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The Loop

By: Ben Oliver (Science fiction writer)

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Book 1 in a dark, twisty and totally unputdownable YA series - perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES and THE MAZE RUNNER. 'A terrifying and sinister look into the future that will leave your jaw on the floor.'KASS MORGAN, New York Times bestselling author of THE 100 'Your next YA obsession.'ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY 'Fans of The Hunger Gamesand The Maze Runnershould look no further ... Thrilling and terrifying in equal measure.'OBSERVER Luka Kane has been inside hi-tech prison the Loop for over two years. A death sentence is hanging over his head but his day-to-day routine is mind-numbingly repetitive, broken only by the books brought to him by the sympathetic warden, Wren. Then everything starts to change: rumours of war are whispered in the courtyard and the government-issued rain stops falling. On Luka's last, desperate day, Wren issues him a terrifying warning: breaking out of the Loop might be Luka's only chance to save himself - and the world ... The first nail-biting instalment in The Loop trilogy: a must-read YA series for teens and adults alike Prison Break meets 1984 in this cutting-edge sci-fi thriller - perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner Continue the adventure with books 2 and 3: The Blockand The Arc

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1912626616

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Postponing the Postmodern

Sociological Practices, Selves, and Theories

By: Ben Agger

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Postponing the Postmodern

Sociological Practices, Selves, and Theories

By: Ben Agger

We are not yet at a moment that could be called postmodernity, and may never be, says leading sociologist Ben Agger in his newest book. Modernity is still our history, our framework. Nevertheless, Agger shows how postmodern theory can enhance understanding of the self, everyday life, and culture in the early 21st century. Changes in culture, commerce, and communications, such as the internet, require 'postmodern' modes of knowing. Agger borrows from French postmodern theory and from the Frankfurt School's critical theory in addressing the utility and shortcomings of postmodern theory for understanding identity, culture, race, gender, and power. He explains postmodern theory clearly, borrowing creatively from postmodernism in order to theorize about daily life and social structures heavily reliant on information technologies like the internet and the Web.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742519201

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9780742519206

Fraud and Misconduct in Research

Detection, Investigation, and Organizational Response

By: Nachman Ben-Yehuda,Amalya Oliver-Lumerman,Amalya Oliver

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Fraud and Misconduct in Research

Detection, Investigation, and Organizational Response

By: Nachman Ben-Yehuda,Amalya Oliver-Lumerman,Amalya Oliver

A clear-eyed examination of research misconduct, and how efforts to expose and prevent it affect scientists and universities

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University of Michigan Press

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0472130552

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Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different 2

Even More True Tales of Amazing Boys Who Changed the World

By: Ben Brooks

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Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different 2

Even More True Tales of Amazing Boys Who Changed the World

By: Ben Brooks

Boys can be anything they want to be! In this sequel to the New York Times bestseller Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different, Ben Brooks introduces seventy-six more boys and men who will inspire young readers to live boldly and true to themselves. What do environmental activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, philosopher Socrates, and singer Ed Sheeran all have in common? Each of them defied expectations -- going against the grain and pursuing their dreams despite a seemingly impossible barrage of obstacles and difficulties. Their stories are incredible, as are those of tap dancer Evan Ruggiero, Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri, the brave Chernobyl Divers, and the other inspirational boys who fill the pages of this extraordinary book. Together, their stories offer young boys the welcome alternative message that masculinity can mean many things -- that it's okay to be sensitive, to be bold, and to follow their hearts.

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Running Press Kids

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0762472146

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Uncommon Contexts

Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800–1914

By: Ben Marsden

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Uncommon Contexts

Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800–1914

By: Ben Marsden

Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. The essays in this collection uncover this symbiotic relationship between literature and science.

