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The Very Fluffy Kitty, Papillon (Papillon Ser. #1)
By A. N. Kang. 2018
Papillon is a very fluffy kitty. So fluffy that he's lighter than air! His owner tries to weigh him down,…
but Papillon just wants to fly. One particularly sunny day, he floats right out the window! Exploring the wide world is exhilarating, but it's also a little scary. Will his new friend, a bird, be able to help him find his way home?Whimsical art and airy text come together seamlessly in this delightful debut by A. N. Kang.Zero-G (Outer Earth #2)
By Rob Boffard. 2016
ZERO-G is the nonstop sequel to Rob Boffard's Tracer, a brutal, gripping thrill-ride, where the hero moves like lightning and…
the consequences for failure are deadly.The clock is ticking down again for Riley Hale. She may be the newest member of Outer Earth's law enforcement team, but she feels less in control than ever. A twisted doctor bent on revenge is blackmailing her with a deadly threat. If Riley's to survive, she must follow his orders, and break a dangerous prisoner out of jail. To save her own skin, Riley must go against all her beliefs, and break every law that she's just sworn to protect. Riley's mission will get even tougher when all sectors are thrown into lock-down. A lethal virus has begun to spread through Outer Earth, and it seems little can stop it. If Riley doesn't live long enough to help to find a cure, then the last members of the human race will perish along with her. The future of humanity hangs in the balance. And time is running out.Vengeance (The Tainted Realm #1)
By Ian Irvine. 2011
Ten years ago, two children witnessed a murder that still haunts them as adults.Tali watched as two masked figures killed…
her mother and now, she has sworn revenge. Even though she is a slave. Even though she is powerless. Even though she is nothing in the eyes of those who live above ground, she will find her mother's killers and bring them to justice.Rix, heir to Hightspall's greatest fortune, is tormented by the fear that he's linked to the murder, and by a sickening nightmare that he's doomed to repeat it. When a chance meeting brings Tali and Rix together, the secrets of an entire kingdom are uncovered and a villain out of legend returns to throw the land into chaos. Tali and Rix must learn to trust each other and find a way to save the realm -- and themselves.Stealing Fire
By Jo Graham. 2010
Alexander the Great's soldier, Lydias of Miletus, has survived the final campaigns of the king's life. He now has to…
deal with the chaos surrounding his death. Lydias throws his lot in with Ptolemy, one of Alexander's generals who has grabbed Egypt as his personal territory. Aided by the eunuch Bagoas, the Persian archer Artashir, and the Athenian courtesan Thais, Ptolemy and Lydias must take on all the contenders in a desperate adventure whose prize is the fate of a white city by the sea, and Alexander's legacy.Day 21 (The 100 #2)
By Kass Morgan. 2014
It's been 21 days since the hundred landed on Earth. They're the only humans to set foot on the planet…
in centuries...or so they thought. Facing an unknown enemy, Wells attempts to keep the group together. Clarke strikes out for Mount Weather, in search of other colonists, while Bellamy is determined to rescue his sister, no matter the cost. And back on the ship, Glass faces an unthinkable choice between the love of her life and life itself.In this pulse-pounding sequel to The 100, secrets are revealed, beliefs are challenged, and relationships are tested. And the hundred will struggle to survive the only way they can -- together.Aurora
By Kim Stanley Robinson. 2015
A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, AURORA tells the incredible story of our first…
voyage beyond the solar system. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of his powers. Our voyage from Earth began generations ago. Now, we approach our new home.AURORA.Cool Hand Luke: A Novel
By Donn Pearce. 1965
'Wherever you go and whatever you do, always play a real cool hand. 'Beneath a scorching Florida sun, Boss Godfrey…
watches the chain gang. Keeps his eye on Cool Hand Luke. War hero, trouble-maker, inspiration to his fellow inmates. And just the man Boss wants to crush. . . Cool Hand Luke is the hard-hitting story of a true original. He'll play it real cool in the face of brutality. He'll always get back up after a beating. He'll eat fifty eggs in an hour, to win a bet. A man who won't conform no matter what it costs. In a powerful new adaptation for the stage by Emma Reeves, based on Donn Pearce's acclaimed novel, and directed by Andrew Loudon, Cool Hand Luke is the raw, uncompromising tale of sticking it to 'The Man'.Lord of the Changing Winds (The Griffin Mage Trilogy #1)
By Rachel Neumeier. 2010
Griffins lounged all around them, inscrutable as cats, brazen as summer. They turned their heads to look at Kes out…
