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After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. Now crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population. When a strange new visitor arrives--a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear...
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"Despite his ability to control the ambient digital cloud, a foster teen falls for a clever con man. Luring bullies to a quarry, a boy takes revenge through unnatural powers of suggestion. After an alien invasion, a survivor fears that he brought something infectious back from the Arctic. A rebellious group of queer artists create a new identity that transcends even the anonymity of death. In Shirley Jackson and Nebula Award-winning author Sam J....
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Mysterious forces threaten a rapidly changing city in upstate New York in this frightening and uncanny ghost story by a Nebula Award winning author.
"Like Clive Barker, Miller has a great talent for creating interesting characters and building up quiet dread. . . . Timely." —San Francisco Chronicle
A Library Journal Horror Best Seller
Ronan Szepessy promised himself he'd never return to Hudson....
"Like Clive Barker, Miller has a great talent for creating interesting characters and building up quiet dread. . . . Timely." —San Francisco Chronicle
A Library Journal Horror Best Seller
Ronan Szepessy promised himself he'd never return to Hudson....
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"A crucial, genre-bending tale, equal parts Ned Vizzini and Patrick Ness, about the life-saving power of friendship. Solomon and Ash both experienced a traumatic event when they were twelve. Ash lost all memory of that event when she fell from Solomon's treehouse. Since then, Solomon has retreated further and further into a world he seems to have created in his own mind. One that insulates him from reality, but crawls with foes and monsters . . ....
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A crucial, genre-bending tale, equal parts Ned Vizzini and Patrick Ness, about the life-saving power of friendship.
Solomon and Ash both experienced a traumatic event when they were twelve.
Ash lost all memory of that event when she fell from Solomon's treehouse. Since then, Solomon has retreated further and further into a world he seems to have created in his own mind. One that insulates him from reality, but crawls
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"It's the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- with real players, in a real ballpark, in a real playoff race. That's what baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an independent minor-league team in California, the Sonoma Stompers, offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics. Their story in The Only Rule is it...
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"From Nebula Award winner Sam J. Miller comes a frightening and uncanny ghost story about a rapidly changing city in upstate New York and the mysterious forces that threaten it"-- Provided by publisher.
Ronan Szepessy promised himself he'd never return to Hudson. The sleepy upstate town was no place for a restless gay photographer. But his father is ill and New York City's distractions have become too much for him. He hopes that a quick visit will...
10) No good deed
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Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished as she finds herself fighting for survival when he invades her home and terrorizes her family.
11) Luther: Season 1
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A self-destructive near-genius, Luther might just be as dangerous as the depraved criminals he hunts. Luther follows his own moral code as much as the rules of criminal law. But he quickly becomes locked in a lethal battle of wits with Alicea, a beautiful, highly intelligent mass murderer, and his decision-making process becomes increasingly murky. Luther's lonely path pulls him towards the very edge of temptation.
12) Luther: 2
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John Luther, the near-genius detective struggling with his own demons, returns with two distinctive, thrilling crime stories. Devastated by the brutal murder of his wife, John Luther returns to policing in a different world. His old unit has gone and he's working in the newly created Serious and Serial unit, headed by former police complaints officer Martin Schenk. Luther quickly gathers together his team, rescuing his old partner Detective Justin...
13) Fortitude
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Citizens living in Fortitude, an Arctic town hailed as the safest place on Earth, are rocked to the core by the murder of one of their own. A detective is quickly flown in from out-of-town to assist the local Chief of Police with the investigation of the town's first-ever violent crime and the two men must work together despite the deep mistrust each has for the other.
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Noel Finch is dead and PC Rocksavage receives phone calls from Finch's associate, Callum Rose, who knows what Rocksavage did. He hits the policeman with a blackmail demand for £100,000. Rose begins to follow Rocksavage, discovering where both his estranged girlfriend and current girlfriend live, and putting Rocksavage under severe pressure.
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Rocksavage breaks into Jonjo Heinz's house intending to kill him, but the police arrive to raid the property, forcing Rocksavage to flee. Heinz is arrested for Stockwell's murder, but there is insufficient evidence to charge him, and he is instead charged with a drugs offense. Rocksavage's knowledge of the arrest draws suspicion from DCI Costello. Rocksavage meets Cassandra to try and rekindle the past. When a police sting on violent sex attackers...
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Rocksavage secretly takes photos of Cassandra and her new boyfriend, which along with reading a eulogy at Andy's funeral cause him great pain. Two possible witnesses to the murder of Callum Rose are interviewed but the evidence is inconclusive. One, Bradley Pearson, becomes involved in a domestic row leading to a siege concluded by Rocksavage's intervention. The Detectives bring in Jonjo Heinz, identified by Rocksavage as a third gang member who attacked...
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Constable Rocksavage is having a very bad day. After meeting his estranged girlfriend Cassandra and daughter Libby, and realising what he lost, he is confronted by vicious thug Noel Finch in a café. It seemed like things couldn't get any worse, but when he later discovered that Finch and his gang had murdered his partner constable Andy Stockwell, Rocksavage is pushed over the edge.
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Even time travel can't unravel love
Time-travel is a way for writers to play with history and imagine different futures – for better, or worse.
When romance is thrown into the mix, time-travel becomes a passionate tool, or heart-breaking weapon. A time agent in the 22nd century puts their whole mission at risk when they fall in love with the wrong person. No matter which part of history a man visits, he cannot not escape
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