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In a world where the dead roam, it's the living who are dangerous. Brielle, Zola, and Shreya; three military women fight their way out of a neighborhood overrun by the dead only to discover it may have been the safest place to stay. Trained to survive any situation, nothing prepared them for a society where the dead come back to life. Ilaria; a woman on her own loses all hope of finding anyone to help her, until she finds three others who share...
22) Fury: A novel
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Fury employs the power of mythology and Mexican magical realism to trace a twisted
genealogical tree. Vicente Barrera's uncontrolled libido leaves a trail of offspring across his
native soil. Lázaro and Juan, soldiers from opposing camps in an unnamed war, live out their
tortured love in the desert, where Salvador, a mortuary assistant, loses his human form while
following the ghost of his murdered childhood sweetheart. In the desert, destinies...
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Reality and fiction intertwine in this female dystopia. Through the life stories of Lilith, Eva, Madalena, Joana, Anita and Mariele, six survivors, the narrative takes us through a world that violates its women.
Lu Aranha weaves with words a real, cruel and honest plot about gender violence, from heritage to politics, and transforms the dream of female freedom into literature.
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Survival volume 1
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When Emma Reed journeyed back to her hometown in Alaska, she was expecting little more than a tense family reunion.
But early that morning, a plane full of militarized vampires in a hijacked Russian warplane crash landed in the thick woods near the mountain and changed her life forever.
This thrilling tale combines the action-packed drama of Red Dawn and the horror of 30 Days of Night, as these invaders aren't just here to control the American...
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In the post-apocalypse, paradise can't last for long in… THE RISE AND FALL OF GOLGONOOZA!
A secluded suburban community is the last thing Maceo and Mezzy expected to find, especially one so well-preserved and well-stocked. As more people come to reside in this settlement called Golgonooza, it flourishes, and becomes a home for Mezzy and Maceo, just as they become home to each other.
However, the cracks in Maceo and Mezzy's oasis turn to chasms...
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Rook Exodus volume 1
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Series premiere
Geoff johns (Geiger) And Jasonfabok, the celebrated Teambehind the smash hit batman: Three jokers, reunite for an all-new science fiction series!
Hundreds of years from now, the Manknown as rook was once a simple farmer who fled the crumbling earth for a new life on the planet exodus; A terraformed planet where all of nature, including its imported animal population, was completely controlled by humans called wardens. But when exodus's...
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Once Upon a Time at the End of the World volume 13
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The Ravagers, a group that Mezzy was once involved with who are hellbent on destroying the world, are primed to do just that, having been interested in Maceo's machines.
With Maceo determined to stop them from doing the unthinkable, will Mezzy be able to find him in time to save not just the one she once loved, but what's left of the world?
28) The kill factor
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A contestant on a brand-new game show offering young criminals the chance at freedom and a cash prize by winning over viewers, Emerson desperately needs the money to save her family, but little does she know that winning is her only chance at survival because losing means death
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We've become dangerous...Our city is divided. Not just by the river that separates poor from rich, but by a government who throws away people who are not good enough. We're Avoidables, a race of people who have been shunned, judged and persecuted for the way we look and the rare gifts we have. We're ready for justice, we're ready for war. We're ready to seek vengeance for lifetimes of hatred. We've become dangerous.And, yet, a small glimmer of hope...
30) Islanders
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One journey can change everything-for you and everyone else...ISLANDERS: A dystopian adventure for young adults from prize-winning author John Barlow.***Ben Brewer has lived all his life on the Island. But things are getting unbearable. There's hardly any food and there's nothing to do. Plus, the adults are so scared they won't let anyone leave.Thirteen years ago, the Mainland was torn apart by war and contaminated by biological weapons. Ben's parents...
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"Captured... Now what? I didn't know what I didn't know, but now that I did, my captors might have bitten off more than they could chew. Apparently I'm a badass..."
Employing my newly re-acquired skills of deception and manipulation, I led the Flexmen on a wild goose chase to serve my own purposes. Could I find Jake? If I did, could I still trust him? How much could revenge ultimately cost me?
Yet again, I wasn't who I, or Jake, thought I was. The...
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Take a dive into the future and behold its a world shrouded by the mists of Apocalypse, climate change and other worldly misspell have begun to plague the planet will there arise a hero from the ashes or will the world be plunged into chaos read this book and find out more
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In the tradition of Squid Game and The Hunger Games welcome to the dystopian future of mass entertainment in 2084 for a counselling show with a difference: Patient vs Counsellor. Where the counsellor must guess the patient's serious psychosexual problem to win a star prize, or face humiliatingly Forfeit-Fun. On tonight's show we have three contestants: Katy, a former beauty queen now obese, counselled by Captain Stanislav Boglosovic, a former military...
34) Fire and Ice
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Mayday
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We are being attacked! The jungle is coming to life!
A distress beacon is sent from a lost colony and dispatched from Earth is a rescue mission to find and save the colonists. But what happens when that ships goes missing? This is problem that Captain Everton Crane is faced with. As his rescue party land on the planet they must overcome massive odds just to survive.
As he struggles to save his crew from a hostile world,...
35) The World Inside
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Welcome to Urban Monad 116. Reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the one thousand stories of this building are home to over eight hundred thousand people living in peace and harmony. In the year 2381 with a world population of over seventy-five billion souls, the massive Urbmon system is humanity's salvation.
Life in Urbmon 116 is highly regulated, life is cherished, and the culture of procreation is seen as the highest pinnacle of god's plan....
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Seven years after a collapse in society, Kaleah is tired of running from both sides of an endless war. No longer able to bear the loneliness and internal dialog that have become her only companions, she pretends to be a spy and gives herself up, hoping for a quick, merciful death.
Things quickly become complicated when neither she nor her Capture Agent, Jake, get who they expected. Not far into her self-inflicted death march, a forbidden love...
37) Swarm
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"Truly chilling, Flynn's stories will stick with you long after reading."-Matthew Hutton, The Scare Room Podcast The town of Drachton is crumbling, with crime and violence perpetuating around the clock. Prisons are at bursting point, and morale is at an all time low. The government's answer is Swarm-a revolutionary new prison.Swarm is a correctional facility like no other, harnessing the power of the inmates' subconscious minds for the benefit of...
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The earth is recovering from the Acid Head War, in which hallucinogenic chemicals were the primary weapon. Many humans are now suffering from delusions and are unable to tell the real from the imaginary. When a man named Colin Charteris tries to make sense of the drugged-out world, he is taken as the new messiah. As he descends into paranoid visions, he begins to believe this himself.
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Woestynn Prison is the most desolate prison planet of the Ruben System, a desert wasteland meant for the worst of prisoners.Ford is a new recruit from the Academy, hoping to make a name for himself in this notorious place.When arriving he finds more than he expects, and grows more than he could have imagined.
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"Sometimes we have to sacrifice what we want most for the ones we love... Even if the thing we want most, we can't live without."
New York wasn't anything like I thought it would be and neither was Jake's wealthy family. At least, now I was safe... or was I? Hiding in plain sight, I was submerged in high society expectations, with dire consequences if anyone found out who I really was.
The discovery of Jake's past shed new light on his motivations...
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