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Telekinetic by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Telekinetic” is the first of a series of stories featuring the Hyllis family, who tend to inherit telekinetic “talents.” The story is set after a plague induced apocalypse. The resulting collapse of civilization has reduced mankind back to iron and horsepower.Tarc Hyllis’s mother (and his grandfather before her) could “feel” things with their talent... -
![Echo and Ember by A.J. Scudiere]()
Echo and Ember by A.J. Scudiere
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFBI agents Donovan and Eleri left their last case with a sense of unease.Unable to close the investigation, they’ve been thrown into their next assignment far too fast. A string of strange arson-based murders are just part of the trouble. Not only is former agent Wade de Gottardi on their team for this one, so are two other NightShade agents: Dana Brantley and Christina Pines... -
![Salvage by A.J. Scudiere]()
Salvage by A.J. Scudiere
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Agent Derek Westerfield first offered her a chance to be an agent with NightShade, Walter Reed didn’t really understand what that meant. She went to Quantico, trained, and even got her first case, before she realized why NightShade was off the books. Her only ally—and her new partner—is GJ Janson, the know it all who wound up hand-cuffed in a hotel room for stealing from the FBI...Categorized as:
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![The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross]()
The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats...Categorized as:
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![Preserving Will by Alex Albrinck, Todd McLaren]()
Preserving Will by Alex Albrinck, Todd McLaren
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe's provided for each of them the opportunity to lead a life of health, wealth, and power far beyond their imagination. By his own example, he's shown them that such gifts are meant to be shared, used to make the world a better place. And he's never asked them for anything in return, showing a willingness to risk even his own life to live to his own ideals. Now Will Stark needs their help... -
![Unrequited Death by Tamara Rose Blodgett]()
Unrequited Death by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Graysheets remain ominously quiet during the teen's senior year.When tragedy strikes Tiff, her confidence shatters into a million pieces and the group doesn't know how to pick up the scattered mess of her emotional health... -
![Death Weeps by Tamara Rose Blodgett]()
Death Weeps by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCaleb faces possible jail time for using Clyde as a undeadly weapon. When he's exonerated with probation lasting a year, Caleb has to watch his every action. Tensions run high when after the death of Jade's only relatives, she must live with an undesirable foster family who are anything but what they seem... -
![Death Screams by Tamara Rose Blodgett]()
Death Screams by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCaleb's second year of high school starts off without a hitch until Jade touches the wrong clairvoyance sample that foretells a murder in her future... -
![Perdido Street Station: Tome 2 by China Miéville]()
Perdido Street Station: Tome 2 by China Miéville
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsLors de ses recherches pour l'homme-oiseau, Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin a libéré des monstres volants, les Gorgones, sur Nouvelle-Crobuzon. Le gouvernement est vite dépassé par les événements et en appelle à la Fileuse, une araignée géante vivant sur plusieurs plans de réalité, pour l'aider à endiguer le péril... -
![The Twice-Dead Boy by Laer Carroll]()
The Twice-Dead Boy by Laer Carroll
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRoan Kinnison had lived more than two centuries before he was buried in a California hillside and died for the second time. Freed by a freak of nature after a century he is in modern-day Santa Monica and must navigate it--as an apparent 17-year old boy... -
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Gestation by John Gold
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTo face Death itself, to hide from deadly guards, to conduct dark rituals and to use forbidden death magic? Being sent to Hell is definitely not what 12-year-old Anji would have ever expected from a government orphanage program. Chrysalis — the project of the century. It is a hyper-realistic fantasy RPG game, set in the Middle Ages...Categorized as:
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![The Enlightened by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires]()
The Enlightened by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a USA Today bestselling author comes the exciting continuation of the Mind Dimensions series Kidnapped. Consciousness expanded. And that was just the start of my day. I always thought I was a nice enough guy. The kind who’d never want to commit murder. Turns out I simply lacked incentive. Some crimes can never be forgiven... -
![Birth of the Alliance by Alex Albrinck]()
Birth of the Alliance by Alex Albrinck
