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"Delhi, the near future: Bibi, a low-ranking employee of a global consulting firm, is tasked with finding a man long thought to be dead but who now appears to be the source of a vast collection of documents. The trove purports to reveal the secrets of the Indian government, including detention centers, mutated creatures, engineered viruses, experimental weapons, and alien wrecks discovered in remote mountain areas. Bhopal, 1984: an assassin tracks...
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For the first time, an audio production is available of Michael Cunningham's critically acclaimed novel-published to coincide with the release of the feature film starring Colin Farrell and Dallas Roberts… Michael Cunningham's celebrated novel is the story of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate,...
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A boy finds himself a survivor after a traumatic, mysterious event that occurs all over the world. Without any kind of communication, he must resort to new ways of coping.
He writes his thoughts in a two-year diary as he tries to come to terms with the events happening to him. He goes on a road trip to find other members of his family and meets many exciting, frightening and dramatic events on the way.
He must learn new skills and adapt to the new...
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Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data complex backs up and protects our most vital information against decay and destruction, and yet it binds us to corporate and government institutions whose power is also preserved in its bunkers,...
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A unique illustrated exploration of our favorite oceanic beacons and their haunted histories.
There is something beautiful and wild in the impossible architecture of lighthouses. These precariously perched structures have been the homes and workplaces of keepers whose romantic guardianship has saved countless lives from cruel seas. While that way of life may have faded away, as the lights go out and the buildings crumble, we still have their stories.
This...
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Grasshopper and Ant aren't exactly enemies, but they're certainly not friends. Grasshopper lives for the moment. He likes to practice yoga and rehearse with his band. But Ant keeps messing up Grasshopper's flow with loud construction. Ant is a planner. He is convinced the world is going to end, so he's building a bunker. Grasshopper can't help but be annoyed. But all that changes when disaster strikes! Is it the end of the world? Can Grasshopper convince...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 On January 3, 1942, an assembly of top army officers was flying in to meet with their naval counterparts, with whom they rarely agreed on anything. The meeting was to discuss the invasion of New Guinea, which lay just eleven hundred miles to the southwest.
#2 In 1940, the Imperial Army had promoted Horii to major general and assigned him command of the South...
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The world used to be crowded before all the people went away, but Griz and his parents were never lonely on their remote island. They had each other and their dogs. Then the thief came. There may be no laws left, but if someone steals your dog, you can expect someone to come after you, because what's the point of love if you're not loyal.
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"Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world—and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the Northern Hemisphere. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s account of these sought-after fungi offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: What manages to live in the ruins we have made? The Mushroom at the End of the World explores the unexpected corners of matsutake commerce, where we encounter Japanese...
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 14
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The pending arrival of Halley's Comet forces the constabulary to contend with hysterical citizens convinced it portends the world's end. A doomsayer is stabbed, and the investigation leads to James Pendrick, who plans to save the best and brightest.
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Maceo is determined to prove himself the only way he knows how, and his stubbornness brings Mezzy's ire.
But the Wasteland Rangers prove too dangerous even for Mezzy, and Maceo will have to do more than a symbolic gesture if they want to make it out alive.
Will love prevail… at least for a while?
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In this decades spanning post-apocalyptic tale, Maceo and Mezzy have never met anyone like each other, and they’ll need all the help they can get to survive a planet ravaged by environmental catastrophe.
“Love in the Wasteland” kicks off the first arc of this epic trilogy that spans a lifetime as the dark mysteries of a ruined world and their own stark differences tear at the threads holding Mezzy and Maceo together. As they endure the horrors...
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Captain Scarlet volume 9
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Scarlet and Blue track a rogue Russian Druzynik tank into Alaska and discover an entire town that's been taken over by the Mysterons. Then Scarlet is forced to make a life or death choice between his friend and the future of the entire human race!
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What does a Christian political witness look like in our day?
Politics ought to be defined by fidelity to the common good of all the members of society. But our modern Western politics are defined by a determination to bend the natural world and human life to its own political and economic ends. This wholesale rejection of the natural order is behind the dominant revolutions in our history, and defines our experience in Western society today-our...
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A secluded suburban community is the last thing Maceo and Mezzy expected to find, especially one so well-preserved and packed with everything one would need to thrive in the wasteland.
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 wasteland won't feel satisfied with being shut out for long…
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The Apocalympics begin, but it isn't fun and games–the Wasteland Rangers won't let Maceo, a rival suitor for Mezzy, go without competing to the death!
The stakes are high as Mezzy's close connection with The Rangers' Chieftess is revealed and Maceo seems out of his league.
But there's more than one way to save someone…
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A witty search for sex and romance in the age of Covid-19. Pears is a divorced 40-something living with her mother in Queens when the unsexiest pandemic ever hits the country and smatters her potential love life. If her mother wasn't enough to cock block her, this virus does a double cock block of trapping her in masks while dosing her in hand sanitizer. With her customary dry wit, and the support of her Queens Girl Gang, Pears endeavors to find a...
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