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1) Prophet song
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Atlantic Monthly Press
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2023.
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"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
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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...
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The story is set in a near future where reality and fantasy coexist. The consequences of poor decisions made by humanity, society, and individuals have taken a toll. Pre-Hispanic and European mythology converge in this tale. It follows the journey of a hero, a warrior, as they navigate the battle between Light and Darkness across di erent alternate worlds stacked on top of each other. It follows the journey of a hero, a warrior, as they navigate the...
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Cuatro años después del inicio de la catástrofe, Clarisse Stevens aún recorre las Rocallosas de Colorado y los alrededores de Boulder en busca del líder de los forajidos, Nick Elliot. Ella descubrirá su paradero y se dirigirá hacia su base. Se encontrará con sobrevivientes durante su viaje. No todos serán aliados. Clarisse deberá luchar por su supervivencia antes de llegar a su destino. El enfrentamiento final con Elliot y sus hombres se...
5) The Fall
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In modern-day Seattle, Cole paces through the mundane, counting down the minutes until he can see his fiancée, Beth, to celebrate his 26th birthday. However, they did not celebrate when an emergency telecast took over every screen in the country to announce the impending nuclear doom, flying toward every major city in the United States. The city fell into chaos while Cole and Beth fought their way home to simply enjoy their last night alone and...
6) Erasures
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The year is 2049.
Following a brutal seven-year war, Earth teeters on the brink of destruction. The World Congress is convened to identify the enemy: unpredictability.
Deep in the subterranean corridors of Zone 4 Literature Hub, Head Archivist Ray Blankenship is tasked with digitizing humanity's remaining books. In this new world, meticulously organized, monitored, and managed, Ray is restless. In the absence of chance, mystery, and...
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Embark on an epic journey that defies genre, seamlessly blending elements of dystopian and historical fiction while traversing time, from Eden's ancient gardens to the enduring enclaves of the USSR, and even further, to celestial chambers scattered among the stars.The Judas Kiss offers you a spellbinding odyssey that navigates through epochs and landscapes, unified by the presence of a mysterious child. Could he be an Armenian boy orphaned by the...
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"In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who...
9) Meteor
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Troy has spent thousands of dollars building an underground bunker in preparation for what he believes will be a pending apocalypse. His family, and most of his friends, think him crazy. But when a massive meteor slams into Africa, sending soot and debris into the atmosphere and leaving the world in perpetual darkness, Troy's prepping is the only thing keeping his family alive. With food shortages, acid rain and a breakdown of civilization, will Troy's...
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I'll turn into f…. Houdini and disappear.When the woman he loves says that she no longer wants to see him, M÷ doesn't know what to do, what to say. Instead of pleading, he walks away while trying to keep the pieces of his broken heart together. Around him, the world is spinning out of control.A new war has started, the Queen has died, Elon has bought Twitter, Tate is trying to escape the agents of the Matrix, while the mysterious Invisible Hand...
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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...
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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.
13) Asylum
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Barry James is detained in a quarantine facility in the blistering heat of the Great Karoo. Here he exists in two worlds: the unforgiving reality of his incarceration and the lyrical landscapes of his dreams.He has cut all ties with his previous life, his health is failing, and he has given up all hope. All he has to cling to are the meanderings of his restless mind, the daily round of pills and the journals he reluctantly keeps as testimony to a...
14) 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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It's been 20 years since the original crew of the Serenity was busy smuggling contraband, ferrying travelers, and having close calls with the Alliance and they've all gone their separate ways.
Zoë Washburne and her daughter, Emma find themselves at the helm of the Serenity and they must cobble together a new crew of castaways and misfits to navigate this brand new 'Verse. But there is a world-shattering discovery beyond the Rim and together they...
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Once Upon a Time at the End of the World volume 11
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From their initial meet cute in the wasteland to the paradise oasis they built in adulthood, everything in Maceo and Mezzy's story has led to this.
Torn asunder by the events of the critically acclaimed Book Two, each faces old age and the unforgiving end of all things, isolated on a planet breathing its last breaths.
But fate has other plans for these star-crossed lovers, and they will be reunited one last time... with nothing less than the fate...
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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?
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As a hail of gunfire erupts, the fate of the crew (and the Prime Minister!) is firmly in the hands of Zoë… What decision will she make?
Featuring a thrilling conclusion and some big surprises for longtime fans, the final issue of The Fall Guys is not one that any Firefly fan can afford to miss.
19) 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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After the Second World War, the world divided into five major blocs: the Third Empire, encompassing most European countries; the Capitalist Axis, consisting of the United States, England, Russia, and Israel; the Arab Kingdom, comprising Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, joined later by Morocco; the Latin Empire, formed by all Latin American countries with Cuba at the forefront; and the Yellow Dynasty, constituted by China, Taiwan, Korea, and Mongolia....
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