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June 1910. Charles Richard Crowningshield, a wealthy industrialist from Chicago, is sending his family east, to escape the summer heat. They arrive by private train, to the village of Woods Hole, a small fishing village on the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He's just purchased a new home there, high atop Juniper Point, a windswept promentary with views to sea and the Elizabeth islands beyond. But the house, built in 1880, a large Victorian mansion in the Queen Anne stylee, is a beautiful fixer-upper, lacking even the most basic of amenities, like indoor plumbing. Arthur Rouse, an illiterate Scottish foundryman with an almost preternatural relationship with machinary, has also been sent by his employer to set the situation to rights.

WORLD WAR 3.1The year is 1954. A decade has passed since Berlin and Tokyo were consumed by nuclear fire, but war claws its way back to a world forever altered. The ailing Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin, strikes NATO with a colossal orbital assault, propelling waves of tanks and over a million soldiers westward - all armed with 21st-century tech plundered from a future they never knew.Admiral Kolhammer, Prince Harry, and Charlotte Francois are compelled to once again take arms. They're fighting not only to save the world but history itself. Yet, in this complex web of time and conflict, not everybody wants to be saved.Brimming with the raw combat intensity and high-octane alternate history that fans adored in "Weapons of Choice," this fresh instalment revitalizes the groundbreaking Axis of Time series for both returning readers and newcomers.Praise for the Axis of Time."Insanely clever alt-history mash-up of WWII and the twenty-first century war on terror isn't your typical time-travelling technothriller." - Wired magazine."Birmingham is exemplary. The descriptions of combat - both from an executive remove and a close - are terrifyingly gruesome and detailed... Birmingham succeeds in restaging World War II in a manner as gripping as, say, Herman Wouk's The Winds of War and War and Remembrance." - Sci-fi Weekly."Weapons-grade military techno-thriller... It's like a Clive Cussler novel fell into a transporter beam with a Stephen Ambrose hisotry and they came out all fused together." Time magazine."Birmingham's enthralling battleground mixes provocative historical fiction with socially, conscious futurism." Entertainment Weekly.

Discovery is a work of historical fiction examining the collapse of French colonialism in the Western Hemisphere, and the frenzy of the French Revolution as the fledgling United States of America begins to aspire toward its Manifest Destiny. A forward thinking Thomas Jefferson recognizes the importance of the great Mississippi River drainage and tasks his most trusted man, Meriwether Lewis, to explore its most important tributary, the mighty Missouri River, seeking a Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. Jefferson's "Corps of Discovery" is to collect flora & fauna along the way, and most importantly to make contact and document the region's indigenous peoples.

"'Zuerst die Füße!', dachte er leicht panisch, als er, beinahe wild mit den Armen rudernd wollend, vom Kreuz abgenommen werden sollte.Er war nämlich gar nicht angenagelt, sondern nur angebunden gewesen.Nägel waren damals viel zu teuer [...]."Dereinst, beim ersten Konzil von Nicäa (325 n. Chr.), befanden hohe kirchliche Würdenträger und Kleriker unter anderem auch darüber, was über Jesus in der Bibel zu lesen sein würde.Unergründlicherweise fehlten seither annähernd drei Jahrzehnte aus seinem Leben.Doch glücklicherweise nur bis zum heutigen Tage. Den uralten Aufzeichnungen des geheimnisvollen Kho n'Rhat Khu Yao sei Dank...Anmerkung des Autors:Jesus kommt in dieser Geschichte sehr gut weg, denn es liegt mir fern, ihn irgendwie schlecht dastehen zu lassen.Im Gegenteil. Er ist schließlich der Held meiner Kindheit, zu dem ich nach langem Suchen irgendwann irgendwie wieder zurückgefunden habe (obwohl er ja nie wirklich fort war), nur nicht so, wie es sich"religiös gehört".Denn Jesus als "gottgewordenen Menschen" darzustellen, war mir irgendwann einmal viel zu naheliegend.

Wie bekämpft man am besten Monster? Mit anderen Monstern. Das ist die Idee, die hinter der Spezialeinheit Freak Force steht. Diese Eingreiftruppe setzt sich aus nichtmenschlichen Wesen wie Vampiren und Ogern zusammen und gibt diesen sogenannten Abnormalen die Möglichkeit, den für sie vorgesehenen Ghettos zu entkommen, indem sie die Menschheit vor übernatürlichen Bedrohungen beschützen. Doch der Dienst in der Freak Force ist alles andere als ungefährlich.Der Werwolf Nathan und die Halbdämonin Sarah haben mit der Freak Force einen Sieg über die Diener der Alten Götter errungen. Der Mount Grace wurde geschliffen und Tusara, Königin der Bestien und Mutter der Monster, die in ihm hauste, wurde zusammen mit ihrer grauenvollen Brut zerstört. Doch der Preis, der dafür gezahlt werden musste, war hoch: Nathans und Sarahs Einheit musste sich direkt gegen die Befehle ihrer menschlichen Vorgesetzten stellen und sie hat auf dem Gipfel des Mount Grace ihren Anführer verloren. Während die Zukunft der Einheit sowie die des gesamten Freak Force-Programms somit in der Schwebe hängt, planen die Kräfte der Alten Götter weiterhin die Unterwerfung des gesamten Planeten. Ihr jüngster Plan sieht vor, etwas auf die Erde zu bringen, das selbst die Gefahr, welche von der Mutter der Monster ausging, bei Weitem in den Schatten stellen würde: Die Götter schicken nicht länger lediglich ihre Diener in diesen Kampf ...

