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62) Sound of Terror
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2023
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What is more frightening than the fear of the unknown? Johnny found out!
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The pulse hits without warning.
In one harrowingly destructive instant, a mysterious seismic pulse in the Scottish Highlands rips away all semblance of global security.
When peace is shattered, fear takes over.
The stakes rise without mercy.
As the pulse's chaos spreads across the world, it becomes painfully clear that Piper McCarthy - a child born like no other - might hold humanity's only hope of averting total disaster.
But this threat isn't coming...
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A peaceful colony invaded by aliens. A generation of fear. A final spark of rebellion.
Serena witnesses one callous act too many, one indignity on top of a thousand indignities. She won't bow down so readily any longer. The Meta are not invincible, and their influence does not extend to the hearts and minds of the people. The whispers become a rallying call: REBELLION!
Twenty-five years of subjugation under the Meta leaves the human colonists of Free...
65) Cormorant Run
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Aliens meets Under the Dome in this new post-apocalyptic novel from New York Times bestseller Lilith Saintcrow.
It could have been aliens, it could have been a trans-dimensional rift, nobody knows for sure. What's known is that there was an Event, the Rifts opened up, and everyone caught inside died.
Since the Event certain people have gone into the drift. . . and come back, bearing priceless technology that's almost magical in its advancement....
66) Seedling
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Trillions of miles from home, the first human Seedling is about to be hatched...
Fifty years ago, humanity launched a probe to a distant alien world.
Thirty years ago, it arrived.
And today... contact will be made.
When alien scientists studying a mysterious object detect unfamiliar DNA, they set to work on cloning the being responsible for the incredible technology.
Now, all alone and trillions of miles from home, their fully grown human Seedling...
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Desperate times
As two worlds reel from a colossal final pulse that cuts off all contact between them, two unimaginable discoveries raise the stakes even further.
In a secret American facility, a power hidden from society for a decade is about to break free.
And something much bigger, buried deep beneath the Scottish Highlands for thousands of years, is about to rise up.
Desperate measures
All hope of restoring the gateway to New Kerguelen lies in...
68) Under the Skin
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The basis for the film starring Scarlett Johansson, award-winning author Michel Faber's Under the Skin blends elements of science fiction, grotesque comedy, horror, and thriller into a genre-jumping meditation'' (Washington Post Book World).
Isserley cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing...
Isserley cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing...
69) The Gods of Mars
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Ten years after John Carter was transported back to Earth against his will, he returns to Mars. Having been sent back to Earth before the birth of his child, Carter is desperate to reunite with his wife, Dejah, and meet their child. However, the reunion is forced to be postponed when Carter realizes that he materialized in an unfamiliar part of the planet. Known as the Valley Dor, Carter has landed in the Barsoomian afterlife, where no one is allowed...
70) Unidentified
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Troubled FBI Agent Nicole Mitchell is brought back from administrative leave and offered a second chance, to solve her most haunting case. A disturbing series of kidnappings has a small town terrified. Mitchell is certain that a serial kidnapper is exploiting local fears of UFOs and stories of alien abductions to hide in plain sight. Desperate to uncover the truth, Mitchell enlists the help of a skeptic who questions even her theory.
In three days,...
71) Jax
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Only a Talent can establish communication with the Castitaran dragons, known as numenjax. But when the communication short-circuits Confri and knocks her out cold, she thinks her part in the project is over. Until the numenjax come up with a much more creative plan!
72) Mutation
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IT LIVES. In a research hangar in Virginia, a Unit 51 team studies an ancient but long-dormant virus that can transform human physiology-and turn it into something else.. IT MUTATES. In the Amazon rainforest, a newly evolving life form known as Subject Z acquires the ability to think conceptually, build elaborate traps, create new carriers-and spawn a new race.. IT SPREADS. In Mexico and Turkey, the men and women of Unit 51 race to uncover a global...
73) Return
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From #1 worldwide bestselling fantasy author Morgan Rice comes RETURN, book #4 in a long-anticipated science fiction series. Can Kevin and Chloe survive alone in outer space? Can Luna, alone on planet Earth, avoid capture?
All hope seems lost for Kevin and Chloe as their escape pod hurtles into nothingness, as they run out of rations and supplies.
All hope seems lost for Luna as the aliens outnumber and encircle her.
If there any hope left for humanity?...
74) Iroth
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A smuggler running solo
Iroth doesn't deal in live cargo, but the job on Earth's too good to pass up-purchase a female, escort her to Kirenai Prime, and rake in the credits. Except it was all a setup. Now he's on the hook for attempting to assassinate the crown prince. To avoid being shot on sight, he's forced to assume the shape of one of the human's primitive four-legged pets. But as a mysterious ailment threatens to compromise his disguise, he...
75) Rogue Swarm
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An arms race for alien artifacts! As they seek the final pieces of a powerful alien technology, the Solaran Fleet and their xeno nemesis vie for control of the galaxy. If these relics fall into the wrong hands, Overmind X and her rogue swarm will have the advantage in the most deadly space battle the Fleet has ever fought. But a surprise visit from a wealthy and enigmatic patron complicates the admiral's plans, revealing new mysteries about the ancient...
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Stephanie Michelakakis worked and sacrificed for her position as a Lieutenant in the Coalition. She was on track to become the first woman ever accepted into a Royal Guard, specifically King Jotham's Royal Guard. Then a life-altering injury shattered her dreams. Now she must figure out how to move on with her life.
Nicholas Deffand was the youngest male ever named as the Captain of King Jotham's Royal Guard. He served and protected his King to the...
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As darkness closes in on the city of shattered light, an heiress and an outlaw must decide whether to fend for themselves or fight for each other.
As heiress to a powerful tech empire, seventeen-year-old Asa Almeida strives to prove she's more than her manipulative father's shadow. But when he uploads her rebellious sister's mind to an experimental brain, Asa will do anything to save her sister from reprogramming-including fleeing her predetermined...
78) Spaceside
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From the author of Planetside, a Best Book of 2018 (Library Journal)
A military legend is caught in the web between alien intrigue and human subterfuge…
Following his mission on Cappa, Colonel Carl Butler returns to a mixed reception. To some he is a do-or-die war hero. To the other half of the galaxy he's a pariah. Forced into retirement, he has resettled on Talca Four where he's now Deputy VP of Corporate Security, protecting a high-tech military...
79) Walpurgis III
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Evil versus evil
Conrad Bland has slaughtered tens of millions, a butcher vastly worse than Hitler. He has never considered not killing anyone who stood in his way.
He takes refuge on Walpurgis III, a planet settled by various cults of devil worshippers. He is the manifestation of the evil they revere, but now that they have come face-to-face with their beliefs, the cults desperately want Bland to be removed from their lives, their world, and entirely...
80) Planetside
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A Library Journal Best Books of 2018 pick!
--"PLANETSIDE is a smart and fast-paced blend of mystery and boots-in-the-dirt military SF that reads like a high-speed collision between Courage Under Fire and Heart of Darkness." – Marko Kloos, bestselling author of the Frontline series
--"Not just for military SF fans-although military SF fans will love it-Planetside is an amazing debut novel, and I'm looking forward to what Mammay writes next." –...
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