Download or read book Chimera Catalyst written by Susan Kuchinskas and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Decides What is Human...The Corporations, Clones or Chimera? When Finder is hired to locate charismatic, green-haired Miraluna Rose, it seems like an easy job. Crack into corporate databases, brew up some biologics to enhance his thinking, and get the job done with the help of the Parrot, a bird/dog chimera with the finest traits of both species. The search takes Finder and the Parrot to the sun-broiled streets of Laxangeles, the canals of Seattle and the weirdly mutated vegetation of the Area. It turns out that it's not a simple missing-person case after all. Finder discovers that ReMe, a corporation providing medical cloning services, is illegally breeding human/animal chimeras. ReMe is selling these exotically beautiful female creatures, branded as ArcoTypes, as playthings to the wealthy and ruthless. Miraluna Rose is its finest creation, but she has other ideas. She's holed up at Refuge, a haven for ArcoTypes, where she's planning a future of freedom for her sisters. To help the ArcoTypes fight ReMe, Finder and the Parrot will need the help of a couple of sympathetic AIs, the CEO of the world's largest advertising company and a posse of highly modded, celebrity-crazed media kids. This exciting adventure is a must read for anyone concerned about where our world and humanity is possibly headed...

Download or read book Chimera Catalyst written by Susan Kuchinskas and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Decides What is Human... The Corporations, Clones or Chimera? When Finder is hired to locate charismatic, green-haired Miraluna Rose, it seems like an easy job. Crack into corporate databases, brew up some biologics to enhance his thinking, and get the job done with the help of the Parrot, a bird/dog chimera with the finest traits of both species. The search takes Finder and the Parrot to the sun-broiled streets of Laxangeles, the canals of Seattle and the weirdly mutated vegetation of the Area. It turns out that it's not a simple missing-person case after all. Finder discovers that ReMe, a corporation providing medical cloning services, is illegally breeding human/animal chimeras. ReMe is selling these exotically beautiful female creatures, branded as ArcoTypes, as playthings to the wealthy and ruthless. Miraluna Rose is its finest creation, but she has other ideas. She's holed up at Refuge, a haven for ArcoTypes, where she's planning a future of freedom for her sisters. To help the ArcoTypes fight ReMe, Finder and the Parrot will need the help of a couple of sympathetic AIs, the CEO of the world's largest advertising company and a posse of highly modded, celebrity-crazed media kids. This exciting adventure is a must read for anyone concerned about where our world and humanity is possibly headed...

Download or read book Thuperheroes written by Elgon Williams and published by Pandamoon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Past Cannot Be Undone, But the Truth Can Be Uncovered... The adventures continue: Having freed Sandra and her family, Will’s first task is to convince them to trust Brent, their former captor. Brent is their only hope for resisting the intentions of The Program. While Sandra and Will continue learning about their magic, they experiment with the orbs Will brought back from the future. While exploring the strange places conjured from their imagination, the pair finds a girl who claims to have been trapped inside the orb for nearly a hundred years. But how can they help her? Questions mount as the budding Thuperheroes seek advice from Esther before setting out on a new adventure into the distant future on Brent’s subtropical island. There the two learn more about other possibilities and potentials they need to explore once they return home. As for the not so small matter of solving Essie’s murder, the kids are now pretty sure her body is buried somewhere beneath the old, deserted house. But how are they going to satisfy the old woman’s spirit enough for her to crossover to Assembly? When an unexpected turn in the case implicates someone the kids know, they enlist Brent’s assistance in getting the authorities involved.

Download or read book Humanity Devolved written by Greyson Ferguson and published by Pandamoon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody knows your DNA like your government. Routine DNA scans flag individuals with genetic mutations. To systematically purge humanity of corrupt genetics, authorities pluck them from society, never to be seen or heard from again. This is done on a global scale. Kyla Thomas, a nurse technician who already lost her husband to these removals, does everything in her power to protect Sam, her cancer-ridden son. Using illegal methods to scrub his DNA samples, she manages to hide him in plain sight until an accident at school reveals his secret. Although temporarily able to fight off capture, the government’s relentless pursuit of the fugitives rips Sam from Kyla’s grasp and jails her. But few things can prevent a desperate mother’s search for her son, and in the process, Kyla begins to uncover government secrets only a select few were ever meant to know.

