Thomas Wharton Knihy

Dreams, fairy tales, and reality intersect in this rich, absorbing fantasy ofa rebellious teen on his journey through the Perilous Realm. There he meets agirl with a special destiny of her own, and Shade, an unusual wolf.

'A dazzling, exhilarating adventure joining 18th-century printer Nicholas Flood and his motley band on a quest for the infinite book... A joy for anyone who loves stories and a must for everyone who loves books.' Big Issue The year is 1717. Stung by the mysterious death of his only son, Count Ostrov renounces army life and retires to his remote island retreat. There, in mourning, he loses himself in his love of puzzles, turning the very fabric of his spectacular Slav castle into a giant, mechanical conundrum of revolving doors, moving floors and unstable staircases. The Count brings to this impossible castle the legendary English printer Nicholas Flood, and charges him with the task of producing a book without beginning or end. But no sooner has Flood set about his quest than he meets the Count's beautiful, brilliant and yet somehow damaged daughter, Irena. In the shadows cast by the wheels and cogs of the clockwork castle, Flood finds himself distracted from the task in hand, and instead begins work on another book entirely, a secret gift for a secret lover -- a tiny octavo volume with one word, Desire, gold-tooled on its spine...

Dr. Edward Byrne is on a climbing expedition in the Canadian Rockies in 1898 when he falls into a crevasse. While waiting to be rescued he sees the figure of an angel. A stiff-upper-lip Englishman, he tells nobody, but he allows the vision to haunt him for the next twenty-five years.

"A groundbreaking, deeply affecting work of environmental literary suspense for fans of Cloud Atlas, The Overstory, and Station Eleven. The northern Alberta mining town of River Meadows is one of three hotspots in the world producing ghost ore, a new source of energy. The ore is worth twenty-eight times its weight in gold, but it's also linked with slippages of time and space that gradually render the area uninhabitable. After the town is evacuated, the whole region is cordoned off in an attempt to contain the deadly phenomena, with the no-go zone behind its high fences soon wryly nicknamed "the Park." From an ancient almanac to a flock of chatty birds, a cacophony of voices rise together throughout history to tell this story—but at its heart are four young gamechangers, linked through River Meadows, whose impact extends long beyond their lifetimes. After Ben Hewitt was killed in a mining accident, his widow and his two children, Alex and Amery, were among the first to be shipped out of town. Now an accomplished game designer, Alex has moved on from the disaster, but his sister hasn't. As a little girl, Amery tried to rescue the local wildlife from the effects of the ore; as an adult she’s begun making increasingly dangerous break-ins into the toxic wasteland to save animals trapped there. When she fails to return from a trip inside the fence, Alex has no choice but to return to River Meadows to search for her, enlisting her friend and fellow activist, Michio Amano, a mathematician who must transcend the known laws of physics if he and Alex are to find her. Then there's Claire Foley, who fled River Meadows as a teenager and never looked back, and who now traffics in endangered wildlife under the cover of working for a travel publisher. As Alex and Michio search for Amery, Claire arrives at a legendary island nation for what should be a routine job—but when she meets the very last of an endangered crane species, she must make the choice of her life. As sweeping in scope as a world of its own, The Book of Rain upends the very constraints of form, language, and imagination, illuminating the infinite wisdom of nature and the reverberations of our flawed stewardship in this Epic of Gilgamesh for our times."-- Provided by publisher

The book is a facsimile reprint of an original antiquarian work, preserving its cultural significance despite potential imperfections like marks and flawed pages. It aims to protect and promote literature by offering a high-quality, affordable edition that remains true to the original text.