Planet Reese
Planet Reese

Author: Cordelia Strube

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2007-03-30

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1770702520

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Long-listed for the ReLit Award, 2009 Reese Larkin is desperate to find the perfect mattress. His job is in jeopardy and he’s been forced to separate from his wife and children, but he believes that if he can find the ultimate sleep system his life will begin anew. In her seventh novel, Cordelia Strube grabs readers by the neuroses with a dark but wickedly fun story about a former Greenpeace activist forced to turn marketeer who battles against a world in which he is confronted by shift mattress sales clerks, a Fred and Ginger-obsessed strip-bar waitress, derisive colleagues, and a wife who has mysteriously turned cold and is keeping his children from him. Alone in his damp basement apartment with his daughter’s hamster, he longs for a good night’s sleep and, though faced with despair, begins each day hopefully as he grips tighter to the edges of his life. Engaging, enlightening, and always entertaining, Planet Reese is an intensely personal and endearing tale of a man holding on to his sanity against all odds in an increasingly unhinged world.

The Giant Planet Jupiter
The Giant Planet Jupiter

Author: John H. Rogers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-07-20

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780521410083

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This highly illustrated volume provides a comprehensive and accessible account of Jupiter and its satellites.

The Outcasters
The Outcasters

Author: Maestro Drake

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-11-22

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 1467034894

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"Since 1995, I set out as an artist to create characters who were hideous, strange and did not fit within the normal boundaries of a modern society. The Circus Freaks, my 1st creations, are such examples of de-humanizing humans, placing them in a world where they are not accepted by the majority and must push their way uphill to gain power. After 15 years of creating many people, places and things based on the real world, publishing books, including this one, I came to an epiphany. Who you are in relation to someone else depends not on skin color, age, religion, sexual preference, language, biology, country or planet. These short stories contain individual lives of those you are familiar with in one social category or another as opposed to those of your neighbor, family member, significant partner, your enemies, and those unlikely you've never met. In the end, a world, a galaxy of prosperity comes with the efforts of all who are related because they are unrelated and that's exactly what this book is about." --Maestro Drake

In Search of Eden
In Search of Eden

Author: Robert M. Yarbrough

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-12-04

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1387419080

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Nearing the end of the Twenty-fourth century, deep space satellites identify a rip in space between Earth and Mars. A military venture class ship code named "Exploration" is sent through the rift, and arrives far beyond what science labeled the edge of the universe. Shortly after arrival the Exploration sends transmissions to Earth that holds the key to unlocking faster than light travel. The next few messages from the ship come in the form of blood soaked screams from the crew members begging for their lives. Almost three decades later, humanity is locked in a civil war, between two alien factions. Questions behind the human involvement in the war have long been silenced by the world government. That is, until a small group of soldiers happen upon the truth of how the war actually began. Now, with the entire population of Earth and the Solar System in danger, it is up to these unlikely heroes to search the stars for a new world to save the human race.

Solar Sensations
Solar Sensations

Author: L. Taylor

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-09-01

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0595361625

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The galaxy's most beautiful and famous woman, Marie Flechette, is devastated by her fianci's unbridled infidelity. Furious, she leaves her home planet to recover at her aunt's home. But Marie never reaches her destination. A surprise attack on her space cruiser changes Marie's life. Out of nowhere, she is accused of involvement in arms trafficking, treason and murder. Marie knows that she is innocent of these charges but she must convince her captor, the charismatic leader of a primitive nation affected by her apparent misdeeds. Marie soon realizes that by calling off her engagement, she unwittingly exposed the first layers of a devastating evil orchestrated by the ruthless General Keem, a line of attack already set in motion. He and his surprising followers intend to use Marie's fame, much of which they contrived, to help them change the political landscape of the entire galaxy. Joining forces with a nation affected by the brewing crisis, Marie fights to restore her reputation and avert an intergalactic war. Will she be able to disprove the fabricated allegations levied against her? Either way, the events are sure to change the landscape of Marie's heart.

The Answer?
The Answer?

Author: Don Edwards

Publisher: Edwards

Published: 2014-07-12

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1500562521

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In December of 1972, the crew of Apollo 17 rose up from the cold and lonely surface of the moon, leaving behind the dream and legacy of mankind’s apparent destiny of breaching the final frontier of manned space exploration. It was an abrupt end to what seemed to be a new period in the evolution of our species. In all the time that has passed, neither America nor any other country has dared to forge a path back to the moon or beyond. Why? Why is it we are perfectly content to remain trapped here to the confines of redundant orbits and experiments around our own planet, when we have the means to journey ever outward and accomplish so much more? It is a question we have all asked at one time or another in our lives, either silently or aloud, and the answer given is never the one that satisfies. Suspicion always lingers. The Answer? provides an end to that suspicion, giving us insight into a black ops mission to the moon in April of 1973 after NASA astronomer Dr. Harry Sheldon and his daughter, Angelica, witnessed the apparent crash of an alien spacecraft on the moon from their observatory in Colorado. News of this incident explodes through the ranks of the Air Force, NASA and even the CIA as a plan quickly forms to beat the Soviets to the moon in an effort to secure whatever evidence and alien technology might exist in its wake. What follows next is the gathering of heroes in the form of three reserve Apollo astronauts and a secret launch from a Caribbean USAF facility to the far side of the moon, all orchestrated by CIA Special Agent-in-Charge Mary Ellen Coley. It is there that astronauts Hollanbach and Reese encounter much more than anyone could anticipate…from the discovery of the craft and what appears to be the amassing of an interstellar army set to invade our planet, the sacrifice one man must make on the moon to keep his crewmate and the mission alive, to Agent Coley’s mounting of a daring rescue attempt alongside unsuspecting allies to leave no man behind in this tale of suspense, action, romance, and even more secrets that will finally quell the rumors and suspicions of why no one has ever gone back and provide the world with an answer to the question of the moon once and for all.

Woodstock Rising
Woodstock Rising

Author: Tom Wayman

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2009-09-28

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 145971671X

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In this black comedy shot full of the social and political issues of the time, a group of college students, led by a young Canadian graduate, set out to put a satellite into orbit as an homage to the recent Woodstock Festival.

Double Planet
Double Planet

Author: John Gribbin

Publisher: Gateway

Published: 2012-11-30

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0575132396

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The Dragon, an enormous comet, is on a trajectory that will bring it perilously close to an Earth that is still suffering from the scars of a nuclear incident, and from the problems of the Greenhouse Effect. For the optimists - those that remain - it is a sign of change for the better; for others, the comet foreshadows humanity's final doom. But to Francis Reese and the hard-pressed astronauts of the depleted space programme, the Dragon presents a third outrageous, yet irresistible possibility - the transformation of a barren world into a new home for the beleaguered peoples of Earth.