Marine Human

It is AD 2565. When 17-year-old Marine cadet Arun McEwan forges an unlikely friendship with an alien scribe, he crashes into a world of treachery and conspiracy. How can he possibly survive three more years until graduation when every day brings a new deadly threat? But survive he must because his new alien allies show him glimpses of his destiny - a vision of a better future that only he can forge. A dream called the Human Legion.

The aliens didn't invade. They made an offer that humanity, desperate and starving, couldn’t refuse. Earth is dying. The crops are gone, the governments are mostly gone, and what's left of civilization is running on rationed hope and bad decisions. Then the Veylorians arrive with food, technology, and a contract. One hundred thousand human soldiers per year, to fight their wars across the galaxy. Mark Calder used to save lives for a living. He was a paramedic in New Orleans—bad coffee, impossible hours, patients who diagnosed themselves on WebMD and were wrong every single time. Now, ...

The New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot series returns, taking Roz on an action-packed under-the-ocean journey to save her beloved island! Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to...

“Eunice Wong’s measured pacing and mellow tones perfectly complement Nayler’s provocative exploration of memory, minds, and consciousness.” - Booklist "The theme of the nature of consciousness is equal parts intriguing, thrilling, and eerie. Best of all, it's always compellingly narrated...

They killed his brother. Then they captured him. Now they’re going to pay. When the Brinlo slavers invade Earth, the collapse is immediate. Cities burn. Survivors are chained and shipped off-world to be sold across the galaxy. Ex-Marine pilot Derek Hamilton is one of them. Beaten, captured, and bound for alien slave markets, Derek refuses to break. He fights his way free—killing his captors mid-transport—and escapes into deep space. But there’s nowhere left to run. Instead, he joins an elite alien strike force waging war against the slave empire… and climbs into the cockpit of an ...

When 17-year-old Maddy Pruitt vanishes from her sleepy town, word on the street is that she ran away. The daughter of an abusive alcoholic with a quick temper, she had every reason to leave in search of something better, and everyone who knew Maddy knew the type of company she kept wasn't always ideal. But when a second 17-year-old girl from a local, affluent family turns up missing shortly after Maddy's disappearance, the circumstances become suspicious. 

Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish—the eel—and a reflection on the human condition. Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and...

We didn’t join the stars. We were sold to them. When Earth collapses under hunger, war, and desperation, its leaders accept the only offer on the table: alien food and technology in exchange for human soldiers. Mark Calder was a paramedic in New Orleans. He knew trauma, blood loss, bad calls, and the special kind of stupidity that makes people say, “I looked it up online.” Then he wakes up inside a combat frame, a heavily armed war machine built to fight battles no human body could survive. The aliens call it an opportunity. Mark has other words for it. Most of them would get flagged ...

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections A seminal work in Ray Bradbury’s career, The Illustrated Man is a mesmerizing collection of eighteen interconnected sci-fi short stories that explore the dichotomy of human nature and technology. Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. For...

A legendary serial killer stalks the streets of a fantastical city in The Helm of Midnight, the stunning first novel in a new trilogy from acclaimed author Marina Lostetter. In a daring and deadly heist, thieves have made away with an artifact of terrible power—the death mask of Louis Charbon...

The most joyful emanation produced by a colony of bees is known as the “song of increase”—declaring that the hive is flourishing and the bees are happy in its abundance. Song of Increase takes us inside the world of the honeybee to glean the wisdom of these fascinating creatures with whom...

What is a Super Lab and how can it be used to improve martial firearms training? How can we apply the Scientific Method to firearms training to meet our goals while eliminating superfluous and outdated training modalities? These were the questions that the author undertook to examine and explain in this thorough and in depth manuscript. Paul G. Markel has been a dedicated student of the gun for forty years and relates what those four decades of experience have taught him in regard to conducting training and teaching others to employ firearms in a true martial fashion. Subjects include: ...

With humanity on the brink of extinction, can one man make a difference? After a hard fought victory, Captain Faulkner's ship is in urgent need of repair. So he heads for Blackthorn, a solitary space station out on the edge of the known universe. A million people call Blackthorn home but when a vast and untamed threat rises up from the depths of space, the station's destruction seems all but assured. Faulkner has fought his fair share of desperate battles in the past but this is one fight he can't win. In order to save lives he's going to have to learn to make sacrifices. But he'll ...

The Cage of Dark Hours is the second novel in the epic fantasy trilogy from acclaimed author Marina Lostetter, where the defeat of a serial killer back from the dead has pulled the mask off the myths and magics of a fantastical city. Krona and her Regulators survived their encounter with Charbon...

A man so perfect for you that you swear he was made just for you. You cannot stop smiling and he makes you feel lighter than air. All your friends are jealous, it feels like no-one on the planet has had it this good. Could it get any better than this? That perfect man is a hot AF genetically engineered human who is built bigger and better than the rock, but looks like a rock star. He is everything anyone could want, but not what Mary was looking for at all when she ran into him - literally walked right into him - on the street. Things moved pretty fast after that first meeting and now he ...

'Inspirational’ Ben Fogle 'Incredible' Bear Grylls ‘Extraordinary’ Bill Bailey 13,000KM. 240 days. A journey no one thought possible. ________ What are you capable of when you stop believing your own limits? When Mitch Hutchcraft set out to swim, cycle, run, and climb from the English...

When a Crow Indian acquaintance of Tomlinson’s asks him to help recover relics stolen from his tribe, Doc Ford is happy to tag along—but neither Doc nor Tomlinson realize what they’ve let themselves in for. Their search takes them to the part of Central Florida known as Bone Valley, famous...

Faulkner's victory came at a terrible price. Driving back the Da’al’s initial attack has left the Mantis destroyed and her crew scattered across space. All hope now seems lost. And with the arrival of their new battle fleet, it seems that the Da’al are determined to push humanity to the very brink of extinction. Desperate to turn the tide, the remaining Marines are dispatched to Tigris where the discovery of a long lost alien technology may well provide them with the advantage they’re looking for. But it may already be too late. R.L.Giddings’ Silver Fleet Series is a masterclass ...

Mankind is undergoing rebirth, the new arrivals closely watched by the Selected: the transgenic beings created by the Moirai. The new communities thrive with the aliens' support and peace and security reign on Eridu, as the planet Earth is known by the Moirai and in the galaxy.

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