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An overpaid diplomat. A secret meeting. A fight for survival.
In the galaxy, sacrifices must be made.
Zalaman meets with aliens. He hates his mission. Zalaman knows the mission is doomed. Can he complete his duty?
Does Zalaman succeed and complete his duty? Or will he become another sacrifice in a game of cat and mouse?
If you love tense, page turning, gripping science fiction short stories. You will love this story!
25922) Soul Match
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From the author of Dead Planet and The Alorian Wars, Drew Avera brings an all-new short story about faith, love, and the tragedy that is war.In the distant future Humanity is struggling to survive on a world they had once hoped to inhabit with an alien race known as the Daliqians. For years both races existed peacefully, but eventually differences could not be settled and war loomed. After centuries of civil war, this alien world is at risk of annihilation.May...
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Theology through mythology
J. R. R. Tolkien was many things: English Catholic, father and husband, survivor of two world wars, Oxford professor, and author. But he was also a theologian. Tolkien's writings exhibit a coherent theology of God and his works, but Tolkien did not present his views with systematic arguments. Rather, he expressed theology through story.
In Tolkien Dogmatics, Austin M. Freeman inspects Tolkien's entire corpus-The Hobbit,...
25924) Drawing Fairies
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This wonderful full-color drawing book is a treasure trove for anyone who loves fairies. Abound in story books and animation, their delicate form, fluttering wings and magical powers are a source of constant wonder.
In this enchanting new book, renowned artist Peter Gray takes readers through step-by-step drawing projects, teaching different drawing techniques and styles. You'll learn:
• How to create fairy and elf faces, with their large eyes...
25925) Resonance
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As the enemy gains a stronghold in the underground, multitudes are recruited, marked, and repurposed. Kai must gather a band of broken, homeless kids and get back to the spiritual realm. But Negative Affinity Serum blocks his gifting. Plunged into a desperate struggle against time and Shasta, the race is on to rescue his friends and find a way back to the natural realm before Shasta deploys the multitude and turns society against Tau.
25926) Fast Good Bye: Roman
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Après le chaos de 2028, son rebond en 2050 et ses centaines de millions de victimes sur la planète, la France est la première nation à inscrire dans sa nouvelle constitution l'interdiction de l'expression religieuse hors du cercle privé et de la conscience individuelle. Cette révolution fait sauter nombre de freins sur le plan sociétal et moral, inaugurant un nouveau siècle des Lumières. L'histoire se déroule dans un Paris chauffé à blanc...
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Time travel. It's always been a crowd-pleasing topic for most. The power sought after and craved by everyone-whether they missed the lottery by a single digit or had a rough childhood that they decided needed changing. But, despite all the fantastic dreams, the world knows time travel isn't real. Enter Jericho Johnson Not only is time travel very real to him, he's used it in the usual ways one would expect-getting rich, predicting world-changing events...
25928) The Black Trillium
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Confederation rules in Trana-so says the king.
But Fredericton is a long way from the shores of Lake Ontario, and schemes for power will bring together three extraordinary young warriors.
Savannah
A desert girl who came to Trana looking for refuge but has never found a home
Kieran
A privileged city boy dreaming of rebellion and hardened by cruelty
Kyle
The disgraced heir to the throne desperate to win back his place in his father's heart
Sworn...
25929) Back Home
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Was it all his fault? Being thrown back in time? Did winning the artifact have something to do with the entire campsite traveling back in time with him? 13-year-old Logan and his best friend Corry are on a long weekend survival camp, with a bunch of others around his age, in rural New Zealand. But the advert about the survival weekend said nothing about going back in time. They, along with everyone else at the camp, were not only in the past but also...
25930) Earth and Lunar Dreaming
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A science fiction short story that includes: A werewolf on the moon.A kit that wants to be a human girl.A vigilante corporation with interstellar reach.And dreams of an Earth return.When Chitin decides to protect a young shapeshifter, he takes on more than he knows.Can he negotiate an ending that will see her stay free, and help him build his dream of returning to a renewed Earth?
