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In pursuit of an extra credit project for her zoology course, Terri stumbles on three ape-like creatures hiding in a makeshift tree house. The fact that there are no apes native to the rainforests of the northwest might be of purely academic interest if...

Listen to the Birds is a story of betrayal, set on the continent of Antarctica, bare of ice following a catastrophic melt of the ice caps. Intrigue reigns as president John Barrous battles political threats and clashes with his nemesis, and former lover, Lowry...

Nothing is too strange for Third Flatiron's new anthology, "Strange Beasties." Find something unsettling at every turn, from rising primordical monsters and gods to murderous supernatural predators and vengeful soul-hungry demons. There's plenty of dark comedy too, with gamblers who race unusual beasts, ogres...

Return to the Ultimate Galactic Universe with Brick Wilson as he attempts to rescue Hilep, the wealthiest man in the Ultimate Universe, who has kidnapped himself. See what happens when you surgically remove your split personality? With a crime that has even UGH rendered...

Inversion - Not Your Ordinary Stories is speculative fiction for the inquisitive mind. Author Paul Stansbury invites you to experience a world where the rules as you know them do not always apply. Inversion means turning upside down or inside out, reversal of a...

In the year 2189, a small group of hopeful colonists touch down on the planet Mirna. Fifteen year-old Reilly Landreth is the only womb-born child to survive the journey. The other six children were created in the ship's reproductive lab, along with the chickens,...

Five middle-aged characters, who had died prematurely, find themselves in a Cosmic Terminal: a Minnesota couple; a professional comedian, also American; a Peruvian woman painter; and a handsome n'er-do-well English con man and sexual athlete of the turn of the 19th century. This uncontemporaneous...

"The fleet narrative never has any dead spots and boasts a clever range of aliens of all shapes, sizes, and appendages. It also has just the right balance of tongue-in-cheek (when a life form happens to have a tongue or a cheek) and serious...

Boas and Qila: The Twins, accompanied by their partners Sula and Pol, travel to the nearer star systems in the Sirius sector, promoting their grandfather Lutor, and their mother Bodekka's work. Most colonists accept the way forward, others categorically refuse, and so firm corrective...

Set in the 25th century, Bodekka: Daughter of Lutor continues the story of Lutor: Prophet of the New Age. This is the second volume in the Xerses Chronicles Trilogy.Humankind is on an evolutionary journey. Lutor is the first Prophet sent to the new species...

The third installment in the Starchasers saga-A Home Among the Stars-follows Skyler, Michael and Kax as the raging war begins to reach a fever pitch. In the United Galactic Forces Space Academy, things intensify as more is revealed about our characters. As Skyler wrestles...

Headstrong, tomboyish Annetta Severio and her cynical, sharp-tongued friend Jason Kinsman are two teenagers from Toronto, making the most of their mundane existence. Their world is forever changed when they discover that their fathers were once the protectors of a castle called The Eye...

Who is David? Is he just a thirteen year old boy with a strange delusional amnesia or is there something more?When he is found unconscious by the roadside with a gash to his head, he does not have anything to identify him. When he...

Ethan Jones and his friend Jake have had enough of adventure. After a summer spent travelling to different universes, they're content to return to a normal, boring life at school and home. But when their friend Sam's alarm goes off in the middle of...

TIME MACHINES BREAK REALITY. SEVERAL TIMES...The time aerial seizes Harry's mind and flings him into the past--but to the wrong time. He tries to set things right, but unleashes a catastrophe.The debonair Richard arrives--but he is stalked from the future. Reality breaks--but the universe...

It's the final meeting of the camp before Willow and her friends find themselves whisked away to different schools hidden all over the main world. When Cassandrhea Tibbins interrupts, changes in plans are set in motion. With 'The Empowered' newspaper, run by the Quidnunks,...

Why do prophecies have to speak in riddles? Willow's destiny led her to a whole book of them. If that wasn't bad enough a gypsy witch shows up and utters words that made even less sense. Was it a curse or another prediction? With...

Harry was a man once. Now a skilled Tigris warrior, Harry, and his Ursidae companion Secuutus, find themselves in the middle of a species war. A battle for supremacy between the Lupus and the Ursidae Casts over the right to rule the neutral town...

In 1988, a baby girl is found abandoned on Traveller's Mountain and tests reveal her DNA is unknown. Close by, a critically injured man is rescued from Bear's Lake. He recovers way too quickly, and is 'disappeared' by National Security. Twenty-five years have passed....

Jack is the most famous rock star in the world... he's just not from this planet. Before joining NASA's space programme, Jack had dreams of a career as a professional musician. When a deep space mission goes awry, he crashes on an alien planet....

How do children deal with the breakdown of the world they live in? And will Nestor Tark's compassion for them destroy his own family's happiness? In the Sevolite Empire, your quality of life is determined by your genetic make-up, so it's tempting to twist...

Ice mining in space, aliens within our solar system, colonization of extraterrestrial moons, war between interplanetary corporations, and time travelers bent on destruction... NASA's Cassini Missions have captured stunning images of Saturn, its mesmerizing Rings of ice and rock, and its 53 officially named...

In the aftermath of a world ravaged by disease, fire, famine and drought, a botanist erects a biodome over Austin's Lake Travis in order to deter evaporation and protect his hydrofarm. However plans to electrify and seal the dome's exterior, separate the haves from...

Most people know where they belong. As an outcast, even among misfits, I'm not that lucky. It's fine. I don't need them. These walls I've built keep me safe. Until they don't anymore. With the rebellion under way, I have enough on my hands...

