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"Aurora is suspenseful storytelling--both large scale and small--at its finest"--
In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son. Then the lights go out, not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her...
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"An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Cline's imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe."--Booklist, starred review.
"In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the Oasis. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines -- puzzles that are based...
3) The switch
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On the day of Henry Ludd's thirteenth birthday, the power goes out. No phones, no news, people descending in lawlessness-- and in the chaos, Henry's father has gone missing.
5) Year one
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"A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author--an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magic, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives... It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more...
6) SolarCycle
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Chris Stetkiewicz
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Imagine a world with an endless supply of clean, affordable solar power. Ending the world's dependency on fossil fuels sweeps away global warming and eliminates the threat of climate change.
Like any major innovation, breakthrough green energy also brings untold wealth and power. Its creators can extract almost any concession from pliable elected officials - like an end to personal privacy and antitrust laws, and even the destruction of the free press....
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A security consultant receives a key to a storage unit from a dead woman, a reputed ecoterrorist. Inside is a taxidermied animal. Seeking for why the woman contacted her, time is running out, for her and the world.
Security consultant "Jane Smith" receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, was a reputed ecoterrorist...
8) Lockdown
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Fringe volume 4
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"When two missing Recon operatives returned to the compound, speculations ran wild about where they had been. Harper is certain they're infected with a deadly virus, but she's locked away in the cages, facing ten to twenty years behind bars. Blaze thinks Harper has a shot at being released, but nobody can save Eli from Constance. Jayden is torturing him for information on his brother's whereabouts, and as Constance's newest lackey, Celdon is caught...
9) Game over
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Scholastic Inc
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[2022]
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English
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Welcome to HIVE, the world's most popular virtual reality game. Everyone's addicted to it kids, parents, and even teachers. Everyone, that is, except for Kara Tilden, who has never warmed to it ever since her mom disappeared, and Kara has reason to believe HIVE had something to do with it. And with a new update about to launch, everyone around Kara is even more obsessed with it, including her friends and boyfriend, Gus. But when the upgrade finally...
10) Humans, bow down
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The Great War is over. The Robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices--they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it's a crime to be human. And the robots aren't content--following the orders of their soulless leader, they're planning to conquer humanity's last refuge. With nothing left to lose, Six, a feisty, determined young woman whose family was...
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Ediciones B
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2021.
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Español
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En una sociedad vacia y marcada por las diferencias de clase, casi todos aceptan sin oposicion la perdida de libertades y las prohibiciones. Nadie se hace preguntas. Tras la Gran Pandemia, ya son muy pocos quienes se atreven a recordar que un mundo mejor fue posible. Julia Romero es una joven periodista que se niega a aceptar la version oficial de que su padre, un reportero que abandono repentinamente el oficio anos atras, se ha suicidado. Cuando...
12) Cosmopolis
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[Publisher not identified]
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©2020
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English
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"Jason Menounos lives in a small town on a planet colonized by the United States using the labor of illegal immigrants and governed as a U.S. territory. Those immigrants were told that their efforts would earn them U.S. Citizenship but now, over a hundred years later, that promise is still unfulfilled and tensions are running high. After a series of violent attacks rock the city of Cosmopolis, Jason is framed, singled out as the terrorist mastermind....
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[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Cyber Security Analyst Kate McCarthy knows something ominous is about to happen in the US banking system. She has a place to go if things get hectic, but it's far from the perfect retreat. When a new breed of computer virus takes down America's financial network, chaos and violence erupt. Access to cash disappears and credit cards become worthless. Desperate consumers are left with no means to purchase food, fuel, and basic necessities. Society melts...
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Children of Eden volume 1
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English
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"Rowan is a second child in a world where population control measures make her an outlaw, marked for death. She can never go to school, make friends, or get the eye implants that will mark her as a true member of Eden. Indeed, her kaleidoscopic eyes may very well give her away to the ruthless Center government. Outside of Eden, Earth is poisoned and dead. All animals and most plants have been destroyed by a man-made catastrophe. Long ago, the brilliant...
15) Morning star
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Red rising novels volume 3
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English
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Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society's mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
17) Kamikaze '89
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Film Movement
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[2016]
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Deutsch
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Set in a future dystopian West Germany, police lieutenant Jansen is tasked with infiltrating a mysterious organization that controls all media to discover the source of the bomb threats they have been receiving.
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Little Island Books
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2023.
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English
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"Aria lives on a well-ordered planet whose people have eradicated illness and even death. Earth is their 'shadow planet' which they populated with humans centuries ago so they could study them and learn from their experiences. Now the experiment is coming to an end and Aria must go to Earth with her scientist father to set off a train of events which will destroy its people. Brought up to believe that humans are inferior, Aria is shocked to discover...
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Dynamite Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"In the future, when mankind has spread across the stars, the hierarchy of man is dictated by the color of one's caste. The Golds rule all, but what will happen when one falls for a lowly Red? See how a forbidden love will set the course of events for the future and lead to the formation of the formidable Sons of Ares!"--Jacket flap.
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"The first in a new series from Hater author David Moody, One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning is brimming with horror. Fifteen people are trapped on Skek, a barren island in the middle of the North Sea somewhere between the coasts of the UK and Denmark. Over the years this place has served many purposes--a fishing settlement, a military outpost, a scientific base--but one by one its inhabitants have abandoned its inhospitable shores. Today it's home...
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