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A novel about the dark gifts of grief, what it means to belong, and the possibility that time and space may not be what we think they are.It is the morning following a devastating hurricane on England’s south coast, and local painter Dolores is walking the shingle beach of the Headland. She spots something unusual lurking in a piece of driftwood—a color, a creature, perhaps something fostered by the twin forces of storm and atomic fallout. It’s all anyone has been talking about, after all, just months after Chernobyl and in the shadow of the local nuclear power station.Decades later, her son Morgan returns to the Headland to arrange for Dolores’ funeral. The power station is about to be decommissioned, and the bleak landscape is best known now as a landing point for desperate immigrants from across the Channel. Morgan’s girlfriend is pregnant—an unexpected revelation that he is not at all sure about—and he is especially keen to discover what he can from his mother’s unusual cottage, especially about his father, whom he has never known. He uncovers the diary his mother wrote following the hurricane. It tells a story about Dolores and the strange being she discovers on the beach—a story which is both enthralling and heartrending. As he reads the journal, Morgan’s own experiences of the Headland become increasingly inexplicable. The journal challenges Morgan’s ideas about love and grief, parenthood and belonging, and the very fabric of time. As he unravels the mysteries of his mother’s past, he must come to terms with his own origins and face the growing violence from those who would threaten the peace of the Headland.

An anthology of science-fiction stories and art, created by members of Arts Labs from around the UK.

What If Sparta Ruled An Empire?In this action-packed novel, the Spartan Empire wages war to suppress a widespread rebellion.Meanwhile, a yagar warrior attempts the unthinkable to save someone he loves.

¿ This time machine science story concerns one lecturer invents one time machine to help the main actor his student Johnny to catch his time machine to go to the future time and go back the present time travel. His student Johnny's surprising journey will be described in this fiction. This story introduces one scientist invents one time machine to bring whose one student to go to future time journey. It is my first science fiction novel written and a science comedy, a time travel science story. This scenario of this series takes place in four stages of journey. This lecturer will memorize to speak to let his students to know from his final time machine journey to early time machine journey. The Boston university Lecturer, Jim had invented on time machine. This time machine can apply space black hole principle to hekp any earth travellers to enter any bilding black hole wall to go to our future, even go back either present or past time. Their journey will be very exciting. In their machine time journeys , they had encountered aliens, futuer robotic enemy, even the Boston university lecturer Jim his future himself. The Boston university lecturer, time machine inventor, Jim and his student, johnny, time traveler both have gone into the future to the year 802,000 I and have come back present in final journey, after they had experienced several different future time journeys. They expect to find a better world with highly intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, they find that people have become weak, child-like creatures. They dance and sing, and wear flowers. They seem happy, but they also felt fear. Whether what cause they felt afraid, but why are they so frightened when they knew whether what will happen in the future ? And who or hat has stolen their time black hole wall machine? Will these two time travelers, ever be able to return to the present ? ¿ The first journey indicates the Boston University lecturer, Jim's time travel machine invention and who invites the student , Johnny to enter this big circle time machine to go to future time travel together. ¿ The second journey indicates Johnny go to the future court judgment journey alone. Johnny will meet himself in the future Boston city US court in the future time. ¿ The third journey, the time journey traveler Johnny who will enter the time machine to discover whether who will do what kind of job in Boston University. ¿ The fourth journey, he will describe who is one human development science subject lecturer and he can see himself who is teaching in one large lecture hall as well as who can listen what his is teaching in the lecturer hall. Thus, he will know what he will teach and he will write all notes to remember to prepare his teaching in the future. ¿ The final journey, they will catch time machine to go to space black hole planet to travel. But, it is the most important mission to save human life for them. Whether what this mission is, how they can save human life ? In his final journey, I shall give my opinions to indicate what reasons will cause (AI) artificial intelligent tools to be applied to social military defense weapon by human's intention. In my this books, I hope my readers can know what will cause human's immoral behaviors to bring our societies to bring more dangerous or risks or threats if human applied (AI) technology to achieve whose immoral or ambitious intention. Finally, I hope that human ought not apply (AI) technology to do any behavioral attack to satisfy ourselves interest or dominate global world ambition to avoid (AI) technological war occurrence in the future one day.

