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The Battle for Terra Two

Fri, 8 Jun 2012 6:01:40 PST

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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:06:52 PST

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Thatrs"s where Charles Yu, time travel technician-part counselor, part gadgetrepair man-steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally.

Dragon and Thief

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 9:30:55 PST

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Fourteen-year-old orphan Jack Morgan is hiding out.In a spaceship.Falsely accused of a crime, he pilots his Uncle Virgil's spaceship to a remote and uninhabited planet hoping to escape capture. When another ship crashes after a fierce battle, Jack rescues the sole survivor-- a K'da warrior names Draycos. It turns out Draycos can help Jack clear his name. All they have to do is team up. No problem ...

Star Wars: Outbound Flight

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 9:29:18 PST

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It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery–only to become the stuff of lost Republic legend . . . and a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now, at last, acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkable–and doomed–Outbound Flight Project. The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C’baoth petitions the Senate for support of a singularly ambi ...

Night Train to Rigel

Sat, 7 Aug 2010 9:14:59 PST

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It all starts when a man comes to deliver a message to Frank Compton - only to fall dead at his feet. What follows is a suspenseful thriller that only Timothy Zahn, a master of hard science fiction adventure, could have written. More than two hundred years from now, the Ouadrail transportation system run by the enigmatic Spiders connects civilizations throughout the galaxy. Someone is threatening ...

Flinx Transcendent

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:58:11 PST

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From one of the most brilliant imaginations in science fiction comesFlinx Transcendent, Alan Dean Foster’s thrilling conclusion to the series that began over ...

The Icarus Hunt

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 6:56:11 PST

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From Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of two landmark Star Wars® series, comes an original new tale featuring a renegade space pilot, his unusual alien partner, and an unknown cargo that can change the course of galactic history. Jordan McKell has a problem with authority. Unfortunately for him, the iron-fisted authority of the powerful Patthaaunutth contro ...

The Domino Pattern

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 5:03:58 PST

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From the author of the all-time bestselling "Star Wars" novel, "Heir to the Empire," comes this thrilling, fast-paced space adventure.

The Third Lynx

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 5:01:38 PST

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Former government agent Frank Compton foiled a plot to enslave the galaxy in Night Train to Rigel. But the Modhri, an ancient telepathically linked intelligence, has walkers, unwilling hosts that can be anywhere, anything…and anyone. And Compton is the only man who knows how to fight them, as they wage a secret war against the galactic civilizations linked by the Quadrail, the only means of intra ...

Odd Girl Out

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 5:00:54 PST

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In this noir thriller setnbsp;on the interstellar Quadrail, former government agentFrank Compton can't catch a break.

Mastering System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:03:29 PST

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This book's web site will contain a collection of ready-to-use scripts withdirections for implementing them in network systems.

Flinx in Flux

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:58:40 PST

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Flinx of the Commonwealth and his amazing snake Pip try to protect a beautiful scientist from a gang of interplanetary assassins determined to put an end to the research on the inhospitable Longtunnel. Not even the extraordinary minidrag Pip could help Flinx out of his most dangerous entanglement—love!

End of the Matter

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:58:23 PST

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Accompanied by his faithful minidrag Pip and a most troublesome alien called Abalamahalamatandra—Ab for short—Flinx set out for Alaspin, the ruggedly primitive homeworld of his flying snake. There he hoped to find the giant man with the gold earring who somehow held the key to Flinx's mysterious past and to the strange powers he possessed. Chasing down his heritage was trouble enough, but Flinx ...

Orphan Star

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:57:47 PST

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His birth had been shrouded in mystery, and all Flinx knew of himself was that he'd been abandoned by those who had spawned him. Raised by Mother Mastiff in the marketplace of Drallar, Flinx eventually discovered that his unknown parents had bequeathed to him a curious legacy... a legacy of extraordinary mental powers that were both an incalculable asset and a most dangerous liability. This lega ...

Tar Aiym Krang

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:57:25 PST

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Moth was a beautiful planet, the only one with wings—two great golden clouds suspended in space around it. Here was a wide-open world for any venture a man might scheme. The planet attracted unwary travelers, hardened space-sailors, and merchant buccaneers—a teeming, constantly shifting horde that provided a comfortable income for certain quick-witted fellows like Flinx and his pet flying snake ...

