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The Ship fled a dying Earth to save the human race. Launched as the last gasp of humanity, the Ship set out to preserve the species by seeding the universe with one billion colonists. Generations of crew, trained to be either flight or marines, have spent 5,000 years protecting the Ship and its civilian cargo from the constant threat of alien violence. Fifteen-year-old Zax has always had trouble fitting in with the other cadets, but he's finally on the cusp of attaining his dream and gaining entrance to the Pilot Academy.

Scientist Rayne Ryder has dedicated her life to studying Kaiju—the colossal beasts hell-bent on destroying the rest of humanity's twenty-one remaining cities. She just thinks they’re neat! When her company discovers that she has an uncanny talent for piloting Machina, the giant robots used to fight the monsters one-on-one, her life is completely upended. Instead of staying in the comfort of the lab, she has to earn her place in the Crew of the best Machina operators Anchorage Protectorate has to offer.

Eighteen-year-olds Rose and Rosebud have never met, but they share a birth year, a name, and a bloody pair of sneakers. Rose's quest to atone for the accident that kills Rosebud, a young woman so much like herself but for the color of her skin, unfolds alongside Rosebud's battle to survive the devastating flooding in the Lower Ninth Ward and to find help for her unstable mother.

Gabriel Braven knows his destiny, but is he willing to face it? Gabriel has only one day left on land before moving to the wondrous Mer city to live forever with his true love, Mer Prince Casillus Nerion. He wishes his greatest challenges were giving up making love on land with Casillus and telling his beloved grandmother that he is a merman. But ex-soldier Johnson Tims has other plans for him.

Sydney is full of climate refugees. Food and water insecurity have created tension. There is poverty, suspicion and cultural disharmony. A world of have and have nots. In this environment a 5 year old girl from the Floodline, Casey, disappears. Then the body of an auditor from a development...

Does a sailing voyage ever really go as planned? Not when the world has been turned upside down by a devastating solar flare that disrupts GPS and communications systems. Landfall in the Bahamas doesn't work out the way Artie and Larry Drager envisioned, because now the two brothers must search a vast archipelago of out islands in hopes of finding their missing crew member. A stranger they encounter on a remote cay complicates matters even further, putting their vessels and their lives at risk. LANDFALL: ISLANDS IN THE AFTERMATH, is the fourth book in this EMP thriller series featuring a ...

Deeply grounded in historical fact but refracted through a powerful imagination, Landfalls follows the exploits and heartbreaks not only of the men on the ships but also of the people affected by the voyage - natives and other Europeans the explorers encountered, loved ones left waiting at home, and those who survived and remembered the expedition later. Each chapter is told from a different point of view and is set in a different part of the world - ranging from London to Alaska, from remote South Pacific islands to Siberia, and eventually back to France.

Set during the tumultuous middle of the George W. Bush years—amid the twin catastrophes of the Iraq insurgency and Hurricane Katrina—Landfall brings Thomas Mallon's cavalcade of contemporary American politics, which began with Watergate and continue with Finale, to a vivid and emotional...

“THRILLING. The perfect storm of drama and suspense. -IndieReader Amanda Cole, the nation’s top hurricane forecaster, understands nature’s biggest storms better than anyone. And this one terrifies her. New York City is completely unprepared. The year is 1999. History has been largely forgotten. Residents dismiss the risks, and officials have no evacuation plan. Yet the storm long feared by scientists is barreling toward the city. Meanwhile, a mysterious plot is afoot to sabotage the forecast and any last-ditch efforts to evacuate. With both her daughter and father in the hurricane’s...

In Alberta, Canada, at the foot of Dead Horse Mountain, a space capsule is discovered - a capsule that shouldn't exist. Thirty years earlier, Dr. Jan Lee, American entrepreneur and space tourist, purportedly destroyed this craft when he blew up the International Space Station in an act of unexplained sabotage. That event has since inspired conspiracy theories ranging from espionage to alien invasion.

