When the planet Empyrea, a colony of genetically perfected human beings, demands that the Federation remove a science station which has been in place for nearly twenty years, the Starship Enterpriseā¢ is assigned to transport to the planet the Federation ambassador who negotiated with the Empyreans long ago -- an ambassador who was once Dr. McCoy's closest friend, but is now a bitter rival. On Empyrea, McCoy discovers Anna, a daughter he never knew he had. McCoy soon realizes that the isolationist Empyreans must not learn her father is an off-worlder, and that her genes are less than ""perfect."" As relations with the Empyreans collapse around him, McCoy must find a way to save his newfound daughter from the harshest penalty her planet can impose!
Sent to deliver emergency famine relief to the planet Thiopa -- the Federation's only allies in a critically important sector of space -- the crew finds a brutal dictatorship -- one more concerned with preserving its own powers than protecting its citizens, or the world they all share. Captain Picard is hesitant about turning over the supplies to the corrupt goernment: he fears they may never reach their intended destination. But can he convince the ruling council to change their ways, before it is too late -- for the government, and Thiopa itself?
Deep Domain A routine diplomatic visit to the water-world of Akkalla becomes a nightmarish search for a missing Spock and Chekov, a search that plunges Admiral Kirk headlong into a corrupt government's desperate struggle to retain power. For both A Federation Science outpost and Akkalla's valiant freedom fighters have begun uncovering the ancient secrets hidden beneath her tranquil oceans. Secrets whose exposure may even mean civil war for the people of Akkalla -- and death for the crew of the Starship Enterpriseā¢.
For three centuries the people of Alaj and the people of Etolos have been bitter enemies. However, when crippling disasters strike both worlds, each planet becomes the other's hope for survival. With time running out, Captain Picard and his crew are called to negotiate a peaceful settlement and begin rescue efforts. But some factions would rather see both planets perish and will stop at nothing to prevent peace. Soon the U.S.S. Enterpriseā¢ crew is caught up in a web of intrigue and terrorism that culminates with an act of ultimate revenge against bother peoples -- revenge that will meant he destruction of two worlds and the U.S.S. Enterprise.
MERE ANARCHY A new six-part epic covering thirty years of Star Trekā¢ history, continuing with an adventure that takes between The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country! Book 5: THE BLOOD-DIMMED TIDE Twenty-five years after the disaster, Mestiko's recovery is stagnating amid social unrest. A lunar colony designed for scientific research might give the people hope -- until a local terrorist group called the Torye attacks the colony and steals an experimental subspace weapon. The is sent to find the Torye and retrieve the weapon. But even as Captain Kirk and his crew -- Saavik, Scotty, Chekov, Uhura, and McCoy -- follow the trail, Captain Spock goes on a daring undercover mission to Klingon space that will have dire consequences for the future of Mestiko -- as well as the Federation...
Mafia Mia! You'll be swept along by this breathless story of the Provolone Family-its lust and lechery, its diabolical enemies, its heart-stopping gang wars and automobile chases-into a world where betrayal is the order of the day and kinky sex the order of the night. You'll never forget the members of this illustrious family: Don Guido Provolone, the big cheese himself; Fungi the Fornicator, his eldest son; Carmine the Cretin, his middle son; Nicholas the Sensitive, youngest in the family; and an unbelievable assortment of relatives and hired hands. Here is an intimate look into the innermost workings of a Mafia menagerie-men of wild appetites and primitive instincts. Here is the Mafia that the bestselling Godfather legend only hinted at-madness in all its colorful blood and tomato sauce surreality. If you don't die laughing (or at least chuckle and smile a lot) the two authors promise to help arrange your upcoming funeral. Published by Combustoica, a prose project of About Comics
A bitter and public disagreement between Spock and his father Sarek causes a rift between them. But when Sarek's new wife is kidnapped, can the two work together to rescue her?
From those classics days of the 1970s comes this hilarious satire. A STORY OF FAT AND THE DEVIL This book has it all: the diets, the devil, witch-craft, religion, and one man's struggle to save his wife from the horrors of her own rapidly in-creasing bulk. Only the most extreme measures will save his beloved wife. Week after week she grows fatter and fatter, without benefit of knife and fork. Who can help her? When all else has failed, he must call in the powerful high priest of physical fitness and sensible eating-Romaine LeLane, The Exerciser!
Sure, you know about chicken soup, but do you know about a souped-up chicken? Jonathan Segal Chicken was just another piece of kosher poultry, but he decided he wanted something more. He wanted to fly, and fly he did, on adventures that take him out into the world... and beyond. This classic parody from the 1970s is now available again in this newly redesigned edition.
There is something old-fashioned and sage-like in Walter Howard's poetic voice. I can imagine him reading from a mountaintop-- with the raging elements a backdrop to his words. Howard is a learned man-- and has been an academic for many years-- but his poetry is in the tradition of a true romantic. He uses nature and emotion to find spiritual truth. He embraces beauty-- with all its allure, but is not afraid to reveal its frightening and dark side as well. Howard uses ample doses of levity to pull the fly down on our most cherished traditions and notions, but in the same token he shows a deep respect and affinity for all the things this world has to offer." - Doug Holder, Publisher of Ibbetson Street Press
Marty Mulvane is a small-town boy with dreams of a literary career and a lust for bigger things... and also women. New York of the 1970s seems just the place to fulfill all of his desires, but Manhattan women and big-tme publishing both take him down paths he never expected. When opportunity presents itself, what can he do but... Grab It!? ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Trenton, New Jersey native Sol Weinstein once wallowed in total obscurity. Then in the 1960's, that turbulent decade of sit-ins, sexuality and spies, he crashed into print via Playboy and Simon & Schuster editions of his four novels (Loxfinger, Matzohball, On the Secret Service of His Majesty the Queen, and You Only Live Until You Die) starring Hebrew Secret Agent Israel Bond (code name Oy-Oy-7) he achieved a giddy new status - semi-unknown.Before his segue into show biz writing, Howard Albrecht put in twenty years with the family business, Albrecht's, with stores in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and throughout the Connecticut and New Jersey area. After years of buying, selling and handling women's clothing with and without them in it, he asked himself the big question, "There must be something else." There was. Using his skills of jokery he was hired to become a writer on The Jonathan Winters Show and with that as a springboard just kept going from there. The two writers joined forces in 1971 having met through computer dating, Weinstein telling the machine he was Gina Lollobrigida, and Albrecht believing him, like the impetuous fool that he is. Turning their sights on TV (because it's no use looking at a radio), this award-winning duo wrote for many of the biggest comedy names (Bob Hope, Alan King, Bob Newhart) and most popular TV shows of the era (everything from Maude to the Dean Martin Roasts to Love Boat to Voltron: Defender of the Universe.) They won a Writers Guild of America award for the TV special Alan King's Energy Crisis. Together they produced four popular parody novels: Jonathan Segal Chicken, The Oddfather, The Exerciser, and Oh, Henry!Howard followed this with several screenplays and 15 years of joke writing with Sheldon Keller for their publication Funny Stuff from the Gags Gang, which they sold around the country and throughout the English speaking world. His memoir, See You In Nairobi: Adventures In The Laugh Trade, is available at finer Amazons everywhere. Sol's sol-o work beyond the Oy-Oy-7 material includes the book Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Sex (But I'm Going to Tell You Anyway) and the song "The Curtain Falls," made popular by Bobby Darin.Sol shuffled off this mortal coil in November, 2012. Howard has his own exit scheduled for May, 2073, if nothing more important comes up.
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