Download or read book Phantasma written by Rachel Sharp and published by Pandamoon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hackers, Faeries, Nefarious Cloven-Hooved Bimbos Jack and Rosie need a vacation. They’ve spent years fighting the malicious fae, befriending the friendly ones, and dancing on the edge of getting eaten. Now their chaotic fae friend Calthine has made them famous for it. In search of a break, they skip town for rural Vermont, where they hope to pick some apples and wait for the spotlight Calthine put on them to dim. Instead, they get tipped from their relaxing getaway directly into Underhill, where fae run wild and humans are an invasive species. The flow of time seems to have gone crooked on them. Lassie, their brownie roommate, is lost in the woods. They try to find her and escape from Underhill only to learn that the fae are forbidden to help them by order of the Faerie Queen. Instead of Jack and Rosie finding a way out, their friends Zelda and Sarah find a way in…but in Underhill, away from all the technology that has helped them survive, it’s a handful of humans against the preternatural wilderness...

Download or read book Project 137 written by Seth Augenstein and published by Pandamoon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHERE HAVE AMERICA’S MISSING PERSONS GONE? As a doctor in the post-Blackout United States of America of 2087, Joe Barnes struggles to save his patients and uphold his Hippocratic Oath. Even so, he’s an idealist, and his home life is one of happy expectation as he and his wife Mary prepare to welcome their first child after a “medical miracle” makes their dream possible. But a teenaged boy dies unexpectedly on Barnes’ watch and a girl goes missing, and as Barnes becomes obsessed with finding the killer, patients keep dropping dead from strange diseases that should no longer exist at the end of the 21st century. With the help of his mentor, he chases a phantom force at work in the hospital and discovers a terrifying link to a human experimentation program from the barely-remembered chaos of World War II. The forces behind the spreading pestilence threaten to spark another global cataclysm – and slaughter Barnes’s young family – unless the good doctor can stop them in time.

Download or read book 8 Days written by Jule Selbo and published by Pandamoon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes it's unclear who deserves a favor... Despite her life-changing injury, Dee Rommel is as determined and scrappy as ever. Still adjusting to her new life working for her godfather, private investigator Gordy Greer, Dee is ready to try out her hi-tech running blade, returning to the annual 10K competition. A mysterious car crashes and burns in the middle of Portland, Maine’s Casco Bay Bridge. A young, once-sex-trafficked woman is killed and Dee finds herself protecting orphaned Yuusuf, a high school valedictorian who may be able to point to the murderer. When a toxic web of crime is revealed, both traditional and extended family dynamics are in play, as well as greed and ambition. Old relationships haunt Dee when nothing or no one is as they seem. She has only 8 days to keep her pursuit of justice in play, fighting for her allies and her own life.

Download or read book Homer Underby written by Elgon Williams and published by Pandamoon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the black van still following Will and Sandra? Something is wrong in Normal. The perfect summer of being eight years old continues in a way that even two precocious kids with vivid imaginations could never have envisioned. The day before the first game of the Little League season Will’s papaw reveals a family secret that not only explains the odd things that Will has been experiencing but also changes his immediate plans. While poking around in the abandoned old house down the street, looking for a half-fairy/half-human named Homer Underby, Will and Sandra are surprised by an old lady who appears to live there. As they try to help her out, it becomes clear that she’s troubled. But when they attempt to assist her, they uncover an unsolved mystery that happened twenty years before. As the amateur sleuths investigate, strange men grab Sandra. While trying to get away, Will falls backward and through a hole in the floor landing in what he believes is the basement. With a badly sprained ankle, Will limps toward what he hopes will be the way out of the darkness, only to learn he is no longer anywhere near Normal. Somehow Will has wound up in the distant future on a subtropical island off the coast of Antarctica where Brent, the last man on Earth, lives. While the most important thing for Will is getting back home to help Sandra escape from her captors, he must trust the reluctant hermit who knows a lot more about Sandra’s abduction than Will is comfortable with. Homer Underby continues The Thuperman Trilogy as two budding superheroes must depend on each other to find answers.

