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Science professor Trevor Anderson's radical theories have tarnished his reputation. While backpacking across Iceland with his nephew Sean, the two find a cave that leads them deep down into the bowels of the planet. They go on a quest to find out what has happened to Trevor's missing brother, also a scientist. Trevor, Sean and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth. There, they discover a bizarre...
3) Tensleep
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Em Hansen, a woman working as a mudlogger on an oil rig in Wyoming, investigates the death of a friend, the rig's geologist, while battling sexism. Plenty of oil drilling lore, the author being a geologist.
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Identical twin sisters Summer and Winter live alone on a remote island, sheltered from the fallout of a mysterious event that has laid waste to the rest of the world. They survive on rations stockpiled by their father and spend their days reading and rereading their mother's collection of classic literature, until the arrival of a mysterious stranger upends their carefully constructed reality.
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After their epic journey across Europe, Ayla and Jondalar have reached his home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as southwest France. Jondalar's family greet him warmly, but they are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses.
6) The ice age
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Describes the earth's many ice ages, with an emphasis on the climate, people, and animals of the last great ice age.
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This sprawling novel follows the fortunes and losses of five families from the Stone Age through the present time. Each of the families can be identified through genetic characteristics handed down through the ages, not simply physical characteristics, but attitudes and morals, too. There is plenty of action to keep readers motivated to finish the book. Rutherford has a style and energy all his own that should appeal to young readers of historical...
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That Which Survives (episode 69, stardate unknown): Kirk, McCoy, Sulu and geologist D'Amato beam down to a geologically unstable planet. There they discover Losira, a woman whose touch means death. Meanwhile the Enterprise has been hurtled a 1,000 light-years away.
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (episode 70, stardate: 5730.2): The Enterprise discovers a damaged shuttlecraft and beams aboard a half-white half-black alien. A second alien with similar...
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