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17581) The New World
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1587 Roanoke IslandOn April 22, 1587, three flotillas left England with settlers looking for wealth and religious freedom in the New World. Their intended destination was the Chesapeake Bay. After three months at sea, they never made it that far. Blown off course, the three ships navigated to a previously selected outpost for replenishing their supplies before continuing north. On August 8, the colonists arrived at a desolate and abandoned fortification....
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Thirty long and grueling years have passed since humanity started rebuilding the world after the outbreak of an unknown virus that reanimates the dead into unintelligent cannibalistic creatures. During the thirty-year time frame, mankind has bounced back from the brink of extinction and started reforming the world in their image. The undead, known as betas, were still a common occurrence but were far less prevalent than before. This outcome was all...
17583) Watcher of the Skies
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As an artificial Human, Mike Christopher became the target of hate and prejudice all his life. He fled the Earth to explore the galaxy. Still, decades later, he returned to help save his homeworld from an alien incursion. Now the lifelong explorer once again feels the pull of the stars. But more immediate concerns still bind him to the Earth. He finds himself aiding another alien race in its own battle to survive, beginning a new love affair, and...
17584) I.D
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To stay alive, an adopted girl must discover the secret of her birth When her parents tell her that she is adopted, Eve is upset but not surprised. After all, she doesn't look like her parents, and has always felt a strange distance from them. But as she approaches her fourteenth birthday, something begins to feel very wrong. While skiing, she sees a girl about her age die suddenly of a heart attack. A few days later, Eve learns that the girl's sudden...
17585) Sun & Stone
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The devastation of her home behind her, Captain Sjora Kahn'dyr and her surviving allies are out of time. They must escort the Dead Man, to discover his part in the world's end. Undaunted, the Baron closes his grip. Will Sjora and crew learn what they must know and discover who they can trust before it is too late?
17586) To Ride the Chimera
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TO REFORGE A SHATTERED LEAGUE… A MechWarrior without peer, Thaddeus Marik has become the figurehead for a new community of worlds attempting to resurrect the Free Worlds League after the collapse of the Republic of the Sphere. After defeating a Lyran invasion on the planet of Savannah and negotiating a successful alliance with the Clan Protectorate Coalition, Marik must now ally himself with Jessica Halas-Hughes Marik if the new league is to have...
17587) The Wrong Lance
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In early 2018, the writing team of Lee and Miller threw away the first 70,000 words of a Liaden novel. They weren't bad words; merely, they weren't the right words. The book that rose from the ashes of this failed draft, Accepting the Lance, was published by Baen Books. Some of the 70,000 words of failed draft found their way into that novel, but about 44,000--didn't. They were still perfectly good words, and strung together, they presented an interesting...
17588) My Brute Alien Liege
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Rowanda, a human, the first female captain with the United Coalition of Planets commands the cargo ship, The Southern Star. Her crew consisted mostly of females, another first.On her tenth mission, pirates invaded the ship. Large, muscular, green-skinned aliens, ransacked it, took the highly sought cargo of Tidusradium and her crew captive.Humiliated, disciplined, and made a spectacle of in front of the alien captain's crew, she fought fiercely. He...
17589) Viajes en el tiempo
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¡Hola! Viajero espacio-temporal, soy Tony Jim y, como a ti, me encantan los viajes a través del espacio y del tiempo.
Si eres fan de Star Trek, te gusta Futurama y la ciencia-ficción en general, estás en el sitio correcto.
Me encanta la Historia y la ciencia-ficción, así que un buen día me decidí a juntar estas dos pasiones y escribir cuentos de ciencia-ficción ligera, viajes en el tiempo y algo de humor, un tanto absurdo.
Mi pasión por...
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When a pack of senior dogs find themselves transported back in time and turned into puppies, they must make their way back home, helping real-life historical dogs along the way.
In this story, Time Dogs: Barry and the Great Mountain Rescue, Baxter, Trevor, Newton, Maia, and Titch- find themselves transported back to the year 1800 to the Swiss Alps. There they meet Barry, a famous Great Saint Bernard rescue dog who saved many lives during his service...