Download or read book Lama With A Gun written by Seth Augenstein and published by Pandamoon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MONGOLIA: THE LAND OF GODS, MEN… AND BEASTS. The legend lives: that a reincarnated Buddhist leader would once again drag the peoples of Mongolia to their feet, those once and future conquerors of the world. Ja Lama is, for some, the answer and savior – a reincarnation from the revered lineage of Genghis Khan. Born into a group of exiled Mongols in southern Russia in the 19th century, his parents whisk him back toward the homeland for formal training as a Buddhist monk. His boyhood dreams are of a strong and united Mongolia… and reaching the promised land, the golden subterranean city of Agharti. But death dogs his every step, from the Tibetan monastery to battles with the hated Russians and the Chinese. He collects followers like the crusty sidekick Jimbe and thousands of other hardened nomadic peoples on the wide-open steppes. Ja Lama seizes the reins of power across the widest expanses of wildest western Mongolia, using his powers of will and a superhuman ability to survive the wounds of war. The strong and hopeful of Asia alike rally to the side of the monk with Colt revolvers under his robes. The world closes in. There are too many enemies, and too many empires teetering close to collapse all around him as the evils of the 20th century marshal their forces. Can the feared and revered “Lama with a Gun” overcome the wounds of soul and body to unite his peoples for one last drive across Asia?

Download or read book Find Me In Florence written by Jule Selbo and published by Pandamoon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survival means finding the courage to dig deep and find that elusive inner strength… Finding herself at life’s crossroads, always-dutiful Lyn Bennett jumps at the chance to teach in historic Florence, Italy; it’s an opportunity to unearth the mysterious details of her mother’s past as one of Florence’s revered Mud Angels who helped save the city during the 1966 flood - as well as to re-evaluate the choices she’s made in her life. When her husband betrays her and a best friend falls to the wayside, Lyn is devastated. When handsome and magnetic Matteo strives to help, she has to decide if she will allow the people – and the city of Florence, with its pride, vitality and beauty - inspire her to open her heart again?

Download or read book 9 Days written by Jule Selbo and published by Pandamoon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful family will stop at nothing to protect its secrets... “Dee Rommel is a tenacious, badass, justice-seeking, sleuth, who is recovering from a life-changing injury and amputation of her lower left leg she suffered while a member of the Portland, Maine Police Department. In 9 DAYS, the sequel to award-winning, crime, procedural, mystery, noir, suspense, thriller 10 DAYS, she only has one less day to break the case wide open and prove the innocence of a famous astrologist who has just confessed to murder. This book checks all the boxes for me: a witty female protagonist, fast-paced page-turner of a plot with unexpected twists and turns along the way as Dee peels back the convoluted layers of well-kept secrets to expose the dysfunctional, darker side of a prominent New England family.” – Billy Nogle, The One and Only Book Club Famous astrologist Agnes Sants-Mekler, a member of one of Maine’s elite families, pleads guilty to murder. Her gifted, pre-teen son, Zar, says she’s lying and he wants Dee Rommel to prove that – in nine days. Former policewoman Dee Rommel, not yet thirty, is dealing with a permanent, life-changing injury sustained while part of Portland’s police force. Her medical leave is up; she’s made a contested decision to delay her return to the department and continue working with her godfather, PI Gordy Greer. Dee discovers the police are content with Agnes Sants-Melker’s confession, but her intense curiosity – and need for justice – compels her to dig deeper to find the truth. As she sifts through the evidence, misdirections, and deceptions she finds that trusting the wrong person is unraveling a more devious plot – and leading to a life-threatening confrontation. 9 DAYS is the thrilling second installment in the award-winning Dee Rommel Mystery series.

Download or read book The Tokyo Diversion written by Tony Ollivier and published by Pandamoon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Knight is still having a rough time... Having survived the implanting of another man’s memories, ballet dancer David Knight is struggling to adjust. He has been hunted, attacked, and almost killed because a TV minister wanted the acquired memories destroyed; injuring his best friend. Now a year later, the memories are gone, but his life will never be the same. While trying to find his new normal in Canada’s premier dance company and living a pauper’s life, he’s fired because of anger issues. But when friend and aging spymaster Asher Fitzsimmons offers him a three-day contract for some light surveillance of one of the world’s largest security software companies, he jumps at it. However, David is soon embroiled in a corporate conspiracy that drags him to Japan to save the life of a billionaire’s daughter and uncover the greatest sleight of hand in history. Will David Knight survive The Tokyo Diversion?