For Love of Mother Not

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:57:04 PST

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The Genesis Machine

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:53:32 PST

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Brad Clifford's theory was just applied mathematics -- but its implications were too hot for the frozen minds of his superiors. So they buried it -- and him -- under wraps of secrecy. Then Aubrey Philipsz, iconoclast and fellow genius, appeared on the scene to build the Genesis Machine Clifford's theory made possible. Suddenly, all weapons seemed useless before the previously unimagined power ...

Ender in Exile

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:21:45 PST

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In "Enders Game", the world's most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training school. At "Battle School", they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life. After the life-changing events of those years, these children - now t ...

Swords Against Death

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:17:49 PST

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Swords Against Death, the second story in the Lankhmar series, finds Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser beginning their real journey. Their hearts altered by the loss of first true love, they embark on a long and winding path of drunken debauchery and womanizing until crossing paths with two cross wizards, Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Nigauble of the Seven Eyes. A most violent of clashes ensues.

Mars Life

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:20:28 PST

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The Puppet Masters

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:20:01 PST

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Earth was being invaded by aliens and the top security agencies were helpless: the aliens were controlling the mind of every person they encountered. So it was up to Sam Cavanaugh, secret agent for a powerful and deadly spy network, to find a way to stop them--which meant he had to be invaded himself!

Wolverine

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 4:22:03 PST

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Ghost Force

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 3:22:05 PST

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The year is 2011. An oil-hungry world is starving . . . . . . and Argentina, with Russia's help, is determined to brutally wrest the petroleum-rich Falkland Islands from British hands. Enraged over this brazen act of international piracy, Great Britain dispatches a battle fleet to the islands for the second time in thirty years—unaware that Viper K-157, a lethal Russian Akula-class submari ...

Hunter Killer

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 3:20:58 PST

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Stunned and outraged by the extravagant lifestyles of the Saudi Arabian Royal Family, the Crown Prince and heir to the throne recruits France to help him overthrow the Saudi ruler. With the aid of French hunter killer submarines the Prince plans to inflict heavy damage on the massive oil installations and loading docks on the shores of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, thus destroying the Saudi o ...

Lankhmar Book 1

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 3:24:02 PST

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The First Volume in ibooks' Reissues of the Fantasies by Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Fritz Leiber! Swords and Deviltry introduces us to a strange world where fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes Fafhrd and Gray Mouser find the familiar in themselves and discover the icy power of female magic. Three master-magician femme-fatales and a sprightly lad illuminate the bonds ...

Azazel

Sat, 6 Sep 2008 4:55:14 PST

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Short stories featuring a two-centimetre high, fiery red imp. George Bitternut can summon Azazel, but is denied the personal benefit of his powers, which are available only to George's friends. Mishaps and chaos ensue as George and Azazel work their magic on a selection of acquaintances.

Ivory

Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:55:08 PST

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In the year 6303, when earth is bare of anything larger than an insect or a mouse and most people have left for the stars, Duncan Rojas receives a most unusual visitor. His name is Bukoba Mandaka, and he is the last of the Maasai. Mandaka wants Rojas, senior researcher for Braxton's Records of Big Game, to find the tusks of the Kilimanjaro Elephant, tusks that weigh over 200 lb. each. Why? ...

Mercenary

Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:47:57 PST

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The date is 1968 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. Captain Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding orders but getting results, found himself the victim of a media feeding frenzy, a political scapegoat despite years of dedicated ...

Pirate

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 0:55:02 PST

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The date is 1967 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. After his latest exploit saved millions of lives but embarrassed his superiors, Captain Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding orders but getting results, found himself the victim ...

The Door into Summer

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 6:25:27 PST

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Star Wars: Darth Bane - Rule of Two

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 9:28:58 PST

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Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 8:41:13 PST

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Once the Sith order teemed with followers. But their rivalries divided them in endless battles for supremacy. Until one dark lord at last united the Sith in the quest to enslave the galaxy–and exterminate the Jedi. Yet it would fall to another, far more powerful than the entire Brotherhood of Darkness, to ultimately realize the full potential of the Sith, and wield the awesome power of the dark s ...