Ten million years in the future, several solar bodies have been terraformed and populated, and the inhabitants have evolved into different species of human. One wants to exterminate the rest. An adult lighthearted old fashioned time and space opera.Author: McGrewISBN-10: 0991053109ISBN-13: 9780991053100Publisher: McGrew PublishingLanguage:...

The Canary Island's Cumbre Vieja volcano is experiencing a major 8.9 earthquake. Some say it's just a local disaster. But, Dr. Samuel May, one of the world's premier researchers on stratovolcanos knows different. He's a renowned crackerjack scientist who's predicted this earthquake would cause...

Blackwater, Colorado . . . a small, sleepy town that should be an oasis of normal in a chaotic universe. Alas, things are almost never normal in Blackwater. Hannibal Hartford Langhorne, the intrepid publisher of The Valley Eagle newspaper, is drawn into investigations of...

In the third book of the Daedalus Rimes Saga, it's been four years since the Korlah arrived. Earth is reeling from the infusion of alien technology as preparations are made to defend the planet from an impending invasion. The great leap into space has...

The Eternal Echo is a terrifying story, equal parts literary and horror. Doctor David Ravensdale is a madman who conducts an experiment by adopting a baby and raising him from infancy to adulthood, strictly by use of technology. The Good Doctor believes he is...

Who's Dreaming Who? In the middle of a dream, 13-year-old Willis Newman runs into Sala - a girl his age who says they used to be best friends. She needs his help to find her brother Miles, who has been lost for years on...

Going into outer space calls to Astronaut Brooke Jones like the sirens of old, and when the chance to be part of the first manned mission to Mars arises, she is ecstatic. But little does she know the fate that awaits her on the...

This is the story of a small mind-riding alien, alone out on strange skies. He reaches a faraway skyland safely, and then, far from home and family, he struggles to rescue himself, his new friends, and ultimately even his enemies, for he is the...

The Dark Knight Na'garoz has stolen the prophecy and taken it south. Alaric must decide whether he tries to recover the prophecy or to use the Jade Dagger to find the next Stone of Power. The wrong decision would mean the death of them...

Have you ever dreamed of living your life over again?Would you make different choices this time around? Would you use the wisdom of hind-sight to make sure you didn't make the same mistakes? Would you have more confidence, take more chances, love more, and...

Although earthquakes are common in Southern California, the tremors that woke Bill Marshall from a sound sleep were different. Hordes of unworldly monsters invade his home desperate to kill him and his family. Miraculously, Sentinel Lance Allright arrives in time to stop the attack....

O NEGATIVE by Cassandra Lynn King is an excellent, fresh, bold story that fans of science fiction won't be able to put down! The writing is engaging. Immediately I wanted to find out what would be happening. All in all, this is a book...

Space aliens have invaded the earth! Unfortunately nobody is even aware, at least until Gabe, pet-sitter by day and jump-blues bandleader by night, finds himself face-to-face with a raccoon that talks like Louis Armstrong. Ronny (he named himself after Ronald Reagan, thinking that this...

The Hanson Conundrum As the world shudders under the impact of Senator Chandler's historic speech, the unspeakable horror finally arrives... While politicians jockey for position and scheme to exploit the Hanson Revelations for personal gain, a seemingly random series of terrible disasters occur. But...

The year is 2450 C.E. and the world has enjoyed two centuries of peace. The population of the planet has stabilised at 3 billion following the devastating effects of climate change, famine, disease and wars that raged for nearly 200 years. One central government,...

Ms. Never is the story of a woman with apocalyptic depression, and a guy who buys human souls using the terms of service in cell-phone contracts. They fall in love and soon have to risk everything to save their family - and reality itself.REVIEWS!"(A)...

Dr John Simmons, a world leading genetic engineer is a genius. Beset by personal tragedies, he created the ultimate drug, a miracle cure for many. Hidden behind his shadow were ruthless men, waiting, calculating, scheming, and desperate. Tucked away in the Swiftgene research facility,...

Thought is more dangerous than you think...Roman Doyle has been living a normal life as a married 25-year-old schoolteacher. When five large men attack him, he's confident in his ability to defend himself. But, this isn't an ordinary mugging. Roman doesn't know that he...

To everyone's joy, Colette Gibson returns to the island she grew up on, back to her friends and family. She cant believe how much her kids have grown! Now seeing things through Rudisha Gibson's mind also, we see much more of what life is...

In a strange medieval-like world, this inquiry into false Messiahs and failed utopias centers on Konrad, an enigmatic visionary. He arrives a stranger in Aln as a stranger but soon secures the position of schoolmaster, beginning to enmesh the townspeople and the children in...

Follow Lieutenant Jinjer Rojjers, a heavily armed fem-cop detective, on her breathtaking voyage through the shape-shifting realms of an afterlife Manhattan called BardoTown and read about Rebirth Stations, deadly belly dances, and the surprises in the shadow of the Darkside StarDome in this unusual...

Covering a wide range of pivotal moments in 20th-century history, this massive epic is a semi-autobiographical, conspiracy-minded piece of science fiction populated by J. Edgar Hoover, Cold War spies, world-devouring slimemolds and otherworldly aliens. More than 3,000 photographs with hilarious captions complete this one-of-a-kind...

QUEST FOR THE RUBY PYRAMID It's 2020 and strange things are happening in the Egyptian desert. It begins with a terrifying battle at the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid, and it will lead an intrepid band of psychic agents on a harrowing quest for...

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Author: Stephen CooperISBN-10: 0759689385ISBN-13: 9780759689381Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2003Pages: 436Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 7.98h x 5.60w x 1.05d