Three hundred years after the Conquest, as the Great Mage rules over all humankind, the long peace is over as a mysterious and omnipotent force rises on the planet Aramen, where sentient trees keep human symbionts as slaves, and a handful of survivors ventures into a hostile wilderness to uncover the source of the enemy's powers. By the author of The Ordinary. 10,000 first printing.
This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back.
Winner at the 2019 Independent Press Awards.
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Green Tree in Gedde
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Through his letters home and six short stories, Alun Lewis paints a vibrant picture of life in India as a British serviceman during World War II. Intimate, vivid, observational, and...
Last Tree in the City
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how...
All too soon they wanted to control the environment and built a huge wooden wall around the community. As they cut down the trees, the forest becomes thinner, until there is just one last tree standing.
Next came a demonstration of the bonsai Trees by the young girls. The girls set their tiny Trees out to show the school. "When are we going to eat? ... Lillah could feel it stinging and imagined it drawing out the poisons of the walk.