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2) Dark Earth
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The remainder of humanity is cut off from its homeland, suspended in a starlit purgatory. A lifetime of penance to stare at a dead planet daily haunts every soul aboard Area 0.51. Home to a regiment of scientists and military, humanity co-exists with extraterrestrials in the wake of a world ending event, their bid to survive shadowed by the lives they helped to destroy. But now, survival may not be enough...
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Random House
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[2022]
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English
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"In Dark Ages Britain, sisters Isla and Blue live in the shadows of the Ghost City, the abandoned ruins of the once-glorious, mile-wide Roman settlement Londinium on the north bank of the Thames. The native Britons and the new migrants from the East who scratch out a living in small wooden camps in its hinterland fear that the crumbling stone ruins are haunted by vengeful spirits. But the small island they call home is also a place of exile for Isla,...
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Aliens and alien invasions take many forms. To the hard-working residents of a newly constructed ant hill, when a massive creature places a size 10 shoe atop their home, the invasion is blatant and destructive. Their children, the zygotes still wrapped in a protective shell, are crushed beneath the surface. They weep. They mourn. They cart off their dead. And they rebuild. There are also other kinds of intra-planetary alien invasions. Every day, every...
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E.I. - Earth Invasion volume 20
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The Kazoop step up their efforts to force the Earthers to return Grzzt. Meanwhile, Kevin Keene begins his infiltration mission in prison.
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2021.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter
“The energy of the narrative never flags. . . . Sancton has produced a thriller.”—The Wall Street Journal
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“The energy of the narrative never flags. . . . Sancton has produced a thriller.”—The Wall Street Journal
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The Earth is visited by two objects. As they orbit the Earth, one casts a red haze, the other a white glow. When the red object passes overhead, many people become more hateful and evil. Even world leaders become more aggressive, and war breaks out in the Middle East. Clergy, military, and scientists began to debate the real intentions of these objects. Many of the clergy believe the red object represents Lucifer, and the white glow represents God....
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Earth 2 volume 17
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Once thought dead, Superman now returns to Earth to do the destructive bidding of Darkseid! The Wonders of Earth 2 have struggled to keep the forces of Brutal and Darkseid at bay. But now with the return of Superman, they can no longer stand up to the wake of destruction he brings. But now, with the emergence of a new and mysterious Batman, comes the hope that he may know how to defeat the rogue Man of Steel before Earth 2 is destroyed completely....
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Your success is not by what you have and own or what you are involved with in your social life. Your success is by what you are doing here with the spiritual life through the physical presence. It's not about where you're at with what you have. It's about where you're at with who you are, then you will have everything that you need. Do not sell your life for some simple-minded success. Reality is an illusion that must be recognized and overcome in...
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An extreme wildlife photographer explores the bizarre species that thrive in complete darkness with more than 200mesmerizing color photos.
Deep inside caves, at the bottoms of oceans and lakes, beneath the ground: these concealed habitats are absent of sunlight, and yet full of life. This strange world of complete darkness, is inhabited by millions of life forms that most humans have never seen. Now Danté Fenolio brings the denizens of these shadowy...
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Crisis on Infinite Earths. Infinite Crisis. Final Crisis. And now...Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths! The epic event years in the making is finally here. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the rest of the Justice League are dead. The remaining heroes are left to protect the world from an onslaught of violent attacks by DC's greatest villains! Can the legacy heroes step out of the shadows of the classic heroes to form a new Justice League? And will...
15) A Star, a Star
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Morning Star, O cheering sight! 'Ere thou cam'st, how dark earth's night!A brilliant, new star appears at Christmas in 2020. What does it foretell?
16) Bling 3.0
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Bling 3.0 is book eight in The Lost Girls series, a Dark Earth setting, by Jason Halstead Medicine in the year 2073 can handle broken bones, gunshots, and most damage the human body can receive. It cannot replace a missing brother. Protecting the Martinez family meant abandoning her brother on the world of her birth, Dark Earth. She made that choice and saved the lives of two innocent children and the woman who loved her... but at what cost? The Martinez...
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1950s, North Carolina. Martha 'Sonny' Creech, her two brothers, and her parents work hard on their cotton farm, but only Sonny loves the rich, dark earth the way her father does. When a tragic accident claims his life, her stricken family struggles to fend off ruin. Frank Fowler, their rich, reclusive neighbor, offers to help finance that year's cotton crop, but Sonny is sure the man has ulterior motives. Her own talent for divining water won't be...
18) Boiling Point
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In a moment he was through the cloud barrier and into the darkness. Earth was below the horizon today, but he saw Mars, clear and sharp against the backdrop of space. They wouldn't have done a fool thing like this to him on Mars, he thought. They weren't shorthanded there. But here, on Venus, the stepchild of space, the U.N. appropriation was bestowed grudgingly, and the technical staff was no more than skin-deep. Stasek scowled and thought of his...
19) B (After Dante)
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"It was dusk, when the dark earth stains the blueing air and soothes bird in tall tree and beast in silent lair; I alone amidst all that hush of soil and leaf prepared for the war of the way and the way's great grief, of which an undistracted heart may speak or sing..."Published to coincide with the 700th anniversary of Dante's death, Ned Denny's baroque, line-by-line reimagining – the follow-up to his Seamus Heaney Prize-winning collection...
20) Cry Wolf
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They say democracy dies in darkness...
Earth has fallen. The Empire is no more. Old certainties are collapsing everywhere. Chaos is spreading across the stars, with war following in its wake...
Tarsus, a world too close to Earth for comfort, is far from immune.
Clarence Esperanza, a reporter on Tarsus, thought he had the story of the century. But, when he took the story to his bosses, he was unceremoniously fired. Cut off from his former friends,...
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