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The Troop: A Novel
by Nick CutterWINNER OF THE JAMES HERBERT AWARD FOR HORROR WRITING &“The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn&’t put it down. This is old-school horror at its best.&” —Stephen KingOnce every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip—a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. But when an unexpected intruder stumbles upon their campsite—shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry—Tim and the boys are exposed to something far more frightening than any tale of terror. The human carrier of a bioengineered nightmare. A horror that spreads faster than fear. A harrowing struggle for survival with no escape from the elements, the infected…or one another. Part Lord of the Flies, part 28 Days Later—and all-consuming—this tightly written, edge-of-your-seat thriller takes you deep into the heart of darkness, where fear feeds on sanity…and terror hungers for more.
Tropic of Creation
by Kay KenyonIn the bloody war that ended between Th Congress Worlds and the alien ahtra, Captain Eli Dammond had distinguished himself as an officer who could no wrong--until his last catastrophic battle. Now, with his shining reputation tarnished, the commander finds himself assigned to a grimy kettle of a ship making basic transport missions. Routine work -until he arrives on Null: a barren, scorned world at the mercy of two suns. Here, a marooned human outpost has survived for three years until their rescue by Eli's ship. But on this austere planet, the human newcomers are about to learn a harsh lesson: that nothing is quite as it seems. For soon a new season will call forth a hidden ecology both exquisite and deadly. And Null will test the survivors in a fight no soldier was ever trained for, and few can predict - while a young the survivors in a fight no soldier was trained for, and few predict - while a young woman of privilege may well prove to be their finest warrior.Yet for Eli Dammond, the worst struggle will unfold below the surface. There he will discover a threat to all the settle human worlds, even as he matches wits an adversary both familiar and alien. The odds are against human survival on null's surface or indeed, in the galaxy-- unless Eli succeeds in bringing home the hard-won secret that neither human nor ahtra can hear.From the Paperback edition.
The Tropic of Eternity: Volume Three of the Amaranthine Spectrum
by Tom TonerThe sequel to the critically acclaimed and ambitious literary space opera debut The Promise of the Child. It is the 147th century. The mighty era of Homo Sapiens is at an end. In the Westerly Provinces of the Old World, the hunt is on for the young queen Arabis, and the vile creature that holds her captive. In the brutal hominid Investiture, revolution has come. The warlord Cunctus, having seized the Vulgar worlds, invites every Prism to pick a side. In the Firmament, once the kingdom of the Immortal Amaranthine, all ships converge on the foundry of Gliese. The grandest battle in the history of mammalian kind has begun. Perception, ancient machine spirit, must take back its mortal remains in a contest for the Firmament itself. Ghaldezuel, now the Grand Marshal of Cunctus’ new empire, must travel to the deepest lagoon in the Investiture, a place where monsters dwell. Captain Maril, lost amongst the Hedron Stars, finds himself caught between colossal powers the likes of which he'd never dreamt. But for Aaron the Long-Life, he who has waited so very, very long for his revenge, things are only getting started . . .
