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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsMax is back! New husband, new job, and a training regime that cannot fail – to go wrong! Take one interim Chief Training Officer, add five recruits, mix with Joan of Arc, a baby mammoth, a duplicitous Father of History, a bombed rat, Stone Age hunters, a couple of passing policemen who should have better things to do, and Dick the Turd...Categorized as:
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The Sapphire Brooch by Katherine Lowry Logan
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe long awaited sequel to the Kindle Time Travel Romance Bestseller THE RUBY BROOCH! The saga of the brooches continues in this Civil War Time Travel Romance... A Union soldier risks everything to save the life of Abraham Lincoln, while a Confederate surgeon races through time to preserve Lincoln’s Legacy. Reenactor Dr...Categorized as:
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Legacies by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGalaxy's Edge returns with an all-new adrenaline-fueled season of the military sci-fi series! With his duty to the Legion satisfied, Wraith sets out to find a lost member of his crew-the young girl, Prisma. But not only does the journey bring with it more death and destruction-and loss-than he ever imagined, it revives the shadows of a forgotten past.. -
Deluge by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe Bettarinis and Forellis have found rich fulfillment together in medieval Italia. But after fighting off countless enemies, they now must face the worst foe of all... -
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Fall of Hades by Richard Paul Evans
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsMichael and his friends try to recruit Hatch’s Electric Youth to their side as the thrilling action continues in this electrifying sixth installment of the New York Times bestselling series!Michael and the Electroclan are about to embark on their deadliest mission yet. Some of them may not make it back... -
A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe third book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone’s cup of tea.Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don’t call it “time travel”—these historians “investigate major historical events in contemporary time... -
Torrent by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWould you sacrifice your future ... for an uncertain past?Gabriella and Evangelia Betarrini are just two normal American teenagers. Normal--except for the fact that they time travel to fourteenth-century Italy, where they've lived in castles, become swept up in historic battles, and fallen in love with handsome knights willing to do anything to keep them alive... -
Across Eternity by Elizabeth O'Roark, Elle O'Roark
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe exciting conclusion to Across Time! Everything changed for Henri and Amelie when she left, and now—with war on the horizon and a challenge she never could have foreseen—Amelie will learn what the prophecy really means for them, herself most of all... -
Dark Victory by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe Darkest Secrets Stay HiddenGalaxy’s Edge Season Two continues as a divided galaxy is navigated by heroes forced to chart their own dangerous courses.Wraith, seeking to acquire intel on the mysterious Kill Team Ice, finds himself teamed up with an unlikely Nether Ops ally. Zora and Garret, in pursuit of a lost friend, will have their loyalty to Captain Keel tested... -
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsMany thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K... -
Dire Wolf Stakes by Ramy Vance, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove kills. So do bow-wielding assassins.Maine’s troubles are only just beginning. The Mantle is still catnip to assassins. News of her victory is out and another liqudator of the living is after her. That would be enough trouble, if her ex wasn’t also in town, proclaiming his undying love for her... -
Doctor Who: The Giggle (Target Collection) by James Goss
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a script by Russell T Davies, this thrilling third adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble...Categorized as:
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Stryker's War by Josh Hayes, Jason Anspach
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFeel the thunder! Stryker Company always brings the fight, but when they relieve embittered and embattled Republic marines, they find an enemy unwilling to stand up and face them. Tasked with protecting the Republic's interests on a mining world, the legionnaires face roadside ambushes, double-dealing locals, and constant sabotage... -
Hero to the Rescue by Timothy Ellis
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"I'm not in the rescue business," states Jonathon Hunter, to the amusement of his crew. But rescues are the least of his concerns. Darkness is coming, and there are still people out there who don’t like him. The Sirius system has always fascinated Jon, and he is drawn to solve its mysteries... -
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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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Endymion by Dan Simmons, Guy Abadia
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsThe multiple-award-winning SF master returns to the universe that is his greatest success--the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion--to tell a story of love and memory, triumph and terror in a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest... -
Strike: The SYLO Chronicles #3 by D.J. MacHale, Andrew Bates
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author D.J. MacHale is back with the third book in the SYLO Chronicles. Once again, Tucker Pierce and friends must fight for their lives against the better-equipped SYLO. All bets are off in Strike—with twists so big readers will never see them coming—while the action and pulse-pounding suspense remain as high as ever... -
Beyond the Moon by Catherine Taylor
