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	Selection Event by: Wayne Wightman published: 2011-04-21 ASIN: B004XNNGDS sales rank: 4674	In an isolation experiment, Martin Lake had been below-ground for fourteen months and two weeks. He came up on May 30, Wednesday, 11:35 AM. He discovered that civilization had folded its arms across its breast, closed its eyes, and ceased. When natural selection wipes the slate, there are always a few survivors. Unfortunately, nature does not select for beauty or intelligence. Selection Event follows in the tradition of Earth Abides and The Road. In the aftermath of the catastrophe, this is what happens next. People open zoos, sabotage dams, and in a final nihilistic fling, several countries have a small nuclear exchange of greetings. It is into this that Martin Lake awakens and has to find his way. 103,000 words WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID-- Orson Scott Card, Hugo and Nebula winner: "[Wayne Wightman is] ...one of the names I['ve] learned to look for.... He...is a romantic whose stories confess his belief that individuals can be larger than life, that their decisions can change the world around them." John Brunner, the legend himself: "Wayne Wightman is agreeable company, both in person and via the printed page. As to the former, I'm afraid you will have to wait the chance to make his acquaintance.... As to the latter, however, now's your chance." Richard Paul Russo, Philip K. Dick Award winner: "One of Wightman's great strengths is his willingness to go to the edge. He pulls no punches, whether the story is serious or violent or manic. You can count on him to take you places other writers shy away from."
	Event Horizon by: Scott McElhaney publisher: Superluminal, published: 2011-12-03 ASIN: B006HNPG7G sales rank: 15142	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EDITORIAL REVIEWS: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "McElhaney's story telling is deft, well-paced, and with an ear for conversation" ~ Beacon Journal Book Review "In 'Saving Brooksie', he takes time travel out of the typical sci-fi genre and makes it infinitely more readable for lovers of suspense, thrillers, and even romance." ~ 2010 YA Reader "He brings something refreshing to the '99-cent Kindle' section of Amazon." Associated Content Review 12/2011 Rated a FULL 5 stars by over 25 Amazon reviewers worldwide! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BOOK DESCRIPTION: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Award winning author Scott McElhaney brings you a tale of science-fiction suspense that will take you on a journey through time and across the galaxy. Skylar Rains has made a significant breakthrough regarding the future of time travel. Testing this theory however leaves him stranded 1100 years in the future with no hope of return. What he discovers is a frightening world devoid of all life. Now he must sift through the clues to learn what became of the world he once knew. Much to his surprise, he finds that these clues may lead him to another planet nearly 12 light years away. Scott McElhaney is the 2008 winner of the Xulon Christian Choice Book Award for his first novel "Mommy's Choice." Now he is making all of his Christian-based novels available to Kindle readers at the very accessible price of only 99 cents.
	The Mane Event by: Shelly Laurenston publisher: Brava, published: 2009-10-01 ASIN: 0758234856 sales rank: 64327 price: $3.25 (new), $2.23 (used)	Mace Llewellyn. Brendon Shaw. Two tall, gorgeous, sexy alpha heroes who are 100 per cent male - with a little something extra. Lion-shifters, to be exact, who can unleash every woman's animal side and still look good - make that spectacular - in a suit...and even better out of it...NYPD cop Desiree 'Dez' MacDermot knows she's changed a lot since she palled around with her childhood buddy, Mace. But it's fair to say that Mace has changed even more. It isn't just those too-sexy gold eyes, or the six-four, built-like-a-Navy Seal body. It's something in the way he sniffs her neck and purrs, making her entire body tingle...Meanwhile, for Tennessean Ronnie Lee Reed, New York City is the place where any girl - even one who runs with a Pack - can redefine herself. First order of business: find a mate, settle down, and stop using men for sex. Even big, gorgeous, lion shifter men like Brendon Shaw. But she needn't worry, because now that Brendon's set his sights on her, the predator in him is ready to pounce and never let go...
	The Cobra Event by: Richard Preston publisher: Ballantine Books, published: 1998-08-29 ASIN: 0345409973 sales rank: 42921 price: $3.74 (new), $0.01 (used)	"A PAGE-TURNER . . . THOROUGHLY FRIGHTENING." --Newsweek "ENORMOUSLY ENTERTAINING." --The New York Times Book Review "THIS BOOK SCARED THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF ME. . . . Manages to grab you with the authenticity of its scientific detective work and haunt you with its sheer plausibility." --Entertainment Weekly Five days ago, a homeless man on a subway platform died in agony as startled commuters looked on. Yesterday, a teenager started having violent, uncontrollable spasms in art class. Within minutes, she too was dead. Dr. Alice Austen is a medical pathologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. What she knows is that the two deaths are connected. What she fears is that they are only the beginning. . . .
	Event: A Novel by: David L. Golemon publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, published: 2007-04-03 ASIN: 0312370288 sales rank: 140640 price: $4.11 (new), $0.01 (used)	The Event Group is the most secret organization in the United States, comprised of the nation's most brilliant individuals in the branches of science, philosophy, and the military. Led by the valiant Major Jack Collins, they are dedicated to uncovering the hidden truths behind the myths and legends propagated throughout world history--from underground agencies and conspiracy theories to extraterrestrial life and UFOs. And now that a new, unspeakable threat has been revealed, humanity's greatest hope for survival lies with Collins and his crew.   This time, the Group faces an enemy of remarkable strength and power. In order to ensure that history's errors never be repeated, the Group must team up with an unlikely ally to stop a deadly presence known only as the Destroyer of Worlds. Now, amid the desert wastelands of the American Southwest, the epic battle between two entities is about to begin….