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The Best-Selling Dystopian Science Fiction Series, Sandstorm - The complete series Books 1-4, available for the first time in one special box set! Over 900 pages of reading!
Something is hunting the inhabitants of Ravar...
For three generations, the colonists on Ravar have been stranded on a harsh planet, forced to survive in a desert environment where only the scrappiest animals and the heartiest plants survive. Most live without the foolish hope...
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Join Petra and Kipp on their first three adventures in a fanciful blend of time travel, history, animals and a touch of science fiction.
The Symbiont: A pair of time-traveling historians, symbionts Petra and Kipp have arrived to unravel the mystery behind an enigmatic coastal colony near Roanoke. As they become involved with the colonists, their fact-finding mission spins dangerously out of control when they discover a deranged killer living among...
25933) The Airlords of Han
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Second in the pulp science fiction series that inspired the popular comic, TV, and movie franchise, from the author of Armageddon 2419.
Anthony "Buck" Rogers burst onto the sci-fi scene in an explosion of futuristic weapons and rip-roaring adventure. In Armageddon 2419, after being overcome by radioactive gases, the World War I veteran existed in a state of suspended animation until he awoke to a whole new century and a completely different...
25934) Abandoned Time Travel
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Walpurga Mendel volunteers to test the new time travel machine.She wriggles herself through the small entrance. Her thick wool skirt catches at the door handle. She hates the uncomfortable dress more by the minute. Concern to fit in motivates her to carefully free the dress. How will she ever get out of the time travel room backwards with this dress?Unaware of the real challenge, Walpurga hits the button to start the time travel.Follow Walpurga on...
25935) Vintage Vampire Stories
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Long lost to the public in out-of-print pulp magazines, dusty Victorian anthologies, and the pages of now defunct newspapers-these vintage vampire stories have truly proved immortal. Resurrected now for the year 2011, this is a stunning collection of nineteenth-century vampire stories by heavyweights such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Bram Stoker. These rare stories are arranged in chronological order from 1846 to 1913 and are compiled by two of the...
25936) The Lovers * Dark Is the Sun * Riders of the Purple Wage: Three Powerful Science Fiction Classics
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From a multiple Hugo winner and Science Fiction Grand Master: Three mind-bending stories featuring future worlds, space travel, and aliens. Author Philip José Farmer blasts into space, races into the future, and travels back in time in three astoundingly original and thrilling science fiction adventures. The Lovers: Linguist Hal Yarrow catches a lucky break with an assignment on planet Ozagen, allowing him to escape the theocracy on thirty-first-century...
25937) Domination of the Spooks
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Dom Wagner is the top cadet at The Academy, preparing for a life of military service. While he dreams of adventure, everything comes easily for him - hand to hand combat, surveillance, computer hacking, weapons. He takes nothing seriously, even finding time to schmooze with the brass as well as the ladies.Which doesn't sit well with Jock Saunders, Dom's chief rival, The Academy's number two who would do anything to be number one.That is until one...
25938) Le cœur d'une guerrière
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Seuls les plus impitoyables des Marastin Dow ont le droit de vivre, et Evetta et Hanine ont tué assez des leurs pour rester en vie, mais elles désirent désespérément une vie différente. Quand elles rencontrent deux frères humains se battant pour survivre, les sœurs sont d'accord : cette alliance pourrait être leur seule chance.
La vie de Ben et Aaron Cooper n'a jamais été facile. Abandonnés par leur mère et élevés par un père ivrogne,...
25939) Annex
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Independence Day meets Lord of the Flies in this "thrilling and imaginative" debut about two young outsiders forced to fight off alien invaders in a post-apocalyptic city. (Fonda Lee)When the aliens invade, all seems lost. The world as they know it is destroyed. Their friends are kidnapped. Their families are changed.But with no adults left to run things, young trans-girl Violet and her new friend Bo realize that they are free. Free to do whatever...
25940) Emma on Mars
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Emma is angry that her parents have made such a mess of the planet! She goes off in search of a new home, and Mars looks perfect! A story that subtly explores saving the planet and also teaches children about the solar system.
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