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61) Quipu
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Caroline is about to go psychotic-and given her family, it's no surprise. Joseph cannot talk to women even if he is a certified high-IQ clever dick trying to take snapshots of the end of the universe. Ray and Marj have their own hassles with in-laws, but student terrorists get in the way. Meanwhile, Brian, misogynist and wit, appalls everyone in the quipu world. Quipus? They are the scandalous fanzines that hikes traded before blogs were invented....
62) Warped State
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Star Trek meets Leverage in Warped State, a space opera that's "refreshingly hopeful and heaps of fun" (Megan E. O'Keefe). Jasper Wilder is an activist, not a spy, but he'll become one if that's what it takes to stop Ravel Corporation from reviving the research project that devastated his home planet. His plan is simple enough: break into the secure facility. Steal the research data. Find a weakness and sabotage the project. But all that goes out...
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On a normal day of mace-wielding duels and interplanetary sabotage, young Jei Bereens has things under control. He's plagued by night-terrors and an arch-enemy as slippery as the grime on his gun, but freedom fighters all around the galaxy look to him for help. He's got the favor of a mystical energy being and a best friend who'd die for him. On a normal day, Jei is legend.
Today is not a normal day.
Today, Jei broke an enemy soldier's mask and...
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"A fun, nostalgia-filled anthology of twenty-three original, lighthearted horror tales riffing on the movie monsters of both modern cinema and B-movie favorites." -Publishers Weekly
Lights! Camera! Monsters?
Sometimes you go to the movies. And sometimes, the movies-and their monsters-come to you. At any moment, without notice, monsters once relegated to the screen become a reality. Aliens and demons, dragons and ghosts, werewolves, vampires,...
65) Tempting Tempest
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Many months ago, they agreed to a purely sexual relationship. Of course, that was before she accidentally killed him. Tempest can't allow herself to fall for a human, no matter how scrumptious he may be. Her trainer, Shawn, is the only one who manages to tempt that rule. She's sure it's guilt over the stabbing, compounded by the fact that he's the sexiest man in Xenia. Unfortunately, he's human and therefore...weak. She can't fall for someone she...
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"If I can't have you, no one will." It was love at first sight for Trance. It didn't matter that she didn't feel the same way. Hell, she didn't even notice him though they were enclosed in a vehicle together for fifteen full glorious minutes. All she could do was stress over being late to get off work. Leah noticed the hot Xeno Sapien, all right. But what could she do? "Hi, I'm Leah. I'd love to get to know you, but I'm covered in bruises from neck...
67) Sextet
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"As a sextet, there's no use denying that we are rather lovely to look at." Aspect Number 8, Vain Xeno Sapien. Pax may be smitten with the delicate human female who flourishes while quarantined in his laboratory, but he knows it's for the best to let her go. After all, he's hiding a huge secret. At any given time, there could be as many as six of him. Six. Six shards of his personality who are born from his body and become their own entities. That's...
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For each generation, there is a writer meant to bend the rules of what we know. Hugo Award winner (Best Novel, STAND ON ZANZIBAR) and British science fiction master John Brunner remains one of the most influential and respected authors of all time, and now E-Reads is pleased to re-introduce many of his classic works. For readers familiar with his vision, it's a chance to re-examine his thoughtful worlds and words, while for new readers, Brunner's...
69) Infernal Machine
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Student-Artificer Elijah Saloman discovers what he thinks could be a lost masterwork of the greatest Artificer ever born. He is determined to make it work, even though he has no idea what it is or what it is supposed to do. But when everything that can go wrong does, Elijah finds himself caught in an interesting predicament-trapped within the machine, and at the mercy of the whimsical plaything of a long-dead Artificer with a taste for the exotic....
70) Stolen
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Book 5 in the Blue Barbarian series. Abducted by aliens and taken to a barbaric new planet is hard enough. It's even more difficult when you don't speak anyone's language-not that of the strange, blue barbarians native to the land, nor that of the other humans stolen from Earth. But this is my chance to make a different life for myself. A life where no one knows I delivered babies for a living-the responsibility I gladly took on until stolen by gray...
71) The Magic Touch
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When humans can create new species, what rights do they have over the beings they create? The Making War is the long-awaited final book in the award-winning series that began with The Silver Ship and the Sea. Six genetically engineered children fought to survive in a small town where everyone hated what they were, on a difficult planet full of out-sized predators with long teeth and sharp claws. Because they were stronger than the colonists, they...
72) Starfire
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After a solar flare accident in orbit, Travis is a hero: the first astronaut to bail out of a spacecraft and live. NASA, however, had advised against the bailout-and as punishment for violating orders, Travis is grounded on earth, never to fly again. Then comes Starfire, an experimental spacecraft that could be capable of interstellar flight. Travis fights a desperate political battle to become a crewmember, and his go-it-alone attitude makes for...
73) Stranger Suns
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The orbiting tachyon detector was designed by physicist Juan Obrion to identify life in other star systems, but even though he expected to find some signs of life, he certainly didn't expect to find any life on earth. Juan discovers that a culture has been concealed for many years far below Antarctica, and Obrion ventures out as part of a four-man team to explore the unknown. Juan, Lena, Malachi and Magnus are awestruck when they discover a myriad...
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In the distant galaxy of Arkania, tensions between humans and the native alien species escalate over a powerful new energy source. Captain Sarah Carter leads the human forces, Elder Xanor seeks peaceful solutions, and Dr. Kaela Patel uncovers a conspiracy to seize control of the planet's resources. As war looms, they must set aside differences and work together to prevent further bloodshed and forge a new path for their people.
75) Jovian
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Like all human colonists born into the crushing gravity of Jupiter, Jarls Anders commands tremendous physical strength and survival ability. And, like his fellow Jovians, Jarls has grown up innocent, easy to exploit. Shipped between Jupiter, Venus, and Earth in indentured servitude, Jarls finds his life in constant danger--not just from the harsh landscapes of distant planets, but also from the treacherous politics of human aristocracy. Navigating...
77) Never Let Go
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A spirited Cornwish widow must solve a spooky mystery in this postwar historical novel from the author of Unforgettable. Having lost her husband during the evacuation at Dunkirk, Dorrie Resterick now lives a quiet life centered around family in the Cornish village of Nanviscoe. But that quiet is about to be disrupted by the arrival of Stella Grey and her family. She's already planning a surprise welcome home party for her honeymooning niece, Verity,...
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The real history of World War II's most daring fighter squadron is the inspiration for this riveting novel of adventure and romance in the Far East. Three years after the liberation of Singapore, transport pilot Lee Crane is finally ready to leave. The Berlin airlift is on, and there's decent money to be made if you possess both your own plane and a practiced disregard for safety. One last drink with his Indo-Air fly buddies at the Long Bar in Raffles...
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Follow the sea adventures and colony escapades of Marisa and Byron, as they journey from England to the colonies, then back again.: Part 1 - Seduced by the Stowaway - Stowaway, then the captain's captive!Part 2 - The Captain's Willful Wife - Still a captive, then the captain's wife!Part 3 - Treasure in Trouble - Now, queen to the captain's rescue! Enjoy the journey!
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In this thrilling sequel to War at the Edge of the World, a centurion's promotion sends him to the royal court, a place more dangerous than a battlefield.
Rome is in peril and the old order is changing. Centurion Aurelius Castus has been summoned back from his post in Britain to find himself caught up in a treacherous conspiracy threatening to bring down Emperor Constantine.
Rewarded for saving the emperor's life in battle, Castus is promoted...
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