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All Dark by Boyd Craven
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWestly and Raider are coming to grips with the new world and the tremendous changes since the solar storm caused the nationwide power failures. The problems in the Flagg household seem to focus on a coming confrontation between good people, and those at the Crater of Diamonds... -
![Forsaken World: Homecoming (Book 5) by Thomas A. Watson]()
Forsaken World: Homecoming (Book 5) by Thomas A. Watson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFighting against insurmountable odds Sandy and Mary are now alone but refuse to stop fighting to reach their kids. Hoping they have learned enough before they lost their husbands they push on together. At the cabin Lance and Ian are expanding the coalition adding members to help fight the stinkers and even more dangerous people... -
![Inception: The Shooting Script by Christopher J. Nolan]()
Inception: The Shooting Script by Christopher J. Nolan
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsInception, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s seventh feature film, joins the epic scope of The Dark Knight with the narrative sophistication of Memento... -
![Triana Moore, Space Janitor: The Complete Humorous Sci Fi Mystery Series by Julia Huni]()
Triana Moore, Space Janitor: The Complete Humorous Sci Fi Mystery Series by Julia Huni
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCleaning a space station is easy. Staying under the radar? Priceless. Triana Moore programs the robots that clean the glitzy Station Kelly Kornienko. Avoiding the wealthy inhabitants on the upper levels of the station is her number one rule. Well, number two, right after "eat all the chocolate." But when one of her bots finds a dead body, all the rules go out the window... -
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![Blackout by Boyd Craven]()
Blackout by Boyd Craven
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWestley Flagg isn’t your usual lawbreaker. He’s a poacher, a moonshiner and a prepper, out of necessity. Despite trying to live on the straight and narrow, he knows the law can turn things on you in a heartbeat. When Wes has to come up with money for his Grandpa’s surgery, he gets involved with an unsavory group... -
![Bombing in Belgravia by Samantha Silver]()
Bombing in Belgravia by Samantha Silver
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThings are about to blow up for Cassie... When an ambassador's children are killed in a deliberate gas explosion in the middle of the night, Violet Despuis is on the case. Right from the start, not everything is as it seems, as Cassie confirms at the crime scene that one of the victims had been poisoned beforehand... -
![Fated by Teri Terry]()
Fated by Teri Terry
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI'm just one girl. What can I do?Sam's cosy life as daughter of the Deputy Prime Minister is about to end. These are turbulent times. Borders have closed and protests are turning violent. The government blames the country's youth, and is cracking down hard. Mobile phones are blocked, gatherings are banned and dissent is brutally crushed.Sam is torn between family loyalty and doing what is right... -
![A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava]()
A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender--one who tellingly has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack--and how his world then slowly devolves... -
![The A.I. War: The Big Boost by Daniel Keys Moran]()
The A.I. War: The Big Boost by Daniel Keys Moran
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Long-Awaited Sequel to The Long Run and The Last Dancer.In 2072, the United Nations Space Force began building the Unity . . . at Halfway.The Unity was seven kilometers long... -
![Homeboy: A Novel by Seth Morgan]()
Homeboy: A Novel by Seth Morgan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeth Morgan’s frenzied, addictive walk on the wild side of 1980s San Francisco When strip-joint barker Joe Speaker unwittingly steals a sixty-nine-carat blue diamond, he becomes enmeshed in a blackmail-and-murder conspiracy that begins with the savage slaying of high-priced call girl Gloria Monday. Suddenly Joe’s a wanted man... -
![Control by Kim Curran]()
Control by Kim Curran
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsScott Tyler is not like other teenagers. With a single thought he can alter reality around him. And he can stop anyone else from doing the same.That’s why he’s so important to ARES, the secret government agency that regulates other kids like him: Shifters. They’ve sent him on a mission. To track down the enigmatic Frank Anderson...Categorized as:
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![Helicoprion by Michael Cole]()
Helicoprion by Michael Cole
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA series of violent shark attacks off the shores of northern California draw the attention of pessimistic Detective Luke Jansen. Despite reports of shark sightings by witnesses, the injuries appear to be more reminiscent of a chainsaw-wielding maniac rather than shark bites.Things get stranger when marine biologist Elise Sheldon encounters the creature... -
