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41) The Tar
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Zacharia Tobias has retired from The United Western Navy. This might be considered 'just cause' for a celebration, but visiting Daisy's Bar after consuming such a large amount of alcohol, proved not to be one of Zack's best ideas.Zack does not normally 'play well with others', but despite his cynical view of the human race, he finds that some aspects of it, are worth fighting for.Spartax, a large corporate organisation has infiltrated the Central...
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Special Agent Tom Rogers is called back to active duty and sent to Eastern Turkey to investigate suspicious Iranian activity. Rogers and a new friend, Captain Remzi Ozechin from Turkish Army Intelligence, trace a clue to an Iranian safe house in Erzurum, Turkey, where following a chase and gun battle, Iranian agents are arrested. One wounded Iranian is found to have tiny glass vials surgically implanted in his body. Broken vials lead to a rapidly...
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The gipping sequel to The Protectorit - Dr. O'Donnell is on Nuabi Prime finding answers to a dying race as war comes. Can one drug that kills be the one to save an entire race? The Protectorit risks his own fleet to come to Nuabi's aid against House Pinquad's revenge and in doing so defies everything he was created for - to uphold the laws. War costs them both a shared loss that in turn binds their minds, and some say souls, together forever, and...
45) Queens are Wild
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In the distant past, shatranj was the ancestor of chess. In 2036, "shatranj" is the password for a time-warp chess match that jumps 17-year-old Margeaux Quigley -- the chosen pawn among eight classmates kidnapped from high school detention in 1984 -- 52 years to 2036. Margeaux, who only ages 52 minutes during the leap, is asked to help checkmate Robert Ballentine, the self-proclaimed king of America. A corporate pirate who goes by the nickname "Balls,"...
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A life-journey through time, space, and spirit during which the son remembers his father's stories while trying to work out his own story. His attempts to impose rational order on both outrageous cosmic and peculiar personal experience are often frustrating. A child of his times, his embrace of sixties idealism takes him from optimism to disappointment to a scientific inquiry into the possibility of using space-time travel to find a better world....
47) Hidebound
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Not long after Anfissa meets Ferenc, a strange humanoid bodyguard, on the space cruiser, St. Catherine, she is forced to flee with him, his menacing boss, and another bodyguard in a lifeboat during an attack on the cruiser, to a planet where even the grass is deadly. Travelling across the planet to find a small relay station, Fissa nearly succumbs to dehydration and insect bites until Ferenc offers her help unique to his home planet.
48) Forty Leap
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What if you could travel into the future? What if you couldn't stop travelling into the future? You might lose a minute or an hour. You'd get bewildered stares from your family when it takes you five minutes to retrieve your sister in-law's cup of tea from the next room. You'd have to beg for your job when you missed a week because of jumping into the future. Blocks of time would suddenly be behind you. And during those blocks of time, people might...
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"Paradoxical I Angels & Apparitions," explores the possibilities of ethereal beings inhabiting our domain. A paradox is a statement or proposition the seems contradictory or absurd...nonetheless, it expresses the possibility of truth. Angels are messengers who convey God's will, sent to us to guide and protect. An apparition is an inexplicable appearance, a ghost, spirit, entity or a demon. Are these things so...or are they something different all...
50) Light Bringer
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Becka Johnson had been abandoned on the doorstep of a remote cabin in Chalcedony, Colorado when she was a baby. Now, thirty-seven years later, she has returned to Chalcedony to discover her identity, but she only finds more questions. Who has been looking for her all those years? Why are those same people interested in fellow newcomer Philip Hansen? Who is Philip, and why does her body sing in harmony with his? And what do either of them have to do...
51) When Eagles Kill
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When the god of the desert meets the criminal mob, the clash that erupts shakes the streets of Manhattan and lights up the sky. Can the desert god save the life of the Minnesota farm girl being pursued by Mafia killers? A bearded hippie called Windsong, his strange friend called Captain Marvel and his blind black lab called Ray Charles take on the mob.
52) The Protectorit
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Heroin, the bane of Earth, now wreaks havoc amongst the stars. Dr. Kathleen Mary O'Donnell must survive light years from the planet she needs to save. But first she must escape from the most powerful man in the galaxy, the Lord General Tammaru Ki, the Protectorit, the one who kidnapped her off Earth. But how, when he can hear her every thought? War is coming to the galaxy and Dr. O'Donnell may be the key to the Protectorit's survival, and quite possibly...
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About the Book The Good Listener is a bold, new, fiction book about a plan among the animal leaders of the world, who meet at a barn in Los Angeles and develop a plan to end to the world-wide destruction and suffering caused by human beings: the animals have realized that the devastation is almost irreversible and that the animals have one last chance to stop the humans before a mass extinction of the animal kingdom begins. The animals agree to infect...
54) Sixer
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About the Book It is the year 2643. The earth has been decimated from hundreds of years of war. As a result, the NASS Science Division's secret project has come to fruition, and Dr. Tristan Monterri finds himself risking his life on two criminals he has chosen to assist him in the project-a project whose goal is to turn them into super soldiers to save the planet. Can the super soldiers fight off the insurgents and save what is left of earth? Read...
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A man is hypnotized into gruesomely murdering another man's wife, hurling her body into the chasm at the foot of Coniston Crag, for which he is sentenced to death. But after his execution he exerts vengeance from beyond the grave…
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name,...
56) Fat Man
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Embark on a Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Journey! Are you ready to delve into a futuristic world where secrets, identities, and the battle against weight collide in a thrilling, mind-bending tale? Step into the pages of "Fat Man," where personal trainer Luca Pairetti doesn't just solve weight problems; he becomes them. **The Ultimate Transformation:** Luca Pairetti is no ordinary personal trainer. He possesses a unique and unorthodox ability: he uploads his...
57) Martian Avenger
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A baby born of two worlds was this Martian, but even after thousands of years he remembered that revenge was his mission on Earth!
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong,...
59) Lunar Intrigue
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"Ace" Durkan, most dangerous criminal on Earth, allows himself to be captured and sent to Luna Prison for life. But he has a good reason for it-the stakes are high.
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton...
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The Voitrix was doomed. A derelict caught in the grip of some strange power. Faster...Faster...flashing beyond unguessed-at Systems to cosmic annihilation! John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton...
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