Emily Beresford
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"A silent cultural revolution is reshaping how we will work for generations to come--and Uber is leading it. The Silicon Valley start-up has become a juggernaut of the sharing economy, promising drivers the opportunity to be entrepreneurs but managing them with algorithms and treating them like consumers. The billion-dollar global behemoth has upended our expectations about what it means to work in a society mediated by digital circuitry. Technology...
42) Alliance Armada
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After fending off the Adjudicator attack, the Alliance learns that the enemy is preparing a final, exterminating push against the human systems and their allies, the Hroom Empire. To buy time while building their forces, the allies send Captain Jess Tolvern and her sometimes rival, the former pirate Catarina Vargus, in command of a fleet to raid and reconnoiter the aliens' own home worlds. They cross the inner frontier into systems torn by novas and...
43) Alliance Stars
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Michael Wallace presents the first book in his Alliance Trilogy.
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An apparent naval victory turns to chaos when the Adjudicators awaken an ancient star leviathan and send it against the allied fleet. Falling back to friendly territory ahead of this terrifying weapon, Jess Tolvern and the allied command muster the combined forces of the Alliance planets to finally defeat the Adjudicators and push across the inner frontier to reestablish contact with the remaining civilizations of Old Earth.
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The game of kings and conquerors is not meant for a mage to play, much less a thief.
Kaylin finds herself neck-deep in intrigues and dark dealings. Those she's getting used to. She was not ready to deal with the added complication of a young and impetuous king.
Yet there is something even worse on the horizon, and no one seems willing to see it.
On the way to getting people's head out of the sand, Kaylin's got plenty to worry about.
Not the least...
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Kaylin has been stuck in Waypoint for too long.
She's been busy fighting and leading the resistance, and she's set to run her own crew, but that's not much good if she's still stuck in this city.
She was made for more than this.
Every day, Kaylin feels the urge growing, like an itch in the back of her mind. And the Mountain . . .The Mountain is calling to her.
So what's a girl to do but carve her way out of this bloody mess?
There's no better...
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Why don't thieves and mages get along? Because thieves remind mages too much of themselves. Thief Kaylin is trying to keep her crew alive in Waypoint, the last bastion of civilization before the remains of a once-great half-elven city in the shadows of Ziammotienth. Many venture out to the ruins. Most do not return. Is Tolan's Doom just a legend, or is it much more? Adventure and intrigue swirl around Kaylin as she fights for her crew and gets into...
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What happens when an Academy dropout joins a mercenary company? Catastrophe! Anarchy! Moral Disintegration!
In short you have quite the mess.
But for Kaylin, that is just another day in the life as she and her crew fight and plunder under the shadows of Ziammotienth. The young wizard has found a place among the rough and tumble sell-swords and adventurers.
But deep down, she fears the secrets within and beneath are calling her deeper than she imagined....
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Complications: the things in life that make you late, make you distracted, and Kaylin's world, make you dead.
Kaylin - mage and mercenary, thief, and friend. Her policy is to avoid getting caught up in complications, but what happens when they find her?
She'd better hope that she has some stout mates to help pick up the slack, that's what.
Kaylin does have a good crew, but they are going to be put to the test when it is time to go back into the...
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From the streets of Waypoint to the tower now floating in the sky, everything has led Kaylin to this moment.
The time has come. The Mountain calls and she will answer. But Kaylin isn't the only one who can hear the siren song.
An ancient enemy has bound itself to adversaries old and new. This malignant alliance has united to thwart Kaylin's hopes and dreams.
The Mage over the Mountain has her work cut out for her. But this was always about more...
52) Contagion
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A small mountain town is isolated by a snowstorm as an ancient evil, gone pandemic, turns the residents into the living dead. Almost overnight the town becomes a snowy tomb of the roaming, hungry infected. Stranded by the weather, hiding, a small group of survivors follows the progress of the disease as society around them and around the world begins to break down. Determined to escape, they find that the normal rules of civilization don't apply anymore....
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From the author of the bestselling Contagion comes a new novel in the Living Dead series. When deadly earthquakes devastate the Caribbean, an ancient disease of almost unimaginable destructive force engulfs the globe. As the earth continues to convulse and the seas encroach, the dead rise with an appetite for human flesh. Survivors must learn to navigate a world in which they are now the hunted. A world where the hunters never sleep.
54) Dead Coast
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The origins of the outbreak were never in dispute although at first almost no one believed the dead were actually rising. When the island nation of Haiti was struck by wave after wave of violent earthquakes killing thousands, the Z-virus lurched spectacularly to life. Early reports of cannibalism from inside the country were disregarded until shocking live video splashed across the world's television and computer screens. Suddenly everyone was a believer....
55) The Inheritance
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When three sisters arrive to claim the oldest house in town for themselves, you can bet the residents of this tiny beach community will have something to say about it. For the sisters, it started a letter stating they've inherited a dilapidated beach house from a relative they don't remember. Complications arise when each sister wants something different from their unexpected gain. Plus, they haven't spoken to each other in more than a dozen years....
56) Mitigating Risk
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On Ludus, life is often cheap. Nora's childhood hadn't given her many options. With nowhere else to go after losing her family, she had joined an old friend in a street gang and found an unlikely home there. But unfortunately, tragedy is about to befall Nora. Grudges from the distant past and movements of shadowy organizations may take away everything she is familiar with and all that she holds dear . . . possibly even her life. Danger has never stopped...
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One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, "essential" notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category "woman" and continues in this vein with examinations of "the masculine" and "the feminine." Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted,...
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Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion-dollar industry, worth thirty-six times the value of all the gold ever mined. It forms sixty percent of global assets, and one of the most powerful people in the world-the president of the United States-made his name as a landlord and developer.
Samuel Stein shows that this explosive transformation of urban life...
59) Fixer Upper
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Some things can be fixed with a little duct tape . . . but a broken heart ain't one of 'em. Avery Blake has spent years getting by all on her own in a big house on the countryside. As a contractor, there's not much room for emotion in her male-dominated profession, and she's perfectly content to keep people out of her private life, too. After watching her elderly neighbor, Nora, be torn away from her long-time lover by heartless relatives, Avery has...
60) Providence
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Dr. Sara Hudson has dedicated her life to her patients. Unable to turn anyone away, she sacrifices more and more of herself to them, trying to do the impossible by helping everyone. Her tight knit network of friends are one of the few things that have kept her sane, but after ten years of putting everything into her career she is hurtling headlong into burnout. A chance encounter one evening sets her on an unforeseen path that just might change the...