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Single again and after so many years sailor Allen Reed readies his wooden sailboat Sturdy for the summer season on Lake Ontario. With expectations of old friends and new acquaintances to brighten his wistful mood, he sets sail on a rather blustery day for Port Hope, Canada. However, the trip is dangerous and he is nearly overwhelmed, by these conditions. The next few weeks of the summer will become both a personal awakening for him and the most frightening...
2) Peggy Goody
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Demodus and The Sword of Destiney is book 2 in the Peggy Goody series. It begins with Peggy packing her school things away and getting ready for her summer holidays. She is not looking forward to anything special happening now that her best friend Cindy has got herself a boyfriend and is in no rush to get home. But as she gets closer to home she sees that she has a visitor; Savajic Menglor and he is about to make Peggy and Her mother an offer that...
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The story about a young girl that builds spaceships, flies to Mars, saves the Earth from a very large asteroid that she captures, puts in orbit above the Earth, builds a space elevator above her home in Texas, and also builds three space elevators on the moon and one on the planet Mars has lots of adventures while traveling around the solar system. She is befriended by a humpback whale and saves lots of whales.
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Far in the future, human beings have learned to use ninety percent of their brains. Although the population is greatly decreased, due to things like war, famine, and disease, death is no longer a problem. Humans have evolved and can now exist as nothing but pure energy. The world is no longer a place of boundaries, and human beings can no longer be hurt. They have no need of internal organs or food, and they do not fear death. Some stay on Earth,...
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It is part love story and part horror, and the main character, Xyla, is relatable to the reader as is her intent to punish those who killed her mother. The protagonist's repeated dreams about zombies keeps the reader wondering as to what will happen next. This is a good book for the lovers of horror, medical S&F, and zombies. The US Review of Books Empty Vessels Empty Vessels is the perfect way to describe any situation that could arise. Anything...
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Fate: A New Beginning is a revision of an original work titled Fate: The Beginning. The original work lacked appealing cover artwork, a catching opening and most importantly, professional editing. These issues have been corrected but the basic story remains the same. As the title suggest, A New Beginning is exactly what happens to Eric Miller and Dr. Erica Myers. Born in a society that did not tolerate interracial relationships, fate preserved their...
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The story is set in India around the middle of the century. It projects a country which has become fully developed in all aspects of science and technology to the extent that it can enter the space race with fully fledged confidence, and its scientists can provide solutions to issues as diverse as the worlds energy crisis and the scourge of cancer. That these magnificent achievements come at a great price can be seen by the attempts by Indias enemies...
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This is a book about people learning there are three sides to the truth; What you say; What they say; The facts of what happened. Alan Da'vide is the hero. He is just a guy out to make his corner of the Universe a little better. He is helped by his best friend Mia, who happens to be an AI (Artificial Intelligence). They have shared many adventures in the past. This story is the most recent. In this adventure they discover Earth- full of Humans and...
9) The Things
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They came not in spaceships of flying saucers, but in microscopic spores drifting through the infinitude of space. 100 billion stars, 100 billion solar systems in SB galaxies like our own milky way galaxy. Why did they have to come to our solar system? Somehow they made it past the powerful gravitational fields of the huge frozen outer planets Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter. They made it through the asteroid belt. They avoided being burnt up...
10) Space Walker
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This is a fantastic book for story telling and bed time readings. This is a book about who we are as humans and where we are from and why we are here on earth. It is an informative book of exact distance and destination of the planet where life exists besides ours. It is a story of the age old notion of man versus god and the meaning of life. And the reader does not find the answer until the very last word of the book that this is heaven on earth....
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Waking to a nightmare is the story of a girls journey to become the Don of the largest crime syndicate in the Milky Way Galaxy. Twenty-year-old Keirah Darisk learns a lot of hidden truths and fights to figure this strange world out before it destroys her or, worse yet, she destroys it! Whichever comes first, all the while trying to cope and heal from the murder of her father. Will it ever just be okay?
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The world as we know it is gone, and yet mankind thrives. Dark Crossing to the Black Temple tells the tale of two brothers entrusted with the task of escorting a mysterious, catlike stranger to the mythical Black Temple on a planet in the midst of civil war. What stands in their way are the most ferocious killers the universe has ever known, and a soulless, megacorporation whose only interest is expansion. DCBT combines science fiction, humor, adventuring,...
13) The Fates
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The Fates follows society's search for immortality. The exploration of what each of us would sacrifice if it meant that we could live forever. Changing societal values and reducing the importance of community has resulted in a society that continues to put the needs of the individual first. The Fates explores a society made up of those that put their needs ahead of all others versus those that believe the spiritual self is the destiny of all humans....
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One hundred billion years in the future, another empire discovers the Patmos, which is the complete history of humanity, good and bad. Upon the private viewing, the resident gods declare it too dangerous. The Patmos has within it material that, when viewed, could release the Knowledge of Evil, a concept that could, like a virus, destroy their universe. Likewise, this small Patmos ball is composed of complete atoms, as they could destroy millions of...
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The overthrow of a planet's government and the killing of the Royal Family. The only survivor is a baby boy who must be raised to become the new king. Protected and cared for by the head of the Guardians they must find a new and safe world with galactic war threatening around them. Rebel forces start to fight back for their freedom and became a force to be reckoned with. The Bodacious Budagh, captained by the notorious Commander Jade Fires forms the...
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Without the sun, the earth would be nothing and humanity would not exist. So what if one day the sun suddenly collapses? And humanity is challenged? Seventeen years old Roxie Williams lived through the change and discovered her new abilities which she once believed were only in books and movies. But more discoveries were on her way with the fading of warm spring days. The icy air and snow blankets of April rose questions of following the wrong calendar...
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This novel is the conclusion of the first book by Kennis Anthony, Fate: A New Beginning. After decades of separation, Deacon Eric Miller and Doctor Erica Myers were reunited, just to have the story end with their relationship divided due to religious differences. In Destruction of Disbelief, God has choreographed a situation in outer space to bring them together eternally. God will use Erics experiment and a biblical character to destroy Ericas religious...
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Alien visitation and abduction is an obsession for many people. Many writers feed this obsession with stories about aliens who are malevolent beings whose sole objective is to annihilate and dominate the human race. If aliens do indeed visit our world, I envision them to be benevolent and non-interfering observers. My purpose in writing this book is to show them as beings who care about all sentients in the greater universe as we humans care about...
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This is the first book in the series Time Not Yet Forgotten. This book, Time Not Yet Forgotten a Time before Hope, starts out about five thousand years in the past as the humans of Mars, or Nova as it was once called, are just starting to explore our solar system. Mars sends six ships to Earth, or Terra as it was once called, to start the colonization of the planet. While the Martians are starting to colonize our solar system, an ancient human race...
20) There's Hope
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If you believe in aliens, this book will whet your appetite. This book just might have some truth to it. Have you ever wondered how come people are living longer and longer? One hundred twenty-five is no longer a pipe dream. But were still too dumb and elect kids aged forty ad fifty to rule us.
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