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61) Cinere
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Cinere is not a standalone. It's advised to read Inferno before reading this novella.
I've always thought of myself as a damn good father.
The first three shouldn't define what you think about me. It's not my fault that they were fuck ups; I did my best with what I was given and I almost got it right.
I think I've learned enough from those mistakes to know that I'll do better this time. After all, fate has decided to bestow a beautiful baby girl...
62) The Unrecovered
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When happiness becomes a weapon, a smile is the kiss of death…You can't always trust what you see on TV. 48-year-old recluse Sarah Sampson knows that. She also knows her father died in The Vietnam War. But when a TV broadcast turns her world upside down, she has to find out for sure.Can she and her K-9 companions survive the horror of the pandemic long enough to learn the truth?Reporter Erica Goldman knows the 'old boy network' at the newspaper...
63) Severed
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After exhausting planet Earth, humanity has moved out to live "on the stars."
With your closest neighbor light-years away, the "on the stars" lifestyle guarantees a level of privacy unmatched in human history. But even, ultimate privacy doesn't need to come at a cost when modern technology can instantly whisk you back to civilization. But when, that modern technology unexpectedly fails, three private vessels find themselves completely unprepared for...
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First came the time-storm, which erased half the population. Then came the Riders on the Storm. Welcome to the world of the Flashback, a world in which man's cities have become overgrown jungles and extinct animals wander the ruins. You can survive here, if you're lucky, and if you're not in the wrong place at the wrong time--which is everywhere, all the time. But what you'll never do is remain the same, for this is a world whose very purpose is to...
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ADVERTENCIA AL LECTOR RACIONALEste libro es absolutamente irracional y paródico. En la tapa debería indicar: "No soy una novela normal".La Media HabitaciónDespués de años de ser el conejillo de indias de una misteriosa compañía farmacéutica, Wilson Brown despierta con tres pechos de mujer en su cuerpo.En la búsqueda de una cura, viajará hasta una ciudad perdida en medio del desierto.Allí se encontrará con aviones que se desplazan solo...
66) Leaving England
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Sometime around now, an unnamed virus has laid London and its people to waste. No one knows what the government is doing or where they are. 'Cleaners' raid homes; neighbors spy, animals are feral, old people are saying goodbye on the ends of phones about to go dead. The internet is down.
Liz's husband has gone missing. But, that's not new. She decides to flee the city and head for safer ground - Wales, her childhood home.
She packs her infant daughter...
67) Sparks
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My son is a good man.
I know what you think about him, because I know what he's done, but you have to understand that it's not his fault.
He was something of a misanthrope in his youth and that can be attributed to his father.
Please understand that I will take the blame for my part in wrecking his soul, but it's so hard to resist a boy so sweet.
He's always loved me most of all and I took advantage of that.
Until you feel what I felt in his...
68) Dawn of Humanity
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In a world overrun by the infested…...is there anywhere left to hide?The road to California is plagued with fear and grief.Survival has come with a price.One so high, it can never be repaid.With each turn, the dangers of this new world become more evident.And it's not just the monsters that pose a threat.Thirteen hundred miles without modern technology?What chance do they have?Surviving the journey might be a battle.But the fight for their future,...
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1980, Gangtok City One scientist, named Professor Prakash Khurana. This biologist was immersed in making a strange connection between wildlife and human life. His idea is that although God's best creation is man, but man is imperfect. Mentally human beings have a lot of intelligence and judgment, but physically human beings are much weaker than animals. The professor's idea is that if man could acquire the physical powers of a wild animal with his...
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Love and disaster is portrayed in this romantic literary fiction. Tales of predictions and lovely connections. Appreciate it either on New Years or Valentine's Day. Both could be sentimental days to share with a lover. Read and express the duality of love and jealousy. It seems that people cannot escape one without the other.
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Before moving, Will announced his intentions. "We feel obliged to insist you take us to St. Mary's Hospital and Infirmary in the city proper. We aim to tell Mother Gabriel we're alive."No one responded."We're from the orphanage," he added, conferring further heft to his position. "Expect they know what happened," the soldier carrying Albert said."They don't know the part about us," Will said, standing solid on the beach.
The Mourning Wave recounts...
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Jack Gregory used to living the high life, has just had his personal fortune filched from under his nose. Now he's going to get back, no matter what the risks to himself and his family, no matter, who gets dragged into the firing line.
Undeterred by threats of kidnap and ransom, the crew of his luxury yacht murdered, businesses up in flames and bankruptcy beckoning, Jack is on the run, reduced to living incognito in a seedy Paddington hotel. Ignoring...
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"When a fragile young woman refuses to leave New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, her parents are forced to go without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and their daughter catatonic, the victim or perpetrator of some unknown violent act"--
76) Off on a Comet!
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Off on a Comet is a high-stakes adventure novel and is included in Jules Verne's celebrated Voyages Extraordinaire series. When the orbit of a comet named Gallia is headed towards the Earth, the planet is facing a very high risk. However, Gallia only touches a small part of the Earth, sparing most of the world, but taking a small region of the planet with it on its journey through space. Thirty-six people, spanning from French, English, Spanish and...
77) A fire story
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"Early on the morning of Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 8,900 structures, including 6,200 homes, were destroyed. One of those homes belonged to author and illustrator Brian Fies and his family. In the days that followed, Fies hastily pulled together a firsthand account of his experience in a twenty-page online comic, entitled A Fire Story, that went viral... Less than...
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"In the latest novel from Anna Moschovakis, two reading groups, unofficially called Love and Anti-Love, falter amidst political friction and signs of environmental collapse. Participation offers a prescient look at communication in a time of rupture: anonymous participants exchange fantasies and ruminations, and relationships develop and unravel. As the groups consider-or neglect-their syllabi, and connections between members deepen, a mentor disappears,...
79) MacArthur Park
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After Hurricane Sandy, Nick Fowler, a writer, stranded alone in a Manhattan apartment without power, begins to contemplate disaster. Months later, at an artist residency in upstate New York, Nick finds his subject in disaster itself and the communities shaped by it, where crisis animates both hope and denial, unacknowledged pasts and potential futures. As he travels to Los Angeles and London on assignment, Nick discovers that outsiders-their lives...
80) Rubicon
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RUBICON is the story foreshadowing the next September 11th attack; you want your government leaders to read before the next attack.
RUBICON, a cybersecurity thriller, is an epic battle of good versus evil where Xander Ridge and Paul Ross are locked in a fight to control the ultimate cyberweapon -hospitals collapse -planes fall from the sky -power and communication grids collapse -financial markets and economies plummet -the fate of the world...
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