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2020.
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A girl. A gun. Monsters. When her farming community is consumed in the ruthless jaws of a corporate monster, 16-year-old Merit finds herself face to face with a different kind of beast, one possessing a human form but a mind bent on one thing and one thing alone: her destruction. Then a chance encounter with a legend turns her mad dash for survival into an odyssey of revenge as she sets out to hunt down the men who destroyed all that she loves. But...
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"Danger escalates as Michael Knight and Lex Devlin enter into the defense of a Puerto Rican jockey charged with felony murder as a result of a fixed race at Boston's Suffolk Downs. As their investigation exposes the jockey's role, they become embroiled in a conflict between two Puerto Rican crime gangs. One of these gangs is aligned for the first time with Boston's Italian Mafia. They are tapping into almost limitless profits from the illicit trace...
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2020.
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Conquering Fate Takes Sacrifice. Victoria of Ourtown believes two things: that the bright, wandering star in the heavens is an abandoned spacecraft which brought her ancestors to this world and that destiny and the will of gods are nonsense. Vic used to scoff at stories of wizards too, until she acquired their powers. Once a warrior, now a secret wizard, she just wants to live an ordinary life and find a way to atone for the mistakes she's made....
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2019.
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As a U.S. Homeland Security investigator becomes ensnared in a thicket of terrorist puzzles and codes unraveling his troubled past, his counterpart in a parallel Earth without Christianity experiences strange visions of our world after meeting a charismatic preacher with a new message of peace and forgiveness. The two men wade through intolerance, hatred and terrorism while struggling with their own skepticism as a growing connection between them...
25) K: A Novel
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2020.
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Professor Francis Kauffman has unwittingly landed himself in prison where he's faced with an insurmountable task: execute a fellow inmate. Charged with igniting a political insurrection amongst his students at a university in Beijing, Kauffman is sent to the notorious Kun Chong Prison, where his existence grows stranger by the hour as he struggles with the weight of his imprisonment and his incurable need to write about it in a place where art is...
26) Revenant Sun
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2015.
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Stanley Gabrels has been online for most of his life; living in a makeshift paradise hovering above those left behind for the sake of progress, shoulder to shoulder with thousands of others like him, working nonstop, guided in everyday life by the world's most advanced artificial intelligence. As passionate as he is for the latest technology and augmentation, he longs to escape from the constant barrage of information, stripping away his humanity....
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2016.
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Horror evolves in this special edition of the terrifying novel by Bard Constantine. When a freak storm engulfs a milling facility, the workers quickly learn there is much more to fear than just heavy rain. Something else arrives with the storm—macabre creatures that alter their shapes and features with every attack. In order to survive the night, the employees will have to rely on Guy, a man whose sanity is questionable. For he claims to have faced...
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2016.
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Scholar. Slave. Warrior. Wizard. Victoria was once a shy but ambitious scholar. That life ends when slavers sell her to a vicious tyrant who strips away everything she knows and loves, forging her into something darker. Deadlier. Escaping captivity, she finds refuge with the tyrant's enemies and joins their war against him. Now as Vic the Blade, she hunts for vengeance. Prince Ashel leads a carefree life, more renowned for his musical prowess than...
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2015.
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All they wanted was a vacation to the Grand Canyon. Instead, they found themselves on a collision course with a terrible, timeless darkness. Welcome to Adrienne, home to history’s worst serial killers and mass murderers. Nestled in an isolated meadow high in the Sierra Nevada, Adrienne is sort of like a cosmic lint trap. It collects the universe’s negative energy—all of our blackest human impulses—before purging that darkness back into the...
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2013.
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Alison Gregorio thinks her new job with a prestigious law firm is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but explosive secrets lurk beneath its golden façade. When a plane crash takes out the firm's biggest client, she finds herself in a situation that will test her conscience and her courage to the limits.Surviving a crash-landing is only the first challenge Justin Wyatt faces after his fall from power. He loved the toys he built more than the fortune...
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Blue Dominion volume 1
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2018.
