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This dystopian drama tells of prosperous farmer Clay Sanderson, who marries wealthy and spoiled Diana Brockman. She had considered Evan Hunter, a handsome evangelist, but rejected him because he was poor. Diana's crusading sister, Jan, sees worth in Evan's work and joins him. The four intertwined lives are reaching for far different goals. When disaster strikes the farmlands, hunger follows, giving the state and church opportunity to seize control....
42) Nodus Tollens
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Andrew's father, Control, is the leader of a horrible, ruthless kingdom known as Sora and has taken control over almost everything and everyone. With the magic races hiding, still trying to recover from the war, it seems like nothing can stop him. Only a small rebel kingdom known as Lierra seems to stand in the way. Control trusts his son to infiltrate Lierra, instructing him to send back information and to kill one of Lierra's leaders, a shaman named...
43) Revelation
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Sinna is headed back to Rehabilitation.
Like it or not, she doesn't see any other alternatives.
She can't just pretend everything is okay.
She can't just hide out in the Garden like a coward.
But how will they get back there?
And what will happen when they do?
Will they be able make it back out alive a second time?
Sinna isn't at all sure about any of it, but her conscience won't let her back out now.
She can only pray she's making the right...
44) Marsupial Tracks
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As a jaded regular in the city's underground music scene, the only thing that mattered to Jacob Blythe was punk rock. When the arrival of a mysterious girl tempts him into seeing a vision of the world that exists beyond the confines of his cosmic nihilism, Jacob finds himself helpless to resist it.
Now, sitting alone in an unfamiliar train station, and possessing no memory of how he got there, Jacob has no choice but to piece together the scattered...
45) Life Slice
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Featuring a pair of dystopian tales - A Slice of Perfection: Jax lives the perfect life - Ananke completes him. The CIty: Only those who have lived my ever truly die. Volume Three in the Sci-Fi Stories Series by the award-winning author Michael Lynes.
46) Night Whispers
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From New York Times bestselling author Calinda B, comes a dystopian tale of ruthless struggle and triumph.
For two long terrifying years, Sakhi Borren, and her beloved brother Reve, are headed to live at The Complex. An enclosed metal and concrete manufactured world on the barren planet Lorn, the Complex is some government's version of a good idea. Its sole purpose is to "heal the rifts between warring races" -- a joke if ever Sakhi heard one. If...
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The world as we know it almost ended in 2007-08 due to financial failure. If it had happened America would have been on its knees, then the world would have followed. Imagine having all the technology but no place to plug it in. Could Americans live off the grid and rebuild the country? Would they make the same mistakes?
48) Survivor's Eyes
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With mankind on the edge of extinction, can our humanity survive? Or is civilisation just a thin, fragile veneer, masking our animal nature?
In the ruins of our society, a lonely, bitter man ekes out an existence, shying away from all human contact. He struggles with starvation and ever-present mortal danger. However, his greatest battle is to try and retain some vestige of the civilised man he once was, even if that means living alone.
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Henrique P. is one of the many teenagers that moved to Lisbon to study and he's quickly introduced to the world of temporary work and call centres, working in customer service for a telecommunications company.
Whilst working as an operator in Portugal's capital, Henrique crosses paths with a lot of different people, from the intellectuals to the failed artists, or the down-and-outs from his young generation.
Throughout the capital's streets,...
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Individuals are tools of production and consumption, relentlessly looking for pleasure that never comes. Their same "self" vanishes while attempting to fill up the emptiness of their existences completely dehumanized and possessed by the totalitarian law of profit. Neither old nor new values will never appease their plight while the social regime remains unaltered. Until the social room we all occupy is humanized, there is no chance for Man to finally...
51) Dátrebil
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¿Qué tienen en común una chica que se arroja desde una decimosexta planta, un necrolector, un vagabundo filósofo, una enigmática joven rusa, la Mafia, un tipo con once dedos exproxeneta y novelista retirado, una prostituta pariente de la Justine de Sade, un botín millonario robado, una huida y una implacable persecución?