Return to Mars

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 4:04:49 PST

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Published in 1992, MARS was the story of the thrilling first manned journey to the mysterious planet which has fascinated astronomers since the dawn of time. Arthur C. Clarke called it 'a splendid book'; it was a bestseller throughout the world. Now, in RETURN TO MARS, a carefully picked international crew of astronauts, engineers and scientists is on its way back. Leading them is Jamie Waterman ...

Solar Lottery

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 1:19:08 PST

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The operating principle was random selection: positions of public power were decided by a sophisticated lottery. Everyone had a chance, everyone could live in hope that they would be chosen to be the boss, the Quizmaster. But with the power came the game - the assassination game - which everyone could watch on TV. Would the new man be good enough to avoid his chosen killer? Which made for fas ...

Foundation's Triumph

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 9:23:48 PST

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Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction.The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many themes of modern science fiction.Now, with the approval of the Asimov estate, three of today's most acclaimed authors have completed ...

The Shooters

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 1:13:08 PST

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The #1 New York Times-bestselling series returns with a story as up-to-date as the headlines. The novels of W. E. B. Griffin featuring Delta Force officer Charley Castillo and his band of troubleshooters have won wide praise for their realism, action, and "punchy prose that connects like a right hook" (Chicago Tribune). Now, still in Argentina tying up loose ends from his investigation into the ...

The Hunters

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:51:39 PST

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The new Presidential Agent novel-now in paperback. Two brutal murders and millions of missing dollars in the growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal have led Charley Castillo and his team to Uruguay, where the man they seek is murdered right before their eyes. Those responsible have left just enough of a trail for Castillo to pick up the scent and follow it wherever it takes him-even if it's not ...

The Hostage

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:18:00 PST

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By Order of the President, the first novel in W.E.B. Griffin's crackling new Presidential Agent series, won immediate acclaim from critics and fans alike. Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and more he is the man to whom the president turns when he needs an investigation done discreetly. And no situation demands discretion more than the one before them n ...

The Caves of Steel

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:41:28 PST

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A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detect ...

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 5:13:18 PST

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1969 edition, several reprints. Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mist ...

Speaker for the Dead

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 5:08:53 PST

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In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the cour ...

Xenocide

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 5:00:01 PST

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Xenocide is Card's best-selling sequel to the Hugo Award-winning Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead.

Pro Nagios 2.0

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 4:48:18 PST

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Book Description Pro Nagios 2.0 explains how to install and administer Nagios, the web-based enterprise management tool that helps monitor Unix, Windows, network devices, infrastructure equipment, and applications. You'll learn how to architect Nagios installations, deploy agents and plug-ins, and monitor a variety of assets, which include applications across a variety of platforms and operatin ...

VMware ESX Server

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 4:47:42 PST

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Detailing the design and deployment of a VMware ESX Server environment, and written from the practical experience of proven VMware engineers, this book provides IT architects with the insight needed to tackle tough design issues such as ESX Server security, network and SAN design, host hardware selection, guest selection and configuration, management tool selection, ESX performance optimizations, ...

Protect and Defend

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 4:35:46 PST

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New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn returns with his most explosive political thriller yet. A tour de force of action-packed suspense, Protect and Defend delivers an all-too-realistic and utterly compelling vision of nations navigating the minefield of international intrigue. A true heavyweight in the political thriller arena (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Vince Flynn has created a flesh ...

Behind the Lines

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 4:12:06 PST

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World War II. On the island of Mindanao, the Philippines, a man calling himself "General" Fertig has set himself up as a guerrilla leader to harass the Japanese. Army records show that the only officer named Fertig in the Philippines is a reserve lieutenant colonel of the Corps of Engineers, reported MIA on Luzon. Still, the reports filtering out are interesting, and it's Marine lieutenant Ken ...

