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There are those living secretly among us who have the power to change their physical form from that of a human to an animal, even animals thought to be mythical, such as dragons. Throughout out the ages, these shape-shifters have come together to protect themselves from humans - and other shape-shifters.

On a near future Earth, Good Man does not mean good at all. Now a conspiracy hundreds of years in the making is about to be brought to light when the imprisoned son of the Good Man of Olympic Seacity escapes from his solitary confinement cell and returns to find his father assassinated.

On ancient port world planet Kuxortal, young Simsa grows up among garbage pickers who live upon the ancient ruins of a fallen galactic civilization - the Forerunners. But Simsa has always been different. Her skin is iridescent blue-black and she shares a telepathic bond with an alien pet, a bat-like zorsal.

For alien commander Arid Ricimer there was no going home. His species was winning the war with Earth, but the civilization he had fought for was gone, destroyed from within by ideologues and bureaucrats.

Let heaven and nature - and also the supernatural - sing. This book presents twelve stories of Christmas in very unusual circumstances, ranging from vampires to robots, from the hills of Appalachia to a high orbit space station, celebrating the holiday in their own, off-beat ways.

With the specter of a German super-weapon moving closer to completion and the German generals allowed to fight the kind of war at which they are masters, the allies are pushed toward a course of accommodation or even defeat. Will the soldiers of the Grand Alliance find the courage and conviction to fight on in the face of such daunting odds?

Features pipe-smoking, action-loving spaceship commander Lieutenant John Grimes who moves out of the federation navy and finds his true calling adventuring along the spaceways of the galactic rim.

In Wind Rider's Oath, Bahzell became a wind rider - the first hradani wind rider in history. And, even if Bahzell is the War God's champion, because the wind riders are the elite of the elite among the Sothoii, Bahzell's ascension is as likely to stir resentment as respect. This title continues this story.

Theo Waitley is an ace starship pilot - and pure maverick. Her mom is a renowned Terran scholar and her birth father is an interstellar aristocrat in hiding. She still feels like a socially challenged misfit. But after being selected to train with the best-of-the-best at the pilot academy, she figures she can leave behind those gawky.

Monsters are real ...and it turns out that there is good money to be made killing them. This title offers serious of "Monster Hunter International", "Monster Hunter Vendetta", and "Monster Hunter Alpha" - in one volume.

Michael Valentine, veteran and former member of an elite private military company, has been recruited by the government to conduct a secret counter-terror operation in the Persian Gulf nation of Zubara. The unit is called Dead Six. Their mission is to take the fight to the enemy and not get caught.

Midway through the 21st century, a proposed major software upgrade - an artificial intelligence - will give the world communications system an unprecedented degree of independent decision-making. Now to fully assess the system, a new space-station habitat is deployed with an A I named Spartacus.

A century-and-a-half after the Martian Separatist Wars, and the final defeat of insane terrorist leader El Ahmi, Alexander Moore returns to the stars with the Sienna Madira, a United States Navy supercarrier spacecraft outfitted with advanced FTL and endlessly strange, extremely effective, quantum-based weapons and remote sensing technology.

Farree has discovered a portion of his true heritage as one of the ancient Little People, the Faery Folk, of legend - but so far as he knows, he is the only one of his kind to survive. That is, until his compatriots, star-traveler Krip Vorlund and sorceress Lady Maelen, run across wings for sale in the market on a distant frontier outpost world.

With the world consumed by a devastating plague that drives humans violently insane, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on a dark Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. This book deals with this topic.

How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape and bound by budget constrictions, that's for sure. No, what it will take is a helping of adventure, science, corporate powerplays, a generous dollop of seduction - both in and out of the boardroom - and money, money, money! Art Thrasher knows this.

Alex Marlow and Ripple Creek Security's best personal security detail return to action! This time, they really don't like their principal, World Bureau of State Minister Joy Herman Highland - a highly-placed bureaucrat with aspirations to elected office.

For years, Rafiel Trall, one of Goldport's finest, has been walking the fine line between enforcing human law and protecting the shifters who come his way. Lately, it's been lightened by his friendship with Tom Ormson, a dragon shifter, and Kyrie Smith, a panther shifter.

Gulf: In which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't quite decide what to do with the rest of us. Lost Legacy: In which it is proved that we are all members of that league - or would be, if we but had eyes to see. This title deals with this topics.

Rear Admiral Michelle Henke was commanding one of the ships in a force led by Honor Harrington in an all-out space battle. The odds were against the Star Kingdom forces, and they had to run. But Michelle's ship was crippled, and she and her surviving crew were taken prisoner. Much to her surprise, she was repatriated to Manticore.

After the West Virginia town of Grantville was unceremoniously hurled back through time to the 1630s, the 17th century would never be the same. This new and indispensable volume is ideal for the many followers of the 1632 series.

After carving a place for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, the up-timers and their allies take on continental America and Japan! A cosmic catastrophe, the Ring of Fire, strands the West Virginia town of Grantville in the middle of Europe during the Thirty Years War.

It's go time once again for the meta-heroes - including fire-bender John Murdock, hacker-witch Vikki Nagy, healer Belladona Blue, and super-quick Mercurye - and most of all for their ghostly ally, Seraphym, as the spirit of the world Verdegris knows he must trap and destroy her if he is to take down the metas.