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Vous vous réveillez doté de capacités extraordinaires ; après être passé par la peur, l'euphorie ou peut-être les deux, quel usage décideriez-vous d'en faire ? 2011, à Fukushima,un tremblement de terre réveille le Japon. La centrale nucléaire est touchée, la catastrophe est inévitable. L'explosion irradie l'air et l'isotope radioactif se faufile sous l'eau. À l'autre bout de la Terre, Théodor Tiblac, un jeune homme de 12 ans, cherche...
17742) Into a Hearkening Sky
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Sea level has fallen six hundred feet. Many people are cocooned in sleep. Where the long winter is not grinding away at what remains of Earth's great cities, humans dwell behind fences. Keeping guard against attacks by specters emerging from the ocean, on the muddy edge of the exposed continental shelf, is Hudson MacDuff. His mother, Lucy, once a hero of the Great Eclipse, wants her son to build a life beyond the dystopian world he has inherited....
17743) Avalanche Star River
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With the opening of the interstellar colonial era, mankind has finally spread the core values of civilization to the vast river of stars. Crushing the planet's battleship cannons for the dark and cold universe ignited the fire of positive energy, within the range of the cannons, everywhere the truth This is the best of times, this is the worst of times.
17744) The Catalyst
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The sheep of yesterday are the wolves of today
As an undergraduate, Kurt has had little to deal with in life – beyond essays, estate agents and finances – he struggles with even maintaining a conversation.
So, waking one day to find humanity has developed incredible and terrifying abilities – he discovers he has telekinesis – it's safe to say, he's somewhat more than out of his depth.
In this new land authority has crumbled, power is literal....
17745) Chandelier Macabre
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For Horatio Oberon Twitchgrove, the war had never ended. He fought as a child, as a teenager, as an adult. He fought into his twilight years. War was all he had ever known. Peacetime? Hah, like he could change now. It just meant trading his general's uniform for a crimelord's mantle. He proceeded with the same ruthless abandon as ever. Oh, he might be old now, battle-worn and broken-even wheelchair-bound. But he had his children. His grown children....
17746) Be My Alien
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A man too busy for love… Reed owns an upscale men's boutique with a naughty back room. While making a late delivery to a client, he runs into Taz. A man on a disastrous date… When Taz agreed to come to Earth on a date, he didn't expect to be dumped and left with no way home. Then he falls into Reed's arms-literally. A coffee date soon becomes a trip back to Reed's apartment. But when Taz's stripes begin to show, Reed discovers Taz comes from a...
17747) Proboscis
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Alice has a probing encounter of the alien kind when she sees something strange in her garden. Proboscis will suck the life out of you. Are you ready to get probed?
17748) Rhats!
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Beyond the boundaries of civilized space lies the region of the Muto Empire. Mutos are a mammalian race that resemble a cross between a human and a Terran rat. Though spread across thousands of worlds, mutos-or rats, as they are sometimes called-trace their lineage to a single dark world that orbits.
Enough of that!
My name is Frohic, and I'm a muto. I've never seen the home world, and I couldn't care less about civilization, empires, or space. Especially...
17749) First Mission
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Kimani Strait has finally graduated from the Elite Rescue Academy. His first mission is to protect a finacier as he travels to Pluto to join an inclusion bid. Along for the ride are Kyndra, kimani's sister, and Lieutinant Cornwell, a decorated E.R.T. coming off mental health leave.
Their routine babysitting job turns into full chaos when space pirates attack with the hopes of taking a Martian Queen hostage for a sizable ransom. After his sister...
17750) Awakening
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Bring out the cold soldiers who lie in frozen sleep.
Do not wake them nor let their tranquil faces beguile.
They are purveyors of death.
They must burn!
What soldiers? Colony Five has been proudly peaceful since before living memory.
The cryptic new orders make no sense to Deleen Milo... until she sees the burning bodies in the stasis sarcophagi. She tries to uncover the truth behind the mysterious soldiers, only to become adrift in a colony suddenly...