An Eye at the Top of the World

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:51:24 PST

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At some point during the inhumanly cold Himalayan winter straddling 1965 and 1966, a peculiar collection of box-shaped objects one sprouting a six-foot, insect-like antenna plummets nine thousand feet down the sheer flanks of a remote peak. Ripped from its moorings by an avalanche, the jumbled apparatus slides down a funnel-shaped hourglass of hard snow and shoots over a black cliff band, care ...

Wolf Star

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:49 PST

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In the long war with the Palatine Empire, the pride of the Terran space fleet are its sister starships, the U.S.S. Merrimack and the U.S.S. Monitor. Now that the Palatine forces have secretly captured the Monitor and its codes, they can remotely seize control of the Merrimack-leaving her almost helpless. But as both sides struggle for supremacy, they are about to be attacked by an alien life-form ...

Dirge

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:48 PST

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First, humanity establishes ties with intelligent, extraterrestrial bugs. Some 20 years later, humanity makes first contact with intelligent, extraterrestrial babes. Or so goes the chronology in Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth, as detailed in the second book of the Founding of the Commonwealth prequel trilogy. Following up on Phylogenesis, Dirge fleshes out the foundation for the universe ...

Codex Derynianus

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:48 PST

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Foundation and Earth

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have bee ...

Memorial Day

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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もしもテロリスト・グループがアメリカに秘密裏に核兵器を持ち込んだら…フリンが描く人気の「ミッチ・ラップ」シリーズ最新作（前作は2003年刊の『Executive Power』）ではまさにこんなことが起こる。だが、もちろん、CIAの非情の暗殺者でテロリストハンターのラップがいるかぎり、市民に危害が及ぶことはない。核兵器はどのように持ち込まれるのか、そして、アメリカ政府の対テロ組織は市民を守るためどこまでできるのか――こうした興味深いテーマをもとに、フリンは今回もテンポのよい狂想劇を書き上げた。組織に逆らって以来、長いあいだデスクワークを命じられていたラップはようやく現場に戻る。彼は奇襲隊とともにアフガニスタンのアルカイダ要塞に突入し、そこで爆弾持ち込みの計画を知る。サウスカロライナ州チャールストンに核兵器が持ち込まれると、米特殊部隊は瞬時に敵を取り押さえ、武装を解除する。本シ ...

The Third Option

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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When diplomacy has failed and military intervention is deemed inappropriate, our leaders sometimes take THE THIRD OPTION. CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp falls prey to government forces with an agenda of their own after Dr. Irene Kennedy is named the successor to dying CIA Director Thomas Stansfield -- a choice that enrages many inside the world's most powerful intelligence agency. Her ...

Transfer of Power

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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What if America's most powerful leader was also its prime target? Vince Flynn's shattering thriller, Term Limits, soared onto national bestseller lists and marked the emergence of a new master of political fiction in the same league as Tom Clancy. In USA Today, Larry King called Term Limits "a page-turning read," while critics and readers nationwide praised its riveting premise of Washington ...

Term Limits

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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Taking America back...one politician at a time What if America's leaders were held accountable for their broken promises -- and made to pay for their corruption? Vince Flynn brings to life a chilling scenario of Washington under siege -- in the provocative, edge-of-your-seat political thriller that stormed onto national bestseller lists. Term Limits In a night of shattering brutality, ...

Executive Power

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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"CIA superagent Mitch Rapp battles global terrorism in a high-octane follow-up to The New York Times bestselling Separation of Power -- another chillingly authentic adventure from the master of the political thriller. Mitch Rapp's cover has been blown. After leading a team of commandos deep into Iraq to prevent Saddam Hussein from joining the nuclear arms race, he was publicly hailed by the pre ...

Separation of Power

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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CIA superagent Mitch Rapp is back in action in this high-velocity adventure from the master of the political thriller, Vince Flynn. SEPARATION OF POWER CIA director Thomas Stansfield is dead -- a fact many individuals in and around the nation's capital are pleased to hear. But their happiness proves to be short-lived once they learn that Stansfield's successor is the late director's close ...

Consent to Kill

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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Glory Road

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia , but he hadn't given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him: "ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years old, in perfect health, at least six feet tall, weigh about 190 pounds, fluent English, w ...

