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"This person is not even human. It's impossible for me to diagnose the injury or illness of such a structure as his!" With these words and a worried frown, Doc Smithers sums up the case of the strange creature that lay on Ron Barron's bed. For the boy, Clonar, is like nothing earth's medical books have ever cataloged. And the day Ron Barron found him, staggering away from the wrecked metal disk that lay hidden near Longview, is one that put earth's existence in jeopardy!In SON OF THE STARS, Raymond Jones has written of a forthright friendship between a young castaway from space and his earthly counterpart. How a cold and suspicious military, recognizing Clonar only as an alien from an astonishingly advanced civilization, turns friendship into treachery that threatens earth's existence, makes this an electrifying story with a thought-provoking theme. In scenes uncomfortably vivid, you'll meet soldiers and citizens of a typical American city; people like calculating General Gillispie and frightened Mrs. Barron, whose reactions to an "interplanetary" situation bring the world to the brink of destruction.Clonar's words, "They're coming to destroy your world!" refer to a planet whose wars and strife might shortly spread to other worlds. Climaxed with a scene of power and drama unmatched in science fiction, SON OF THE STARS is a breath-taking book you won't put down until the very last page - and won't be able to forget until men reach the stars and learn for themselves! Raymond F. Jones was an American science fiction author. Between 1951 and 1978, he published sixteen novels and dozens of stories. He is best known for his 1952 novel, THIS ISLAND EARTH, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed 1955 film.

**UPDATE: This book now contains two teen novels: The Power; and A Demon's KissTHE POWER is also sold in separate volumes (1 - 3), so if you've already read about Annika and Foster and her stalker then you've read THE POWER. Here it is simply in one complete teen novel, with another completely different novel added. Both novels contain no swearing. The books are appropriate for young teens as well as tweens, teens and adults that enjoy reading teen novels. A Demon's Kiss:Seventeen year-old Michaela Tolley has secrets. She’s had them all her life. She’s secretly always loved her best friend, Gage; secretly has powers she doesn’t know how to control; and secretly knows dark forces are trying to find her.But when Gage dies, Michaela has to let some of her secrets die as well. In order to save Gage she has to call for help anywhere she can find it. Unfortunately, the help seems to have come from the dark forces she has always been hiding from. Now the demon from her nightmares is showing up at her school and her home; her whole life. Okay, the demon is a smokin’ hot teenage boy and looks at her with smoldering want in his eyes … but he’s a demon! ***This is a full-length novel that came from Melanie's Short Story, "The One." ***The short story "The One" is available in the anthology, "So Hot For You."***Parts of "The One" are in this novel as this novel was based on Melanie's short story--"The One."

Owen Spencer would never have agreed to lead the time-slip expedition back to the Jurassic period — the Age of Reptiles — had he foreseen the terrifying experiences in store for the small group making the expedition. Chartering the expedition was Dirk Masterson, a treacherous big game hunter, whose alleged purpose was to take pictures of the enormous reptiles that roamed Jurassic times. Even when Masterson smashed the jeep into the force field, destroying the only protection that stood between the group and the lumbering beasts, Owen could not be sure it was an accident.Evan Hunter has written a fast-moving tale of people stranded on earth in its infancy and forced to pit their ingenuity and strength against mammoth reptiles. It might not have been so bad if Masterson, with his mania for big game hunting had not continued to shoot at every reptile he spotted. But his madman tactics repeatedly aroused the fury of the hideous dinosaurs, whose attacks drove the farther and farther away from the relay area that would slip them back to the present when the week was up.The weird circumstances that made Owen's brother, Chuck, take over the leadership of the expedition and the even stranger adjustment of the time stream that left the party with the inexplicable feeling that somebody was missing makes DANGER: DINOSAURS! an unusual and fascinating treatment of the ever-provocative time theme. The desperate search for the relay area, interrupted by fierce fights with flesh-eating monsters, and an earthquake that creates a chaos of stampeding animals give this story action that is as alien as any distant planet.DANGER: DINOSAURS! is a juvenile science fiction novel, published first in 1953 as one of the books in the Winston Science Fiction series. The author, Evan Hunter, had a very successful writing career. He was also prolific and used a number of pen names. As Hunter, he wrote THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, a novel dealing with juvenile crime and the New York City public school system. It and the 1955 movie based on the book were highly acclaimed. He also had a successful screenwriting career, producing scripts for movies and TV, including the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's film THE BIRDS (1963). However, he is probably best known for the crime fiction he wrote using the pen name Ed McBain. His 87th Precinct series is often credited with inventing the "police procedural" genre of crime fiction. The books were turned into a number of movies and TV series.

“Growing Up Hummingbird” is an enchanting look at the first two weeks in a hummingbird’s life. From hatching the eggs to outgrowing the nest and taking flight, your toddler will love to flip through the colorful pages and read along with the magnificent images, as two baby hummingbirds grow into their own.This is a picture book created specifically for young children to be viewed on the Nook Color, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, PC, or Mac.This book contains 12 photos for ages 1 and up!**Please Note: This picture book contains high-resolution color images and is designed to be viewed on a Nook Color, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, PC, or Mac. It has been created to be viewed in portrait orientation. Displaying this book on a grayscale device, like the regular Kindle or Nook, may result in some image degradation.

