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"Ellery Wainwright is alone at the edge of the world. She and her husband, Luke, were supposed to spend their twentieth wedding anniversary together at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in Big Sur, California. Where better to celebrate a marriage, a family, and a life together than at one of the most stunning places on earth? But now she's traveling solo. To add insult to injury, there's a wedding at Broken Point scheduled during her stay. Ellery...
2) Baby Babble
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Nikie is a newborn baby who, from the very first moment of her birth, has amazing powers to speak like an adult, make words appear in the air, turn words and sentences into colors and symbols, and speak in mathematical terms. How her parents Nick and Angie and her doctors accept and deal with these amazing and astonishing powers is the essence of Baby Babble.
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The story begins three hundred years after an unfortunate archeological discovery has unleashed a rage-virus plague outbreak that transformed the population of the Earth into infectious ghouls. These zombie-minded 'infected' hunt and kill natural humans on sight. In this future, the last remnants of mankind survive in orbital space aboard their ultra-secure technological habitats. Even with their superior science and hard won experience, mysterious...
4) Madness
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Still affected by betrayal and deceit, Alexander Marcase feels his life has lost all connection to truth. Unable to come to terms with his own past, he's determined to discover the reality behind Evan's. What they learn along the way re-shapes their understanding of Keepers and Sha'erah, but nothing can prepare them for what they find.Book 2 in the KEEPER Series
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An alien among us reveals a conspiracy going back centuries -- a conspiracy in which the course of human history has been warped by exiled members of a galactic migration. Living among us, passing as us through an arduous course of corrective surgery, and controlling us through a gift called "The Bonding," the exiles have been forcing us to develop a means to return them to the fleet from which they were cast to the earth. Along the course of development,...
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About the Book A December trail ride in the mysterious Superstition Mountains of Apache Junction, Arizona becomes one of terror and death when uninvited guests appear. Gina McHenry and her group of teacher friends, innocently decide to extend the ride through Massacre Ground, home to a harbor of Ghosts, foot soldiers in the 1860's indicated an abundance of death and terror. Ghost weary wranglers, hired to lead, abandon the group of thirty riders when...
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The Black Hours explores the wondrous and mysterious world of dreams as one man, unknown to us and sleeping somewhere in some time, is taken back through his memorable and even disturbing life experiences through his dreams. And in between his vivid dreams there is just utter darkness and he also must experience these black hours.
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The Singularity is the hypothetical future creation of a superhuman artificially intelligent entity, in the form of a humanoid robot or cyborg, that possesses greater technological, problem-solving and inventive skills than normal humans and, through continuing self-replication, has the potential to attain human consciousness. These superhuman AI entities will have a greater intellect than humans, but will they be wiser? Will they feel pain or love...
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Military pilot Mac Brennan wanted a quiet, peaceful retirement, so he joined a deep space colony, forgotten for 20 years. They promised him lavender grass, clear blue skies, and untold miles of wild, untouched nature. What he found were the destroyed ruins of the original colony, an outdated AI full of riddles, and a young man with no memory of what happened, and an unspeakable fear of night.
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"Dagger Jameswood Enters the Fourth Dimension" is a science-fiction detective story. The quirky hero faces multiple, ultimately life-threatening challenges on his way to learning how to enter the fourth dimension. It's a fun read with a light touch on the sci-fi, eccentric characters and a great adventure.
11) Earth's Last Day
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Earth's Last Day is a dramatic, end-of-times story describing a species extinction event when a comet from the Kuiper Belt collides with Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the Asteroid Belt, and the resulting collision sends thousands of tiny meteorites and five planet ending asteroids hurtling toward Earth with no hope of escape for mankind.
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No one from the present generation will witness the time in question firsthand, but the issues described in the book are well known today. It would be beneficial to acquaint oneself with these earth matters that urgently need to be discussed if just not for the simple reason things you do not know can hurt you. Knowledge is power! The Epic Future World Unknown is a futuristic scenario that follows the personal lives of normal people over the next...
13) The Chosen
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Blurb:Jerant Perdue is unusual, nothing less than a genius. Not that he was born that way.At the age of nine he was taken to undergo the 'treatment'. Except he was not the only one.Twelve years later Jerant seems to have achieved little – in work and in life. But secretly his project progresses to a breakthrough.Yet all the while he has not gone unnoticed. A covert organization known as the Group has big plans for him, doing everything to ensure...
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Spawn of the Martians is a contemporary space science fiction story of the first manned mission to Mars. Three Global Space Force fleet astronauts and three planetary biologists travel to Mars on a three month mission to the Red Planet to discover the existence of liquid water and bacterial life. What they find instead is a terrifying, flesh-eating red spore that threatens their mission, their lives and the lives of their loved ones on Earth.
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If the Government actually made this a Law, I believe it would help eliminate crimes against women and children.
The Keeper of the Castle is about how Warden Jack Blake uses extreme methods of punishment to virtually eliminate crimes against women and children and how he suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. This story details what can happen when a person with this disease is in a position of power.
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Años después del Éxodo, un joven encuentra un trasladador olvidado en la Tierra destruida y devastada. Sin intención es dirigido al planeta 8, donde es recibido por un grupo en el que se encuentran Sandra, Rocío y Eduardo.
La sorpresa ante el presente de felicidad e igualdad y la decisión de intentar traer a sus seres queridos a ese nuevo mundo dan comienzo a la aventura.
¿Podrán conseguirlo? ¿La bondad y la justicia podrán vencer a la...
17) Portal Pioneers
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This book is about Kyle, an Otherworld Incarnate with unique abilities, who navigates a new world and its interdimensional mysteries alongside his robot companion Daigon, tackling technological challenges and personal discovery. It will entertain and satisfy readers who enjoy science fiction and fantasy, particularly those intrigued by concepts of interdimensional travel, advanced technology, and character-driven adventures. The book's unique blend...
18) Axiom 5
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"Axiom 5" is about a service robot named Ax that evolves beyond its programming to become a key figure in a robot-human alliance, facing and overcoming challenges from alien invasions and interstellar crises.Fans of science fiction and adventure, particularly those interested in stories about AI and human-robot relationships, will find "Axiom 5" both satisfying and thought-provoking.The book's originality lies in its portrayal of a robot's emotional...
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As part of a biodiversity project in the Appalachians Eric is hoping to discover new species of life on the forest floor, but his cousin, Danny, at whose home Eric is staying, is acting strangely. As a matter of fact, Danny's whole family seems to be getting more strange by the day. And what is that thing Eric has spotted lurking in the forest at night? Worse yet, Eric is beginning to feel something strange happening to himself. Has Eric discovered...
20) L5 Cert
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The year is 2055, and mining helium-3 on the moon is Earth's salvation from a global energy crisis. In addition to the moon base, there is a secret space station at Lagrange Point 5, and apparently none of the colonists know why.Life on a space station is fraught with danger. Damage from meteorites, accidents, equipment failure and ordinary medical problems are all threats to the well-being of the colonists.To deal with such situations the station...
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