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Crisis by Kurt Schlichter
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKelly Turnbull, the hero of PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC, INDIAN COUNTRY, WILDFIRE, and COLLAPSE, is back this fifth novel that tells the story of how America split apart into red and blue...Categorized as:
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![Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa]()
Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity, Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel Apolinario Odría Amoretti... -
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Indian Country by Kurt Schlichter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s all-out war for ruthless red state special operator Kelly Turnbull when he returns in this blockbuster prequel to “People’s Republic,” Kurt Schlichter’s top selling novel of America after the polarized politics of blue versus red have split our country apart. “Indian Country” finds Turnbull sent back into the blue states to help those trapped inside resist a politically correct police state...Categorized as:
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![Foreign Enemies And Traitors by Matthew Bracken]()
Foreign Enemies And Traitors by Matthew Bracken
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsForeign Enemies And Traitors" is set in the near future in an America that is creeping steadily toward socialist tyranny, in the midst of the second Great Depression. A year after earthquakes have devastated the Tennessee Valley, survivors are resisting demands by the federal government to relocate to FEMA refugee centers...Categorized as:
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![Checkmate by Malorie Blackman]()
Checkmate by Malorie Blackman
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe dramatic conclusion to the award-winning Noughts and Crosses trilogy.Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a Nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices... -
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People's Republic by Kurt Schlichter
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAmerica’s growing political and cultural divisions have finally split the United States apart...Categorized as:
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![Monroe Doctrine: Volume I by James Rosone, Miranda Watson]()
Monroe Doctrine: Volume I by James Rosone, Miranda Watson
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt was called Jade Dragon……and it threatened to destroy the West.Was an attack on the U.S. imminent?In a lab deep in the heart of China, a brilliant engineer had a breakthrough. It was the most powerful AI ever created. Ma Young believed the Jade Dragon could solve the world’s most dire challenges. There was just one problem…The president of China had other ideas... -
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Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista by Matthew Bracken
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDOMESTIC ENEMIES: THE RECONQUISTA is a novel set in the near future in the American Southwest, during a period of low-intensity civil war. The action takes place between Texas and California, but the story is mainly centered around New Mexico. Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista is a sequel to Enemies Foreign And Domestic, but it may be enjoyed on its own...Categorized as:
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Rigged by James Rosone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Rigged is a riveting, relevant, relentless rollercoaster-ride of a thriller—and kicks off an action-packed series that’s already four books long and counting." —The Real Book SpyWho has real power?The people in the shadows……behind the presidents of the world.Cloaked in secrecy and loyal to their leaders, the masters of manipulation play at an entirely different level... -
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Push Back by R.E. McDermott
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsPUSH BACK the second book of THE DISRUPTION SERIES is now available. Earth reels in the aftermath of a savage solar storm, a global disaster of unprecedented proportion which leaves most of the world without electrical power or the means to restore it. Across the world, the responses of unprepared national governments’ are too little, too late. In the U.S...Categorized as:
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Rising Tides by Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe tides are definitely rising in the 5th installment of the Irish End Game Series. Rising Tides is the story of two desperate journeys to find lost loved ones culminating in a shocking discovery—one with the power to destroy all of Europe...Categorized as:
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![The Other Side of Goodness by Vanessa Davis Griggs]()
The Other Side of Goodness by Vanessa Davis Griggs
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow far will faith and love go when an ambitious man finds himself in the fight of his life--with a woman who knows the other side of goodness all too well. . .Fifty-year-old Alabama congressman Lawrence Rudolph Simmons will do whatever it takes to get re-elected--even switch parties from Democrat to Republican... -
![Enemies Foreign And Domestic by Matthew Bracken]()
Enemies Foreign And Domestic by Matthew Bracken
