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1) Bannerless
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Bannerless novels (Carrie Vaughn) volume 1
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An investigator must discover the truth behind a mysterious death in a world where small communities struggle to maintain a ravaged civilization decades after environmental and economic collapse.
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"It's March 2034, six months after D.C. police detective Jen Lu and Chandler, her sentient bio-computer and wannabe tough guy implanted in her brain, cracked the mystery of Eden. The climate crisis is hitting harder than ever: a mega-hurricane has devastated the eco-system and waves of refugees pour into Washington, D.C. Environmental lawyer and media darling Patty Garcia dies in a bizarre accident on a golf course. Of the seven billion people on...
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"Set in Washington D.C. in the near future, climate change has hit hard, fires are burning, unemployment is high, and controversial longevity treatments are only available to the very rich. Enter resourceful young police detective, Jen B. Lu, and her "partner," Chandler, a SIM implant in her brain that's her instant link to the Internet and police records, and a constant voice inside her head. He's an inquisitive tough guy, with a helluva sense of...
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"Decades after environmental and economic collapse, pockets of settlements struggle to maintain a much-reduced civilization by strictly rationing resources--including the ability to have children. Enid of Haven, an investigator in this community, travels to a far-flung village with her new, inexperienced partner to settle a minor resource dispute. But while there, the murder of an outsider demands her attention, and leads to explosive secrets"--
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After a near-fatal car crash, Royce Vandeweghe wakes up to find that he's one of the first human patients to undergo a radical new procedure: a full-body transplant. Years later, at his Long Island home, he meets Delta Devlin, a detective looking for a missing hiker. Through her, he learns that his lovely wife, his mother, and his best friend have fed him an elaborate lie about the night of the accident. A neighbor goes missing, then another. Desperate...
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Dewey Decimal novel volume 03
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Dewey finds himself in a compromising position running dishonest tasks for Senator Howard while also protecting Saudi royals and finds he must make difficult choices.
7) Bullet Gal
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Teenage gunsel-cum-aspiring-hero Mitzi (last name unknown) breezes into Heropa with twin 9 mm pistols blazing, only to be, targeted for recruitment, betrayal and assassination. French femmes fatale, an out-of-touch super-powered elite, and one hell of an underlying mystery, figure heavily in this fusion neo-noir, science-fiction dystopia. Interweaving the scrappy one-liners is a story much more than the sum of its parts, concerning questions about...
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Aporofobia, creo que ésa es la idea central que vertebra las acciones en el presente libro. Con otras palabras, el odio a los mendigos, quizá porque nos recuerdan de manera cotidiana que no nos hallamos en el mejor mundo de todos los posibles. Nos encontramos así con una sucesión de indigentes, en ocasiones con delirios paranoides, uno de los cuales, Miguel Ejido, aparece muerto en circunstancias extrañas. Los otros dos protagonistas son Ciriaco...
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2015
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Are you being watched?
Before she turns twenty-one, Amina Mir intends to have one of her stories published on the front page of the Chronicle. So when she gets an internship there, she’s thrilled, even if it means a summer making coffee and writing human-interest stories. Then she interviews Ivor McMorris. A veteran of the war in Sinnostan, Ivor is convinced that someone interfered with his memories while he was there—but...
Before she turns twenty-one, Amina Mir intends to have one of her stories published on the front page of the Chronicle. So when she gets an internship there, she’s thrilled, even if it means a summer making coffee and writing human-interest stories. Then she interviews Ivor McMorris. A veteran of the war in Sinnostan, Ivor is convinced that someone interfered with his memories while he was there—but...
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¿Qué pasa cuando todos los insultos, amenazas y odio que expresamos en internet se convierten en violencia real? J. C. Tixier explora esa posibilidad a través del caso de Diego Abrio, un joven preso que es liberado de la cárcel gracias a una siniestra aplicación para el móvil…
Si el contador del perfil de Diego alcanza los tres millones de votos en la aplicación Guilty, será liberado. Hace ya tres años que cumple condena en la cárcel por...
