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81) Richter 10
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Political and environmental disasters come crashing down in this earthquake sci-fi thriller co-written by the authors of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Memories.
When he was seven years old, Lewis Crane survived the Los Angeles earthquake of 1994-but his parents did not. Haunted by the tragedy, Crane has dedicated his life to protecting humanity from similar disasters. Now he is a Nobel Prize-winning earthquake scientist who perfected equipment sensitive...
84) Aftermath
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An exploding star causes electromagnetic storms which destroy most of the world's computers. The novel traces the effect of this on various people, from patients undergoing cancer treatment to astronauts stranded in space.
87) The trigger
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In the middle of the 21st century, a team of scientists develops the ultimate protective weapon-a device that causes all nitrate-based bombs and explosives nearby to detonate automatically. It seems like a benevolent invention-one that will protect mankind against weapons of mass destruction. But as the scientists struggle to ensure their invention is used only for peaceful purposes, it becomes increasingly clear that even protective weaponry comes...
88) Callahan's Key
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The universe in is peril. Due to a cluster of freakish phenomena, the United States' own defense system has become a doomsday machine, threatening the entire universe. Only one man can save everything-as-we-know-it from annihilation.
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The earth continues its relentless plunge toward total environmental collapse in this sequel to Forty Signs of Rain (2004).
As a result of climate change, Antarctica's ice shelves collapse sending low-lying island nations beneath the rising waters, and the Gulf Stream has stalled. Crops fail world-wide, and when winter comes, frigid temperatures hit the Eastern Seaboard and Western Europe. As people starve and freeze to death, multinational corporations...
90) Scardown
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Jenny is caught in a desperate battle where old resentments become bitter betrayals and justice takes the cruelest forms of vengeance. With the help of a brilliant AI, an ex-crime lord, and the man she loves, Jenny may just get her chance to save the world. If it doesn't come to an end first.
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"Every once in a great while a book comes along that reminds us of the magic spell that stories can cast over us?to dazzle, entertain, and enlighten. Welcome to the Arabian Nights for our time?a lush and fantastical epic guaranteed to spirit you away from the very first page . . . Secreted away in a garden, a lonely girl spins stories to warm a curious prince: peculiar feats and unspeakable fates that loop through each other and back again to meet...
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On the battlefields of World War I, Lord Henry Baltimore awakens the wrath of a vampire, unleashing a violent plague that leaves Baltimore fighting a battle against evil and relying on the aid of three friends whose experiences have shown them that evil is devouring the world around them.
95) Games of command
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The universe isn’t what it used to be.
With the new Alliance between the Triad and the United Coalition, Captain Tasha “Sass” Sebastian finds herself serving under her former nemesis, biocybe Admiral Branden Kel-Paten—and doing her best to hide a deadly past. But when an injured mercenary winds up in their ship’s sick bay—and in the hands of her best friend, Dr. Eden Fynn–Sass’s efforts may...
With the new Alliance between the Triad and the United Coalition, Captain Tasha “Sass” Sebastian finds herself serving under her former nemesis, biocybe Admiral Branden Kel-Paten—and doing her best to hide a deadly past. But when an injured mercenary winds up in their ship’s sick bay—and in the hands of her best friend, Dr. Eden Fynn–Sass’s efforts may...
97) When blood calls
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Attorney Sara Constantine is thrilled with her promotion -- until she finds out that she must now prosecute vampires and werewolves. The first defendant she has to try to put away is Luciu Dragos, a man with whom she recently shared a night of passion. When Lucius kisses a beautiful woman sitting next to him at the bar, he's only hoping to avoid the gaze of the man he's planning to kill. But what starts as a simple kiss ignites into passion. Charged...