“Only a decade away!" Yes, according to the well-known author of STEP TO THE STARS, this remarkable age that has produced rocket ships, guided missiles and hydrogen bombs will have a space station circling the Earth within the next ten years. World domination will be in the hands of the country that constructs it, and man will know, once and for all, whether he is free or slave.Such thoughts were far from Jim Stanley's mind when he was investigated by the FBI and later subjected to strange and rigorous tests. It wasn't until he satisfied the stiff requirements that he learned the United States was in the space station race for keeps and that he could count himself among the handful of men destined to breach the barriers of space in operation "Big Shush."Fascinating details of the construction and operation of the station are part and parcel of this tense and dramatic story. Treacherous sabotage by a dangerous foreign spy; Jim's almost fatal fall into the "empty, hungry depths of space"; and a savage fire which threatened the existence of the station add to the rising tide of excitement. Tying these explosive events together is a narrative that skillfully portrays the reaction of men to new and staggering experiences.Unequaled in its impact, STEP TO THE STARS is an adventure too probable to ignore. Whether you read it as a tale of the future or a forceful case for world co-operation, you can't help but feel that here indeed is the "prelude to space."

Llaurel is different from all of her friends. This is the story of how she comes to see just how different she really is. She has more than her magic to rely upon. Her closest friends are there for her: Blake the young Ranger; Fern and Brook — twin sisters, each skilled with the sword and bow; an Acolyte called Seborick; and Jhannon, a budding musician. Amid her personal turmoil they must somehow stop an invading army bent upon cleansing away all non-human races. Perhaps it would be easier to lead her friends if Llaurel weren't an adult who is trapped in a nine year old body.

"We Go Anywhere" was the legend scrawled on the battered hull of the ALBATROSS, one of the worst old tubs in space. To Dale Sutton, the biggest man on campus at the Space Academy, it was a slap in the face to be ordered to such a crate. But his biggest shock came when orders set the ALBATROSS and its two companion ships on a course that let straight to the dreaded planet Saturn. No one had ever come back from Saturn, yet everyone knew the story of Captain Dearborn who had led the first and only expedition to the ringed planet a century earlier. His diary was the record of a steadily losing battle against the unknown as one by one, the little party had vanished.Now, a hundred years later, the superstitious crew of the ALBATROSS found it impossible to rid themselves of the feeling that the same catastrophe that had wiped out the previous expedition would strike again. They had hardly been settled a day in Dearborn's old underground quarters on Titan, Saturn's largest satellite, when their gnawing fears began to materialize. First, the loss of all their guns when the lights suddenly and inexplicably faded, then the disappearance of the first man! But greater and more deadly horrors were yet to come: panicky moments of groping though ghastly underground caves, the appearance of a face bearing the same twisted features of the illustrious Captain Dearborn, a collision that sends Titan up in a blaze of destruction, and the final landing on Saturn, a planet heaving with volcanos and covered with streams of molten lava.Philip Latham's portrayal of life on a planet about whose conditions few have ventured a guess is a tale guaranteed to make the reader as numb with terror as the men the author writes about. Philip Latham was a pen name used by Dr. Robert S. Richardson (1902 – 1981). He could support the suppositions that are the basis of his science fiction novels with accepted scientific theories. For he was an author who was in the business of “watching the stars.” An astronomer at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories beginning in 1931, he started writing for magazines in the early forties. His work won such wide respect that he also had a college textbook on astronomy to his credit. Movie producers as well as publishers found Dr. Richardson’s experience too good to pass up. He gave technical assistance to a number of studios on pictures such as Destination Moon, and he wrote an article describing his work on the science fiction thriller When Worlds Collide.

Ron Barron never expectied to see Clonar again. Clonar, the boy who alone had survived the crash of an interstellar saucer-ship near Ron's home, had been rescued by his people and returned to Rorla, a planet in the Great Galaxy of Andromeda, almost a million light-years from Earth. When he left, he assured Ron that communication between Rorla and Earth would be impossible. Yet only a year later, Ron listened with growing excitement to Clonar's voice coming over the interstellar communication system, inviting Ron and his family to journey to Rorla to attend a conference of the Galactic Federation.None of the Barrons could have known that Clonar's invitation was violently opposed by the Rorlans, nor that on Rorla was an unknown enemy who resented their coming - a man who saw Earth's destruction as a necessity. And it was a bitter coincidence that that man should be in charge of the colony of delegates. As representatives of a planet whose civilization was considered dangerous and too inferior for membership in the Federation, the Barrons found themselves at the mercy of suspicious and hostile strangers bent on proving Earth's civilization unsalvageable. Not until Ron's father becomes an innocent party to an assassination plot, do they fully realize to what extent the Rorlans will carry their deception.Climaxed by a shocking courtroom scene in which Ron stands trial for Earth, this sequel to Raymond Jones's SON OF THE STARS is an intricately plotted tale of what could happen if earth were to come face to face with long-established civilizations of Outer Space.Raymond F. Jones was an American science fiction author. Between 1951 and 1978, he published sixteen novels and dozens of stories. He is best known for his 1952 novel, THIS ISLAND EARTH, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed 1955 film.