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Phillip and Emily, co-workers at the multinational tech firm Virtual Design, volunteered for a secret project that left them with missing memories. Tonight, Virtual Design is throwing a business party in a New York City hi-rise, and Phillip and Emily are attending in the hope of networking so that they may unravel what was done to them. But, as they explore the building and gather information, they begin to uncover a sinister plot that endangers all...
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Praise for Life is But a Dream: "Another great read!""It was so good, so intriguing that I practically devoured it!""It kept me turning pages."When danger lurks in your sleep...dreams aren't realunless they arewhen someone wants to watch you drownyou better pay attentionSage and Marlow are reunited in this second book of A Nursery Rhyme Mystery series. When Sage's dreams merge with Marlow's they know something strange is connecting them. But when...
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Praise for Hickory Dickory Dock: "Good and easy reading....sucked me in again.""True story teller and keeps the reader vested till the end.....""I loved this one!"When the future is murder.After a tumultuous freshman year at Detroit University, Marlow Henry and Sage Farrell look forward to a calm, uneventful summer break.Not gonna happen.Before Marlow can even make his blossoming relationship with Dakota official, Sage pulls him into her new discovery...
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Imagina un mundo sin dinero en efectivo. Un mundo bajo vigilancia. Un mundo en donde adquieres estatus mediante puntos de moralidad. Entra a la Ciudad Divertida de Joe Dylan. Es corrupta hasta el hueso y está bajo el siempre alerta sistema de vigilancia conocido como el Ojo. El dinero ha sido abandonado a favor del sistema de crédito. Todos los ciudadanos están obligados a llevar consigo dispositivos de mano que contienen su puntaje de crédito...
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Our Second Civil War was over in minutes, while the conflict took decades. As in all wars, both sides lost heavily and then proclaimed victory. I knew this all too well, serving as a paramedic to patch up their wounded and dying.
I'd gotten myself into 'Cagga to solve my nightmares. After I'd sworn off coming back into the cities where the only real violence happened. She was in my dreams every night, and turned them into the same hell on earth she...
16) Leepus Dizzy
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"Leepus DIZZY" is a venture into prose from established comics writer Jamie Delano - Hellblazer, 2020 Visions, Outlaw Nation, The Territory, Cruel and Unusual, among many others.
In the dystopian near-future alternate reality of Inglund, the novel's eponymous lead character - gambler and 'detective', Leepus - guides the reader on an erratic exploration of his strange interior and exterior worlds.
The novel is populated by a cast of outlandish...
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Marrow Nightingale is a professional pain in the ass. As Electric Blue Moon's only licensed private investigator, she's the one who snoops the closets of the elite who think the laws don't apply to them. But when the son of a wealthy family turns up dead, it's Marrow's closet that everyone is suddenly interested in. That dead playboy in the foyer? It's her adoptive sibling, Rocket Nightingale.Now, Marrow's dodging gossip columnists who smell blood...
18) Case: 1
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It's official, Devlin is Annalise's new partner. He's charming, caring-a perfect gentleman who caters to her every need. That is until he starts to mix work with pleasure to convince her to marry him as per agreement with her father.
With her servant, Mavel, gone from her side, the cracks in the wall she created around her begin to come undone. To take her mind off the torment her heart is going through, she takes on another possession case in...
19) A Bad Èclair Day
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Life in post-apocalyptic France has finally begun to settle down. The cafés all have candles, the bakery ovens are all coal-fired and reliance on electricity and electronics are now a thing of the past. So when the Provençal village of Chabanel decides to go ahead with its annual pastry contest it's a shock to everyone when one of the celebrity judges down from Paris dies a gruesome-and very public-death. When a plate of poisoned chocolate éclairs...
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"My name is Jules Hooker. I have lived through a few crappy moments in my life-and with a name like Hooker, you can just imagine-but nothing, nothing, compares to the two intensely and world-shatteringly crappy things that happened to me this last June. Three, I guess, if you count Gilbert. After my boyfriend dumped me on the day I thought he was going to propose, I'd have to say two other really bad things happened last June. The first would have...
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