Worldwired

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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Elizabeth Bear shares a birthday with Frodo and Bilbo Baggins. This, coupled with a tendency to read the dictionary as a child, doomed her early to penury, intransigence, friendlessness, and the writing of speculative fiction. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and grew up in central Connecticut with the exception of two years (which she was too young to remember very well) spent in Vermont's ...

Forward the Foundation

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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A stunning testament to his creative genius. Forward The Foundation is a the saga's dramatic climax -- the story Asimov fans have been waiting for. An exciting tale of danger, intrigue, and suspense, Forward The Foundation brings to vivid life Asimov's best loved characters: hero Hari Seldon, who struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory to ensure the survival of humanity; Cl ...

Prelude to Foundation

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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Bearing An Hourglass

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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When life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past. The other seemingly all-powerful incantations of Immortality--Death, Fate, War, and Nature--made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps and he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme ...

Myth-Gotten Gains

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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Aahz discovers that the shabby-looking sword he bought at a flea market in a remote dimension is Ersatz, leader of the Golden Hoard, a fabled collection of powerful magical treasures that can turn any ordinary being into a hero. They go in search of the other members of the Hoard, only to find that they're not the only ones looking. A dancer named Calypsa, working with Aahz's old friend Tananda, ...

Selling Out

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:43 PST

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Foundation's Edge

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:42 PST

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At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renega ...

Map of Bones

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:42 PST

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The bestselling master of astonishing adventure James Rollins delivers his most relentlessly exciting page-turner to date--a gripping and explosive novel of an ancient conspiracy to create a terrifying new world order out of the ashes of modern civilization. The crime is inhumanly cruel with horrific consequences both unthinkable and inevitable. During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany ...

The Naked Sun

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:42 PST

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A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Ba ...

Foundation

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:42 PST

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For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and bri ...

Foundation and Empire

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:42 PST

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Get the entire Foundation Series for $13.47.The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanity's light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence. Led by its found ...

Wings of Fire

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:42 PST

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North Africa is in turmoil. The new Libyan president has had the new Egyptian president assassinated, and the latter's widow, Susan Salaam, vows revenge. She enlists the high-tech help of Air Force general Patrick McClanahan and his Night Stalkers. But the Libyans, and their scheming secret allies, hold a trump card-one with a deeply personal meaning for McClanahan-and it may be one that will lea ...

The Company

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:42 PST

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This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIA-known as "the Company" to insiders. Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the '50s, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev puts ...

Second Foundation

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:42 PST

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Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long. After years of struggle, the ...

The Jesus Incident

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:42 PST

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A determined group of colonists are attempting to establish a bridgehead on the planet Pandora, despite the savagery of the native lifeforms, as deadly as they are inhospitable. But they have more to deal with than just murderous aliens: their ship's computer has been given artificial consciousness and has decided that it is a God. Now it is insisting - with all the not inconsiderable force of ...

Crystal Line

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:42 PST

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When Killashandra Ree joined the mysterious Heptite Guild, she knew that she would be forever changed. Crystal singing brought ecstasy and pain, near-eternal life... and gradual loss of memory. What she hadn't counted on was the loneliness she felt when her heart still remembered what her mind had forgotten. Fortunately, someone still cared enough to try to salvage what was left of Killashandra's ...

Killashandra

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:42 PST

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Killashandra Ree's life was one of catastrophic changes. She had joined the Heptite Guild to becoma a Crystal Singer, get rich, and forget her past.And at first everything went just as she had hoped. In one season on the deadly beautiful world of Ballybran, she had sung Black Crystal, grown wealthy, and met a man, who made her sorrows seem unworthy of notice.But then, a year later, a devastating ...

Crystal Singer

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:42 PST

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Her name was Killashandra Ree; and after ten grueling years of musical training she was young, beautiful -- and still without prospects.Then she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild on the planet Ballybran, where the fabled Black Crystal was found.For those qualified, the Guild was said to provide careers, security, and the chance for wealth beyond imagining. The problem was, few people who land ...