What If Sparta Ruled An Empire?After centuries of conquest, the Spartan Empire dominates the known world. Its lands stretch from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Persian Gulf in the east, and from the Nile in the south to the Danube in the north. With the last of their enemies defeated, the Spartans are the unquestioned rulers of the world.But many people living within the Empire's borders hate their new masters, and an uprising spreads to every corner. In response, the Emperor orders his Phalanxes to wage war on his rebellious subjects. They are led by a ruthless Commander who will stop at nothing to eliminate all who oppose Sparta.Meanwhile, beyond the Empire's northern border, powerful yagar warriors live scattered throughout the wilds of the Forever Forest and North Lands. The Ten Clans are divided, as they have been for a thousand years. But when Spartans kidnap a certain female for the Emperor, one yagar sets out to do the unthinkable in order to save her.Back in the Empire, a leader of the rebellion knows the Spartans are too powerful to defeat, and she believes an alliance with the mysterious yagars is their only hope. But is such a thing even possible? Humans and yagars have always been enemies. How can she bring them together? And even if she can, will they be enough to help bring down the most powerful empire in the world?In this action-packed, alternate-history fantasy, will a rebellion break the bonds of tyranny? Will alliances be forged in time to heal a broken world? Will an empire conquer or fall?

Shamshir Naik, itinerant holy man and former prince in the mould of Siddhartha? Meddler and spymaster? Master manipulator and mover of events? Teacher and mentor? True and honest friend doing what he can to preserve those he loves with all the talents he has? Which, if any, of those is he? Who knows? Come on this journey; from rural Kolkata, across the Himalayas, to modern day Alexandria-Upon-Thames to find out. As he meets Alexander on the banks of the river Indus and travels to Babylon what is his purpose? When Alexander almost dies in that Royal City is it Sham who saves him or that mysterious visitor nobody quite remembers seeing? Does Sham know that mystery man? After the Empyraeum is safe and claimed; Sham, afraid of what will happen if Alexander discovers the immortality he kept secret from him, flees and is thought dead. Where does he go and what does he do until Neshaa sees him on the moon all those years later? Follow the path of the Charmer and everyone's favourite bad mannered, cigar smoking joker who always has a laugh ready. Remember he is always where he is supposed to be but how does he know?

"Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville" est une ¿uvre écrite par le philosophe et écrivain français Denis Diderot. Il a été rédigé dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle, mais il n'a pas été publié de son vivant en raison de ses aspects controversés.Ce texte est un dialogue entre deux personnages, un Tahitien et un Français, qui discutent des différences culturelles et des points de vue sur la société. L'¿uvre explore la question de la moralité, de la civilisation et des rapports entre les cultures européennes et polynésiennes à l'époque de l'exploration.Denis Diderot était un des philosophes majeurs de l'époque des Lumières en France et l'un des principaux contributeurs de l'Encyclopédie. "Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville" s'inscrit dans le contexte de la philosophie des Lumières, remettant en question les préjugés et les valeurs de l'époque, tout en encourageant la tolérance et la compréhension interculturelle. Il est reconnu pour sa réflexion sur le relativisme culturel et la manière dont les sociétés européennes percevaient d'autres cultures lors de l'exploration du monde.

Nevermore is a dark, historical fantasy filled with romance, southern charm, and all the trappings of a classic historical romance. Walking the line between the occult, the paranormal, and the reality of 1800s life in The Great Dismal Swamp, Nevermore is also chock full of action and adventure. Follow Edgar Allan Poe and Lenore into The Great Dismal Swamp and experience one version of the birth of Poe's famous poem, "The Raven." On the banks of Lake Drummond, on the edge of The Great Dismal Swamp, there is a tree in the shape of a woman. One dark, moonlit night, two artists met at The Lake Drummond Hotel, built directly on the borderline of North Carolina and Virginia. One was a young woman with the ability to see spirits trapped in trees and stone, anchored to the earth beyond their years. Her gift was to draw them, and then to set them free. The other was a dark man, haunted by dreams and visions that brought him stories of sadness and pain, and trapped in a life between the powers he sensed all around him, and a mundane existence attended by failure. They were Eleanore MacReady, Lenore, to her friends, and a young poet named Edgar Allan Poe, who traveled with a crow that was his secret, and almost constant companion, a bird named Grimm for the talented brothers of fairy-tale fame. Their meeting drew them together in vision, and legend, and pitted their strange powers and quick minds against the depths of the Dismal Swamp itself, ancient legends, and time. Once, upon a shoreline dreary, there was a tree. This is her story. AUTHOR'S NOTE: This novel is a direct spin-off from "Kali's Tale," the fourth book in the DeChance Chronicles - initially it was going to be the prologue to book V - but is now a fully separated, stand-alone work - though the stories tie together, and are all one big story - as novels, over time, tend to become. Book One, "Heart of a Dragon," is only .99 and books 2-4 are now available in a single omnibus edition. If you enjoy Nevermore, you may find The DeChance Chronicles to your liking. Book V - "A Midnight Dreary," draws directly on elements of Nevermore.