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1) Looper
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The Litarian Battles are the only thing ever televised. No other shows are transmitted into the Outer Limits. Max has never had an interest in watching, much to the surprise of everyone else around her. She doesn’t see the point of watching contestants battle when no one is ever injured or killed, and all for the opportunity to live in the utopian city of Icarian. Things change when she is selected to be a participant. She is sent to the main city...
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Athena Ryals
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2020.
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The war against the syndicates is over. Anyone who remains knows to keep their heads down, or risk torture and death. Isaac has spent his life doing everything he can to strike back at the cruel syndicate families that destroyed his life. His rebel group travels the country sabotaging the vicious Stormbecks, the syndicate that controls the region with an iron fist. When Sam, the group's youngest member, is kidnapped and tortured by the Stormbecks'...
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Kate has an idyllic life on a remote farm with her four daughters. She's in love with her neighbor, Lucy. And she has never known a world with men.
All the men are gone. Their decline occurred over the course of generations, fewer boys born every year, until eventually, none were born at all. After the Waning Wars, the Governing Council promised there was a plan and seed stores to last.
But when an imprisoned old woman writes a deathbed...
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A girl.
A gun.
Monsters.
When her farming community is consumed in the ruthless jaws of a corporate monster, 16-year-old Merit finds herself face to face with a different kind of beast, one possessing a human form but a mind bent on one thing and one thing alone: her destruction. Then a chance encounter with a legend turns her mad dash for survival into an odyssey of revenge as she sets out to hunt down the men who destroyed all that she loves. But,...
5) Sinister
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What lengths is someone willing to go to for power? How many lives need to be destroyed or ruined to gain the highest level of control possible? Will a simple colony takeover be the answer, or do you need to hold an entire nation hostage? These are the questions everyone should be asking themselves when selecting a new premier, but no one believes someone could be that corrupt or harmful. Hannah Barnes is just like everyone else her age, planning...
6) Zephyr
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1990: Bill Milo leaves home to see the world. He crosses desert and ocean, searching for purpose but never quite finding it. One day, Bill meets an old man taking his daily walk. He warns Bill that God will soon test mankind with a great flood, and that man will respond with fear and division. His words haunt him for years to come. 2015: August Milo spends her time caring for her grandparents and running her bakery. On a cold winter day, a customer...
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The future looks bright, but there's no escaping the past.
Grace Reed is on the run with devastation hot on her heels. She escaped a religious cult and rescued her children from her ex-husband, but fate isn't done with her yet. She is about to hit rollover-the crisis point in middle age, when latent superpowers activate-and all signs point to her developing a rare and overwhelming talent.
That puts her on the government radar as a threat to society.
Big...
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