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Relentless (The Lost Fleet, Book 5)
The Lost Fleet: Relentless
Jack Campbell
Captain John “Black Jack” Geary races to save a group of Alliance POWs from certain death in this gripping novel in New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series.   Alliance prisoners of war are being held at a labor camp in the Heradao star system, which also happens to be the location of the majority of the surviving Syndic warships. Determined not to leave any of his people behind, “Black Jack” Geary orders the fleet to strike hard and fast to rescue the POWs with minimal Alliance losses.   The raid is successful, but victory is short-lived. Geary discovers that the Syndics plan to ambush the fleet with their powerful reserve flotilla in an attempt to annihilate it once and for all—but he doesn’t know where the enemy is located. And as Geary has the fleet jump from one star system to the next, hoping to avoid the inevitable confrontation, saboteurs contribute to the chaos...

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The Walls of the Universe
The Walls of the Universe
Paul Melko
John Rayburn thought all of his problems were the mundane ones of an Ohio farm boy in his last year in high school. Then his doppelgø¤nger appeared, tempted him with a device that let him travel across worlds, and stole his life from him. John soon finds himself caroming through universes, unable to return home€”the device is broken. John settles in a new universe to unravel its secrets and fix it.Meanwhile, his doppelgø¤nger tries to exploit the commercial technology he€™s stolen from other Earths: the Rubik€™s Cube! John€™s attempts to lie low in his new universe backfire when he inadvertently introduces pinball. It becomes a huge success. Both actions draw the notice of other, more dangerous travelers, who are exploiting worlds for ominous purposes. Fast-paced and exciting, this is SF adventure at its best from a rising star.

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The New Mars (The New Mars Saga Book 1)
The New Mars
John L. Manning Jr.
The story starts out with an introduction of investors investing into a project of turning Mars into a vacation spot with a retirement community. The workers of this project are looking for more to do during their off hours besides eat and sleep. Some of these workers build pod racers out of old rovers and other discarded mechanics to race around the terrain of Mars.These workers have formed teams to race each other and the Mars Dome wants to join in with the fun. The Mars Dome was the first three story dome that has grown into three Domes. The third dome is being constructed as this book begins. The third dome of the now Mars Domes is a Hotel Dome for vacationers. This dome is built faster than they expected, so the extra workers from the Hotel Dome project join the Tent project.A separate tent has been started for the retirees with a big mall at the other end of a street from the entrance of this tent with condominiums on each side. This Mall has a gym and spa for the retirees to get there exercise with a food court and restaurants this mall even has all of the stores that you would expect in a shopping mall. But on the second floor of this mall, is a hospital with rooms for the retirees that need full time care. Because of the less gravity of Mars, these retirees are active at the park and sports facilities. The Pod races grow and a team from the Mars Domes join the teams of racers from the Tent project. The racers from the Mars Domes want to have spectators for these races, so they construct six one room domes with stands inside around the race cores. These teams of racers from the Tent project are made up of Builders, Technician, and Freelance workers. The Team from the Mars Domes have the advantage from scientists and newer materials, so there is a bit of complaining.As the construction of the Tents goes on and the races get bigger, one of the managers get the idea of building a sports tent. The idea sports facility is a hit with the investors to build a vacation spot that is full of activates. This sports tent in cases a small creator with a racetrack around the inner crust of this creator there is room for an active retiree community in this creator and much more. There is even a stadium in this Tent B and a gaming center with all kinds of games.A small group of vacationers that want to be one of the first gusts on Mars show up and they explore the three tents and just love the Pod races. After they go there are some extreme sports stars invited to brake in the park, and they bring their family to join in with the fun. The story ends with the now called "The New Mars Project" with all three tents ready for hundreds of guests.

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Cartoon Network: Ben 10 Alien Force/Secret Saturdays
Ben 10 Alien Force, Cartoon Network
Various, Various
This graphic novel features all-new stories based on the hit Cartoon Network animated series, BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE and THE SECRET SATURDAYS. Fifteen-year old Ben Tennyson faces the wrath of the DNAliens, who have captured his Grandpa Max and are scheming a fullscale infiltration of Earth and the universe. Ben teams with his cousin Gwen Tennyson and his former nemesis Kevin Eleven to fight these new alien hoards and save the universe with the power of the Omnitrix. Zak Saturday and his parents, Doc and Drew are a family of world-saving scientists called "The Secret Saturdays." Living in a hidden base, they are part of a secret organization of scientists known as The Secret Scientists who protect mankind against the hidden and terrifying things of the world.

