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This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends, and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach.

Talib Mansfield and his first Mate, Waylon Series XI, both are Astronomers and Astrophysicists. They decide to travel through space to validate Talib’s theories of space exploration. Talib being a disgraced, lower level being on Earth. No matter how much he’s accomplished or designed. Waylon being Talib’s invention, becomes his co-pilot.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood A Best Of pick and Most Anticipated Sci Fi and Fantasy novel, as selected by Goodreads Buzzfeed BookRiot The Portalist IO9 BookBub SheReads BiblioLifestyle Den of Geek GeekDad “A rich...

The Lead Trifect of planet Yanda gives Invasion Officer Morg a choice: deliver Joseph Conway safely to Earth, or lose everything. Botching this assignment would be catastrophic, and Conway has no intention of making the journey easy on Morg. After things go awry, they are forced to land on the ultimate vice planet in the universe. Trying to avoid arrest, conspiracies, deadly secrets, and biological threats, the unlikely duo battles to find their way to the ancient home of humanity.

El de 1937 y el de 1938. Dos veranos inolvidables, a salvo bajo la dorada luz de Sussex, donde los días se consumen en una sucesión de juegos infantiles y pícnics en la playa. Tres generaciones de la acomodada familia Cazalet reunidas en su finca natal. Los quehaceres de dos abuelos, cuatro hijos, nueve nietos, innumerables parientes políticos, criados y animales domésticos que abarcan desde lo cotidiano hasta lo más trascendental.

Strange messages pop up worldwide on computers, cell phones, and other devices. A team of scientists is assigned to solve the mystery, but after weeks of trying, none of them have a clue. They reach out to Dr. Airina Feivel, a 28-year-old renowned Astrobiologist and Theoretical Physicist, famous not only for her world-acclaimed book, “A Dissertation About Quantum Life Forms,” but also for her awkward behavior. Airina takes charge of the situation and soon begins to solve the puzzle in the midst of suffering multiple homicide attempts for reasons unrelated to her investigation.