of fierce, inhuman eyes. Their feathers, ruffled by the wind that came down the mountain, looked like they had been poured out of light; their lion haunches like they had been fashioned out of gold. A white griffin, close at hand, looked like it had been made of alabaster and white marble and then lit from within by white fire. Its eyes were the pitiless blue-white of the desert sky. Little ever happens in the quiet villages of peaceful Feierabiand. The course of Kes' life seems set: she'll grow up to be an herb-woman and healer for the village of Minas Ford, never quite fitting in but always more or less accepted. And she's content with that path -- or she thinks she is. Until the day the griffins come down from the mountains, bringing with them the fiery wind of their desert and a desperate need for a healer. But what the griffins need is a healer who is not quite human . . . or a healer who can be made into something not quite human.Invictor y Mayo en busca de la esmeralda perdida
By Los Compas. 2021
La aventura más épica del grupo de Los Compas, ¡con Mayo e Invictor como protagonistas! Algo terrible ha sucedido en…
el pueblo de Invictor y Mayo: la mitad de la esmeralda sagrada fue robada del laboratorio Force Atomic Company por el profesor Malus Malunfus, un malvado científico. La humanidad corre un gran peligro: si las dos mitades se unen, convertirán a Malunfus en el hombre más fuerte sobre la tierra y esto supondría el fi n del planeta. Por suerte, nuestros compas no lo van a permitir. Invictor el mamadísimo y Mayo, la tostadora deberán evitar que el ladrón cumpla con su deseo de destrucción y para ello emprenderán un increíble viaje hacia los confi nes del mundo. ¿PODRÁN LOS AVENTUREROS SALIR TRIUNFANTES EN MEDIO DE MONSTRUOS, TRAMPAS Y ENCANTAMIENTOS? ¡Acompáñalos a descubrirlo! LA HISTORIA MÁS ÉPICA DE INVICTOR Y MAYO, DE LOS COMPAS#YosoyBosco
By Andrés Acosta. 2021
Si madurar es difícil, hacerlo en medio de un caos epidemiológico y ante una amenaza hacia la seguridad nacional es…
aún más complicado, aunque tal vez sea la única esperanza para sobrevivir. Bosco es hijo único, pero suele platicar con su hermana imaginaria. A pesar de embrollarse con sus propias mentiras, es aceptado en una nueva escuela y ahora debe terminar sus estudios si no quiere acabar como cargador (aunque la idea lo seduce un poco). Tiene una familia en la que sus padres se quieren y lo quieren, y él lo que desea es que se divorcien. Así es el mundo de Bosco, unadolescente como puede serlo cualquiera, pero su vida (y la de todos) cambiará drásticamente cuando se desate una epidemia de influenza atípica y tenga que quedarse en cuarentena con su amiga Moscamuerta, experta en programación de videojuegos y en defensa personal.Diamond Boy
By Michael Williams. 2014
My father says that a journey should always change your life in some way. Well, when you have nothing, I…
suppose a journey promises everything."Diamonds for everyone." That's what fifteen-year-old Patson Moyo hears when his family arrives in the Marange diamond fields. Soon Patson is working in the mines along with four friends, pooling their profits for a chance at a better life. Each of them hopes to find a girazi, a priceless stone that could change their circumstances forever. But when the government's soldiers come to Marange, Patson's world is shattered. Set against the backdrop of Zimbabwe's brutal recent history, Diamond Boy is the story of a young man who succumbs to greed but finds his way out through a transformative journey to South Africa in search of his missing sister, in search of freedom, and in search of himself.A high-stakes, harrowing adventure in the blood-diamond fields of southern Africa, from the critically acclaimed author of Now Is the Time for Running.Immortal War (Vampirates #6)
By Justin Somper. 2011
A bloody war is raging across the oceans, with the Pirate Federation and Nocturnals in alliance against the renegade Vampirates,…
led by Sidorio and Lola. Nothing will stop either one from making their presence dangerously known in battle.Connor and Grace Tempest each have important roles to play in the war - he as a pirate warrior at the heart of the fight; she as a powerful healer working with the war-wounded. As the twins face their greatest challenges to date, old allies and foes return to play their part in the ultimate battle of Pirate versus Vampirate.In this - the conclusion of this sequence of VAMPIRATES novels, the stakes are higher than ever. Relationships will change. An army of the dead will return to fight. There will be new threats and new alliances and characters will die before the ending which will see Grace and Connor poised to start momentous new journeys. In the words of Obsidian Darke, "So it ends, so it begins."The Tribe: Homeroom Headhunters (A Tribe Novel #1)
By Clay McLeod Chapman. 2013
All Schools are the same and Spencer Pendleton expects no less from Greenfield Middle. But Spencer hasn't met them yet-the…
Tribe, a group of runaway students who secretly own the school. They live off cafeteria food and wield weapons made out of everyday school supplies. Strangely, no one seems to know they exist, except for Spencer. And the group wants him to join their ranks. All he has to do is pass the initiations . . . and leave his mother and life behind. Can Spencer go through with it? Better yet, what will happen if he says no?Thief's Magic (Millennium's Rule #1)
