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5261) Attack of the bots
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Weird Ones come together in their first pro gaming tournament, and face sinister pushback along the way"--
5262) The sleepless
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious pandemic causes a quarter of the world to permanently lose the ability to sleep--without any apparent health implications. The outbreak creates a new class of people who are both feared and ostracized, most of whom optimize their extra hours to earn more money"--
Author
Publisher
Rosarium
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
"Assimilation is founded on surrender and being broken. This collection of short stories features people who have assimilated, but are actively trying to reclaim their lives. There is a concert pianist who defies death by uploading his soul into his piano. There is the person who draws his mother's ghost out of the bullet hole in the wall near where she was executed. Another character has a horn growing out of the center of his forehead--punishment...
5264) Null set
Author
Series
Cas Russell novels volume 2
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Math-genius mercenary Cas Russell has decided to Fight Crime(tm). After all, with her extraordinary mathematical ability, she can neuter bombs or out-shoot an army. And the recent outbreak of violence in the world's cities is Cas's fault-she's the one who crushed the organization of telepaths keeping the world's worst offenders under control. But Cas's own power also has a history, one she can't remember-or control. One that's creeping into her mind...
Author
Series
Tales of a new world volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Mari is an Earth Walker, heir to the unique healing powers of her Clan, but she has cast her duties aside until she is chosen by a special animal ally, altering her destiny forever. When a deadly attack tears her world apart, Mari reveals the strength of her powers and the forbidden secret of her dual nature as she embarks on a mission to save her people. It is not until Nik, the son of the leader from a rival, dominating clan strays across her path,...
5266) Implacable Alpha
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Called the 'Ennoia, ' the woman who came within a heartbeat of killing prisoner Alpha in the Grantham parking garage is back. This time she's snatched Dr. Timothy Ryan. The Psi Team find themselves caught in a battle that has been raging across timelines for 2000 years. But, can they trust the Ennoia? Or is she using our timeline for her own purposes?"--Dust jacket flap.
5267) Cormorant run
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"There was an Event, the Rifts opened up, and everyone caught inside died. Since the Event certain people have gone into the drift ... and come back, bearing priceless technology that's almost magical in its advancement. When Ashe -- the best Rifter of her generation -- dies, the authorities offer her student, Svinga, a choice: go in and bring out the thing that killed her, or rot in jail. But Svin, of course, has other plans ... How far would you...
Author
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When a strange new star appears in the sky, human life instantly grinds to a halt as, across the world, anything and everything electronic stops working completely. At first, it seems to be a strange miracle to Seth Black--it stops him from committing suicide, and erases the gambling debt that threatened to destroy his family. But, as he and his wife Natalie begin to realize that the electricity isn't coming back on, and the phones will never work...
5270) El hombre invisible
Author
Publisher
Penguin Clásicos
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Los clásicos más escalofriantes en una edición actualizada y adaptada. Con ilustraciones de Antonio Navas. Un hombre con la cara tapada ha llegado al pequeño pueblo de Iping. ¿De qué huye el enigmático viajero? ¿Acaso oculta las secuelas de un terrible accidente? ¿Por qué no responde a las preguntas y se muestra tan brusco? La curiosidad en el pueblo no tarda endespertarse, pero hay secretos que es mejor no desvelar...
5271) Reclaimed
Author
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this claustrophobic science fiction thriller, a woman begins to doubt her own sanity and reality itself when she undergoes a dangerous experiment. The Ganymede compound is a fresh start. At least that's what Senna tells herself when she arrives to take part in a cutting-edge scientific treatment, where participants have traumatic memories erased. And Senna has reasons for wanting to escape her past. But almost as soon as the treatment begins,...
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 5
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover the whole world has become a prison, and Alfred Furnace is its master. Monsters rule the streets, leaving nothing but murder in their wake. Those who do not die become slaves to Furnace's reign of cruelty. Alex is a monster too. He is the only one who can stop Furnace but in doing so he could destroy everything. Is he the executed or the executioner? Who will die? All Alex knows is that...
5273) The searching dead
Author
Series
Three births of Daoloth volume 1
Publisher
Flame Tree Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
1952. On a school trip to France teenager Dominic Sheldrake begins to suspect his teacher Christian Noble has reasons to be there as secret as they're strange. Meanwhile a widowed neighbour joins a church that puts you in touch with your dead relatives, who prove much harder to get rid of. As Dominic and his friends Roberta and Jim investigate, they can’t suspect how much larger and more terrible the link between these mysteries will become. A monstrous...
5275) Stormland
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
They call it Stormland: a sprawling, largely abandoned region of the southeastern coast of the USA, where climate change's extreme weather conditions have brought about a ''perfect storm'' of perpetual tempests; where hurricane-strength storms return day after day, 365 days a year. The heart of Stormland is Charleston, South Carolina, a flooded ruin where hundreds of people remain for their own peculiar reasons; where thugs prey on the weak, and a...
5277) Everless
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the kingdom of Sempera, time is extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one's own lifespan. The rich aristocrats like the Gerling family tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember; she and her father were once servants at their estate, Everless, until an accident drove them away. After discovering her father is dying, Jules is desperate to earn more...
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In space, size matters. Boomers. Ships of the Line. Star Destroyers. The bigger the ship, the better the bang. From the dawn of history onward, commanding the most powerful ship around has been a dream of admirals, sultans, emperors, kings, generalissimos, and sea captains everywhere. For what the intimidation factor alone doesn't achieve, a massive barrage from super-weapons probably will. Thus it was, and ever shall be, even into the distant future....
5279) Plum rains
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
2029: In Japan, a historically mono-cultural nation, childbirth rates are at an all-time low and the elderly are living increasingly longer lives. This population crisis has precipitated the mass immigration of foreign medical workers from all over Asia, as well as the development of finely tuned artificial intelligence to step in where humans fall short. In Tokyo, Angelica Navarro, a Filipina nurse who has been in Japan for the last five years,...
5280) Reset: a novel
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors form a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. In the utopia of the Four Cities, inspired by the lyrics of ''Imagine'' and Buddhist philosophy, everything is carefully planned and controlled: the seasons, the weather - and the residents. To prevent mankind from destroying each other again, its citizens undergo a memory wipe every four years in a process called tabula...
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