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2661) Crosses
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Picking up immediately after their last adventure, we find Amelia and Olivia facing a new challenge.
Without government oversight, they must find themselves before they attempt to stop a galactic war. Like all of us, they fear and accept the future for what it is... unknown. The only thing they know they can count on is each other... till the end.
This story concludes the one that started in Lines. A story of true friendship, war, and chewing gum....
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NSA agent Eric Price is sent to Sedona, Arizona to investigate strange activities at a secret underground base. A new type of stealth aircraft is being tested there, he discovers. But there's something odd about the set-up, and Eric must investigate further. With the help of the beautiful Nataly, he begins to penetrate the mystery of the Sedona Conspiracy, and discovers that it has extraterrestrial origins. But more than one alien race is involved,...
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During Earth's darkest times, an Oldgandor is called to fulfill a prophecy. The Pacifier, like the scripts say, must restore the balance between good and evil. Climo is summoned by the One to accomplish this mission. To do it, he will have to join his many companions of other races who will travel with him for an as incredible as dangerous adventure, and so he will have to face Casaldir, who is evil itself. Many creatures, among dwarves, elves, men,...
2664) A Fall of Glass
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The weatherman was always right: Temperature, 59; humidity, 47%; occasional light showers-but of what?
2665) Ebony Peacock
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Ebony Peacock tries to give insight to a past world with compassion, humor, friendship and inner strength. It showcases night clubs called panzy clubs that were the forerunner to drag queen night clubs. This book, while historical fiction, shows a world of African-American history that won't be found in history books.
2666) Surface Runners
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In the underground setting of a post-apocalyptic world, humans are forced to live deep underground. Their well-being depends on a select group of men called Surface Runners who dare to set foot on the surface to recover supplies and spare parts needed for the survival of humanity. But these brave men's Run time is limited. Anyone spending over forty minutes on the surface meets death. For the enemy controlling the surface is fierce and unforgiving....
2667) The Nursery
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In the future... women will be on top. This book will have you questioning everything you thought about gender roles, fatherhood, love, and equality. The Nursery is a novel set in the future. The action takes place in Southern California during the aftermath of a political movement that set gender against gender. Because women emerged victorious in this battle of civil rights, the vast majority of men live underground, separated from normal society....
2668) The Question of Time
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1951 Jennifer Stone inherits the home and fortune of Elizabeth Windom White, a famous writer she has met only once. In the house she finds an unknown book called A Place in Time written in 1912 and dedicated to her greatly adding to the mystery since Jennifer wasn't born till 1915. The book is about the future and is written with a suspicious degree of accuracy as if Mrs. White has actually been there. The Question of Time tells the story of how a...
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Thirty-five-year-old Hank Foster, a former Special Forces soldier still reeling over the loss of his leg in combat, is recruited into a clandestine organization dedicated to attacking religious institutions. Impatient with the movement's slow progress, Hank subverts the powerful organization and uses their vast network to perpetrate a hoax he feels will rock the world and push the Iconoclast organization's agenda into the spotlight. The hoax succeeds...
2670) Flying Saucers
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Journalist Jane Hale seeks the truth about UFOs in this science fiction suspense that revolves around a conspiracy: Flying saucers are a product of human - not alien - ingenuity.
The United States purloined the technology from the Germans at the end of the war and then began a clandestine program to produce a fleet of antigravity vehicles; Harry Truman secretly nurtured the program after the saucers' sensational showing in demonstrations the president...
2671) Vetomasuri
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Written in near-diary format, this is probably one of the greatest epic adventures ever told. Adapting to life in the
more advanced human world of Vluvidium, Tony shares it all with the Reader, "as he lives it", while relentlessly rising through its social ranks; propelled by fate, circumstances, and some of his "attributes" ... But more than Power and Wealth, he seeks to understand the ultimate Why of it all, without betraying his roots or allegiances.
Being...
2672) Earthworm Wink
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It seemed like the perfect crime. In the year 2198, on the planet Canadian Exodus, eight-year-old Tawny Ryder, the daughter of a leading Albertan intelligence officer, was kidnapped from her family home. Detective Nikky Baker had the perpetrator's name, face, and the coldest trailof her career. Now, a deadly series of events has been unleashed. A vicious gang pursues Tawny, forcing her abductor to become her protector. Strange and unearthly creatures...
2673) The Zombie MEGAPACK ®
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Resurrected corpses, voodoo conjuring, black magic (and blacker science) ...these are all well known to cause zombie breakouts. Here are classic and modern tales, full of thrills and chills and the living dead...tales of zombies! These stories don't (well, mostly don't!) go for the gross-out. Great writing, lots of atmosphere and suspense (and the occasional laugh) - if you want more than just extreme horror and gross-out scares, this is the zombie...
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Space opera: Andrew Foreman never wanted to go to Mars, but somebody had to look after Monkley, the genetically modified chimpanzee. The Base was already established but the intelligent, talking GenMops were intended to look after it all until humans arrived in numbers to settle on the red planet. Foreman's instincts about the dangers of space travel proved true. All Foreman has to do is survive it!
For "Craggy" fans, you have already met Foreman...
2675) Empire of Mars
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On Mars, some 65 million years ago, two civilisations live uneasily side by side. When a good friend of antagonist Aka-des is conscripted into the service of the god-Emperor, he has no option but to try and find him, unearthing unimaginable horrors at the seat of imperial power in the process.
Outside the Martian city the insectoid Antis, imperilled by the continued expansion of the humanoid Martians into their tribal lands, have to make a choice....
2676) Sickness in Time
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THE MOST DANGEROUS OPERATION In 2038, the human race is in a death spiral, and most people do not even know it yet. Technology that was supposed to make us better and stronger instead is birthing a strange and terrible plague we may not be able to stop. When the young daughter of Josh Scribner, a wealthy tech entrepreneur, starts to succumb to the illness, he dedicates his fortune in a desperate effort to save her life. Working with a friend & celebrated...
2677) The Ghost of Delacroix
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Across the forests and deserts of a post-apocalyptic outback Australia, the quest for answers and salvation begins.
Jake, Marcus, and their small tribe of survivors have acquired an airship, a medical pod, and most strangely of all, an iridescent blue friend; the mysteriously wise and powerful Adam.
For the moment, they survive in obscurity from the watchful gaze of Eve, the malevolent A.I. with its eyes in the sky. As they grasp for answers and...
2679) The Third World
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The world is in ruins after a cataclysmic event, known as the flash, has destroyed every adult in the western world, leaving only a generation of children to preserve the remnants of Australian culture. This generation, however, is not alone, as a cascade of third world refugees soon arrive on the shores, and a new society is formed. Clair, Danny and Sarah are three siblings trapped in the torment of this ever changing world, and it is only through...
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How will the things look and what will happen when all the animals will have a brain that is developed enough to communicate with the humans and when they work for them for various aspects of life and war? This may be done through stem cell research experiment sometime in near future. Where through genetic engineering, mutations in DNA, and neuropsychological modifications, modes can be developed to make the animal brain capable enough to work like...
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