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Some things are older than time. Older than darkness. Every line is not a straight line and everything must converge. A parable writ in dust and blood on warped barn wood. A journey in the classic sense, populated with dried husks of towns...and people both odd and anything but ordinary. Hornets, reverse-werewolves and one of the most vicious villains you’ll ever know are all part of it. Pull on your boots and saddle up, we’ll Walk The Darkness Down.

Here is a book jam-packed with facts and secrets from the Tarot. This entire book is dedicated to the fool.

Are you interested in learning about how to hack systems? Do you want to learn how to protect yourself from being hacked? Do you wish to learn the art of ethical hacking? Do you want to know the secret techniques that genius hackers use? Hacking is one of the most misunderstood cyber concepts. The majority of people think of hacking as something evil or illegal, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Indeed, hacking can be a real threat, but if you want to stop someone from hacking you, you must also learn how to hack!

In the second, action comic-like installment, DragonMan - The Poseidon Encounter, Luke seems to have come to terms with his legacy and appears well in control of his superpowers - which he will be called upon to use this time around to save the world from an evil demon who seeks to claim the souls of every human being on earth.

A diary of a prominent scientist has been found, and it harnesses dark revelations to our future.

Rick O’Shea’s intuitive nature and sense of curiosity led him into a career as an investigator. Not a private eye - he is a “seeker” and “finder” of things that have been lost, stolen, or hidden. His methods may be unusual, but he is rewarded with lucrative finder’s fees for his trouble. Due to his fame and the substantial worth of the items he seeks to recover, Rick’s seemingly innocuous livelihood has its share of dangerous situations and harrowing experiences - hazardous encounters with hijackers, kidnappers, thieves, and drug dealers, to name a few.

All you wanted to know about hacking and computer security. This book will teach you everything you need to know about hacking, the history of hacking, the types of hacking, and security measures that you should undertake. This book will teach you about the techniques you can use to prank your friends or spy on your significant other (maybe). It can also get you started on your journey towards being an ethical hacker, which is a fast-growing, in-demand field.

The ultimate course book for beginners. Are you ready to enhancing your computer experience? Learn how to use Linux in your computer! Linux: Learn Linux FAST! is the perfect book to learn everything about Linux. This information will take your computer usage experience to the next Level. Linux: Learn Linux FAST! is designed to start and guide you into the world of Linux to prepare you for your future.

It's May, 1978, and a UFO requests permission to land. A human girl in her early teens and a robot exit the craft, and a strange botanical lifeform is found onboard later that night by a USAF landing party. The vehicle, robot, and the strange plant are impounded and subsequently sent to Area 51. NASA astrobiologist Gabriel Greenley is called in to study this new lifeform that at first appears similar to a botanical species known as oxalis. As a psi-sensitive, Greenley quickly learns the specimen is highly intelligent and potentially dangerous when he attempts to take a leaf sample.

From readers who have followed Neal Barrett Jr.'s career come accolades such as "brilliant", "unique", "sheer genius". Other writers respect his status as a master of words, his ability to weave rhythm and poetry into his tales. Barrett jumps in and out of genres at will or simply invents one of his own. He likes to bring his favorite characters together and see what they'll do. Neal Barrett, Jr. has made a special effort to give us a number of dark, funny, and hopefully impossible views of the future.

Neal Barrett, Jr., answers (sometimes) to a number of names: Odd, Weird, Gonzo, and, as a former collection points out: Slightly Off Center. Barrett is all of the above, and more. From fans who have followed his career come accolades such as brilliant, unique, sheer genius. Other writers respect his status as a master of words, his ability to weave rhythm and poetry into his tales. Neal Barrett, Jr., has made a special effort to give us a number of dark, funny, and hopefully impossible views of the future.

Refractions of Frozen Time finds the Brightstars, your favorite space-faring family, more separated than ever before. Laren is in the process of being exiled to the galaxy's ultimate security prison onboard an automated spacecraft. Creena, her little brother, Deven, and her mother, Sharra, remain in the Caverns, while Dirck and Win report to the Clique base at Apoca Canyon.

Without proper shelter, Cyraria's extreme heat season will prove fatal, forcing Dirck Brightstar and his family to seek refuge in a network of caverns. They quickly discover, however, that their new abode emanates a strange and mystical presence. Where did that mysterious dream come from? And how is it possible that his mother shared the same exact vision, right down to the remotest detail?

Years before, when the two fought beside one another in Vietnam, a humiliating event occurred which would forever impact the younger soldier's psyche. Decades later, his former lieutenant is president of the United States, while the young medic has become Admiral John Townsend, the White House physician. But dark forces were at work behind the scenes, intent on unseating the president — by any means possible. Townsend discovers the plot to take President Meredity down. But is he up to the job, or will his deep-seated fears result in national tragedy?

Five families with an American dream. One railroad to span a nation. Empires will rise. Relationships will crumble. Collis Huntington, the last living member of the Associates, now wants to set the record straight. Huntington invites his most critical reporter into his home for the interview of the century. As his story of the Central Pacific Railroad Company unfolds, truths emerge. Central Pacific is in a race for money and land against the Union Pacific back east. The inhumane conditions laborers on both sides of the line must endure.

Things are never so bad they can’t get worse. For the Brightstars, they just did. Dirck Brightstar knows his family is in serious trouble. If his father doesn’t finish building the heat exchanger before Opposition’s heat sets in, they’ll all perish. Then what little money they had will be confiscated and his father hauled off to prison in a midnight raid. And it all started because his missing sister, Creena, couldn’t follow the rules.

These parables inspire listeners to do well in life. Lessons are taught through imagery and metaphor in these tales of woe and glory. You will feel hopeful, frightened, and sometimes proud of the choices made by these characters. Listen to these eight stories dealing with ethical challenges, and the consequences of our choices. These stories teach valuable life lessons without being too obvious. They make you think!

A cross between Star Wars and Lost in Space, this is the first volume of an epic space opera that begins when the Brightstar family leaves their comfortable life on Mira III for a newly colonized world known as Cyraria, which is in desperate need of terraforming. Laren Brightstar is a premier terralogist and, knowing he's a target since refusing to work for old foe, Augustus Troy, accepting the chief terralogist position on the other side of the galaxy seems like the simplest solution.

Oberon is a king of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature. He is best known as a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, which was the inspiration for Katharine Elise Chapman's classic fairy tale. First published in 1900, this magical adventure will captive the hearts of children - young and old.

Thyron is a flora peda telepathis from the planet Sapphira. His world is occupied by his species of telepathic walking plants as well as a race of cannibalistic pygmies who worship them as gods. Encounters with humans generally don't end well. Face it, humans are omnivorous and plants a popular source of nourishment. Attempt this on Sapphira, however, and the food chain is likely to change rather abruptly.