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The Enemy Revealed

The nature of the enemy facing Commander Jack Romanov and his crew is finally... revealed

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Lessons in Chemistry

Elizabeth Zott is a serious, no-nonsense chemist and a single mother. But she finds herself hosting a cooking show on daytime television, a show where she galvanizes the oft-downtrodden American housewives into self-respect.

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The Man Who Died Twice

The four pensioners at Cooper’s Chase are at it again, solving a case involving a ghost from Elizabeth’s past and £20 million in diamonds.

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Solaris

Kris Kelvin lands on the remote research outpost around the ocean planet Solaris. There is definitely intelligent life on this planet, but the nature of the intelligence is beyond human comprehension...

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Where The Crawdads Sing

Marsh girl Kya Clark has been left to fend for herself in a rundown shack outside Barkley Cove. Most of the village treats her as an outcast and pariah, while she grows up all alone into a young woman, and a sensitive, artistic naturalist. When rich kid Chase Andrews is found dead in the marsh, the locals immediately suspect Kya.

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Alpha Strike

Commodore Jack Romanov must get nuclear warheads for the Last Hunter, but they are all stored in New Copenhagen, now controlled by the locusts. Only way to get them is to launch an Alpha strike...

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The Snowman

Detective Harry Hole is investigating a case where several young mothers have gone missing, with a snowman being left at the scene. Harry is personally being toyed with by the killer too, as he receives ominous communiques from the purpoted killer...

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Medicine has leapt forward in recent times, with several new drugs and procedures which have reduced the life-threatening to minor inconveniences. But the goals of medicine often run counter to the needs of the patient. The author explores all sides.

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Bonds of Blood

Captain Jack Romanov has rescued a group of more than 200 ships, mostly civilian, from certain death at the hands of the locusts. Now he is stranded and faced with a challenge to his authority by a group of pirates and colluding naval officers...

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Rendezvous With Rama

A gigantic cylinder-shaped structure whizzes through the solar system on a celestial journey. Humanity calls the structure "Rama", and sends a team on a ship to investigate it.

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The Explorer

A group of children are marooned in the Amazon jungle when their plane crashes. They meet an explorer, a man who has forsaken civilization in favour of living his life out in the jungle. But will he help get the children rescued?

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The Last Hunter

Captain Jack Romanov of the space force is being drummed out of the navy. But some political game sees him shunted to another division, promoted, and in charge of a old relic of a battleship. The only battleship capable of repelling the aliens who are just attacking....

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