Sheri S Tepper
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Pub. Date
2009
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-- Los Angeles Times Since the flames died three hundred years ago, human civilization has evolved into a dual society: Women’s Country, where walled towns enclose what’s left of past civilization, nurtured by women and a few nonviolent men; and the adjacent garrisons where warrior men live—the lost brothers, sons, and lovers of those in Women’s Country. Two societies. Two competing dreams. Two ways of life, kept apart by walls stronger than...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
With the critically acclaimed novels The Gate To Women's Country, Raising The StonesBeauty, she broadens her territory even further, with a novel that evokes all the richness of fairy tale and fable. Drawing on the wellspring of tales such as "Sleeping Beauty," Beauty is a moving novel of love and loss, hope and despair, magic and nature. Set against a backdrop both enchanted and frightening, the story begins with a wicked...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A wave of fundamentalism is sweeping across the globe as the millennium approaches, and a power-hungry presidential candidate sees his ticket to success in making an example out of a teenage girl who abandoned her infant in a Dumpster. Taking the girl's case is Carolyn Crespin, a former attorney, who left her job for a quiet family life. Now she must call upon five friends from college, who took a vow to always stand together. But their success...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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In Fish Tails, two of Sheri S. Tepper's beloved characters--Abasio and Xulai (A Plague of Angels and The Waters Rising)--and their children travel from village to village scattered across the sparsely populated land of Tingawa. They are searching for others who might be interested in adopting their sea-dwelling lifestyle. Along their journey they encounter strange visitors from the far off world of Lom, characters from Tepper's nine-book True Game...
6) Sideshow
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Marjorie Westriding trilogy volume 3
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On the planet of Elsewhere, the central government had always allowed each province to rule its people in the manner they had chosen, so long as each respected its neighbors' local customs---and so long as the people remained within their homelands. Now, generations later, inhabitants have begun to question this tradition, for a mysterious force has arisen. The one-time hallucinations of religious rituals have taken on real shape, and deadly incidents...
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Series
Plague of angels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
When the Sea King declares war on the small kingdoms of Norland, and forbids any ships from sailing on the rising waters that threaten to flood humanity, a princess must awaken an ancient killer to save the world.
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"West of the land called Artemisia, past mountains, valleys, arroyos, and mesas, atop a sinuous, canyon-climbing road, the Place of Power spreads clawlike at the edge of the chasm. Here are walls to hold out the dragons, ogres, and goblins of the ruined lands. And from here the Witch, Quince Ellel, peers out into a world of faded pageantry, archetypal villages, and gang-filled cities decimated by violence and plague." "The scattered remnants of humanity...