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When life seems to take a back step to nature, something amazing happens when you least expect it.
Picture this: Your whole world is turned upside down in a blink of an eye, like a light switch being flipped, resulting in a devastating situation, and all you have is your past experiences, which doesn't even come close to battling the unnatural and terror around every corner.
Do you curl up in a ball and hide from the inevitable? Or do you fight...
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Kids Born Gifted is a five-book/movie sci-fi, thriller series that will take you into the unknown, across the universe and back, to a place where the gods protect all that exist in the world and beyond. A well-known enemy by the name of Galdanious, leader of a species called Galaxidons, has a plan to take over the entire universe, but he realized there is something missing in his plan, until his ship comes upon Earth and he sees something he has never...
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Inconsiderate actions toward a mysterious old lady frees an unwanted entity that was subdued within her for unexplained reasons. Now this unknown entity's main purpose is to cripple the existence of life by abducting innocent lives on the day they were born and disband the process which led to the uprising of Omniscient-the All Knowing and Guardian over each divine purpose.
Norelle mourns the loss of her friend Cardi, who was the first to be abducted...
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Now this may appear to be a complete science-fiction story on the outside, but it has a deeper meaning inside.
This is the story of how the last known survivors of four sets of young sibling beings from a doomed planet were separated by fowl means by the evil antics of a manacle intergalactic warlord and his messed up and backstabbing crew as one set of four ended up on Earth and the other set of four were left to find their lost surviving siblings...
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Dr. Patricia Tyler had survived through so many missions during her husband's service career. She thought his retirement would mean he would be around more often. This was not the case. As a former member of the nation's medical response team, CAPT Wade Tyler had deployed numerous times to dangerous, desolate areas of the world to address the suffering following natural and manmade disasters, even terrorist events. Upon learning where he had been,...
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A combination of extraordinary inventions and planetary mismanagement had hurled the world into a crisis by the year of 2060. Chris Williams was 109 years old and unusually healthy thanks to genetic engineering that had been provided by the United States government. He was chosen, like others, because of his high IQ and contributions to NASA. But during that time, he had watched his country collapse and watched his wife die a horrible death because...
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Alfred, an autistic man with genius-level mental abilities, wants revenge because he was treated cruelly back in high school. Now eight years later, he has developed an almost-perfect way to take his revenge against his six worst former tormentors. His device allows him to hijack and transport their minds to a nonexistent room and establish total control over everything they experience.
Through a series of vicious torture routines, Alfred manipulates...
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Earth Force said that the Quill had gone home and were no longer a threat. Karl Cregg thought differently. After being retired, it seemed that only he and a close group of allies shared the same sentiment. His allies' biggest problems were that he was somewhere on Earth, and no one had an idea of where, and Earth Force was pulling back men and equipment from the front lines.
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The Primm, an alien race from the other side of the galaxy. Both the males and females of the species are beautiful, erotic, and physically irresistible to any one in their presence. Their civilization is a hive-mind culture of queens and drones that thrive and procreate by consuming life in all its forms. Taralorians are ancient enemies of the Primm Empire. They are a coalition of various species working together as planet builders and creators of...
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"Have you ever wondered what your sister thought of you and the rest of your siblings? What she keeps in that diary of hers? What if something happened to her? In any other circumstance, this would be an invasion of privacy, but right now, I'm trying to find her. The only way I can is if you read my sister's diary."
--Fabian Nickels
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All booklovers, sit back, relax, and read The Eyes Have It.
The rabble-rousing town crier, Louis Ciara, said to his girlfriend, Debbie, "I can feel it in my spine. Those alien things are arriving in our town sooner than later. My backbone sensation is never wrong!"
Debbie just smiled, and then she kissed Louis on the lips and replied, "No one wants to believe that kind of stuff, Lou. We don't need any encounters with the police, so let us just eat...
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After Professor George Stannard is found injured after his spelunking assignment, he is tended to by local medical student William Adgen. Stannard eventually confides in Adgen, revealing to him the existence of horrors in the caves, and as Adgen continuously investigates the secrets, he cannot help but notice the increasing commonality of sinister-looking mushrooms around town.
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Enter a reality where one man has total control over the Earth, past, present, and future. A man with the power to control even the thoughts of any and all he chooses. His power restricted only by the need to avoid the relentless pursuit of ARGO, who possess the same technology but need Terrance Newton Tupnic's ability to fully access the power he has mastered. ARGO, the government agency Tupnic worked for, will stop at nothing to capture and imprison...
14) The Greasers
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The 1970s. Austin, Texas. In which two Mexican brothers from South Tejas move to Austin to seek a degree from the famous University of Texas. While there, they become radically sensitive to the separation of "whites" and browns" in the overall scheme of things. Finally, the younger of the two brothers decides to do something about it. He travels deep into Mexico and locates an ancient and most unusual formula. Once he has tried it out for himself,...
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Here I am now in the twenty-third century. The universe has not changed in more than two hundred years. There is still one race of beings trying to enslave another.
For me, the grandchild of former slaves, my journey began in the 1940s with a light in the sky.
Visiting a small town in the Southwest United States, I was captured by an alien life-form and altered by experiments by the aliens. Now the year was 2268. I was now in my grandparents'...
16) Inverted
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Ethan Wright is a normal, sixteen-year-old student at Bellport High School. He doesn't have to worry about the day-to-day struggles that the evolutionals in his world have to face just for existing. Or does he?
When Ethan accidentally crosses paths with an evolutional, he's attacked for reasons he doesn't understand, and now he's forced to face the consequences. He's not only having to learn just how misunderstood evolutionals are but also how...
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An act of desperation by young magician Brandon accidentally snatches Scott Hathaway from our world. Struggling to adapt to his new life, Scott becomes ensnared in dark local politics. He realizes he can use the knowledge he brought from his world to save his new friends, but at what cost?
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In 1692 two young people embark on a journey which unexpectedly sends them in a totally new direction, which is clearly out of this world. Their change of environment along with a specific number of other beings teach them to coexist in a mannerism unbeknownst to them. This adventure only seems like a few short days, however, in actuality, it takes over twenty years. What is the cause of this time difference? Why were they chosen? The home all once...
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Aliens have been abusing and abducting humans and other species on earth for ages. A new President, with a new commitment to the people that the aliens must be stopped. Humans will not sit back and be exploited by other worlds. The President has the Army create a new special forces group, the 13th. Their mission, stop the aliens! There is no book on how to do it, so they are writing it as they go
20) Segunda
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The year is 2233, and humanity has finally found a viable new home. Named for a second chance in the discoverer's native tongue, the opportunity could not have come at a better time. Earth has too many people, too much conflict and not enough resources for either. However, the Colony I, Earth's new Ark, disappears after the last wormhole jump to Segunda. Power hungry politicians, predatory nations, and those who have nothing to lose-all have an angle...
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