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When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must...
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"Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home laboratory, has achieved the discovery of his career--he has created artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William. No one knows about William. Not yet anyway. Henry's agoraphobia keeps him inside the house, and his fixation on William keeps him up in the attic, away from everyone, including his pregnant wife, Lily. When Lily's coworkers show...
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Joy Revolution
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[2024]
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In 2460, eighteen-year-old Liv Newman dreams of a future beyond her lower-class life in the Metro. As a Proxy, she uses the neurochip in her brain to sell memories to wealthy clients. Maybe a few illegally, but money equals freedom. So when a customer offers her a ludicrous sum to go on an assignment in no-man's-land, Liv accepts. Now she just has to survive. Rookie Forceman Adrian Rao believes in order over all. After discovering that a renegade...
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[s.n.]
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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,...
5) Zephyr
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[s.n.]
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2023.
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1990: Bill Milo leaves home to see the world. He crosses desert and ocean, searching for purpose but never quite finding it. One day, Bill meets an old man taking his daily walk. He warns Bill that God will soon test mankind with a great flood, and that man will respond with fear and division. His words haunt him for years to come. 2015: August Milo spends her time caring for her grandparents and running her bakery. On a cold winter day, a customer...
6) Nanoland
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Gorilla House
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2024.
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WELCOME TO NANOLAND, where all your dreams can come true. But when those dreams turn deadly, survival becomes the ultimate fantasy.
Nanoland brings legendary filmmaker Frank Nano's creative vision to life on an island off the coast of Florida. Visitors flock from around the globe to see colossal prehistoric beasts, ride sentient roller coasters, and battle in the Cosmic Coliseum.
After ten years of playing a Nano Princess,
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"Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. They meet on the history-scarred island...
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Union Square & Co
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[2024]
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"Elizabeth Bennet lives on a small moon in the Londinium lunar system with her parents and four sisters. While she dreams of piloting a starship rather than settling down with an eligible man, her world turns upside down when the handsome Mr. Bingley docks the Netherfield StarCruiser on the neighboring estate. The arrival thrusts the Bennet sisters into the bustling asteroid field of the system's wider society, and Elizabeth's aspirations are suddenly...
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Wordwooze Publishing
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2020.
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Matty Williams' retirement as a computer tech goes awry when he and his girlfriend Divvie discover that new social technologies are subtly affecting the minds of their users. As they delve deeper into the technological marvels revolutionizing the lives of virtually everyone on the planet, they are set on a course that leads directly back to their employer, Roydon Technologies.
Now there's the latest gadget, augmented reality glasses known as "Augies,"...
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[s.n.]
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2023.
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THE ALTERNATE HUSBAND is a gripping novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Adeline's life is turned upside down when she wakes up from a coma to find that her husband is not the same man she was married to before her accident.Nick, her alternate husband, is kind, caring, and everything she needs. As she adjusts to her new life and finds herself falling hard and fast for Nick, she lives with the constant fear of losing him. Adeline must...
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Covenwood Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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Kate has an idyllic life on a remote farm with her four daughters. She's in love with her neighbor, Lucy. And she has never known a world with men.
All the men are gone. Their decline occurred over the course of generations, fewer boys born every year, until eventually, none were born at all. After the Waning Wars, the Governing Council promised there was a plan and seed stores to last.
But when an imprisoned old woman writes a deathbed...
12) Looper
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Ponahakeola Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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The Litarian Battles are the only thing ever televised. No other shows are transmitted into the Outer Limits. Max has never had an interest in watching, much to the surprise of everyone else around her. She doesn’t see the point of watching contestants battle when no one is ever injured or killed, and all for the opportunity to live in the utopian city of Icarian. Things change when she is selected to be a participant. She is sent to the main city...
13) Orbit
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Snowy Wings Publishing
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2018.
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Ciaan Gennett isn't green, despite the brand of light hair that betrays her heritage: an Earth mother. A mother she remembers but doesn't know, who left one day and never came back. Ciaan's as metal as her home planet-cold and hard and full of so many cracks she's trying to ignore that she doesn't have time to wonder about questions that don't get answers.
After one too many run-ins with the law, Ciaan finds herself sentenced to probation at a port...
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Dawnrigger Publishing
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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...
15) Revenant Sun
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ShadowArt Publishing
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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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[s.n.]
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2018.
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When Janet Pilgrim’s boyfriend was killed in a training accident at the space academy, she thought she was going to be thrown out. Instead, she soon found herself shipping out as a junior astronaut on the forty-year old spacecraft Windy City bound for Mars. But freighters and passenger ships aren’t the only craft plying the spaceways. When the Windy City is attacked by pirates on the way to Mars, Janet finds herself in more danger than she could...
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[s.n.]
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2017.
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How far would you go to save the ones you love? Naomi isn't allowed to feel too happy. Or sad. Or angry. She isn't allowed to love, or hate. Those are the rules. She's seen what happens when those rules are broken. Naomi doesn't care. Her friend's lives are in danger. Naomi is about to break all the rules. Almost 700 years ago, a fleet of colony ships was sent out from Earth. As their journey progressed, they grew apart, isolating themselves from...
18) Forward and Back
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[s.n.]
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2022.
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At the moment of his greatest professional achievement, renowned physicist Randy Weinbergwakes up eight years in the future.He is legally dead, divorced from his wife, and a stranger to his son.Enemies threaten him for the secrets of time travel. As a victim of his failed experiment, Randy is clueless. Randy must decide whether to invent a tool that could be used to corrupt history, or refuse and see his wife and son murdered.Perhaps there is another...
19) Red Lakes
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Unknown
Pub. Date
2015.
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No greatness was ever borne without pain… A nuclear holocaust has devastated humanity. Out of the ashes rises a new totalitarian Soviet state that bears a chilling resemblance to a major fast food chain. Everyone eats burgers and the savior of the state-approved religion has red hair, white skin, and enormous feet. Sergei, a meat farmer in the Ukraine, learns that he is actually a clone of the State’s founder and destined to become its Premier....
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AB Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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Katarina Whylde takes pride in her work as an assassin, and relishes that moment when the last breath of life escapes her victims. What she doesn’t know is why. Still, as a member of the Najem—a group of hired thieves and killers—she’s taught not to question such things. All of that changes when the Forum sends her on a special assignment that awakens memories of a past she’d long forgotten. Now, Kat finds herself second-guessing the intentions...