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The Arbitrator by Max Nowaz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsGREAT 5* REVIEWS on GOODREADS WAS THERE A PANG OF REMORSE FOR HIS ACTIONS? POSSIBLY, BUT WHAT CHOICE DID HE HAVE? HE HAD NO ROOM FOR WEAKNESS, IF HE WANTED TO SURVIVE. Jim Brown, formerly a highly successful, but ruthless, troubleshooting Administrator for the EPA, The Earth Policy Administration, was rotting in prison, dying of an incurable drug habit that he had acquired whilst in there... -
Under the Same Sky by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMagnus and Kaitlyn are in two different places, two different times. But she remembers their last conversation — “Where do you know I love you?” “On the air around me, mo reul-iuil. On every breeze is your sigh, under every sky. Tis always the same stars, ye ken. As long as ye are under them then I can hear ye, I love ye, ye say. I can always hear it.” “Good... -
Inception: The Shooting Script by Christopher J. Nolan
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsInception, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s seventh feature film, joins the epic scope of The Dark Knight with the narrative sophistication of Memento... -
Back To You by Steve Bates
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSearching for history’s greatest pastrami on rye, Chris arrives from 1,000 years in the future and hides his time machine in an alley. But Eddie sees through the disguise, takes an unexpected ride, and demonstrates it to his boss at a failing cable TV network... -
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Vânătoarea by Lavinia Călina
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContinuarea romanului „Ultimul avanpost”Pentru fosta prinţesă Diane, viaţa a luat o întorsătură neaşteptată. Ajunsă la Avanpost şi implicată activ în misiuni aproape imposibile pentru oricine altcineva, dar nu şi pentru Subiecţi, ea află că diferenţele dintre persoanele care conduc grupul de rebeli şi cei din structura despotică a Regatului României par să nu fie atât de mari... -
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Replacement by Jordan Rivet
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJane is a leftover clone. Created for an unknown purpose, then abandoned at a rundown facility outside Grid City, she has a knack for trouble and a burning desire to find out why she was made.When a powerful tycoon hires her to replace his son Isaac’s best friend, a girl from the same clone batch as her, Jane jumps at the chance to finally get some answers... -
The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman: A Time Travel Adventure by Nick Jones
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMeet Joseph Bridgeman, a reclusive insomniac with a weakness for ‘The Beatles’ on vinyl and a constant headache. When his annoying accountant suggests hypnotherapy might help him sleep, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time-travel and things get a little complicated... -
Vaz by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 20 ratings“Vaz” is the story of Vaz Gettnor, a socially impaired, yet scientifically brilliant man. Despite his inability to relate to others, Lisanne married him in admiration for what she perceived as shy intelligence. However, she’s been disappointed by the way he’s settled for working as no more than a glorified lab tech with a low salary... -
とある魔術の禁書目録 19 by Kazuma Kamachi
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA certain unlikely hero...In the shadowy underbelly of Academy City, the problem-busting team known as Group (centered around Level Five esper Accelerator and the man who wields the powers of science and magic, Tsuchimikado) is investigating every lead they can related to the word dragon. This clue may be the key to finding their way out of a terrible situation... -
The Diary of River Song: Series 1 by Jenny T. Colgan, Justin Richards
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1.1 The Boundless Sea by Jenny T ColganRiver Song has had more than enough excitement for a while. Deciding the universe – and her husband – can look after themselves, she has immersed herself in early 20th century academia, absorbed in writing archaeological theses.But when a mysterious tomb is found in a dry, distant land, excitement comes looking for River...Categorized as:
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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures: 10th Doctor Audio Originals by Peter Anghelides, Catherine Tate
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDavid Tennant, Catherine Tate and Michelle Ryan read this exclusive collection of original audio adventures. Join the Tenth Doctor on these seven adventures in Time and Space, written specially for audio.Pest Control by Peter Anghelides - read by David Tennant?. The Doctor and Donna face monstrous insects and a ruthless robot exterminator.The Forever Trap by Dan Abnett - read by Catherine Tate... -
Doctor Who: Live 34 by James Parsons, Andrew Stirling-Brown
