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Trapped in a brutally violent marriage, Foroozan makes an unthinkable choice to protect her children. When her decision puts her behind the bars of an Afghan women’s prison, she is surprised to discover her first taste of freedom. But freedom proves fragile. As American troops begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, Foroozan faces new threats: her husband's vengeful family and the encroaching shadow of the Taliban. With everything at stake, she must navigate a maze of harrowing choices to survive and secure her children's future.

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to...

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to...

OUT OF TIME – LAUNCH POINT (Book 1) A colony ship launches toward humanity’s hope… and arrives four centuries too late. In 2258 the Aurora leaves Saturn’s shipyards carrying hundreds of scientists, colonists, and the frozen genetic archive of an entire civilization. Their destination: Kepler-452 b, an Earth-class world 1 400 light-years away. Thanks to antimatter drives and a bleeding-edge Alcubierre warp bubble, the one-way trip will take the crew just twelve subjective months… while millennia race by back home. Captain Aveline Morrow leads a hand-picked team: John Ferris – ...

A new entry in the wildly successful Children of Time series from award-winning master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky. After Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a...

"We must be prepared to give the same kind of priority to securing the future of our planet as a sustainable home for present and future generations as we have always been willing to accord to military security...only time will tell whether we are on to a pathway to a more secure and sustainable future for the human community, or as a tragic lost, perhaps last, opportunity." -Secretary-General of the UN Earth Summit ONE WORLD: The Health and Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century is a compelling collection of original essays written by some of the premier scholars and scientists ...

Fans of Jurassic Park and Interstellar will love Extinction in Time. Mars is dying. Humanity’s last survivors flee their collapsing world aboard the starship Endurance in search of a new home. Instead, they are hurled 2.7 billion years into the future. At first, the planet they discover looks like salvation. Endless oceans. Perfect atmosphere. A world untouched by civilization. Then they discover the truth. Earth belongs to the dinosaurs. And an extinction-level asteroid is already on its way. Now the survivors face an impossible choice: Save themselves... or save a world that was never ...

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 aliens offered food. The price was soldiers. With Earth collapsing and his daughter in need of treatment he cannot afford, paramedic Mark Calder does the unthinkable: he volunteers to fight in an alien war. Ripped from his world and sealed inside a deadly combat frame, Mark is sent to the front lines of a conflict where human troops are treated as expendable assets and survival is little more than a statistical error. Every battle is a slaughter. Every victory comes at a cost. And the more Mark sees of the war, the more he begins to suspect that humanity’s alien saviors are not ...

The first FTL Level Ten starship. A colony under siege. A secret directive. An enemy as territorial as rattlesnakes. In the year 2199, Earth Alliance President Thomase Baruti commissions the EAS Dauntless—the fastest ship ever built—to spearhead exploration of the Constellation Cetus. Captain Noah Fletcher accepts the mission, but before the Dauntless can venture into deep space, it must make a critical stop: Tau Ceti Seven, where the mining colony has gone dark following a violent attack from the planet’s primitive natives. Under orders classified “Top Secret,” Fletcher’s true ...

"My God. These people really are Neanderthals!" At an archeological dig in Gibraltar, science journalist Tom Cook’s hopes and dreams are shattered in an instant by a mysterious explosion—his pregnant fiancée is missing. During the search, things go from bad to worse when Tom plunges through a time portal and into the strange and dangerous era of the Neanderthals. Can he get back, or is he stuck in the past forever? On top of figuring out how to return to the present, Tom must use his modern-day wits to fight for survival in the world of 40,000 years ago. And contend with a group of ...

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower: After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future ... or is doomed to self-destruction. In the future, nuclear war has...

From “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind—and through all five senses—from tropical Polynesian islands to forbidding arctic ice floes, and everywhere in between. Whether it’s the mighty pyramids of...

The question of exactly what sex differences exist and whether they have a biological foundation has been one of our culture's favorite enduring discussions. It should. After a baby is born, a parent's first concern is for its physical health. The next concern is its sex. Only in the most modern societies does sex not virtually guarantee the type of future life a new human being will have. Even in modern societies, one's sex usually plays a large role in the path a life follows.

This post-apocalyptic / science fiction romance series contains the three main novels in the Earth's Only Hope series. Filled with interstellar adventure, forbidden romance, and high-stakes survival, the Earth's Only Hope series will keep you on the edge of your seat. Can a band of prisioners become the saviors of humanity? And will love flourish in the face of extinction? Dive into this post-apocalyptic space opera today and discover why Earth's only hope may lie in the most unexpected hands. The Earth is freezing... ...and its salvation is left to a group of criminals, like me. From ...

After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity—before their powers destroy what is left of humankind, in this thought-provoking science fiction novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of The Sower. Since a...

From the acclaimed author of the Earthseed series, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together and changing the destiny of the human race. "[Butler] created vivid new worlds to reveal truths about our own." —New York Times Blake Maslin is...

This funny, "extraordinary and thought-provoking" (The Wall Street Journal) book asks whether we are in fact the superior species. As it turns out, the truth is stranger—and far more interesting—than we have been led to believe. At first glance, human history is full of remarkable feats of...

Terran Prey For as long as anyone can remember, humans believed they sat at the top of the food chain. They were wrong. When alien hunters arrive without warning, cities fail first. Power dies. Noise becomes fatal. Those who cling to old rules don’t last long. The invaders aren’t conquerors or diplomats—they are predators, and Earth is something far worse than a battlefield. It’s a hunting ground. As raids spread across the globe, a few survivors begin to understand the truth: this enemy doesn’t fight wars. It stalks. It tests. It waits. Tanks and jets mean nothing. Crowds are ...

In this prize-winning essay for the 2021 Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay contest, Dr. Ruickbie examines the evidence for the survival of consciousness after death (“life after death”). Initially skeptical, he found that there was sufficient evidence from a wide variety of sources, including apparitions, reincarnation, near-death experiences, after-death communication, and premonitions, that met the contest’s criteria of being “beyond reasonable doubt.”