Michael Flynn
1) Eifelheim
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Tom, a historian, and his girlfriend Sharon, a theoretical physicist, become interested in the story of a small German town that disappeared in the fourteenth century and was never resettled. What they discover is that the village was the site of an interstellar space ship crash 600 years ago.
2) Rogue Star
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Michael Flynn opened his saga of near-future technology and space exploration with Firestar, in which he introduced a set of characters orbiting around one powerful and determined woman: Mariesa van Huyten, who is obsessed with the need to get humanity back into space and to save Earth from disaster. In Rogue Star, van Huyten's struggles continue. Three astronauts are headed out beyond Mars on the first human trip to the asteroid belt. In orbit...
3) Up Jim River
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There is a river on Dangchao Waypoint, a small world out beyond Die Bold. It is a longish river as such things go, with a multitude of bayous and rapids and waterfalls, and it runs through many a strange and hostile country. Going up it, you can lose everything. Going up it, you can find anything.The Hound Bridget ban has vanished, and her employer, the Kennel (the mysterious superspy agency of the League), has given up the search. But her daughter,...
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Michael Flynn, Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning science-fiction writer, has here written a space opera with stunningly successful results. The January Dancer tells the fateful story of an ancient prehuman artifact of great power and of the people who found it. Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling,...
5) Lodestar
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Following up Firestar and Rogue Star, Michael Flynn continues to deliver vivid characters, suspenseful prose, and an imaginative plot. In the early years of the twenty-first century, humanity has progressed into space, having established a permanent presence with Earth-orbiting Leo Station. Science and commerce in space are booming, and humanity's future looks bright. But one man's desire for vindication and revenge could end it all. Lodestar chronicles...
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In the early years of the twenty-first century, humans have advanced step by slow step into space. Constantly monitoring the heavens, they have discovered that certain asteroids have changed their orbits-and are on a collision course with Earth. Urgent action is required, but politics and a worldwide financial crash are getting in the way. To save humanity from disaster, two of Earth's prominent families, a host of political movers and shakers, and...
7) Firestar
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It is the dawn of the twenty-first century, and America is in trouble. Public schools breed apathy and ignorance, and politics has become the art of the quick fix. There is one woman, though, who has both the vision and the money to leverage change. Mariesa Gorley van Huyten, heiress to one of the great American fortunes, founds an educational subsidiary called Mentor Academies and begins to subcontract public school systems in order to raise a new,...
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A war is being waged against us by radical Islamists, and, as current events demonstrate, they are only getting stronger. Al-Qaeda has morphed into a much more dangerous, menacing threat: ISIS. Lt. General Michael T. Flynn is blunt and urgent. This book aims to inform the American people of the grave danger we face in the war on terror-and will continue to face-until our government takes decisive action against the terrorists that want nothing more...
11) Justin time
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c2010
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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An ancient stone amulet and calendar disc has the power to stop time. Passed from generation to generation, these magical artifacts end up in the hands of an 18-year-old half-Shoshoni Indian named Justin, who chooses to use his power to make the world a better place. But on the other side of the equation is the power-seeking philanthropist, Michael Romano, who seeks to indulge in the riches of the world.
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©2006
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1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Examines the life and work of Richard Feynman, Nobel prize-winning physicist, best known for his work on the atom bomb, his theory of quantum thermodynamics, and his contribution to the investigation into the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
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Eve's Warriors & The Three Nephites is a "Twilight"-inspired epic saga that features immortal love stories and recounts the millennia-long cosmic battle Eve's Warriors have been waging with Satan since the Garden of Eden. Women are Eve's Warriors when they fight for good as mothers, sisters, educators, soldiers, business leaders, and nurses and in other righteous endeavors. Readers meet real "women of faith" Warriors like Harriet Tubman and Joan of...
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A diverse group of ex-cons-turned-professional-movers are convinced by their creepy client to pull an all-nighter for a generous pay bump. It turns out their client is a Nazi surgeon, and his living experiments are rotting in the attic. As the night progresses and rooms are cleared, they slowly uncover the horrors that exist inside his old Victorian mansion. Together, they must find a way to escape this house of horrors.