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratings‘You’re listening to LIVE 34.’‘LIVE 34 -- news on the hour, every hour -- LIVE 34 -- broadcasting to Colony 34 all day, every day -- LIVE 34 -- constantly updated every minute of every hour -- LIVE 34 -- sport, weather, business, local news, interplanetary affairs -- LIVE 34 -- live, independent, accurate, comprehensive -- LIVE 34 -- all news, all day, every day -- LIVE 34... -
Collapsed by Jenetta Penner
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe world is split in two… and both sides are deadly.In a society of extreme have or have nots, Tenly Hawkins is just trying to improve her future.Born into the Cobalts, the lowest rung of society, she has done everything possible to escape her fate by playing by the rules. Against all odds, she secures a coveted position in the Premier Workforce… and a way out of squalor into Scarlet society...Categorized as:
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Independence Day: Silent Zone by Stephen Molstad
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe No. 1 blockbuster movie Independence Day was only part of the story. After the alien invaders are downed and teams are sent out to find survivors, only some personal belongings of Dr. Brackish Okun, head scientist of Area 51, are found.Okun's story is amazing, yet completely believable... -
Three Days After Impact by Jacqueline Druga
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the news of an impending extinction level meteor impact is made public, humanity struggles to find some way to survive. Violet journals her life in a notebook in the form of letters to her grandmother. They start out sarcastic and funny, as she shares entertaining and exaggerated tales of her teenage life. But when Violet finds out about the meteor, everything changes...Categorized as:
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Do You Realize? by Kevin A. Kuhn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGeorge is a middle-management, middle-class, middle-aged guy who hates his job and struggles to stay connected to his wife and teenage children. Most guys might end up with a steamy affair and a flashy car for their midlife crisis, but George gets a quirky, philosophical physics professor named Shiloh... -
I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNumerous attempts had been made to adapt Isaac Asimov's classic story-cycle to the motion picture medium. All efforts failed. In 1977, producers approached the author to take a crack at this impossible project. He accepted, and produced an astonishing screenplay. This book presents that screenplay... -
A New Hope: The Illustrated Screenplay (Star Wars, Episode IV) by George Lucas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNow here is the complete screenplay of the film that launched a science fiction phenomenon. Experience the capture of Princess Leia by Lord Darth Vader and the evil minions of the Empire...Farmboy Luke Skywalker's discovery of her desperate message hidden in the droid R2-D2...Luke's fateful meetings with legendary Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and intergalactic smuggler Han Solo.. -
The Starchild Compact by Robert G. Williscroft
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"The Starchild Compact" is an epic tale of beginnings, roots, what might have been, and what might be. It is an adventure of heroic proportions, commencing 500 light years away, arriving here just a few years from now, and ending in the distant expanses of the Universe... -
Counted Worthy by Leah E. Good
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHeather Stone lives in fear of repeating the past, yet she continues doing the one thing that could trigger another disaster. When the police trace an illegal Bible to her house, Heather’s world begins to crumble. Her father’s life hangs in the balance. No one with the power to help knows or cares. If she tries to save him, she could lead her friends to their deaths... -
Out in the Cold by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when the world’s deadliest operative is activated with no target to take out?Tina Harrington was a member of the black ops team known as C.O.R.P.S.E. - until she was killed.But her death triggered a secret program, activating an android that was trained to kill, yet is now confused about its mission... -
Defect: Part One by Autumn Kalquist
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis edition is out-of-print. These short episodes have been merged into upcoming novel release Defective.Selene Hayes is a genetic experiment gone wrong. Damaged.Broken.Defective. World hunger has been vanquished, but drug-resistant diseases kill millions. The corporation that gave Selene superimmunity called her Protected...until they discovered the truth...Categorized as:
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Singularity by Bill DeSmedt
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA maverick astrophysicist, a rookie secret agent, and an uncanny consultant join forces in this technological thriller to stop the capture of a submicroscopic black hole whose power will be harnessed to transform - or end - the world. More than a hundred years earlier, the most violent cosmic collision ever recorded flattened a remote area in Tunguska, Siberia... -
