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Space Specter by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Saloon Sector is the Federation’s official frontier, but beyond it lurks the Badstars. Bandits hide there. The Saloon Sector is Sheriff Max Smith’s territory. Since the revelation of his secret identity, life has changed for Max and Thelma. Their relationship is under increased pressure... -
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The Ceph Sector by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe legendary Ceph have been in stasis for forty two millennia. In a century, they’ll wake. History remembers them as an unstoppable force, employing a mysterious power to decimate sentient life on the planets they attacked. Jaya’s first mission as a new Shaman Justice is to lead an expedition into the perilous Ceph Sector...Categorized as:
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Absolution by Glynn Stewart
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA homeworld is not always home.Family is not always blood.Enemies are not always who you expect.Captain Evridiki “EB” Bardacki wants nothing more than to quietly ride off into the sunset with his fiancé, his crew, and his adopted daughter, Trace... -
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Space Rodeo by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn the galactic frontier, the Federation’s wildest (and most scientific) citizens have gathered to ride in the Space Rodeo. The Navy’s in charge—of the arena. But beyond the naval perimeter, there is only Interstellar Sheriff Max Smith to keep the peace. Fortunately, he has some extraordinary allies. And enemies. And then, there is his girlfriend... -
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![Discretion by Glynn Stewart]()
Discretion by Glynn Stewart
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA crew, scattered across enemy linesA father, separated from his daughterA daughter who will not wait for rescueThe bounty for bringing down a major crime syndicate may have removed Captain Evridiki “EB” Bardacki’s immediate financial needs, but no freighter captain wants to fly empty between the stars... -
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HMS Nightingale by J.A. Sutherland
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor Lieutenant Alexis Carew, it should be the perfect assignment — a command of her own and a chance to return to her home star system...Categorized as:
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![The Gardens of Nibiru by Richard Fox]()
The Gardens of Nibiru by Richard Fox
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEarth defeated the Toth invasion. Now humanity takes the fight to the aliens. The supreme Toth overlord, Mentiq, rules his species with an iron fist from his fortress on the planet Nibiru. Armed with stolen Toth technology, the Breitenfeld travels to the world with a single mission: Kill Mentiq and end the Toth threat to Earth...Categorized as:
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![The Little Ships by J.A. Sutherland]()
The Little Ships by J.A. Sutherland
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNewly commissioned lieutenant, Alexis Carew is appointed into HMS Shrewsbury, a 74-gun ship of the line in New London’s space navy. She expects Shrewsbury will be sent into action in the war against Hanover, but instead she finds that she and her new ship are pivotal in a Foreign Office plot to bring the star systems of the French Republic into the war and end the threat of Hanover forever...Categorized as:
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Mutineer by J.A. Sutherland
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsJust as Midshipman Alexis Carew thinks she’s found a place in the Royal Navy, she’s transferred aboard H.M.S. Hermione. Her captain is a tartar, liberal with the cat, who thinks girls have no place aboard ship. The other midshipmen in the berth are no better. The only advice she’s offered is to keep her head down and mouth shut – things Alexis is rarely able to do...Categorized as:
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![The Queen's Pardon by J.A. Sutherland]()
The Queen's Pardon by J.A. Sutherland
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAllies and enemies are not always what they seem. Trapped on a hostile world, hunted by pirate bands and abandoned by her fellow captains, Alexis Carew must lead her small band to safety, even though it seems every hand is set against her...Categorized as:
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![Crimson Sun by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert]()
Crimson Sun by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Nyctus don’t like losing, and they’ll go to any lengths to turn the tides of war.When the idyllic planet Nebo is scorched into oblivion, it’s obvious that the Nyctus are moving massive fleets into human space again, and their intention is clear: even if they lose their ships, they will render planets into ash... -
![Mandrake Company by Ruby Lionsdrake]()
Mandrake Company by Ruby Lionsdrake
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeven sizzling science-fiction romance novels!If you loved Star Wars and Firefly, but wanted way more romance, this is the series for you...Categorized as:
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Wayward Galaxy 2 by Jason Anspach, J.N. Chaney
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'WAYWARD GALAXY 2' is the explosive sequel to the blockbuster first book that had sci-fi listeners calling for more. This next installment featured the gritty combat of Galaxy's Edge combined with the world-building intrigue of the Renegade Star series... -
![Andromeda Rising by Jay Allan]()
Andromeda Rising by Jay Allan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Hero is Born The Gut. An industrial hell. The foulest and most decrepit slum on Parsephon. A nest of human misery, where hope is word long forgotten, and the dead are carted away every day. It is the worst pit in the Confederation’s great industrial machine known as the Iron Belt... -
