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A secret power is rising. As the universe braces for an intergalactic conflict, a mysterious message is sent to two notorious men. Both must search his heart and make a choice between good and evil.
Every option comes with a price. Both men will pull from the deepest corners of his soul to influence the farthest expanses of three dimensions.
Who will help heal a fractured planet? Who will strive to tear the universe apart?
2) The Host
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The host, a being who does not know what he is or where he came from, survived for centuries by controlling the bodies of small birds and consuming them.
When the host has the opportunity to use a human body, he is overwhelmed by the human mind, and for the first time, he can look at himself and try to understand what he is.
In his journey for self-knowledge, the host encounters different people, and by controlling their minds, he is able to...
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As the 357 crew struggles through Skaperen's trials, there are rumors of a rescue gateway three dimensions away. General Krevety is lured from retirement to gather the evidence. No one can be trusted, and the media is no help. So Krevety takes things into his own hands.
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Meri grew up under the wide Montana sky on a small farm near the Canadian border milking cows, feeding chickens, and listening to her brother's tales of the stars and starlore. But as graduation loomed near, she began to regard the figures on the celestial carousel with the sentimentality of a forgotten toy and became increasingly uneasy with her expected entry into a university. She had too many questions, questions that sitting in a classroom wouldn't...
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In the three centuries since Galileo, science steadily advanced. In the early twentieth century, science and technology were the undisputed champions of everyday life. Now the pride of scientists was causing science to fail. Clemens Gerhardt, a distinguished scientist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, saw where this pride led. As science failed, it would lead to worsening conditions--and eventually to another Dark Age. Untold millions...
6) Stranded
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It's a gray world, no sunshine, just a foggy sky. It's hard to survive here, but there are beings here, a tall gray-skinned humanoid who is cruel and who has slaves. I'll have trouble with them, and a short yellow-skinned humanoid who seems friendly. None are pretty; they all live in skin-covered huts and use spears and axes to hunt and fight. I'll have to walk a thin line here.
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As the '357 crew completes the Skaperen trials, they are faced with a decision: Return home, or go through cosmic fires to save two of their own.
The pair of hostages are put through the gauntlet by the enemy. How long can they endure against a superior and determined enemy?
Discover what happens in this electrifying conclusion to the Galactic Passages series!
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Battered and broken, the V-357 gets an upgrade. In return, the crew are given three trials that must be completed before they can return home.
The missions will test every ounce of faith they have in their vessel, and in each other.
When everything looks impossible, they're forced to look inward to find the courage. Some answers are found in science--others require faith.
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What if...
A great question to ask and to inspire dreaming, which is the purpose of this picture book. Designed to be read as a bedtime or naptime story, this short story collection asks questions and paints images in kids' minds as they drift off to sleep to inspire dreams and possibilities. Nothing is impossible as long as you can dream it.
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Never did the young man realize during his spiritual crisis that his heartfelt prayer of desperation would be answered in such a dramatic way. For David, this means being a witness to life in the end-times of the world to unexpectedly falling in love and to facing an enemy he never figured on while growing up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Join him for the adventure of his life!
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What Would You Do?
If scientists from another planet abducted you to study you, like we study wildlife on Earth, what would you do?
What if while you were onboard, the ship was, attacked by another alien group?
Would you trust your captors' assessment, that the other ship belonged to a hostile empire and your captors were the good guys?
Would you fight to protect the ship? To protect your abductors?
What would you do if for service rendered to the...
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Clint is on an ordinary mining expedition to the Icarus Asteroid. Gold is on his mind, but he and his crew get caught up in a war to save the trees. This romping adventure begins at Icarus and continues all the way to the Andromeda Galaxy. Clint finds himself adopted as a mercenary who is on the run from the dreaded Garlucks. The chase takes him and his companions on a ride through Andromeda in a war that leaves one wondering about our own trees back...
14) Turn Back Time
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Mark Allen lived an ordinary life, until his old sociology professor invited him to participate in a quantum physics project. It wasn't long before Mark was walking the streets of Galveston in 1900.
15) Advance To 2035
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Imagine a world where wars have ended, and all the babies being born are mysteriously born healers. This is the world that Brenda Rivera shares, a slice of her life, as she, goes about her activities in the year 2035. She is a spunky, intelligent social worker, in charge of some of these extraordinary children. As her life unfolds, she encounters renewed hope, clash of purposes with a famous chess grand master, intrigues with a building manager, and...
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A Dena Bay Steampunk Story: The Personal Divide takes place in the early 1840s during the Victorian age. The town of Milton, England, had a meager fifty families. Orphaned at the age of seventeen, Abigail (now twenty-two) is the youngest adult in the steampunk clan. She had a secret that not even the original fourteen steampunk members knew about. All fifty families in Milton always saw Abigail as independent and a bit odd, although she had help from...
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Two hundred years from now, the earth is past the point of recovery from exploitation by humankind. Pollution of all kinds, human-induced climate change and overpopulation, have all contributed to the generally held belief that the human species will be nearing the end of days on earth. An international collaboration of scientists convinces governments that investing in the creation and construction of massive spaceships and sending these ships to...
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Join Liar Zar, the world's greatest anthropologist, in her home dimension as she assists humans who have been pulled through the fabric of time and space. From would-be revolutionaries to eldritch abominations, she's seen and hugged most. Armed with her trusty baseball bat or blaster pistol, she faces fear every day and offers it comforting words.
When one day the bridge across the divide is broken and leaves the humans in her world stranded with...
19) Open Conflict
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Open Conflict continues from the previous Timelines story of David Mark as he shakes off the memories of an Earth gone immorally mad and searches for a better reality. His twin sister, Darla, is introduced to an unknown relative, Jenni. Together, they continue to follow David's alien space travels whenever they visit the Logos Station library. After the deciphering of the DTRIS file is complete, the alien implant is encased in a time capsule and buried...
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Elizabeth and the Time-Travel Car: Part 1 is a story about second chances, time travel, romance, and faith. Elizabeth made bad choices in her life that she regretted. She said things she wished she could take back. She ran into bad people who cared little about anyone. They tried to make sure she and other people would not exist in the future. They sent people to a dystopian world that was upside down, where there was silence everywhere and people...
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