L. Ron Hubbard
Author
Pub. Date
2010
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Description
Think you know what's going on in the world? Think again. Long before Rod Serling took us into The Twilight Zone, L. Ron Hubbard brought us to The Crossroads-a place where thought-provoking twists and turns are delivered with plenty of wit and wisdom. Farmer Eben Smith is fed up with big government telling him how to run his life and his business. They pay him to bury his crops while folks starve in the streets, and he's not going to take it anymore....
Author
Series
Writers of the future volume 39
Pub. Date
2017
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Description
<p><b>"Hot new talent."</b> —<i>Locus</i></p><p>Get to know tomorrow's brightest creative talents chosen by some of today's bestselling authors and celebrated artists including Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Larry Elmore, and Brandon Sanderson.</p><p><b>Explore </b>12 diverse new universes of possibility through a variety of creative and fresh
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Series
Writers of the future volume 35
Pub. Date
2019
Description
The 35th collection of winners of the Writers and Illustrators of the Future competition features expertly crafted stories and art, spanning the gamut from hard core sci-fi to epic fantasy. Stories so fresh and new, they're 5–10 years ahead of the curve-the future is literally here and now.
Each year, the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests' blue-ribbon judges search the world to discover and introduce to you the very best new talent...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1987
Description
Volume 10 of a 10 volume series. Contents: V. 1 The invaders plan--v. 2 Black genesis--v. 3 The enemy within-v. 4 An alien affair--v. 5 Fortune of fear--v. 6 Death quest--v. 7 Voyage of vengeance--v. 8 Disaster--v. 9 Villainy victorious--v. 10 The doomed planet.
9) Fear
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Pub. Date
©1991
Description
James Lowry, adventuring ethnologist and college professor, is a "logical" man. He firmly disbelieves in notions of demons and devils - they are jsut illusions of the mind, of course. Professor Lowry even denies their very existence in a newspaper article. But fate has a gruesome surprise awaiting Lowry. He loses his hat, and inexplicably, four critical hours of his life. He then begins a quest - taking him into the vortex of his darkes tHell - from...
11) The enemy within
Author
Series
Mission Earth dekalogy volume 3
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
Heller has been sent by the Voltar Confederacy to eliminate pollution on Earth, but Soltan Gris, Voltarian archvillain and killer spy, is bent on sabotaging his mission. Will Heller discover the giant heroin operation in Turkey that Gris is hooked into? Does the exotic belly-dancer Utanc lure Gris away from his vengeful plans? And what does a stock car race have to do with Heller's fight for the survival of the planet?
Author
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
Explore exotic new worlds in the celebrated and enduring classic of space travel on a cosmic scale, Ole Doc Methuselah mixes equal parts of vivid action, spectacle and mystery and a broad vein of humor to chronicle the voyages and exploits of Ole Doc Methuselah and his unique alien companion, Hippocrates. Ole Doc journeys through the universe as a member of the elite Soldiers of Light, a heroic physician who fights the disease, corruption and social/political...
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
It's not easy living in someone else's world. But that's the story of Mike de Wolf's life. . . literally. He awakens to find himself a fictional villain in someone else's book, landing in the West Indies three centuries ago, pursued by pirates and a wild woman on horseback. What's a guy to do? The answer's written in the sky-in this wildly original, wickedly amusing novel.
15) Fortune of fear
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
Volume 5 of a 10 volume series. Contents: V. 1 The invaders plan--v. 2 Black genesis--v. 3 The enemy within-v. 4 An alien affair--v. 5 Fortune of fear--v. 6 Death quest--v. 7 Voyage of vengeance--v. 8 Disaster--v. 9 Villainy victorious--v. 10 The doomed planet.
Author
Series
Mission Earth dekalogy volume 9
Pub. Date
c1987
Description
Earth is rising in the House of Voltar . . . And there'll be hell to pay! That's right. The invasion is on . . . and it's coming soon to a galaxy near you. The action couldn't be hotter, and the plot couldn't be more diabolical. Earth is coming to Voltar-and the Voltarians won't know what hit them. Murder, blackmail, drugs, psychoanalysis, PR firms, sex-crazed teenyboppers, riots in the streets, women in chains. These are the powerful secret weapons...
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Boldly go to times where no one has gone before. While transporting a contraband Russian time machine and developmental weaponry, Private Everett Dumphee finds himself cast into new settings when the device suddenly activates. What follows are fantastic high-tech experiences that might be called the ultimate off-road adventure. For the determined Dumphee - narrowly escaping with his life and three beautiful women - it is not necessarily a matter...
18) Black genesis
Author
Series
Mission Earth dekalogy volume 2
Description
Drugs. Sex. Murder. Taxes. Welcome to planet Earth.
They're here. They've arrived. And they're all eyes. The Voltarian scouting party-illegal aliens extraordinaire-on a top-secret expedition led by one Jettero Heller, Royal Officer of the Fleet.
His mission: rescue the planet from pollution-and make it safe for the upcoming invasion.
His problem: the planet may not want to be saved-and the invasion may just be a trick.
One way or another, Heller...
19) To the stars
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
In an uncertain future when the first space explorers are traveling through the galaxy, engineer Alan Corday is forced onto one of the starships against his will and must serve both the ship and Earth's struggling space colonies
20) Spy killer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
American Sailor Kurt Reid is a hothead and a hard case-a man who hits first and asks questions later. As scrappy and rough around the edges as Jimmy Cagney, it's no wonder that when the ship's captain turns up dead, it's Reid who takes the rap. Falsely accused and under the gun, Reid jumps ship and vanishes into Shanghai -only to get caught in a web of intrigue, betrayal, and murder. In a world where nothing is what it seems and everything is for...