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Geiger volume 6
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A shocking epilogue! In the wake of their devastating encounter with the Electrician, Tariq Geiger must come to grips with the lethal consequences-especially with what happened with his two-headed wolf, Barney. You won't want to miss this extraordinary spotlight on Geiger's best friend.
2) Beast Mode
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This story tells the tale of Sage Allen, who was born into the world on the same day that his mother passed away. His father, Secretary of Defense Mitchell Allen, believed in a strict upbringing, which involved intense training and strong guidance to create the perfect super soldier. Sage's life was completely structured, and every hour of his day was accounted for, with a focus on education, training, and self-improvement. Despite following his father's...
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"Outside the moon lay low on the horizon, round and pale as the hangar's thousand interlocked hi-houses. Mink leant against the balcony's railing and looked down at the ocean some fifty or so feet below. A handful of small shuttle-craft twisted and tricked above the water; a lone multi-passenger airship thrummed away from the hangar, its shadow on the waves as big and dark as a whale. Far away, miles away perhaps, she could make out the lights of...
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19-year-old Daneli is a tomboy who doesn't get along with her mother. She'd rather be riding her horse or perfecting her archery skills than wearing finery and ordering servants around. But as the eldest daughter of House Trageri, Daneli is the inheritor of long-standing tensions, and a mission far larger than she is. First, she must undergo an arduous training process, then pass a series of tests in order to become Queen. Afterward, with the help...
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War for Peace follows the journey of 16-year-old Travis Roberts as he navigates a world transformed by war and global upheaval. After a series of mysterious Russian signals foreshadow an attack, Travis and his family seek refuge in a secret Cold War-era underground bunker on Valley Hill Ranch. As the world outside collapses, Russia and Texas form an unexpected alliance, leading to Texas becoming an independent nation that spans half of the former...
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TERRORES NOCTURNOS inició el 12 de julio de 2020 como un podcast de relatos de horror sonorizados con música y efectos de sonido apropósito de la narración. El objetivo de este proyecto surgió por retarme a escribir historias de terror, un campo que quise abordar desde joven, pero siempre con malos resultados. Soy un amante del terror, me encanta escuchar y leer cuentos siniestros, macabros. En YouTube encontré muchos canales con esta temática,...
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Murilo is invited to stay with his neighbors, André and Vitória, after he doesn't remember what happened to his family. The next day, they ride foals to visit Murilo's uncle, Zé, who invites him to help pick peppers. Zé agrees to take Murilo to his parents' house the following day. The next morning, they ride a mule to the city, where they attend a wake for the victims of "The massacre of the Serranos lands." Murilo learns that his family was...
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Set it a world where individual rights have succumbed to an increasing corporate hegemony, how does one escape corporate surveillance when one's own body is a tool for corporate surveillance? With inbuilt AI and preprogrammed abilities, she is an unwilling superhuman; one of many heavily-armed cyborgs that patrol the mostly vacant streets.Glorious Killing Machine tells of the psychological and systemic pressures that are placed upon us to ensure we...
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In the 21st century, world leaders launched a thin layer of pollution into the outer atmosphere to diminish the sun's intensity. It had unintended consequences. The shield magnified the intensity of a massive solar flare which flash-melted the polar ice caps. Once again, a planet-wide flood devastated all civilizations.Two distinct groups emerged from that chaos a century later: a secretive team of scientists seeking technological salvation, and a...
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Gram is angry at work, and not just because of his bad back. The forge he works at sits atop the biggest Mythril Meteorite ever to fall on Thelre – or perhaps on all of Geos – and the riches it brings in are squandered by the grandson of the late owner. When Gram stumbles on an ancient Geomancer Fossil Tome, it shows him that another way of running the world is possible. Alloy Cooperative is an Anarcho-Syndicalist Fantasy novella, about a blacksmith...
