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In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week. Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next.

Surrounded and outgunned, a group of private military contractors known as “Strange Company” find themselves on a remote planet at the edge of known space, and on the losing end of a bad contract. Orbital D-beam strikes, dropships bristling with auto-guns, missiles, and troops - even Monarch space marines in state-of-the-art advanced battle rattle - will try to prevent the company from reaching the exfil LZ and getting off-world.

Nick Hayes’ genius is in wringing out the universe’s secrets. It’s a talent that’s allowed him to carve paths through time. But the worst part is that he knows how his story will end. He’s seen it with his own eyes. And every year that passes, every breakthrough he makes, brings him a step closer. Mia’s accident is waiting for them both in 2011. If it happens then he’s out of choices.

Armed and certain she’s being followed, Kerri spends every waking minute searching for her missing fiancé, Jonas Flint. Her persistence pays off when a stranger offers Kerri a rare opportunity to pursue—and perhaps rescue—Jonas. Upon accepting the mission, Kerri is thrown into a parallel universe. She has less than three weeks to find Jonas, retrieve an absurdly valuable artifact, and somehow return to Earth. She has only 48 hours to assemble a team and begin her quest.

The greatest treasures from the ancient world have been brought together in one place - a magnificent floating exhibition aboard a luxury cruise liner - and the wealthy, powerful and famous have come to bask in the glow of ancient riches. Unfortunately, someone is about to crash the party in a big way. When Nick Kismet foils an attempted pirate takeover of the cruise ship and rescues the lovely Elisabeth Neuell, little does he suspect that he has been drawn into a dangerous game controlled by diabolical occult scholar Dr. John Leed.

Walker's on the run, definitely out of control and being pursued by her old boss. Nick's her only friend, and he wants to help but this problem may be too big for either of them to solve. Kat and Meeta are running as well. There were too many leftover questions from their last job, and the Grand Council has decided they're not telling the whole story. So it's to the Vat with them to be recycled, a prospect both have decided to avoid. Right behind them is the best that HomeWorld has to send. Two soldiers whose job it is to bring everyone back for punishment, and these guys never stop.

Nick Kismet will go anywhere, do anything, to protect the treasures of the ancient world. But to stop an ancient symbol of power from becoming a weapon of unimaginable terror, he'll have to go further than he's ever gone before.... When an old college flame tries to entice him into smuggling a precious relic into the Unites States, Nick Kismet knows there's something more going on. But before he can get at the truth, a former rival appears out of nowhere, inviting Kismet to join him on a search for the mythical Golden Fleece.

I'm a college student who watched with my own eyes as the world descended into hell. A Dark Sphere arrived on Earth, turning half the planet into zombies. They thrive on killing us—people—as every kill fuels their development and makes them stronger. Besides zombies, there are also mutants—mutated animals—plus monsters: bizarre creatures in possession of striking strength and abilities. Levels, skills, new yet unheard-of objects…our world has changed.

Rubion Federation ship HMS Belsus visits a 300-year-old colony planet, and discovers a society near revolution against the rule of a "transfigured being" known as Toth. Commander Michael Queal's crew and ship are immediately threatened by Toth and his followers, including a host of strange bioengineered creatures unique to the planet. Only a banished people on a remote island are willing to aid Queal in his fight to bring freedom to the colony, and allow him to survive the wrath of a monstrous, unbalanced dictator. But help sometimes comes from unexpected directions!

King Gregory has sent Pam Brown’s husband, Sam Brown, to the moon penal colony because Pam has something he wants, but it only makes her angry. One thing you do not want to do is get Pam angry, as she commanded the dreaded red sleeves army at one time, and they will follow anywhere at any time. Pam wants her husband back, and she will do whatever it takes to get him back, even if that means dealing with King Gregory.