Author: Joe Brusha
Publisher: Zenescope Entertainment
ISBN: 1937068439
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Awakened from a sixty-five million year hibernation, the evil alien overlord, Zalex, is ready to resume his conquest of the universe... and he's starting with Earth! Backed by his army of mutated Dino-soliders, there's nothing that can stop him... nothing but the Jurassic StrikeForce 5! Don't miss the brand new all-ages, action adventure series from Silver Dragon Books. Earth's original heroes have arrived!

Author: Joe Brusha
Publisher: Zenescope Entertainment
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 21

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For over 165 million years dinosaurs ruled the earth...until the alien overlord Zalex discovered the planet 100 million years ago. In search of an army to conquer the universe Zalex finds the perfect candidates to mutate into his ultimate soldiers in earth's Jurassic reptiles. With his new army nothing can stop Zalex from ruling the galaxy and the universe beyond it..nothing but a team of mutated dinosaur heroes. Don't miss this exciting preview issue featuring what's sure to be the hottest team of mutated reptiles to grace the four color world in three decades. The first original title in Zenescope Entertainment's new Silver Dragon Books line.

Author: Lisa Tauxe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520260317
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 505

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"This book by Lisa Tauxe and others is a marvelous tool for education and research in Paleomagnetism. Many students in the U.S. and around the world will welcome this publication, which was previously only available via the Internet. Professor Tauxe has performed a service for teaching and research that is utterly unique."—Neil D. Opdyke, University of Florida

Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429966041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Earthfall, the fourth volume in Orson Scott Card's space opera Homecoming series The Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now grown to a tribe in the years of their journey to Harmony's hidden starport, they are ready at last to take a ship to the stars. But from the beginning there has been bitter dispute between Nafai and Elemak, Wetchick's youngest son and his oldest. On board the starship Bailica, the children of the tribe will become pawns in the struggle. Two factions are each making secret plans to awaken the children, and themselves, early from the cold-sleep capsules in which they will pass the long decades of the journey. Each side hopes to gain years of influence on the minds of the children, winning their loyalty in the struggle for control of reclaimed Earth. But the Oversoul is truly in control of this journey. It has downloaded a complete copy of itself to the Ship's computers. And only Nafai, who wears the Cloak of the Starmaster by the Oversoul's command, really understand what this will mean to all their plans for the future. Homecoming series The Memory of Earth The Call of Earth The Ships of Earth Earthfall Earthborn At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Dwight Zimmerman
Publisher: Zenith Press
ISBN: 076034664X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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In Area 51, author Dwight Zimmerman and artist Greg Scott strip away the sci-fi tales and government secrecy to reveal, in illustrated detail, the actual history of experimental and highly classified aircraft that has taken place there

Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440620172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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“Phantoms is gruesome and unrelenting…It’s well realized, intelligent, and humane.”—Stephen King They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...

Author: Rodman Philbrick
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1409591050
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Max is used to being called Stupid. And he is used to everyone being scared of him. On account of his size and looking like his dad. Kevin is used to being called Dwarf. And he is used to everyone laughing at him. On account of his size and being some cripple kid. But greatness comes in all sizes, and together Max and Kevin become Freak The Mighty and walk high above the world. An inspiring, heartbreaking, multi-award winning international bestseller.

Author: Thomas Pynchon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101594659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 885

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Winner of the 1974 National Book Award "The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." - The New Republic “A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000.

Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307816419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a captivating thriller about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism, which threatens to annihilate human life. Five prominent biophysicists have warned the United States government that sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, a probe satellite falls to the earth and lands in a desolate region of northeastern Arizona. Nearby, in the town of Piedmont, bodies lie heaped and flung across the ground, faces locked in frozen surprise. What could cause such shock and fear? The terror has begun, and there is no telling where it will end.

Author: Elliot Rodger
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499679649
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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A manifesto that lays out grievances in painstaking detail, titled: “My Twisted World,” describes stories from a childhood onward that seemed to have laid the foundation for anger towards women, “alpha males,” and society in general.Describing plans for a “Day of Retribution,” on which: “All of those beautiful girls I've desired so much in my life, but can never have because they despise and loathe me, I will destroy.”Rodger, 22, left six people dead in a knife and gun rampage in the Californian University of Isla Vista in May 2014, before apparently shooting himself in the head after a firefight with police.His killing spree began after he posted a chilling video on YouTube titled “Elliot Rodgers Retribution,” in which he threatened to "slaughter" women who had rebuffed him.