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The First Novel in this series 👆 Infinite (Infinite Timeline) From the Back cover SEARCHING FOR A NEW HOME... The Galahad, a faster-than-light spacecraft, carries fifty scientists and engineers on a mission to prepare Kepler 452b, Earth's nearest habitable neighbor at 1400 light years away. With Earth no longer habitable and the Mars colony slowly failing, they are humanity's best hope. After ten years in a failed cryogenic bed--body asleep, mind awake--William Chanokh's torture comes to an end as the fog clears, the hatch opens, and his friend and fellow hacker, Tom, greets him...by stabbing a screwdriver into his heart. This is the first time William dies. It is not the last. When he wakes from death, William discovers that all but one crew member--Capria Dixon--is either dead at Tom's hands, or escaped to the surface of Kepler 452b. This dire situation is made worse when Tom attacks again--and is killed. Driven mad by a rare reaction to extended cryo-sleep, Tom hack

Billoo and Olympic Games  From the Inside Flap In 1973, cartoonist Pran was looking for a school going teenage boy who could feature in the comic strips. Thus he created a boy with a long hair covering his eyes and named him BILLOO. This lanky was liked by the readers so much that the editor of the magazine asked the cartoonist to increase the episodes from one page to two. Billoo is seen roaming the streets with his pet pup - Moti. When he is at home, he is stuck to the TV.Billoo and his gang which includes Gabdu, Jozi, Mono, Bishamber etc; are at loggerheads with Bajarangi, the wrestler and his aide Dhakkan. They are always in search of some excuse to showdown each other. Jozi is friendly to Billoo, but her dad Colonel Three - not - Three doesnot like the boy and always points his gun at him. Billoo and his friends are often seen playing cricket in lanes of the block, and their score is few smashed windows. The stories here are filled with fun and frolic and these comic short stories

The Alphabet Challenge At Goodreads, someone put in an Alphabet Challenge and I realized that I have never read books based on its name, rather going for its content and in many cases the reputation of the author(s), so I took this as a personal introspection  rather than a challenge.  I am glad that my lists more than cover the alphabets and go into several numbers too courtesy authors like James Patterson and scientific symbols if you can state it as such like Sigma, Alpha, etc.  I went ahead and prepared two lists -  List 1 - Books corresponding to a letter in the alphabet A through Z and  List 2 - Authors  corresponding  to a letter in the alphabet A through Z For me the intrigue was to find whether if any over the years I have completed the alphabet and was right on both counts.  Here below is a copy of those lists which show a cross-section of books and authors covering the alphabet. List 1 - Books corresponding  to a letter in the alphabet A through Z  This is just an indicative

  Gideon Falls Vol 1 - The Black Barn by Jeff Lemire Picked up for TV by Hivemind after a multi-studio bidding war with long-time producing partners Sean Daniel and Jason Brown, Bad Robot veteran Kathy Lingg, and former Valiant Entertainment CEO & Chief Creative Officer Dinesh Shamdasani. From the bestselling creative team behind Old Man Logan and Green Arrow comes a character-driven meditation on obsession, mental illness, and faith. The legend of the Black Barn—an otherworldly building alleged to have appeared and reappeared throughout history, bringing death and madness in its wake—ensnares and entwines the lives of two very different men. Plus, this collection includes a variant cover gallery from some of comics’ best artists, including CLIFF CHIANG (PAPER GIRLS), JOCK (WYTCHES), SKOTTIE YOUNG (I HATE FAIRYLAND), and more! Collects GIDEON FALLS #1-6 Available online at https://www.amazon.in/Gideon-Falls-1-Black-Barn/dp/1534308520 About the Author - Jeff Lemire New York Times Be

James Bond: M (James Bond: Case Files #4) by Declan Shalvey James Bond’s superior, code-named M, scrambles MI6’s secret agents across the globe. Sometimes, he knowingly sends them to their deaths, for the greater good. But a traumatic event from M’s early days in the field returns to haunt him, forcing M to return to the scene of a crime…HIS crime. About the Author - Declan Shalvey Declan Shalvey is an Irish comics artist and writer. He has worked for Marvel Comics, drawing titles like Moon Knight, Thunderbolts and Deadpool. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declan_Shalvey ) Dynamite Comics the comic book print house that creates new material of established media. Over the last 6-7 years since they began to publish the comic book series featuring James Bond in a contemporary setting, the franchise has spanned several original stories and several spinoffs featuring notable Bond characters. The M in these Bond stories is a different character from the one that we have been seeing in the mov

* * * * *  5 *'s for the book RELIC - Pendergast 1 by Preston and Child From the Back cover From bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child comes Relic, the thriller that introduces FBI Special Agent Pendergast. Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who--or what--is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?   Relic - Recollecting and Reliving Over a quarter century ago, in 1995 two like minded gentlemen who would become famous as Preston & Child ( https://www.prestonchild.com/authors/   ),  released their first book The Relic , a collaboration which first introduced us to the charact