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2521) Let's Play Three
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What would happen if the DNA of Roy Hobbs, Casey at the Bat, and Henry Skrimshander got mixed up with Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, then the whole concoction was thrown into a blender and set on "comic book?"Welcome to baseball, PEBA style. Where the game is global and growing, and where you'll find scandal, love, mystical powers, ghosts, and even perhaps a Russian spy and a Japanese inspector or two. In other words, anything can and does happen.LET'S...
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A scream cut off the conversation and both men turned quickly back to the monitor.Clayton Hunter was sitting up on the steel table: Arms drooping at his side; mouth yawning. Doctor Christmas had backed away until he had met the wall behind him. Nurse Berty was nowhere to be seen."What the f*ck... What the f*ck. Get a camera on the floor... Maybe she fainted," Kohlson said."Got it," Johns agreed. He stabbed at the keys on his keyboard and a view of...
2523) Murdering Ministers
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""Academia (n.): a profession filled with bad food, knee-jerk liberalism, and murder... Being a member of the House of Lords and Mistress of St Marthas College in Cambridge might seem enough to keep anyone busy, but Baroness (Jack) Troutbeck likes new challenges. When a combination of weddings, work, and spookery deprives her of five of her closest allies, she leaps at an invitation to become a Distinguished Visiting Professor on an American campus....
2524) Redeemed By Rilic
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Avery Chambers just wants to be left alone to do her research and... make history. As a crew member of the long-term Earth expedition to find Alien Life, Avery is the head botanist and producer of living food for the expedition fleet. When something goes terribly wrong and she's blamed for contaminating the crew, she must find a way to redeem her work and good name--even if it means accepting the help from a too sexy for his own good god-like Alien,...
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He's mended his ways.Dr. Ernest Montford has left behind his rakish youth for a respectable life mixing medicinal potions and helping patients. So when his best friend's sister is threatened with incarceration in an asylum, he rushes to help. But Lady Astrid Wembley isn't keen to heed Monte's medical advice. Worse, she's part of his wild past: the mysterious girl he could never forget.But the woman he can't forget…Astrid has fond memories of her...
2526) Charlie Task: Gone
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Charles Claymore "Charlie" Task is a self-described professional psychopath.He is also an accomplished operative for the worldwide network of specialized assassins: Blackwell Ops.This is Charlie's third account in the series, and one with a twist.Is time travel even possible?Charlie doesn't think so. And he would love nothing better than to prove his boss, TJ Blackwell, wrong.But is TJ wrong? Or is he horribly (or maybe pleasantly) right? Come along...
2527) As Timeless As Stone
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Regency Society forbids their romance, but can their love transcend time with the aid of robots and magic?Little does Ricard know when he sets the broken head of an ancient Egyptian statue onto its body, the stone figure will transform before his eyes into the most beautiful flesh and blood woman he's ever seen. Seshat, an ancient Egyptian Priestess has awakened in 19th century Paris, after centuries as a stone statue. Though enchanted by the wondrous...
2528) My Alien Valentine
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A handsome alien and a feisty female running from her past. In addition, a criminal mastermind is bent on revenge. Can two broken souls reconnect and trust again or on Valentines' Day will their past be the death of them? Phoebe FaulknenPhoebe's life is turned upside down when she loses her mother. Just when she thinks things couldn't get worse, she returns home to discover her fiancé having sex with a man in her bedroom. The betrayal devastates...
2529) HoloCity Hard Boys
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The house always wins. Unless it falls down…When Bubbles acts as a witness in a high-profile murder case she's warned to stay low. Taking on a gambling gangster and his henchmen wasn't in the cards. But then he went and made it personal…HoloCity Hard Boys is the second stand alone mystery novella in the HoloCity Case Files series, a companion collection to the Bubbles in Space series.Blade Runner meets The Fifth Element in this eccentric cyber-noir...
