Colony World

"Twistingly enjoyable." "Really good story, interesting characters and plot. Well written and fun read." Kenzo Jaxson is the lone security officer on a colony reclaim mission to Tau Ceti Four. The people that colonized that planet long ago had been cut off from the rest of the universe due to war. Eager to gain what assets the lost colony could provide, a small starship is sent to assess the situation. What they find is unbelievable. The residents of Tau Ceti had developed much more than expected with a strange culture of magic and religion. A weekly storm ravages the land causing all to ...

A dead man's quest is never over. Zane Lucas inherits more than his wildest dreams from a man he's never met. The same week, a mysterious cluster of drones appears before him during a random border patrol. Who sent them in the first place? Earth's alliance with the Gral is on the brink of collapse. The forty-three colonies are under duress, and an unknown entity is coming for them.

Three years after a heartbreaking defeat, Maggie’s world is unrecognizable. She’s gone underground to hide from Mordecai. Her career as a journalist is over. She’s scrubbing toilets in a seedy hotel just to make ends meet. Mordecai’s vision for bot domination has brought the country to its knees. An attack on Congress and a humanoid army has shrouded Maggie’s city in fear. Maggie, Ping, and Alex are fighting from the shadows, but Maggie can’t escape the wounds of her past. When she receives a message from Tripp, she puts a dangerous plan into motion.

Sandweaver is the sequel to the twistingly enjoyable Tau Ceti, first installment of the Forgotten Colony series. Readers receive some much awaited answers to questions raised in book 1. Yet as the drama grows, so does the grand mystery of the abandoned world. Tau Ceti 4 does not want to be reclaimed. The planet itself rebels against another proposed intrusion by human colonists. Mission security officer Kenzo Jaxson is now in survival mode. He must rely on his new friend the young desert witch Ciassi, to find the answers that may enable him to return to the solar system. Old friend turned ...

What if everything you know about humanity's space capabilities is a carefully constructed lie? For decades, whispers of a hidden space fleet, off-world colonies, and advanced human-alien alliances have circled the edges of public awareness. Behind the Black Curtain: Inside the Secret Space Program takes you deep into this world — a world of whistleblowers, black budgets, breakaway civilizations, Mars bases, and technology so advanced it makes science fiction look primitive. In this gripping, eye-opening investigation, Logan J. Shields examines: ✅ Insider testimonies about 20-and-Back ...

Hoist the mizzenmast and batten down those bloody hatches: Pirates! Scoundrels Who Shook the World tells the hilarious-but-true adventures of history’s most amazing pirates.

Burnt out from a demanding job and a bustling life in the city, Emelie has left town to spend a few days in the country. Once there, in the peaceful, verdant hills, down by the river, she encounters a mysterious group of seven people, each with personal stories full of pain, alienation, and the longing to live differently. They are misfits, each in their own way, and all led by the enigmatic and charismatic Sara.

Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years' War, and yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history. In January 2006, PBS will air The War That Made America, a four-part documentary about this epic conflict. Fred Anderson, the award-winning and critically acclaimed historian, has written the official tie-in to this exciting television event.

Guardian is a continuation of the mystery-riddled, futuristic and magical story of the Forgotten Colony on Tau Ceti Four. Kenzo leads his new team of specialists into the Obsitan jungle in search of relics that he hopes turn out to be powerful weapons from the starship that brought him to this world. On his way there he must deal with a slew of surprises that will surely shape his journey ahead. Fantastical beasts, powerful wizards, and old friends. Our hero begins to accept his prophesied role of Great Guardian as he once again must battle strong opponents to save his followers. Nerogron ...

Island One is a celestial utopia, and David Adams is its most perfect creation - a man with a brain as advanced as any computer and a body free of human frailties. But David is a prisoner - a captive of the colony that created him - destined to spend the days of his life in an island-sized cylinder that circles a doomed and desperate home planet. Thousands of miles below him, a world trembles; its people cringe in terror and despair in anticipation of an impending apocalypse. And fate has cast one extraordinary human in the role of savior.

It all started when a rat ran over a family member's foot and Dr. Anne E. Beall began a journey into the world of feral cats. Beall had experienced rat problems for a long time. Then a neighbor told her about a program called Cats at Work, where one could get feral cats that would take care of the rat problem. In Community Cats, she tells how she entered the world of feral cats when she signed up for the Chicago Cats at Work program with Tree House Humane Society. Tree House practices TNVR (trap-neuter-vaccinate-return), and they trapped, neutered, vaccinated, and relocated a feral cat ...

In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made an astounding discovery...

Orphaned on a struggling colony world, Finn was barely scraping out a living when he stumbled upon a life-changing discovery—an intact alien spaceship. Ill-prepared, but forced to flee the local crime syndicate, he stakes his future on surviving the starways with the extraordinary living ship and a mysterious spidery creature. But freedom among the starways is far from easy in a sector that is expanding faster than it can be regulated. Finn’s perils only get worse when his past begins to catch up with him. Some journeys require bold decisions, some need stout friendship, but truly ...

After World War II, 50 percent of Americans polled said they didn’t believe Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun had committed suicide in their bunker in 1945, as captured Nazi officials claimed. Instead, they believed the dictator faked his death and escaped, perhaps to Argentina. This wasn’t a crazy opinion: Joseph Stalin told Allied leaders that Soviet forces never discovered Hitler’s body and that he personally believed the Nazi leader had escaped justice. At least two German submarines crossed the Atlantic and landed on the coast of Argentina in July 1945.

Out from under my brother’s thumb, I want only one thing: survive. Falling for my green protector? Definitely not part of the plan. Elyssa I’ve spent my life under my brother’s iron control. When I finally escape, my goal is simple: deliver the data I stole to the one person I can trust. But fate has other ideas. An explosion leaves me stranded and surrounded by my brother’s vengeful gang. Desperate, I have no choice but to trust the last male I should—a green-skinned, feral warrior who’s as deadly as he is tempting. Tass claims he’s here to protect me, but the look in his ...

The aristocracy is making a run for the throne in this latest thrilling, star-crossed paranormal romance entry in J.R. Ward’s #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series. When Lyric goes out for the night, she’s not ready for a brush with death—and she’s really not...

Fleeing Earth after an alien invasion, the human race stands on the threshold of evolution. Their new home is Luna, a moon colony blessed with creature comforts, prolonged lifespans, digital memories, and instant sex changes. But the people of Luna are bored, restless, suicidal - and so is the computer that monitors their existence.

Orson Scott Card returns to his best-selling series with a new Ender novel, Ender in Exile. At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin – called Ender by everyone – is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who...

He thought he was saving his world, but in the end, it was his world that saved him. On the planet Ghia, in the Cygnus galaxy, the land is ravaged by constant experimentation, leaving once-fertile areas barren and desolate. Ode Tillmook, a brilliant scientist, believes he has the solution to restore Ghia's beauty. But when his quantum photosynthesis experiment goes awry and nearly kills him, Ghia itself awakens and saves him. However, its first words are far from comforting. Ghia reveals that a massive asteroid is hurtling towards the planet and will destroy all life in just ten months. ...

With the Gral sent home, abandoning their posts around the colonies, humans are once again in charge of their own fate. Zane and Julia are determined to find the mysterious forty-fourth colony. They devise a plan and set into action while Lorna and Henry search the Forever World for evidence of the elusive alien race. Carl is sent into enemy territory with only a shred of hope as his guiding light. For both father and son, choice is synchronous with consequence, but how can you be sure you've made the right one?