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFreed from the constraints of the Aliomenti, Will Stark creates a new group, an Alliance of men and women committed to using the Energy skills they've developed and technological advances they've made to improve the lives of all.It's an act of rebellion that won't go unnoticed--or unpunished--by the Aliomenti Elites... -
![The Thought Pushers by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires]()
The Thought Pushers by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhat am I?Who killed my family?Why?I need to get some answers before the Russian mob succeeds in killing me.That is, if my own friends don’t kill me first... -
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![The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown]()
The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThing is a young girl who hides beneath a mask. Her companions include a crow, a toad, a goldfish, and a kitten, each in some way handicapped. Never has there been a more unlikely band of unheroic heroes. Yet each needs the other to discover what they all seek -- the Dragon of the Black Mountain, who can restore them to health and happiness... -
![Preserving Hope by Alex Albrinck]()
Preserving Hope by Alex Albrinck
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt was his mission to save her life.But first, he'd need to convince her that hers was a life worth saving.Will Stark has been sent on a mission to save the life of a young woman named Elizabeth. He does not know who is threatening her, or why. He only knows that failure is not an option, for it will mean three of the most important people in his life will cease to exist... -
![Death Speaks by Tamara Rose Blodgett]()
Death Speaks by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCaleb's in high school now and thinks the chaos of last year is behind him. Unfortunately, a serial killer is on the loose and children are his victims. Caleb agrees to help the police apprehend the murderer...until the killer takes notice of Caleb and his paranormal friends.Carson and Brett remain the bullies they always were and their posse continues to grow... -
![A World Divided by Marion Zimmer Bradley]()
A World Divided by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn omnibus volume of three classic, long-unavailable Darkover novels--Star of Danger, The Bloody Sun, and Winds of Darkover--tell of two men of mixed Darkovan ancestry, who must choose where their true allegiances lie... -
![Death Inception by Tamara Rose Blodgett]()
Death Inception by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLibrarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B008CHLMGE.Kyle Ulysses Hart and his team of scientists mapped the human genome in the year 2010. As Brain Impulse Technology came online... so did the long arm of the United States government. A covert, military-driven regime was born with genetic manipulation the key to future widespread control... -
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Writers of the Future, Vol 34 by L. Ron Hubbard, Brandon Sanderson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings24 Award-Winning Authors and IllustratorsAccompanied by Orson Scott Card, Brandon Sanderson, Jody Lynn Nye, Jerry Pournelle, Ciruelo and Echo Chernik and Edited by David FarlandYour search for something new and different in sci-fi and fantasy ends here.Presenting this year’s collection of fresh voices, fabulous worlds, and fantastic new characters...Categorized as:
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![L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 by David Farland, Anne McCaffrey]()
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 by David Farland, Anne McCaffrey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou are about to meet: YOUR NEXT FAVORITE AUTHOR. The 33rd edition of Writers of the Future may be the best new book yet! Brand-new adventure through space, time and possibility. Along the way new authors will introduce you to fascinating characters...Categorized as:
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![The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse by Keith Hartman]()
The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse by Keith Hartman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to 21st century Atlanta. During your stay, depending on your tastes, you can cruise gay midtown (I hear that the Inquisition Health Club has introduced manacles and chains to the aerobics class) or check out the Reverend-Senator Stonewall's headquarters at Freedom Plaza (watch out for the Christian Militia guarding it, though) or attend a sky-clad Wiccan sabbat (by invitation only)... -
![Sacred Fire: Kingpriest Trilogy, Vol. 3 by Chris Pierson]()
Sacred Fire: Kingpriest Trilogy, Vol. 3 by Chris Pierson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe final title in the historical Kingpriest trilogy. This titles completes the exploration of a key part of Dragonlance history. The era explored in this novel, although referred to frequently throughout many Dragonlance novels, is being finely detailed for the first time. In addition, this title features popular characters that appear throughout the Dragonlance Legends trilogy... -
![Of Cinder and Bone by Kyoko M.]()
Of Cinder and Bone by Kyoko M.