![Bandit by Brooke Matthews]()
Bandit by Brooke Matthews
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBennett Fields has a secret. But then again, who doesn't? When tasked with retrieving the talisman belonging to one of Mercy Height's most dangerous supervillains, Bennett finds himself dealing with more than he bargained for... -
![Doctor Who: The One Doctor by Gareth Roberts, Clayton Hickman]()
Doctor Who: The One Doctor by Gareth Roberts, Clayton Hickman
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhen the evil Skelloids launch an attack upon the seventeen worlds of the Generios system, its peace-loving inhabitants face total destruction. So it's fortunate that the famous traveller in time and space known only as the Doctor is in the area, and doubly lucky that, with the help of his pretty young assistant, Sally-Anne, he manages to defeat the deadly creatures and save the day... -
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![Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein]()
Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA thrilling reimagining of the world of Dickens, as seen through the eyes of the infamous Jacob Fagin, London’s most gifted pickpocket, liar, and rogue.Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto the scene, Jacob Fagin was scratching out a life for himself in the dark alleys of nineteenth-century London...Categorized as:
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![Naked by Francine Pascal]()
Naked by Francine Pascal
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’ve been stripped of a home. Stripped of a family. Stripped of a life. I have almost nothing left to lose.Except the one I love most... -
![Off the Grid: EMP Survival in a Powerless World Boxset by Robert J. Walker]()
Off the Grid: EMP Survival in a Powerless World Boxset by Robert J. Walker
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe world stopped seconds after the EMP was detonated. No communication, no transportation, no power. Hundreds of millions of people are suddenly alone and afraid. With food and water in short supply, people are scrambling for resources. But fighting for your next meal might not matter if you can't stay warm during the worst winter storm in years.The Final StandPrepare and survive... -
![The Time Store by Andrew Clark, Dee Matthews]()
The Time Store by Andrew Clark, Dee Matthews
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRULE NUMBER ONE OF TIME TRAVEL, PRESERVE TRUE TIME. Greenwich, London. A borough steeped in history. Home of the Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark, Old Royal Naval College and the PRIME MERIDIAN. Also home to the Bradbeers, a family of Time Travellers. If you’re lucky, the Bradbeers will help you live your dreams or recapture lost time... -
![Exposed by Francine Pascal, J.R. Rost]()
Exposed by Francine Pascal, J.R. Rost
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInstead of choosing the good guy, I chose the bad guy. Instead of warding off the enemy, I moved in with him. And I thought the purpose of fear was to prevent you from doing stupid things...Categorized as:
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![Terror by Francine Pascal]()
Terror by Francine Pascal
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sight of blood makes my heart race. The slightest noise makes my palms sweat. A tiny spider makes my stomach drop. Everything frightens me. And I've never been happier...Categorized as:
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![The Loot by Craig Schaefer]()
The Loot by Craig Schaefer
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe fought for her country. Now she’s fighting for her family.When Sergeant Charlie McCabe returns from fighting in Afghanistan, she hopes to leave the war behind. Instead, she comes home to a father whose gambling has put him in deep trouble with a violent loan shark. She finds work as a professional bodyguard, but to save her father, she needs to get serious cash together fast... -
![The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken]()
The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBelisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of dangerously addictive quantum senses. He found a precarious balance as a con man, but when a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of warships across an enemy wormhole, he must embrace his birthright to even try... -
![The Last Survivor by Andy McDermott]()
The Last Survivor by Andy McDermott
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJoin Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase in a digital exclusive short story from the international bestseller Andy McDermott. Also contains an exclusive extract from THE REVELATION CODE, the next in the Wilde & Chase seriesNina Wilde is pregnant and feeling very alone... -
![Yesterday's Thief by Al Macy]()
Yesterday's Thief by Al Macy
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s the year 2020, and Eric Beckman is a mind-reading detective. Although he reads only the conscious thoughts of the people he interviews, it usually gives him enough of an edge to overcome his inexperience as a PI. But mind reading is hell on relationships. Trusting comes hard when you know what people are really thinking... -
