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1) Tier 2
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They're mourning the loss of each other. But reuniting could have fatal consequences.
Kate can't shake this uneasy feeling. Despite memories of her previous partner dying, her dreams are filled with vivid images of him alive and well. And plagued by sudden debilitating headaches, she can't help but wonder if her body knows something she doesn't.
Eric wants to be the dad his son deserves. So though he suffers constant reminders of his wife's death,...
2) Tier 1
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What if your genetics held the keys to saving the human race?
But every stride forward has a cost…
A virus nearly wiped out the human race. In order to survive, people are segregated into three tiers. Those with the best genetic viability get the most resources, and Kate and Eric are lucky enough to end up in Tier 1.
Pairs are matched based on their genetic markers, but what if the data gets it wrong? What if Kate's perfect life is built on research...
3) Tier 3
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The truth set them free. But if they don't return, their society is doomed to repeat its past corruption.
Kate and Eric are elated with their reunion. But exiled in Tier 3, they barely have enough for themselves and their children to survive. And when they discover a heartbreaking group of abandoned kids, they realize they must restore justice to all three Tiers.
Enduring an arduous journey across the wilds, the couple risks everything to inform...
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Word$ volume 1
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Publisher Annotation: In a world where every word and gesture is copyrighted, patented or trademarked, one girl elects to remain silent rather than pay to speak, and her defiant and unexpected silence threatens to unravel the very fabric of society.
5) Blood circus
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Publisher Annotation: In this lush and terrifying debut Camila Victoire draws upon her own experience in a traveling circus to create a future where cruelty and spectacle hold the keys to subjugating humans on a ravaged earth.
6) Fearless
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Eye of the beholder volume 2
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In a near future society in which morality is manifested through beauty and ugliness, a young woman will imperil her future and her world to expose the global shadow network that uses its power to play God and control humanity.
A decade ago, Grace Luther's life was changed by the Revelations: the moment when Great Spirit "saved" humanity and transformed the world into a place where pious behavior is rewarded with beauty, and wrongdoing results...
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South is a hallucinatory reimagination of life in a world under totalitarianism, and an individual's quest for truth, agency, and understanding.
"A quiet meditation on imagination and reality, absence and presence, and the world around us. Lakghomi achieves a poetic and hypnotic effect with his tightly constructed, spare prose." - Brandon Hobson, author of The Removed
"Babak Lakghomi's slyly subversive and uncanny novel is pure sublime. It wastes...
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In this apocalyptic adventure, war and disease decimate the globe, and two orphaned siblings must decide: Stay and die, or run and survive.
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Hell of a Book, A Read eith Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have been on their own since they were orphaned at the age of five. Twelve years later, the world begins to collapse around them as a deadly contagion steadily wipes...
9) Alebrijes
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When thirteen-year-old Leandro takes the fall for his sister and is exiled into an ancient drone, he embarks on a perilous journey beyond the city's walls where he encounters mutant monsters, wasteland pirates, and fellow outcasts as he tries to save his sister and fellow Cascabeles from the oppressive regime.
10) Horizon
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Bone universe novels volume 3
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A City of living bone towers crumbles to the ground and danger abounds. Kirit Densira has lost everything she loved the most, her mother, her home, and the skies above. Nat Brokenwings, once Kirit's brother long before the rebellion tore them apart-is still trying to save his family in the face of catastrophe. They will need to band together once more to ensure not just their own survival, but that of their entire community.
11) The blinds
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BOLO Top Read of 2017
PopSugar Best Book of 2017
From the Edgar Award-nominated author of Shovel Ready, a blistering new thriller that Dennis Lehane calls "propulsive and meaningful"
For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Jim Thompson, the Coen Brothers, and Lost
Imagine a place populated by criminals-people plucked from their lives, with their memories altered, who've been granted new identities and a second chance. Welcome to The Blinds, a dusty town...
12) The High Ground
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Imperials (Melinda Snodgrass) volume 1
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Princess Mercedes, daughter of the Emperor-beautiful, privileged, sharp as a sword-has no say in her life. When her father determines she must graduate from the Solar League's elite military academy, The High Ground, in order to ascend the throne, she does as he commands. Even though she'll be the first woman admitted to the Star Command academy, which means no one wants her there, including herself.But Mercedes is not one to back down from a challenge.Thracius...
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Mazun novels volume 1
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In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of Southwest Asia, gender selection, war, and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and now females must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. Yet there are some who resist, women who live in an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system. Secretly protected by the...
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Blending the dark humor of Patrick deWitt and the jagged social and techno-satire of Black Mirror, an audacious, eerily prescient debut novel that chronicles the rise and fall of a massive high-rise housing complex, and the lives it affected before-and after-its demise.
Standing nearly five hundred stories tall, Los Verticalés once bustled with life and excitement. Now this marvel of modern architecture and nontraditional urban planning has collapsed...
15) Census
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NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY
TheNew York Times•TheChicago Reader • Nylon • The Boston Globe • TheHuffington Post • The Rumpus •The AV Club •Southern Living •The Millions • Buzzfeed • Esquire • Publishers Weekly
A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns
When a widower receives notice...
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THE WORLD YOU KNOW IS DEAD.WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES.The epidemic struck at the end of the Third World War. In just five years, the Earth was annihilated. Only one city survived-Etyom-a frozen hell-hole in northern Siberia, still engulfed in conflict.The year is 2251.Mila Solokoff is a Robust who trades information in a world where knowing too much can get you killed. Caught in a deal-gone-bad, she's forced to take a high-risk job for a clandestine...
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One of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of fiction in 2018Stage four. Surgery. Recovering. While those are the simple words that once described Dr. Francine Burk's situation, the reality is much more complex. Her new reality is bacon rinds for breakfast and feeling unduly thrilled by her increasing ability to walk across a room without assistance. And its being offered a placement at a prestigious research institute where she can put to good...
18) Zolitude
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Fantastical, magnetic, and harsh-these are the women in Paige Cooper's debut short story collection Zolitude. They are women who built time machines when they were nine, who buy plane tickets for lovers who won't arrive. They are sisters writhing with dreams, blasé about sex but beggared by love-while the police horses have talons and vengeance is wrought by eagles the size of airplanes. Broken-down motorbikes and housebroken tyrannosaurs, cheap...
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We set the dark on fire volume 2
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Publisher Annotation: In this nail-biting sequel to Tehlor Kay Mejia?s critically acclaimed fantasy novel We Set the Dark on Fire, La Voz operative Carmen is forced to choose between the girl she loves and the success of the rebellion she?s devoted her life to. Perfect for fans of The Handmaid?s Tale and Anna-Marie McLemore.
20) Inch by inch
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Step by step novels volume 2
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Bestselling author Morgan Llywelyn continues her near-future, apocalyptic thriller trilogy with her signature depth and intimacy of character.
In Inch by Inch, book two in the trilogy, the residents of Sycamore River have only just adjusted to the end of the Change. Until the morning people notice that metal starts to behave oddly.
It's dissolving.
The world is pushed into global war, and a small band of Sycamore River survivors only have one another....
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