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Disaster. There was no other word to describe how Operation Olympic had changed in a flash from a triumph to the worst failure the Merry Band of Pirates had ever experienced. A failure that meant the fight was over. Unless the Pirates could perform a miracle, without Skippy.

Rand Bauer is good at his job. Not the glamorous kind of good—the kind that involves forged paperwork, warehouse security systems, and knowing exactly when to disappear. As a repo man in a world where alien technology is quietly making his career obsolete, he's made peace with the fact that his skills don't exactly translate to anything larger.

The latest audiobook from the multi-million bestselling author R.R. Haywood...

'VERY INTELLIGENT AND VERY FUNNY' SARA PASCOE 'AN OUTSTANDING DEBUT' MARY BETH KEANE 'UTTERLY GRIPPING' DAISY BUCHANAN I am sitting in the waiting room of a London clinic. In ten minutes I will have an injection that, I am assured, will erase the last twenty years from my face. It's quiet in...

This story began with a simple idea: What happens when the extraordinary crashes into the ordinary — not with explosions, but with ribs, sweet tea, and a family trying their best? Book One is about finding peace in the middle of chaos, choosing love in the middle of fear, and learning that...

Tedd saved the world. Their thanks: a bounty on his head.With the Manager gone, humanity wasted no time declaring war on every robot left standing — hunting them for parts, for sport, and for credits.Now a new force is emerging from the wreckage. They call themselves Phoenix.Their mission...

Stephen walked into the office which Barnabas was using as his judge's chamber. While the massive amount of data Bethany Anne's team was throwing at him was more than enough to assuage his curiosity, he had never felt this way in the last 152 years. He wanted a vacation. He pulled the top manila-folder and took a look at the name, "Clarissa Bernier, CEO". He opened the folder, and it was now in the agreed upon fashion.

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.

The Aftermath of a stunning victory—especially an unexpected, complete, and final victory—should be high-fives all around, listening to politicians give boring congratulatory speeches, and a well-deserved rest for the Merry Band of Pirates. Yes, the galaxy is still a freakin' mess, but that is nothing new, and for a change, that can be someone else's problem. Until, you know, something really bad happens, and only the Pirates can deal with the problem... Or not.

A most-anticipated title from USA Today, Goodreads, BookPage, BookRiot, Seattle Times, and The Nerd Daily! Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision...

There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. It’s not an easy thing to do and Arthur Dent thinks he’s the only human who’s been able to master this nifty little trick - until he meets Fenchurch, the girl of his dreams. Fenchurch knows how the world could be made a good and happy place. Unfortunately she’s forgotten. Convinced that the secret lies within God’s Final Message to His Creation they go in search of it. And in a dramatic break with tradition - actually find it....

For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now... something absolutely impossible.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”—The Washington Post Book World Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy! Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The...

Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up. Depressed and alone, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker. Looking forward to a quiet life, his plans are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter. There’s nothing worse than a frustrated teenager with a copy of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in their hands. When she runs away, Arthur goes after her determined to save her from the horrors of the universe. After all - he’s encountered most of them before.… Volume Five in the Trilogy of Five.

Gregor a inventé tout ce qui va être utile aux siècles à venir. Il est hélas moins habile à veiller sur ses affaires, la science l'intéresse plus que le profit. Tirant parti de ce trait de caractère, d'autres vont tout lui voler. Pour le distraire et l'occuper, ne lui resteront que la compagnie des éclairs et le théâtre des oiseaux.

Hard-core military science fiction at its very best, John Scalzi's The Last Colony is the third in The Old Man's War series. They must save themselves – or die trying. John Perry was living peacefully on one of humanity's colonies – until he and his wife were offered an opportunity these...

Severian, Lehrling in der Gilde der Folterer, verfügt über eine Fähigkeit, die Fluch und Segen zugleich ist: Nichts, was er erlebt, kann er je vergessen. Zudem hat er die schlimmste Sünde seines Standes begangen und einer Gefangenen gegenüber Barmherzigkeit gezeigt, worauf er aus seiner Heimatstadt Nessus verstoßen wird. Severian wandert, nur mit dem legendären Schwert Terminus Est bewaffnet, durch eine gefahrvolle Landschaft, über der eine langsam erkaltende rote Sonne am Himmel steht.

The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads, so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.

In an alternate America, JFK survived—and didn’t just win the Space Race. He never stopped. Now it’s 1972, and JFK’s ever-expanding space empire is ripping holes in space-time itself—erasing people, places, and entire histories from existence. The only ones who might be able to stop him? Nancy Kranick (Emmy nominee Natasha Lyonne), a former moon nurse lying low in Hoboken, New Jersey… and Richard Nixon, tangled in a conspiracy so bizarre it stretches from the Moon to a Shakey’s Pizza to a parallel-universe Watergate.

A Special Edition of the original radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978 and recently voted the Nation's Favourite Audiobook in a Guardian poll.

Starring Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Susan Sheridan and Stephen Moore, these six episodes (Fit the First to Fit the Sixth) have been remastered to modern-day standards by Dirk Maggs, and for the first time feature Philip Pope's arrangement of the familiar theme tune.