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Goliath Emerges is book three of the Star Scavenger Series. A thrilling space opera adventure with the mystery and action of Indiana Jones. News has spread of Hudson and Liberty's unique ability to discover new portals; now every relic hunter wants a slice of the action. Starting out from Deimos Station near Mars, Hudson and Liberty take the Orion to a new portal world. But Logan Griff, and mercenaries Cutler Wendell and Tory Bellona, are still chasing them. This time, Griff wants more than just their heads, he wants the secret to finding new portals too. Captured and imprisoned, Liberty must use all her skills and wits to escape a life of service to the Council, the galaxy's deadliest criminal gang. But she discovers an ally in the most unlikely place. Meanwhile, the mysterious alien entity known as Morphus returns. It agrees to assist Hudson in rescuing Liberty, but in return it needs his help too. The stakes are even higher than Hudson imagined. A mighty force is returning, bent on the total annihilation of humanity. Its name is Goliath. Goliath Emerges is part three of the Star Scavengers series. If you love space sci-fi like Firefly and Stargate blended with the mystery and adventure of Indiana Jones, you'll love the this.

A thrilling space opera adventure with the mystery and action of Indiana Jones. Hudson Powell had always been a drifter, but after his father died he vowed to turn his life around. He quit freelancing as a starship pilot and joined the Relic Guardian Force as a 38-year-old rookie. That was a big mistake. The RGF police the alien wrecks that have been found on every portal world discovered in the last century. They make sure the relic hunters pay taxes on the priceless alien tech they scavenge from the hulks. The snag is that the RGF is corrupt. And Hudson's training officer, Logan Griff, is the worst scumbag of the lot. Pushed over the edge, Hudson stumbles upon the exhilarating world of the relic hunters and meets the equally intoxicating and deadly mercenary, Tory Bellona. Cast out from the RGF, Hudson Powell chooses a new path. But the discovery of a unique alien crystal will set events in motion that cannot be undone. People stopped asking where the alien hulks had come from. People stopped asking who created the portals, and why. Hudson will discover that some alien relics are best left buried. One decision can change the course of an entire civilization. One discovery can change your life. If you love space sci-fi like Firefly and Stargate blended with the mystery and adventure of Indiana Jones, you'll love the Star Scavenger series. Begin reading this thrilling five-book saga today.

Orion Rises is book two of the Star Scavenger Series. A thrilling space opera adventure with the mystery and action of Indiana Jones. Kicked out of the Relic Guardian Force, Hudson Powell has started down the path to becoming a relic hunter. Fortune awaits inside the mysterious, alien hulks found on every planet throughout the vast network of portal worlds. The only problem is, he's broke and he doesn't have a starship. A chance encounter with Liberty Devan - a streetwise, genius ship mechanic - provides him with an unlikely relic-hunting partner. Unfortunately, Hudson's former RGF boss, Logan Griff, still wants him dead, and Griff has hired two of the galaxy's deadliest mercenaries to get him. Fortunately for Hudson, one of them has taken a shine to him. Fighting to stay one step ahead of Logan Griff, Hudson and Liberty discover the first new portal in a century. But embarking on a relic hunt to a new and unexplored star system, they find an alien intelligence that warns them of a grave threat to humanity. The secrets of the alien wrecks are about to be uncovered. And it isn't good news. Orion Rises is book two of the Star Scavengers series. If you love space sci-fi like Firefly and Stargate blended with the mystery and adventure of Indiana Jones, you'll love this.

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When teenagers Ly O'Dare and Jackson Evergreen are snowed into a magical house with a dark secret, they must risk everything to save the world from murderous fairies with a taste for human blood.

Coming of age during China's Cultural Revolution, Benfu survived, and he and his wife Calli attempt to build a life in the turmoil and aftermath of Maoist China. After losing their only child, they take in abandoned girls - the unwanted "weeds" - as their own, lovingly caring for them as flowers in a garden.

Whether it's the rule-defying lifer, the sharp-witted female newshound, or the irascible editor in chief, journalists in popular culture have shaped our views of the press and its role in a free society since mass culture arose over a century ago. Drawing on portrayals of journalists in television, film, radio, novels, comics, plays, and other media, Matthew C. Ehrlich and Joe Saltzman survey how popular media has depicted the profession across time. Their creative use of media artifacts provides thought-provoking forays into such fundamental issues as how pop culture mythologizes and demythologizes key events in journalism history and how it confronts issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation on the job. From Network to The Wire, from Lois Lane to Mikael Blomkvist, Heroes and Scoundrels reveals how portrayals of journalism's relationship to history, professionalism, power, image, and war influence our thinking and the very practice of democracy.

Brad Thor's Summer 2018 Fiction Pick for THE TODAY SHOW! "Eerie, dark, and compelling, [The Book of M] will not disappoint lovers of The Passage (2010) and Station Eleven (2014)." --Booklist WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself. One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears—an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories. Ory and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max’s shadow disappears too. Knowing that the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to Ory, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memory disappears completely, he follows her trail across a perilous, unrecognizable world, braving the threat of roaming bandits, the call to a new war being waged on the ruins of the capital, and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless. As they journey, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a new force growing in the south that may hold the cure. Like The Passage and Station Eleven, this haunting, thought-provoking, and beautiful novel explores fundamental questions of memory, connection, and what it means to be human in a world turned upside down.

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