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In an America stretched by crisis to the breaking point, billionaire entrepreneur and government insider James Sands is riding high. Over the protests of civic groups and the increasing alienation of his wife, Anne, Sands is poised on the brink of an immensely risky and controversial deal that will give him control of all public water in the Pacific Northwest. But, when his business partner is murdered by a radical group called The Army of the Republic,...
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"A chilling look into a dystopian future that seems all too plausible," --Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit
Malia mourns the loss of her small daughter, kidnapped by the government. She spends her days alone safeguarding forbidden books in the False Knowledge Depository in Anacosta, formerly Washington DC. When an illegal reader uses the library, an Antifan Defense Forces squad crashes into Malia's quiet sanctuary to drag him off, and Malia is afraid that...
43) With Two Eyes
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Nadie was only seeking the truth for the family of the man she had loved, but instead, she found herself treated as a travelling freak show. But as she doggedly continued in her lonely quest, little did she know that she was changing the world one step at a time. The series covers a wide spectrum of social forces all vying for supremacy, from corrupt populism, social media influencers, hackers, and gangs, through to old money and faith.All of this...
44) Midnight Black
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Billy Russell's career as a narcotics officer abruptly ends when he cold-bloodedly executes the man who committed a heinous crime against him. Sentenced to 20 years hard labor in total isolation from the outside world, he's suddenly, and without explanation, released on parole five years early. Returning to society, he learns that an isolated nuclear attack spread primal fear of a nuclear holocaust, allowing autocratic billionaires to seize control...
45) Fourth Room
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Bob had all the power and money he could want, but all this gave him was boredom and frustration at his perceived lack of freedom. Would he stand in the way of those who would use his position to start a new world order in his name… The series covers a wide spectrum of social forces all vying for supremacy, from corrupt populism, social media influencers, hackers, and gangs, through to old money and faith.All of this is viewed with a dark satirical...
46) New Reform
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Tatum had a brutal home life, but one thing to emerge from her living with a family of gun runners was that she learned to shoot with unerring accuracy.When she finally escaped her family, she found friendship and camaraderie with a sisterhood of feminist activists until many of her friends were killed in a deadly terrorist attack.It was then that Tatum decided that her only meaningful solution was to take revenge on their killers…The series covers...
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Denise was a soulless sociopath with money to burn and urges to satisfy, and then she met Brandon. He was a celebrity seeker without a love for her, but with no regard to the trail of destruction, he would be willing to cause to make her his own.The series covers a wide spectrum of social forces all vying for supremacy, from corrupt populism, social media influencers, hackers, and gangs, through to old money and faith.All of this is viewed with a...
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The HIT series returns!
On the Farm all animals were equal. In the Castle some are more equal than others.
Animal Castle Vol. 2 picks up shortly after the events of Vol. 1 with Miss B trying to convince the animals not to give in to violence, in order to put an end to Silvio's reign...
At the castle, the dictatorship continues. Thanks to the efforts of Miss B and her friends, the animals attempt to remobilize the pacifist movement of the...
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Animal Castle volume 2
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Animal Castle Vol. 2 picks up shortly after the events of Vol. 1 with Miss B trying to convince the animals not to give in to violence, in order to put an end to Silvio's reign...
An act of defiance by the Daisies leads Silvio to start locking animals up as a method to divide and conquer. But while Miss B is feeling the stress from both her friends and her family, some wise words put things into perspective and remind everyone that the resistance...
50) Brotherhood
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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal authority.
Under the regime of the so-called Brotherhood, two young people are publicly executed for having loved each other. In response, their mothers begin a secret correspondence, their only outlet for the grief they share and each woman's personal reckoning...
51) Surrender
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"[A] riveting, and original, achievement."-WIRED
From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that "calls to mind The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood [and] Blindness by José Saramago" (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation).
Ten long years have passed since war first broke out, and one couple still does not know the whereabouts of their children, or what their...
52) Imperium
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On the planet Dearth in the galaxy Aurora rival super-powers struggle for supremacy. Only one of them can win...or they could both lose.
53) Phreak
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In an alternate, near-future world where corrupt government and corporate interests rule the smallest details of Island life, an unusually sensitive child is born. Navigating a landscape of ecological devastation and botched genetic modification experiments, the child's survival depends upon their heightened senses and the skills they learn at the knee of their life-hacking father. Will it be enough? As they cross the threshold of adulthood the collapse...
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"People think - wrongly - that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn't; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten job of it. Futures are huge things that come with many elements and a billion variables, and the human race has a habit ... What speculative fiction is good at is not the future but the present - taking an aspect of it that troubles or is dangerous and extrapolating that aspect into something that allows the people...
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"It is time for the rebirth of eugenics in America! Non-law abiding citizens are burdens of society. It's time for the street sweepers to take the trash away."
This may even apply to the First Lady, Tonya Walker...
"Beliefs create reality. All behavior is belief driven. People take in information through the prism of beliefs they already have."
These are the exact words William Walker used to convince Donald Trump he could become the President.
Walker,...
56) Kricket
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Religious freedom has been, stripped from Americans through the Religious Uniformity Act. Kricket Foster is a second-generation fighter in the Religious Resistance, a radical group of activists organized to restore this freedom. After a brush with the law, Kricket gives up activism to protect her young daughter.
Kricket makes her living bootlegging and bringing medications into the US. Other than paying off or shooting the occasional extortionist...
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Bergden and Alyssa Crane are dutiful citizens of the Regime. Bergden, a Regime blackjack and Alyssa, a faithful wife, do what they can to provide for their son, James even when it means sacrificing their very freedom. But when Bergden is accused of treason, the Cranes must flee for their lives to escape the terrible reach of the Regime. During the escape, Bergden and Alyssa become separated.
Now, Bergden and Alyssa will do whatever they must, and...
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The SwiftPad Insurgency, the second book in the SwiftPad trilogy, follows the founders and original crew of the Portland-based social media application SwiftPad. Nate Schuette, who wrote a sensational novel thirty years earlier (see Barckmann's novel Farewell the Dragon), shows up in Portland with Paula Flayer, his promiscuous seventy-five-year-old girlfriend, who has not physically aged since her late twenties. But, Ben Cadez, former Nixon operative...
59) La Rééducation
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John Smith, fonctionnaire, occupait un poste au Commissariat des Archives, un département du Ministère de la Vérité. Son travail consistait à remanier les archives historiques, afin que le passé soit conforme aux exigences de la classe dominante au pouvoir. Lui et ses collègues devaient également s'assurer que plus aucune trace écrite de ce passé ne subsiste. Arrêté en même temps que sa compagne Julia, il est accusé par le Parti Intérieur...
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Where once was a beautiful wood now stands a desolate field smothered in ash and garbage, and here a young man named Waller has terrorizing encounters with grotesque figures named "the garbagemen." As Waller becomes fascinated with these desperate men who eke out a survival by rooting through their nation's waste, he imagines they are also digging through its past as their government erases its history and walls itself off from the outside world....
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