Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)

Summary: "Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It's a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object--something he calls 'the key to everything'--and tells Jeffy that he must...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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Child, Lincoln

Summary: "A blockbuster new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child, centered on a dominant tech company-Chrysalis-whose groundbreaking virtual reality technology is redefining the way we live . . . and possibly introducing a catastrophic danger to the world. Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Best, Jessica Mary

Summary: After traveling from her home planet to Ouris and sneaking into the imperial ball to steal from the galactic elite, expert thief Cass is framed for the unexpected death of the emperor, and must work together with a mysterious rebel to uncover the true plot and clear her name.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2023

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Tintera, Amy

Summary: When the president's son, Lennon, is kidnapped and pushed out of an airplane over the Q, a vast quarantine zone, Maisie gives him a seventy-two hour vaccine and together the two teenagers attempt to fight their way through the Q in order to survive.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022

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Rollins, James

Summary: Pregnant veterinarian Maura Kelly, along with U.S. Marshall Jack Menard, risks everything, including the life of her unborn child, to unravel the mystery of a smuggler's cache of mutated animals, a puzzle that involves fractal intelligence, stem-cell research, and a secret history of the Book of Genesis.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010

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Haddix, Margaret Peterson

Summary: Twelve-year-old Zola, who has a surprising connection to Jessie, discovers that she is stuck in a fake utopian future, and that those around her are counting on her to help them escape.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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Alderman, Naomi

Summary: "The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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Kitasei, Yume

Summary: "Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind-except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023

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Hannah, Sophie

Summary: "All Beth has to do is drive her son to his soccer game, watch him play, and then return home. Just because she knows her ex-best friend lives near the field, that doesn't mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her. Why would Beth do that and risk dredging up painful memories? She hasn't seen Flora for twelve years. She doesn't want to see her today--or ever again....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020

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Cussler, Clive

Summary: In the early days of World War II, the infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica, hoping to set up a military base to support their goal of world domination. Though the military outpost never comes to fruition, what the Nazis find on the icy continent indeed proves dangerous...and will have implications far into the future. In the present day, Kurt Austin and his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021

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Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

Summary: In the aftermath of a sabotaged NASA rocket launch gone, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister, as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and Calli embarks on a frantic search for the missing link between the sabotaged rocket launch and her predetermined destiny. But it's a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021

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Grumley, Michael C.

Summary: After surviving a bus accident, veteran John Reiff awakens in the hospital alive and suspicious that the doctors aren't telling him something.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, Tor Publishing Group 2024

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Okorafor, Nnedi

Summary: When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books, Inc. 2021

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Marrs, John

Summary: "Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society's ills--the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single. But four couples are about to discover just how impossible relationships can be when the government is monitoring every aspect of our personal lives--monitoring every word,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023

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Topping, Zac

Summary: "Zac Topping's Wake of War is a timely account of the lengths those with power will go to preserve it, and the determination of those they exploit to destroy everything in the name of freedom anew. "I just hope I'm on the right side of history." The United States of America is a crumbling republic. With the value of the dollar imploding, the government floundering, and national outrage and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022

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Winters, Ben H

Summary: The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2024

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Cronin, Justin

Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia-where the truth isn't what it seems. Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023

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Binge, Nicholas

Summary: "A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human. An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023

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Green, Evie

Summary: "A suspenseful, cutting-edge novel about two parents who finally get the daughter they've always wanted-it's too bad she isn't real. From the author of We Hear Voices. For Tamsyn and Ed, life is tough. They both work long hours for very little money and come home to their moody, rebellious daughter, Scarlett. After a tragic accident leaves Scarlett comatose and with little chance of recovery,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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