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![Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force by Ryder Windham]()
Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force by Ryder Windham
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO THE ABSOLUTE POWER AT THE HEART OF THE STAR WARS GALAXY The Force, in the immortal words of Obi-Wan Kenobi, “surrounds us, it penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together...Categorized as:
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![Initiate by Joshua Anderle, Michael Anderle]()
Initiate by Joshua Anderle, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIt was just one fight, but it changed Kaiden Jericho's life forever.He was in a gang but was trying to change his future when a board member of the elite advanced academy NEXUS made a snap decision and offered him a chance. Then fate, or an unbalanced genius, offered him another...Categorized as:
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![Renegade Evolution by J.N. Chaney]()
Renegade Evolution by J.N. Chaney
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe truth about the gods will set you free.Jace Hughes and the people of Earth have joined with the Union and the Sarkonians to create the largest alliance in human history. They have amassed a wealth of weapons, shields, and the strongest military ever conceived.But it may not be enough... -
![Killing the Machine by Jamie Sedgwick]()
Killing the Machine by Jamie Sedgwick
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Iron Horse is a massive steam-powered locomotive manned by a crew of warriors, miscreants, and genetic anomalies. Socrates, the train’s commander, is an autonomous steam-powered gorilla with memories and knowledge reaching back more than a thousand years. Their mission is to locate a new source of starfall, the rare element that powers the ancient city of Sanctuary...Categorized as:
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Orion Protected by J.N. Chaney, Jonathan Yanez
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPrepare for war. What do you do when you find yourself in the middle of a fight you didn't start? Whatever you need to do to survive. As an unprecedented enemy grows beyond measure, Dean is faced with a choice to confront the demons of his past or let them kill him in present. The future of two species hang in the balance. No pressure. But war is never easy, and the stakes have never been higher... -
![The Calderan Problem by Joseph R. Lallo]()
The Calderan Problem by Joseph R. Lallo
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Calderan Problem is the fourth high-flying, swashbuckling adventure in the Free-Wrench series from Joseph R. Lallo, author of the Book of Deacon and Big Sigma series. Several months have passed since Nita’s last adventure in the fug, and though she has spent them back in her native Caldera, she has never been busier... -
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Nemesis by Jonathan Yanez
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVillainy has a new face. With the Voy recently dispatched, Daniel Hunt and the rest of the Pack think they have a moment of reprieve from the madness. They would be wrong. A stranger from the future comes with a story so wild it's hard to deny. If this wasn't enough a new Relic is introduced onto the field. Every faction will do whatever it takes to claim it as their own...Categorized as:
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![The Enemy Within by Jasper T. Scott]()
The Enemy Within by Jasper T. Scott
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDISCOUNTED FROM $3.99 UNTIL AUGUST 27thTHEY LEFT SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS FROM THE COSMOS AND FOUND AN EVIL AS OLD AS TIME Lucien, Garek, Addy, and Brak are all that's left of the Inquisitor's crew...Categorized as:
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Orion Awakened by J.N. Chaney, Jonathan Yanez
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn alien awakens from a long sleep.An impossible prophecy that cannot be ignored.Dean and his friends are trapped on a world they can barely comprehend with enemies on all sides and a growing need to survive.There's more to this place than any of them could have dreamed... -
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Orion Uncharted by J.N. Chaney, Jonathan Yanez
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Orion has fallen.After barely escaping with their lives, the crew of the Orion has scattered across an unknown world. With a diminishing hope of returning home, they have no choice but to band together.But between the local wildlife, lack of supplies, a missing crew, and a strange, ominous door that can't be opened, Dean and his new friends will need everything at their disposal to survive... -
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![Cosmic Catalyst by Jenny Schwartz]()
Cosmic Catalyst by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsASIN B076PSPMHH moved to latest edition as per guidelinesEveryone has secrets. But some people will risk the galaxy to protect theirs. When starship shaman Jaya Romanov and her new mate partner, galactic bounty hunter and robot wolf shifter, Vulf Trent, saved the galaxy from the deadly actions of a determined geriatric terrorist, they forgot that old Earth truism: no good deed goes unpunished...Categorized as:
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![Crudrat by Gail Carriger]()
Crudrat by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMaura is doomed to starve. Her space station has no further use for her.New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger brings you a fast-paced young adult scifi adventure featuring a capable heroine, her adorable pet, and the alien they accidentally rescue...Categorized as:
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![Occupied Earth (The Sequel to First Encounter) by Jasper T. Scott]()