17591) Tea and Treachery
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Lady Violetta Chesterfield travels to the Kingdom of Dragomir on a mission. For her fiancé, Nicholas Blackstone, Captain of the airship Renegade, has been captured and sentenced to death as a pirate and spy.
Violetta is determined to save her beloved from the gallows. Therefore, she arranges a meeting with Count Ostrowsky, prime minister of Dragomir, to beg for her fiancé's life. The Count agrees to meet with Violetta, even though he has no intention...
17592) Tears of the Sowilo
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Ignota and Sowilo, Alliance and Council, all smell the coming of war in the wind. As crisis spans the globe, all now grasp for position and resources before the end begins. Old dangers and new perils threaten both sides. Prophecy promises tears will mark the coming of the Sowilo's savior. And tears there shall be. Rivers and rivers of tears. So continues the battle to control tomorrow's history.
17593) Dragoon: First Strike
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It finally happened… and the aliens were out for conquest.
Amid a worldwide invasion, a secluded part of the world holds its own against the unwelcome intruders.
Flight Lieutenant Nathan Harvey, a helicopter pilot from the Royal New Zealand Air Force is recruited into the CAVDEV, an experimental powered armor unit.
He quickly finds himself leading the fight on the front lines against an overwhelming alien force.
Can Harvey and his clandestine...
17594) The Tainted Throne
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India, 1606. Jahangir, the triumphant Moghul Emperor and ruler of most of the Indian subcontinent, is doomed. No amount of wealth and ruthlessness can protect him from his sons' desire for power. The glorious Moghul throne is worth any amount of bloodshed and betrayal; once Jahangir raised troops against his own father; now he faces a bloody battle with Khurram, the ablest of his warring sons. Worse is to come. Just as the heirs of Timur the Great...
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"Delightful … a rich cast of characters … Parini does a superb job." - San Francisco Chronicle
"[Parini] expertly navigates this multilayered narrative." - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Pleasure-filled … Parini writes lovingly and evocatively." - Los Angeles Times
"Richly compelling … Parini renders the mentor-apprentice dynamic with great sensitivity." - Bookreporter.com
17596) Fae Came On The Plane!
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Nico had one goal at Again New York's spaceport: to welcome her lover Heloise with flowers. Involved in a budding romantic triad and set to enjoy the rock concert of the galaxy with Damara Airship, what more could a young vampire want? But amid the intragalactic, Other-being, and human travelers, something every creature and person feared came in on the plane: faeries.
When the spaceport goes down, it's any survivor of the fae incursion for him or...
17597) North
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A Guardian Book of the Month'Echoes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Stephen King's The Stand...' Guardian on SouthIf a virus doesn't kill you, the South will...The USA has been ravaged by Civil War. It's been thirty years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South. While the South has been devastated by disease - the North has emerged victorious, but terrified of reprisals. Both territories remain at the mercy of the...
17598) Heirs at War
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Marmoros, the ancestral home of the Lyenar people, has been recaptured but its enemies still circle the city. As the war enters a new phase, the Ystrad leave the city to continue their own struggle against the Belsi who invaded their homeworld.But the Belsi and their powerful new allies intend to exploit the mineral wealth of Ystradis, and are ruthless in their attempts to maintain control of the planet.Once again David Held, top agent in the Imperial...
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When he finds a hidden map and a scripture washed up with an unusual body at the Galunda Bay, Daimeh's idyllic life changes forever. After an autopsy has been conducted, he decides to follow the map and go on a journey with his aunt to the impassable lands to the north, where it is rumoured a great civilisation lives. In their path are giant worms, mysterious technology and a gargantuan. When they reach their destination, at first the Amunisari appear...
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Cuando el sistema que el tiempo olvidó de repente vuelve a aparecer...
El Cifrado dirigía el universo con sus reglas de juego, y ha elegido a Cullen, un cazarrecompensas exiliado, como método de su regreso.
Se le ha encomendado una misión para liberar a una madre y un hijo telepáticos del encarcelamiento injusto. Si puede sacar a sus objetivos de la prisión, tendrán que subir de nivel, aprender nuevas habilidades y buscar las pistas de la...
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