Michael J Allen
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When the red star glares, danger stalks the land...In the dark ages, women were property and nobles took whatever they wanted.When a peasant girl is forced to travel through a dark and foggy night filled with ill omens, fortune and misfortune ambush her on the road home.Beneath the glare of the red star, she discovers a rare treasure. Pursued by a mad Lord and stalked by a mysterious stranger, her whole world is turned upside down. When everything...
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A bottle swallowing mysterious tresures adrift in the sea.Golden doubloons and a map pointing to a deserted island.A pirate crew seeks out a hidden lair filled with riches while the mapmaker's hand rots away.What will they find?Easy plunder? A marooned sailor desperate for escape?Dreams of treasure lure the pirates closer to the ultimate prize, but will greed turn a mother's wish for her child into a living nightmare?
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Alien fighters bombard Earth's ruins. Cannibalistic aerobics instructors hunt the wastes. The last free survivors struggle against starvation and enslavement. It's become a world where friendship costs too dearly and heroics verge on suicide. One young man can't resist either until a fed-up AI steals him off the planet. Alone with only a sarcastic, broken-down starship, he braves a whole new verse full of strange new enemies and tech he barely understands....
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No one challenges the Voidrunners. No one robs their Rails. No one can beat their AI.Not until desperation forces one young man and his friends to defy the impossible.A motley crew of asteroid miners stage a hack on an FTL ship accelerator in a desperate act of piracy. Fate turns against them even before the heist begins. Reeling from complications, they raid the luxury liner caught in their trap only to face graver dangers...like betrayal.
5) Duplicity
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No one can be trusted, not even himself...Two weeks of freedom hasn't been enough for Eli to rebuild his life. While he races to prepare for looming winter, a killer's crusade to exterminate Seufert Fells's homeless drives a knife into the city's criminal elite. Forced to hunt a killer disguised by magic, Eli's world becomes a house of mirrors. Friends become enemies. Deceptions abound, and the magic that saved Eli threatens to consume him. With the...
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Earth depends on its mercenaries to survive...Merc company taxes prevent mankind from starvation...Could any mercs be so greedy as to cheat the starving?Ronald Gerard didn't score high enough to join the companies. But he can still be a hero. Financial mischief fills the news, and Gerard knows the mercs are hiding things.Proving their guilt was just the beginning...
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Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed U.S. politics well before, and long after, the war's official end.Throughout the war's last years and in the decades since, Allen argues, the effort to...
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Colonizing an alien planet is dangerous... ...moreso when you're pitting your will against a strange alien world without technology. Man against a planet, the winner's obvious, right? Sure, unless the colonists brought something with them even more dangerous than technology. Utosh isn't Sydney DeRaol's first anti-tech colony world. The skilled blacksmith has faced everything before - except for the demon's in his mind. Visions and nightmares haunt...
9) Hijacked
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The Line Between Right And Wrong Is About To Become A War Zone...Manc Shepherd is alive, desperate and mad as hedrin.Before the hunt for payback even begins, the Corollas's deadliest killers target Manc as prey. Down to his last, most treacherous allies and his father's old fighters, Manc races against death to find the hapless boy who has endangered Manc's schemes by systematically foiling ambush, assassination, and betrayal.Two problems stand in...
10) Unchained
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They Tried To Break Alaric. Instead, They Forged Him Into A Killing Machine. Then They Let Him Escape...Alaric has destroyed everything in his vendetta against the Corollas. His crew hates him. Cassiopeia is ruined, his last friend abandoned within her mangled hull. Countless factions both criminal and Protectorate hunt him, forcing him to rely on the dubious benevolence of the mysterious Kingsman.Alaric's campaign against slavery backfires when...
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The Ripples of One Selfish Mistake Could Drown the World...A phoenix has fallen, forever destroyed by the drowned druid's fury.Blinded by his obsession, Dunham unleashes his enslaved phoenixes against Quayla. The spectacular assault reveals the faeries to mankind, endangering the Exiled Lady's campaign to reclaim her throne. Desperate, Viviane trades one monster for another, offering Vitae his heart's desire.Terror and blood run rampant throughout...
12) Scraping Bottom
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Death consigns a young man to life aboard ship. He struggles to learn the ropes as part of a lone ship crossing the Indian Ocean. Except, is his ship alone?A strange fog stalks his ship. Sailors whisper of pirates and haunted derelicts. He must determine if the danger's real or a cruel joke on the new cabin boy.
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A dark spell enslaves the phoenixes. Dunham unleashes their elemental powers against those who murdered his family while the deposed Wyldfae Queen uses them to lure even bigger prey. Vitae's desperate crusade to save Mare takes a darker turn, putting him at odds with Quayla. With Quayla on the run and Vitae setting up his own kingdom, the Sidhe turn Atlanta into a bloody playground. An unexpected ally emerges to help Quayla's fight for freedom, and...
14) Stolen Lives
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The Heart Of Alaric's World Is Stolen. Reclaiming Her May Cost Him His Soul...Cassii's AI module is missing. Alaric must launch a desperate search to reclaim Cassiopeia's heart, but the old frigate is too much without an AI to run her systems. Taking on a reluctant doctor, a pacifist AI, an Alistari war hero and his ace pilot mate, Alaric must find a way to track down Cassii's abductor in the vast Protectorate.To make matters worse, criminals...
15) Fey West
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Fey do not forgive, and they do not forget. Neither do gunslingers. A half-breed born under a death sentence in the New World and saved from execution in the Old, Rafael West–half-elven druid turned gunslinger–returns to his homeland, wary and beholden to the high fairy who negotiated his release. To repay his debt, West is forced to protect and champion a dwarven railroad laying poisonous, cold iron across the wild lands of the fey continent,...
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Atlanta's protectors are dying...A new enemy has stolen the phoenixes' immortality.Would one mortal really condemn millions just for revenge?A past but never forgotten mistake returns to haunt Quayla. Hiding a secret war is difficult enough without a madman stealing mortals she loves. It's a trap. Knowing doesn't change the rules and surrender might save the day.Could the detective hunting Quayla be her salvation?The Fallen fooled Vitae and cost...
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The subject of 'Molluscs in Archaeology' has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. This new volume in Oxbow's Studying Scientific Archaeology series addresses many aspects of mollusks in archaeology.
It will give the reader an overview of the whole topic; methods of analysis and approaches to interpretation. It aims to be a broad based text book giving readers an insight of how to apply analysis to different present and past landscapes...
18) Discarded
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Magic has been franchised. Magical conveniences are sold everywhere like designer coffee. Everyday life is filled with technical and magical wonders. Only, the magic is murdering people.Thoth Corp's hot new spell is turning people into ravening monsters. Their only hope to quietly rectify the situation before the epidemic spreads is the spell architect they framed and sent to prison. Eli's response to his former partners wasn't polite.Homeless,...
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Wizard's Bane is on the warpath. The seditious young centaurs have become a force to be reckoned with, slaughtering wizards and sowing dissent within the fey. When opposition threatens to thwart their plans, they abduct dragonlings to frame their enemies at the risk of causing a full scale dragon war.
Jedediah is lost, thrusting his Guardian mantle onto his apprentices. Haunted by demons wearing Lanea's smile, Drake abandons Jordan in favor of drunken...
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When the angels could no longer be trusted, Heaven created her... Quayla's daring rescue has freed Atlanta's Shield, both saving and dooming the city. Ignis is lost to her. Terrance is corrupted. Vitae is once more free to terrorize the city and a tortured and tormented Mare has been wrenched from damnation itself. Even Summus, the Divine One meant to protect them all, has been drained nearly to death. Faery is on the march. Empowered with Summus's...