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Dune: The Lady of Caladan by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: The Lady of Caladan is a brand new novel in the internationally bestselling Dune series.Lady Jessica, mother of Paul, and consort to Leto Atreides. The choices she made shaped an empire, but first the Lady of Caladan must reckon with her own betrayal of the Bene Gesserit... -
Doctor Who: Project: Lazarus by Cavan Scott, Mark Wright
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratings"I'll survive Doctor. I always do."Unfinished business.A frightened girl is stalked in a land of eternal night.A hunter longs for recognition and power.A traveller in time returns to correct the mistakes of the past and faces a danger that could rob him of his future. Unless his future intervenes.And in the shadows stands Nimrod. Waiting...Welcome to the Forge... -
Survival of the Fittest by Sabine C. Bauer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn eye for an eye…Colonel Frank Simmons has never been a friend to SG-1. Working for the shadowy government organization, the NID, he has hatched a horrifying plan to create an army as devastatingly effective as that of any Goa’uld. And he will stop at nothing to fulfill his ruthless ambition, even if that means forfeiting the life of the SGC’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Janet Fraiser... -
A Certain Magical Index, Vol. 10 by Kazuma Kamachi
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeven days have passed since the start of the Daihasei Festival, one of the biggest events of Academy City. Everyone is participating--Seiri Fukiyose is helping coordinate the games, Komoe Tsukuyomi dresses for the part as she cheers for her students, and of course, famous Mikoto Misaka is blowing away the competition... -
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, And Other Plays For Today, Tomorrow, And Beyond Tomorrow by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings... -
The Dark King / The Lightning Tower by Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe Dark King by Graham McNeillThe acts of terror and warmongering by Konrad Curze, Primarch of the Night Lords Legion, have earned the ire of his brother primarch, Rogal Dorn. Wracked by terrible visions of the future, Curze is driven insane and attacks Dorn, setting the Night Lord on an inexorable course towards eternal damnation... -
Cartas desde el desierto by Manu Carbajo
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEn un futuro no muy lejano, La Mili vuelve a ser obligatoria para todos los jóvenes que cumplan dieciséis años. Hacerla implica muchas cosas, pero hay una a la que todos temen: El Desierto. El peor sitio al que te pueden mandar es un lugar tan árido y aislado que nadie sabe decir con exactitud dónde está... -
Doctor Who: The Shadow of the Scourge by Paul Cornell, Sophie Aldred
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe Pinehill Crest Hotel in Kent is host to three very different events: a cross-stich convention, an experiment in time travel and... the summoning of the scourge.The Doctor, Bernice and Ace find themselves dealing with a dead body that's come back to life, a mystical symbol that possesses its host, and a threat from another universe that's ready for every trick the Doctor's got up his sleeve... -
Raven's Flight by Gav Thorpe
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsBrand new in original shrink wrap... -
Flare by Jonathan Maas
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFEAR THE DAYLIGHT Without warning or explanation, an extended solar flare bombards the earth and doesn't stop, making each day a battle for survival. The sunlight blinds and burns instantly, and then kills within minutes. The radiation has also destroyed all of the earth's circuitry, leaving the nights dark and dangerous... -
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Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse by James Goss
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith illustrations by Russell T Davies, original showrunner of the new-era Doctor Who, the first ever Doctor Who poetry collection—a charming, funny and whimsical illustrated collection of verse that celebrates the joys and pitfalls of getting older . . . Time-Lord older.Like many of us, the older they get, the more Time Lords realize how little they understand the universe around them... -
Doctor Who: The Fires of Vulcan by Steve Lyons, Sylvester McCoy
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsTwo thousand years ago, a volcanic eruption wiped the Roman city of Pompeii from the face of the Earth. It also buried the Doctor's TARDIS...Arriving in Pompeii one day before the disaster, the Doctor and Mel find themselves separated from their ship and entangled in local politics. As time runs out, they fight to escape from the shadow of Mount Vesuvius... -
The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton by Robert Sheckley
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe is a tortured soul. Separated at an early age from two conflicting personalities, Alistair Crompton has decided on a daring scheme to reintegrate himself. But installed in different bodies and despatched to different planets, his two other selves have developed lives of their own: Loomis, who is completely self-indulgent and amoral; and Stack, vicious and impulsive... -
Q by Ben Mezrich