Tropic of Kansas: A Novel
by Christopher Brown“Timely, dark, and ultimately hopeful: it might not ‘make America great again,’ but then again, it just might.”—Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling and award winning author of HomelandAcclaimed short story writer and editor of the World Fantasy Award-nominee Three Messages and a Warning eerily envisions an American society unraveling and our borders closed off—from the other side—in this haunting and provocative novel that combines Max Barry’s Jennifer Government, Philip K. Dick’s classic Man in the High Castle, and China Mieville’s The City & the CityThe United States of America is no more. Broken into warring territories, its center has become a wasteland DMZ known as “the Tropic of Kansas.” Though this gaping geographic hole has no clear boundaries, everyone knows it's out there—that once-bountiful part of the heartland, broken by greed and exploitation, where neglect now breeds unrest. Two travelers appear in this arid American wilderness: Sig, the fugitive orphan of political dissidents, and his foster sister Tania, a government investigator whose search for Sig leads her into her own past—and towards an unexpected future.Sig promised those he loves that he would make it to the revolutionary redoubt of occupied New Orleans. But first he must survive the wild edgelands of a barren mid-America policed by citizen militias and autonomous drones, where one wrong move can mean capture . . . or death. One step behind, undercover in the underground, is Tania. Her infiltration of clandestine networks made of old technology and new politics soon transforms her into the hunted one, and gives her a shot at being the agent of real change—if she is willing to give up the explosive government secrets she has sworn to protect. As brother and sister traverse these vast and dangerous badlands, their paths will eventually intersect on the front lines of a revolution whose fuse they are about to light.“Futurist as provocateur! The world is sheer batshit genius . . . a truly hallucinatorily envisioned environment.”—William Gibson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author
Tropic of Orange
by Karen Tei YamashitaThis novel features an Asian-American television news executive, Emi, and a Latino newspaper reporter, Gabriel, who are so focused on chasing stories they almost don't notice that the world is falling apart all around them.
Tropical Party: Book 20 (Secret Princesses #20)
by Rosie BanksCharlotte and Mia need to help Kala, a hawaiian girl who is organising a tropical party. Can the girls learn the hula, defeat Princess Poison, grant Kala's wish AND save the mermaids? A tropical storm is brewing ...
Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean (Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America)
by Emily A. MaguireHow writers and artists use science fiction to speak to the current moment in the Caribbean Exploring the remarkable recent increase in works of science fiction originating in Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, Tropical Time Machines shows how writers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists are using the language of the genre to comment on the region’s history and present-day realities. Discussing how previous Caribbean literature and film has characterized places including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic as “out of sync” with Western time, occupying a repeating or static space, Emily Maguire argues that science fiction breaks these cycles and resituates the region temporally and spatially. In chapters on cyberpunk, zombies, post-apocalyptic narratives, and the ab-real, Maguire shows how recent cultural production analyzes and critiques the ways globalization and national leadership have reinforced the region’s marginalization amid economic and climate crises. Art that employs the science fictional mode makes room for a new vision of the Caribbean, Maguire demonstrates—an alternate perspective in which the region has agency in shaping its own narratives and trajectories. The texts themselves are time machines, enabling creators to protest inequalities of the present from the point of view of an imagined, transformed future. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Tros (The First Book of Tros of Samothrace)
by Talbot MundyTros the Adventurer in fateful confrontation with blue-stained Caswallon and his queen, Fflur of the Second Sight
Trotaespacios
by Diego Fernando Prado Riestra W. Bradford SwiftCuando Buddy Clemson de dieciséis años se encuentra a un extraño de su edad, está dispuesto a hacer la vista gorda de las ropas extranjeras del muchacho y su extraño hábito de hablar con sí mismo. Poco podía imaginarse Buddy que acababa de conocer a un visitante del planeta Betelle, quien está en entrenamiento para convertirse en un Embajador Galáctico. Glitch y su entrenador computarizado Qwirk aterrizan de emergencia en la Tierra cuando su nave se queda sin combustible – apenas el primer giro inesperado en una misión de entrenamiento con mucha mala suerte. Las chances de Glitch de convertirse en un Embajador Galáctico están en peligro. Mientras Qwirk le indica a Glitch que tome su tiempo en este planeta “pre-transformado” como una parte de su entrenamiento, no le toma mucho tiempo a Glitch darse cuenta de que su primera asignación puede ser también la última.