17751) Monster
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Holmes and Watson are on the trail of a villain so fierce and demonic that just one touch of it can end their lives.
They discover that the monster could be someone or something that they have dealt with before.
The question is, that if it is that monster, how do they stop it this time, when they failed to do so before?
Time is running out because the Monster is intent on finding more victims and them as well.
An Urban Fantasy Mystery that is...
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"The Echoes of Eternity: A Journey Through Multiple Realities" is a captivating science fiction odyssey penned by the brilliant mind of Jane Walters.
In a vast multiverse teeming with infinite possibilities, a remarkable discovery sets the stage for an extraordinary adventure. As a group of intrepid explorers embarks on a daring expedition, they inadvertently stumble upon a gateway that allows them to traverse through a myriad of parallel realities.
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17753) High Fyelds: The Big Race
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Horseracing with fangs and claws!If anyone had told Erina a few years ago that she'd be entering one of the most prestigious horse races in the world; the Phoenix Stakes, she would have called them mad. Since then she'd discovered a Valley that didn't exist on any map ever drawn; been adopted by a highly peculiar horse; and learnt that magic was real. In comparison, a small race should have been easy, surely – even if she did have to fly half-way...
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An Amazon #1 Best Selling title in Science Fiction and Fantasy short stories. A young reptilian endures a painful coming of age… A tailor who refurbishes old clothes struggles to come to terms with the immortality offered by new technologies… While exploring the dark web, a young woman creates a profile on a lesbian dating site for ghosts… Aliens abduct a young man and bring him to a mysterious resort many light years from Earth… A world leader...
17755) Partnership
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When Sun-born mage Zal is called to a remote village after an explosion on a nearby mountaintop, he's stunned at what he finds in the gaol under the town hall-the last Moon-born on the planet, apparently a rogue mage, and someone Zal is duty-bound to haul to the capital to face judgment. But although nonbinary Torian is Moon-born, they're no mage. Rescued as an infant from the plague that wiped out the rest of their race, Torian is as much cybertronic...
17756) Forged by Desire
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A FEAR SHE CAN'T ESCAPE Ten years ago, Perry fled her thrall contract to find sanctuary among the Nighthawks. In that time, she's become a respected woman of the Guard, and she's wanted Garrett Reed for as long as she can remember. But when a new case takes a chillingly familiar turn, Perry finds herself once again in the path of a madman...only this time, there's nowhere left to run. A DESIRE THAT CAN'T BE TEMPERED Out of their depth and racing against...
17757) Jess Be Yourself
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Jess's life begins to unravel on her thirteenth birthday.
First, she learns of her parents' separation.
Then she's forced to spend the rest of the summer living in her grandparents' camper trailer by the lake.
When she finally gets to come home for the first day of school, she discovers that her friends have abandoned her and nothing she remembers seems to be true anymore.
Everyone keeps calling her Jessica when they know she goes by Jess!
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17758) Victoria's Challenge
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Victoria Lynn Chamberlain... at two, she was abducted by an alien race, the Regulians... at nine, her world literally explodes when the Regulians returned, destroying Earth. She and her Aunt are the only survivors thanks to another alien race, the Carinians. Now she's eighteen, a new graduate from their top medical school, and is ready to claim her life mate. Lucas, the handsome Carinian pilot that saved her all those years... cycles... ago.
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17759) Mr. Seller's Pond
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TORN AND CONFUSED BY the secrets her grandmother left behind, fourteen-year old Timber and her best friend Jill begin a summer adventure that will change their lives forever.
In the Midwestern hills of Missouri, they find a magical pond filled with many hidden wonders. But, they soon learn that their discovery could be lost forever.
Desperate for help, the girls share their secret with their new friend, Tyler. In a race against time, the three teenagers...
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This is the first of Argentinean writer Angélica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral histories and political commentaries are all woven tapestry-style into Kalpa Imperial: beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes...
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