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Dannie Tate is a young dinosaur explorer that has always wondered what lay beyond the confines of her universe. With help from her parents and brave friends, she captains the Infinity, a grand ship capable of taking them beyond the confines of their system. This adventure finds them under the control of Queen Kenley. She wants to know about the Planet of Knowledge, too. The crew goes in search of answers and the lost knowledge of their ancestors....
31042) Rock Happy
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For teenager Alex Franklin, life seems pretty good. Rehearsals for the school's best band contest are going well, the new technology he gets to use in 2050s America is stellar, and his amazing neighbor Abby might--just might--want to date him.
And that's when everything starts to go wrong. Why does he start seeing terrifying things no one else can? What's going on with Abby and his friends' sudden personality changes? And who is the mysterious old...
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Dans un avenir éloigné, les êtres humains ont abandonné la Terre pour s'installer dans toute la galaxie depuis la « plate-forme centrale », qui orbite désormais autour de la planète. Cependant, en déclinant en influence parmi les empires humains dispersés dans la galaxie, les dirigeants prennent la décision de réexploiter les ressources de la planète Terre, désormais nommée Terra Prima. Mais leur initiative se heurte à une résistance...
31044) Out of the Ashes
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The X-Files meets The X-Men in this digital original companion series that's set in the world of Pittacus Lore's #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series. Fan-favorite characters Six and Sam Goode return in this riveting 100-page novella that begins a new saga that coincides with the events of Generation One.
In the aftermath of a thwarted alien invasion, teenagers across the globe have begun to develop incredible powers known as Legacies.
Most...
31045) The Peacemaker
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The Arrow lanced down out of the night like a spear of flame, vengeful and deadly. The legends of Jaq Merril are legion-but legends. Hark, ye, then to the true story of the pirate benefactor of Mankind!
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Some secrets can hurt people. Some will destroy their entire world.
When Ryder Carlsson enters the shadowy halls of Clarendon House she stumbles upon a secret that is out of this world. Olessia is a girl like no one else on Earth. Powerful and dangerous, she is on the run, determined to escape the incredible fate that awaits her.
But Olessia's enemies are coming for her. Ready to tear our world apart to find her. Caught in the chaos, Ryder and her...
31047) The Lazurai Emergence
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I had been in that stone wall for decades, alone on purpose.
Not lonely.
Waiting.
Humankind needed to evolve past what they had done to create me. I was willing to wait - as long as it took.
Because to re-emerge would mean to again threaten all humans I contacted.
The very reason all of my kind had submerged into hiding was to save humankind from ourselves, from the virus within us.
While that virus had saved us from certain death, and evolved...
31048) Age of X
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A NEW RADICAL MOVEMENT HAS TAKEN THE WORLD, AND INTERNET BY STORM. DREW AND HIS FRIENDS FIND THEMSELVES IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF A GLOBAL REVOLUTION THAT'S BECOME DANGEROUS. WILL THEY STAND IDLY BY OR RISE TO THE CHALLENGE AND CONFRONT THIS THREAT HEAD-ON?
Get ready for a thrilling new school year with Xaeon, aka Drew, a Type II being living on Earth! He's about to embark on a journey that will take him to the edge of his limits as he continues to unravel...
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Death cults, queer love, and the end of everything. Spaceships, man-eating lesbian mermaids, swords, spears, demons, ghouls, thieves, hitchhikers, and life in the margins. Margaret Killjoy's stories have appeared for years in the science fiction and fantasy magazines both major and indie. Here, we have collected the best previously published work along with brand new material. Ranging in theme and tone, these imaginative tales bring the reader on...
31050) Investigation
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Anteagen, the home world of the Wilson Corporation. Rick remembered the history lesson. This world was a new beginning for the Wilson corp. This was the first habitable planet that Jeb Wilson discovered. The Corporation had been roaming the galaxy for thirty years, after leaving earth. Once they found this planet, it was the promise land. A place to put down roots and expand the population.
There were areas of green fertile land with enough water...
