Oscar: 1500 books

***LIEUTENANT COMMANDER OF TASK FORCE 7 REPORTING FOR DUTY *** Laser burns scarred the metal frames of half-melted, barely recognizable structures. The ground was torn apart from battle, and not a blade of fresh grass could be seen. All had been stomped underfoot or burned in the many beds...

I THOUGHT I'D LOST YOU, I THOUGHT I'D LOST MYSELF.... Night. Rain. The low engine hum acted as the pedal point to the endless strikes of soles on pavement, the distant cry, all replaying in a percussive loop, all blanketed under the constant shower of white noise. The impression...

SPACE TRAVEL, NOW NOT JUST FOR THE LIVING.... The Admiral walked along the line of five, followed by some youngster who had the honor of carrying the palette of medals. Max listened as the old man quietly congratulated each of the crew members, pinned the medals to their chests with a shuffle...

PERSPECTIVE IS A FANCY WORD FOR BULLSHIT It's like entering a forced meditation room I thought the first time I stepped inside the recording studio. The air instantly grew thicker as soon as the door was closed behind me. Every time you spoke it felt as if the sound came out of your mouth and...

IT IS A MAGICAL YET JARRING SIGHT This is a hard country. Lora ran her fingers over the first line of the tome. Invisible fumes burden the air, that make the body tired and the mind murky. The words were her father’s. His curly handwriting slithered across the pages. Despite the rain that...

JUST ANOTHER STUBBORN COWARD It was time to get food for the Silvers again, and as usual, the job landed on me. It was going to be a long, uneventful trip to the Diamond’s mansion with my little, worn wagon. I could have gone to the Golds, who lived closer, to ask for food, but a big, stupid...

WHY WOULD ANYONE POSSIBLY SAY NO Pain surged down Dan’s arm. The orc’s sword had sliced between his middle and ring finger all the way to the wrist. A second later, the orc’s head was sliced off and Dan couldn’t see for all the blood in his eyes. When he opened his eyes again,...

WHAT THE HELL DID YOU SEND US News Flash: The first graduation ceremony at Earth’s new Space Academy was disrupted today when former cadet and accused thief, Hugh David, stole the very ship he was set to captain. Authorities have no idea how he breached the security of the academy and have...

WHEN WE BURNED THE EARTH!! Nikolai Tesser began his days as he always did, with a routine check of his data-miners. He was the proud owner of five machines, each processing at an Exabyte-per-second. Sure, they were a little outdated, but his custom hardware and clocking software made him more...

AYE EVERYONE KNOWS DENTISTS BE EVIL I could stay aboard this ship for the rest of my life. The salty air filled Spencer’s lungs and the wind bit his face. This was his first time on a ship. He thought he would hate it. He did hate it at first, but it grew on him quick. He simply...

AT DCI, WE BELIEVE IT IS 'GROWTH' Mumbai, 2061 Josh found the bar he was looking for. The city of Mumbai was always crowded, with cars packed from sidewalk to sidewalk, marching through the street in tightly packed lines. He had asked the front desk clerk where the nearest working-man-whiskey...

With “soaring, matchless prose,” a Pulitzer Prize winner pens a New York Times–bestselling saga of a family of Irish-Cuban immigrants (Publishers Weekly).   In The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Oscar Hijuelos brings to life the rambunctious Montez...

The insightful teaching points and effective practice activities will reinforce your execution of the fundamentals and expand your repertoire of techniques and tactics. Learn to dribble, receive, pass, shoot, head, tackle etc. Many people enjoy playing the game of football. They may play for...

Dieses eBook: "Zauberhafte Geschichten: Fantasy-Romane + Märchen + Magische Abenteuer (Über 90 Klassiker in einem Buch - Illustrierte Ausgabe)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Geschichte des Zauberers...