11) Hate Hunters
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*Originally published as "I Hate Hate!" in November 2022. Alma is a counselor at the Tolerance Department, known for being patient and kind with even her most difficult clients. But inside, she's haunted by a feeling that something's missing. She's joined by a diverse cast of characters, all trying to make America a better place, including a newscaster whose fans police the streets using just their cell phones, a corporate lawyer battling emotional...
12) Maggie's Farm
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Cody and Carolyn Redford enjoy a carefree lifestyle in Kent County, with friends Gavin and Melanie Maynard. In Cornwall, the Redfords encounter a soothsayer predicting a bleak future for mankind. The foursome then notes some unexplained changes in the behaviour of wild animals and migrating birds, giving credence to the prediction. When a terrorist outrage in South Africa leads to further major atrocities in Israel and India, détente finally fails....
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After an extinction level event one-hundred fifty-four years earlier that killed almost all of humanity and destroyed all but a small fraction of human-built structures, the underground believes the Binarians, an Artificial Intelligence race who rules the earth, were responsible.After the event, Binarian memory chips were rebooted, leaving them no proof of their innocence. However, current Binarian programming requires them to save all remaining humans...
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The final part of the Rats In The Cellar trillogy: In the first part, we met nine-year-old Oscar Wild Daugherty, who stumbled into a network of multiple universes, accessible via mysterious stairs at the top of his house and down in the cellar. He met various other instances of himself, and a cat, who is more than just a cat.In the sequel, the cat takes special interest in Louis the "bad boy" of the lot. After making sure he does good by people he's...
15) Ash
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A NUCLEAR ATTACK. A COLLAPSING SOCIETY. A WORLD COVERED IN ASH.The Alt Apocalypse is the newest ground-breaking series from Tom Abrahams.It explores survival under the most extreme circumstances, but with a twist (and no cliff-hangers).This series, which can be read in any order, features the same core characters in each complete story. But every book dunks them into a new, alternate apocalypse; a nuclear holocaust, an earthquake, a flood, a wildfire,...
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In the dramatic follow up to Children of Persephone, the exploration of humanity's new planet begins. Yet the discoveries made bring both terrifying challenges and cruel temptations, that shatter the previously congruent beliefs of the community. And as illness and injury cause inconsolable loss, is it just coincidence when the answer to their prayers appears, just when all hope has been lost? A precious and unheralded gift that will lead the species...
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The Sally Chronicles, a Gathering of Lies is a book of four short stories that include postapocalyptic love, supernatural friendship, a serial killer, and the fear of cats. "Tigers of Kurleigh" is a light horror and suspense story that deals with Ray, his fear of cats and his will to overcome."The Last Roadside Attraction" is a ghostly suspense thriller. Jeanie deals of the loss of her best friend while encountering supernatural elements."My Name...
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In Rats In The Cellar, we met nine-year-old Oscar Wild Daugherty, who stumbled into a network of multiple universes, accessible via mysterious stairs at the top of his house and down in the cellar. He met various other instances of himself, and a cat, who is more than just a cat. This sequel picks up the story following the climax of Rats in the Cellar; this time, following Louis, the bad boy, in whom the cat takes a special interest. After making...
19) El Nuevo Mundo
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Al trasladarse a Londres, Víctor espera una nueva vida, pero no un Nuevo Mundo. Es el año 2023 y están saliendo de un confinamiento por una pandemia global. Si bien es feliz con su trabajo de profesor, siente que le falta encontrar el amor. Pero sus citas no salen bien, hasta que conoce a Steve, un atractivo periodista inglés, al que comienza a darle clases privadas de Español. Sin embargo, los secretos y malentendidos más el turbulento ambiente...
20) The Cylume
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Jaxon Leith stumbles over a bag on the stairwell of his eight-hundred storey apartment block. The clothes inside suggest it belongs to a woman, and after inspecting the contents, Jaxon deduces that she's in trouble.Deciding to track her down, he heads out on a perilous quest through The Bleeds, to reunite the bag with its owner.THE CYCLUME is the fourth in a series of short stories set in The Bleeds, a pre-apocalyptic, dystopian version of London,...
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