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  • Author:
    Liddell, Merilyn Ruth
    Summary:

    "A misguided experiment. A devastated world. A chance for rebirth. In a world decimated by a killer virus, an isolated mountain community is left more dysfunctional than dystopian. Small town. Big secrets. It's a place where...neighbors still look out for neighbors,...a feisty senior sasses the man who controls the town,...a doctor finds a unique use for local bullies, and the lives of three strangers unexpectedly intertwine...Martha, a reclusive doctor seeking a solution to the mystery of the pandemic,...Jake, a cab driver seeking his birth mother,...Sophie, a young, desperate pregnant woman seeking safe haven from abuse. Brought together by violence, these unlikely friends forge an alliance that may help reshape the world."

  • Author:
    Solomon, Rachel Lynn
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    "A dizzying, intimate romance." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Funny, tender, and romantic." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) The Hating Game meets Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by way of Morgan Matson in this unforgettable romantic comedy about two rival overachievers whose relationship completely transforms over the course of twenty-four hours. Today, she hates him. It's the last day of senior year. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test scores, student council elections, and even gym class pull-up contests. While Rowan, who secretly wants to write romance novels, is anxious about the future, she'd love to beat her infuriating nemesis one last time. Tonight, she puts up with him. When Neil is named valedictorian, Rowan has only one chance at victory: Howl, a senior class game that takes them all over Seattle, a farewell tour of the city she loves. But after learning a group of seniors is out to get them, she and Neil reluctantly decide to team up until they're the last players left—and then they'll destroy each other. As Rowan spends more time with Neil, she realizes he's much more than the awkward linguistics nerd she's sparred with for the past four years. And, perhaps, this boy she claims to despise might actually be the boy of her dreams. Tomorrow...maybe she's already fallen for him.

  • Author:
    Farmer, Philip José
    Summary:

    For explorer Richard Francis Burton and Alice Liddell Hargreaves and the rest of humanity, death is nothing like they expected. Instead of heaven, hell, or even the black void of nothingness, all of the 36 billion people who ever lived on Earth are simultaneously resurrected on a world that has been transformed into a gian river valley called Riverworld.

  • Author:
    Paolini, Christopher
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    " Narrator Jennifer Hale's outstanding performance brings this story of alien invasion to life...Hale's range of differentiation is masterly as she animates all the quirky characters Kira meets. From the rough, snarky slang of ex-military woman to the half-mad musings of a human "ship mind," every unique voice enhances the listening experience." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner This program includes an afterword read by Christopher Paolini, as well as a bonus conversation between Christopher Paolini and Jennifer Hale. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a brand new epic novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Paolini. **This program is read by Jennifer Hale, a Canadian American actress and singer who has appeared in hundreds of cartoon episodes and taken on roles in well over 185 video games, winning multiple awards. Her varied roles include Commander Shepard in Mass Effect , Rosalind Lutece in BioShock Infinite , Cinderella in both games and animation, Kronika in MK11 , Naomi Hunter in the Metal Gear series, several roles in The Powerpuff Girls , Justice League , Avengers Assemble , the Emmy Award winning Lost In Oz , Jean Grey/Phoenix in both games and animated series and dozens more. This is her first audiobook.** Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move . As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope ... A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

  • Author:
    Willis, Connie
    Summary:

    When too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history student Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing trip to Victorian England seems the perfect solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing cats, and love at first sight make Ned's holiday anything but restful. To say nothing of the way hideous pieces of Victorian art can jeopardize the entire course of history. Delightfully aided by the perfect comedic timing of narrator Steven Crossley, To Say Nothing of the Dog shows once again why Connie Willis is one of the most unquestionably talented writers working today.

  • Author:
    Tinnean
    Summary:

    In the year 2060, a Terra on the verge of dying sends ships to its nearest neighbors in hopes of finding a suitable site to relocate the human race. While returning from Mars, the crew of the Mission Reconnaissance Mars travel through a magnetic field that crashes them… somewhere. As they explore the unknown world with its dangers, Doc, Nick, Hank and Ed will struggle to come to terms with their new reality and find their own paths to happiness. A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2012 Daily Dose package "Time Is Eternity."

  • Author:
    Chambers, Becky
    Summary:

    At the turn of the twenty-second century, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. A team of these explorers, Ariadne O'Neill and her three crewmates, are hard at work in a planetary system fifteen light-years from Sol. But as Ariadne shifts through both form and time, the culture back on Earth has also been transformed.

  • Author:
    Baxter, Stephen
    Summary:

    Signs of life have been found on Titan. But on the icy surface of Saturn's largest moon, a group of astronauts will discover the secrets of life's origins and reach for a human destiny beyond their wildest dreams.

