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"Takeshi Kovacs--once a member of the Envoy Corps, the elite, deadly troops of the Interstellar Earth Protectorate--now finds himself imprisoned... both in a jail and in an extremely weak body. When he learns that Envoys he served with in a battle he somehow can't remember have been stolen and sold to one of the richest people in the universe, Kovacs vows to rescue them and get revenge. Leaving behind a staggering body count as he blazes across the...
162) Models and Citizens
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A genetically-altered clone. A college graduate. And it's a long way to Canada…
Harper Rawls struggles to come to grips with her parents' deaths - but it's not going well. Accompanying her guilt and inadequacy, she's somehow gained the attention of an anti-cloning extremist organization. Out of "respect for her father", they now watch her every move.
Ordell Bentley, a genetically-altered clone, flees violence at the hands of the same group. Death...
163) The shockwave rider
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This alarmist fantasy warns against the loss of individual freedom that might result from widespread use of information technology and against the psychological effects of rapid technological change.
164) Percy vs Goliath
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Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, is sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources to fight the giant legal battle, Percy joins forces with up-and-coming attorney Jackson Weaver and environmental activist Rebecca Salcau to fight one of the most monumental cases all the way up to the Supreme Court.
165) The Plant Planet
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Carbon dioxide is out of control on Earth, and the fate of humankind rests in the paws of four experimental, untested Animal Astronauts (AlphaWolf, SmartHawk, LaserShark, and StinkBug) who are seeking another habitable planet; first destination is the Plant Planet which at first looks perfect, except that the abundant plant life can think for itself--and it thinks that it really does not like the AstroNuts.
166) Off the grid
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This original hardcover novel tells the all-new adventures of Maisie Lockwood as she navigates a world filled with dinosaurs both ferocious and friendly.
168) Mirage
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The desert is no place for ocean-dwelling Kampii like Aluna and Hoku, especially now that Aluna has secretly started growing her tail.
169) Birthmarked
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In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those who live outside it, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her parents are arrested and taken into the city.
170) The water planet
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On their second mission to find another habitable planet, the four mutant animals, LaserShark, AstroWolf, SmartHawk, and StinkBug, splash land on the Water Planet, run by some suspiciously friendly clams, who are very eager to swap planets--and if the AstroNuts can stop arguing among themselves they may find out why before it is too late.
171) Death Becomes Her
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Die young, or become the eternal incarnation of Justice. What would you choose?
Bethany Anne Reynolds is a government cold case investigator who wouldn't back down even if she knew how. Her temper is short, her command of creative cursing is enough to make the battle-hardened blush, and her devotion to getting justice borders on the obsessive.
Even her impending death doesn't slow her down.
Bethany Anne has the rare blood disorder that killed her...
172) Flight of shadows
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In a future world where the fundamentalist government distorts true Christianity, a winged girl named Caitlyn escapes to the Outside but soon finds herself on the run again from an organization seeking her body's genetic information.
173) The Neptune promise
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"In a future where climate change is out of control, genetically engineered kids struggle to survive in the ocean and race to save our world from climate change."--
174) Horizon
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Aluna and Hoku, Kampii from the City of Shifting Tides, and their friends, Equian Dash and winged Aviar Calli, are determined to stop a war. The maniacal ex-scientist Karl Strand is planning to conquer the world with his enormous army of tech-enhanced soldiers-- unless the four friends can get to Strand first. Aluna's plan is dangerous: pose as Upgraders and infiltrate the army. But the enemy isn't what they expected and the strategy begins to crumble....
176) Unremembered
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A girl, estimated to be sixteen, awakens with amnesia in the wreckage of a plane crash she should not have survived and taken into foster care, and the only clue to her identity is a mysterious boy who claims she was part of a top-secret science experiment.
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Afghanistan veteran Jim Chapel has been enlisted in a new war. This time it's in his own backyard and even more deadly. A small band of fugitives escapes from a secret upstate New York military facility, leaving a trail of bodies in its wake. Each fugitive has a target, an innocent civilian, and will not stop until the target has been eliminated. Chapel, a wounded Special Forces veteran, is tasked with hunting this group of extremely deadly, genetically...
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"Zahn is one of Krypton's elites: wealthy, privileged, a future leader. Sera is one of Krypton's soldiers: strong, dedicated, fearless. Their rule-bound society has ordained that their paths should never cross. But groundquakes are shaking the planet's surface. Rebellious uprisings are shaking the populace. Krypton's top scientists-Jor-El and Lara-conduct a secret experiment that is meant to reform their planet from the cellular level up. Zahn and...
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