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1) Extinction
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"In a lonely valley, deep in the mountains, a ranger watches over the last surviving grizzly bear. With the natural world exhausted and in tatters, Ben has dedicated himself to protecting this single fragment of the wild. One night, he hears voices in the valley--poachers, come to hunt his bear. A heart-pounding chase begins, crossing forests and mountainsides, passing centuries of human ruins. Sometimes hunter, sometimes prey--Ben must choose the...
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"Erebus Resort, occupying a valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent Frances Cash partners with...
3) Extinction
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Time is running out for humanity to defeat the encroaching forces of the Radaskim. As settlements fall and the Great Blight spreads, it falls on the New Angels to unite disparate factions before it is too late.
But the dark Xenomind, Askala, has her own plans to end humanity before that can ever happen, and only the greatest sacrifice can stop her from achieving her aims...
4) Extinction
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How long do humans have left on Earth? Using cutting-edge science that revolutionizes our understanding of evolution, Michael Boulter explains how we may be closer to our own extinction than we imagined. Sixty-five million years ago, the dinosaurs were destroyed in a mass extinction event that could not have been predicted. Out of the devastation, new life developed and the world regained its natural equilibrium. Until now. Scientists, employing radically...
5) Extinction
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Extinction brings, together the leading edges of both science and spirituality in an engaging thriller. It is the first biotech spiritual thriller, and is, designed so that the reader experiences his own spiritual journey as he follows the protagonist Dr. Kira Taylor's fictional one. Forces of good and evil race to find the Terminator gene. Can Kira develop a higher level of consciousness in time to save humankind from extinction?
6) Extinction
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Extinction is the suspenseful second book in the Plastic Girl series. Sisters Eva and Iris transform their isolated island from wasteland to paradise, They stop a gang of nomadic teens from taking it over. Now, lost deep in the caves below Bear Island, they will evade monstrous lifeforms, defeat violent invaders, and unlock evolutionary secrets as they fight to protect their new world. The species born from plastic can heal the entire planet and...
7) Extinction
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We must ask ourselves about what is happening in our world today and where is humanity headed. Extinction? Certainly not in a time frame that anyone living today could possibly imagine. But we can look to the long-ago past and the present as our window into the possible far-off future. What can we see through that window? The book paints a landscape of events occurring today that are disturbing. It tells how we have been treating our Mother Earth...
8) Extinction
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Continue the journey with Book 6 of the blockbuster Alien Invasion series; the breakout sci-fi series with over 1000 5-star reviews. THE ENDING HAS BEGUN... The arrival of a metropolis-sized Astral vessel (the "Eternity ship") sounds the opening bell for the beginning of humanity's end. Judgment is over, and now the Horsemen have come to restart the planet's clock. As the final countdown begins, Meyer and his crew find themselves with only two options:...
9) Extinction
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The searing new novel by Paul Mckenzie burns with questions as it proposes a terrifying possible future, where the ultimate battle is being fought between the two human genders. Fast paced and tightly written this will be food for thought for many years to come. In the ultimate battle of the sexes, the loser is mankind.
10) Extinction
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Geza's poems confront our human ultimate concerns of Mother Earth, life, love, death, and the meaning of existence. There are the doomsday poems, an unmistakable wake-up call, if not already too late, and poems on the beauty of our cosmos along with the fleeting joys of love open to being husband, father, and grandfather. This book makes it clear where Geza is coming from, where he is going, why, and his wonderful, compact poems demonstrate what poetry...
11) Extinction
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Melody Mockingbird, investigator for the Austin Druidic Detective Agency, must solve the murder of a beloved jazz singer before all memory of both the woman and the crime are extinguished.
12) Extinction
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"William Huxley finds himself at the center of a cutting-edge research expedition to Wuhan to find the origins of the quickly spreading COVID-19, now finding its way into the free world. Venturing into the remote caves, William finds himself confronting death and inexplicable events that see all his teammates soon perish under the rapid progression of a mutated form of the virus. His older sister, Elizabeth, suddenly goes missing after working with...
13) Extinction
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A dark and disturbing tale of twisted passions and dangerous desires from - Outwardly suave and charming, psychotherapist Adam Neave's role as a voluntary bereavement counsellor offers him the perfect opportunity to target his female victims at their most vulnerable, safe in the knowledge that the police can pin nothing on him. But is his newest client, attractive young widow Olivia Marsden, really what she seems? When, despite herself, Olivia finds...
14) Extinction
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A zoologist in Australia gets funding to save an endangered species from the very company that threatens its existence. Will this deal with the devil allow her to save the species, or will it destroy her entire life's work?
Includes an interview with playwright Hannie Rayson and director Martin Jarvis.
Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in September 2020.
Extinction is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series of science-themed...
15) Extinction
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If you need some zombies killed, who do you call? The Lucky Thirteen.
A few weeks have passed since the events in Aurora, and Bree, Nate, and the gang are back on the road. The odd mall to raid, cattle to herd, provisions to deliver-all no match for our trusty group of scavengers. The world is yours for the taking when killing zombies becomes routine. Yet with temperatures rising in late spring, a new menace appears on the post-apocalyptic theater...
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From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their...
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2015.
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The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti is still struggling to get on its feet from the disastrous 2010 earthquake. But the real problem Haiti faces in the near future is the complete degradation of its natural resources. Today, forests cover less than two percent of its territory and scientists predict a mass extinction of Haiti's biodiversity. Over a three-year period, a team of scientists and naturalists travel to the most remote locations...
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"After a mysterious global event known only as 'The Change,' six strangers wake up in an underground research facility. They soon learn that they're part of the Extinction Trials--a scientific experiment to restart the human race. But the Extinction Trials hides a very big secret. And so does the world outside"--Back cover.
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