Future Space Adventures

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Twenty minutes before the "Wedding of the Century" at The Plaza, I stood outside the Presidential Suite in a fifty-thousand-dollar Vera Wang gown. I was the girl from a West Virginia trailer park about to marry Hugh Maxwell, the golden heir to a billion-dollar defense empire. I pushed the door open only to find Hugh pinned against the bed with my own stepsister, Floy. She was wearing my bridal diamond necklace, and the sounds of their laughter scraped against my eardrums like sandpaper. I didn't scream; I listened as Hugh grunted that once the wedding was over and the trust fund unlocked, he'd dump "that hillbilly trash" on a bus back to the mountains. They weren't just cheating; they were planning to steal my family's land deeds and leave me with nothing. When I set off the sprinklers and exposed their naked bodies to the paparazzi, the Maxwell family didn't apologize. They called me a "greedy peasant" and threatened to ruin my life unless I signed a new deal to save their crashing stock. I realized then that I was never a bride to them. I was a transaction, a rounding error in a ledger to be used and discarded. They thought my poverty made me weak and my silence made me a victim. "If we don't have a marriage certificate by midnight, the bank freezes thirty percent of our liquidity," their lawyer warned. So, I gave them exactly what they wanted. I used a loophole in their hundred-year-old family covenant and married the only other direct heir available. I didn't marry Hugh. I walked into the ICU and married his uncle, Fleet Maxwell-the legendary war hero who had been in a vegetative state for months. Now, I am the matriarch of the Maxwell dynasty. I've suspended Hugh's executive powers, exiled my mother-in-law to the Swiss Alps, and taken control of the family vault. They think I'm just a gold-digger waiting for a "corpse" to die so I can collect a fifty-million-dollar widow's payout. But last night, as I lay beside my comatose husband, the man they called a vegetable gripped my hand back.

Literature

Though originally geared toward the young adult market, Space Tug, the second novel in Murray Leinster's Joe Kenmore series, contains enough action and adventure to keep readers of any age engaged. The plot centers on the operation of a space station and is chock-full of the kind of technical detail

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not

Romance

Leighton Moore is a passionate architect with her eyes on the prize- win the bid, build her legacy, and keep emotions out of the equation. Ezra Collins, once a world-traveling photographer, is trying to lay down roots and rebuild after a devastating loss. A chance meeting during a delayed flight tu

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When Tom Corbett and his Polaris unit mates, Roger and Astro, were assigned to the great expedition of one thousand space ships carrying pioneer colonists billions of miles to the satellite Roald, they did not dream that they were facing the most thrilling adventures of their careers.Leadership of t

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As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, Arcot, Wade, Morey and Fuller could see below them, like a vast shining horizon, the mass of stars that formed their own island universe. Morey worked a moment with his slide rule, then said, "We made good time! Twenty-nine li

Sci-fi

Humans, robots, aliens, and energy life forms, all tend to like Tejeda for his easy-going personality, not knowing what lies beneath his ever-changing face. He is a Nubilae, a shapeshifting race known for their insanity. But Tejeda appears carefree and often amused even in the most perilous situati

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Carey Rockwell is the pseudonym used for the author of the Tom Corbet Space Cadet series of books written for young boys. This 1950's series included books, comic strips, coloring books and television shows. The Tom Corbett space series consists of eight books, which may have been based on the novel

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The Mystery of Space by Robert T. Browne

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What started out as an innocent campus prank at Space Academy almost cost the Polaris unit the chance to become officers in the Solar Guard. For punishment, Tom, Roger, and Astro were assigned to spend all their spare time on guard duty in the vicinity of a new building which housed the latest hush-

Others

Joslyn has been told all her life that she is a waste of space. Her parents didn't love her and she felt as if she had no one. She endures years of abuse but it only makes her stronger.

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Spiritual Adventures by Arthur Symons

Romance

They were born and marked to be together. Their love was thought to be one which could surpass any hindrance. However, Kana died. There was no foul-play seen on her demise. Ken was left devastated. However, Kana’s soul knew that she was not supposed to die so early. Her love for him was such that he

Modern

My eyes shot open in "The Daily Grind," our favorite coffee shop, the bitter taste of espresso echoing a nightmare I couldn't shake. Across from me, my boyfriend, Ethan, scrolled on his phone seemingly oblivious, while the barista, Sabrina Chavez, zeroed in on my new work laptop. Her sweet voice

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Everyday Adventures by Samuel Scoville

Romance

Wrongfully accused of being her boss's mistress, Coreen was fired and kicked out of her company after five years as a secretary. On her way home with her shoulders hanging and thinking of ways to get a new job for her sick sister, she overheard a lady offering a high salary for being a maid. Despera

Fantasy

what happens on Divinus prime Stays on Divinus prime or so they thought after the shrine world is hidden from the Emperor's light it is down to Mephiston and a hand full of Blood angels to save the shrine world from the clutches of Chaos

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La race future by Edward Bulwer Lytton

Others

In the bustling streets of ancient China, Li Mei, a modern day college student, finds herself swept into the pages of a legendary Chinese storybook after a strange encounter with a mysterious artifact. Transported to the heart of a dynasty in turmoil, she discovers that she has the power to change t

Romance

It's a love story of two people who just started with a lie. Jacob Smith, a wealthy son, inheritor of Walmart Company, playboy, and well-known heartthrob at school, lured Mia Miller, the only child of a powerful man in government and military. Jacob wants to show his father that he had a word and ha

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