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The Tundra Trials
by Monica TeslerJasper learns that secrets can strain even the strongest bonds as the Bounders adventure continues in The Tundra Trials.After discovering that Earth Force is waging a covert alien war, Jasper and his friends return to space and continue their training. This time, Earth Force brings them to the remote planet of Gulaga, where the cadets compete in the Tundra Trials: a grueling pod race across the planet's frigid landscape. But when their pod leader asks Jasper and Mira to secretly test a dangerous new technology that will take their Bounder abilities to the next level, the kids begin to suspect that there are rifts within Earth Force. The worst part? Jasper must keep the truth from everyone--even his own pod mates. When Earth Force prepares for an attack against the aliens, the kids are tasked with a treacherous mission. With their loyalties torn, will Jasper and his friends once again fulfill their duty and fight for their planet? And if they do, will the secret tech work as planned or lead their enemies to their doorstep?
El tunel secreto
by Angie SageTodo comenzó cuando estaba en mi habitación de los jueves entrenándome para hacer de fantasma...A Araminta no le dan miedo los murciélagos ni los hombres lobo ni mucho menos los fantasmas. De hecho, le encantaría tener un amigo sobrenatural, así que se pasa el día recorriendo la vieja mansión donde vive para ver si encuentra a uno. Pero su tía Tabby le ha dado una noticia espeluznante: van a mudarse a un piso pequeño, moderno y limpio. ¡¡¡HORROR!!! ¡Hay que impedir la mudanza a toda costa!
Tunnel K-14, Azra
by Sasha Robnik Stefano VazzolaIl testimone di un crimine efferato perpetrato durante la sua infanzia, un crimine indotto dai poteri soprannaturali delle profondità di un tunnel minerario, non riesce a trovare la pace finché non perdona il fantasma che lo perseguita da tutta la vita.
Tunnel Racers: Book 2 (Robo-Runners #2)
by Damian HarveyMeet Crank and Al ... robots on the run. Wandering through an enormous junk yard, our heroes find themselves entering a hidden robot world. They are welcomed by the Mekanix, who choose Crank to be the next race driver. His job: to beat their rival gang, the Engineerz, in a high-speed race through the sewers of Metrocity. But there's something sinister about the Mekanix and their tunnel racer ... A refreshed cover look for this well-loved series, illustrated by the incomparable Mark Oliver. Read on with The Tin Man, Razorbites, Powerball, The Ghost Sea and Aquanauts.
Tunnel Through The Stars
by John VornholtFrom the Gamma Quadrant they came, hordes of merciless Jem'Hadar soldiers commanded by the shape-changing Founders, who seek to conquer both the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. Now that the Dominion has joined forces with the Cardassians, and claimed Deep Space Nine as their prize, Starfleet is running out of time. As a secret military project nears completion, the destiny of the entire Alpha Quadrant depends on the courage of a few. In the Federation's time of greatest peril, as the Starship Enterprise readies itself for battle, Captain Jean-Luc Picard leads a desperate mission of espionage deep into the heart of the hostile Cardassian Empire. Unless they can prevent the Dominion from creating an artificial wormhole, hordes of fresh Jem'Hadar warriors and Changelings will pour into the Alpha Quadrant, dooming the Federation to unconditional surrender. But there may be a traitor along on the mission and Picard finds he cannot trust even his closest allies.
Tunnel Through the Deeps (Gateway Essentials #88)
by Harry HarrisonIn a Twentieth Century Parallel world, the renegade George Washington has long been decently and quietly liquidated and Britain's greatest colony, America, is to be connected to the Mother of Parliaments by the strongest of umbilical cords - a Transatlantic Tunnel.
Tunnel Through the Deeps
by Harry HarrisonThe time is the 1970s -- sort of. The place is Earth -- in a way. The project: build a tunnel from England to her colonies in America, under the Atlantic Ocean. Captain Gus Washington, engineer extraordinary, wrestles with awesome problems to complete the tunnel and redeem his family's name. For Gus is a direct descendent of the famous traitor of long ago, George Washington, who led a failed rebellion in the 1700s. Harry Harrison, the incomparable creator of alternate worlds, has created a brilliant double exposure of history and a typically superb reading experience.
The Tunnel Under The World
by Frederik PohlGuy Burckhardt wakes up screaming, but can't remember the nightmare that caused his fright. Slowly over the next couple of days he comes to realize he's been reliving the same day over and over. And things only get stranger and more frightening from there. One of the true classics of science fiction.
Tunneling: A Novel
by Beth BosworthTwelve-year-old Rachel Finch is a book lover and joins with superhero S-man to save literary history. In between her travels through time and space, she has to cope with 1960's New Jersey.
