Books with author ML Cooper

The colony ship Intrepid is falling into a star.The ship’s AI has lost control of the engines and core systems. Battling a saboteur who strives to isolate him, his last act is to wake Colonel Tanis Richards from stasis.Tanis finds herself alone on a dying ship, unable to contact the AI. She must discover what has happened and save the Intrepid from burning up in the star’s angry red light. Even if she is successful, the journey to the colony world of New Eden is just beginning. With decades of travel ahead, she will somehow have to find a path in the darkness.

Avenged is the conclusion to the Vanished duology, an absorbing, psychological suspense story about friendship, deception, jealousy, and love, perfect for fans of the Pretty Little Liars series and We Were Liars. Everyone believes Beth’s death was an accident, except for Kalah. The girl she loved was stolen from her, and now Kalah’s broken heart wants revenge. In order to crack Brit’s perfect alibi, Kalah pretends to be Brit’s best friend—with the sole mission to destroy her. Kalah knows that playing Brit’s game is deadly. One wrong move could cost someone her life, including her own…but the more lies Kalah tells, the closer she is to the twisted truth.

The small collection offers poetry and story illustrated in colored pencil on black paper. The polestar of the book is on the subject of music and how we might be the physical manifestation of it.Discover what happens to Claire de Luna, who lives next to an inland Sea, when she meets the ancient Grand Sea Piano.Explore the illustrations and poetry that highlight the struggle to live in a worldfree of borders and the beliefs they promote, and to recover our indigenous roots—the Being part of Human, as we reconnect to the Earth.This tiny book should offer teenagers, and young people who just happen to be adults,a place of imagination inside the Universe of Black Paper.

This landmark biography of Tony O'Reilly, Irish businessman and rugby player, draws on an abundance of new material, including interviews with many of O'Reilly's closest family, friends, associates, and rivals, to uncover the man behind the myth. O'Reilly led the Independent News & Media Group for over three decades and was the CEO of H.J. Heinz Company in America. Without doubt, he was the most powerful unelected Irishman of the past 50 years. Today, O'Reilly's empire and the formidable reputation it established lie in tatters. This book documents in unflinching detail and with great subtlety the meteoric rise and slow unraveling of an Irish icon.

Someone just killed Tanis Richards and replaced her with an Infiltrator Chameleon. While finally getting some much-needed shore leave on Mars, Tanis gets a message from Harm Ellis with instructions to go to Ceres and hunt for a missing operative . . . except she never makes it. At least, that’s what she’d like her would-be killers to think. With Darla’s help, Tanis goes deep undercover, tracking the Infiltrator Chameleon from world to world, only to discover that it intends to kill a head of state in her name. Now Tanis must race against the clock to keep from becoming the most wanted criminal in the Sol System.

In the Age of the Orion War...Rika is mech-meat, a cyborg killing machine, created by the Genevian military and cast aside when the war was lost.Now she slings cargo on Dekar Station, falling deeper in debt as she struggles to make enough money to keep her cybernetic body functioning. The local gangs would love to have her join their ranks, and the takings would pay her bills, but the only thing Rika hates more than what she's become, is killing for others.But morals don't buy repairs and she's at the point of utter desperation when her loan holder cashes in her debt and sells her to the highest bidder.When Rika wakes, she's in a warehouse on a planet she's never heard of, and a trio of mercenaries are reassembling her body. Their mission is to kill the world's president, and her mods and abilities are just what they need to get the job done.Whether she likes it or not, Rika is in the business of killing once more as she joins the ranks of the Marauders.An Aeon 14 seriesThe events of the Rika's Marauders series occur during the New Canaan time span in The Orion War series. This series may be read at any time after reading Destiny Lost, New Canaan, or Orion RisingAbout M. D. Cooper & Aeon 14M. D. Cooper is a New York Times bestselling author who has envisioned a rich future for humanity,one where planet-sized megastructures house trillions of humans, but traveling between thestars still takes decades, or even centuries.Fans of Alastair Reynolds, Honor Harrington, The Expanse, or Elizabeth Moon's Vatta's Warwill feel right at home in this, the first book of the Perilous Alliance series.What is Aeon 14?The universe of Aeon 14 is based on the premise that advanced, intelligent, starfaring life takes 14 billion years toevolve. In astronomy an aeon is a billion years. In Aeon 14, humanity is at the leading edge of this evolution inthe Milky Way Galaxy.Humanity and the AIs they have created spread out amongst the stars and find that they are alone, though it maynot always be that way...

When a student vanishes from Ethan North Academy the nation's oldest military preparatory school is forced to close forever, unless a small band of Alumni can solve the mystery.Enter disabled ex-Boston cop Kevin O'Connor, discredited oceanographer Walter Weiss and Alaskan hunter Derek Yeager, who was expelled from Ethan North twenty years earlier, two weeks before graduation. Together with their former teacher Master Sergeant Rocky Chambers and school president Colonel 'Trip' Hammond, they join the missing boy's mother, Liu Chen, in the desperate quest to find her son in the misty Appalachian foothills of Parsons County Pennsylvania.

Rika is a Marauder. After years of drifting aimlessly after the war with the Nietzscheans, she has finally found a home with the Marauders--a mercenary outfit comprised of Genevian veterans.Back in the war, Rika hated her government, but always fought for the woman next to her. Now she fights for her teammates in Basilisk, an elite spec-ops team that takes on the toughest missions.When General Mill, CO of the Marauders comes to Rika with a top-secret solo operation, she wants to turn it down. But the mission comes with a chance to save Silva, her old team leader from the Nietzschean war.Without team Basilisk, without the Marauders, Rika must stand on her own against all odds and save the woman who once saved her.