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Action and adventure fiction

  • Author:
    Forstchen, William R.
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    Two years after the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, learn that most of their young people are to be drafted into an "Army of National...

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    Rayborne, Ron
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    The future is dystopian. Earth’s biosphere has finally begun to crash wholesale due to man’s perennial mismanagement. It’s been a death by a thousand cuts. The world government, a fascist corporatocracy, has ruled with an iron fist, but...

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    Rivera, Raquel
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    Aneze, a young Aboriginal girl, is left for dead after her village is ripped apart by a wife-raid; her father and brother are killed and her mother is kidnapped. Aneze is the only survivor. She renames herself Orphan Ahwak as she...

  • Author:
    Bozak, Nadia
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    Anansi is thrilled to reissue Orphan Love, Nadia Bozak’s critically acclaimed debut — now featuring the first chapter of her second novel, El Niño. Winter is giving way to spring in Black Dew Seat, a rugged outpost buried in the...

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    Quick, Amanda
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    Miss Amity Doncaster, world traveler, is accustomed to adventure and risk. Benedict Stanbridge, a man of science and a spy for the Crown, has faced danger in the darker corners of foreign lands. But they are about to face a threat that...

  • Author:
    Stevenson, Robin
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    Since his girlfriend dumped him, Jayden has been avoiding school, and life in general. When his eccentric uncle Mel invites him to help with his biology research at an Australian university, he figures he has nothing to lose....

  • Author:
    Roy, Philip
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    In Outlaw in India, the fifth volume in the best-selling Submarine Outlaw series, Alfred and his crew of Seaweed the seagull and Hollie the dog begin their exploration of India with a piece of bad luck when they surface behind a frigate...

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    North, Anna
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    In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of...

  • Author:
    Holling, Holling Clancy
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    A young Indian boy in the Canadian wilderness carves a twelve-inch canoe with a kneeling Indian figure and frees it to undertake a journey to the Atlantic Ocean in his place. Four years later this tiny vessel reaches its destination,...

  • Author:
    Pearson, Brian E.
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    David, an Anglican parish priest, has no way of knowing that his place in the world is about to be shaken irrevocably. He will be flung headlong into a journey of discovery that leads him to Canada’s rugged West Coast, a journey of loss...

  • Author:
    Child, Lee.
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    Family secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher in this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, "a superb craftsman of suspense" (Entertainment Weekly). Jack Reacher hits the pavement and...

  • Author:
    Schreiber, Joe
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    As his rock band tours Italy, eighteen-year-old Perry says a reluctant "bonjour" to Gobi, his former exchange student/Lithuanian assassin, who enlists his help on a justice-dispensing rampage all over Europe.

  • Author:
    Peacock, Shane
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    The long-awaited new book in the award-winning cross-Canada adventure series finds fifteen-year-old Dylan Maples on the hunt for New Brunswick's Phantom Ship. Things aren't going so well for fifteen-year-old Dylan Maples. He's sick of...

  • Author:
    Peacock, Shane
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    Things aren't going so well for fifteen-year-old Dylan Maples. He's sick of his own reflection, his parental units are driving him nuts, and, worst of all, he's trying to come to terms with the unexpected death of one of...

  • Author:
    Mass, Wendy
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    Joss, the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe, must team up with a human girl to re-create Earth, when the planet is accidentally erased from existence.

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    Drake, Raelyn
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    Natalie has never been a fast runner. She's only on the track team because her sister, a varsity runner, put in a good word with the coach. So Natalie's shocked when her speed suddenly increases on her sixteenth birthday. Soon...

  • Author:
    Pak, Greg
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    Betrayed by Earth's heroes and exiled into outer space, the man-monster known as the Incredible Hulk has landed on the distant planet Sakaar, ruled by the tyrannical Red King. Sold into slavery, the Hulk becomes the Green Scar, the...

  • Author:
    Martin, R. T.
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    A11_4_ON3 is a gamer who likes to look out for himself-especially when it comes to winning. When he learns he's part of a four-player team with his former gaming crew, no one is happy to work together again. But their team must win this...

  • Author:
    Johnstone, William W.
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    When "Preacher," the last gunfighter, catches wind that a lady from his past has been murdered in St. Louis, he is enraged. It's time to leave the wilderness and head to the big city to exact some revenge.

  • Author:
    Standiford, Les.
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    An awards ceremony for valor is disrupted by terrorists, masquerading as policemen. As a result, the reluctant hero John Deal gets kidnapped -- along with the First Lady of the United States.

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