No matter how smart, rich and powerful you are, to achieve the goal you need to enter the Academy of Magic on the Planet Tix.
Let every moment spent within the walls of this institution be deadly, but only here an ambitious applicant will be able to get those community ties, knowledge, and skills that will help him to ascend to the very top of his social position.
Therefore, all the talented youth from the Belt of the Worlds take the entrance examinations to the Academy annually. Representatives of the lower clans arrive in the capital these days for the merciless spectacle: tests of applicants, and for risky bets on the sweepstakes.
Can Yar Row Dark pass the test, study and graduate from the Academy if only one of the thousands of accepted students reaches the graduation ceremony? We will find out soon.
Sal is hard at work trying to figure out if he can keep his crazy little company afloat, and now he wants to add more headcount?
Kennedy isn't sure what is going on inside his young and not-all-that-wise head.
Courtney is worried that the new hire Salinger wants might not be the best choice for the company-or her.
When an unexpected call comes in, Salinger's team gets changed around drastically. He and Kennedy have to scramble to figure out how to balance it again. Can they produce the income they need or will they run out of time and end up food for the creatures in the ZOO?
Courtney is having a fight of her own, but the billionaire who is pushing her has no idea how the ZOO has stiffened Courtney's backbone. But can Courtney handle this different type of pressure?
In the ZOO, you always expect the unexpected, but this time it is the outside world that throws a monkey-wrench into the action. Can Salinger keep his friendships afloat and stay out of the claws (or mouths) of the denizens of the ZOO?
Salinger Jacobs is working to build his company as fast as possible. Will he make a few mistakes he can't think his way out of?
War hero and daughter to two Houses, Kira is just beginning to learn how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Agreeing to accompany her father's people back to their homeworld, Kira Forrest prepares for the fight of her life. She's agreed to undertake the Trial of the Broken, a rite of passage every member of her father's House must pass. It offers a path to independence and freedom that is too tempting to deny.
Not everyone welcomes this lost daughter of Roake. There are those who fear what her presence might bring to light. Betrayal stalks the halls of Kira's birthplace-its roots embedded deep in the events that claimed her parent's lives and set her on her current path.
Walking the wire's edge between truth and deception will test the person Kira has become as she separates ally from betrayer. An old enemy has put into motion a plan that could topple the balance of power in the universe. Letting them succeed spells doom-but the price might be more than Kira is willing to pay.
ALIEN FIRESTORM is a fast-paced military sci-fi shooter filled with guns, tech and warfare. It follows on from book 1 in the Fire and Rust Series: Iron Dogs.
Humanity has made peace with the Fangrin aliens and now it turns out the dogs were never the real threat. Now, the Raggers have come. An unprovoked Ragger incendiary attack on the human city of Satra kills millions. Not everyone dies. Lieutenant Tanner Conway and a few of his squad survive the flames, as does Captain Jake Griffin, his spaceship Star Burner brought down by enemy fire. The survivors want payback, but it's hard to beat an alien attack fleet when you're stuck in the middle of a burning city. The fight will take Conway and Griffin from the ruined city to a spaceship with capabilities beyond reckoning. Victory will save billions from death, but it's going to take skill, guts and a lot of dead aliens before it happens.
Jon thought it was over . . . he was wrong. It was just the beginning.
When he defeated the beast tide, he thought peace would come. But whatever he thinks never happens. The expansion he triggered attracted a much larger threat that he can't control.
Survival is just the beginning . . .
After being infected by the deadly Vita virus Dylan barely survives a harrowing journey through the zombie-infested United States. Finding refuge and a cure at a US military base, she believes the worst is behind her. Little does she know her nightmare is just starting.
The stakes couldn't be higher.
When the undead overrun the base, Dylan and a small group of survivors are forced to take matters into their own hands. Determined to deliver Dr. Lee and her research to her headquarters in Fort Detrick, Maryland, they set off into the unknown. The success of their mission could determine the fate of the human race. Can they make it in time, or will they join the ranks of the living dead?
A mission of peace hides a terrible secret.
Two decades of bitter war between Earth and her furthest colonies is finally at an end. Captain Lee Saito's massive new starship is sent to seal the uneasy truce.
But a series of terrorist attacks on Earth and the mysterious acts of a strange cult threaten to derail the fragile peace.
When the mission goes awry, Saito must try to salvage what he can in deep space while his estranged son must navigate a conspiracy back on Earth that could implicate the highest levels of government.
But conspiracies go both ways and no one is as innocent as they might seem.
As it all spirals out of control, the future of humanity hangs in the balance.
Headcase: the fourth book in the bestselling Clement series. Delusion is the ideal place to rest on a painful journey to the truth.
David Nunn considers himself a good man. Employed as a counsellor for a mental health charity in North London, his typical day revolves around broken minds and dysfunctional lives. Then, one day in January, a young man staggers into the charity's office; no appointment booked and seemingly in the grip of a drug-induced episode. David reluctantly agrees to see the young man.
It proves a brief but fateful encounter. Within days, two men gate-crash David's life; their motives wildly different but each making a demand. What they both have in common is their propensity for violence and deep-rooted psychological issues. As his world descends into turmoil, David must decide if one of those men can save him from the other.
Some people just knew how to go out in style. Tim had never been one of those guys.
Tim was always a planner. The plan was to get into college, graduate, and find a well-paying job.
That plan was coming together nicely until he saw a presentation to get paid to play The Etheric Coast. At his graduation ceremony.
After watching the company's employee recruitment video, Big Richie's words had a whole new meaning. He could spend his life going from a cubicle at work to a one-bedroom apartment and back again . . . Or he could take a leap of faith by entering a virtual world of unlimited possibilities. And get paid.
Now he just has to figure out how to get the job of his dreams, help his parents financially, and catch the attention of the girl of his dreams.
It was time for him to catch his wave. Tim sure hoped it didn't kill him first.
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'What's it like, not being real?'
In LA, where today's star is tomorrow's busboy, discarded 'Fictionals'-characters spun into flesh-and-blood by technology-are everywhere. Screenwriter Niles Golan's therapist is a Fictional. So is his best friend. So (maybe) is the woman in the bar he can't stop staring at. It's getting so you can't tell who's real and who's not.
Niles isn't completely sure how real he is...
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An ancient civilization, whose primary objective is the making of war, descends upon the planet earth. In order to save his home from total destruction, Flash Gordon returns to earth only to find himself arrested for murder...and treason. As the people of his planet divide into factions, Flash must maneuver to save the earth from total annihilation.
La vida no sonríe a David. A punto de divorciarse y cada vez más hastiado de su trabajo, empieza a sufrir inexplicables cambios de humor y lagunas mentales mientras su desconcierto crece.Pero todo cambia cuando descubre que hay alguien en su interior, un ser que despertará en él nuevas habilidades y que le ayudará a comprender los errores del pasado, dándole la oportunidad de corregirlos.'Se llama Emmo, y está dentro de mí'.