Trouble at Lone Spur (Home on the Ranch)
by Roz Denny Fox"Settle down for a warm, wonderful read by the talented Roz Denny Fox!"-Kristin HannahThe Lone Spur RanchCrockett County, TexasLizbeth Robbins has been following the rodeo circuit for the past six years, learning the farrier's trade, dragging her little girl from town to town. But now her daughter's in school and Lizbeth needs a more permanent job. She's relieved to find one at the Lone Spur: shoeing Gil Spencer's quarter horses. Even if it was his foreman who hired her and the man himself doesn't want her anywhere near his ranch!Gil Spencer hates rodeos-mainly because his ex-wife loves them. While he was busy pulling his ranch out of the red, she was busy pursuing a career as a champion barrel-racer. Worse yet, the ex-Mrs. Spencer abandoned her husband and their twin sons for the dubious charms of some bronc rider. So the last person Gil wants on the Lone Spur is a former rodeo employee. Even if Lizbeth Robbins is the most attractive woman he's met in years. Especially then...
Trouble at Space Station 6 (Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading Grade 4)
by Riley Roam Lisa Adams Eugene SmithDON'T TOUCH! Jannali has sole control of the space station—except for a space alien from Planet NANN209Y. NIMAC-sourced textbook
Trouble at Trident Academy
by Debbie Dadey Tatevik AvakyanIn this start to a new series starring Shelly the mermaid, a classroom conflict is no fun--even when school is 20,000 leagues under the sea.It's MerGirl Shelly Siren's first day at a new school, and she is nervous from the tip of her head to the end of her sparkling mermaid tail. How will she ever fit in at the prestigious Trident Academy? Everyone there is so smart and so pretty and so rich. At least she and her best friend, Echo, are in the same class, but so is Pearl, a spoiled know-it-all who only wants to make trouble for Shelly; Rocky, a MerBoy who loves to tease everyone; and Kiki, a shy MerGirl who's new to Trident City. At first Shelly and Echo have lots of fun: eating lunch together, trying to make grumpy Mr. Fangtooth smile, and joining after-school clubs. But when Shelly and Echo have an argument about their very first school assignment, Pearl gets involved and makes matters worse. Will Shelly and Echo fix their friendship?
Trouble in Paradise
by Grace GreenA mission to seduce...It was four years since Jessica had last seen Mitch, yet she'd never forgotten-or forgiven-his heartless treachery.Now, blackmailed by her boss, and in the name of "business", Jessica was forced to confront Mitch again...and pretend that the attraction between them burned as fiercely as ever! Pretending to fall in love with Mitch was dangerously easy-dangerous for two reasons:1) He might break her heart again.2) He might discover that he, Mitch Carradine, confirmed bachelor, was the father of her son!"Grace Green generates an unbeatable emotional intensity."-Romantic Times
Trouble in Paradise
by Jennifer GreeneFrom blind date...He's divorced, eleven years older and the father of three. Not exactly every girl's Ideal Man. But as soon as reserved bookstore owner Susan meets charismatic Griff Anderson, she's smitten-and just three passion-filled months later, she's his wife.To instant family...Their idyllic honeymoon spent restoring a majestic Victorian is cut short when the newlyweds happily-but unexpectedly-find themselves with full custody of his children. Now, instead of enjoying passionate nights and lazy mornings-after with Griff, Susan finds herself thrust into the role of Mom to Tom, Barbara and Tiger. And quarrelling with her husband over how to handle the drama that comes with a house full of tweens and teens.When pet problems, party crashers and pregnancy scares threaten their happiness, Susan can't help but wonder what Griff really wanted: a wife, or a mother for his children?Previously published.57,000 words
Trouble in Texas
by Leann HarrisSmall-Town NeedsThe beautiful blonde with the mysteriously broken-down '66 Mustang was exactly what Sheriff Derek Grey's small West Texas town, and his young daughter, needed-an honest-to-goodness doctor. She was also everything he wanted....Big-Time TroubleDr. Alexandra Courtland had spent too many years running away from her rural roots to be trapped in some small town. But she hadn't counted on the deadly epidemic that threatened the population, or the sheriff's sad young daughter, who captured her heart and brought out instincts that were purely maternal. And she'd certainly had no intention of falling for a certain tall, lanky Texas lawman. It seemed, however, that rules were made to be broken.
