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One Way Trip

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Time 1h 59m

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A young astronaut is tormented by memories of the life and love he left behind during a one way trip to colonize Mars.

Martin rockets from Earth to establish the first human colony on the Red Planet. He and fellow volunteer astronaut Jomo make the dangerous seven-month slingshot across space knowing they will never return. Traveling to Mars was once thought impossible because there was no way back. But that was before anyone planned to make the journey a one way trip.

Personal tragedy has honed Martin and Jomo into ideal candidates, with a unique ability to endure and a resolve to abandon humanity for their isolated outpost. But as they struggle to adapt to the barren planet, they can still feel the pull of the blue dot in the sky. 

For Martin, it's the memory of his childhood love, Gwen. On Earth, fate conspired to keep them apart. But with no chance to turn back, the love of Martin's life gives him new regret for abandoning Earth. Now, despite an abyss spanning millions of miles and no way to cross it, Martin wants to go home.

One Way Trip follows Martin's extraordinary life journey from Earth to Mars, as he confronts his past with Gwen, in a quest for an impossible future together.All Rights Reserved

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Guardians of the Arcadian Grimoire: Awakening by NoxVentosa

On Planet Earth, life goes on for Ignis Oriri, a teenager almost halfway through her sophomore year of high school. Her parents both own big tech companies, which she's been preparing to run all her life. She spends her days getting good grades, participating in tech competitions all over the state, and hanging out with her friends, living a peaceful life overall. Life, however, has a change of plans. A threat is rising, not on Earth, but in a parallel world. Ignis gets swept up into it after a visit from an old family friend, discovering new friends, new technology, new dangers, and, oh, maybe a bit of magic. She finds that she's been handpicked to someday become part of the government of this world, along with five others. On top of training, adjusting to her new school, and preparing to fight a dormant threat, life turns into a rollercoaster for Ignis, who starts to question, is anything really what it seems?

Forgotten by writingaworld

Memories are dangerous. Memories are weapons. Seventeen-year-old Stella Parlett has believed that for her entire life. In the Federation of Equal Opportunity, formerly known as the United States, the freedom to remember is a small price to pay for the safety that lies in forgetting. When Stella turns eighteen, she'll enter a new life free of fear and free of memories. Everyone has the right to forget their wrongdoings, to have a second chance. And Stella can't wait to do it herself. But everything changes the day Stella adopts a child into her home. All of a sudden, she has something to lose. And when the Federation itself starts to threaten the ones she loves most, Stella is forced to make a difficult choice: what is she willing to fight for?

Dissonance - Book One by B_Ander

Ever thought surviving first period and facing her best friend's boyfriend - whom she recently kissed - was going to be the hardest part of her day, but it turns out there are worse things: like trying to survive the end of the world. And as it just so happens, she might be the one person who can save it. No pressure. As if being a teen weren't hard enough. Just when she thinks things couldn't get any more complicated, Ever meets a good-looking stranger who gets under her skin, and while he drives her crazy, he might be the key to unlocking her past and understanding how to save the future. Perhaps he's not a stranger after all. Perhaps he's keeping a secret, not only about their connection, but about the truth behind the strange apocalyptic events that are threatening the end of all mankind. Ever will have to decide if she wants to swipe left and pass on saving humanity, or step up to the plate and take on her role as mankind's savior. *This is book one in a series

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Guardians of the Arcadian Grimoire: Awakening

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