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South Dakota state government lawyer Billy Swanson is forced into early retirement by a new supervisor half his age. Humiliated by the totally unexpected loss of his job, Billy decides to take a long driving trip to fill some time while he figures out what to do with his life. Billy will soon learn that much of America outside the heartland of the country has become an incredibly dangerous place to be. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a Canadian lawyer who has penned more than 100 novels since his retirement in 2009. Please check out his Author Page on Amazon for details about ...

Volume 3 of the Half-a-Rat science fiction series. The team travels to the ancient Jet Propulsion Laboratory mountain Facility on a critical mission. They encounter an un expected ally in the fight to save earth.

Selby hates homework. She would rather watch TV - anything to escape the tedium of school, her parents' bookshop and small-town busybodies. So Selby didn't plan to read Hamlet. She certainly never planned to meet him. This novel transports Selby, and the listener, into the cold and crime-ridden play itself. Here she meets Hamlet: heavy with grief, the young prince is overthinking and over everything. Selby can relate. But unlike Hamlet, Selby isn't afraid of making decisions.

Experience The Force Awakens as a Shakespeare play, complete with Elizabethan verse, Shakespearian monologues, and theatrical stage directions! As the noble Resistance clashes with the vile First Order, Rey, Finn, Poe Damaron, Kylo Ren, and BB-8 are pulled into a galaxy-wide drama - in iambic pentameter! Star Wars fans and Shakespeare enthusiasts alike will enjoy the authentic meter, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout.

Escape the ordinary and plunge into a prehistoric urban nightmare! The Riftwalker, a being of immense power known to some as Bigfoot, is violently torn from a battle across dimensions and thrust into the bewildering Neon Wilderness of 1980s Earth. But he’s not the only creature to crash this party. A terrifying Tyrannosaurus Rex, ripped from its own time, now rampages through the electric jungle, turning city streets into its personal hunting ground. Hunted by a bewildered and increasingly aggressive 1980s military, and haunted by the echoes of a lost connection to his guide, the Machine ...

The most important star in the universe is changing. Something has altered its twenty-two year cycle, and we can no longer take the sun for granted. An eighty-year-old scientist has made it his job to warn the world. Yet, no one will listen to the old coot – except two eleven-year-old youngsters. They call him Grandpa and would follow him anywhere, even to the depths of the galaxy. That is if they could. Problem? There is no way to get there, unless the old man can figure out the Big Bang theory. Within that mystery is a powerful secret, one that can break the code to deep space ...

They called Bud, Merlin. But he knows Thirteen is Merlin. 600 years after creating a new human colony on the edge of the galaxy, Bud finds he’s become the Merlin legend. And that’s not all he finds. Merlin may have been A legend, but not THE legend. But how did THAT legend start? Bud’s been cleaning up the higher’s mess for a long time. But now he’s A legend creating another legend, because THE legend must begin. The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Hunter Legacy Hero at Large Hunted Hero Hunting Send in the Hero Make or Break the Hero Hail the Hero ...

Matteo, an aerospace engineer, returns home after working on a recovered spacecraft, expecting a sense of accomplishment. However, an unsettling feeling gnaws at him, and he can't shake the sense that something is amiss. Despite a reassuring doctor's report declaring his health normal, Matteo's unease persists. As he succumbs to exhaustion and drifts into sleep, Matteo awakens to a reality beyond comprehension. No longer in his own body, he finds himself inhabiting the unfamiliar form of another being. Bewildered and disoriented, he discovers the shocking truth: his body has been hijacked ...

Who do you trust, your friends or your enemies? When Xera is stranded on a desert planet with a hostile crew and a cadre of murdering aliens, her friends aren’t who she thinks they are. As the translator, she’s the only one who can forge a truce. As the only woman, she’s the prize they lust for, and when her captain turns on her, she’s going to need the help of her enemies to escape his wrath. Because on this inhospitable world, the warlike Scorpio are her only chance. Looking into the fiery eyes of their handsome leader, Xera saw raw heat; a reaction she knew her fellow humans ...