Trouble in the Dream Dimension (Little Golden Book)
by Dave CroattoDoctor Strange, Marvel's Master of the Mystic Arts, stars in a Little Golden Book that's packed with action, adventure . . . and magic!When things get strange, Doctor Strange, the magical Super Hero, is there to protect the world from dark wizards and things that go bump in the night. This colorful Little Golden Book about Marvel's master of the mystical arts is perfect for boys and girls ages 2 to 5 and fans and collectors of all ages! Looks for these other great Marvel Little Golden Books:• Doctor Strange Little Golden Book (Marvel: Doctor Strange) 9781101938652• Miles Morales (Marvel Spider-Man) 9780593173244• The Mighty Avengers (Marvel: The Avengers) 9780307931092 • The Threat of Thanos (Marvel Avengers) 9781524768560
Trouble in the Stars
by Sarah Prineas"A space chase that would feel right at home in the world of Star Wars. Unexpectedly out of this world." —Kirkus Reviews From acclaimed author Sarah Prineas comes an action-packed, funny, and heartwarming outer-space adventure about a troublesome little shape-shifter on the run from the law. Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Geoff Rodkey!Trouble knows two things: they are a shapeshifter, and they are running from something--but they don't know what. So when the StarLeague shows up, Trouble figures it's time to flee.Changing from blob of goo form, to adorable puppy form, to human boy form, Trouble stows away on the Hindsight, a ship crewed by the best navigators and engineers in the galaxy, led by the fearsome Captain Astra. As the ship travels, Trouble uses the time to figure out how to be a good human boy, and starts to feel safe. But when a young StarLeague cadet shows up to capture Trouble, things get complicated, especially when Trouble reveals a shapeshifter form that none of them could have expected. Soon a chase across the galaxy begins. Safety, freedom, and home are at stake, and not just for Trouble.From acclaimed author Sarah Prineas comes a rip-roaring outer space adventure about an oddball hero, a crew of misfits, and finding family where you least expect it. Praise for Trouble in the Stars: "A humorous science fiction adventure that is perfect for Star Wars fans . . . A great choice for middle grade collections and for readers looking for humorous, action-packed science fiction. " —School Library Journal "Trouble in the Stars is a hilarious and heartwarming look at what it means to be human, have a home and hear the stars sing.&”—BookPage
Trouble Magnet
by Alan Dean FosterFrom science fiction icon Alan Dean Foster comes a blazing new Pip & Flinx adventure for fans of the green-eyed redhead with awesome mental powers and his miniature flying dragon. In this dazzling new novel, Flinx confirms his status as the galaxy's greatest magnet for big trouble. Wandering out there in some remote region of the galaxy is a gargantuan sentient Tar-Aiym weapons' system. All Flinx has to do-while his pals look after his injured love Clarity Held-is find the hefty object and persuade it to knock out the monstrous evil that is hurtling through space to waste the entire Commonwealth. A no-brainer, really, especially for Flinx, who is never without his loyal entourage of official snoops, crazed zealots, assorted goons, and the occasional assassin. Indeed, the boy wonder and his mini-drag, Pip, are eager to commence their heroic task... just as soon as Flinx visits Visaria-a dangerously depraved planet-to convince himself that humans are indeed worth saving. The chances of stumbling across high moral values and utopian ideals don't look promising- what with Flinx playing a lawless Pied Piper to a gang of lying, thieving juvenile delinquents. But prospects really go south when Flinx runs afoul of the corrupt planet's ruthless crime king. Still, life is full of surprises, and Flinx is about to get smacked by a passel of them-by turns devastating, heartening, and positively jaw-dropping. For although Flinx came to Visaria to plumb the enigma of humankind, there's another mystery waiting here, a shocking clue about his own shadowy past.