By Trudi Canavan. 2014
FORGET WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT THE NATURE OF MAGIC. In a world where an industrial revolution is powered by magic,…
Tyen, a student of archaeology, unearths a sentient book called Vella. Once a young sorcerer-bookbinder, Vella was transformed into a useful tool by one of the greatest sorcerers of history. Since then she has been collecting information, including a vital clue to the disaster Tyen's world faces. Elsewhere, in an land ruled by the priests, Rielle the dyer's daughter has been taught that to use magic is to steal from the Angels. Yet she knows she has a talent for it, and that there is a corrupter in the city willing to teach her how to use it -- should she dare to risk the Angels' wrath. But not everything is as Tyen and Rielle have been raised to believe. Not the nature of magic, nor the laws of their lands... and not even the people they trust. AN EPIC NEW FANTASY ADVENTURE BEGINS.Germline (The Subterrene War #1)
By T. C. Mccarthy. 2011
Germline (n.) the genetic material contained in a cellular lineage which can be passed to the next generation. Also: secret…
military program to develop genetically engineered super-soldiers (slang).War is Oscar Wendell's ticket to greatness. A reporter for The Stars and Stripes, he has the only one way pass to the front lines of a brutal war over natural resources buried underneath the icy, mineral rich mountains of Kazakhstan.But war is nothing like he expected. Heavily armored soldiers battle genetically engineered troops hundreds of meters below the surface. The genetics-the germline soldiers-are the key to winning this war, but some inventions can't be un-done. Some technologies can't be put back in the box.Kaz will change everything, not least Oscar himself. Hooked on a dangerous cocktail of adrenaline and drugs, Oscar doesn't find the war, the war finds him.The Inheritance Trilogy (The Inheritance Trilogy #3)
By N. K. Jemisin. 2010
The Inheritance Trilogy omnibus includes the novels: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, The Kingdom of Gods, and a…
brand new novella set in the same world: The Awakened Kingdom.A REALM OF GODS AND MORTALS.Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle.Secret Agent Jack Stalwart Book 2: Australia (The Secret Agent Jack Stalwart Series #2)
By Elizabeth Singer Hunt. 2007
Meet Jack Stalwart. Code name: COURAGE. Jack is an ordinary kid who becomes a secret agent by night, thwarting evil…
all over the world as he searches for his missing brother, Max. Destination: AustraliaA diver has vanished from the Great Barrier Reef, along with unknown treasure from the wreck of the HMS Pandora. Can Secret Agent Jack Stalwart find the diver and defeat a deadly band of pirates before they sail away with the treasure forever? Read more about Jack's thrilling adventures as he travels the globe. . . .The Midnight Mayor: Or, the Inauguration of Matthew Swift (Matthew Swift #2)
By Kate Griffin. 2010
It's said that if the ravens ever leave the Tower of London, then the Tower will crumble and the kingdom…
will fall. Resurrected sorcerer Matthew Swift is about to discover that this isn't so far from the truth. . . One by one, the protective magical wards that guard the city are falling: the London Wall defiled with cryptic graffiti, the ravens found dead at the Tower, the London Stone destroyed. This is not good news. This array of supernatural defenses - a mix of international tourist attractions and forgotten urban legends - formed a formidable magical shield, one that could protect London from the greatest threat it has ever known. But what could be so dangerous as to threaten an entire city? Against his better judgment, Matthew Swift is about to find out. And if he's lucky, he might just live long enough to do something about it . . .Ice Forged (The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga #1)
By Gail Z. Martin. 2013
Condemned as a murderer for killing the man who dishonored his sister, Blaine "Mick" McFadden has spent the last six…
years in Velant, a penal colony in the frigid northern wastelands. Harsh military discipline and the oppressive magic keep a fragile peace as colonists struggle against a hostile environment. But the supply ships from Dondareth have stopped coming, boding ill for the kingdom that banished the colonists.Now, as the world's magic runs wild, McFadden and the people of Velant must fight to survive and decide their fate ...From Gail Z. Martin, author of the beloved series THE CHRONICLES OF THE NECROMANCER and THE FALLEN KINGS CYCLE, comes a new fantasy adventure for the ages. Welcome to the end of the world.Welcome to the beginning of THE ASCENDANT KINGDOMS SAGA.American Elsewhere
By Robert Jackson Bennett. 2013
Some places are too good to be true.Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on…
any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different ...From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew.