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It’s been ten years since the Lunar Free State established itself on Earth’s moon. Since then, other Earth nations have pushed into space, but - thanks to the advantages provided by its gravity-driven spacecraft - the LFS has continued to prosper. When the research ship LFS Stephen Hawking encounters an alien probe near Saturn, though, the craft leads Hawking on a chase before vanishing into hyperspace. Now the Lunar Free State must face two facts: The humans of Earth are not the only intelligent life in the universe, and travel to other star systems is possible.

Ian Stevens, director of the Deep Space Research Institute, isn’t interested in conducting research just for the sake of research. While the rest of the world - including the US Government - thinks that’s the DSRI’s sole mission, Stevens is actually interested in more - he wants manned space travel and the colonization of the moon. With NASA defunct, few scientific probes are being launched, and no one even talks about human spaceflight anymore. Stevens is out to change that.

Temporal waves can now be detected and traced back to the time and place of their origin, even making it possible for one to travel back in time - or at least for one's consciousness to appear in a projection of one's body. Only three countries have the apparatus to make this event possible: the United States, Germany, and Japan. But now, scientists have been killed, followed immediately by the detection of a time displacement wave - the signature of a time traveler trying to change the past. There are only two days to rectify the situation, or else history settles into a new pattern.

In 2271, space is anything but empty. Exoplanet settlements drive a constant demand for new colonists and unending trade. But the dangers of interstellar expansion are many. With responsibility for everything from chasing pirates to fixing broken spacecraft, Lieutenant Wyatt Wills doesn't understand his latest orders: Perform a covert reconnaissance mission to Juliet, home to 20 million people and humanity's largest presence beyond Earth.

This original story from Donovan M. Neal expands on earlier events that helped shape the angelic-world of the Third Heaven Universe, with some surprising nods to the Third Heaven stories that will delight fans of the books. Return to the realm of angels, to the time before time: a time before the rise of fallen stars, and explore the realm of Limbo...the realm where all your choices live and from which no one can escape.

This is a murder mystery novel that takes place at Sliver Lake, North of Boston Massachusetts. Blake Rivers and his girlfriend Rose left Silver Lake for New Orleans a few years ago, he swore he would never come back. Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans has caused a separation between Blake and Rose. He has been looking for her in New Orleans for months. He knows it’s a long shot but thinks maybe she went back home to Silver Lake.

This psychological thriller takes us through the lives of liars and champions. And those caught between the two. Wasteful is a tale that displays the mask people use to survive in the world. Even if it means they survive as someone else.

The campground holds the grisly secrets of what happened there years ago when jealousy tore friends apart, leaving a terrifying aftermath. Gary and Linda plan a relaxing camping trip with their two sons. But it's anything but relaxing. When their oldest son begins to experience visions, his terror nearly drives him insane. As his worried parents try to help their son, they, too, experience the horrifying secrets of the woods - a secret which comes alive again after too many years.

In Love and War is the moving story of two young people in love at the cusp of adulthood and America’s entry into WW II. Inga, a German girl, and Mack, an American pilot, have fallen in love, but the war threatens to separate them forever. From the tranquil citrus groves of Florida to the shrapnel-filled skies over Europe, Mack only wants to see Inga again. Inga longs for Mack amid the wartime carnage of Germany. One fateful day, the families of both will be changed forever.

Galvin Quintos has agreed to enter into a competition that will keep Aubrey Laramie’s family from going into financial ruin. The catch? Most competitors don't survive. Racing against corporate killers, bloodthirsty aliens, and mysterious competitors through deadly obstacle courses and mechanical death traps, Quintos must navigate not just the perils of space but the complex loyalties of a crew caught between duty and desperation.

Captain Galvin Quintos, along with the love of his life, XO Gail Pristy, thought retirement meant a fresh start together within the Colorado wilderness—not being pulled into the latest galactic conspiracy by EUNF High Command. Quintos is given little choice but to spearhead a secret mission to the distant Tammarine sector.

The financial and economic crisis is over, and the Lunar Free State is beginning to pull out of the recession it suffered competing with the Confederated Nations over the Xanadu colonies. Now, however, the LFS is indebted to the CNE, and the new Lunar government is gradually falling under CNE’s influence. In a few years, the LFS will become just another puppet state under the CNE banner.

In the dying embers of an interstellar war, newly appointed Fleet Commander Galvin Quintos stands as humanity's last hope, staring down the maw of oblivion. Entrusted with the technological marvel, Omninought-Class warship, USS Washington, Quintos embarks on a campaign to engage the merciless Grish Empire's three formidable armadas—Prowess, Torrent, and Pinnacle.

Mary DeMure has escaped the lab who turned her into a monster with a touch that kills and is determined to find a cure. When she crashes a stolen car into a frigid lake, Mary is rescued from Death by a man with a gift of his own. Ex-Army Ranger, Ryan Mender, has recently learned he has healing hands when raises his son from the dead, but his encounter with Mary transforms his gift into something sinister.

Children with learning disabilities and conditions, such fetal alcohol syndrome, require healthy, nurturing homes and environments with a strong understanding of the special needs of such children. They need a network of understanding care givers in school and throughout life to help accommodate their limitations. Winston Hinkle had none of these, and the worst of everything, until a Man in White takes him under his wing and gives him a glimpse of what he will become in the coming Age of Ethereal.

When the Krygians, a soulless insectile alien race, attack a Floritineian goodwill convoy, annihilating their fleet and stealing the precious cargo, the U.S. Space Navy reaches out to the one person who can do the impossible: Captain Galvin Quintos. Tasked with the covert 'Quansport Ops' mission aboard USS Ike, a far smaller Corvette-class warship than he’s used to, Quintos must navigate treacherous alliances and cutting-edge tech to reclaim a warship that cannot be allowed to be in enemy hands—Oblivion.

The Confederated Nations of Earth and the Lunar Free State have fought each other for decades in the Sol system and out among the stars. They’ve never had an open declaration of war, but there have been battles in space at Odin, Sacagawea, and Rothstein’s star. Lunar Marines have clashed with Confed Peacekeepers on Ragnarok and Xanadu. When the British battlecruiser Prince of Wales suddenly shows up at Ragnarok, the LFS and CNE realize there’s a new player in the game.

Eli wakes up far from Earth and is promptly thrown into the magical prison world of Lurra, with superpowered humans who don’t even know they’re inmates. If that wasn’t bad enough, the experimental implant in his head is malfunctioning, causing all sorts of problems, and the closest neurosurgeons might as well be a universe away. Thankfully, Eli has some new powers of his own, which he’ll need to defeat the many psychos, assassins, and monsters crossing his path.

From foot patrols, deadly enemy engagements, and sinister insider attacks to meals and conversations with the men of the Afghan Border Police, Izant's account confronts the gauntlet of violence and anguish that transformed a generation of American and Afghan warriors from idealist volunteers for a just war to disillusioned veterans of a lost cause.

Admiral Robert O’Hara once commanded the Lunar Free State’s fleet, but he’s finding that leading the nation as Chief Executive requires different skills, as well as an entirely different mindset. The confrontation between the LFS and the Confederated Nations of Earth continues, but now it includes a race to build colonies on Xanadu, a competition that has strained Luna’s financial resources to the limit.