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOF CINDER AND BONE is Ron Howard's Ransom meets Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park! After centuries of being the most dangerous predators on the planet, dragons were hunted to extinction. That is, until Dr. Rhett “Jack” Jackson and Dr. Kamala Anjali cracked the code to bring them back. Through their research at MIT, they resurrected the first dragon anyone has seen alive since the 15th century... -
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![Perdido Street Station: Tome 1 by China Miéville]()
Perdido Street Station: Tome 1 by China Miéville
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsNouvelle-Crobuzon : une métropole tentaculaire et exubérante, au coeur d'un monde insensé. Humains et hybrides mécaniques y côtoient les créatures les plus exotiques à l'ombre des cheminées d'usine et des fonderies. Depuis plus de mille ans, le Parlement et son impitoyable milice règnent sur une population de travailleurs et d'artistes, d'espions, de magiciens, de dealers et de prostituées... -
![Ascent of the Aliomenti by Alex Albrinck]()
Ascent of the Aliomenti by Alex Albrinck
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Aliomenti village is in ruins, destroyed by one of their own, its population nearly eliminated in the calamity. From the ruins, the Aliomenti rise to international prominence, influencing buyers and sellers, warriors and bureaucrats, as they patiently and invisibly expand their empire.Will Stark serves as the driving force behind that expansion... -
![Crafter's Passion by Kris Schnee]()
Crafter's Passion by Kris Schnee
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStan can't afford to have his brain removed. The richest and luckiest players of the video game "Thousand Tales" get their minds uploaded to its virtual paradise world, while Stan can barely buy a handheld console. Instead of sulking he plays, and grows, becoming a skilled craftsman and seafaring explorer... -
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Bone Dance by Emma Bull
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSparrow’s my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre-nuke videos from the world before. I know how to get a high price, especially on Big Bang collectibles. But the hottest ticket of all is information on the Horsemen—the mind-control weapons that tilted the balance in the war between the Americas. That’s the prize I’m after... -
![The Necessary Beggar by Susan Palwick]()
The Necessary Beggar by Susan Palwick
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSusan Palwick, author of the remarkable Flying in Place, now returns with a compelling new novel of a family cast out of an idyllic realm, learning to live in our own troubled world... -
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Ink by Hal Duncan
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order in the bitmite-devastated wilderness . . -
![The Lion of Farside by John Dalmas]()
The Lion of Farside by John Dalmas
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Macurdies had been farmers for generations, and Curtis Macurdy would have been content to spend his life with his exoticallybeautiful wife Varia, earning a living by tilling his plot of land in the American Midwest. Varia was from Yuulith, a magical world separated from Earth by only a dimensional barrier that could sometimes be broached... -
![Escape Velocity by Christopher Stasheff]()
Escape Velocity by Christopher Stasheff
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsDemocracy is crumbling in the Interstellar Dominion Electorates and if Dar and Samantha can't get their message to Terra in time, a coup is inevitable. What's more, every police ship in space has just been alerted that Dar and Samantha are dangerous telepaths to be shot on sight... -
![The Time Stopper by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires]()
The Time Stopper by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom a USA Today bestselling author comes a novelette in the Mind Dimensions series. This short story does not require you to have read the other books in the series. I can stop time, but I can’t change anything. I can access memories, but not far enough. My name is Mira, and my life is about finding the Russian mobster who killed my family... -
![Digital Knight by Ryk E. Spoor]()
Digital Knight by Ryk E. Spoor
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJason Wood was just an information specialist - finding data for research, enhancing photos for the police, a nice, usually quiet profession whose only dangers came from and occasional crook trying to eliminate the evidence... -
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![Master of the Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy]()
Master of the Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsTo master five greats arts of magic and win a queen was not enough for Alodar the apprentice. He must do what no man dared! Alodar was a mere apprentice thaumaturge, learning the least of the five great arts of magic. As such, he had no right to aspire to the hand of the fair lady, Queen Vendora, not even when he saved her during the demon-inspired siege of her frontier castle. But aspire he did...Categorized as:
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![Secret of the Sixth Magic by Lyndon Hardy]()
Secret of the Sixth Magic by Lyndon Hardy