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA strange twist of fate connects a British soldier fighting in the First World War in 1916 with a young woman living in modern-day England a century later, in this haunting literary time travel novel.Two people, two battles: one against the invading Germans on the battlefields of 1916 France, the other against a substandard, uncaring mental health facility in modern-day England... -
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMany thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K... -
Written in Fire by Marcus Sakey
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe explosive conclusion to the bestselling Brilliance TrilogyFor thirty years humanity struggled to cope with the brilliants, the one percent of people born with remarkable gifts. For thirty years we tried to avoid a devastating civil war.We failed.The White House is a smoking ruin. Madison Square Garden is an internment camp... -
Unto the Breach by John Ringo
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSequel to Ghost, Kildar and Choosers of the Slain.Michael Harmon has been there and done that. Rescued co-eds, killed major terrorists, stopped nuclear assaults. Now he'd just like to kick back and relax with his harem of lovelies. Unfortunately, the world keeps turning... -
Red Zone by Janet Elizabeth Henderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the new world. Things have changed just a bit. Big Brother's not only monitoring important things like what toilet paper you buy--it now has direct access to everything you see thanks to the mandatory implant you get at birth. And Friday Jones has seen something she wishes she hadn't... -
The Hidden Coordinate by Marc Jacobs
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt has been three years since Emma James and Logan West chased down the clues of mankind’s past, leading humanity into a new era of intergalactic exploration. Happily settled into college life and working part time at the Pentagon on top secret projects worthy of one’s wildest imagination, the future looked bright for them... -
Bestiarii by James Tarr
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Mexican civil war had been grinding on for so long that the U.S. resorted to using private contractors—mercenaries—to prop up the failing Mexican Army. One of the many things the Mexican Army failed to protect was Pangaea, the famed animal park in remote northeast Mexico, a symbol of rampant capitalism. All the creatures inside were killed at the time. At least, that’s what was reported... -
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Tidal Rip by Joe Buff
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA new world war has begun. It is the year 2012, and extremists in Germany and South Africa have succeeded in staging simultaneous coups to forge the Berlin-Boer Axis, a cabal determined to take over the world. The key instrument of this war is tactical nuclear weaponry, where a single torpedo or cruise missile can destroy an entire ship or city... -
Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare by Jason Fry, Paul R. Urquhart
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAnakin, Rex, Ahsokaand a host of other characters from the Cartoon Network seriesleap off the page in full color. Devoted "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" fans will find all the stats they need, from Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber skills to Ziro the Hutt's scheming, and everything in between... -
Hard Luck Hank: Stank Delicious by Steven Campbell
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBelvaille has cemented its place as the most important System in the galaxy and Hank is working as an official Factotum, negotiating deals between gangs and noblemen under the watchful eye of the Arch Minister. When his ever-capable butler, Cliston, is approached to become the general manager of a Super Class glocken team, Hank is hired not only as protection, but as a player... -
A Better World by Marcus Sakey
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe brilliants changed everything.Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we’d only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person’s most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide between the exceptional...and the rest of us.Now a terrorist network led by brilliants has crippled three cities...Categorized as:
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The Ellimist Chronicles by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLibrarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.He is called the Ellimist. A being with the ability to alter space and time. A being with a power that will never be fully understood. He is the reason Elfangor came to Earth. He is the reason the Earth now has a fighting chance... -
Confluence by S.K. Dunstall
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom the national bestselling author of Alliance, linesman Ean Lambert finds himself caught in a dangerous fight for political power... The lines. Mysterious yet familiar: the key to controlling every ship in the galaxy... -
All Clear by Connie Willis
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060—the setting for several of her most celebrated works—and sent three Oxford historians to World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the...Categorized as:
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A Deeper Blue by John Ringo
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSequel to Ghost, Kildar, Choosers of the Slain and Unto the Breach.Heart-sick over the deaths of so many of his Keldara followers, and one in particular, former SEAL Mike Harmon, hero of Ghost, Kildar and Choosers of the Slain, decides to sit this one out. WMDs headed for the US no longer matter to the Kildar... -
Maid of Baikal by Preston Fleming
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if a Siberian Joan of Arc had rescued the White Armies at a critical point of the Russian Civil War in 1919? MAID OF BAIKAL offers an alternative outcome to that war through the intervention of Zhanna Dorokhina, a young woman from the shores of Siberia’s Lake Baikal... -
Invasion Day by Scott Moon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDavid Osage is a dangerous man with a dangerous past, but these days he’s just trying to keep his head down, driving big rigs. One night he saddles himself with a hitchhiker, a nuisance who’s more than she seems. And that’s when everything changes.No one was ready for an alien invasion. Death is raining from the sky and the only question left is do you run, fight, or submit... -