Occupied Earth (The Sequel to First Encounter) by Jasper T. Scott
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFROM MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JASPER T. SCOTT THE FORERUNNERS LEFT EARTH IN SEARCH OF INTELLIGENT LIFE, AND THEY FOUND IT. Captain Clayton Cross and his crew encountered the Kyra, an advanced race of avian carnivores. They fled this first encounter, but the Kyra beat them back to Earth by almost a century. Earth lost the war in just a few weeks. Our cities burned, and billions died...Categorized as:
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![Final Days: Escape by Nathan Hystad, Jasper T. Scott]()
Final Days: Escape by Nathan Hystad, Jasper T. Scott
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAndrew and Kendra have learned what's on the other side of the ridge, but it leaves them with more questions than answers. Their colony has turned into a dictatorship under the thumb of its delusional self-appointed leader, the Reverend, making their lives a living nightmare...Categorized as:
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![Starcaster by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert]()
Starcaster by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMagic. Steel. Blood. Victory.The Earth’s navy is left drifting among the stars as Nyctus ships swarm, their purpose unknown as they continue their advance, burning one system after another.Humanity's extinction seems inevitable.But on one of the forgotten worlds, a boy is left behind, and he holds a talent unlike anything the galaxy has ever known.Thorn Stellers is a mage, made to lead and fight...Categorized as:
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Fury by Jonathan Yanez
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe more he uncovers, the less he really knows. So far answers to Daniel's past have taken him from the moon to Earth and Mars. Each memory recovered leads to yet more questions. Everything is about to change. When the survival of the humankind is threatened Daniel will have to put his own crusade for answers on hold... -
![Annihilation by Jonathan Yanez]()
Annihilation by Jonathan Yanez
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Battle For Mars Comes to a Bloody End Daniel Hunt has been many things in his life but a commander in a full out military conflict has never been one of them. The Voy is a deadly opponent and if humanity is going to have a chance every faction must come together...Categorized as:
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![Into the Dark by J.A. Sutherland]()
Into the Dark by J.A. Sutherland
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAt fifteen, Alexis Carew has to face an age old problem - she's a girl, and only a boy can inherit the family's vast holdings. Her options are few. She must marry and watch a stranger run the lands, or become a penniless tenant and see the lands she so dearly loves sold off. Yet there may be another option, one that involves becoming a midshipman on a shorthanded spaceship with no other women...Categorized as:
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![Tamed By an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross]()
Tamed By an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHe’s shy and scarred and thinks no one will ever love him. She’s determined to show him he’s the hottest alien in the universe.Durran: The Earthling females are settling into our clan, finding new homes high in the forest's canopy. Matches are being made, but not for me. Scarred as I am, none will ever glance my way. But one Earthling.. -
![Wayward Galaxy by Jason Anspach, J.N. Chaney]()
Wayward Galaxy by Jason Anspach, J.N. Chaney
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe future isn’t what they expected.A company of Army Rangers is sent on an interstellar colony ship to secure a foothold on a dangerous, alien planet through violence of action... -
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![Lost Hope by Nathan Hystad]()
Lost Hope by Nathan Hystad
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Unknowns have arrived.The Believers have attuned.Hope is lost.Rex Walker has returned to Earth only to discover it under attack. Time has run out.With the assistance of his new allies, Rex and his friends race to prevent a widespread invasion. Not to mention save his sister and best friend Marcus from the ultimate sacrifice...Categorized as:
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![Parabellum by Jonathan Yanez]()
Parabellum by Jonathan Yanez
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe enemy has shown its true face. Now, the battle rages on two fronts.But the true enemy still lies in the shadows.Humanity reels in the face of a new alien threat. False information spews from the podium of a leader bent on power and conquest.Daniel Hunt finds himself on the run from the very people he had vowed to protect...Categorized as:
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![Renegade Atlas by J.N. Chaney]()
Renegade Atlas by J.N. Chaney
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe search for Earth has begun.After barely escaping the Union's grasp, The Renegade Star is off to parts unknown. Every member of its crew is a wanted fugitive. None of them can ever return home.But all is not lost.Thanks to Lex, a strange girl with a remarkable gift, the path to Earth has been revealed...Categorized as:
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![Possessed by the Stryxian by Ella Blake]()
Possessed by the Stryxian by Ella Blake
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsXarik Tek-ra is one of few of his kind who do not want to take over the Stryxian empire by force. He is a Vanyi—one of the rare, silver-scaled Stryxians possessing devastating mind powers. When he finds an unconscious human female in the middle of nowhere and returns with her to his settlement, his mala is awakened. She may be his true mate, but she is terrified of him... -
