This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Evangeline is living the life of a regular teenager, until mysterious, severe symptoms begin appearing. After passing out in the middle of a party, she is diagnosed with a rare, genetic blood disorder that causes her own immune system to attack her red blood cells. In the delirium of her deteriorating health, a door to a parallel world opens before her; however, once she steps through the portal, she is unable to return to her own life....

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In this sequel to the first book of the Terra Nova series, Evangeline, the half-human/half-vampire, has left the kingdom of Latina in the parallel world of Terra Nova to try to find a cure for the condition that causes vampirism. But when she finally arrives in the hidden village of the remaining humans, the humans of Terra Nova have other plans in store for her.Back on Earth, her brother and her friends try desperately to find ...

The Cyber Prime had a problem. The vast combination of disembodied intelligences he controlled was in trouble. There was a solution, but it remained as an equation in the mind of just one man, the wanderer Dumarest. And Dumarest hated the Cyber...The Cyber Prime weighed the known factors of Dumarest's movements, his desperate questing efforts to find the lost Earth. An answer came up: Dumarest must arrive on the world Tynar. The Cyber mobilized to intercept him there. But the girl ...

An art collector seemed an unlikely prospect for information on the galactic coordinates of the forgotten planet Earth. But Earl Dumarest never overlooked any clue--and when he defended an art devotee named Sardia, he was unexpectedly rewarded by the sight of the painting she sought. For in its sky was the unmistakable features of cratered Luna, Earth's equally fabled satellite. Sardia said the painter of the picture lived on a planet called Ath--and that was significant. So to Ath they we...

THE ALIEN SHAPE-CHANGER AND THE TIME-TRAVELING SECRET AGENT!Meet Hannibal Fortune, the classic time traveling secret agent for the Temporal Entropy Restructure and Repair Agency (T.E.R.R.A.) whose James Bondian adventures are back in print at last!Aided by his sneering, superior, shape-changing, 15-pound fellow agent, Webley (an irascible alien whose comments on Earth people and their customs are incendiary), Hannibal Fortune, granted the special "License to Tamper," tries ...

E.M.P.I.R.E., the evil force of time-criminals, never interfered with history unless they had a good reason, and this time their reason was the most devious of all. EMPIRE was altering Earth's time-line, making Rome lose the Second Punic War, because this tampering was certain to lure T.E.R.R.A.'s top agent, Hannibal Fortune. And EMPIRE wanted Hannibal Fortune, wanted him dead.Don't miss this classic time travel adventure first published in 1970.Here is what Analog Science ...

The sun of Tempus sets for the final time. Stars erupt. Meteors fall. Evil reigns. And Agnus' war has only just begun.In the walls of Magia, the blemished are sent to die for the benefit of the perishing world. There, a blemished slave girl suffers under the deranged hands of her guardian. But she holds onto a hope that not even the dark perversions of Magia can corrupt.As she becomes entangled in the plans of the mysterious Agnus Dayton, she begins to ques...

Mary has a connection with nature, frequently seeing faces in trees. When an ancient tree named Cowboy reaches out for help, Mary, struggling with self-doubt, discovers her ability to communicate with them. Alongside her friend Bella and Bella's foster son Matt, Mary delves into the forest's environmental crisis, learning about soil health and sustainable practices. As they encounter allies like Portia, and others marked to carry the earth's message, Mary finds her voice and em...

In the six months since the raid that destroyed the makeshift transmitter, the Lost Soldiers have scratched out a permanent base on the world of R'Bak. But life in an often surprising and very alien binary system has not become any easier. Major Mara "Bruce" Lee's pregnancy becomes a powerful reminder of that: without special indigenous plants, she might lose both her unborn child and her life. And, in the process of securing enough of that rare compound, her friend and crew chief Elroy Fr...

Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in November, 1993. Instead, he woke up in August, 2125, in a binary star system 152 light years from home. Without any memory of the otherworldly abductors who spirited them away in cold sleep, Murphy and 100 other "Lost Soldiers" have been retrieved and awakened by officers of the Consolidated Terran Republic.Promising to return to the 55 Tauri B system after completing a distant mission...

The community land trust (CLT) is a transformative strategy of community-led development on community-owned land that is taking root across the Global North and is now spreading to the Global South. CLTs produce and preserve affordably priced homes, retail spaces, urban (and rural) aglands, and a variety of neighborhood facilities – all developed under the auspices of people who live nearby; all managed to remain permanently affordable for people of modest means. Because of the way these a...

When the first community land trusts (CLTs) began appearing in the United States during the 1970s, all were located in rural areas. By the 1980s and 1990s, this innovative form of tenure was spreading into cities, suburbs, and towns. Homeownership remained a priority for urban CLTs, but other applications got added to the mix: revitalizing distressed neighborhoods; preventing displacement in gentrifying neighborhoods; and developing multiple types of affordable housing beyond the detached,...