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643) MaddAddam: a novel
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MaddAddam trilogy volume 3
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"Bringing together characters from Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy confirms the ultimate endurance of humanity, community, and love. Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against man...
644) Eternal: a novel
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Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love, with both Sandro and Marco hoping to win Elisabetta's heart. But in the autumn of 1937,...
645) Proyecto Hail Mary
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"Ryland Grace es el único superviviente en una misión desesperada. Es la última oportunidad y, si fracasa, la humanidad y la Tierra misma perecerán. Claro que, de momento, él no lo sabe. Ni siquiera puede recordar su propio nombre, y mucho menos la naturaleza de su misión o cómo llevarla a cabo. Lo único que sabe es que ha estado en coma inducido durante mucho mucho tiempo. Acaba de despertar y se encuentra a millones de kilómetros de su...
646) River of blue fire
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Otherland volume 2
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"Otherland. In many ways it is humankind's most stunning achievement: a private, multidimensional universe built over two generations by the greatest minds of the twenty-first century. But this most exclusive of places is also one of the world's best kept secrets, created and controlled by an organization made up of the world's most powerful and ruthless individuals, a private cartel known—to those who know of their existence at all—as The Grail...
647) Unsinkable
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"Violet Jessop is Miss Unsinkable. After her mother becomes too ill to work, the responsibility to provide for the family falls to Violet as the oldest of nine. When the world enters the Great War, she serves as a nurse, helping men who could very well be her brothers. Working as a stewardess and wartime nurse, Violet not only survives a shipwreck but also two sinkings, one on the infamous Titanic. No one can understand why she would return to sea,...
648) Grace under fire
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"Grace Isabel MacKenna has a hundred things to do today. Killing someone isn’t one of them. It is supposed to be a quick visit to Boston for the Buchanan anniversary party, then on to Scotland to collect an inheritance. She checks into her hotel and then decides to go for a brisk walk. But after getting lost, she ends up with a wounded man stumbling into her arms—and his shooter coming after them both. When she fires back in self-defense, she...
649) San ti
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"Di qiu wang shi" san bu qu volume 3
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"Wénhuà dàgémìng rúhuǒrútú jìnxíng de tóngshí, jūn fāng tànxún wài xīng wénmíng de jué mì jìhuà “hóng àn gōngchéng” qǔdéle túpò xìng jìnzhǎn. Dàn zài àn xià fāshè jiàn dì nà yīkè, lìjīng jiénàn de yèwénjié méiyǒu yìshí dào, tā chèdǐ gǎibiànle rénlèi de mìngyùn. Dìqiú wénmíng xiàng yǔzhòu fāchū de dì yī shēng tí míng, yǐ tàiyáng wéi zhōngxīn, yǐ guāngsù...
650) Tomorrow's children
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"Years ago, Tomorrow – a noxious cloud of funky gas – descended on Manhattan, cutting the island off from the rest of the world and mutating the remaining population. Now, survivors exist amid the rubble of modernity, wearing cast-off clothing from generations past, worshipping celebrities from the past as ambivalent gods and communicating through roughly drawn emojis. Manhattan exists in a state of delicate balance between neighbourhoods, with...
651) The hike
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"When sisters Cat and Ginny travel with their husbands to the idyllic Swiss Alps for a hiking holiday, it’s not just a chance to take in the stunning scenery. It’s an opportunity to reconnect with each other after years of drifting apart—and patch up marriages that are straining at the seams. As they head into the mountains, morale is high, but as the terrain turns treacherous, cracks in the relationships start to show. With worrying signs that...
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"Journeying into the unknown is a scary prospect, but together Guy and Summer can navigate any challenge. The two castaways strike out in this curious, blocky world, searching for a way home. As they cross the Overworld—traversing frozen wastelands and scorching deserts—the pair makes an exciting discovery: a community populated by villagers! Guy and Summer settle in to learn more about their new friends, trading with the residents and exploring...
653) Unvaccinated
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"The chilling realization that there were millions of other orphaned children struck Mo soon after his dying neighbor thrust the boy into his care. Then Deb, a retired schoolteacher hellbent on saving as many children as possible, upended Mo's loner ways. Together, they forge a small community of unvaccinated survivors. An unlikely group of heroes emerges from the ashes of civilization to join them: Dee, an inner-city gang member with a violent background;...
654) The Hawthorne blow
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"When Sam Halvorsen rescues recreational diver, Heather Case, they inadvertently set loose an evil that has been trapped at the bottom of Lake Superior since The Hawthorn went down during a frigid storm in November, 1886. After hearing reports of a ghost-ship and frozen bodies in the middle of July, Sam and Heather realize they have to rescue their town. But they don't even know what they are up against. Now, sixteen-year-old, Lily Swanson's powers...
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Just a few days after she gives birth alone in the Northwoods, a recently widowed young Chippewa woman stumbles into a nearby lumber camp in search of refuge and sustenance. Come summer, the camp owner sends Skypilot, his most trusted friend, to accompany Moon Song and her baby on the long and treacherous journey back to her people. But when tragedy strikes off the shore of Michigan's Upper Peninsula wilderness, Moon Song and Skypilot must depend...
656) Impasse
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"In Royce Scott Buckingham's Impasse, a man is left to die in Alaska while on an "adventure vacation" and must somehow survive to get his revenge on those who betrayed him. Forty and facing a mid-life crisis, Stu Stark has lost his mojo. He simply gave up after being fired from his prestigious job as a prosecuting attorney for losing the biggest case of his career. So when Stu's best friend gifts him a one-week trip into the Alaskan wilderness to...
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"1893. El pintor Francisco Oller entra en un pacto siniestro, un desesperado intento por ponerle fin a su obra maestra, El Velorio. 1970. En medio de luchas estudiantiles en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, un guardia de seguridad del Museo de Historia, Antropologia y Arte en su primer dia de trabajo presencia un asesinato y descubre una carta que lo convierte en complice. En la actualidad: Luego de una noche llena de errores, cuatro adolescentes se...
658) 36 streets
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Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this fast-paced, intelligent, action-driven cyberpunk, probing questions of memory, identity, and the power of narratives. Lin "The Silent One" Vu is a gangster and sometime private investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider. Through grit and courage Lin has carved...
659) Barbarian mine
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Ice planet barbarians volume 4
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"The fourth novel in the Ice Planet Barbarians series, an international publishing phenomenon--now in a special print edition with bonus materials and an exclusive story! Harlow receives the shock of her life when she wakes up to see Rukh, a stranger who has clearly been on his own for most of his life, but she soon learns that there is much more to this gruff savage than meets the eye. The ice planet has given me a new lease on life, so I'm thrilled...
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Hunger Games volume 1
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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through a televised survival competition pitting young people against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Sus prinicipios se pondrán a prueba con "Los juegos del hambre", espectáculo televisado que el Capitolio organiza para humillar a la población. Cada año, 2 representantes de cada distrito...
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