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Escalante by Andrew Vaillencourt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere's a stranger in town, and he just wants to be left alone.But Dockside doesn't like strangers, and the dirty old town never leaves anyone alone.Join New Boston's most famous fixer for his first week in the most dangerous part of town... -
Unfathomed by Ralph Kern
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe M/S Atlantica, one of the most advanced cruise ships in the world, is lost. Land has disappeared. Fuel, food and hope begin to dwindle. After months recuperating in hospital, US Marine Jack Cohen hoped a Caribbean cruise would help him recover from the horrific injuries he sustained fighting in the Middle East...Categorized as:
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Once Was a Time by Leila Sales
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the war-ravaged England of 1940, Charlotte Bromley is sure of only one thing: Kitty McLaughlin is her best friend in the whole world. But when Charlotte's scientist father makes an astonishing discovery that the Germans will covet for themselves, Charlotte is faced with an impossible choice between danger and safety...Categorized as:
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Behind Enemy Lines by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFix the past. Save the future.Dak, Sera, and Riq involve themselves in one of the most bizarre spy missions in history . . . and the outcome of World War II hangs in the balance... -
The Andalite Chronicles by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHis name is Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul.An Andalite war-prince. The one who gave five young humans the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They are still out there, fighting an evil so powerful there isn't a moment that goes by when they can actually feel safe. Their story continues.But this is how it all began.The story that came before Animorphs . . -
Time and Time Again by Ben Elton
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be.Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come...Categorized as:
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Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsDeploying invulnerable twenty-fifth-century soldiers called Skins, Zantiu-Braun's corporate starships loot entire planets. But as the Skins invade bucolic Thallspring, Z-B's strategy is about to go awry, all because of: Sgt... -
Redoubtable by Mike Shepherd
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsLieutenant Commander Kris Longknife has precise orders: seek out, engage, and destroy pirates, slavers, and drug lords operating beyond the rim of human space-without interfering in Peterwald family affairs. But when slavers kidnap a twelve-year-old girl, Kris's mission becomes personal. And if destroying the pirate compound flattens some Peterwald interests-well, to hell with politics... -
Into the Dark by Claudia Gray
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsNot everyone who hears the call to adventure wants to answer it....Jedi Padawan Reath Silas loves adventure—reading about it, that is, not living it. Content to spend hours browsing the Jedi Archives on Coruscant, Reath dreams of being one of the great scholars of the Jedi Order... -
The Thin Blue Line by Christopher G. Nuttall
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEarth has fallen ... and humanity is holding its breath, waiting for the next blow to fall. On Terra Nova, Earth’s oldest colony world, chaos and anarchy are threatening to break out, with total collapse only one disaster away... -
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Starfighters of Adumar by Aaron Allston
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBook 9 in the exciting series!The X-wing fighter pilots have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force by overwhelming enemies with their rapid-fire assaults. But now they are about to embark on a diplomatic mission that will prove to be even more hazardous than all-out combat....The neutral world of Adumar has decided to pick a side in the war to control the galaxy... -
Traitor by Matthew Woodring Stover
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the depths of catastrophe, a glimmer of hope.After the capture of Coruscant, the mighty heart of the New Republic, a stunned galaxy fears that nothing can stop the Yuuzhan Vong. Still, that crushing defeat produces one small miracle: Jacen Solo is alive. Yet he can scarcely imagine himself in stranger circumstances... -
The Trap Door by Lisa McMann
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe multi-platform adventure through time continues! Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States and walk immediately into a deadly trap. The year is 1850, and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within... -
Undaunted by Mike Shepherd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsKris Longknife encounters some peaceful aliens who have come to warn humanity of an unidentifiable force that is roaming the galaxy, obliterating everything in its path-a path now leading directly toward the human worlds... -
The Mine by John A. Heldt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn Alternate Cover for ASIN: B0078S9B6G can be found here.In May 2000, Joel Smith is a cocky, adventurous young man who sees the world as his playground. But when the college senior, days from graduation, enters an abandoned Montana mine, he discovers the price of reckless curiosity... -
Stark's Crusade by John G. Hemry, Jack Campbell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Barnes & Noble ReviewStark's Crusade is the concluding volume of a popular military science fiction trilogy written by former U.S. Navy officer John G. Hemry. The first two books, Stark's War and Stark's Command, began chronicling the life of Sergeant Ethan Stark, a living military legend who is sent to the moon to take back control of what America believes is its property...
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