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21) Homecoming
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Hayley Newman, a college student graduating from journalism school, finds herself searching for answers--answers to questions that go back to a missing girl from high school have haunted her. She was the last one to see the girl before her disappearance. With the help of a college classmate and her lifelong friends from home, she discovers things she never dreamed could happen. From ghost stories, to a trip to a cemetery, to old police reports and...
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In "Part 1: Ancient Astronauts - A New Moon," delve into the enigmatic realm where science fiction and ancient alien theory collide, as acclaimed author Jonathan David weaves a mesmerizing tale that challenges our understanding of the universe and the origins of life.
Unravel the secrets hidden in the celestial tapestry and embark on a thrilling journey across time and space. As humanity grapples with age-old questions about its place in the cosmos,...
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Der Journalist Lennard hat durch seinen fordernden Chef einen zwielichtigen Ruf. Seine unpopulären Artikel sorgen für Negativschlagzeilen und stoßen nicht selten auf wenig Gegenliebe. Auch seine Ehe mit Caroline leidet darunter, weil er seinen Beruf oft über seine Familie stellt.
Als Lennard jedoch den Auftrag erhält, ein Interview mit dem fast 100-jährigen Hans Finkbeiner zu führen, um dessen Ehrenstatus zu hinterfragen, ändert sich alles....
24) Beltaine Fire
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Barely married, Judith Ryan, young American college student, is whisked away to Ireland by her husband, Professor Peter Ryan. It isn't long before Judith realizes that she really does not know Peter, and what she does know sends her running in terror into the storm-ravaged night. She finds herself at the side of the druid well with nowhere else to run, and Peter is closing in on her. Leaning far out over the side of the ancient well, she prays to...
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Join Quinn, her husband Aldric, and the people of Norsewood in an impoverished, war-torn, medieval-like world of magic and monsters as they continue to save lives, feed the populace delectable food, and build a kingdom in the process! Having saved the refugees from the mining dungeon and inviting them into Norsewood, Quinn and her hunky warrior husband Aldric now concentrate on the rebuilding of their community and land. Naturally, with Quinn, no...
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Welcome to 1985... Cyril StoneOne minute it's 1985, the next I'm waking up at the top of the Empire State Building thirty-seven years in the future. Everything I worked toward is gone. I'm lost in a time that's not mine. Kate and Arthur are the only ones who can help me. But when I find their daughter bent over the hood of a '74 Dodge Swinger, I'm a goner. Jessica MaxwellMy father always told me this car would kill me, but I never expected it to be...
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With the final appearance of the golden apparition in the sky due to take place within hours, Gideon Pierce has one last opportunity to stave off disaster and save Messina Doyle, but with the forces aligned against him holed up on Eagle Heights, his chances of success are slim. To gain control of Eagle Heights Gideon will have to form an alliance with his former foe Lloyd Mitchell, a man who distrusts Gideon as much as Gideon distrusts him. Even if...
29) New Amazonia
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In June 1889, Mrs Humphry Ward's open letter "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" was published with over a hundred other female signatories against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women. Inflamed by this "most despicable piece of treachery ever perpetrated towards women by women", Corbett wrote and published New Amazonia.In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful suffragette movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly evolved...
30) Time Is Lost
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Time Is Lost - The Guild of Travelers is off again on their adventures through time. Don sets up a visit to The Lighthouse of Alexandria, Mars and the beginning of Humans are revisited.Lon decides to introduce his friend to the Time Machine. When they get lost and cant be located it's all hands on deck and boots on the ground to try and retrieve them. New trips and revisiting old friends make for plenty of adventures. Danger is just around the corner...
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The story starts at Bulia, a small town north of Mitelia, which is a planet that just finished its industrial revolution and is distant to Earth about one hundred light-years away. An excellent engineer, Chris meets Kerman, a captain of a spaceship, who invites Chris to help investigate an event for his colleague's daughter. During the travel to Ponlenia, they meet the extremely dangerous black hole incident. They struggle with the event and eventually...
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"When The Sleeper Awakes" is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. "Time Machine" is a dystopian story of time traveller who witnesses...
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Musaicum Books presents to you a carefully created collection of Edward Bellamy's dystopian novels and other Sci-Fi stories.
Content:
Novels:
Looking Backward: 2000—1887
Equality
Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
Miss Ludington's Sister
The Duke of Stockbridge
Short Stories:
The Blindman's World
An Echo of Antietam
The Old Folks' Party
The Cold Snap
Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment
A Summer Evening's Dream
Potts's Painless Cure
A Love Story Reversed
Deserted
Hooking...
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In the hallowed halls of the Timekeeper Academy, young novices learn to harness the magic of time. But when a mysterious rift starts fracturing the very fabric of their world, four unlikely heroes-Lia, the historian with a secret; Arion, the silent Guardian with unparalleled power; Jamie, the rogue with a tune for every occasion; and Elara, a prodigious mage with ties to the shadow realm-must unite. Journey with them across realms of light and darkness,...
35) Shadow Jumper
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Sucked into a time warp, Sinead, Kailum, Yolanda and Elicia, four cousins living very different lives around the world, are thrown together and embark on an incredible adventure, uncovering a mysterious future where children do not exist. The cousins become fugitives as they elude hybrid beasts, angry mobs and a tyrant ruler and learn that they must work together if they are ever to find their way back home.
36) Strange Timing
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Alexander Strange has an unusual guardian angel -- she's the one who needs protection.
Not enough that he's typing his fingers to the bone covering resurrected triceratops maurading in Miami or that he's on a quest to find a headless baby Jesus snatched from a Florida megachurch and golf resort.
Now his shipboard mannequin is channeling a woman from the future. Her message: Fly immediately to Portugal, do not stop for Cuba Libres, and save...
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Gideon Pierce returned to Liberty to stop Lloyd Mitchell reaching the apparition in the sky, but in a town controlled by Lloyd and his seemingly invincible guards his chances appear remote. His best hope is to free Lloyd's prisoner, a woman who is defying Lloyd and who might know of a way to defeat him, but when Gideon's rescue attempt goes awry, his hopes are dashed. He needs a new plan, and he reckons the answer might just lie with the mysterious...
38) Das blutige Buch
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Luther ist auf der Straße aufgewachsen. Da lernt man selbst mitten im 21. Jahrhundert schnell, sich seiner Haut zu wehren und nicht wählerisch in der Wahl seiner Mittel zu sein. Er hat nur eine Schwäche: Das Sammeln alter Bücher.
Beim Stöbern in einer fast vergessenen Buchhandlung stößt er auf ein kleines, unscheinbares Buch, das sofort sein Interesse weckt, denn auf dem Buchdeckel sind Spuren von frischem Blut.
In dem Buch wird die Geschichte...
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From the bestselling author of A Time to Change, comes the beautiful, moving and gripping next instalment in the beloved Mandeville Mysteries series.
The past is like a shadow, sometimes invisible but always there…
England, 1924. Nell Potter pens successful romantic mysteries as the enigmatic Margot Evangeline, but off the page, things aren't quite so wonderful. Nell, tormented by a terrible ordeal in her past, can't settle, and her writing...
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She's a famous songwriter who can't remember a year of her life. He's the 18th-century British spy with all the answers.
While walking through the tunnels of her family's estate in the British Isles, Amanda Marceau travels through time and into the arms of Alexander Montgomery, the Royal Navy Admiral who captures her heart. Months later Amanda's forced back to the present with Alexander's daughter, heartbroken they've been separated.
Hoping Alexander...
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