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Routledge

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1317320344

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Hollywood's New Radicalism

War, Globalisation and the Movies from Reagan to George W. Bush

By: Ben Dickenson

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Hollywood's New Radicalism

War, Globalisation and the Movies from Reagan to George W. Bush

By: Ben Dickenson

Provides an up-to-date, insightful take on modern American cinema's relations with, and influence on Reagan's, Clinton's and both Bush's administrations. George W.Bush, Clinton and Ronald Reagan's relations are revealed with radical celebrities like Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon and Warren Beatty. It contains unique 'behind the scenes' stories and exclusive, revealing interviews with Hollywood celebrities. Described by Tony Garnett as 'an ambitious and refreshing book', "Hollywood's New Radicalism" is a timely and contentious account of the last twenty-five years of American cinema. Ben Dickenson tells the story of the corporate take-over of the movies in the 1970s, and the subsequent transformation of Hollywood into the dominant force in the global media industry. Writing from the intersection where politics, society and cinema meet, and using exclusive interviews with Hollywood personalities, he explores the radicalising effect of such changes on liberal filmmakers like Warren Beatty, Michael Moore and Sean Penn in the past decade. He demonstrates how left-wing messages smuggled their way into 1980s movies, found a fuller voice in independent American cinema during the 1990s and flirted with mainstream popularity at the start of the new millennium. Bringing the story up to and through the 2004 Presidential election, he reveals how important Hollywood figures have become key members of a vigorous left - wing opposition to George W. Bush's Presidency.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857713302

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Race and Police

The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions

By: Ben Brucato

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Race and Police

The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions

By: Ben Brucato

In the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race and Police builds a critical theory of American policing by analyzing a heterodox history of policing, drawn from the historiography of slavery and slave patrols. Beginning by tracing the historical origins of the police mandate in British colonial America, the book shows that the peculiar institution of racialized chattel slavery originated along with a novel, binary conception of race. On one side, for the first time Europeans from various nationalities were united in a single racial category. Inclusion in this category was necessary for citizenship. On the other, Blacks were branded as slaves, cast as social enemies, and assumed to be threats to the social order. The state determined not only that it would administer slavery, but that it would regulate slaves, authorizing the use of violence by agents of the state and white citizens to secure the social order. In doing so, slavery, citizenship, and police mutually informed one another, and together they produced racial capitalism, a working class defined and separated by the color line, and a racial social order. Race and Police corrects the Eurocentrism in the orthodox history of American police and in predominating critical theories of police. That orthodoxy rests on an origin story that begins with Sir Robert Peel and the London Metropolitan Police Service. Predating the Met by more than a century, America’s first police, often called slave patrols, did more than maintain order—it fabricated a racial order. Prior to their creation, all white citizens were conscripted to police all Blacks. Their participation in the coercive control of Blacks gave definition to their whiteness. Targeted as threats to the security of the economy and white society, being policed defined Blacks who, for the first time, were treated as a single racial group. The boundaries of whiteness were first established on the basis of who was required to regulate slaves, given a specific mandate to prevent Black insurrection, a mandate that remains core to the police role to this day.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978834500

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The Block (The Second Book of The Loop Trilogy)

By: Ben Oliver

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The Block (The Second Book of The Loop Trilogy)

By: Ben Oliver

In the second book of The Loop trilogy, Luka is trapped in a fate worse than death. But now that he knows the truth about what he and his fellow inmates are being used for, it's more important than ever that he not only escapes, but that he builds an army. Luka is a prisoner once again. But this time it's a fate worse than death. In the Block, he must toggle between enduring an Energy Harvest for twelve hours of the day and surviving complete immobilization. The only semblance of relief is the Sane Zone, created to keep prisoners from going completely mad. In this virtual reality, the prisoners live out their fantasies of life outside. But for Luka, it's different. Happy is determined to find out the location of his friends, who disappeared after the Battle of Midway Park. But can Luka battle the descent into madness long enought to stop Happy's manipulation tactics and keep his friends' location safe? Another prison break is the only chance to protect the Missing. And as reality becomes increasingly scrambled on the outside, it'll take an army to stop Galen from carrying out his plans.

