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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Kit has been projecting into other species for seven years. Longer than anyone else at ShenCorp. Longer than any of the scientists thought possible. But lately she has the feeling that when she jumps she isn't alone? Since she was twelve, Kit has been a phenomenaut, her consciousness projected into the bodies of lab-grown animals for the purpose of research. Kit experiences a multitude of other lives ? fighting and fleeing, predator and prey ? always...
62) Crater lake
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Publisher
Firefly Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
What follows is a fight for survival that sees five pupils band together to save their classmates from an alien fate far worse than death. But whatever happens, they must Never, Ever fall asleep!.
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Series
System Divine volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Deluxe edition with special embellishments on first printing only ?Not to be missed!? -Marissa Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles ?An explosion of emotion, intrigue, romance, and revolution.? -Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series In the tradition of The Lunar Chronicles, this sweeping reimagining of Les MisrÌŒables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who...
65) Genome
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Series
Extinction Files volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The X1 pandemic ravaged the world. Billions were infected, 30 million died. It was not an act of nature. X1 was man-made, a deadly plague deliberately released for one reason only: to force people to take the cure. But the cure is worse than the disease, a sophisticated nanotechnology that has the potential to enslave all humanity. Dr Peyton Shaw's search for the culprits and a countermeasure starts at the ends of the Earth, on a sunken submarine...
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Chaos Walking volume 2
Language
English
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Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Immediately separated from Viola and imprisoned, Todd is forced to learn the ways of the Mayor's new order. But what secrets are hiding just outside of town? And where is Viola? Is she even still alive? And who are the mysterious Answer? And then, one day, the bombs begin to explode... The Ask and the Answer is...
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
For years, Starfleet Intelligence agents have carried out undercover assignments deep within the Klingon Empire. Surgically altered and rigorously trained in Klingon culture, they operate in plain sight and without any direct support, while collecting information and infiltrating the highest levels of imperial power. Their actions have given Starfleet valuable insight into the inner workings of Klingon government and its relentless military apparatus....
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Series
Publisher
Wildside Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack" presents 25 more mind-bending excursions through time and space, with great stories by such authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Lawrence Watt-Evans, George Zebrowski, Philip K. Dick, and many more! Included are: OUT OF ALL THEM BRIGHT STARS, by Nancy Kress THE HANGING STRANGER, by Philip K. Dick WALKING JOHN AND BIRD, by Neal Asher THE SYMPHONIC ABDUCTION, by Hannes Bok THE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD, by Arthur...
69) Skycircus
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Series
The Cogheart Adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
When a travelling skycircus arrives in Brackenbridge, Lily and Robert can?t wait to step aboard? But there?s something sinister about the hybrid children who appear as part of the act. And before Lily and Robert can do anything, they?re captured by shadowy figures and whisked off in the mysterious flying circus to somewhere far, far away? Treachery, tight-ropes and trickery combine in this incredible third Cogheart adventure?.
70) The toll
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Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 3
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
It?s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared; since Scythe Goddard came into power; since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver. In this pulse-pounding finale to Neal Shusterman's internationally bestselling trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead.
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
How do you stop a murder that?s already happened? 'Somebody's going to be murdered at the ball tonight. It won't appear to be a murder and so the murderer won't be caught. Rectify that injustice and I'll show you the way out.' It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed. But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden - one of the...
72) Tiamat's wrath
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Series
Expanse volume 8
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable....
73) The fates divide
Author
Series
Carve the Mark volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In the second book of the Carve the Mark duology, globally bestselling Divergent author Veronica Roth reveals how Cyra and Akos fulfill their fates. The Fates Divide is a richly imagined tale of hope and resilience told in four stunning perspectives.The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates, once determined, are inescapable.Akos is in love with Cyra, in spite of his fate:...
74) Half life
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Publisher
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
There aren't enough hours in the day for Lucille--perfectionist, overachiever--to do everything she has to do, and there certainly aren't enough hours to hang out with friends, fall in love, get in trouble--all the teenage things she knows she should want to be doing instead of preparing for a flawless future. So when she sees an ad for Life2: Do more. Be more, she's intrigued. The company is looking for beta testers to enroll in an experimental clone...
76) Monsters of men
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Series
Chaos walking volume 3
Publisher
Walker
Language
English
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Description
Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. Todd and Viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape. As the battles commence, how can they hope to stop the fighting? How can there ever be peace when they're so hopelessly outnumbered?
Author
Series
The Three-Body Problem volume 1
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
1967: University student Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during the Cultural Revolution. His crime? Failure to recant his belief in science. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, after a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal that styles itself the Frontiers of...
78) Agency
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
San Francisco, 2017. Clinton's in the White House, Brexit never happened - and Verity Jane's got herself a new job. They call Verity 'the app-whisperer,' and she's just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice. Only Eunice has other ideas. Pretty soon, Verity knows that Eunice is smarter than anyone she's ever met, conceals some serious capabilities and is profoundly paranoid - which is just...
Author
Series
Chaos Walking volume 1
Language
English
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Description
An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer. Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run...
80) Flawed
Author
Series
Flawed volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Good-girl Celestine has always agreed with the system but following an act of kindness towards one of the Flawed is herself excluded and soon she is fighting for her own survival - and for love. Hugely accessible, emotionally resonant and with a character who will seize the hearts of anyone who meets her, this is the ideal book for anyone who has ever felt the pressure to be perfect.
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