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A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsSt Mary’s is back and is facing a battle to survive in this, the fourth instalment of the Chronicles. Max and Leon are re-united and looking forward to a peaceful lifetime together. But, sadly, they don’t even make it to lunchtime...Categorized as:
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Impossible: Original, heartwarming and twisty, discover the acclaimed love story that everyone’s talking about in 2022 by Sarah Lotz
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is not a love story. This is IMPOSSIBLE.‘Sometimes love doesn’t come in the form you think it will.’Nick: Failed writer. Failed husband. Dog owner.Bee: Serial dater. Dress maker. Pringles enthusiast.When fate brings them together over a misdirected email, the connection is instant. They feel like they’ve known each other all their lives . . .It should have been the perfect love story... -
A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA million universes. A million dangers. One destiny.The fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite Caine’s hands. Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud since she first traveled to another universe using her parents’ invention, the Firebird...Categorized as:
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Saving the Omegas by Leann Ryans
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKarn is hired to find the person responsible for taking the omegas slated to become prizes. He's already had the chance to win an omega for himself, but wasn't interested. The life he leads isn't one where he can coddle and protect a weak omega... -
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Uncanny Magazine Issue 15: March/April 2017 by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe March/April 2017 issue of Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Beth Cato, Stephen Graham Jones, JY Yang, Sarah Pinsker, and S. Qiouyi Lu, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Sam J. Miller, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Shveta Thakrar, Dawn Xiana Moon, and Paul Booth, poetry by Cassandra Khaw, Brandon O’Brien, Bogi Takács, and Lisa M...Categorized as:
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Unbreakable by Elizabeth Norris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFour months after Ben disappeared through the portal to his home universe, Janelle believes she’ll never see him again. Her world is still devastated, but life is finally starting to resume some kind of normalcy. Until Interverse Agent Taylor Barclay shows up...Categorized as:
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Ash: A Destined Novel by Shani Petroff, Darci Manley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDestiny is pre-determined. It is strictly monitored. It is unchangeable.Or is it?Madden’s life is a whirlwind of privilege and perks. Born into the elite Purple ring, she is fated to be a Minister of the Seven. Although her position comes with the burden of great responsibility, she’s nothing if not confident in her future... -
Bear's Honor by Leann Ryans
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTaken from her home after a brutal attack, Rune is told to find a mate by spring, or one will be chosen for her. Of course, the one she wants is the one who isn’t interested in claiming her.Bear is the second in command, but his honor doesn’t allow him to abuse his station...Categorized as:
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Verik's Price by Leann Ryans
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRipped from her village and given to a strange clan as payment, Iris is desperate to protect her cousin and help her people.Interested in nothing more than the land that his men won, Verik doesn’t care if the people living on it can’t survive the winter… Until Iris reminds him he needs those people for his plan to work... -
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsA multiverse-hopping outsider discovers a secret that threatens her home world and her fragile place in it--a stunning sci-fi debut that's both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. CARA IS DEAD ON THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR WORLDS...Categorized as:
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The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 25 ratings“I promise you have never read a story like this.” —Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark MatterInception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind.. -
Claimed by the Alien Warrior Triad by Corin Cain
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"This isn’t real life. In real life, you don’t have towering, broad-shouldered, Greek Gods of men stepping out of a portal and into your reality. Shirtless, in nothing but loin cloths, with every inch of their rippling, marble-hued muscles covered in tribal tattoos. You don’t have men like that appearing out of nowhere; out of a rippling crack in the universe.. -
False Future by Dan Krokos
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTrue Earth has returned during a massive snowstorm in Manhattan—and this time they have an army. Rhys, Noble, Sophia, and Peter know they don't stand a chance against the enemy without Miranda. And once they revive her, she's horrified to find her world in flames. The enemy occupation is brutal, but the director promises to release her hold on the city if Mr... -
Forgotten Suns by Judith Tarr
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor five thousand Earthyears, the planet called Nevermore has been empty. Its cities are deserted, with every trace of their inhabitants erased. Only a handful of nomadic tribes remain, none of whom remember the ones who went before.An expedition from Earth has been excavating one of the planet's many ruins, and attempting without success to find the cause of its people's disappearance... -
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The Flight of the Silvers by Daniel Price
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWithout warning, the world comes to an end for Hannah and Amanda Given. The sky looms frigid white. The electricity falters. Airplanes everywhere crash to the ground. But the Givens are saved by mysterious strangers, three fearsome and beautiful beings who force a plain silver bracelet onto each sister’s wrist... -
Parallel by Lauren Miller
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAbby Barnes had a plan. The Plan. She'd go to Northwestern, major in journalism, and land a job at a national newspaper, all before she turned twenty-two. But one tiny choice—taking a drama class her senior year of high school—changed all that. Now, on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Abby is stuck on a Hollywood movie set, miles from where she wants to be, wishing she could rewind her life...Categorized as:
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Present Tense Machine by Gunnhild Øyehaug
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author of Wait, Blink and Knots, Gunnhild Øyehaug's Present Tense Machine is a playful and transcendent novel about language, family, and parallel universes.On an ordinary day in Bergen, Norway, in the late 1980s, Anna is reading in the garden while her two-year-old daughter, Laura, plays on her tricycle...Categorized as:
