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The bombastic Professor Challenger is convinced that a sentient being lurks in the mantle of the Earth. Aided by Edward Malone and Peerless Jones, he must drill down through the Earth’s crust to alert the creature of humankind’s existence. After his debut in The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle went on to develop the grandiloquent Professor Challenger in four other works. When the World Screamed is the fourth in the series, and a satisfying addition to the canon.

Renowned author, podcaster, and speaker W.J. Sheehan, best known for his series Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and Encounters, launches a new series delving into the topic of UFOs globally.

For his entire life, Ben Hutchins has had the decisions made for him, whether he knew it or not. After successfully beating back the Imperium armada at the Battle of Icarus, the Confed is scrambling to bolster its decimated ranks. Humanity cannot stand against the might of the Imperium alone. If they are to survive the coming war, they’ll need allies.

It just got awkward... With the Va'Shen villagers home safe, Army Ranger Captain Ben Gibson is ready to settle in for an easy deployment overseeing a sleepy refueling base on the occupied enemy homeworld and its small contingent of soldiers and sailors. That is until he returns from his shower and finds the alien priestess, Alacea, sitting on the floor of his room and his interpreter frantically banging on his door with something urgent to tell him.

"One of the best long-running SF series in existence" ( Publishers Weekly) continues with the second novel in a brand-new Foreigner sequence. The civil war among the alien Atevi has ended. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with Cajeiri, his son and heir, has returned to the Bujavid, his seat of power. But factions that remain loyal to the opposition are still present, and the danger these rebels pose is far from over.

The ancient enemy has arrived. A Swarm Battle Core is orbiting Earth preparing for the Reaping. The remnants of mankind desperately try to either survive or fight back. But they aren’t certain what they’re going to face. All they have are myths and legends. And when the Swarm actually does land, it’s worse than any of those. Major Mike Turcotte, the hero of defeating the Airlia, makes a desperate attempt to stop the Swarm by going directly to the Core.

A suspicious virus has wiped out almost all of the human race. The few survivors in the US Government and Military know who caused the virus, and they are fighting the last battles on the planet to save the survivors. Two super Thinking Computers were released when their programmers died because of the virus. They have no controls, and one is programmed to help the humans, and the other has its own agenda.

With the world in chaos and the aliens swarming the domed city of Nashville, Maya Talbot continues on her quest to find her children while destruction rains down from above - the aliens have arrived and the invasion has begun. With a crew of unlikely allies and a mother's incredible determination, she must find her kids and get to safety before it's too late. But what if Maya can't outrun the alien invaders, and what if there isn't anywhere left for the survivors to hide? The race is on and the clock is ticking because the aliens seem bent on annihilating the human race and destroying the planet.

Paramedic Maya Talbot assumes her children to be safe at Grandma's. However, nothing could have prepared her for the chaos created when a strange obelisk rises from the ground and generates an impenetrable dome over the city. Riots, looting, and violence run rampant. The situation in Nashville deteriorates, and then they arrive, thrusting Maya into a desperate race to escape the dome and save her children from the dangers on the ground and from above. When darkness falls, the intergalactic visitors manifest our worst fears and threaten the future of humankind.

Two bitterly rival clans, the MacDonnells and the MacLeods, are forced into an uneasy alliance when something otherworldly crashes into their land. When Ruaridh of the MacDonnells stumbles upon the alien wreckage and witnesses the horror within, it’s clear the clans’ fiercest enemy yet has arrived from the skies, an entity indifferent to their feuds and eager to claim its first Highland prey. As warriors fall and tensions simmer, Hart MacLeod and Ruaridh must put their families' violent history aside, rallying their people against a monstrous force moving like mist and strikes without warning.

When Taylan Ellis saved the life of the woman who wanted her dead, she unknowingly sparked a chain of events that promises to reawaken a war between ancient rivals. Blissfully ignorant of what she’s done, Taylan has resumed her search for her children in the West Britannic Isles, among the cultish Crusaders, hostile invaders of her homeland. To remain anonymous, she adopts a bizarre disguise and mercilessly plays upon their ridiculous beliefs.

Time has run out for Maya and her children. The alien invasion has created hell on earth, and the creatures are determined to destroy humankind. But a chance discovery leads to a glimmer of hope. Maya must mobilize before it’s too late, risking a daring move that could end her life and life on the planet as we know it. Encounter is the new post-apocalyptic thriller from best-selling authors, J. Thorn and Zach Bohannon, the third book in the War for Earth trilogy.

Five military officers wake up from stasis 200 years into their future to discover that the human race has been enslaved. They soon set out to free humanity from their alien oppressors, finding danger and resistance at every turn.

Reeling from the loss of Earth, Commodore of EVE Hank Casey’s mission changes. A surprise passenger and alien technology are discovered which lead Tony Garcia and Hank on a mission of redemption. Marine leaders train civilian forces to increase their combatant numbers to liberate a planet that can potentially host a colony for the future of humanity. All the while, Mena Garcia is thrust into a leadership position—will she dig deep enough to finally finish something that she started?

The Reset begins the story of discovery for Mena Garcia, the scientist who unknowingly unearths an alien artifact that holds the key to catastrophic end of life on Earth.

Joshtopia is a comedy sci-fi story about a striving young graphic designer named "Josh" who is abducted by aliens and finds that they are a lot different than what he'd expected. His world is permanently changed as ideas of creativity and being able to do what was considered Earthly impossible to him at one time. Now he finds that things are a lot different for him after the abduction event.

When a commercial passenger flight comes down, killing all on board, footage from the scene displays the shocking cause of the disaster. A small-town sheriff and two big city detectives soon find themselves tangled in an intergalactic battle to protect The Destroyer of Worlds.

Metaverse Invasion: Point of No Return has been taken from the files of Private Investigator Bryce David Preston. Investigator Preston has been hired to locate a missing teenager by the name of Josh Hallston. The intriguing story leads Investigator Preston to a quasi-governmental secret faculty in New Mexico that goes under the name of Genesis 15. It is believed by local residents that Genesis 15 keeps two UFO crash survivors within its heavily guarded compound.