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Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.

The history of modern China has long been portrayed as a tale of Communists fighting in the hills for freedom, gradually gaining popular support by taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Red Dawn Over China reveals how unlikely the Party's victory actually was, had it not been for financial and military support from the Soviet Union.

When Muslim fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous, the Russians figure they are going to have to take things into their own hands. They plan to seize the Persian Gulf, and more ambitiously, to neutralize NATO. Thus begins Red Storm...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is...

Merlin Mission Books 9-16 of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series available together for the first time ever! Magic Tree House Merlin Missions are more challenging adventures for the experienced Magic Tree House reader. In each adventure, Merlin the magician sends Jack...

Melanie Hoskins, an experienced firefighter-paramedic, has been recruited by a very selective and secret organisation known as The Division. Their mission is to protect the populace and secure the continuation of the United States. The Division is only activated at times of dire need. This just so happens to be one of those times. Based in New York City, Hoskins is forced to leave her civilian life and those she loves behind, and join the front line to try to control the 'dollar flu' virus that has been spreading throughout the city.

It is January 1964 in an alternative timeline in which the Swinging '60s never happened. A little over a year has passed since the Cuban Missile Crisis of late October 1962. Red Dawn, spawned as Josef Stalin's answer to America's atomic monopoly in the late 1940s, has fomented full-scale insurrection in Washington, DC, and almost sparked a war between the world's two remaining nuclear superpowers. But the real fury of Red Dawn - Krasnaya Zarya - is unspent, and time is running out. Now is a time for charismatic leaders to come forward....

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Jack and Annie are headed to a land of fierce samurai and great beauty, the capital city of Edo (now the city of Tokyo), in ancient Japan in the 1600s. They bring only...

Red Dawn is a fast paced thrilling adventure ride in the style of Dan Brown. Alexander DeFall, a world-famous actor, and Rebecca Skyler, a small-time criminal, receive a mysterious inheritance from a stranger. Soon thereafter people try to kill them. To save themselves, they must team up to...

Spanning over 20 hours in audio, this is one of the most detailed and immersive Formula One biographies ever produced. Every year is explored—the highs, the rivalries, and the relentless pursuit of progress that shaped Hamilton’s extraordinary career.

The lost Volsik heir has finally returned to the people of Íseldur, and even with the warrior who's captured her heart standing by her side, Silla's task is monumental. She must earn the loyalty of the northern jarls to drive Ivar Ironheart from the throne and restore peace in the kingdom. But the secret she guards vigilantly threatens to ruin all her plans: a shard of a god lives in her mind, twisting her thoughts and deeds to His will.

Two friends who have drifted apart go on an unintended journey when they take a drug that technically turns them into zombies for 72 hours. But near immortal cultists intent on journeying to the other side will stop at nothing to get the "Bloom" back, even if it means taking it from their undead bodies. As the two men run for their unlives, they test the bonds of friendship and learn the whole universe is depending on them. So we're probably screwed.

Barliona: a virtual world jam-packed with monsters, battles - and, predictably, players. Millions of them come to Barliona, looking forward to the things they can't get in real life: elves and magic, dragons and princesses, and unforgettable combat. The game has become so popular that players now choose to spend months online without returning home. In Barliona, anything goes: You can assault fellow players, level up, become a mythical hero, a wizard, or a legendary thief.

When Signe, her husband, Rune, and their three boys arrive in Minnesota from Norway to help a relative clear his land of lumber, they dream of owning their own farm and building a life in the New World. But Uncle Einar and Aunt Gird are hard, demanding people, and Signe and her family soon find themselves worked nearly to the bone in order to repay the cost of their voyage. At this rate they will never have land or a life of their own.

In 1883 Kansas, a female bounty hunter is the greatest rifle shot who ever lived. An honest and brutal account of sharpshooter Lula Belle Johnson, daughter of a U.S. Marshall, as told by her younger sister Annabelle Lee Johnson. Anna Lee’s vivid, poetic voice is a picture from the age of dust and death come and gone, and depravities born from the shadows of the human heart and soul. Bound by revenge over her father’s death, Lula Belle becomes the most feared and notorious bounty hunter in American history. Her sister’s bleak, apocalyptic vision is filtered through her lonely, ...

This book offers teachers a sequence of lessons that provide students with a clear understanding of Marxist Theory. Each lesson includes easily accessible resources along with a series of discussions that will elicit comprehensive and productive conversations that address the tenets of Marxist Theory. This book is specifically relevant for the socioeconomic situation of the early part of the 21st century. This book mainly focuses on the economic aspects of Marxist Theory, but also provides a look at the cultural and ideological aspects. It offers lessons on Capitalism, the Labor Theory of ...

In August Red Dawn, the eighth book in the Cat Collier Mystery Short Story series, a new case has our girl-sleuth-turned-big-city-private-investigator Mary Catherine Collier Paxton, known as Cat, examining old family feelings and experiencing some terrifying new ones. The glow of big city life has dimmed. She hungers for her old small town life. But can she get her hermit husband to leave the safety of his New York City penthouse for Heaton Valley, Ohio?

You Cannot Hack Your Destiny . . . A genius hacker is plagued by strange visions which haunt his dreams and hint at a mysterious destiny. Caught red-handed with US military designs, Jacob Wylde is sent to PROPS, a top secret research facility where a handful of tech criminals are trained for active duty as cutting-edge cyber spies. Here he meets Rebecca Kent, a committed hacktivist with secrets of her own and a burning desire to secure her freedom. As their relationship develops, dark forces are already at work, plotting the pair’s ultimate destruction. And it's only a matter of time ...

From #1 bestselling author V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) the first book in the captivating Cutler series—soon to be a Lifetime limited series! In her fine new Virginia school, Dawn Longchamp feels happy and safe. But nothing is what it seems... Now Dawn and her older...

THE AUTHOR OF THE POPULAR CAJE COLE WWII SERIES TAKES US BACK TO THE ERA OF THE CIVIL WAR AND AN EPIC NATIONAL CONFLICT An April morning in Baltimore turns bloody and violent as the first Union troops arrive in the border state of Maryland, where adventurer Tom Flynn tries to avoid choosing sides as the War Between the States begins. Quick with his fists and good at cards, he’d much rather spend his time drinking whiskey on the waterfront than being a soldier again. An impulsive act of compassion soon has him running for his life. He ought to know better, but he can’t help standing up ...