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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Lilith Iyapo despierta en una nave espacial oankali, la raza alieng̕ena que salv a̤ la humanidad de la extincin̤ despuš de que la Tierra quedase devastada a causa de una guerra nuclear. Estos seres han mantenido a Lilith y a otros supervivientes dormidos en animacin̤ suspendida durante siglos. Ella ser l̀a elegida que guiar à los suyos de vuelta a su propio planeta, ahora dominado por la naturaleza salvaje, para que aprendan a vivir en ľ y...
Author
Series
Broken mirror novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Someone killed Granfa Jefferson. Victor is sure of it. But he’s the only one. Diagnosed with mirror resonance syndrome and shunned by Semiautonomous California society, Victor suffers from “blank outs,” hallucinations, and vivid nightmares. He violently overreacts to even minor confrontations. Victor’s grandfather devoted his life to researching and curing mentally ill Broken Mirrors like Victor, but now that he’s gone, Victor must walk...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Humans and intelligent machines bump up against each other in a parallel search for meaning and purpose during the period ensuing the most recent mass extinction. Yet, the world is not without beauty. The desert is majestic, and the historic city a place of artistry.In a beginning that was meant to be the end, Chance-bot is waiting on the street for the recycling truck with the simple instructions to surrender to fate. The bot surrenders to Ziggy....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
How far would you go to save the ones you love? Naomi isn't allowed to feel too happy. Or sad. Or angry. She isn't allowed to love, or hate. Those are the rules. She's seen what happens when those rules are broken. Naomi doesn't care. Her friend's lives are in danger. Naomi is about to break all the rules. Almost 700 years ago, a fleet of colony ships was sent out from Earth. As their journey progressed, they grew apart, isolating themselves from...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Humanity’s greatest achievement exposes our greatest weakness. Kalea Kerner was an electrical engineer focused on taking over her father’s company, until her uncle sat up from his deathbed and healed her broken foot. The miracle of their healing without the aid of recently developed nanotechnology puzzles doctors, especially when other cases of miracle healings are revealed. When the witnesses to the resurrections demonstrate abilities beyond...
7) South
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Luis Ojeda owes his life to the Pacifico Norte cartel. Literally. Now it’s time to pay.Luis led escaping American Muslims out of the U.S. during the ten years following a 2019 terrorist attack on Chicago. He retired after nearly being killed by a border guard. But now in 2032, the Nortes give Luis a choice: pay back the fortune they spent saving his life, or take on a special job.The job: Nora Khaled – FBI agent, wife, mother of two, and Muslim....
Author
Series
Broken mirror novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Tortured Echoes is Volume Two of the Resonant Earth saga that began in Broken Mirror. When bioinformatics whiz Victor Eastmore at long last gains control over his frightening mirror resonance syndrome, the data egg his grandfather gave him opens, revealing a posthumous message: Victor, I was murdered. Victor’s best hope for finding justice lies in New Venice, a tourist town in the Louisiana Territories where his family’s company is exploring...
9) Derelict
Author
Series
Halcyone Space volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Rosalen Maldonado tinkers with the derelict freighter, she's just hoping to prove she deserves a scholarship to University. She certainly doesn't count on waking the ship's damaged AI or having three stowaways, Micah Rotherwood and brothers Jem and Barre Durbin, along for the ride. They all have their private reasons for hiding aboard, and lives they are seeking to escape, but if the accidental crew can't work together and learn to trust each...
10) The Separation
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, there is a separation of the sexes at birth for the good of society. Financial needs, above all else, have led to such drastic measures. The Separation is the story of the life of a male named Finn. The book traces his life at birth and continues past his "education" as well as beyond the time when he ultimately learns of the opposite sex. What will result from the revelation of a female society? Finn may wish he never found...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a forgotten village on the windswept tundra of a small planetary colony, a young man called Jem is the only Sanndai. He knows nothing of his own people but the stories told by the Torvik villagers: stories of how the Sanndai came from the sky, bringing weapons that made people disappear, and banished the Torviks to this harsh land. Now that Jem is grown, the elderly midwife who raised him can no longer protect him. Strong-willed and defiant, Jem...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Renowned vaccinologist "Hildi" Hildebrandt has set her sights on beating her brother to a Nobel Prize, and the opportunity to conduct experiments on the International Space Station might just provide the means to obtain that goal. Chet Hildebrandt should have had that opportunity. But now he'll teach a lesson to them all: his hot-shot astronaut sister, his philandering hypocritical father, and the CDC for not properly appreciating his work. One vial...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Humanity has fallen from its once majestic place amongst the stars. Desperate for resources to prop up an aging galactic dynasty, humans seize every planet they find, exterminating their alien inhabitants. Across the empire, a group of dissidents come together through happenstance. As they learn more, however, they sense a strange force directing their lives. Can they discover the truth before the empire destroys them? Dispatched to subdue an uprising,...
Author
Series
Skyship Academy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Following the dramatic showdown in Seattle, brothers Jesse Fisher and Cassius Stevenson find their world has been turned inside out. The faculty at Skyship Academy is keeping Jesse prisoner in his own home, fearful of his influence over the Pearls. Meanwhile, Cassius has fled to the Polar Cities of Canada, where the Unified Party he deserted threatens retaliation at every turn. When Jesse smuggles a mysterious red Pearl onboard the Academy, he sets...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Life on Mars isn’t all it’s cracked up to be when you’re Isaak Contreras. Ever since his dad disappeared two years ago, Isaak’s been struggling to keep up in school, and he never seems to be able to live up to his mom’s high expectations. But everything changes when he finds an ancient coin among his missing father's possessions. The coin seems to have a strange connection not only to Isaak's family, but to Mars' ancient past. But how is...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
All they wanted was a vacation to the Grand Canyon. Instead, they found themselves on a collision course with a terrible, timeless darkness. Welcome to Adrienne, home to history’s worst serial killers and mass murderers. Nestled in an isolated meadow high in the Sierra Nevada, Adrienne is sort of like a cosmic lint trap. It collects the universe’s negative energy—all of our blackest human impulses—before purging that darkness back into the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Alison Gregorio thinks her new job with a prestigious law firm is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but explosive secrets lurk beneath its golden façade. When a plane crash takes out the firm's biggest client, she finds herself in a situation that will test her conscience and her courage to the limits.Surviving a crash-landing is only the first challenge Justin Wyatt faces after his fall from power. He loved the toys he built more than the fortune...
19) Revenant Sun
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Stanley Gabrels has been online for most of his life; living in a makeshift paradise hovering above those left behind for the sake of progress, shoulder to shoulder with thousands of others like him, working nonstop, guided in everyday life by the world's most advanced artificial intelligence. As passionate as he is for the latest technology and augmentation, he longs to escape from the constant barrage of information, stripping away his humanity....
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Horror evolves in this special edition of the terrifying novel by Bard Constantine. When a freak storm engulfs a milling facility, the workers quickly learn there is much more to fear than just heavy rain. Something else arrives with the storm—macabre creatures that alter their shapes and features with every attack. In order to survive the night, the employees will have to rely on Guy, a man whose sanity is questionable. For he claims to have faced...
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