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBULLETS RAIN DOWN UPON A PACKED FOOTBALL STADIUM, killing dozens, and triggering a panic stampede which leads to a thousand more deaths. A police marksman kills the sniper, a mentally unbalanced Desert Storm veteran holding a smoking assault rifle. It's an open and shut case, or so America is led to believe..Categorized as:
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![The Free People's Village by Sim Kern]()
The Free People's Village by Sim Kern
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change rather than a War on Terror. For twenty years, Democrats have controlled all three branches of government, enacting carbon-cutting schemes that never made it to a vote in our world. Green infrastructure projects have transformed U.S... -
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![Dark State by Charles Stross]()
Dark State by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDark State is the second book in an exciting series in the same world as Charles Stross' Merchant Princes series, following Empire Games.In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent... -
![City of Shadows by Alex Scarrow]()
City of Shadows by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLiam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history...Hunted by cyborg assassins from the future, the TimeRiders must abandon New York and go on the run...Categorized as:
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![Patriots Reborn by Thomas A. Watson]()
Patriots Reborn by Thomas A. Watson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNelson, Michelle, and their family have made it to the farm, having narrowly avoided -detainment.- Along with their circle of friends, they quickly set about reinforcing their home for the inevitable outbreak of the next civil war. While the corrupt American government hunts down free Americans, the family is caught in the line of fire... -
![Les Portes d'Occident by Pierre Bordage]()
Les Portes d'Occident by Pierre Bordage
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEn l'an 2212, le monde est divisé en deux par le REM : une immense barrière électromagnétique. D'un côté, on trouve les pays occidentaux, à l'origine de la séparation et de l'autre, le reste du monde.À l'Est, les croisades successives, religieuses ou idéologiques, contre la science ont fait retomber ces pays dans un quasi Moyen Âge. Confort et nourriture sont des denrées rares... -
![Splinters In Time by Jason Ayres]()
Splinters In Time by Jason Ayres
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGetting lost in the wrong time was bad enough. But things get far worse for Josh Gardner when he can't even find his way back to his own universe. When his ex-girlfriend, Lauren, starts having recurring nightmares about a strange alternate reality in which she was murdered, Josh becomes interested in proving the existence of other universes...Categorized as:
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![Exile Hunter by Preston Fleming]()
Exile Hunter by Preston Fleming
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Pure energy in print form, whether the characters are being pursued or simply talking; Fleming has proven himself a craftsman.” KIRKUS REVIEWS“As with all of Preston Fleming's previous books, EXILE HUNTER weaves together the harsh realities of personal betrayal, physical torment, emotional pain, and a spiritual quest with astute intelligence.” BOOKPLEASURES... -
![Europe in Winter by Dave Hutchinson]()
Europe in Winter by Dave Hutchinson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRudi, the former chef-turned-spy, returns on a mission to uncover the truth—in a fractured Europe utterly changed by the public unveiling of the Community.Union has been forged and the Community is now the largest nation in Europe; trains run there from as far afield as London and Prague. It is an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity...Categorized as:
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![Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman]()
Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWHEN TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE ISSUES . . .Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father . . . Jude is a Nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered . . .Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge...Categorized as:
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![Rise of Tyranny by Thomas A. Watson]()
Rise of Tyranny by Thomas A. Watson
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAs the district manager for a sporting goods store, Nelson, knows what it takes to survive off the grid. Michelle is a nurse, a mom, and fully capable. Nelson and Michelle are hardworking Americans with a secret: they are part of a circle of individuals who are prepared for the worst. They know that the worst is coming; it's just a matter of time...Categorized as:
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![Amnesty by Lara Elena Donnelly]()
Amnesty by Lara Elena Donnelly
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe revolution has come and gone, with Amberlough City striving to rebuild itself from the ashes. The Ospies have been ousted, and the very face of the nation has been changed in the process.Now, a rising politician is determined to bring Amberlough’s traitors to justice.Including double agent Cyril DePaul.Everyone believes Cyril deserves to suffer for his crimes.. -
