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Things are disappearing. Parts of buildings, parts of people, parts of the whole world. Old Shellback, a character as crazy-smart as Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future thinks he needs glasses. But all he really has to do is open his eyes, and see that George Smiley the Messiah is busy dismantling the world. But two can play at this game. While George is making this world disappear, Old Shellback will make another one appearance and take an amazing...
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Galaxy Press
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English
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"Presents two western stories by L. Ron Hubbard, including "Cattle King for a Day," in which Chinook Shannon heads West to claim his inheritance and searches for the man who killed his grandfather; and "Come and Get It," in which a man travels to Wyoming to find his father's murderer."--
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Galaxy Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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"Phil Sheridan, a former army captain, is taken captive by warriors from a primitive tribe upon his arrival on a forgotten Indonesian island, but after he manages to escape their leader, a former slave trafficker, José Emanuel Batista, Phil looks to headhunters to help him drive Batista out of the jungle. Includes a story preview for "All Frontiers are Jealous.""--
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Galaxy Press
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[2008]
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English
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"Following the death of his partner in pursuit of gold, TomChristian goes off to the Solomon Islands to find the treasure, but he soon finds himself facing the ruthless thief Punjo Charlie who is intent on taking the treasure forhimself. Includes story preview for "Tomb of the ten thousand dead.""--
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Galaxy Press
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English
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Contains four science fiction stories from L. Ron Hubbard, including the title story in which Chuck Lambert buys a planet from a shady character, Madman Murphy, the "King of Planetary Realtors," but quickly learns there is something strange about the matter on his planet. Includes a story preview for "Greed."
9) Spy killer
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Galaxy Press LLC
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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American Sailor Kurt Reid is a hothead and a hard case-a man who hits first and asks questions later. As scrappy and rough around the edges as Jimmy Cagney, it's no wonder that when the ship's captain turns up dead, it's Reid who takes the rap. Falsely accused and under the gun, Reid jumps ship and vanishes into Shanghai -only to get caught in a web of intrigue, betrayal, and murder. In a world where nothing is what it seems and everything is for...
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Galaxy Audio
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p2008
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English
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An obscure original manuscript of Marco Polo's travels . . . A tantalizing clue to the site of Kublai Khan's fabled burial site . . . A chance to unearth the truth behind a long-lost treasure. It's an opportunity that would make Indiana Jones drop everything but his whip and race off to China. But he'd be too late. Lieutenant Jonathan Daly is way ahead of him. Two bullet holes and a bad case of malaria may not be enough to stop Daly, but a crew of...
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Galaxy Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Tom Bristol barely escapes an unjust death sentence aboard the British HMS Terror when the ship is overtaken by pirates. Soon enough, Bristol is stranded on a desert island for stopping a pirate mutiny. When Lady Jane Campbell joins Tom at sea, things really set sail in this swashbuckling adventure.
13) Cargo of Coffins
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Galaxy Press
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2024
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English
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If Lars Marlin had three wishes, two have already been granted: he has escaped from Devil's Island . . . and he has come face to face with the man who put him there-Paco Corvino. But the third wish-putting a bullet in Corvino-will have to wait. They're off to sea, and not since Fletcher Christian and Captain Bligh set sail on the Bounty have two more heated enemies been in the same boat.Corvino is a convict, con-man and killer who has schemed his...
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Galaxy Press
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English
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Fortune hunter Billy Newman is not a man of great strength or physical courage. Like a young Johnny Depp, he gets by on his wit, wiles and good looks. And he's had quite a good run-striking gold in the Philippines and buying his very own island in the South Seas. . . .But there's trouble in paradise, and Billy's in the thick of it. The island's crops are failing. The island's people are dying. And the island's owner-Billy-is taking the heat....
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Galaxy Press
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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A charming rogue cut from the same cloth as Robert Mitchum, American engineer Dan Courtney is learning fast that it takes more than a little charm to lay the groundwork for a railroad. Particularly when the plan is to build it across some of the roughest and most dangerous territory on earth. Courtney's been hired to survey the land that would link up the Uganda Railway to the Anglo-Egyptian railroad. Running through desert, jungle and mountains,...
16) Branded Outlaw
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Galaxy Press
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Lee Weston is as good-looking as he is quick tempered, and he's got a lot to be angry about. His father murdered, his family ranch torched, he goes gunning for Harvey Dodge — the man who he's convinced is the killer. But it's Lee who ends up shot and on the verge of death. But he's nursed back to life — by Harvey's beautiful daughter. Can a great loss lead to a great love? The answer lies in the wild heart of the Wild West.
17) The Crossroads
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Galaxy Press
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Think you know what's going on in the world? Think again. Long before Rod Serling took us into The Twilight Zone, L. Ron Hubbard brought us to The Crossroads-a place where thought-provoking twists and turns are delivered with plenty of wit and wisdom. Farmer Eben Smith is fed up with big government telling him how to run his life and his business. They pay him to bury his crops while folks starve in the streets, and he's not going to take it anymore....
18) Yukon Madness
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Galaxy Press
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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There are all kinds of crazy, but there's only one Yukon Madness. And Royal Mountie Tommy McKenna-a role made for Canadian-born Glenn Ford-has seen first-hand the terror that follows in its wake . . . his partner murdered and fed to a pack of wolves. But that's only a taste of the horrors to come. Bent on revenge, McKenna sets out to find the madman himself-a monster who goes by the name Itauk. He quickly finds, however, that there's only one way...
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Galaxy Press
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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In the movie The Big Sleep, Bogart as Philip Marlowe follows a trail of decadence and murder on the dark side of L.A. But even the seamy underside of the city of angels pales in comparison to the freak show found by undercover U.S. narcotics agent Bob Clark . . . in The Carnival of Death. Clark's investigation begins with cocaine and leads to cold-blooded murder-the discovery of one, and then another, headless corpse. Who is behind the slaughter?...
20) False cargo
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Galaxy Press
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[2012]
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English
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"Brent Calloway is hired by an insurance firm to board a cargo vessel undercover and ensure it makes its way to San Diego in one piece. Once the voyage is underway, Calloway finds fraud, a pattern of organized scuttlings and the true fate of another vessel captained by an old friend. But when Calloway's true identity is revealed, he must fight for his life, and the real danger begins."--
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