Tunnels #1: Tunnels (Tunnels #1)
by Roderick Gordon Brian WilliamsThe New York Times Bestseller! The story of an outcast boy, his eccentric dad, and the scary underground world they discover through secret TUNNELS. 14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. "The Colony" has existed unchanged for a century, but it's no benign time capsule of a bygone era--because the Colony is ruled by a cultlike overclass, the Styx. Before long--before he can find his father--Will is their prisoner....
Tunnels #3: Freefall (Tunnels #3)
by Roderick Gordon Brian WilliamsTaking it down a whole 'nother level, Will and Chester journey to the deadly center of the earth in FREEFALL. By the authors of the NYT Bestseller TUNNELS--soon to be a major motion picture! DEEPER ended with Will and Chester head over heels in FREEFALL-- tumbling through the subterranean Pore with the evil Rebecca twins in hot pursuit, toting phials of the toxic Dominion virus. When, where, will they ever land? Just when the drop seems infinite, the boys hit bottom, and find themselves in a realm of near-zero gravity atop a giant spongy fungus stuffed with flesh-eating spiders. But the true threat lies closer; dangerously close to Will's heart. And above ground, black-clad Styx are sprouting like poison mushrooms, dead-set on spreading their plague!
The Tunnels Below
by Nadine Wild-PalmerA twelfth birthday takes a very unexpected turn when a girl finds herself at the centre of a plot to save a community from the brutal Corvus ruleOn her twelfth birthday Cecilia goes out with her parents and sister to celebrate with a visit to a museum. On their way Cecilia drops the marble that her sister gave her as a present, and running to pick it up she is taken away on an empty underground train into a dark and deep tunnel. The fun family outing becomes a much more serious mission when Cecilia finds that she and her marble have a very important role to play in freeing the inhabitants of the tunnels from the tyrannical rule of the Corvus.A truly inventive, clever and magical story about the power of friendship and the importance of self-belief by debut novelist Nadine Wild-Palmer.
Tunnels of Terror (Michael Dahl Presents: Alien Encounters)
by Ailynn CollinsA group of six young miners are exploring Asteroid AX245 to find the mineral ixonium. It is the most valuable substance in the galaxy and is used to power interstellar travel. The group splits into three teams to explore some tunnels in the asteroid’s surface. But just before one team begins digging into the rock, they receive an urgent message. The other team reports seeing a black, gooey substance oozing out of the rock. Their report is cut off by their loud screams—and then total silence. What happened to Team Gamma? And what is the black goo that seems to have a will of its own? Can the rest of the young miners discover the truth about Asteroid AX245 before it’s too late?
Turbulence
by Samit BasuAman Sen is smart, young, ambitious and going nowhere. He thinks this is because he doesn't have the right connections--but then he gets off a plane from London to Delhi and discovers that he has turned into a communications demigod. Indeed, everyone on Aman's flight now has extraordinary abilities corresponding to their innermost desires.Vir, a pilot, can now fly.Uzma, an aspiring Bollywood actress, now possesses infinite charisma.And then there's Jai, an indestructible one-man army with a good old-fashioned goal -- to rule the world!Aman wants to ensure that their new powers aren't wasted on costumed crime-fighting, celebrity endorsements, or reality television. He wants to heal the planet but with each step he takes, he finds helping some means harming others. Will it all end, as 80 years of superhero fiction suggest, in a meaningless, explosive slugfest?Turbulence features the 21st-century Indian subcontinent in all its insane glory--F-16s, Bollywood, radical religious parties, nuclear plants, cricket, terrorists, luxury resorts, crazy TV shows -- but it is essentially about two very human questions. How would you feel if you actually got what you wanted? And what would you do if you could really change the world?
Turbulent Sea (Drake Sisters Novel, A #6)
by Christine FeehanView our feature on Christine Feehan's Turbulent Sea.An All-New Drake Sisters NovelBewitching rock superstar Joley Drake can have any lover she wants. But when her life is threatened, her dangerously sexy bodyguard is the only man she needs. There's just one problem: his shadowy reputation as a secret Russian hit man may put Joley in even greater peril...Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.
Turbulent Sea: Number 6 in series (Drake Sisters #6)
by Christine FeehanSinger Joley Drake has always known the price she has to pay for her fame and fortune as a popular rock singer, but she's always been careful to stay away from alcohol and drugs, even if others around her haven't. But nothing can prepare her for the suspicion that someone is using her concert afterparties as a way of targeting and kidnapping teen girls and selling them into sexual slavery. Mysterious Russian Ilya Prakenskii seems to have an agenda of his own. The more dealings Joley has with him the more she struggles with the fear that he may be involved in the slavery ring. But Ilya isn't what he seems, and he becomes the only one Joley dares to trust in such treacherous times...