Trouble Magnet (Gateway Essentials #385)
by Alan Dean FosterWandering out there in some remote region of the galaxy is a gargantuan, sentient Tar-Aiym weapons system. All Flinx has to do - while his pals look after his injured love, Clarity Held - is find the hefty object and persuade it to knock out the monstrous evil that is hurtling through the space to lay waste to the entire Commonwealth. A no brainier, really... just as soon as Flinx and his mini drag, Pip, visit Visaria - a dangerously depraved planet to make sure that humans are indeed worth saving. But prospects really go south when Flinx runs afoul of a ruthless crime king. What's more, a new mystery is waiting to be uncovered: a shocking clue about Flinx's shadowy past.
Trouble Magnet (George Brown, Class Clown Book #2)
by Nancy KrulikGeorge Brown, Class Clown How much trouble can a burp get you into? A lot, if the burp is a magic one that makes you do wild and crazy stuff. George Brown is still trying his hardest to stay out of trouble at his new school. But his magic burps keep landing him in mega-trouble, like when George and his new pal Alex build a volcano for their school project. Or even worse, when George joins a band and performs in the school's talent show. Seems like no matter what he does, this kid's a trouble magnet!
Trouble No Man: A Novel
by Brian HartAmerican War meets Into the Wild in Brian Hart’s epic saga of one man’s struggle to survive a hostile world—tracing his path from a self-destructive, skateboarding youth in the 90s to the near future as he journeys across a desolate, militia-controlled American West to find his missing family—perfect for fans of Edan Lepuki and Cormac McCarthy.In the America of a near future, northern California and the Pacific Northwest have become a desolate wasteland controlled by violent separatist militias and marked by a lack of water and fuel. In a village outside Reno, a middle-aged man visits an undertaker and gathers the ashes of his dead wife to bring to Alaska. There, their children await them—refugees from the destruction of the south. To reach his only remaining family, the man must cross the treacherous, violent landscape north by bike, his dog his only companion. Thirty years earlier, we meet Roy Bingham. After a rough-and-tumble childhood, Roy is numbing himself with skateboarding, drugs, and sex, when he meets Karen. Sassy, soulful, and arresting, Karen pulls Roy into her orbit until she decides to give up their nomadic lifestyle to put down roots in her hometown of Loyalton, California. Roy’s fidelity buckles under the commitment and after a boozy night in Reno he leaves Karen for the road and skateboarding.Flashing back and forth in time across four decades in the life of a man who is lost even when he’s found, Trouble No Man delivers a resonant story of survival, violence, and family, set against the tumult of an America on the precipice of becoming an unfree nation.
Trouble on Her Doorstep
by Nina HarringtonKnock-knock. Who's there?When gorgeous hotel magnate Sean Beresford arrives on the doorstep of Dee Flynn's tea shop, it seems her luck's in. Right? Wrong! Sean's come to tell Dee he's canceling her latest business venture, leaving her future looking as washed-out as old tea leaves.Dee's not about to go under without a fight, and reluctantly Sean agrees to help her find a solution. He might dress in suits that would make even 007 jealous, and those startling blue-gray eyes will certainly take some forgetting, but he sets Dee's blood boiling-and her pulse racing!-like no one else! And that's before he kisses her....
Trouble on Paradise Island (The Amazing Adventures of the DC Super-Pets)
by Steve KorteAn enemy has appeared at Paradise Island! Will Wonder Woman and her superpowered Kanga, Jumpa, be able to protect their hidden home?
Trouble on Titan
by Arthur K. BarnesWhen the Queen of the Spaceways meets the King of the Interplanetary Wilds, there's a checkmate in the stalking of Saturn's most dangerous game!
Trouble on Titan
by Alan E. NourseThe tenacious Colonel Benedict and his son, Tuck, are sent to Titan, Saturn's fifth moon, to investigate reports of smuggling. Soon they discover that the less-than-friendly colony is hiding much more than just a smuggler. Together they dig up a scandalous case of interstellar sabotage and what the colonists reverently refer to as "THE BIG SECRET," which could destroy Earth's power supply - forever.Can the Colonel and Tuck resolve an age-old dispute between the Titan colonists and Earthly authorities before the clock runs out? Mankinds fate depends on it . . .