2531) Transcendental Journey
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In Transcendental Journey, Robert W Ingwalson Jr. beckons readers into a vivid tapestry woven with the threads of the cosmic and the intimate. Dive into the origins and fate of the cosmos, explore the depths of dreams, and touch the heartbeats of love and loss. From the dark corridors of a killer's mind to the serene reflections on faith and the divine, each poem serves as a portal to a plethora of experiences. Laugh along with whimsical quips and...
2532) Diadem from the Stars
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Abandoned on an alien planet, a young woman gains remarkable powers from a mysterious artifact, in the first installment of a sprawling, unforgettable science fiction saga. A magnificent combination of space opera and epic fantasy quest in the beloved science fantasy tradition of Andre Norton and C. J. Cherryh, author Jo Clayton's masterful Diadem Saga begins with an unforgettable tale of destiny, self-discovery, survival, and an extraordinary...
2533) Moon Dust in My Hairnet
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Moon Dust in My Hairnet is a fresh, hopeful, and diverse sci-fi romp following an autistic lunar lunch lady as she juggles relationships and threatening corporate overlords, all while adjusting to life on Lunar Trust One.
20-year-old Lane was perfectly happy living in her big sister's shadow. The great Faraday Tanner, who invented the gravdrive and inspired the movement to found the moon's first independent colony, was the unequaled voice of the post-melt...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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From Liesl Shurtliff, the New York Times bestselling author of Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin, comes a thrilling new middle grade trilogy about three city kids who get on the wrong subway train and wind up on a wild, magical mystery-adventure throughout time.
Imaginative, daring, and packed with fun, Time Castaways is perfect for fans of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and Percy Jackson.
Mateo, Ruby, and Corey Hudson's parents...
2535) Escape Hour
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The impact was only the beginning...Now reunited with her younger brother, Tessa and her band of survivors are again in trouble. Trapped in the constant night from the impact, the goal is clear: escape the city and head north to where Tessa's estranged father waits.But escaping the city won't be easy.The corrupt police chief is taking over, and Tessa's group has killed his savage son.Her stepfather is closing in by the hour, and soon, he'll find them....
2536) Black Cat Weekly #127
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This issue, we have an original mystery by dbschlosser (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), a recent tale by Bruce Robert Coffin (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman), and a slightly older tale by James Holding. Our mystery novel is As a Thief in the Night, by R. Austin Freeman-part of his Dr. Thorndyke series. And, of course, a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles.
On the science fiction side, we have an original story by Larry...
2537) Our Children's Children
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Fleeing a carnivorous race of alien monsters, the entire surviving human population from five hundred years in the future escapes into the present in this thrilling science fiction adventure from one of the Golden Age greats. Our human descendants from five centuries in the future are coming to visit - all one billion of them - arriving via tunnels through time. Even though the present is merely a stopover and their ultimate destination is the age...
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The end of the world as we know it has already happened.Now we have to deal with the fall out.Nowhere on Earth is safe.An unseen foe walks among us, appearing just like any other man.Only they're not.They're charming, seductive, and handsome, but they're also alien, and are taking our women to become breeding slaves on their own planet, Tradrych.I, Camille Harran, and my team of men-head of security tough-guy, Aleandro, studious and caring meteorologist,...
2539) Commitment Hour
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After most of Earth's population has left for other planets, life is simple in the isolated village of Tober Cove. Fullin, a twenty-year-old musician, lives well off of his craft. But soon he must make a life-changing decision that all residents of Tober Cove must make. Up until their twenty-first birthdays, the people of Tober Cove change gender every year. But at the age of twenty-one, they must commit to being male, female, or a Neut (essentially...
2540) The Earl on the Train
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An earl with a problem.Nicholas Masterson, Lord Sharpe, has a problem with potions. He won't drink them, he craves them, and they're getting weaker by the day. When his spymaster uncle requests that he travel from London to India to investigate, he reluctantly agrees and hops on an early morning train.A woman with a plan.Ida Quimby has set herself a goal: begin a new life as an elite perfumer, selling potion-based perfumes to the highest tier of London...
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