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61) Ultimate Witness
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The Plato Colony is the first permanently manned moonbase, but it could be the last. Budgetary restrictions mean the base is to be abandoned in seven days, but while the colonists prepare to evacuate, chief administrator Malcolm Wade faces other, more troubling problems. A mysterious anomaly has appeared outside the base and an unknown assailant is attacking the colonists. As only seven people live on the moon, Malcolm reckons he should be able to...
62) Eden 2.1
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Eden 2.1 is a modern-day story inspired by Mary Shelly's famous book, "Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus". It raises the questions of human efforts to understand the source of life and whether humans can have the technological ability to create life apart from the natural process by human-developed means. Can human wisdom anticipate and account for unintended consequences of using such potential technology?
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When an asteroid strike causes a major disaster in Boston, it forces physicist Ben Shore to rethink his life and purpose. Together with his step-sister and mathematics whiz, Nicky, and orphaned early-teen hacker, Jessie, he embarks on a quest to find a way to avert similar or worse disasters from happening. Ben's attempts to create a new physics change their world forever and turn their basic assumptions about reality on their head.But they only realize...
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Dive back into the world of The Institute in this gripping sequel to The Orphan Chronicles: Genesis… Ananya Patel is a young woman with extraordinary abilities. Her keen instincts for sensing danger have been enhanced and honed during her upbringing at The Institute, a clandestine underwater research facility established and funded by billionaire philanthropist, Gregory Cornelius. In The Orphan Chronicles: Evolution, the time has come for Ananya...
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Book Two of The Phoenix Legacy A proud empire struggles for supremacy. After forfeiting his identity as heir to the House of DeKoven Woolf, Lord Alexand morphs into Alex Ransom, leader of the Society of the Phoenix, sworn to bring about the evolution of the Concord in order to prevent its threatened collapse.But his birthright isn't all Alex lost when Lord Alexand died. He gave up the extraordinary Lady Adrien Eliseer, and it was like tearing out...
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This two-book bundle takes the form of an illustrated journal that plunges readers into the heart of the story. Werewolves takes readers into the life of a high school girl-turned-werewolf as she makes her transformation. With a fresh take on the lore and legend, it gives fans a ripping tale to sink their teeth into. In Zombies, a biologist's journal is found in the aftermath of the attack. This frightening new contribution to the massively popular...
68) Imago
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Rival companies TerraLuna and MoonCorp have been competing for the first vacation destination on the lunar surface, with TerraLuna well in the lead. After an accident damages TerraLuna, MoonCorp CEO Stan Duncan makes a bold move to start construction of their resort using technologies on hold for safety testing. Charlie Porter's historic advances in solar technologies have been tabled for secrecy, and he has been recently laid off. His friend Nick...
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Prepare to be thrust into the heart of darkness as the gripping saga of The Endless Knight unfolds. Building upon the notorious legacy of 'the devil's haven,' our journey commences within the impenetrable walls of a clandestine maximum-security prison concealed deep in the desolate Nevada desert. Here, inmates undergo unspeakable transformations, their bodies turned into brutal cyborgs, vessels intended to be possessed by hordes of demonic entities....
70) A Flash in Time
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Energy is around us, microwaves, cell-phones, electric lines, radar, and new inventions, scientific cyclotrons, plasma, and energy weapons.
It's 2006, and E-R-Mag Labs, NM, turns on an AM radio antenna connected to "Enet", a communication net at the resonant frequency of earth, to communicate with any special receiver world wide - ships, military units. As the switch is thrown, the entire transmitter explodes, and a tree with metal decorations...
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¿Qué tanto se parece nuestro presente al futuro que imaginaron las escritoras del siglo pasado? ¿Persiste el entusiasmo o la cautela ante el uso de la tecnología? ¿Nuestros problemas han cambiado, o será que nuestros sueños, temores y heridas permanecen? Bajo el título de Retrofuturismos, la segunda entrega de la colección ¡El futuro es mujer! reúne cuentos escritos entre 1931 y 1966 por Sonya Dorman, Leslie F. Stone, Elizabeth Mann Borgese,...
72) Prodigals
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If they're coming for us, who's coming for them? A first contact novel from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Relic.
The galaxy is vast, and not everything is what it seems. The invasion we always feared is here.
Which begs the question: what do the invaders fear? If not us, then what . . . or who?
And what happens to the would-be peacemakers when they find themselves in the middle of something else? Something dangerous,...
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A small team of specialists come together at the request of Dr. Bill Thornton to create an android that would replace juries. He will have the ability to determine guilt or innocence by connecting to the defendant. Then he can pass judgment immediately. What happens when this android, who looks like an average white male, ends up on the streets of Washington, D.C with the ability to connect with murderers and exterminate them?
Dr. Beth Middleton...
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"Hello reader. Yes I'm staring at you and speaking. You find it odd that I broke from the fourth wall, or what I personally consider a fourth set of eyes. My name's Abraham, and I'm a historian of my family's history. Now I wonder what a historian is doing, introducing you to this rabbit hole you're about to enter. I can think of no better choice as I regale you with stories of family members from the ancient past to the present day. You have a front...
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A Brother's Promise is an emotional adult novel that explores the enduring bonds of brotherhood and loyalty. Despite leading vastly different lives, two brothers make a pledge to always support one another through life's ups and downs.
When tragedy strikes, successful bachelor Michael is suddenly saddled with this forgotten promise - gaining custody of his brother's two recently orphaned and deeply mistrustful adopted children. Facing a broken engagement...
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"What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze."Michio Kaku"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."Stephen Hawking.These parallel universes are not ghost worlds with an ephemeral existence; within...
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By the late twenty-first century, civilization has nearly been destroyed by overpopulation, economic chaos, horrific disease, and a global war that brought a devastating nuclear winter. On the Oregon coast, two women-writer Mary Hope and painter Rachel Morrow-embark on an audacious project to help save future generations: the preservation of books, both their own and any they can find at nearby abandoned houses. For years, they labor in solitude....
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The captured, Justin, struggles to keep his sanity on an alien planet, while the other Justin wakes from cryogenics aided by a friend from the past to reclaim the MTT to save humanity.
I was born in Nevada and adopted by my loving family. Raised in Las Vegas, I took an interest in sci-fi and fantasy, like the works of Douglas Adams, Frank Herbert, and Philip K. Dick. I'm fascinated by the study of herbs and started an apothecary. I enjoy learning...
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Excerpt: "A curved section of the dome, twenty feet thick with the stubs of re-inforcing rod rusty and protruding through the damp-marked concrete, formed the ceiling and back wall of Brendan's office. There was a constant drip of seepage and condensation. Near the mildew-spotted floor, a thin white mist drifted in torn swirls while the heating coils buried in the concrete fought back against the cold. There was one lamp in the windowless dark, a...
80) Bestowal
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We were created by the Bestower, and placed on the world to rid it of its native life, unpleasing to Him. He gave us the living Bestowed to sustain us and replace what was there before. Thus say the priests, but now that myth is questioned: Native life has evolved; why not ourselves and the Bestowed that came with us? Are not all native, and necessary for survival? The evidence is contentious: Exterminate, or conserve? There is increasing dissension...
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