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![The Whisper of Stars by Nick Jones]()
The Whisper of Stars by Nick Jones
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe year is 2091. With accelerated warming and global population out of control, the survival of humanity hangs in the balance. On the brink of extinction, science delivers one last hope. Human hibernation.Jennifer Logan is a tough cop in the newly formed Duality Division, tasked with enforcing hibernation... -
![Wealth of Time by Andre Gonzalez]()
Wealth of Time by Andre Gonzalez
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow much would you sacrifice to learn the truth?Martin Briar drags himself through life. The 54 year old has lost the will to live since the disappearance of his 12-year-old daughter two decades ago.Unable to pull the trigger on himself, again, he later encounters a time-traveling antique dealer who offers him the chance to find out what happened to his only child... -
![Twins by Francine Pascal]()
Twins by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsMy uncle and my father. I used to be able to tell them apart. Not anymore. Because they’re both the same.They both want to destroy me...Categorized as:
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![Blind by Francine Pascal]()
Blind by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsI’m supposed to be a genius. I’m supposed to be able to see things other people can’t. It’s kind of ironic. Because I can’t see the truth.Even when it’s right in front of me...Categorized as:
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![Scourge by Jeff Grubb]()
Scourge by Jeff Grubb
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the heart of crime-ridden Hutt space, a Jedi scholar searches for justice.While trying to obtain the coordinates of a secret peril-packed, but potentially beneficial, trade route, a novice Jedi is killed - and the motive for his murder remains shrouded in mystery... -
![Scoundrels by Timothy Zahn]()
Scoundrels by Timothy Zahn
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTo make his biggest score, Han’s ready to take even bigger risks.But even he can’t do this job solo. Han Solo should be basking in his moment of glory. After all, the cocky smuggler and captain of the Millennium Falcon just played a key role in the daring raid that destroyed the Death Star and landed the first serious blow to the Empire in its war against the Rebel Alliance... -
![Getaway World by E.E. "Doc" Smith, Stephen Goldin]()
Getaway World by E.E. "Doc" Smith, Stephen Goldin
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHelena, daughter of the second in command to the head of the Empire Of Earths security forces, has disappeared.. she knows the identity of SOTE's two most highly trained operators and their lives are now in danger . . . they have to find her before she can reveal their identities. Getaway World is the fourth book in the Family d'Alembert series... -
![The 4400: Promises Broken by David Mack]()
The 4400: Promises Broken by David Mack
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings4400 taken, 4400 returned. All were given startling new abilities. Now, if you are willing to risk it all, you too can be extraordinary... -
![The Solid-State Shuffle by Jeffrey A. Ballard]()
The Solid-State Shuffle by Jeffrey A. Ballard
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlmost a hundred years ago, a major terrestrial event reshaped the earth’s coastlines. Goodbye entire cities. Goodbye entire states. Goodbye entire countries. And when the authorities outlawed salvaging from these sunken sites, why say hello to a new breed of criminal: underwater reclamation specialists. Even a hundred years later, there’s still a whole lot of loot for the reclaiming... -
![Legacy by Matthew Farrer]()
Legacy by Matthew Farrer
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe legendary rogue trader charters: Imperial warrants of unimaginable antiquity, which can bring their bearers wealth and power barely imaginable. Now that Rogue Trader Hoyyon Phrax is dead, his charter is being brought to the great fortress-system of Hydraphur to be ceremonially bequeathed to his son, and already the vultures are circling.Shira Calpurnia does not want the charter... -
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![An Unbreakable World by Ren Hutchings]()
An Unbreakable World by Ren Hutchings
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf something seems too good to be real, you’ve got to get out of there.That’s the rule that Page Found has always followed. She’s a petty thief with no memory of her past, scrounging to survive on a backwater outpost – until she’s kidnapped by one of her marks... -
![The Accomplice by 50 Cent, Aaron Philip Clark]()
The Accomplice by 50 Cent, Aaron Philip Clark
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling multitalented artist delivers an electrifying novel—The Accomplice—that combines the imaginative page-turning suspense of S. A. Cosby’s books with the high-tension thrills of the Netflix blockbuster series Money Heist... -
![TekMoney by William Shatner, Ron Goulart]()
TekMoney by William Shatner, Ron Goulart