	Legacy: An Event Group Thriller (Event Group Thrillers) by: David L. Golemon publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, published: 2011-08-16 ASIN: 0312580797 sales rank: 35790 price: $13.97 (new), $9.23 (used)	“Fans of Clive Cussler, Verne, X-Files, and military tactical thrillers will find much to enjoy in this increasingly clever series.” –Booklist on Leviathan The New York Times bestselling author of Leviathan and Primeval is back at full throttle with an adrenaline-pumping addition to the Event Group Thriller Series. The United States is ready to make a triumphant return to the moon, striking out boldly into the solar system in an attempt to regain the confidence of the heady days of the Apollo program.  The first of what are to be many missions to the lunar surface was designed to find the frozen water needed to prepare to build a base to launch an assault on Mars. But a shocking discovery at Shackleton Crater brings the first Prometheus mission to an abrupt halt. Remote robots uncover human skeletal remains and a base that had been destroyed countless millennia ago. The information is sent back to earth where forensic analysis at NASA reveals the corpse to be over seven hundred million years old. A secret this devastating cannot be kept forever, and the news is leaked to the world.  Soon nations are thrown into a head-long collision, pitting governments against their own citizens as the flames of fundamentalism start a conflagration that threatens to engulf the world as a race to return the moon is on.            The Event Group is tasked to unravel the mystery and to offer something that can either explain our ancient visitor or, at least, keep the world from descending into chaos. Colonel Jack Collins once again leads a team of the world's greatest scientists and philosophers on a journey that will take the Event Group to the airless world of space. But while a battle rages over the truth of our heritage, the Event Group realizes that this may not be humanity’s war alone. Could something else—someone else—be coming to finish a war that they started almost a billion years ago?
	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Meeting & Event Planning, 2ndEdition by: Robin E. Craven publisher: Alpha, published: 2006-03-07 ASIN: 1592574629 sales rank: 129335 price: $9.58 (new), $3.69 (used)	If you are given the responsibility of planning a meeting for your business, you need to make your company look good. This guide gives you suggestions for planning the budget, negotiating a space to meet, choosing a caterer, setting up the room, and planning programs. You will be able to produce an event that is organized and within your budget.
	Ancients: An Event Group Thriller (Event Group Thrillers) by: David L. Golemon publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, published: 2008-08-05 ASIN: B003P2VCWK sales rank: 909585 price: $7.59 (new), $3.98 (used)	Reminiscent of the works of James Rollins and Matthew Reilly comes the latest in an action-packed series about the nation’s most secret agency---the Event Group Ten thousand years before the Roman Empire marched great legions across the known world, there was a civilization dedicated to the sciences of earth, sea, and sky. In the City of Light lived people who made dark plans to lay waste to their uncivilized neighbors using the very power of the planet itself. As the great science of their time was brought to bear on the invading hordes, hell was set loose on Earth. And the civilization of Atlantis disappeared in a suicidal storm of fire and water. Now history threatens to repeat itself. The great weapon of the Ancients has been uncovered in the South Pacific, and it is being deciphered by men of hatred---by an evil once thought banished from history. Again, the black swastika of hate is rising. Their plan is to attempt to control and direct the most destructive force this world has yet to see, a weapon that would make nuclear arms pale in comparison. The world starts to tremble under the power of the ancient science. The seas rise, the earth cracks, and entire cities crumble to dust as the evil plan mapped out thousands of years before takes shape. The Event Group, the most secret department of the United States government, staffed by the most brilliant men and women of science, philosophy, and the military, must take the lead and try to stop the power of the Ancients. With a presidential mandate to discover the truth behind the myths and legends of history, the Event Group fights to ensure that mistakes from the past are never repeated. Headed by Colonel Jack Collins, the Group must face its most dangerous assignment ever: to find the lost trail of the Ancients and unearth the missing key before the new Reich. Can the most secret federal service of the United States track down the lost trail that will lead them to the lair of this secret power? Or will the world explode in a chain reaction that began more than eleven thousand  years ago? The Event Group is the world's only hope as they search and battle for the lost power of the Ancients. Heart-pounding action combines with historical adventure as the Event Group discovers that some myths never die. . . .
	Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by: Frederik Pohl publisher: Orb Books, published: 2009-03-31 ASIN: 0765321777 sales rank: 323229 price: $6.76 (new), $4.94 (used)	Frederik Pohl was on a streak when this Hugo Award–finalist novel was published in 1980. Now back in print after an absence of nearly a decade, this unique science fiction novel is as fresh and entertaining as ever.   The story begins when the hero of Gateway finances an expedition to a distant alien spaceship that may end famine forever. On the ship, the explorers find a human boy, and evidence that reveals a powerful alien civilization is thriving on a transport ship headed right for Earth….
	Primeval: An Event Group Thriller by: David L. Golemon publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, published: 2010-07-06 ASIN: B005DI9JQK sales rank: 1053464 price: $8.52 (new), $7.44 (used)	The New York Times bestselling author of Ancients and Leviathan returns with another adrenaline rush--the latest thriller in the Event Group Series Twenty thousand years ago, when man crossed the land bridge to North America, creatures called They Who Follow made the great trek as well. But once in the new continent, the giant beasts disappeared, whether into hiding or extinction, no one knew. Centuries later, a battered journal--the only evidence left from the night of the Romanovs' execution--turns up in a rare bookstore. As the U.S. and Russians vie for the truth, and the lost Romanov treasure, they collide with a prehistoric predator thought long-extinct. It's up to the Event Group to lay to rest the legends. On an expedition into the wilds of British Columbia, Colonel Jack Collins and his team make a horrifying discovery in the continent's last deep wilderness, where men have been vanishing for centuries.

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