Marcea of the Dust finds our heroine, Marcea, walking a fine moral line between the emotional trauma of her childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her father and her response to other young women, whom she stumbles across accidentally in the sex trade of Mexico. Marcea's actions challenge the lives of those around her, especially those of Collo and Drayson, her loving, fearless stepparents. Seeking refuge with nine young female victims of the sex trade, she turns to her stepparent...

Humanity has spent three years listening to Mars.Now Mars has asked a question.The first exchanges were numbers, patterns, corrections, painstaking proof that two civilizations could recognize meaning without understanding one another. Gavin Marks helped build that fragile language one signal at a time. He knows better than anyone how much can be lost between a message and the meaning people want it to have.But governments are tired...

My plan was perfect…My friend needed a date. And my brother’s best friend was single. Problem solved.Until I saw Jaeger for the first time in years, and sparks flew in the wrong direction.Jaeger has grown up and bulked up. But that shouldn’t matter, because I have the perfect life. Really.Only my plans are beginning to unravel and now visions of Jaeger's hard abs, broad shoulders, and intense green eyes fill my head.I should hold back in cas...

Off-limits never looked so tempting.Levi Cade’s firefighting career burned up after an accident on the job. Then is father died and left him in charge of the family’s multimillion-dollar resort. Now he’s forced to work with financially uptight advisors telling him what to do, and he needs someone he can trust at his side.The perfect candidate walks through the door in a pencil skirt, fitted white blouse, and a mass of wavy blond hair she tries to contain.

It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing.

The story begins with strange lights and sounds, including blaring trumpet music, reported in the skies all over the world. The events are capped by the mysterious appearance of black flags with gold suns atop tall historic landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty in New York, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. These events are all the work of the mysterious Robur (the specific epithet for the English oak (Quercus robur) and figuratively taken to mea...

Set in the summer of 1903, a series of unexplained events occur across the Eastern United States, caused by objects moving with such great speed that they are nearly invisible. The first-person narrator John Strock, 'Head inspector in the federal police department' in Washington, DC, travels to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to investigate. He discovers that all the phenomena are being caused by Robur, a brilliant inventor. (He was previously featured as a character in Verne's ...

A chronological voyage from the unexplored Earth to distant planets and imagined futures, uniting the visionary inventions of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells with Jack London's elemental adventures. Included works: Five Weeks in a Balloon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey into the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, From the Earth to the Moon (Jules Verne) — The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon,...

In the wake of war, the Baltimore Gun Club becomes a roaring satire of martial vanity, its members measuring glory by the size of their cannons and the scale of destruction they can devise. When peace leaves these "Exterminating Angels" idle, their frustration turns to restless invention—until President Impey Barbicane, coldly brilliant and utterly practical, unveils a scheme so audacious it transforms boredom into global excitement: fire a cannonball to the moon. Verne turns the impossibl...

In the steaming heart of the Upper Amazon, a cryptogram and a hard-eyed adventurer set Jules Verne's The Giant Raft in motion. Torres, a "captain of the woods" with a shady past, lives by hunting fugitive slaves and by seizing any chance for profit, and when he deciphers a document that seems to promise leverage over a wealthy man, greed quickly turns to thoughts of blackmail and betrayal. But the secret he values most is snatched away by a guariba monkey, launching a frantic chase through...

The Child of the Cavern is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, part of his Voyages Extraordinaires series, reproduced here from its Standard Ebooks edition.The Child of the Cavern follows engineer James Starr as he receives a letter from an old friend and co-worker, Simon Ford, requesting that he revisit a depleted coal mine in Scotland that he used to manage. Upon arriving, Starr finds the entire Ford family living in the mine, and Ford explains that a new coal ve...

Topsy-Turvy is a work of fiction by Jules Verne.Two decades after Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, the Baltimore Gun Club returns with its sights on the North Pole's rich coal deposits. Access to the area would be facilitated under a more temperate climate, which, the team believes, can be achieved by slightly altering the Earth's axis of rotation. This climate change would affect every region of the globe to various degrees, thus creating anxiety and o...