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSARS. Avian Flu. Ebola. Every year, the infectious disease changes—but the threat remains the same. We've all read the headlines. We all know the score. Our interconnected world is at a uniquely dangerous moment. The potential for an epidemic progressing to a catastrophic level has never been higher... -
Shift by Zack Mason
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat is the worst thing that could happen to you?For Mark Carpen, it is the death of his children at the hands of a drunk driver. In the tragic aftermath, he also loses his wife, his job, and everything else of value. Grief-stricken, Mark turns his back on society for a life wandering through the North Georgia woods.That is, until he finds a strange watch in the middle of those woods... -
Wolfhound by Kindal Debenham
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEnsign Jacob Hull never intended to be a hero. As a newly commissioned officer in the Celostian Navy, his goal was to serve well until the day he could retire. Then disaster strikes on his first cruise aboard the CNS Wolfhound, and he will have to display all the courage, skill and determination he has in order to keep the remaining crew members out of danger...Categorized as:
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Never Love a Stranger by Harold Robbins
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHarold Robbins' very first novel is also one of his most powerful. Never Love a Stranger tells the gritty and passionate tale of Francis "Frankie" Kane, from his meager beginnings as an orphan in New York's Hell's Kitchen. From that confused and belittling start, Frank works his way up, choosing the wrong side of the law to make a name for himself... -
Honour to the Dead by Gav Thorpe
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA Horus Heresy short storyAs Calth burns, the Titans of the Fire Masters and True Messengers duel over the ruined city of Ithraca. With the Ultramarines scattered, who will defend the terrified population?READ IT BECAUSEIt’s Titan on Titan action on a dying world, but despite the scale of the armoured behemoths, the heart of the story is a mortal woman and her family... -
The Kip Brothers (Extraordinary Voyages, #50) by Jules Verne
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCastaways on a barren island in the South Seas, Karl and Pieter Kip are rescued by the brig James Cook. After helping to quell an onboard mutiny, however, they suddenly find themselves accused and convicted of the captain's murder... -
Alien Nation by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNovelization of the movie starring Mandy Patinkin and James Caan.Los Angeles is trying to absorb a new kind of immigrant -- aliens. The Newcomers were slaves on a ship that crashed in the California desert and as they are released from quarantine and assimilated into society there are expected and unexpected difficulties... -
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Sagittarius Is Bleeding by Peter David
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPresident Laura Roslin bears a heavy burden. Since becoming the president of the twelve human colonies when the Cylons brutally attacked and destroyed all but a small remnant of humanity's billions, she has been the voice of civil authority, counterbalancing the military leadership of Commander Adama of the Battlestar Galactica... -
Warmaster by John French, Tim Treloar
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsIn the strategium of the Vengeful Spirit, Warmaster Horus sets up his assault on his father’s Imperium... -
Strike and Fade by Guy Haley, Toby Longworth
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsIn the aftermath of the Isstvan V massacre, a group of Salamanders survivors lay a trap for their foes, a group of unwary Night Lords on the hunt for easy prey."Guy Haley's 'Strike and Fade' is a wonderful tribute to the Fire-born, steeped in all the ash, fire and righteous fury I've come to associate the Salamanders with... -
Doctor Who: The Apocalypse Element by Stephen Cole, Colin Baker
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the planet Archetryx is threatened by a Dalek assault squad, the Doctor and Evelyn become embroiled in an ever-deepening mystery... -
Censure by Nick Kyme, Samuel Gunn
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIn the depths of Calth’s arcology network, the Underworld War has raged for years. Aeonid Thiel, previously an honoured sergeant of the Ultramarines, once again finds himself in trouble – pitted against the daemonic forces of the Word Bearers, he has no choice but to venture back to the ravaged surface and brave the deadly solar flares that have scoured all life from this world... -
Thief of Revelations by Graham McNeill, Gareth Armstrong
Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe Thousand Sons – a Legion whose destiny was irrevocably altered at Prospero, and yet who now seem to dance only to fate’s tune. Ahzek Ahriman and Magnus the Red cast their psychic sight over the galaxy, seeking any clue as to what the future might hold and where their true allegiance should ultimately be placed.A Horus Heresy audio drama written by Graham McNeill.Running time approx 35 mins...
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