Deirdre washes ashore in an idyllic land and enthusiastically enters a discreet and discerning society. But the surrealism is more than skin-deep. Relying upon all her interpersonal skills, as well as elements of her childhood she has been eager to neglect, the indefatigable teenaged heroine must survive in the face of others’ prejudice, mistrust and unspoken desperation to ruin or rely upon her… realising her own sinful nature as well as the very best of her own character. Deirdre, the Wanderer, The Oceania Adventures: Volume 6: Deirdre, the Temptress; Third, ‘Ormond Beach’ edition...

Deirdre washes ashore in an idyllic land and enthusiastically enters a discreet and discerning society. But the surrealism is more than skin-deep. Relying upon all her interpersonal skills, as well as elements of her childhood she has been eager to neglect, the indefatigable teenaged heroine must survive in the face of others’ prejudice, mistrust and unspoken desperation to ruin or rely upon her… realising her own sinful nature as well as the very best of her own character. Deirdre, the Wanderer, The Oceania Adventures: Volume 6: Deirdre, the Temptress; Third, ‘Ormond Beach’ edition...

Over the past 100 years, gulls have been brought ashore by modernity. They now live not only on the coasts, but in our slipstream following trawlers, barges, and garbage trucks. They are more our contemporaries than most birds, living their wild lives among us in towns and cities. In many ways, they live as we do, walking the built-up world and grabbing a bite where they can. Yet this disturbs us. We’ve started fearing gulls for getting good at being among us. We see them as scavengers, not entrepreneurs; oceangoing aliens, not refugees.

The colony ship from Earth had been on its way to the Coronis colony — a flourishing mining settlement — where crews of engineers and technicians had been working for 10 years preparing the planet for settlement and studying its ecology. But disaster had struck. 

When Lynn learns she is to be relocated to the temple at Landfall, the arduous journey seems more like a gift - her last chance to see something of the outside world. She does not anticipate the dangers and temptations she will encounter along the way, nor does she expect Lieutenant Kim Ramon, an officer in the squadron of Rangers assigned to protect her. Despite all prohibitions forbidding it, attraction grows between the two women.

The gripping third book in the Guardian Herd series, perfect for fans of the Warriors, Survivors, and Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. It has been many moons since Star received his starfire power, and now he will face his toughest challenge yet. Star is gravely injured, and Nightwing the Destroyer...

Have Gun - Will Travel was already a hit on television when it made its CBS Radio debut in in 1958. John Dehner starred as the mysterious, cultured gunfighter known only as Paladin. He lived in a San Francisco hotel, dressed in black, left calling cards, and used the chess knight as his symbol. More than 100 episodes were broadcast before the program went off the air in 1960. This episode originally aired on November 15, 1959.

After 30 rough years of adventure on the seas, Jake Thomas makes landfall in a new and quiet life in Oregon - only to discover that the past dies hard. The secrets he's kept, even from himself, won't stay buried. Forty years earlier, a beautiful, young woman was murdered during Jake's first voyage as a deck cadet on an American freighter. Her children, now grown, want answers only Jake can give. What really happened that terrible night? Did the wrong man go to jail?

Tropical Cyclone Jasper is expected to make landfall today in Queensland. A man has been charged by police after he allegedly locked his girlfriend outside on a hotel room balcony during a disagreement in 2020. Overseas - Ukraine has been hit by a massive cyber attack that’s left more than half the population without mobile phone service. To sport - Usman Khawaja is set to make a statement with his footwear when the first test against Pakistan gets underway in Perth tomorrow. To celebrity news - it’s been revealed that Hamish Blake and his wife Zoe Foster Blake were the victims of a home ...

This nine year circumnavigation by a South Australian couple encompasses 55 countries, including destinations as diverse as the canals of Venice to 130 miles up the Gambia River in West Africa. The despair of being dismasted mid-Atlantic contrasts with the delights of stopovers in isolated coral lagoons and the Galapagos Islands. Fierce electrical squalls, a violent waterspout, a gang of Venezuelan thieves and assisting the French Navy in a South Pacific rescue all tested their capabilities. Whether struggling up the Red Sea, island-hopping in the Aegean, Caribbean and Pacific or joining ...