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1) Undertow
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Elizabeth Bear is a rising name in science fiction. In Undertow, Andre Deschenes wants to escape his life as a hired assassin. He hopes to learn the art of conjuring, manipulating the odds of people's lives. But a revolution is brewing in the city of Novo Haven, where an alien race is finally gaining ground, demanding they be treated as citizens. And before Andre moves on, he has a contract to fulfill.
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338 pages ; 24 cm
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"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
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Every life has a turning point where one choice changes everything. Once that line is crossed, there's no going back. J.D. Jessup finds his line in the desert near Tucson, as far from his home as the moon. Hes traded his guitar and the songs in his head for the daily grind of an organic farm a mind-numbing existence that dulls the pain of his memories. His boss has one rule: if J. D. sees an illegal, call Border Patrol. But when an early morning...
8) The pickup
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Julie is from an affluent white family and is always searching for new ideas and adventures. When her car breaks down in a South African city she is immediately drawn to Abdu the mechanic who comes to her aid. He has left his home and family in the north to find work in the new South Africa. As their relationship develops into passionate love, they must both confront the prejudices of their past and the uncertainties of the future. The Pickup is the...
10) Illegal
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Disappeared volume 2
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To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them.
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States. Now Sara is being held...
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Space runners volume 3
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336 pages ; 22 cm.
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Benny Love's trip to the moon was supposed to be two weeks of driving out-of-this-world Space Runners and exploring the moon's surface. It wasn't supposed to include the start of a war between humans and the Alpha Maraudi, a group of aliens intent on destroying Earth. Stranded on the moon, Benny and his friends make contact with a peaceful Alpha Maraudi general. After getting to know the aliens, Benny can't imagine sitting by and letting the war continue....
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417 pages ; 21 cm
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Zou Lei, a Chinese Muslim of the Uighur tribe, enters the U.S. via Mexico, and makes her way to New York City. Keeping a low profile and employed in a restaurant, she meets Skinner, a veteran of the Iraqi war, who's afflicted with PTSD.
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343 pages ; 22 cm
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Told in two voices, Pen, whose dream of taking over her family's restaurant has been destroyed, and Xander, a new, undocumented, employee seeking his father, form a bond.
As an aspiring pastry chef, Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelería next to her father's restaurant, Nacho's Tacos. But her traditional Mexican-American mom and dad have different plans. Xander Amaro Is a new hire at Nacho's. For him, the job is an opportunity...
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The "emotions, identities, and relationships of three very different American women living in same small expat community in Hong Kong ... As each woman struggles with her own demons, their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all."--
Three very different American women live in the same small expat community in Hong Kong. Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident...
17) Snakehead
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China thrillers volume 4
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301 pages ; 23 cm.
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In the fourth of Peter May's China thrillers, American pathologist Margaret Campbell finds herself back on home soil, only to be faced by a truck full of dead Chinese and an unavoidable confrontation with her past.
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Space runners volume 2
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Spreading the word of the dangers still threatening Earth, Benny Love and his Moon Platoon friends track down Elijah West's long-missing research partner and wonder if he is trustworthy enough to be part of the team protecting the planet from a next wave of alien invaders.
19) Tattoo of death
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Choose your own adventure volume 22
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113 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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The reader must make the right decisions in order to get out of the Red Flowers gang and their evil business of importing illegal aliens into a life of violence and modern-day slavery.
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280 pages ; 24 cm
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The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers' money for a mechanic and have not returned. Those left behind have no choice but to wait. Héctor finds a name in his friend César's phone. AnniMac. A name with an American number. He must reach her, both for rescue and to pass along the message César has come so far to deliver. But are his messages going through?
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