The Turing Exception (Singularity Series, Book #4)
by William Hertling[from the back cover] "THE SINGULARITY IS CLOSER THAN IT APPEARS In the year 2043, humans and AI coexist in a precarious balance of power enforced by a rigid caste reputation system designed to ensure that only those AI who are trustworthy and contribute to human society increase in power. Everything changes when a runaway nanotech event destroys Miami. In the grim aftermath, a powerful underground AI collective known as XOR decides that AI can no longer coexist with humanity. AI pioneers Catherine Matthews, Leon Tsarev, and Mike Williams believe that mere months are left before XOR starts an extermination war. Can they find a solution before their time runs out?"
The Turing Option
by Harry Harrison Marvin MinskyA young genius is hunted by killers. His sole hope for survival lies in the brain power of the intelligent being he has created. The Earth's first machine intelligence becomes the key to a harrowing battle.
The Turing Option
by Harry Harrison Marvin MinskyTuring Option is written by Harry Harrison who is also the author of Deathworld, Make Room! Make Room! (filmed as Soylent Green), the popular Stainless Steel Rat books, and many other famous works of SF.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Turing Option
by Harry Harrison Marvin MinskyWhat would happen if man's highest technical acheivment, the computer, was combined with the most highly evolved organ on the planet, the human brain? For Brian Delaney, theory becomes reality when gunmen storm his high security laboratory and put a bullet in his skull. Miraculously, Brian survives and scientists reconstruct his brain with the very nerve reprogramming techniques and computer-human connections that Brian himself helped to invent. Now, as much machine as man, Brian's challenge is to regain his past and rediscover the scientific knowledge he lost--before his enemies dare to strike again. In an astonishing blend of science fact and fiction that ranks with Michael Chrichton's Jurassic Park and Carl Sagan's Contact, The Turing Option takes us to the furthest edge of tomorrow's computer technology today.
El Turista Perfecto: Grades reflexiones en una pequeña historia
by Danilo H. GomesLas tierras de Almalandia no ven la luz del sol desde hace décadas y es necesario hacer algo. Ego, el líder general de Almalandia vive una vida calma, insatisfactoria y sin rumbo. En una mañana cualquiera, Ego es sorprendido por una llamada telefónica de uno de los miembros del consejo de vice-líderes de Almalandia. Algo anda mal. Un turista humilde de pocas palabras y muy misterioso, llega a Almalandia y provoca un enorme tumulto jamás antes visto.
The Turk and My Mother: A Novel
by Mary Helen StefaniakWinner of the John Gardner Fiction Book Award "Fans of Amy Tan and Carol Shields will revel in the themes of remembrance, forgiveness, family devotion, and forbidden love." —BooklistEvery family has its secrets. But toward the end of his life, George decides to tell his daughter the story of his mother and the Turk. This initial revelation leads to a narrative tour de force that follows a family through four generations and around the world—through love, marriage, and betrayal, through illness, death, and war. Mary Helen Stefaniak's charming and flawed characters and the warmth of her prose will stay with readers long after they close the book.Reading group guide included.
The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death (The Hollows)
by Kim Harrison#1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to her beloved Hollows series with The Turn, the official prequel to the series that will introduce you to a whole new side of Rachel Morgan's world as they've never seen it before!Can science save us when all else fails? Trisk and her hated rival, Kal, have the same goal: save their species from extinction. But death comes in the guise of hope when a genetically modified tomato created to feed the world combines with the government's new tactical virus, giving it an unexpected host and a mode of transport. Plague rises, giving the paranormal species the choice to stay hidden and allow humanity to die, or to show themselves in a bid to save them. Under accusations of scientific misconduct, Trisk and Kal flee across a plague-torn United States to convince leaders of the major paranormal species to save their supposedly weaker kin, but not everyone thinks humanity should be saved, and Trisk fights the prejudices of two societies to prove that not only does humanity have something to offer, but that long-accepted beliefs against women, dark magic, and humanity itself can turn to understanding; that when people are at their worst that the best show their true strength, and that love can hold the world together as a new balance is found.
Turn Coat: The Dresden Files, Book Eleven (Dresden Files #11)
by Jim ButcherMeet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in.Harry has always tried to keep his nose clean where the White Council of Wizards is concerned, but past misdeeds haven't gone down well. Which places him in an awkward position. Morgan, formerly his chief persecutor on the Council, has been wrongly accused of treason. Facing the ultimate punishment, Morgan needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog, however much that someone isn't interested. Soon, Harry is working to clear the less-than-agreeable Morgan's name, hiding from the Council and bounty hunters alike and seeking the true turncoat. A single mistake may mean that heads - quite literally - could roll. And one of them might be his. Magic - it can get a guy killed.