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338589350

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The Loop

By: Ben Oliver

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The Loop

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A script-ready story with blockbuster potential." -- Kirkus (Starred Review)Life inside The Loop--the futuristic death row for teens under eighteen--is one long repetitive purgatory. But when news of the encroaching chaos in the outside world reaches the inmates and disorder begins to strike, the prison becomes the least of their worries. Perfect for fans of The Maze Runner and The Fifth Wave. It's Luka Kane's 16th birthday and he's been inside The Loop for over two years. Every inmate is serving a death sentence with the option to push back their execution date by six months if they opt into "Delays," scientific and medical experiments for the benefit of the elite in the outside world.But rumors of a war on the outside are spreading amongst the inmates, and before they know it, their tortuous routine becomes disrupted. The government-issued rain stops falling. Strange things are happening to the guards. And it's not long until the inmates are left alone inside the prison.Were the chains that shackled Luka to his cell the only instruments left to keep him safe? In a thrilling shift, he must overcome fellow prisoners hell-bent on killing him, the warden losing her mind, the rabid rats in the train tunnels, and a population turned into murderous monsters to try and break out of The Loop, save his family, and discover who is responsible for the chaos that has been inflicted upon the world.

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1338589326

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The Block

By: Ben Oliver

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The Block

By: Ben Oliver

Luka is imprisoned in the Block when an audacious break-out reunites him with his friends at last. Hiding out in the heart of the destroyed city, Luka realises the scale of their mission to defeat all-powerful AI, Happy. How can they stay hidden, let alone win the war?

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191262656X

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The Arc (The Third Book of The Loop Trilogy)

By: Ben Oliver

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The Arc (The Third Book of The Loop Trilogy)

By: Ben Oliver

In the final installment of critically acclaimed Loop trilogy, all of humanity hinges on the greatest escape yet. All hope has seemingly been executed. Despite the fact that the truth of their oppressive leaders had been revealed to them, the crowd of Alts cheer as life drained from the boy. But one Alt, Chester “Chilly” Beckett, did not celebrate; his eyes have been opened to the truth. The corpse is dragged away, but Chester remains determined to find out what is going on in the Laboratory on the 65th floor. There, he'll find three subjects tortured in an attempt to extract a regeneration formula... and one of the subjects is, impossibly, a face he never thought he'd seen again. A bold escape sets in motion a race against time as Happy’s plans to release planet-eating nano-bots into the world draw nearer. The Loop team must reassemble, survive Happy’s final attempts to rid the world of the rebels, and figure out how to halt the apocalypse before humanity is destroyed.

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1338589385

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Survival

By: Ben Bova

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Survival

By: Ben Bova

Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels. Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for December—io9 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read This December—The Verge Best SFF of December—Unbound Worlds In Surivival, a human team sent to scout a few hundred lightyears in front of the death wave encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences. These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons, and have survived earlier “death waves,” gamma ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm them, and utterly uninterested in helping to save other civilizations, organic or machine. But now that the humans have discovered them, they refuse to allow them to leave their planet, reasoning that other humans will inevitably follow if they learn of their existence. The Star Quest Trilogy #1 Death Wave #2 Apes and Angels #3 Survival At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466868767

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The Flame Alphabet

By: Ben Marcus

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The Flame Alphabet

By: Ben Marcus

In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones. The sound of children's speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful screams of their offspring. For young parents Sam and Claire, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther. But they find it isn't so easy to leave someone you love, even as they waste away from her malevolent speech. On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a foreign world to try to save his family.

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Vintage

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0307957519

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The Silent War

By: Ben Bova

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The Silent War

By: Ben Bova

In this science fiction novel, Martin Humphries has exiled his rival Lars Fuchs to the depths of space and taken his wife for his own. For Humphries, nothing short of total domination will ever be enough. But another power is building its strength in secret, waiting for its chance to seize the Humphries empire.

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0340769637

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The Dueling Machine

By: Ben Bova

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The Dueling Machine

By: Ben Bova

The trouble with great ideas is that someone is sure to expend enormous effort and ingenuity figuring out how to louse them up.

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Simon and Schuster

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1633550397

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The Kill Factor

By: Ben Oliver

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The Kill Factor

By: Ben Oliver

In a world where social media is everything and followers equal money, Emerson is facing a prison sentence. Then, she’s offered a way out—a brand new gameshow for young felons that combines social media and reality TV. The first prize? Freedom—and a comfortable life for Emerson’s little brother. But if she loses? Incarceration for life. The games kick off on a remote island with the prison at its heart. Little do the viewers or contestants know the prison is empty—and the truth about why is even more brutal than the games themselves ...

