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    <![CDATA[Aliens and Satanic Creatures Wanted: Humans Need Not Apply]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Do you think it's easy being an alien, a satanic creature or anything else not considered part of the Homo-sapiens-only club? They have tough days just like humans do and their frustration is growing. Don't believe it? Well, what about Lucifer, the prince of darkness, who runs a car dealership&#8212;what about his feelings when he is faced with that impossible sale and he can't get a signature on form 666, the standard soul contract? Or maybe you wondered about how an extremely vain alien copes with having a bad hair day as he tries to alter the future of Earth? Will his cosmetic problems be our problems in other ways? Perhaps you heard about the opposite vampire who loves to give blood, hates the darkness and has a fetish for garlic&#8212;how does he get through a bad relationship? How about a DNA-altered cat that has been given the personality of one of the world's most fearsome criminals? Will its human owners understand or will it be a less then purr-fect arrangement?   &lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;What's the common thread to all this discontent, you ask? What is it about most stories that stay the same? It's the human! These aliens and demonic creatures are sick and tired of being the second fiddle in the story. They want what everybody wants: to be the center of attention of the stories for a change, instead of the pesky humans&#8230;and now they finally get their wish. In <em>Aliens and Satanic Creatures Wanted: Humans Need Not Apply</em>, they finally get top billing and they exploit it as far as they can.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Operation: Immortal Servitude]]>
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    <![CDATA[During the peacekeeping operations in the Kosovo region of the Balkans, a group of vampires are discovered by the American forces. The report of the discovery attracts the interest of the commander of the elite and highly secretive organization; the United States Special Operations Command, who sends in his own personnel to investigate. When the General learns that the creatures actually exist, his team, led by Navy Commander John Reese, devises a method of capture and brings the vampires back to the United States. Once the creature's abilities have been proven and can be controlled, the General sets his own personal and secret plan of revenge in motion against the large drug cartels of South America by sending in his special ops team to kill, codename: Team of Darkness.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Team of Darkness]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Navy SEAL's have found the perfect killing machine. It's not something new, but something very old. It possesses immense strength and agility. It is difficult to detect and is virtually indestructible. It needs to kill in order to survive and has no conscience. But can these creatures be controlled&#133;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Alien Deception]]>
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    <![CDATA[Award-nominated author Tony Ruggerio joins Dragon Moon Press with Alien Deception. Classic Space Opera with a Stanley Kubrick twist...    Nothing is as it appears. Nothing.    Your whole life you think you understand who and what you are, and then one day you learn that it is all a lie. So what do you do?    You have lunch with the leading candidate for President of the United States. You...and your alien friends.    The United Council for Developing Worlds, an alien conglomeration of civilized planets, wants to help the Earth move forward into space-or at least that is what the plan appears to be.     Caught in the middle of the struggle for Earth domination, two humans unknowingly hold the key which can topple the tyrannical rule of the alien race-if they can stay alive long enough to use it.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Alien Revelation]]>
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    <![CDATA[The climactic conclusion to Tony Ruggerio's Alien Deception!    Death has many meanings. For some it is an end while for others it is a beginning. Yet, for one human/alien hybrid, it is a way to have one final chance to try and save his home, the planet Earth, a son he has never seen, and find an enemy that just won't stay dead.]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The Presidential press conference was supposed to be an exciting announcement that the world finally had a space drive capable of allowing them to explore the planets...and, eventually, the stars. But then tabloid reporter Ray Schume turns it into an inquisition, accusing President Edward Samuel and his assistant, Sarah Ferguson, of being part of an alien conspiracy to conquer Earth. What's more, he says he has an alien corpse to prove it.  &lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The worst part is: the reporter is right, but the United Council for Developing Worlds is supposed to be a well-kept secret. Who revealed its presence to Schume? And is there a connection between the reporter who knows too much and the vivid nightmares UCDW leader Greg Carlson is having, the ones filled with the nerve-shattering laughter of a madman?]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Book III of <em>The Mind Trilogy</em>.  &lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The test of the interstellar spacecraft of the Earth consortium is sabotaged by a technology unknown to the Earth engineers, but not to the United Council for Developing Worlds. The alien organization has maintained its secret collaboration with United States President Edward Samuel and providing the technology to the human scientists from their home base on Earth in an effort to speed up the Earth's space program. However, with the discovery of this alien intrusion&#8212;the United Council's base on Earth, and the acts of treason by the President of the United States, the Earth is poised for one final conflict that is the sole fanatical dream of the one demented alien who has orchestrated it.  &lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Young Soren Carlson, the son of the human-alien hybrids, Greg and Sarah, has discovered his new talent. He possesses the ability not only to influence the thoughts of another person, but to change them completely. If this power, or weapon, should fall into the wrong hands, it could change the balance of control in the galaxy forever for the one person who can harness the child's power. But in the hands of the right person, young Soren can save the Earth from the final conflict it now faces. It becomes a race for two life forms to see who can get to Soren first&#8212;his father, whose mind is struggling to return from a galactic void to his physical body on Earth, or the most feared alien in the galaxy, who has assumed the physical shape of someone very close to Soren...]]>
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    <![CDATA[Get Out Of My Mind]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Greg Carlson and Sarah Ferguson. Two ordinary people, or at least they think they are, find themselves forcibly removed from Earth and thrust into an alien organization, the United Council of Developing Worlds. Through alien politics and other reasons unbeknownst to them, they become pawns in a grand scheme, which may cost them their lives&#8212;and more than once.       &lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Copolla, the alien Leader of the United Council for Developing Worlds, wants the two humans from Earth killed as soon as possible. Why he has selected these two unlikely candidates to become part of the alien organization is the beginning of the mystery, an intricate plot of deception and manipulation that spans over fifty years of Earth history.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Operation: Save the Innocent: From The Declassified Tales of Team of Darkness]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p><em>John Reese thought it was all over - all except for the nightmares. </em><br/><br/><p>As he begins his teaching career, John Reese is suddenly recalled to active duty. The strings behind the recall come from a dark governmental agency buried deep within the Pentagon as well as the American political system. <br/><br/><p>Reese learns that General Stone had additional vampires that he never knew about. But what's worse is that they have been kidnapped or stolen from the secure holding that Reese helped design. Now it is an issue of National Security because if the two young vampires fall into the wrong hands they could potentially attack those that captured them.<br/><br/><p>Reese becomes the hunter as he is watched not only by his military leaders, but by a government group known only as the Agency. He is bluntly warned that if he fails to cooperate fully in finding the vampires, he may spend the rest of his life in a military prison. As he studies the escape and those that were responsible for it, he recognizes that only one group could be responsible for it and it is the group that he has sworn to his superiors he killed as they tried to escape: The Team of Darkness. <br/><br/><p>Reese now has a double edged sword at his throat. Does he tell the General that he lied and knowingly loosened General Stone's prized vampire team on the city to feed off of the humanity that they had sworn to protect? As Reese searches for these answers he meets Christina, a mysterious and voluptuous woman that he is taken with. Their relationship follows the twists and turns that the search takes Reese on-leaving one to wonder if Reese and Christina have their own secrets that seek to reveal yet another mystery to be told.<br/></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Operation]]>
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