  • Author:
    Vonnegut, Kurt
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    According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely, or collapse and make another great big BANG' For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during the past decade, for good or ill, a second time. As a character in, and a brilliant chronicler of, this bizarre event, Kurt Vonnegut casts his wicked wit and his unique perspective on life as he's lived it and observed it, for more than seventy years.

  • Author:
    Crichton, Michael
    Summary:

    TIMELINE opens on the threshold of the 21st century in a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly, and any moment of the past can be actualized. Historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth century feudal France. Not since JURASSIC PARK has Michael Crichton given us such a magnificent adventure. Here, he combines a science of the future with the complex realities of the medieval past. In a heart-stopping narrative, TIMELINE carries us into a realm of unexpected suspense and danger, overturning our most basic ideas of what is possible.

  • Author:
    Clarke, Arthur C., Baxter, Stephen
    Summary:

    Earth's timeline has become a patchwork of eras from prehistory to 2037. Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan each lead a group of refugees from 2037 in a race for knowledge as a mysterious entity watches, waiting.

  • Author:
    Norton, Andre
    Summary:

    In two related adventures, Ross Murdock travels in time to Britain in 2000 B.C. to uncover the base from which Russians are gathering weapons, then investigates an alien spaceship wrecked in North America during prehistoric times.

  • Author:
    Lee, Yoon Ha.
    Summary:

    When a nonbinary tiger spirit named Sebin finally gets their chance to follow in their Uncle Hwan's footsteps in the Thousand World Space Forces, its more of a nightmare than a dream come true.

  • Author:
    Davis, Dana
    Summary:

    For sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly, life hasn't been safe or normal for a while. Losing her mom to cancer has her a little bit traumatized, and now she has to leave her hometown of Chicago to live with the biological dad she's never known. Tiffany tries to make the best of things, but she doesn't fit into her new luxurious, but super-strict, home or get along with her standoffish sister London. But Tiffany has a secret. Another man claims he's Tiffany's real dad, and she only has seven days before he shows up to demand a paternity test and the truth comes out.

  • Author:
    Corey, James S. A.
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    The eighth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series. Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay. At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortazar and the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with intrigue, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father the emperor doesn't guess. And throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rear-guard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime. Memory of the old order falls away, and a future under Laconia's eternal rule -- and with it, a battle that humanity can only lose - seems more and more certain. Because against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enough...

  • Author:
    Burroughs, Edgar Rice
    Summary:

    In this novel the focus shifts from John Carter, Warlord of Mars, and Dejah Thoris of Helium, protagonists of the first three books in the series, to their son, Carthoris, prince of Helium, and Thuvia, princess of Ptarth. Helium and Ptarth are both prominent Barsoomian city state/empires, and both Carthoris and Thuvia were secondary characters in the previous two books.

  • Author:
    Yuknavitch, Lidia
    Summary:

    Lidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins—vulnerable humans leading lives of challenge and transcendence. Now, Yuknavitch offers an imaginative masterpiece: the story of Laisvė, a motherless girl from the late 21st century who is learning her power as a carrier, a person who can harness the power of meaningful objects to carry her through time. Sifting through the detritus of a fallen city known as the Brook, she discovers a talisman that will mysteriously connect her with a series of characters from the past two centuries: a French sculptor; a woman of the American underworld; a dictator's daughter; an accused murderer; and a squad of laborers at work on a national monument. Through intricately braided storylines, Laisvė must dodge enforcement raids and find her way to the present day, and then, finally, to the early days of her imperfect country, to forge a connection that might save their lives—and their shared dream of freedom.

  • Author:
    Coffindaffer, Rebecca
    Summary:

    During a race across the empire's 1,001 planets to find the royal seal and win the throne, Alyssa Farshot's friend was killed. Broken-hearted over her friend's death, Alyssa is hell-bent on revenge.

  • Author:
    Ahdieh, Renée, Carson, Rae, Colbert, Brandy, Cotugno, Katie, Giles, L. R., Gratton, Tessa, Hagen, Bethany, Ireland, Justina, Johnson, Alaya Dawn, Johnston, E. K., Murphy, Julie, Nix, Garth, Roth, Veronica, Tahir, Sabaa, Yovanoff, Brenna
    Summary:

    A collection of sixteen short stories involving love triangles. Includes stories written by Renée Ahdieh, Rae Carson, Brandy Colbert, Katie Cotugno, Lamar Giles, Tessa Gratton, Bethany Hagen, Justina Ireland, Alaya Dawn Johnson, E. K. Johnston, Julie Murphy, Garth Nix, Natalie C. Parker, Veronica Roth, Sabaa Tahir, and Brenna Yovanoff.

  • Author:
    Ridley, John
    Summary:

    In the near future, superheroes are very real. But so are supervillains. When San Francisco is toasted during a superbeing clash, America has had enough. All metanormals must leave the country--or face extermination at the hands of an elite new law enforcement branch.

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