Catalyst

Catalyst

Kristin Smith

Kristin Smith

A fast-paced thrilling adventure, full of danger, romance, and deception—perfect for fans of Veronica Roth's Divergent series or Marie Lu's Legend.Too pretty.Too smart.Too perfect.In a crumbling, futuristic Las Vegas where the wealthy choose the characteristics of their children like ordering off a drive-thru menu, seventeen-year-old Sienna Preston doesn't fit in. As a normal girl surrounded by genetically modified teenagers, all of her imperfections are on display. But after the death of her father, everything she's ever known and loved changes in an instant.With little skills to help provide for her family, Sienna clings to the two things that come easily—lying and stealing. But not all thief-for-hire assignments go as planned. When a covert exchange of a stolen computer chip is intercepted, she becomes entangled with a corrupt government official who uses her thieving past as leverage, her mother as collateral, and the genetically modified poster boy she's falling for as...
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The Sky Road tfr-4

The Sky Road tfr-4

Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod

Centuries after its catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And one young scholar working in the space-ship yard, Clovis colha Gree, could make the difference between success and failure.
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Mary And The Giant

Mary And The Giant

Philip Kindred Dick

Philip Kindred Dick

Philip K. Dick, Mary and the Giant , written 1953-55, first published 1987. Mary Anne Reynolds yearns to escape the confines of Pacific Park, California; of her abusive father; and of her stifling existence. Her struggle for identity leads her to the California jazz scene, to several older men, and to a reality as strange and gripping as any of Philip Dick’s science fiction. Mary and the Giant is a deeply affecting tale of hope and tragedy as seen through the eyes of a frighteningly real young woman.
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The Vulture of Sommerset

The Vulture of Sommerset

Stephen M. Giles

Stephen M. Giles

Evil Uncle Silas is dead, but his spirit still haunts Sommerset - even in death he will not let go of his nephew and nieces.Milo is troubled by nightmares of the Uncle who tried to steal his body and a dark secret he must hide from his cousins; Adele is enthralled by the journals of Captain Bloom and his adventures in the jungles of Budatta, unaware of how important the Captain will become when tragedy strikes; and snooty Isabella is plotting her way to even greater fame and fortune.A sudden disappearance will rock the cousins' world and each Winterbottom will have to battle old ghosts as they fight to save their Aunt Rosemary... And each other.The action packed sequel to Silas and the Winterbottoms.
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Broken (The Siren Series #1)

Broken (The Siren Series #1)

L. A. Griffiths

L. A. Griffiths

Sixteen year old Ellie is a special girl with a unique gift. With just one touch Ellie can turn the most kind and gentle soul into a crazed sexual animal. She tries to be a normal girl but deep down she knows that that will never happen. But when Ellie has demonic dreams of faceless creatures every night she is scared of what is dream and what is reality.
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Ninja

Ninja

Chris Bradford

Chris Bradford

Taka's desperate to prove that he has what it takes to become a ninja. He has failed the Grandmasters test twice already. But when the clan's scrolls are stolen by an enemy samurai, he has a chance to prove himself.
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Mutiny at Vesta

Mutiny at Vesta

R. E. Stearns

Science Fiction

Adda and Iridian have survived the murderous AI that tried to kill them in Barbary Station...but now they'll need all of their ingenuity to escape the evil megacorporation that wants to own them, in this second space adventure in the Shieldrunner Pirates trilogy. Adda Karpe and Iridian Nassir have escaped the murderous AI that was trapping them on Barbary Station, and earned themselves a place on Captain Sloane's fabled pirate crew. And now that they've arrived at Vesta, Sloane's home base, they can finally start making a living stealing from well-off megacorporations. Unfortunately, the political situation has deteriorated in Captain Sloane's absence. Adda and Iridian find themselves trapped in a contract with Oxia Corp., one of the very megacorporations they'd hoped to prey on, forced to rob and intimidate targets they'd never have chosen on their own. If they're ever going to have the independent life together that they've always wanted, they'll have...
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The Mission a5-3

The Mission a5-3

Robert Doherty

Science Fiction / Fiction / Thriller

Now we know what the government hid there. It's time we found out why…. Hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest is a place shrouded in mystery. It is called The Mission. And in nearby villages people are screaming in pain as they die from a virus more deadly than Ebola. They can't escape it. They can't cure it. They can't stop it from exploding into a worldwide epidemic poised to kill us all…. Scientist Lisa Duncan and Special Forces officer Mike Turcotte suspect this new "Black Death" is actually a biological weapon in an escalating war between us…and "them." Them? The aliens who are part of a chilling conspiracy connected to ancient riddles, a government agency… and Area 51. Now from the Great Wall of China to a top secret facility beneath Antarctica's ice cap, an eclectic group of soldiers and scholars are working with Duncan and Turcotte to give humankind one last shimmering hope to survive. To stop the aliens-at least until the Pandora's box of Area 51 opens up again….
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