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe laws of the five magics were being set aside. If the world was to be saved it was up to Jason the scribe. But what was he to do? He had writer's block and suffered from agoraphobia. He was not a hero for the sagas.Edited to change the characteristics of the protagonist. Contains glossary and author's afterward...Categorized as:
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![Annie's Day by Andy Weir]()
Annie's Day by Andy Weir
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI didn't want to wake up at 6am, especially on a Saturday. But the man I was cuddled up to was... a morning person... -
![The Thought Readers by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires]()
The Thought Readers by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA new series about mind readers from USA Today bestselling author... Everyone thinks I’m a genius. Everyone is wrong. Sure, I finished Harvard at eighteen and now make crazy money at a hedge fund. But that’s not because I’m unusually smart or hard-working. It’s because I cheat. You see, I have a unique ability... -
![The Age of Odin: Special Edition by James Lovegrove]()
The Age of Odin: Special Edition by James Lovegrove
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsGideon Coxall was a good soldier but bad at everything else, until a roadside explosive device leaves him with one deaf ear and a British Army half-pension. So when he hears about the Valhalla Project, it's like a dream come true. They're recruiting former service personnel for excellent pay, no questions asked, to take part in unspecified combat operations... -
![WebMage by Kelly McCullough]()
WebMage by Kelly McCullough
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsRavirn is not your average computer geek. A child of the Fates—literally—he’s a hacker extraordinaire who can zero in on the fatal flaw in any program. Now that twenty-first-century magic has gone digital that makes him a very talented sorcerer. But a world of problems is about to be downloaded on Ravirn—who’s just trying to pass his college midterms... -
![Riddle of the Seven Realms by Lyndon Hardy]()
Riddle of the Seven Realms by Lyndon Hardy
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe worst of the mess they were in, Kestrel knew, was that it was all his own fault. It all began when he had tried to cheat the lady wizard Phoebe with a load of worthless wood. When she insisted on testing his sample, the demon Astron had burst through the flame.Explanation of the realms of order and chaos revised. Contains glossary and author's afterward...Categorized as:
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![Fast Ships, Black Sails by Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer]()
Fast Ships, Black Sails by Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDo you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger — and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate — and so do readers everywhere! Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer,...Categorized as:
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![The Annihilation of Foreverland by Tony Bertauski]()
The Annihilation of Foreverland by Tony Bertauski
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen kids awake on an island, they’re told there was an accident. Before they can go home, they will visit Foreverland, an alternate reality that will heal their minds.Reed dreams of a girl that tells him to resist Foreverland. He doesn’t remember her name, but knows he once loved her. He’ll have to endure great suffering and trust his dream. And trust he’s not insane... -
![Alvin Journeyman by Orson Scott Card]()
Alvin Journeyman by Orson Scott Card
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAlvin Miller, a gifted seventh son of a seventh son, utilizes his skills as a Maker to help create a brighter future for America, but his task is further challenged by his ancient enemy, the Unmaker, who plots to end Alvin's life...Categorized as:
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![Rasputin's Bastards by David Nickle]()
Rasputin's Bastards by David Nickle
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey were the beautiful dreamers.From a hidden city deep in the Ural mountains, they walked the world as the coldest of Cold Warriors, under the command of the Kremlin and under the power of their own expansive minds.They slipped into the minds of Russia's enemies with diabolical ease, and drove their human puppets to murder, and worse.They moved as Gods... -
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The Furies by Mark Alpert
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor centuries, the Furies have lived among us. Long ago they were called witches and massacred by the thousands. But they're human just like us, except for a rare genetic mutation that they've hidden from the rest of the world for hundreds of years.Now, a chance encounter with a beautiful woman named Ariel has led John Rogers into the middle of a secret war among the Furies... -
![Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker]()
Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe Mister B. of the title is Jakabob Botch, a demon whose ghastly past could make even the most merciless sociopath whimper in sympathy. Born in the deepest regions of hell, the spawn of an abusive drunkard and his whorish wife, Jakabob escapes to the world above after suffering fiendish torture...
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