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"Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate...
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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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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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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...
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The Tide Runner - Christopher HoltAfter too long away from our Book Shelves, Christopher Holt is back with a bang !In this superb novel, he once again, shows us the joy and power of real prose.Simply WonderfulJohn Brown - Bookopedia Few knew that Gaius Proctor, the brilliant ecologist and UN Director of Ecosystems was a raving psychopath who loathed and detested every person on the planet including himself.It was Proctor who created the Intercontinental...
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How it was. How it is. How it shall be.
For over two thousand years, the animals of Willowbrook Wood have lived side by side, sometimes at peace, more often at war. Empires have risen. Empires have fallen. After two millennia of conflict and strife, the animals of the wood have resolved to end the senseless bloodshed once and for all.
The Willowbrook Union, the great pan-species alliance was founded to bring peace and prosperity to all. But now,...
8) 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...
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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...
10) 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...
11) 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...
12) 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...
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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...
14) 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...
15) Le Tirage Royal
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Le Tirage Royal est de retour cette année au royaume d'Ereya. Les jeunes de 18 ans du Bronze, de l'Argent, de l'Or et de la Cité Royale connaîtront enfin leur partenaire de mariage. Le Tirage de cette année s'avère spécial : le prince Ethan et la princesse Juliana, les jumeaux royaux, y participent.
Pour beaucoup, joindre la famille royale et vivre au palais est un rêve. Pour Victoria, toutefois, ce Tirage n'est qu'un cauchemar. Il signifie...
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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.
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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) Breathers
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Even when our own planet can no longer sustain us, humanity clings to life in this thoughtful dystopia where a single breath of "fresh" air can kill.
Follow the lives of a small cast of survivors as they struggle to keep going in a world where the air carries a fatal virus. A detective must battle his own demons; a pair of siblings question the supposed apocalypse when the impossible happens; a mother and daughter fight tooth and nail to stay together;...
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When Emma Reed journeyed back to her hometown in Alaska, she was expecting little more than a tense family reunion.
But early that morning, a plane full of militarized vampires in a hijacked Russian warplane crash landed in the thick woods near the mountain and changed her life forever.
This thrilling tale combines the action-packed drama of Red Dawn and the horror of 30 Days of Night, as these invaders aren't just here to control the American...
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