On a Pale Horse

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:42 PST

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When Zane shot Death, he learned, too late, that he would have to assume his place, speeding over the world riding his pale horse, and ending the lives of others. Sooner than he would have thought possible, Zane found himself being drawn to Satan's plot. Already the Prince of Evil was forging a trap in which Zane must act to destroy Luna, the woman he loved...unless he could discover the only way ...

The Currents of Space

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Startide Rising

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David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all ...

Nimitz Class

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:41 PST

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An unconquerable fortress, the US Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier Thomas Jefferson is the most powerful nuclear-powered warship in the world, stationed in the Arabian Sea to preserve the peace and Western allied interests. But the unthinkable occurs when the billion-dollar ship is destroyed in what appears to be a nuclear accident - it is the greatest peacetime disaster in US history. Whilst Americ ...

Black Order

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:41 PST

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A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relent-less hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany . . . and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a ...

The Afghan

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:41 PST

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A chilling story of modern terrorism from the grandmaster of international intrigue. T he Day of the Jackal, The Dogs of War, The Odessa File-the books of Frederick Forsyth have helped define the international thriller as we know it today. Combining meticulous research with crisp narratives and plots as current as the headlines, Forsyth shows us the world as it is in a way that few have ever b ...

Act of Treason

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:41 PST

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CIA operative Mitch Rapp follows a trail of contract killers leading directly to the heart of our nation's capital in New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn's eighth explosive thriller.It's a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a nation ...

Empire

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:41 PST

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The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side, and militia foot-soldiers on the other, devastating the cities, and overrunning the countryside. But the ...

The Worthing Saga

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:41 PST

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It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful--they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Somec created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed grea ...

U.S.S. Seawolf

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:41 PST

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Armed with stolen U.S. military technology, the Chinese are producing a frightening new breed of weaponry,led by the ICBM submarine Xia III -- a vessel that just might be able to launch a nuclear warhead across the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city. National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan can't let that happen, and he dispatches the most stealthy hunter-killer submar ...

HMS Unseen

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:41 PST

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The most highly efficient and lethal underwater ship ever built, H.M.S. Unseen, vanishes into the depths while on a training mission, baffling British and American military intelligence including wily National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan. One year later, the Concorde, the world's safest and most secure domestic plane, disappears without a trace over the North Atlantic. Days later the b ...

Mutiny

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:41 PST

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The date is 1966 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now, and the Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, finds itself in an all-out war against the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races that resent Man's growing military and economic power. The main battles are taking place in the Spiral Arm and toward the Core, but far out on the Rim, the Theodore ...

In the Company of Ogres

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:41 PST

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For someone whos immortal, Never Dead Ned manages to die with alarming frequencyhe just has the annoying habit of rising from the grave. But this soldier might truly be better dead than face his newest assignment. Ogre Company is the legions dumping grounda motley, undisciplined group of monsters whose leaders tend to die under somewhat questionable circumstances. Thats where Neds rather unique t ...

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:40 PST

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Citizen of the Galaxy

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:40 PST

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A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generationsScience Fiction Grand MasterROBERT A. HEINLEINCITIZEN OF THE GALAXYIn a distant galaxy, the atrocity of slavery was alive and well, and young Thorby was just another orphaned boy sold at auction. But his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears ...

Double Star

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:40 PST

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From the dark recesses of a moon-based hotel bar, unemployed actor Lorenzo Smythe is hired to impersonate John Bonforte, a politician who's been kidnapped in the middle of an election campaign. Peace with the Martians is at stake -- failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. Lorenzo knows nothing of the issues concerning free interplanetary trade and equal rights for aliens-- ...

The Chronicles of Pern

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:40 PST

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Travel back to the earliest days of Pernese history in this first-everDragonriders of Pern short-story collection!Join the original survey team as they explore Pern and decide torecommend it for colonization.Share the terror of the evacuation from the Southern Continent as aflotilla of ships, aided by intelligent, talking dolphins, braves thedreadful currents of the Pernese ocean.Learn how the fa ...

The Machine Crusade

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:39 PST

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The exciting sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad.

The Da Vinci Code

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:39 PST

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While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- ...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 3:50:39 PST

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