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At the start of his junior year in high school, Timothy becomes an orphan when his dad dies. He wanted to believe his dad was an extraterrestrial rather than the drunk that people called him. His dad didn't start drinking until his wife, Timothy's mom, died two years before. Like his mom, there was no funeral for his dad. Just strange relatives arriving to take him away. The relatives did not come back.
Timothy was, left alone with his inheritance,...
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The sweeping saga continues as Gabriel Ferro and Dr. Catherine Blake prepare to travel to the alien's planet to learn firsthand how the aliens successfully transformed their society to one that revels in peace harmony and balance. But the question remains… what are the alien's true motives? Is it their intention to transmute mankind forever? Together, Gabriel and Dr. Blake venture beyond Earth, beyond the Milky Way to a world they could not have...
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In AD 2125, humanity fell short of achieving the United Nations' sustainable development goals. Technological advancements in the past century led to the creation of nuclear defense systems and new types of nuclear weapons, including meteorological weapons. However, this technological competition and exploitation resulted in the depletion of natural resources and the destruction of the environment. A 180-year period of relative peace came to an end...
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"Eddie Robson's Drunk on All Your Strange New Words is a locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of translating his thoughts into English makes her somewhat wobbly on her feet. She's not the agency's best translator, but what else is she going to do? She has no qualifications, and no discernible talent in...
66) Scimitar's Glory
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With alien races both overtly and covertly hostile pressing into human space on all sides. The war finally comes to the Space Force that defends our frontiers. But when a panicked flag officer orders a risky long-range jump that goes horribly wrong, a fleet finds itself a LONG way from home with not enough food for everyone to make it back. Hard decisions have to be made with both challenges and opportunities along the way. Can the fleet make it back...
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All booklovers, sit back, relax, and read The Eyes Have It.
The rabble-rousing town crier, Louis Ciara, said to his girlfriend, Debbie, "I can feel it in my spine. Those alien things are arriving in our town sooner than later. My backbone sensation is never wrong!"
Debbie just smiled, and then she kissed Louis on the lips and replied, "No one wants to believe that kind of stuff, Lou. We don't need any encounters with the police, so let us just eat...
68) Shattered Stars
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Connor didn't remember alien abduction being a part of his college schedule.
He doesn't know it, but he's about to learn a whole lot more than what he paid for.
Disoriented and confused, he stumbles out of an unfamiliar room, and realizes his body is no longer human. A renegade alien helps him escape captivity, but when he sneaks back home, his family is missing. Have they been transformed too?
Amid the search for his family, he uncovers an elaborate...
70) Drakenheart
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Sixteen-year-old Lily is battling the difficulties of high school as well as navigating the new life-altering journey she is forced to embark on. She discovers a world of magic and mystery full of secrets and hidden truths. Revealing a price on her head and the remnants of an age-old civil war, along the way, she meets powerful allies, faces treacherous adversaries, and discovers the strength to confront her destiny--all while crushing on the new...
71) Sing
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In a village on the distant colony of Kiruna, the outcast Aino has worked hard to created a life for herself. The fragile status quo is upset when the offworlder Petr arrives and insists on becoming a part of her life. But he has no idea what it will cost him, and has cost Aino, to belong to the people who sing with inhuman voices, in Sing by Karin Tidbeck.
72) Fact or Fiction
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FACT OR FICTION
HAVE YOU EVER PILOTED
A UFO?
HAVE YOU TALKED
TO AN ALIEN?
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN
SHOT BY AN ALIEN?
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN
OPERATED ON BY AN ALIEN
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN
FRIENDS WITH AN ALIEN?
The author has waited years to tell you what it is like.
And it can be proven.
73) Mongrel
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Tardi Malko is a 22nd century Byron Bay truck-jockey. For his second job, he surfs for a never happy Virtual Surfing outfit. His ex-girlfriend refuses to accept they aren't a couple anymore and secretly signs him up for a job with her, and his brought-back-to-life brother wants to stay dead next time his CPU freezes.
When Tardi is infected with a sentient alien substance by falling against some coral, the Moogerah Monster comes alive in his mind....
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A single mother facing a life-threatening illness, deportation, and the possible loss of her children goes for a job interview in a strange mansion filled with virtual reality machines and other high tech devices. In exchange for the health, wealth, and safety of the woman and her children, the prospective employer requests that she undertake a painful, terrifying task.
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We are not alone in the universe! Yet one would never believe that first contact with an alien race would actually be with Neanderthals, who walked our planet long ago. Plenteriens, an ancient alien civilization, understood the Neanderthals were headed for sure extinction and went against the laws of the Tri-Galaxy Alliance by sending a fleet of starships with the sole purpose of capturing half the remaining population of Neanderthals to enslave for...
76) Collaborators
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Poised on the brink of war, the people of the planet Bandar are stunned by the arrival of a disabled Terran space ship. But the Terrans are even less prepared to understand the politics, gender fluidity, or mob reflexes of the natives. The Terran captain uses increasing force as the only way to ensure desperately needed repairs. Hoping to bring enlightened human values to the natives, a young scientist's intervention leads to disaster.
After a vicious...
77) Origins
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After fleeing the front lines during a brutal battle, Captain Darnizva's fleet crash lands on Earth. Interbreeding jump starts a new evolution of humans and the population is not ready. Darnizva witnesses the ugly side of humanity and is having a hard time convincing them to unite. The enemy is coming and hope for Earth's survival dwindles.
78) The Creator
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Discover the epic tale of Draconian, the first being in existence, in the gripping novel The Creator. Witness as he creates Alaskia, a vast universe filled with billions of planets and countless species, which he rules as King and Emperor. With his vast power, he creates civilizations, gives life to beings and shapes entire worlds.
However, as time passes, a threat arises that Draconian could never have foreseen. Envy and treachery begin to spread,...
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You do not always have to go looking for a guardian angel. He may be looking for you-but perhaps for somebody else's benefit! Rhadampsicus and Nodalictha were on their honeymoon, and consequently they were sentimental. To be sure, it would not have been easy for humans to imagine sentiment as existing between them. Humans would hardly associate tenderness with glances cast from sets of sixteen eyes mounted on jointed eye stalks, nor link langorous...
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Beth Summers is a reporter for The Jasper Messenger, and she has just uncovered the biggest story since the creation of mankind: that aliens exist and they're on Earth. The aliens are here to conquer the planet and enslave mankind for their own twisted purpose. They are abducting humans, and the city of Jasper is infested with four-feet-tall, grey, skinny aliens, and ones who were cloned to look like humans. On the outskirts of Jasper is Ruffs Dog...
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