When sun storms periodically swept Mercury with waves of solar fire, radiation and electricity, it was usual for the authorities to order evacuation of the small mining communities on the side of the planet that faced the Sun. But as time for the most violent solar eruption known to earthlings approached, no rescue rocket ship appeared outside the Sigma dome that housed Dick Rogers and his family.Around one of the universe's most awesome events — sun spots — Lester del Rey has written a tale of rugged courage and heroism in the face of impending doom. Young Dick Rogers wasn't too well liked by the townspeople. He insisted on keeping an erratic "wispy" — the strange form of Mercury life that took the shape of an electrically charged ball of flame — as a friend. And though Dick's favorite "wispy," Johnny Quicksilver, could usually be trusted, the mining engineers were never sure whether it was he who periodically blew out fuses and upset delicate electrical circuits.Against this background, the story of Dick Rogers' odyssey through Mercury's bleak and blazing landscape takes on desperate urgency. How he, an ancient robot and the Mercury veteran "Hotside Charlie" withstand Mercury's 800 degree temperatures, escape rivers of molten lead, and fight the planet's horrifying silicone beasts, is in the best science fiction tradition.

The thrilling sequel to Yankee Privateer.MURRAY LYON:Son of an insolvant colonial merchant, captive, then honored brother of fierce Creek warriors; skilled woods runner, quick with a knife.MURRAY LYON:Viscount Farstarr, unwilling heir to the Earldom of Starr, thanks to the passing of an almost forgotten cousin of his father’s.Confronted with the treacherous labrynth of speech, manners and dress that was Regency society, Murray is plunged into dark undercurrents of evil; the undying enmity of an infamous highwayman, the threat of blackmail and disgrace — and even a frame-up for murder.Only his shrewdness and frontier instincts are arrayed against the wicked deceit that threatens him — until he gains an unlikely ally...Andre Alice Norton (1912 – 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction. She was the first woman to be Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, first to be SFWA Grand Master, and first inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

It might not have been so hard to sell Jon West on the Deeps — if he hadn't had his heart set on the stars. Bitter disappointment over washing out of space school prompted his rash decision to join the Deepsmen who struggled to conquer Earth's last frontier and the threats it held for the North American continent.Based on the theory that man may someday inhabit the vast ocean floors, this tale is a speculative journey into that fantastic realm. Scenes in fabulous undersea cities, tense battles between men and colossal sea monsters, a running feud between Jon and a belligerent civilian youth — all combine to make this an exciting drama in the best science fiction tradition.Not until rumors begin about the Mindanao Trench and the mysterious Project called "X" — a project to save a continent —does Jon snap out of his reluctant attitude toward the Deeps and realize the full magnitude of a mission more dangerous than any on Earth or in space. Tidal waves, the descent to perpetual blackness seven miles under the sea, disasters that struck with lightning speed breed action that drives Jon and his fellow Deepsmen toward a powerful climax.Bryce Walton has written in Sons of the Ocean Deeps a chilling tale of the terrors and mysteries of the seas that will make readers long to live to see the day when man may invade Earth's most beautiful and most dangerous realm — the indomitable sea.Bryce Walton, a graduate of Los Angeles State College, lived most of his life along the coast of California, where he had opportunity to indulge in his favorite sport and hobby: spear-fishing and deep-sea diving. To his experiences there he attributed much of the description of underwater scenery and life found in Sons of the Ocean Deeps. During World War II he saw service as a war correspondent for the Marine Corps, and was staff correspondent for Leatherneck magazine during the Iwo Jima campaign. He wrote mysteries, westerns and science fiction books when not mountain-climbing or scouting about under the sea.

Tom and his sister, Ruth, are home from school for a holiday. They are joined by their American friends, the Wheatley twins, Jane and Boyd. The four have already planned to explore Orleigh Cave, which has a local reputation of being haunted. But they are searching for a lost treasure of the Romans which they believe to lie somewhere in the cave. After being trapped in the cave by a rock fall, they travel deeper into the cave and stumble upon and into a secret world beneath the earth which is inhabited by descendants of the very Romans whose treasure they have been seeking. These people, with their debased Latin and their partly archaic and partly modern technology, guard their secret and their habitat rigorously from the upper earth. Fortunately the children make contact with a contemporary who has long been a prisoner and who has the aid of a "native" girl. But even with their new friends’ help, an escape attempt will put them in grave danger with only a chance of gaining freedom.Paul Capon (1912-1969) was a British novelist of considerable reputation. He had over twenty novels to his credit and counted film editing and script writing as part of his experience. He traveled extensively in Europe and made hobbies of chess, book-collecting and swimming.