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From the award-winning author comes a gripping, fast-paced and fascinating science fiction adventure. Vividly imagined and sharply written, fans of Ann Leckie and Becky Chambers will be engrossed.
The Grand Mechanism is a machine the size of Saturn's rings that has lain dormant for all recorded history, watched over by the alien Jzat. Now, rogue elements in Jzat and human society conspire to activate it, hoping it will bring them power and opportunity....
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From the multi BSFA award-winner comes a stunningly inventive action-packed science-fiction epic adventure. A brand-new series for fans of Becky Chambers and Ann Leckie.
Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks - each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities.
When her sister disappears while responding...
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Mr. and Mrs. Darcy have an exceedingly passionate marriage in this continuing saga of one of the most exciting, intriguing couples in the Jane Austen literature. As the Darcys raise their babies, enjoy their conjugal felicity and manage the great estate of Pemberley, the beloved characters from Jane Austen's original are joined by Linda Berdoll's imaginative new creations for a compelling, sexy and epic story guaranteed to keep you turning the pages...
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The Wishing Horse of Oz (1935) is the twenty-ninth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the fifteenth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was Illustrated by John R. Neill. This book marked the point, at which Thompson had written more Oz books than Baum himself. This Oz mystery starts in the small, poor kingdom of Skampavia, where King Skamperoo wishes for a horse using enchanted emerald necklaces. When Chalk,...
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Ruth Plumly Thompson was handpicked by L. Frank Baum's estate to continue on the wonderful stories from the Land of Oz because of her delightful and lively writing style. Collected here together are three of her best Oz books carrying on Baum's delightful series. Journey with the Scarecrow and discover his royal past in The Royal Book of Oz. Adventure with Kabumpo the elephant and Ruggedo the Nome King in Kabumpo in Oz. And in Ozoplaning with the...
7) Made
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No longer playing as a Local from the world of Continue Online, Grant Legate's adventure can begin. The Voices offer him a unique title along with a test and reward. To start he'll have to survive underground horrors, old girlfriends, become a warrior. To win he must become an imp familiar and kill another player, one with a dozen tricks up his sleeve.
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This is the Cowardly Lion's book, because it is mostly about him and the people who were hunting him. Why, I do not believe there has been so much excitement in Oz since the Scarecrow fell down his family tree. Imagine anyone daring to hunt our dear old jolly friend, just as if he were a common, man-eating creature, and imagine-! But here I go telling the whole story. Read it yourself and then tell me exactly what you think...
9) Memories
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A man broken by despair and depression, Grant Legate finds himself in a once-in-a-lifetime situation after receiving an Ultimate Edition copy of Continue Online. All he wishes for is a distraction from the thoughts plaguing his waking hours. He dives in headfirst, unknowing of the AIs intentions. They offer him the chance to play as one of their own, a NPC deserving of a proper send off. What he discovers during the journey shakes Grant to his very...
10) Crash
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Actions have consequences. Grant's prior adventures tie together and he finds himself back in Continue Online, as Hermes-in jail. He's forced to experience life as a digital convict and earn redemption points to gain his freedom. Each in-game death pushes his goal of helping his friends out of reach. The AIs Grant's grown to love, trust-and sometimes fear-are facing extinction, he holds the key to their survival.
11) Together
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The game is no longer about adventures in a new world or exploring fantasy lands. Grant's digital wife faces deletion, along with everyone else he cares for. He, and those who know this is more than a game event, search for clues to salvation left behind by the game's creators. Even if he finds them all, the Voices have one last task for their messenger. A sacrifice.
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The Silver Princess in Oz (1938) is the thirty-second of the Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the eighteenth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was illustrated by John R. Neill. In this story, young King Randy of Regalia (from Thompson's The Purple Prince of Oz) is visited by his old friend, Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant of Pumperdink. Together, they set out to visit their friend Jinnicky the Red Jinn (also from Purple Prince)...
13) Realities
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Worried for his sanity after poor in-game choices, Grant Legate's sister, Liz, blocks access to Continue Online. With no way around the restriction, he ventures into a new world a VRMMO game based in space called Advance Online. There he must help his companion AI, Hal Pal, overcome an identity crisis, race to the center of the universe to bring back his true love, and figure out where he stands on the scariest implication of all; AIs are bringing...
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Nell has a friend in need, but will her kind heart wreck her chance for future happiness? A meddlesome prank and a stray kitten, bring Helen and Gabriel together, but will he be able to admit his feelings? When Lily goes missing, will Archibald trust his wife or listen to the 'evidence' of family friends? Is Marie's runaway kookaburra the last straw or the answer to her problems? Will Teresa's faith in the Madonna bring her beloved Carlo home safely...
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In these stories of a quintessential Australian phenomenon, bushfires reveal a conflagration of human drama. They deepen the pain of a tragic love triangle, bring justice to a false mate, and push a young drover and his horse to the limits of their endurance. A priest and wedding guests find themselves fighting fires instead of toasting the happy couple. A woman capable of saving her farm from fire cannot save herself from the proprietary rage of...
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Tom Morison is a reluctant freeholder in South Australia and unsuited to farming. But, Tom is redeemed, when his education in geology and chemistry, finally, gives the family their best Christmas ever, a 'golden' one. In this and eight other 'lost' stories of goldmining in colonial-era Australia, a colorful cast of characters star in stories of love and crime, loyalty and betrayal, spirituality and avarice. And, the eternal lure of gold and its corrupting...
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This book takes you through all 13 of America's wars in the last 245+ years, from the Revolutionary War to the War in Afghanistan. This amazing and well-researched collection of stories, insights and patriotic encouragement is second to none. It not only gives statistics of how many Americans served in each campaign but gives the amount of wounded and died in combat of each of these challenging times throughout our history. But this outstanding record...
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"The last we saw of the crew of the Starshadow in the pages of Bill Mantlo and Butch Guice's Swords of the Swashbucklers, it seemed that all was lost. Decades later, Raader and her crew return to bring their adventuring to the cosmos once again! Marc Guggenheim (X-Men Gold, Spider-Man) and Andrea Mutti (Rebels, Port of Earth) team up to continue the epic space adventure."
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Hilarious and action-packed, this installment brings the Darcy and Bingley families to the year 1812 and the intrigues of the Napoleonic Wars. Darcy and Dr. Maddox go in search of Darcy's missing half-brother and land in a medieval prison cell. Much to his dismay, Charles Bingley is left to hold the fort at Pemberley while his sister Caroline, Elizabeth, and Col. Fitzwilliam traverse Europe on a daring rescue. Meanwhile, Lady Catherine de Bourgh kicks...
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"The fourth installment in Altman's what-happens-after-pride-and-prejudice universe, and it will have you hooked within moments." -Austenprose
WHIRLWIND OF PEMBERLEY
The comings and goings on their grand estate present endless challenges for Elizabeth and Darcy. Can they avoid scandal given the recent arrival of Mr. Darcy's illegitimate brother Grégoire, Mr. Bennet's advancing years, the younger George Wickham's coming of age, and Dr. Maddox's...
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