)

As a brewing ice storm approaches, and despite the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly Helton,... (more)

As a brewing ice storm approaches, and despite the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly Helton, combat veteran Gabriel McQueen makes the long haul to the middle of nowhere to find out whether she is safe and sound. Spotting strangers in Lolly's home--one of them packing a weapon--Gabriel rescues Lolly from her captors ... but when the escape is discovered, the heat--and the hunt--are on. (less)

Learn about early humans and how they survived in one of the most hostile environments on Earth, the tragic and treacher... (more)

Learn about early humans and how they survived in one of the most hostile environments on Earth, the tragic and treacherous journeys of early polar explorers, how icy landscapes develop and change, and meet the animals who make these frozen lands their home. Detailed annotations explore the place of ice on our planet and how we and other animals survive and interact with it. (less)

"A kid-friendly collection of more than twenty poems about the polar regions and the animals that live there"-- (more)

"A kid-friendly collection of more than twenty poems about the polar regions and the animals that live there"-- (less)

As a brewing ice storm approaches, and despite the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly Helton,... (more)

As a brewing ice storm approaches, and despite the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly Helton, combat veteran Gabriel McQueen makes the long haul to the middle of nowhere to find out whether she is safe and sound. Spotting strangers in Lolly's home--one of them packing a weapon--Gabriel rescues Lolly from her captors ... but when the escape is discovered, the heat--and the hunt--are on. (less)

"In a frozen, apocalyptic landscape, destruction abounds: great walls of ice overrun the world and secretive governments... (more)

"In a frozen, apocalyptic landscape, destruction abounds: great walls of ice overrun the world and secretive governments vie for control. Against this surreal, yet eerily familiar broken world, an unnamed narrator embarks on a hallucinatory quest for a strange and elusive "glass-girl" with silver hair. He crosses icy seas and frozen plains, searching ruined towns and ransacked rooms, all to free her from the grips of a tyrant known only as the warden and save her before the ice closes all around. A novel unlike any other, Ice is at once a dystopian adventure shattering the conventions of science fiction, a prescient warning of climate change and totalitarianism, a feminist exploration of violence and trauma, a Kafkaesque literary dreamscape, and a brilliant allegory for its author's struggles with addiction--all crystallized in prose as glittering as the piling snow. Acclaimed upon its publication as one of the best science fiction books of the year, Kavan's 1967 novel has built a reputation as an extraordinary and innovative work of literature, garnering acclaim from China Mieville, Patti Smith, J. G. Ballard, Anaïs Nin, and Doris Lessing, among others. With echoes of dystopian classics like Ursula Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and J. G. Ballard's High Rise, Ice is a necessary and unforgettable addition to the canon of science fiction classics."-- (less)

Employed by his father, the county sheriff, Officer Gabriel McQueen is bitter when he is ordered to find a neighbor who ... (more)

Employed by his father, the county sheriff, Officer Gabriel McQueen is bitter when he is ordered to find a neighbor who has gone missing in the midst of a bad winter storm. To make matters worse, the missing person is none other than Lolly Helton, a woman who Gabriel remains on bad terms with. However, when he discovers that Lolly's home has been invaded by gunmen, resulting in her kidnapping, Gabriel must take to the woods alone and without backup to save the distressed woman. (less)