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The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius: Stories of the Comic Apocalypse by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJerry Cornelius – English assassin, physicist, rock star, messiah to the Age of Science – is one of fantastic literature’s greatest creations. Acclaimed by Moorcock’s readers, critics, and peers from Mick Jagger to J. G. Ballard, Cornelius is the ultimate postmodern antihero, more Borgesian than Asimovian...Categorized as:
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Vanishing Point by Michaela Roessner
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt happened one night, without warning: 90% of the human race disappeared without a trace. There were no bodies and no clue as to where they went or whether they would ever return. After years of violence spawned by fear and rage, an uneasy peace is restored. But fanatics still rove the land, trying to discover what caused the Vanishing...Categorized as:
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Sputnik's Children by Terri Favro
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA literary genre-bending novel full of heart. Cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi has been riding the success of her Cold War era inspired superhero series Sputnik Chick Girl with No Past for more than 25 years... -
The Possibilities by Yael Goldstein-Love
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA new mother ventures into parallel worlds to find her missing child in this mind-bending novel that turns the joys and anxieties of parenthood into an epic quest."A bravura, unforgettable performance."--Namwali Serpell, author of The FurrowsWhat if the life you didn't live was as real as the one you did?Hannah is having a bad day. A bad month... -
Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSixteen-year-old Janelle Tenner is used to having a lot of responsibility. She balances working as a lifeguard in San Diego with an intense academic schedule. Janelle's mother is bipolar, and her dad is a workaholic FBI agent, which means Janelle also has to look out for her younger brother, Jared.And that was before she died..Categorized as:
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Any Way the Wind Blows by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn the original Tor.com story Any Way the Wind Blows, New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire presents a sweet tribute to Manhattan's iconic Flatiron building--celebrating the longtime home of Tor Books as the publisher bids farewell for new office space...Categorized as:
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My Real Children by Jo Walton
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt’s 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. “Confused today,” read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know—what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four children. And she remembers not marrying Mark and raising three children with Bee instead... -
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Rise of the Six by Matt Ryan
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsASIN B00T0HCQVU moved to the most recent edition hereJoey Foust has no idea he’s a wanted man and his parents aim to keep it that way. They raised him as a normal boy in a small American town, hoping he and his friends don’t discover what lies beyond. And for eighteen years, they succeed...Categorized as:
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The English Assassin: The Cornelius Quartet 3 by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe third book in the Cornelius Quartet reissues published by Titan Books featuring the enigmatic character Jerry Cornelius, written by influential, award-winning author Michael...Categorized as:
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The Bridal Hunt by Jeanette Lynn
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLibrarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.Things aren't going at all like Wilhelmina had planned...Showing up at her significant other's office to surprise him with a romantic getaway for two, she finds herself on the receiving end of one, instead.Hurt, betrayed, pissed off and single Wilhelmina decides to take the trip alone, have her own holiday for one... -
Relativity by Cristin Bishara
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere are so many moments Ruby Wright wishes she could change. The moment her dad uprooted her from California to live in backwoods Ohio with their new stepfamily. The moment she moved away without telling her best friend George she loved him. The moment a car accident ended her mother's life.But no one can rewrite time. At least, that's what physics-obsessed Ruby believes...Categorized as:
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A Cure for Cancer by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA mirror-image of his former self, Jerry Cornelius returns to a parallel London, armed with a vibragun and his infamous charisma and charm to boot. On the trail of the grotesque Bishop Beesley, Jerry hunts for a mysterious device capable of manipulating the cosmos. Corruption, violence and greed are rife in a war-torn Europe, but Jerry is against history; he is outside of history...Categorized as:
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Finna by Nino Cipri
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsNino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the multiverse has to offer with the everyday awfulness of low-wage work. It explores queer relationships and queer feelings, capitalism and accountability, labor and love, all with a bouncing sense of humor and a commitment to the strange...Categorized as:
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Living Next Door to the God of Love by Justina Robson
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhere do you run when a world is out to get you?AIs, Forged beings, superheroes, angels, and worlds that change in the blink of an eye–here is a richly imagined tale of ordinary redemption in an extraordinary world from one of the most provocative writers working today.…Francine is a young runaway looking to find a definition of love she can trust...Categorized as:
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Fair Coin by E.C. Myers
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEpraim is horrified when he comes home from school one day to find his mother unconscious at the kitchen table, clutching a bottle of pills. Even more disturbing than her suicide attempt is the reason for it: the dead boy she identified at the hospital that afternoon--a boy who looks exactly like him...Categorized as:
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Familiar: A Novel by J. Robert Lennon
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA haunting, enigmatic novel about a woman who is given a second chance—and isn't sure whether she really wants it * A Publishers Weekly "Indie Sleeper" * A Powell's Indiespensable Pick * The Nervous Breakdown's October Book Club Pick *Elisa Brown is driving back from her annual, somber visit to her son Silas's grave when something changes...
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