Download or read book Andean Ontologies written by María Cecilia Lozada and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andean Ontologies is a fascinating interdisciplinary investigation of how ancient Andean people understood their world and the nature of being. Exploring pre-Hispanic ideas of time, space, and the human body, these essays highlight a range of beliefs across the region’s different cultures, emphasizing the relational aspects of identity in Andean worldviews. Studies included here show that Andeans physically interacted with their pasts through recurring ceremonies in their ritual calendar and that Andean bodies were believed to be changeable entities with the ability to interact with nonhuman and spiritual worlds. A survey of rock art describes Andeans’ changing relationships with places and things over time. Archaeological and ethnographic evidence reveals head hair was believed to be a conduit for the flow of spiritual power, and bioarchaeological remains offer evidence of Andean perceptions of age and wellness. This volume breaks new ground by bringing together an array of renowned specialists including anthropologists, bioarchaeologists, historians, linguists, ethnohistorians, and art historians to evaluate ancient Amerindian ideologies through different interpretive lenses. Many are local researchers from South American countries such as Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina, and this volume makes their work available to North American readers for the first time. Their essays are highly contextualized according to the territories and time periods studied. Instead of taking an external, outside-in approach, they prioritize internal and localized views that incorporate insights from today’s indigenous societies. This cutting-edge collection demonstrates the value of a multifaceted, holistic, inside-out approach to studying the pre-Columbian world. Contributors: Catherine J. Allen | Richard Lunniss | Matthew Sayre | Nicco La Mattina | Luis Muro | Luis Jaime Castillo | Elsa Tomasto | Giles Spence-Morrow | Edward Swenson | Mary Glowacki | Andres Laguens | Bruce Mannheim | Juan Villanueva | Andrés Troncoso

Download or read book Implementation and Redesign of Catalytic Function in Biopolymers written by Franz P. Schmidtchen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvement of the catalytic properties of biological catalysts is equally important in the optimization of industrial processes as in the fundamental understanding of the catalytic machinery at the molecular level. The approaches taken are diverse and span from purely result-oriented, but nevertheless methodologically subtle, making and screening of combinatorial libraries to highly sophisticated tailoring of the environment of active sites. This volume illustrates four different concepts for modifying a given biocatalyst framework or create novel functions using Nature's basic building blocks. Summing up the state-of-the-art biocatalyst engineering it, serves as an orientational landmark and a platform for the specialist and non-expert alike to keep abreast of developments in this rapidly evolving field.

Download or read book Exposed Hollywood Glamour Caught Off Guard written by Philip Krayna and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed Braslaff never stopped shooting. His twitchy shutter finger captured starlets and wannabes in intimate moments, revealing a hidden side of Hollywood. In this anthology, eight writers create counterpoints to the moody and mysterious moments captured in 1960s-era photos salvaged from his archives. Designed and curated by Philip Krayna and edited by Susan Kuchinskas.

Download or read book Biomass Biofuels Biochemicals written by Ram Sarup Singh and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biomass, Biofuels and Biochemicals: Advances in Enzyme Technology provides state-of-the-art information on the fundamental aspects and current perspectives in enzyme technology to graduate students, postgraduates and researchers working in industry and academia. The book provides information about the use of enzyme technology as an important tool for biotechnological processes, including food, feed, fuels, textiles, paper, energy and environmental applications. The search for improvements in existing enzyme-catalyzed processes dictates the need to update information on various enzyme technologies. The book gives a snapshot of current practice and research in the area of enzyme technology. Includes current and emerging technologies for the development of novel enzyme catalysis Outlines immobilized enzymes and their implications Refers to enzymes as diagnostic tools Includes metabolic engineering principles for improving industrial enzymes

Download or read book Phaethon written by Rachel Sharp and published by Pandamoon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hackers, fae, and a new breed of corporate greed battle over the future of the human race.... Hacker couple Jack and Rosie crack technology, but the newest device, the Phaethon, isn't like other phones. The parts are junk, yet it can do the impossible. Through gentle prodding and data theft, they learn it's powered remotely...by a living creature. Cracking the Phaethon enters them into a war. Some, like Calthine, the bitter Bogle, are on their side. Others are controlled by a new type of fae; the bosses of the Phaethon corporation, who have steel for eyes and iron for souls. Now, the hackers have to fight creatures they've never heard of to save the friends they've just made.