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61) The subjugate
Author
Publisher
Clipper Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a small religious community rocked by a spree of shocking murders, Detectives Salvi Brentt and Mitch Grenville find themselves surrounded by suspects. The Children of Christ have a tight grip on their people, and the Solme Complex neurally edit violent criminals - Subjugates - into placid servants called Serenes. In a town where purity and sin, temptation and repression live side by side, everyone has a motive. But as the bodies mount up, the frustrated...
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Series
Sun chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Clipper Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Princess Sun has finally come of age. Growing up in the shadow of her mother, Eirene, has been no easy task. The legendary queen-marshal did what everyone thought impossible: expel the invaders and build Chaonia into a magnificent republic, one to be respected - and feared. But the cutthroat ambassador corps and conniving noble houses have never ceased to scheme - and they have plans that need Sun to be removed as heir, or better yet, dead. To survive,...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Fiction
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.
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English
Description
The evolution is coming In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe-designated the Andromeda Strain-came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. A team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the ensuing decades, research on the microparticle continued. And the world thought it was safe.? Deep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance...
65) Axiom?s end
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Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
By the fall of 2007, one well-timed leak revealing that the U.S. government might have engaged in first contact has sent the country into turmoil, and it is all Cora Sabino can do to avoid the whole mess. The force driving this controversy is Cora's whistleblower father, and even though she hasn t spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the government - and redirected it to her....
66) Humans, Bow Down
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In a world run by machines, humans are an endangered species. The Great War is over. The Robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices - they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it?s a crime to be human. And the robots aren?t content - following the orders of their soulless leader, they?re planning to conquer humanity?s last refuge. With nothing left...
Author
Publisher
Avid Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his latest science fiction and fantasy stories over the last five years - sixteen of his best - plus a new novelette. In addition to these seventeen selections, 'The Hidden Girl and Other Stories' also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, 'The Veiled Throne'.
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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
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...
69) 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
The Hunger Games volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuvre his fellow students...
Author
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 MisrΜables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who...
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself...
74) Genome
Author
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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Series
Chaos Walking volume 2
Language
English
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Description
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...
78) Foundation
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Series
Foundation volume 1
Language
English
Description
Long after earth was forgotten, a galaxy took shape, an Empire governed from the city-planet of Trantor. The system worked, and grew, for generations. Everyone believed it would work forever, except Hari Seldon.
79) 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?.
80) The toll
Author
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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