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The Tharsis Zone
The Tharsis Zone
The Tharsis Zone
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Get ready for the ride of your life. The Tharsis Zone is as much fact as it is fiction. Jake McCulloch is an astronaut headed on a mission to Mars, unaware that his roots lie on a distant world thirty-four light years from Earth. What he and his fellow astronauts encounter upon landing on Mars can only be described as earth-shattering.

The action never stops as they encounter old rivalries from Earth now on Mars. The fate of their home planet hangs in the balance when they discover an alien force with the power to turn their spaceship and the crew to dust. An epic battle ensues when the aliens are forced to defend their own world with Jakes help.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateMay 4, 2018
ISBN9781984525031
The Tharsis Zone
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Barbara Vaka

Barbara Vaka has led an adventurous life traveling around the globe recording her experiences. She currently lives in Tampa, Florida with her husband of 42 years. Throughout her life, she has mingled with the rich and famous including Jerry Lewis with whom she appeared in his 1980 film HARDLY WORKING. Other celebrities include Danny Kaye, Susan Oliver, Steve Franken, and Harold J. Stone. She retired in 2008 from a position with the government as technical writer. HANK’S MOUNTAIN, her first novel, is a story set in Colorado near where she and her husband lived for twelve years, raising horses and their three children. It is a tale of a young Colorado rancher, Hank, who finds himself fighting for the one thing his father treasured most, a ski resort located on what becomes known as Hank’s Mountain following the tragic death of his parents in a car accident. In an inexplicable twist, a young woman from Philadelphia travels to Colorado to decide whether she wants the resort left to her by the young Rancher’s mother and a romance ensues. A New York billionaire wants the property, and will kill to get it. Mystery, revenge, romance, and mayhem fill the pages of this novel. Her next novel, PRETTY MAIDS is scheduled to be released in 2011 and is a story set in the Middle East based on the plight of thousands of young women who are lured into a life of slavery throughout the world. It is a tale of crime and raw passion that explores the contradictions of a modern society still living in the past professing the emancipation of women when in reality it is quite the opposite. Her insightful look at Islamic culture is worth the read alone.

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