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The Godfather meets Guardians of the Galaxy in this crazy-ass adventure set on Viridian, a prison planet full of aliens…who want to eat you. Tig, the only human, is thrust into a lose/lose/lose situation when the mob boss he works for asks him to pick up and deliver a package that the Fed—the governing body of the known universe—also wants. To make matters worse, the “package” has curves for days, an attitude to match, and her own agenda...
32) The Seclusion
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Seclusion (Jacqui Castle) volume 1
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2018.
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Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist A Kirkus Reviews Best Science Fiction Book of September 2018! io9's New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Need to Put On Your Radar This Fall In the year 2090, America has walled itself off from the rest of the world. While on a routine assignment scouting the country's dwindling natural resources, Patricia "Patch" and her best friend, Rexx, discover a cache of dangerous contraband— printed books...
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2014.
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A Spacer's Rules For Success:1.) Never be desperate2.) Never do more than your job description 3.) Never, ever go down the well...Ejoq needs work. The tramp starship GRIZZELDA needs a gunner. But what starts as a last-minute personnel replacement soon turns into something far more, with a non-functional duty station, his predecessor's emotional fallout, and a deeply buried secret that will change the course of nations.Through a dark odyssey...
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Soul sleep cycle volume 1
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2018.
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First he lost his daughter. His mind may be next. After years of being haunted by the day his little girl drowned, Vincent faces a new nightmare — one that reaches into the real world and beyond the grave. If Souls Can Sleep introduces a hidden world where gifted individuals possess the power to invade the dreams of others. Two rival factions have transformed the dreamscape into a war zone where all reality is relative and even the dead can't rest...
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2014.
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Naomi sees her first corpse in a Colorado Springs grocery store, but it won’t be her last. With devastating speed, a plague sweeps first the city, then the state, then the world, leaving less than 1% of the population to go on. Naomi, a gentle and sheltered housewife, finds herself fighting for survival in a world populated by desperate people, where might-makes-right, and mercy and compassion are in short supply. Fellow survivors Jack, a youth...
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2018.
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When Doug Michaels finds his friend dead in 2068, he builds a mental landscape, a retroscape, to find the killer. But as the suspects appear, they disappear almost as quickly. It's not the aftereffects of an illness sensationalized in the media as the “zombie pandemic”. It's not an evil artificial intelligence intent on taking over the world. It's not his friend's machine-intelligence wife, Julia, even if she can't even remember his final days....
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2018.
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The Wanderer and the New West is a dystopian western about a possible America that fully protects the rights of armed citizens to stand their ground. In the near future, the government leaves it to the American people to protect their own communities from the threat of mass shooters and motorcycle gangs. When a marksman known as the Wanderer opens war against injustice in the state of Arizona, his violent actions attract the attention of journalist...
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2020.
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A suspenseful whodunit, where not all the suspects are human. Psychologist Dr. Sam “Doc” Price is looking forward to his new project—evaluating training for a team. But it’s a team like no other because only one of the team members is human. The other is one of the most intelligent and lethal machines ever built by man— the Joint Aerial Combat Capability (JACC). Soon, Doc finds himself in a deadly cat and mouse game with an unknown adversary....
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2018.
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The year is 2038. Earth’s biosphere is on the brink of destruction from the effects of global warming and pollution. The World Energy Council has awarded a lucrative contract to a major US corporation to mine a precious ore discovered by the first manned mission to land on Mars. One kilo of Micromium can power a large city for a year without environmental side effects. Micromium promises to provide clean energy to a thirsty planet, far into the...
40) South
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2013.
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Luis Ojeda owes his life to the Pacifico Norte cartel. Literally. Now it’s time to pay.Luis led escaping American Muslims out of the U.S. during the ten years following a 2019 terrorist attack on Chicago. He retired after nearly being killed by a border guard. But now in 2032, the Nortes give Luis a choice: pay back the fortune they spent saving his life, or take on a special job.The job: Nora Khaled – FBI agent, wife, mother of two, and Muslim....
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