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsActor, director, and bestselling author William Shatner returns to the world he created in Tekwar, plunging deeper into that deadly realm than ever before. Investigator Jake Cardigan must clear his son's name when he's accused of murder. Did he really do it? FInding the truth will push Cardigan to the edge--and beyond... -
![King Arthur's Bones by The Medieval Murderers]()
King Arthur's Bones by The Medieval Murderers
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1191. During excavation work at Glastonbury Abbey, an ancient leaden cross is discovered buried several feet below ground. Inscribed on the cross are the words: Hic iacet sepultus inclitus rex arturius ... Here lies buried the renowned King Arthur. Beneath the cross are skeletal remains... -
![Nigerians in Space by Deji Bryce Olukotun]()
Nigerians in Space by Deji Bryce Olukotun
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1993. Houston. Dr. Wale Olufunmi, lunar rock geologist, has a life most Nigerian immigrants would kill for, but then most Nigerians aren’t Wale—-a great scientific mind in exile with galactic ambitions. Then comes an outlandish order: steal a piece of the moon... -
![Clouds of Venus by Jeff Tanyard]()
Clouds of Venus by Jeff Tanyard
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDale Kinmont is a college student in post-catastrophe America. He's lucky; he lives in one of the walled cities for the nation's elite, and life is pleasant. He expects to graduate and find employment in his uncle's company.Everything changes when he's framed for murder. He's tried, convicted, and sentenced to hard labor in the prison colony on Mercury... -
![A Matter of Time by Glen Cook]()
A Matter of Time by Glen Cook
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMay 1975. St. Louis. In a snow-swept street, a cop finds the body of a man who died fifty years ago. It's still warm. July 1866, Lidice, Bohemia: A teenage girl calmly watches her parents die as another being takes control of her body. August 2058, Prague: Three political rebels flee in to the past, taking with them a terrible secret... -
![The Men Who Sold the World by Guy Adams]()
The Men Who Sold the World by Guy Adams
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Oscar Lupe appears 20,000 feet up in the air, his body is frozen solid and free-falling to earth. It shatters on impact. Soon after, a CIA Special Activities Division squad goes rogue with a cargo marked 'Torchwood' that they've been escorting from somewhere called Cardiff.The Agency puts Rex Matheson on the case... -
![The Diamond Thief by Sharon Gosling]()
The Diamond Thief by Sharon Gosling
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsNo one performs on the circus trapeze like 16-year-old Rémy Brunel. But Rémy also leads another life, prowling through the backstreets of Victorian London as a jewel thief. When she is forced to steal one of the world’s most valuable diamonds, she uncovers a world of treachery and fiendish plots.Meanwhile, young detective Thaddeus Rec is determined to find the jewel and clear his name... -
![Dark Run by Mike Brooks]()
Dark Run by Mike Brooks
Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Keiko is a ship of smugglers, soldiers of fortune and adventurers, travelling Earth’s colony planets searching for the next job. And nobody talks about their past.But when a face from Captain Ichabod Drift’s former life send them on a run to Old Earth, all the rules change.Trust will be broken, and blood will be spilled... -
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![Tek Lab by William Shatner]()
Tek Lab by William Shatner
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe third book in the phenomenal, bestselling series, begun with TekWar and continued in TekLords. Jake Cardigan is ecstatic when his ex-wife's lover, powerful TekLord Bennett Sands, is finally incarcerated. But when Jake's son and Sands' daughter disappear, Jake must enter the ruins of a 21st-century London and confront a deranged killer in a showdown to the death. Entertaining!--Locus... -
![Randomize by Andy Weir]()
Randomize by Andy Weir
Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsIn the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative and whip-smart story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool... -
![TekLords by William Shatner, Ron Goulart]()
TekLords by William Shatner, Ron Goulart
Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKnown to millions as "Star Trek's" Captain Kirk, actor-director and bestselling author William Shatner returns to the stunning future world he created in "TekWar." Ex-cop Jake Cardigan is back. A synthetic plague is sweeping the city. And a top drug-control agent is brutally murdered by a reprogrammed human "zombie, " deadlier than an android assassin... -
![The Dead Do Not Improve by Jay Caspian Kang]()
The Dead Do Not Improve by Jay Caspian Kang
Rated: 2.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this glorious debut novel, Jay Caspian Kang gives us a story of murderous intrigue, hippie detectives, and an MFA student on the run—a true original in terms of story, voice, language, and humor...
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