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Sarah lives a solitary life in her small homestead, surrounded on all sides by a vast forest that seems to go on endlessly. While she finds peace in her daily routines and connection to the natural world, Sarah also feels a deep loneliness as the sole human inhabitant in this isolated place.
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Persephone loves the free-wheeling lifestyle of an inter-planetary freighter pilot. Like her namesake of Ancient Greece, she lives a two-fold life. Part of the year sequestered in deep space and part in various ports with a good friend and hopefully a willing man. Until her heading converges with fellow pilot Reggie. Shy yet quirky, teasing yet kind. He possesses great depths that only Persephone can cross over. When their orbits suddenly diverge,...
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A missing ship, seemingly lost without any emergency signal. Without any trace. Marrakesh is dispatched to discover what happened to the Northwind. And rescue the crew if they can. What they find threatens a whole new front in the ongoing A'Zedi/Wronlori war. Radio Silence, the fourth book in the Operation Marrakesh series, takes the reader on a thrilling military space adventure. Be sure to read all the books in this series!
4) Wilderness
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Alice White has a secret. There is no friend or family member she can confide in-and she cannot trust it to the strangers she chooses for the fevered one-night stands that are as close as she dares come to love. Then she meets Erik Summers, college professor and biologist, who draws Alice from her cage, igniting a passion within her that she can't control or deny. Though he shares her fire and a deep spiritual and emotional kinship, Erik recoils from...
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Hugo and Locus Award Finalist
An Economist Best Book of the Year
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018
"An amazing and engrossing history...Insightful, entertaining, and compulsively readable." - George R. R. Martin
Astounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers-John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard-who set off a revolution in science fiction and...
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A short story to accompany Exodus (UnderEarth #1)
Finn and Jovi, two young archaeologists, discover a mysterious abandoned spaceship in Damascus which takes them to the home of Ru and Keon, the legendary and ostensibly fearsome Thought Beings of Pertinax where they partake of tea and biscuits, while learning more about the real history of modern industrialised civilisation and the true purpose of life.
Some confusion also arises involving a doorknob......
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"James Thurber was a comedic genius. His fables are not simply parodies of Aesop. They are wry, accurate, and powerful reflections of ourselves, our foibles, our follies, and, above all, our self-importance. And they are very, very funny." --Neil Gaiman
James Thurber has been called "one of the world's greatest humorists" by Alistair Cooke (TheAtlantic), and "one of our great American institutions" (Stanley Walker)-and few works reveal Thurber's...
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A NEW YORK TIMES GLOBETROTTING PICK!
Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger.
SUMMER LIGHT AND THEN COMES THE NIGHT is a profound and playful masterwork from one of Iceland's most beloved authors that explores the dreams and desires of ordinary people in a rural town.
In a village of only four hundred inhabitants, life could seem unremarkable. Yet in this remote town, a new road to the city has change on everyone's minds.
There is the...
10) The Fall
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The first book in The God Slayers Quartet, a young adult series set in a dystopian future Earth ruled over by warring gods, cat people and a tyrannical religious cult. Young Ben Casper lives in an old shopping mall with his family. He must contend with growing up, falling in love, and losing friends, as well as becoming embroiled in a plot to kill the gods that could put everyone he cares about in mortal danger... For fans of The Hunger Games and...
11) The Space Sieve
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An intelligent youth discovers an alien device of staggering power, and he eventually intuits its function. In doing so, he discovers that capability without wisdom is dangerous, including for him. Time, space and creation are at his command, and ultimately he does great harm before all becomes rolled up in a surprise ending.
12) The DrearGyre
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Romulans. A race that defines treachery in the extreme, they practice suspicion to the highest degree. They trust no one. Not even each other. In particular, they don't trust the Federation especially the Humans. Like the other species comprising the Federation, Humans return the favor. Trusting Romulans leads to disaster. A Human female and a Romulan female are thrust together into a turmoil that is leading the Romulan Empire and the Federation into...
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Alon, Shanra, and Oen find themselves in the darkest dungeon of the Preit stronghold. They share their cell with Darrik, friend and heir of a space pirate, and Jarred, a former member of The Order nursing a family grudge and a personal mission to end their evil reign.
Will any of them survive to reveal the secrets of the Zeta mission? Or will The Order once again bury any hope of a world built on shared strengths?
Even if they escape, they...
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In the third installment of the series, "Melody of Mastery," Sarah's journey reaches its crescendo as she embraces the fullness of her own potential and discovers the true depth of her resilience. Set against the backdrop of life's ever-changing symphony, Sarah learns to wield the power of her own spirit with grace and humility, mastering the art of resilience in the face of adversity.As Sarah delves deeper into the heart of her own soul, she uncovers...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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The moon has been split, and the Visitors have Earth in their alien grip. But, the captive planet? That's not her problem. Megan just wants to track down her missing dad...
The world stopped turning long before Megan was born. Ever since the Visitors split the moon and stilled the Earth, permanent sunset is all anyone has known. But now, riding her trusty steed Cisco, joined by her posse, Kelly and Luis, Megan is on the run from her Texas hometown,...
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Maggie Sweet has had it! For nineteen years, she's kept house, raised a pair of battling twin daughters, put up with her frugal husband, Steven, humored his impossible mother, and kept her mouth shut. But when Steven spends their life savings on a cemetery plot, it's time for Maggie to take control.
With her twenty-year high school reunion just around the corner and her long-lost high school boyfriend back in town, it's Maggie's turn to start turning...
17) Chief Radvar
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Chief Radvar's ship and crew go through a space anomaly and find they've gone back in time and somewhere so far away in space that they don't recognize where they are. A scientist suggests they might be near Earth. But that was a legend that didn't really exist, right?Shay finds that her whole life changes when two alien space ships start orbiting Earth. The aliens on one ship are definitely the enemy but are the others as benevolent as they seem...
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Destiny is not something you can escape, no matter how hard you try… And Joey is about to learn that the hard way.A visit to a mysterious old woman turns his life upside down, as he discovers his true identity and abilities.What secrets lie in his past and what challenges await him in the future?With the help of some new friends and the skills of a warrior, Joey must face his enemies and his own mistakes.Will he succumb to the shadows that threaten...
19) Body Memory
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He remembers her. Her touch, her scent, the way her glance could make his heart race. His very body remembers her though she is long gone.Until his job began to grind it away, one small memory at a time.
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Sci-fi fantasy romance.Pirates abducted her from her planet. The Mercenary Union ship which rescues her may be no better than the pirates. Captain Maden of the Long Sword refuses to take her home.The Messerian spy tells the captain he is not alone. There are others seeking to eliminate the pirates. He must keep the girl, Dahteste, close. She must not discover she is simply bait in the larger game they play. What gift does the girl have which makes...
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