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The Death of Thera is Volume II of the saga, Earth: The Salvage Game. In Volume I, we were introduced to the characters in this saga, and how they evolved into a group with a common goal. In this volume, we discover that the one-body/one-life theory no longer holds water, as our protagonist relates his recollections of past lives, and why he is drawn to participate in this group....... a group hell-bent on saving the human race from itself.
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Archaeologist Charlotte Parrish got guilted via skillful family politicking into helping her real estate developer sister, Sybil, to 'speed up' the historical survey of her new site. Now she has to overcome treasure-hunting kidnappers, warring sheriffs, extra-fickle weather, and, most of all, an ex beau who still knows the way to her heart.
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Award-winning actor Nathan Fillion (Firefly, _Castle_,_ The Rookie) brings to life a snarky artificial intelligence you won't soon forget. Don't miss his hilarious performance in a story perfectly crafted for sci-fi fans of The Martian, Red Dwarf, and We Are Legion (We Are Bob).
They thought this was just another salvage job. They thought wrong.
An AI overseer and a human crew arrive on a distant planet to salvage an ancient UN starship. The overseer...
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How much food do you throw away every day?
The Salvage Chef Cookbook is far more than a book of 125 scrumptious recipes; it begins by demonstrating to readers how to both increase food shelf life and determine when food is truly spoiled. What then follows is a collection of easy recipes for cooks of all levels.
Families throw away perfectly edible yet overlooked food every day, as they often aren't savvy enough in the kitchen to stretch their hard-earned...
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You never know enough about the Yellow River! You'd better never inquire about the taboo legends of the Yellow River! The stories of the Yellow River Ghost Army, Fish bone Temple, Iron Head Dragon King, Death Poison Worm, Ghost Wedding ... and the astonishing object, the oldest and most mysterious profession: Yellow River Corpsman! They have been guarding the Yellow River for generations. Why? What kind of incredible secrets are hidden under the ancient...
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You never know enough about the Yellow River! You'd better never inquire about the taboo legends of the Yellow River! The stories of the Yellow River Ghost Army, Fish bone Temple, Iron Head Dragon King, Death Poison Worm, Ghost Wedding ... and the astonishing object, the oldest and most mysterious profession: Yellow River Corpsman! They have been guarding the Yellow River for generations. Why? What kind of incredible secrets are hidden under the ancient...
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2025.
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384 pages ; 22 cm
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"It is 1962, and Marta Khoury, a trailblazing marine archaeologist, has been called to Cairnroch, a small island off the east coast of Scotland. A Victorian shipwreck, dragged from arctic waters, holds the remains of a celebrated explorer and the treasures of his final expedition. But on her first dive down to the ship, Marta becomes convinced she has seen a dark figure lurking amid the wreckage. When the Cuban Missile Crisis and the deep chill of...
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It was just a bunch of junk...
...but the millennia-old emergency suit was anything but junk, and Petekil Ekil has to figure out how it works.
Three linked short stories from the Salvage Title Universe introduce Pete and his friends Orlin, Jinx, and Jerry. They have a tendency to get into trouble, but it's okay, Pete has a talent...
...for rescue.
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Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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The Salvaging of Civilization' is a thought-provoking non-fiction work by H. G. Wells, written several years after the First World War. Centred around the major issues of education and global development, this series of lectures severely criticizes the current educational situation. Wells provides utopian and futuristic ideas to construct a peaceful civilization. This book remains relevant and provocative as Wells' socialist ideals argue for absolute...
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The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind is a non-fiction work by H. G. Wells which addresses the possibility of a future world state. It was published by The Macmillan Company of New York, for the first time in 1921. Wells drew on the experience of the Great War to propose a socialist world state brought about through education and the manipulation of popular opinion. He outlines a new codification of morality and a readjustment...
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In Salvage, Krisna Uk draws on extensive research in a Cambodian village she calls Leu to provide a unique ethnography of the Jorai, an ethnic minority group that lives in Vietnam and in the most heavily bombed region of northeast Cambodia. The Jorai inhabit a remote region largely beyond the reach of the nation-state but have suffered the devastating effects of battles between and within states. Uk focuses on the experience of a Jorai community that...
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The use of what others have thrown away by those who squat in abandoned buildings, build neighborhoods on seeming wasteland, and occupy public spaces has been a fundamental factor in the survival of social movements during their protest activities. In The Political Theory of Salvage, Jason Kosnoski explores the political and theoretical significance of the use of salvaging discarded materials during these protests. Not only does salvage provide raw...
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Retired Colonel Tucker Petersen is suddenly recalled to active duty and put in charge of the Salvage-5 mining/recovery mission. Tucker travels with his crew to discover what went wrong with the CSMO mining dredge at 15 Eunomia.
What they find will change their lives forever.
Join the Colonel on this fun filled, and action packed techno thriller.
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Joe Laribeau was now Salvage Merc One. It was a position way above his days of being a Galactic Fleet Marine. Endless resources, powers and abilities that rivaled the Eight Million Gods, and the full resources of the Salvage Merc Corps behind him. It was the life.
A lonely life.
But, the artifact that had chosen him to be Salvage Merc One was about to change all that and put him to a true test of his abilities. A quest was set before him. Impossible...
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A New York City ex-cop with too many rules and a Spanish ex-spy with too few make the perfect bounty hunters to track down the world's most wanted.
“St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking”
Michael Patrick Finnigan and Katalin Fiero Dahar of St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking, a largely illegal bounty hunting operation, get the assignment to track down and save a group of kidnapped Middle Eastern refugee children. But when they discover that the perpetrator...
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"Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative figure for contemporary legal personhood across categories of race, citizenship, gender, and labor. What emerges is a compelling and original study of...