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![China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh]()
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWith this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post-revolution America, moving from the hyper-urbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an agricultural commune on Mars... -
![Black No More by George S. Schuyler]()
Black No More by George S. Schuyler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA hillarious exploration of the bizarre events which occur when blacks literally 'disappear' from society...Categorized as:
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![Begin the World Over by Kung Li Sun]()
Begin the World Over by Kung Li Sun
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBegin the World Over is a fictional alternate history of how the Founders’ greatest fear—that Black and indigenous people might join forces to undo the newly formed United States—comes true...Categorized as:
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![Our War: A Novel by Craig DiLouie]()
Our War: A Novel by Craig DiLouie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the battlefields of America, even our children will have to fight.In his most powerful novel to date, acclaimed author Craig DiLouie presents a near future in which America is entrenched in civil war.After his impeachment, the president of the United States refuses to leave office, and the country erupts into a fractured and violent war... -
![Seek and Hide by Amanda G. Stevens]()
Seek and Hide by Amanda G. Stevens
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSix years ago, the government took control of the church. Only re-translated Bibles are legal, and a specialized agency called the Constabulary enforces this and other regulations. Marcus Brenner, a new Christian, will do anything to protect his church family from imprisonment—including risk his own freedom to gain the trust of a government agent... -
![Ice and Fire by David Wingrove]()
Ice and Fire by David Wingrove
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings‘Colossal. A long-awaited, elaborately frightening vision of the future’ - Sunday Times Chung Kuo, the great globe-spanning City constructed of the super-plastic Ice, enjoys a brief if uneasy peace, which is threatened by the discovery of the Aristotle File...Categorized as:
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![The 9/11 Machine by Greg Enslen]()
The 9/11 Machine by Greg Enslen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition hereDr. Donald Ellis lost his family on 9/11. But while others grieved, or plotted revenge, Dr. Ellis threw himself into a long-dormant research project. He traded his lab at the University of New York for an ugly riverfront warehouse in Brooklyn... -
![Cronus by P. Djèlí Clark]()
Cronus by P. Djèlí Clark
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA young Black woman challenges the indignity of a segregated dystopian future and exposes a time-bending secret in this dark, defiant short story from P. Djèlí Clark, award-winning author of Ring Shout.The year is 2030. Annabeth works a stable job at CRONUS, a time travel company that caters to wealthy clients... -
![Armistice by Lara Elena Donnelly]()
Armistice by Lara Elena Donnelly
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsArmistice returns to Donnelly’s ravishing 1930s Art Deco-tinged fantasy world of Amberlough with a decadent, tumultuous mixture of sex, politics, and spies In a tropical country where shadowy political affairs lurk behind the scenes of its glamorous film industry, three people maneuver inside a high stakes game of statecraft and espionage: Lillian, a reluctant diplomat serving a fascist... -
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White Lotus by John Hersey
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe story follows a young Arizona girl renamed White Lotus. As she ages, she evolves from “a bewildered, terrified slave to a conscious and intelligent revolutionary.” Her orchestrated, yet simple act of standing before her captors on one leg, head bowed like a sleeping bird becomes an often repeated act of nonviolent civil disobedience, an unconventional act in the spirit of Gandhi and Dr...Categorized as:
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![Star Chamber Brotherhood by Preston Fleming]()
Star Chamber Brotherhood by Preston Fleming
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe second book in the Kamas Trilogy begins five years after the Kamas revolt. A Kamas survivor who returns to Boston is ordered by the prisoners’ covert Star Committee to kill the commandant who crushed the revolt.Boston. 2029. Five years after the Kamas revolt... -
![The Last Centurion by John Ringo]()
The Last Centurion by John Ringo
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the second decade of the twenty-first century the world is struck by two catastrophes, a new mini-ice age and, nearly simultaneously, a plague to dwarf all previous experiences...Categorized as:
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![The White Mountain by David Wingrove]()
The White Mountain by David Wingrove
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA towering world-city covers almost every acre of every continent. Seven high-tech fiefdoms, ruled by seven lords united in unimaginable power. But now the wheel is broken. the Seven are divided at last. Armed rebellion has broken out in Chung Kuo's few remaining open spaces; on the vast grain farms, within the chilly Mars colony.. -
