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  • Elkmont's Uncle Lem Ownby

    Sage of the Smokies

    by F. Carroll McMahan ...
    Series series American Heritage
    Enter the forest with author F. Carroll McMahan as he tells dramatic, fascinating and sometimes humorous stories of a man who lived truly on his own terms. Born in 1889 in the Smoky Mountains, Lem Ownby became one of the region's most recognized figures. Sight-impaired from an early age, Lem spent his life logging, bear hunting, farming and tending his beehives. He welcomed the arrival of logging ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Perfect Vacuum

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Michael Kandel ...
    Ingenious essays from "a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays in earnest with every concept . . . from free will to probability theory" ( The New York Times Book Review).In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem steps outside of his fictional comfort zone to try his hand at reviewing the literature of others. The only catch is this: None of these books have actually been published—or even ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Star Diaries

    Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Series Book 1 - From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
    Ijon Tichy encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space, satirizing science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride.A space explorer travels undercover to a robot world, joining an organization to clean up world history through time travel. The universe may never be the same . . ."Tichy bumbles and stumbles around the cosmos running out of gas between stars, ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Futurological Congress

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    The Franz Kafka Prize-winning author invites you to a doped-up dystopia. " Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem. " — The Paris ReviewBringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Polish author Stanislaw Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress in C... ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eden

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    From the author of Solaris, this novel of an encounter with an alien intelligence creates "a terrifyingly plausible picture of a world gone mad" ( Kirkus Reviews).Six explorers—the Captain, Doctor, Engineer, Chemist, Physicist, and Cyberneticist—crash land on a beautiful but strange planet, fourth from another sun. The landscape is bizarre, hosting acrid deserts, hissing trees, and thick ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All About European Norway Lemmings

    by Robert D. Scally ...
    The Norway lemming is a small rodent that looks like a hamster. Lemmings live in cold, snowy places in northern Europe, namely Norway. Discover more about these clever mammals in All About Norwegian Lemmings, one of 30 books in our Animals Around the World series. Each title is beautifully illustrated with large, eye-catching photographs, a map, and glossary. ... Read more

    $50.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fiasco

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    "A stunningly inventive fantasy about cosmic travel" from the Kafka Prize–winning author of Solaris ( The New York Times).The Hermes explorer ship represents the epitome of Earth's excellence: a peaceful mission sent forth to make first contact with an alien civilization, and to use the expansive space technology developed by humanity to seek new worlds, friendships, and alliances. But what its ... Read more

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  • One Human Minute

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Catherine S. Leach ...
    Essays by the author of Solaris: "Lem's delightful sense of humor accentuates his essential seriousness about humanity's possible fate" ( Publishers Weekly).In One Human Minute, Stanislaw Lem takes a hard look at our world and technology—what it means now and what dire implications it could have for the future—in satirical, wise, and biting prose.With this collection of three essays, Lem targets ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Investigation

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Adele Milch ...
    An eerie and offbeat mystery by a Kafka Prize–winning author.The case confronting Lieutenant Gregory is not one that a man of Scotland Yard would expect. In fact, it is not one any sane man would care to entertain. Bodies are disappearing. The initial assumption is that a grave robber is roaming London and defiling local morgues. But upon further examination, it seems the deceased are, in fact, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Microworlds

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    The author of Solaris critiques science fiction in a collection of provocative essays.Celebrated science fiction master Stanislaw Lem turns his always sharp and insightful pen to criticism in this bold and controversial analysis of the genre for which he is most known. In this collection of ten essays—ranging from an introspective examination of his own biographical and literary history to biting ... Read more

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  • The Chain of Chance

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Louis Iribarne ...
    An ex-astronaut investigates a string of potential murders in this novel by the Kafka Prize–winning author of Solaris.Vacation is supposed to be relaxing. But while traveling in Naples, several American tourists die in a most macabre and unusual way: committing suicide in a fit of madness. The cases are too similar to be coincidental, and the prevailing theory soon assumes that a serial poisoner ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imaginary Magnitude

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    "The computer may ultimately be right. But for the time being, in Imaginary Magnitude , an entertaining and intelligent mortal has the first word." —Paul Gray, TimeSatirizing the human mind at its most abstract, these wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-g ... Read more

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