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Explorer Probe VI, a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1972, was designed to investigate the outer bodies of Neptune and the lesser dwarf Pluto. The probe was the flagship of the Explorer series. It was programmed with the latest artificial intelligence enabling it to survive on its voyage for many years in distant, cold interstellar space. This artificial intelligence was endowed with a capacity for being almost self-aware.

Ten years after her father's disappearance, Rose wakes up in a medieval-style world, where the ruling king has magical powers that he uses for malice. He turns his soldiers into animals in order to control them and enacts a strict curfew throughout the land, which he enforces with hypnotic music. Rose meets Mikhail, a rugged hunter, with whom she quickly falls in love. He takes her to his camp of rebel elves who just want to live in peace and teaches her to fight. While there, Rose makes friends with Trixie, a quirky, obsessively upbeat artist.

A thought-provoking adventure across space and time that pushes the boundaries of religion and science. Follow characters through many different worlds as they search for new homes across the stars, free from the mold-casting corruptions of society.

The City in Space, Purgatory, is still at odds with Earth. This idyllic dwelling has advanced in notoriety among those who grow tired of an overcrowded planet. Others would like to obtain control of Purgatory and exploit it for financial gain. Meanwhile, a powerful minority of people on Earth seek to dominate the masses through any means possible. Resnick Clayborn attempts to stem the onslaught of creatures in the heavenly realm as well as masterminds on Earth in order to protect the dominion of the City in Space.

Chris Cochrane never imagined abandoning school for a dangerous life in Castle Forks. He never wanted to fight immortal Demon Shadows. And he certainly didn't ask to risk his life protecting the whole world. While on a hunting trip with his father in the wooded mountains, a magical creature invites them to an invisible castle hidden in plain sight. A castle that brings with it an impossible world, lifelong secrets, and an ancient enemy that wants to destroy humanity.

The Legend of Umbrage is a medieval fantasy story about a world where magic blooms like flowers in a meadow, and men begin to discover the secrets hidden behind the forest. The book is set around the life of a lone woodsman known as Bothorn. He is a man born of a particularly unusual race of men called Skinshifters. As their name suggests, the Skinshifters have the natural ability to change shape and become massive animals with unbreakable hides.

The President and Vice President are elected from two different parties. They are old friends, but a conflict develops when the possibility of actual alien contact is discovered. A multitude of characters are infused into the relationship between the two.

As you awoke this morning and prepared to face another day, you had no idea that the world as you knew it was about to change forever. But the truth about the conflict between good and evil has been revealed, and the blinders are being removed for the first time in millennia. These revelations ignited a behind-the-scenes power struggle that will escalate into the most violent series of conflicts the world has ever seen. And soon, everything you know about science, history, and life, in general, will be called into question.

Ray Bennet has been trying to forget the pain of her past for far too long when Kyle Walker moves into town, bringing mystery and excitement. Though Ray has never been interested in much more than her studies, she finds herself captivated by his intensity. It isn't too long before she discovers Kyle is hiding a secret about a world of Sorcery, a world he originates from. Though this new world intrigues Ray, it just might be connected to her painful past.

The host, a being who does not know what he is or where he came from, survived for centuries by controlling the bodies of small birds and consuming them. When the host has the opportunity to use a human body, he is overwhelmed by the human mind, and for the first time, he can look at himself and try to understand what he is.

It was 2050, and Dr. Erwin Little, CEO of the Center for Life Sciences, was preparing to conduct the most dangerous scientific experiment ever attempted. But he needed a volunteer subject, a human willing to be euthanized and then returned to life. The goal was to go beyond the many Near-Death-Experiences documented over decades, and determine what life, if it existed after death, was really like. Was it just a dark, blank time like before birth, or was there something else?

A renegade general and a pair of indestructible soldiers await a fuel tanker on the lawless and spent planet of Kilth. While there, the general befriends the young starport mechanic. The landing of a small personal craft carrying a disoriented maiden and her lifeless brother causes the general to enlist the help of an eccentric, sometimes maniacal ship captain to help return the young woman to her home world.

The Roosevelt matriarch Granny Z, the 105-year-old storyteller, is back telling more tales of Dr. Bahu and his family's travel to what one day becomes Los Angeles. And added are the gifts of love, which are stories to amuse and entice the listener. But great action and great love do go hand in hand.

Suzanne Ray, a graduate student with a brilliant mind, has her reasons for mistrusting AIs. Sent to investigate the findings of an AI recently installed as part of an upgrade to those four-hundred-year-old SETI radio telescopes, Suzanne quickly identified the flaw in the AI's logic. However, she also recognizes an ominous pattern hidden in the data that will mean the end of life on this planet.

Sergeant Deedee Contreras leads a SWAT team into a drug house occupied by militia terrorists who force her and her officers into a gunfight. Suddenly, Contreras and her team find themselves being tossed around by a tornado that hits on top of the house during the gun battle, wreaking havoc and leaving her unconscious. When she awakens, she finds herself alone in an apocalyptic wasteland of war and death, a warrior's world called Endos, where her only companion is Tito, a drug dog that chased her and her officers into the house before the tornado hit.

The growing evil becomes overwhelming when the wolf king and the ghost cat join forces to destroy everything that is good and pure. Who will rise to become a hero, a deliverer?

Gabriel Il Profeta was raised in the Vatican ever since he was a young boy and was mentored and educated by priests, scholars and has attended numerous colleges. But this information isn't available to anyone except the Pope. All of Gabriel's information is inside the "Book of Secrets" and explains all his hidden talents.

Princess is still no ordinary princess. Her journey of self-discovery continues as do the abductions and abuses. She's motivated and driven to discover the truth more than ever. Sean stands by her side through it all and meets a mysterious character of his own at a local pub. Who is this man? As their relationship with Mrs. MacDonald is strengthened, it appears as though she is a force to be reckoned with.

With the Stars is about those of us who will achieve greatness in making it to other worlds. When the main characters make it through the conflicts they run into, they will get to the planet of their choice. But they must remember it’s extremely difficult getting to that perfect planet.

For longer than humans have realized, beings imbued with superhuman strength and abilities have been walking among them. One fateful night, Rose Stragonov, a young woman leading an otherwise unremarkable life, finds herself inexplicably drawn to a mysterious light that transforms her into one of these beings—the Shapeless.