![The Stone Within by David Wingrove]()
The Stone Within by David Wingrove
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA dying old man's dreams warn the Seven T'Ang that a fierce storm is approaching...so dark, so deadly it can destroy a world. Not even the T'ang, rulers of the magnificent mile-high city-kingdoms of the planet, can predict from where the danger will come. As assassins spread outward to a fortified palace in space, treachery moves inway into men's and women's heart to bring down a dynasy.. -
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The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDenver detective Win Bear, on the trail of a murderer, discovers much more than a killer. He accidentally stumbles upon the probability broach, a portal to a myriad of worlds--some wildly different from, others disconcertingly similar to our own...Categorized as:
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Lights Out EMP Thriller Super Boxset by Roger Hayden, James Hunt
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDystopian masterminds James Hunt, author of “Static”, and Roger Hayden, author of “Grid Down”, which have collectively accumulated 200+ five-star reviews come together in this SUPER BOX SET for the first time! That’s TWO complete book SERIES comprised of SIX NOVELS at a discounted price! Static (White Noise, Fade to Gray, Blackout) Wren Burton, one of the top architects in Chicago, has never... -
![From the Fatherland, with Love by Ryū Murakami]()
From the Fatherland, with Love by Ryū Murakami
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan's economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean government, sensing an opportunity, sends a fleet of rebels in the first land invasion that Japan has ever faced. Japan can't cope with the surprise onslaught of Operation From the Fatherland, with Love... -
![The Devil's Advocate by Taylor Caldwell]()
The Devil's Advocate by Taylor Caldwell
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAndrew Durrant could have had everything the world had to offer - wealth, fame, honors, authority. All he had to do was sacrifice that fragile thing called integrity. Instead Andrew Durant chose a different path. Against him were ranged the mighty forces of the Establishment. At stake was all he was and could ever hope to be... -
![The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod]()
The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of the World Fantasy Award and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History: A pastel-hued yet chilling alternate vision of England, The Summer Isles views the nightmare that the country has become since Germany’s victory in the Great War, through the eyes of a man whose life lies close to the heart of historyIn 1918 the Allies were defeated... -
![Handro by Travis Mohrman]()
Handro by Travis Mohrman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCenturies after a civilization-ending event, the world is a very different place. Handro's life has not been easy, and while he has people that care about him, he keeps his distance, forever searching for something he doesn't realize he desperately needs. But Handro may have gone too far as he sets out on a new path that quickly grows dark and twisted... -
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![Body Politic by Paul Johnston]()
Body Politic by Paul Johnston
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Gorky Park" meets "Brave New World" in this award-winning debut novel of a serial killer lost in a supposedly perfect society overtaken by the Enlightenment... -
![The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad]()
The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the vein of Octavia E. Butler and Margaret Atwood, a harrowing novel set in an alternate United States —a world of injustice and bondage in which a young Black woman becomes the concubine of a powerful white government official and must face the dangerous consequences. Solenne Bonet lives in Texas where choice no longer exists... -
![Mania by Lionel Shriver]()
Mania by Lionel Shriver
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the New York Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars. In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence... -
![The Broken Wheel by David Wingrove]()
The Broken Wheel by David Wingrove
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSeven continents. Seven Chinese kings. A benevolent rule and a stable, sensual, high-tech society. But the T'ang overlords no longer control all three hundred levels of City Earth. Revolution is brewing... -
![An Eye for an Eye by Malorie Blackman]()
An Eye for an Eye by Malorie Blackman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn a world where the two classes are divided by colour and never treated as equals, Sephy - a Cross and daughter of a top politician - is six months pregnant. The child's father, Callum, is a Nought, but worse, he is dead and Callum's brother is out for revenge...Categorized as:
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![The Middle Kingdom by David Wingrove]()
The Middle Kingdom by David Wingrove
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Year is 2190. China has once again become a world unto itself and this time its only boundary is space . . . The world is City Earth, ruled by the Seven, China's new kings...
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