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A glowing stone with unimaginable power.
A trip across the cosmos.
The beginning of an epic journey which would ultimately impact the entire human race.
Many years ago, Navy airman Durell Dykstra stumbled across a strange stone hidden in the thick brush beside an abandoned military runway in Africa. Not knowing the power the stone possessed, he put it with the other artifacts he had collected throughout his years of service.
Long after...
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For a group of ship wrecked people, it's a dream come true to find themselves on the Isle of Legends, a ready to open resort with a zoo of animals genetically altered to resemble mythical beasts. While some of them indulge in the luxuries of the resort, others are skeptical of the excess around them and of the dangers of tampering with nature to make new life.
These worries start to come true when a teen named Sally finds a half human, half cat hybrid....
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Stuart Bryson is a good but not great golfer who suddenly gets telekinesis and uses it to win professional golf tournaments, eventually making a lot of money. He loves to dance and meets a beautiful girl who also loves to dance. They fall in love.
He likes to hike for exercise, and one time, he has to use his telekinetic power to defend himself, injuring his attackers. He eventually reports the incident to the police, but they have reported it before...
4) "41-10"
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Stormi is a young girl whose planet has been destroyed by an unknown invader. Stormi's family and surviving members of her race search the galaxy for an inhabitable planet. She and her family face many challenges in space and on their new planet. As they attempt to survive in their new world, they are again threatened by the unknown Invaders.
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Our story begins with Rusty Caler growing up in an average middle-class family in the year 2326. Rusty lives a life filled with friends and drama until he graduates and joins the military. While attending military training, the country declares war, calling all military to action. After the war, he returns to marry his high school sweetheart and gets a job at a factory. A little over a year later, his life is flipped upside down, sending him into...
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This Book Series in Six Volumes contains matters of science, science-fiction, mystery, mystical, romance, metaphysical and spiritual concepts while imbuing Polite, Civil Society concepts and a modern Medieval Society ideals within its pages, not all of which can be proven in exacting ways of their descriptions and why it is a novel.
While certain locations and places are mentioned, the accuracy of said references are only as good as what was found...
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Equipped with an experimental faster-than-light drive, a United Systems cruiser is converted and recommissioned as the exploratory vessel New Horizon. During its first jump, something goes terribly wrong, damaging the ship and hurtling it thousands of light-years from its destination. With the FTL drive destroyed, the handpicked crew's only option is to settle in a nearby star system. Fortunately, a habitable planet exists in the system, populated...
8) Awakening
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Derek is a workaholic physicist who spends more time in a lab then living life. After working another late night, he leaves but doesn't make it home. Waking up in a strange dark land being hunted by creatures that can't be seen, Derek must rely on a camp of people led by a young woman named Mallory to survive.
Even with limited resources, they make the best of their situation, but Derek never gives up hope trying to learn where they are. Realizing...
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Empress Isabella feared the burly-bodied, six-legged, narrow-headed creature known as kessra. Her fear of the Planos predator, combined with the late Admiral Harrington's suspicions of the creature's intelligence, made each seek a different path to aid Jennifer and the natives of Planos.
Isabella never imagined the transformation of Jennifer's mountain cavern home into a functional pioneering homestead with a few modern technological advantages...
10) Charter World
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The exciting romantic sci-fi adventure of Worlds Apart continues the saga of the empire's exiled heiress, Jennifer Hendricks, in the dangerous untamed wildlands of Planos in Charter World.
Oblivious of events happening in the territory of Taric's ancestral home, Jennifer embraces life in the high grasslands of their isolated mountain home. Unaware as the cool spring days warmed into the hot days of summer, the land below their home would become...
11) Halo: Defiance
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April 2539. It has been more than a decade since the beginning of the Covenant War that has seen billions dead and colonies falling like dominoes. Humanity is spread thin and running out of time. The Office of Naval Intelligence and their Prowler Corps, a collective of secretive stealth ships, have found the ruthless Fleet of Particular Justice and their next likely target, a planet called Boundary--a rare stroke of luck for the battered United Nations...
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Due to accidental reasons, a farm boy, Billy, rescued a computer scientist and beautiful girl Susan, so he started his adventure and changed his life path, and with the help from the loyal friends Jason and George, Billy gradually learned a lot of knowledge and skills and eventually became a successful astronaut. This story takes place in Paliland, one hundred light-years away from the Earth. This is a very advanced planet that surrounds Billy, from...
13) Azora
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Before the first day of the war, Gabriel was a simple crop duster with a growing crop-dusting company. That all changed the day a war with creatures not of this world came to his doorstep. The day Gabriel was confronted by the fact that humans were not alone in the universe, he was also confronted by the fact that the United Nations knew of another Earthlike planet called Azora. He discovered that people could settle on this planet and live successfully....
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After realizing he let his fears of the 2020 pandemic get the better of him, Jack decided he made a hasty decision when he broke up with Rachel. He needed to find a way to win her back. His cheesy, romantic plan paid off, and Rachel welcomed him with open arms. He swore he would never give into his fears and let her down again. But could he keep that promise?
Jack and Rachel dated for two more years before marrying. Shortly thereafter, he was approached...
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This is the story of three fifth graders who, while trying to finish a history project for their teacher, find a mysterious cylinder. The cylinder is a time machine. It takes them back to the American Revolution. They experience war firsthand and gain respect for those who fought for our freedom. This is the beginning of their adventures of a lifetime.
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In this next adventure, the Watchers' destination is for Gee Creek Wilderness in the state of Tennessee, where there have been reports of great auks--penguin-like flightless birds. When they attempt to send them back to their time, the birds do not want to go back there. Even more unexpected, the Watchers end up in the time the great auks are from. They then get captured by Vikings, who work for none other than LM himself. There is also something...
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Philip is a Christian who works for NASDA and is in charge of the Hobble Telescope. He makes some filters for the telescope that enable him to view the dark matter that exists in the universe. Then he discovers that the dark matter, which has the shape of ovals, have been video recording everything that has ever happened in the universe. He learns how to access these recordings. The first thing he views is the creation of the world. After the creation...
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The Arrival of the Two Brothers: Apollo and Atlas is a true story that began on a cold, dark night in September when my youngest daughter proudly introduced our family to two tiny kittens who had been abandoned by their mother. After several weeks of bottle-feeding and constant care, they became active members of our family who taught us so much about living, loving, and learning.
19) The Book of Joel
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It has been twenty years since the virus destroyed humankind, causing people to become monsters who hide in the shadows, feeding on others. Those who have survived are separated by massive forests that have grown between towns, sealing people off from one another.
Joel is an eighteen-year-old boy who carries a secret, a powerful secret, a dangerous secret. After spending his life plagued by distant screams for help, he decides to head west from his...
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A fact-based science fiction romance, describing events that could happen in a few hundred years.
Josh, frustrated and unemployed, finally lands a job as an astronaut. He is very excited about the prospect of exploring outer space. He is sent to an Earth-like planet 500 light years away. The planet is millions of years younger than Earth, so it closely mimics Earth during prehistoric times.
Meanwhile, Josh's girlfriend, Laura, stays on Earth...
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