Sobrevivir como modo de pensar, como la melodía que atraviesa y cierra Dátrebil, fórmula narrativa pura, sin cortar, de...
52) me insoumises
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Les âmes saignent. Les cœurs réclament vengeance.
L'humiliation. Les tortures. La mort. Après avoir perdu ce qu'ils avaient de plus précieux, les immortels risquent de sombrer dans les méandres de la douleur. Ou de la folie.
Entre colère, résignation et impuissance, ils devront se battre pour survivre. La solidarité deviendra alors leur arme la plus redoutable. Et, pour trouver la paix, il leur faudra panser des plaies terribles, celles...
53) Tokyo Narita
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What would you do in Eva's situation? An unjustly infamous convict, now fugitive, Eva Vega, escapes a possible execution sentence. When she reunites with her best friend, Hunter Zadlin, and flees to his apartment complex with him, they meet with two other friends. Eventually creating and going through with a ploy to overthrow the dictator of Tokyo Narita. After sneaking into the Chancellery, later running into her former keeper, they uncover one of...
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She has one final chance to embrace her destiny or lose it all.
Twenty years ago Bethany Harris fell in love with Aaron Vaughn, but then she shattered his heart. When the Veil fell two years later, she became the leader of the Western States. She wasn't ready for the job, but she stepped up and did it. She couldn't have done that without Aaron's friendship and support.
Since then they've become lovers in the physical sense, but Bethany continues...
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Ebere coped well with her misery until her life suddenly darkened when she was denied education because she was a girl and her mother had passed away. Although her mother gave her the lamp that was believed to show her the way out, her father's breath blew it out by saying, "Girls are not made to carry the lamp. Rather, they are meant to put the stove on." Emeka, her younger brother, was their father's favourite and must carry the lamp because he...
56) Isa
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The Claiming Destination Series continues in Book 3, "Isa".
Although little Isabelle is now safe in the Alpha Base refuge and has bonded with rebellious young Dillon, the lingering effects of the mord virus causes many of her fellow residents to distrust her. Adding to the danger, United Earth Federation spies infiltrate Alpha in search of her for their own evil motivations. In the meantime, Coltan's health is in jeopardy when it becomes apparent...
57) Hurricane
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Being a telepath means there is always a new challenge.
Eighteen-year-old Amber is the youngest of the five telepaths who protect the hundred million citizens of one of the great hive cities of twenty-sixth century Earth. Her job is hunting down criminals before they commit their crimes, but this time a simple case leads on to something far bigger.
This is a case where Amber's team have to face the unknown and break all the rules they usually follow,...
58) Raise the Stakes
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It starts when you're always afraid.
Seven Corporations run the former United States on the codes of conduct their founders set down. You're signed into a Corporate contract the day you're born. And the fear of dropping in the Citizen Standing Scores keeps people in line. What choice is there?
The Democratic State Force has fought for the return of democracy for decades, but they need the restless population of America to fight beside them if they're...
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The San Andreas Fault gives way on Valentine's Day causing a domino effect of worldwide catastrophes killing a quarter of the Earth's population in a matter of hours. Within a year, ague grippe-25 claims the lives of 99.9 percent of those who remain--its flulike symptoms ending in a sleeping death. The survivors begin a new era called "The Awakening," named for the paranormal mutations that create supernatural abilities. Chaz Jordan has the ability...
60) Un si beau monde
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Dans la société future d'Esthética, l'apparence est devenue une obsession. Dès la naissance, le potentiel génétique d'un individu détermine son avenir, pour autant que ledit potentiel satisfasse aux exigences, faute de quoi, c'est l'exil.
Dionysos et Aphrodite sont parmi les plus beaux de la caste platine. Une vie luxueuse les attend. Ils ont tout pour être heureux. Pourquoi le jeune homme ne peut-il pas simplement accepter les choses telles...
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