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Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other girls, forced to wear strange uniforms, their heads shaved, guarded by two inept yet vicious armed jailers and a 'nurse'. The girls all have something in common, but what is it? What crime has brought them here from the city?...
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"Riva is a "high-rise diver," a top athlete with millions of fans and a perfectly functioning human on every level. Suddenly she rebels, breaking her contract and refusing to train. Cameras are everywhere in her world, but she doesn't know her every move is being watched by Hitomi, the psychologist tasked with reining Riva back in. Unquestionably loyal to the system, Hitomi's own life is at stake: should she fail to deliver, she will be banned to...
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"Protected from global devastation on their island by a collapsing castle that holds a greenhouse and a well-stocked bunker in its ruins, Kit and Crevan, when a woman washes ashore, find the fictions of their shared existence crumbling and truth they've been hiding from each other beginning to emerge"--
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"Jared works as a dentist in small-town Michigan. His life is totally normal, except for one thing. He is a bot engineered with human DNA to look and act like a real person. One day at a screening of a classic movie, Jared feels a strange sensation around his eyes. Everyone knows that bots can't feel emotions, but as the theater lights come on, Jared is almost certain he's crying. Confused, he decides to watch more old movies to figure out what's...
5) Blindness
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IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
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Chaos ensues when a city is struck with an epidemic of blindness in which its victims see only white, and a doctor who is locked in an asylum for the affliction is taken care of by his wife, who has retained her sight.
6) Scrapper
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For fans of The Dog Stars and Station Eleven, Scrapper traces one man's desperate quest for redemption in a devastated Detroit. "Has the feel of Cormac McCarthy's The Road set in present-day Motor City... powerful." - Publishers Weekly. Detroit has descended into ruin. Kelly scavenges for scrap metal from the hundred thousand abandoned buildings in a part of the city known as “the zone,” an increasingly wild landscape where one day he finds something...
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I'll turn into f…. Houdini and disappear.When the woman he loves says that she no longer wants to see him, M÷ doesn't know what to do, what to say. Instead of pleading, he walks away while trying to keep the pieces of his broken heart together. Around him, the world is spinning out of control.A new war has started, the Queen has died, Elon has bought Twitter, Tate is trying to escape the agents of the Matrix, while the mysterious Invisible Hand...
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Coping with loss on an unimaginable scale.All things pass in time. Empires crumble. Stars go super-nova. Dreams fade. Species go extinct.Worlds end. And now it's Earth's turn.With humanity facing an inevitable and unavoidable fate, how will it spend its last hours? Will we rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light, or will we find a final peace in the acceptance of our ultimate mortality? Does it matter, in a world without a tomorrow, where...
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Mike Palecek's novel Speak English tells what happened when some rowdy teenagers encountered an alien, somewhere around 1970. Why did they shoot it? What were the consequences? Was it really an alien, or maybe a mental patient? How did this incident affect these three when they grew up? Did they ever meet another alien? To find out, read Speak English.
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"Upon setting out for a morning walk with his knobby stick in hand, a young man is arrested by a robot called the Plotinus and abandoned in a cell where one beam of sunlight beckons through an air duct. Rapping his knuckles against the vent to relay his tale of woe in code, he recalls his lost love and their group's forbidden activities; his readings in philosophy and the sciences; and sweet memories of freedom's small pleasures. As the captive confronts...
11) The Petting Zoos
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In a virus-fearing world, skin hunger can drive you crazy - and human petting zoos can return you to yourself.
Ten years after the deadly virus nicknamed Henny Penny, the world has largely recovered - there's an interim government as well as law and order, and life is returning to normal for the greatly reduced population. But despite effective vaccines, the law still requires people to wear protective masks and gloves at all times in public,...
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In the tradition of Squid Game and The Hunger Games welcome to the dystopian future of mass entertainment in 2084 for a counselling show with a difference: Patient vs Counsellor. Where the counsellor must guess the patient's serious psychosexual problem to win a star prize, or face humiliatingly Forfeit-Fun. On tonight's show we have three contestants: Katy, a former beauty queen now obese, counselled by Captain Stanislav Boglosovic, a former military...
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WHAT IF POLITICIANS COULDN'T LIE? That's the premise of Jerry Willbur's intriguing book.
In this fascinating satire, Willbur posits that the world we know is about to end. The psychopaths are here and ready to take complete control. When an accidental hero emerges, the battle for the future of America, the True Blue Revolution, begins! Using the latest research in neuroscience, Willbur explores the role of positive psychology, compassion, and creativity...
14) Exist
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From Caroline Angel, author of Less and the Origin of Evil series, comes a new apocalyptic tale…Something sinister is happening, something terrifying. Seemingly normal men begin removing their clothes and gorging on their own flesh. Women throw themselves towards Death. The animals and insects disappear…Bizarre events begin on one fateful night, throwing a motley band of uninfected people together in search of survival and answers. United they...
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Laurie Caswell loves her life… but a nightmare leaves her terrified of the future…
It's 1979 and Laurie's living a great life as a bookstore clerk at the Northbrook Mall. She's excited to go out with her boyfriend to see a movie, have a drink, and spend a happy evening together. When he leaves, she's rocked to her core by a nightmare.
A nightmare of a future where her mall is dead, overweight, black-clad people cover their faces like common...
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A Cautionary Tale about the Near Dystopian Future Just a few years down the road, the new health-care plan is firmly entrenched. A new bill, Ethical Assessment of End-of Life Care, has also been enacted into law. And the authorities are ruthlessly implementing it throughout the land – no more medical resources wasted on the defective and dying, equitable distribution of quality medical care, no more lingering half-lives sustained by expensive machinery....
17) Evil Ricky
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Rachel Monroe (aka Jack) is in a marriage with a man that loves her and is absolutely devoted to her. Shane has never asked anything of her, and she gives him her body but doesn't give her love. Shane is blackmailed into given away their genetic material, she declares war on the culprits. Shane is dragged along, until she meets her match in Ricky M. The war between them takes casualties as well as adds friends. They sent in Ralph to rescue her, together...
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Eddy and Liz participate in a relationship study for extra cash and learn that they don't share the same opinions about sex, fidelity, career or truth. In fact, they don't understand each other. Eddy tries. Liz tires. Basement Suite is provocative and sexy - a saucy look at another side of love and relationships.
19) Cowered
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Nobody bends forever. Dragged to hell,Compelled to comply,Ronnie Hudson struggles to fight in a system where she is bound to lose. She must find the strength to take on her sociopathic ex,There's no choice but to bring down his darkness,Tom might hold all the cards,But Ronnie has to win.She'll do anything to protect her child… Read all three books in the Cowered series, available for the first time in one discounted collection. Discover why so many...
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Traverse the psyches of figures grappling with existential questions, like the reality-doubting schizophrenic in "Shattering Reality" or the dimension-defying friendship between two boys centuries apart in "Bridging Yesteryear." These dramatic scenarios serve not just as thought experiments but also as profiles of courage depicting outcasts struggling to reconstruct meaning amidst life's harshest limiting walls.Additionally, speculative scenarios...
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