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Absolution by Jonathan Yanez
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsRedemption exists but the price must be paid in blood. Daniel Hunt is still searching for answers to his past. Along the way, he stumbled across The Order, an ancient society credited for toppling Earth. His search will take him into the Badlands where a former member of the Pack Protocol has made her home. Except all is not as it seems in the small town and war is in the air...Categorized as:
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![The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells]()
The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGathered together in one hardcover volume: three timeless novels from the founding father of science fiction.The first great novel to imagine time travel, The Time Machine (1895) follows its scientist narrator on an incredible journey that takes him finally to Earth’s last moments—and perhaps his own...Categorized as:
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![Spacer by J.A. Sutherland]()
Spacer by J.A. Sutherland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJon Bartlett's path is clear before him: finish his last year of schooling, then off on the family's ships to learn the intricacies of interstellar trade. But a message of tragedy at home comes for him, and his expected life is flung far out of reach and he's cast into a role he never wanted. A portion of Spacer was previously published as the short story Wronged, by J.A...Categorized as:
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![Terra Stands Alone by Chris Kennedy]()
Terra Stands Alone by Chris Kennedy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Drakuls have found the Solar System. A merciless race, there is nothing left once the Drakuls have conquered a civilization except the bones of its dead. When the first Drakul exploratory ship emerged from the stargate, Earth's days became numbered...Categorized as:
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![A Tangled Road to Justice by Olan Thorensen, Neil Hellegers]()
A Tangled Road to Justice by Olan Thorensen, Neil Hellegers
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen former soldier Everett Cole signed on to help colony planets prepare for joining the Federation, his employers were more than a bit vague about their identity and his duties. Ditto when - 11 light-years from Earth - he met his partner, Edgar Millen, an enigmatic man with a fetish for the mythology and language of the American Wild West...Categorized as:
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![Into the Unknown by Jasper T. Scott]()
Into the Unknown by Jasper T. Scott
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA standalone mystery thriller by the USA Today best-selling author of Dark Space.THEIR CRUISE SHIP JUMPED TO THE WRONG STAR SYSTEMCriminal attorney, Liam Price, can't believe his luck. He scored a deal for a suite aboard the Starlit Dream to the exotic world of Aquaria in the Kepler star system...Categorized as:
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![Revenge by Jasper T. Scott]()
Revenge by Jasper T. Scott
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDARK SPACE WON THE BATTLE Humanity has just won a major victory against the invading Sythians--the first victory in the history of the war. The savage Gors have joined forces with Dark Space, and now for the first time since the invasion, it looks like the tide is turning. But the Sythians weren't defeated. Humanity just bloodied their noses...Categorized as:
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Privateer by J.A. Sutherland
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEven with no war on, there are always battles to fight. A cease-fire in the war with Hanover leaves Lieutenant Alexis Carew on half-pay, in-atmosphere, and with her ship laid up in ordinary until called upon once more for the “needs of the Service.” She was, at least, lucky enough to be in her home star system when Nightingale paid off, unlike much of her former crew...Categorized as:
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![The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells]()
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn The Time Machine, Wells's Time Traveller journeys to the world of 802,701 AD, where humanity has divided into the effete, beautiful Eloi and the brutal subterranean Morlocks. In The War of the Worlds, the Martians -- intellects 'vast and cool and unsympathetic' -- send their war machines to wreak havoc across the world...Categorized as:
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![High Plains Cyborg by Honey Phillips]()
High Plains Cyborg by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsOne big cyborg cowboy. One tiny human female. One impossible attraction. When Jo's partner abandons her as soon as they arrive on Mars, it's yet another reminder of what she has always known: the only person she can count on is herself. But she is determined not to let his absence prevent her from claiming the one thing she has always wanted -- a permanent home... -
![On Silver Wings by Evan Currie]()
On Silver Wings by Evan Currie
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIn the future, mankind has colonized other worlds, mined asteroid belts, and sent ships so far into the blackness of space that light from their drives won't reach Earth for centuries. Through it all, life has been found in almost every system we visited and yet we've never encountered another intelligent species.Until now...Categorized as:
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Jules Verne (Knickerbocker Classics) by Jules Verne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis superb collection of classic science fiction features the best of Jules Verne’s epic adventure stories, including Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)...Categorized as:
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