31051) Born of Burning Embers
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"A wonderful Young Adult debut that has Margaret Atwood undertones." - Efthalia, author of the Phi Athanatoi Series The Culling took the life of every single man on earth. The surviving women believed that man had been erased from the face of the earth for a reason, and they lived in continuous fear of his return. Jasira lives in The Border, one of the two remaining cities in the world. At the age of twenty-one, every woman must undergo the Procedure,...
31052) Beyond Heaven's River
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Yoshio Kawashita is a great warrior until aliens whisk him away during World War II. They put him on a desolate planet far from his home, where he is destined to remain forever, leaving him alone in his new hell. Then Anna Nestor appears. This empress does not see planets as homes for their inhabitants; she sees exploitable real estate. Anna Nestor views Kawashita as a sideshow attraction until they fall in love. But the two lovebirds cannot be free...
31053) They Came
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Mark Tatulli, a comic artist and the creator of Lio and Heart of the City, uses bold colors and modern art in They Came, a charming tale about acceptance, sharing, and speaking up for what is right.
When a spaceship lands on Earth, a small town launches into a frenzy.
Why did they come?
Everyone is warned to stay back! But one child realizes something no one else does.
What do they want?
As the spaceship door opens, the answer is revealed ....
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Over 85,000 words of gripping, enthralling fiction from best-selling writer Connor Whiteley in one amazing collection. Featuring two novellas and 6 short stories from some of his most popular series, you know you're in for an amazing treat and will be reading late into the night.
Issue 8's Intriguing Short Stories Includes: Past, Theft and Team: A Bettie Private Eye Mystery Short Story. Christmas Innocence; A Christmas Private Eye Mystery Short...
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Rejoignez l'équipage du Cybérius en 2450, qui parcourt l'univers et ses secrets, en quête d'un futur pour l'Humanité.
À cette époque, les fusées porteuses ne sont plus nécessaires, la puissance des moteurs atomiques suffit à propulser les vaisseaux hors de l'espace terrestre.
Le Cybérius traversa donc l'atmosphère à grande vitesse et fut hors de vue quelques secondes plus tard...
À bord les membres de l'équipage seront-ils à la hauteur...
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An engagingly contemporary approach to Buddhism-through the lens of an iconic film and its memorable characters
Humorous yet spiritually rigorous in the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Tao of Pooh, drawing from pop culture and from personal experience, The Dharma of "The Princess Bride" teaches us how to understand and navigate our most important personal relationships from a twenty-first-century Buddhist perspective.
Friendship....
31057) Song of Blood
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Vampire apocalypse? Check.
Three mysterious hotties? Check.
Prophecy about being the 'chosen one'? That, too.
Avery is more interested in keeping herself fed – and supplied with toilet paper – during the vampire apocalypse than she is in saving the world. But when three mysterious hotties show up and proclaim her to be the long lost descendent of a famous siren, Avery is thrust into the very adventure she didn't know she needed.
She didn't want...
31058) EMPulse 3
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Rising waters in the Great Lakes threaten a safe haven in this nuclear holocaust thriller, from the author of the blockbuster The Journal series.
To escape an abusive ex-husband, artist Adele Michaels found safety at The Geo-Domes, a remote resort in the Rocky Mountains. After a nuclear electromagnetic pulse took down the entire grid, Adele and her new friends, undertook a long and dangerous journey, from Montana to Michigan to find her mother.
In...
31059) When The Sea-King's Away
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There was an old Simorgyan legend, Fafhrd had insisted, according to which on the seventh day of the seventh moon of the seventh year of the Sevens-Cycle the king of the sea journeyed to the other end of the earth, leaving his opalescently beautiful green wives and faintly silver-scaled slim concubines free to find them lovers if they could . . . and this, Fafhrd had stridently asserted he knew by the spectral calm and other occult tokens, was the...
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For the first time ever, The Silo Saga Omnibus brings together all of the work in Hugh Howey's ground-breaking, best-selling, acclaimed series, including the individual novels Wool, Shift, and Dust, as well as original essays by the author, and a bonus chapbook of short fiction, Sil0 Stories.
The remnants of humanity live underground in a vast silo. In this subterranean world, rules matter. Rules keep people alive. And no rule is more strictly enforced...
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