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Scholastic Australia

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1915947324

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The Next Logical Step

By: Ben Bova

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The Next Logical Step

By: Ben Bova

Ordinarily the military least wants to have the others know the final details of their war plans. But, logically, there would be times--

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1633550400

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The Rock Rats

By: Ben Bova

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The Rock Rats

By: Ben Bova

Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her. For Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho-and, most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs's wife. Brimming with memorable characters and human conflict, rugged high-tech prospectors and boardroom betrayals, The Rock Rats continues the tale of our near-future struggle over the incalculable wealth of the Asteroid Belt, the richest source of raw mineral wealth known to humankind. Before it ends, many will die-and many will achieve more than they ever dreamed was possible. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Tor Books

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1429958227

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Survival

A Novel

By: Ben Bova

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Survival

A Novel

By: Ben Bova

Hugo winner and veteran hard SF author Ben Bova continues his hard SF vision for the future of the human race in the unknown territory of deep space

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0765379546

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9780765379542

Battle Station

By: Ben Bova

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Battle Station

By: Ben Bova

Battle Station collects short science fiction stories and nonfiction articles about the future of military space operations written by six-time Hugo Award winning author Ben Bova, whose hard science fiction has predicted the Space Race, virtual reality, the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), and more. From the Foreword: "The sixteen stories and articles in this book deal with the prospects of war and peace in orbit, together with other glimpses of possible futures. Most of them treat directly with the military aspects of space. Others are devoted to allied facets of the human race’s expansion into the solar system. The nonfiction articles are based on the latest factual information available at the time of their writing, interpreted through my own experiences and opinions. The fiction shows what mere facts cannot: how tomorrow’s technology will affect individual human lives. ... In the sixteen works assembled here you will see: •How an International Peacekeeping Force might actually work--even when betrayed from within. •How energy projectors firing pinpoint beams of light may spell doom for the "ultimate" weapon. •How baseball may become a tool for international diplomacy. •How computers may one day replace politicians. •How telephones may become small enough to be implanted in your skull. •How benign extraterrestrials may have already influenced human history. Nobody wants the military in space. But they will be there. They are already there. If we are wise, we will see to it that they serve to protect the peace and defend the human race against attack." At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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1429931140

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9781429931144

The ARC (the Third Book of the Loop Trilogy)

By: Ben Oliver

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The ARC (the Third Book of the Loop Trilogy)

By: Ben Oliver

In the final installment of critically acclaimed Loop trilogy, all of humanity hinges on the greatest escape yet. All hope has seemingly been executed. Despite the fact that the truth of their oppressive leaders had been revealed to them, the crowd of Alts cheer as life drained from the boy. But one Alt, Chester "Chilly" Beckett, did not celebrate; his eyes have been opened to the truth. The corpse is dragged away, but Chester remains determined to find out what is going on in the Laboratory on the 65th floor. There, he'll find three subjects tortured in an attempt to extract a regeneration formula... and one of the subjects is, impossibly, a face he never thought he'd seen again. A bold escape sets in motion a race against time as Happy's plans to release planet-eating nano-bots into the world draw nearer. The Loop team must reassemble, survive Happy's final attempts to rid the world of the rebels, and figure out how to halt the apocalypse before humanity is destroyed.

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Chicken House

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1338589369

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9781338589368

Triumph

By: Ben Bova

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Triumph

By: Ben Bova

In an alternate past, World War II winds down to a radically different conclusion with the United States and Great Britain making a dash for Berlin while Goering sues for a separate peace.

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0312853599

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9780312853594

The New World Order

By: Ben Jeapes

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The New World Order

By: Ben Jeapes

Only the completely original and unalloyed Jeapesian imagination could think of launching a full-scale alien invasion right into the middle of the English Civil War. Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army, as well as a young King Charles II, face the full might of the powerful Holekhors as alien airships fly in the skies over seventeenth century London. This is an extraordinary and thrilling novel, entirely original, and based in one of the most interesting periods of English history. Read about what MIGHT have happened in the seventeenth century - life could have been very different for us all-

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Random House

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1409098141

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