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Ender in Exile (The Ender Quintet)
Ender In Exile
Orson Scott Card
A Reading Guide for Ender's Game. THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender's Series: Ender Wiggin: The finest general the world could hope to find or breed. The following Ender's Series titles are listed in order: Ender's Game, Ender In Exile, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind. Ender's Shadow Series: Parallel storylines to Ender’s Game from Bean: Ender’s right hand, his strategist, and his friend. The following Ender's Shadow Series titles are listed in order: Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, Shadows in Flight. The First Formic War Series: One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. These are the stories of the First Formic War. Earth Unaware, Earth Afire. Ender Novellas A War of Gifts, First Meetings. The Authorized Ender Companion: A complete and in-depth encyclopedia of all the persons, places, things, and events in Orson Scott Card’s Ender Universe.

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Time's Chariot
Time's Chariot
Ben Jeapes
THE HIMALAYAS, 5000 BC:Commissioner Daiho is dead, but there’s no question of foul play. The murder of a Home Timer is about as likely as unauthorized interference with the work of a Correspondent. . . .Isfahan, Arabia, 1029:Abu Ali was startled. He hadn’t heard the stranger enter. The Correspondent was even more alarmed—his enhanced senses would have picked up the arrival of any normal human. Then the stranger spoke, and it was the language of the Home Time. Seconds later, Correspondent RC/1029’s world went dark.The Home Time, 2000 Years Later:Field Operative Rico Garron is about to have a very bad day.

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Valor's Trial (Valor Novel)
Valor's Trial
Tanya Huff
The fourth book in Tanya Huff's action-packed military sci-fi adventure Confederation seriesAfter surviving the perils of the Crucible, the Marine Corps planet where a routine training assignment had taken a deadly twist—Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr returned to Ventris Station just in time to link up with her old platoon and head out to a new war zone, an area of space where the enemy known as the Others appeared to be building up its forces for a preemptive strike. Sent to pull back troops who’d moved up to an indefensible position, Torin was caught in the heaviest fighting just as a devastating air strike reduced the whole area to slag. The Corps concluded that she was dead. But despite irrefutable evidence, neither Torin’s father nor salvager Craig Ryder agreed. And the truth was that Torin had survived. She woke to discover that she was trapped in a series of underground caves that appeared to be an enemy-run POW camp. But everyone knew the Others never took prisoners—or did they? Could Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr escape this prison that shouldn’t even exist, taking as many Marines as possible with her? Though she was determined to get herself and her Marines back to the Confederation, Torin had no idea how crucial her attempt could prove, not only to her own well-being, but to the course of the entire war.

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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America (SF Hall of Fame)
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
Ben Bova
Eleven essential classics in one volumeThis volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field. Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country. This volume contains novellas by Poul Anderson, John W. Campbell, Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, C.M. Kornbluth, Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Eric Frank Russell, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, H. G. Wells, and Jack Williamson.

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Human Corpse trade
The Human Corpse Trade: Byron Carmichael Book One
Russ Parsons
Explores the science underlying such cooking techniques as frying, roasting, baking, and chopping; and provides tips and recipes utilizing the author's unique cooking principles.Title: How to Read a French FryAuthor: Parsons, RussPublisher: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublication Date: 2003/09/08Number of Pages: 320Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: BL2003013824

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Neptune's Children
Neptune's Children
Bonnie Dobkin
A day at the fabled amusement park Isles of Wonder turns deadly when a world-wide biological attack kills every adult, leaving behind only the kids to fend for themselves. Isolated from the world, unsure of what lies ahead, the young survivors assemble under the statue of King Neptune, the mythical ruler of the Isles, to form a new society. Led by the children of the park workers, they choose to remain closed off from the outside world living relatively comfortably inside the self-contained park. But when violence from the infested outside world appears to infiltrate their safe zone, one small group discovers a secret society and a hidden system of underground tunnels, and the stage is set for a war that will determine the future of everyone on the Isles. As alliances are formed and broken, readers will find themselves taking sides in this suspenseful adventure story that addresses the duality of human nature.

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