Abused wife to a feckless alcoholic, orphaned child of a wise Latina lady and her salvage-yard husband, Benita Alvarez-Shipton finds herself at 36 chosen by Chiddy and Vess, ambassadors from the galactic Pistach-Home, to introduce their message of peace to a largely skeptical, male-dominated U.S. Freud, according to Tepper's enchantingly sly feminist tale of Earthlings' first contact with alien starfarers: nothing that ''virile, arbitrary, egocentric, and often belligerent'' human males can supply. It is not the responsibility of SecondhandScrolls to bear any responsibility for a criminal act.HSo what do women really, really want? Elementary, Dr.

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Binding is slightly separating as is typical for the age.īookmark: Chosen to match the cover or theme or will be general reading themed. Very good shape with some curving of the hardcover around the bookcase. And the answers she seeks today to the salvation of humankind may lie in afar distant future.one which is suddenly much closer than anyone imagines.ĬONDITION: First edition, full number line, 1997. The bearer Dora gets to a murderer-and to the truth-the more seemingly disparate events begin to entwine. Overnight, a city is being transformed into a wild and verdant place.Īnd, strangest of all, Dora can somehow communicate with the rampaging flora.Ī potential civilization-ending catastrophe is in the making. Weeds are becoming trees trees are becoming forests. Meanwhile, strange things are happening everywhere she turns. Police officer Dora Henry is investigating the bizarre murders of three geneticists.

NOW NATURE, APPARENTLY, HAS DECIDED TO FIGHT BACK. THE ONCE FERTILE EARTH OF DORA HENRY'S CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN UNDERVALUED AND OVERDEVELOPED.

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