In this third and final book in the series, Stranger leaves Alabama and heads north searching for a small town to call home and some semblance of a normal life, if such a thing is even possible for a half-human guy transported to present day America from some future time period. More violent adventures await Stranger as he travels north looking for a home. Perhaps he will even find love and acceptance despite his unique situation. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who took up fiction writing in 2009 when he retired. Always a proponent of quantity over ...

Gulliver enjoys traveling, although it is this love of travel that is his downfall. His adventure sets off in Lilliput, when after a shipwreck, he wakes up, finding himself a prisoner of a race of people one twelfth the size of normal human beings. However, his adventure among the small people does not last long, when he has to escape the city as he is charged with treason.

Mount Everest is situated in the Himalayan Mountains, on the border between Nepal and Tibet. It is the tallest mountain in the world, standing roughly 29,029 feet above sea level. Every year, Everest gets taller by about half an inch. This is due to movements in the Earth's crust and two tectonic plates, deep beneath the Earth's surface, pushing together.

H.G. Wells, a pioneer in the science fiction genre, produced awesomely imaginative novels whose technologies seem impossibly sophisticated for a writer living in an era before automobiles and the widespread application of electricity. In his work The Time Machine, Wells’ Time Traveller, a gentleman inventor living in England, traverses first thousands of years and then millions into the future, before bringing back the knowledge of the grave degeneration of the human race and the planet.

Discover a Thrilling Journey to Save Humanity In a world teetering on the brink of annihilation, time is the only currency that matters. The world has months to live, and as the clock ticks down, an extraordinary hero must rise. Dive into a gripping saga where the fate of humanity hangs by a thread, and the line between the earthly and the celestial blurs. An angel walks among us, cloaked in mystery and purpose. Her mission: to save the souls of the innocent and the guilty alike. But she's not alone in this divine quest. As old friends must reunite, they find themselves embroiled in a ...

Vincent is having the time of his life... ...it's just not actually his life As a software developer, landing a job at an elite consumer spaceflight company is definitely a win, other than the fact that he has to face his fears and ride the rocket himself! That's not so bad, though. Vince is madly in love with Jenn, the gorgeous and adventure-loving copilot, even though he's never been able to really string more than two words together in her presence. Vince's minor blackout on his last descent was troubling, but not as troubling as the fact that just about every woman he meets suddenly ...

Welcome to future-shock. Hold on tight and buckle yourselves in, because the future is on a relentless onslaught, for better or worse. This is a collection of the short speculative fiction of Gabriel Walker Land. Most stories are flash fiction, meaning less than 1000 words. Each contains a story of mystery, action, romance, and suspense.

Scattered by the attack in the canyons, the survivors deal with the ramifications of their tenuous survival. Released from the dungeons, Mike and his team deal with Om Varee to escape the city. Mike and Tom unwillingly explore the moon base to see if they can escape. Matki Awrani takes the survivors of the Sh'raithe attack and try to get them as far as possible from the Dostori Rev's machinations.

A second-year medical student, his death was far from notable. But instead of waking up in the afterlife, Favian finds himself reincarnated in a fantasy world where magic is real, monsters exist, and a bloodthirsty secret organization will stop at nothing to hunt him down. Struggling to survive in a bizarre world beyond his wildest dreams, Favian must master the unique World of Exile game system to rise through the ranks of this land and embrace his destiny. But at his heart lies a secret power - one that will get him killed if anybody discovers it.

Dirk Landriviuk is a 34 year old loner who dislikes being around people. He is startled one afternoon at the isolated farmhouse he rents when the Syracuse cops show up looking for dead bodies. The media wrongly names Dirk as the prime suspect so he leaves New York State to start a new life. With such an unusual name, the notoriety stalks Dirk via the Internet and he becomes a pariah no matter where he lands. But then he meets Astrid. She too is a victim in a different type of mess.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who has written more than sixty novels. ...

The continued adventures of Jake. Jake, along with his forever-increasing alien family. They run a busy family business that transports food and goods between alliance worlds, encountering various situations in the process. The human race would not have been considered ready for first contact if it were not for one overriding reason. The most deadly alien foe known to the alliance has its sights on Earth and is set on a path to invade, not to conquer but to annihilate all the planet’s human inhabitants. Earth’s primitive weapons will not save them; this is where Jake can help. Jake has ...