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Author
Series
Comet cycle volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The comet, Cain, came from beyond our solar system, its debris containing elements unknown. Now, in the isolated region of Fairbanks, Alaska, the skies shift and stretch as an interstellar dust cloud seeds the atmosphere. When a plane shudders its way through pulpy, swirling, bruise-shaped clouds, lit with sudden cracks of lightning, the sky opens and the aircraft vanishes...but only for a minute. When the flight lands, everyone on board and in the...
4) Termush
Author
Publisher
FSG Originals/Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Termush takes place in a luxury seaside resort designed to keep its wealthy residents safe from the physical (and moral) fallout of a global disaster"--
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The sun has disappeared from the sky. No one can explain where it has gone, but one wayward traveler is determined to try. As our unnamed narrator begins his odyssey across the parched landscapes of the American Southwest, he is drawn into a web of illusion and mystery, a shifting astral mindscape that shimmers with the aftermath of loss--and the promise of redemption. Oh God, the Sun Goes is a hallucinatory and deadpan picaresque that suddenly swerves...
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage, Riley, when a new neighbor moves in down the road, throws caution to the wind in her desperate need for human contact, and as they grow closer, she can no longer fight her deepest desires.
7) Battery life
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After the space station she calls home crashes back to Earth, Diane--the lone survivor--finds herself stranded in the Junkyard. Virgil, a mysterious scavenger, soon stumbles across Diane's escape pod and realizes she might just be his ticket out of here. Together the two embark on a chaotic road trip to save one of the world's last scientists from a fanatical warlord. The journey brings the two unlikely partners closer than either of them expected,...
8) Silent city
Author
Series
Orpen novels volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Outside the walls of Phoenix City, where the plague has overrun Ireland, one bite from the savage skrake means death or infection. Inside, Orpen and the other survivors of the plague gather in meager numbers. They are protected from disease and death, but the city is by no means a refuge. Phoenix City is ruled with an oppressive hand, with even the best of the leadership power hungry and ruthless. Orpen and the banshees--a fierce, all-women force...
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An entrancing and prismatic debut novel by Christine Lai, set in a near future fraught with ecological collapse, Landscapes brilliantly explores memory, empathy, preservation, and art as an instrument for recollection and renewal. In the English countryside--decimated by heat and drought--Penelope archives what remains of an estate's once notable collection. As she catalogues the library's contents, she keeps a diary of her final months in the dilapidated...
10) Death
Author
Series
Four horsemen (Laura Thalassa) volume 4
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The day Death comes to Lazarus Gaumond's town and kills everyone in one fell swoop, the last thing he expects to see is one woman left alive and standing. But Lazarus has an extraordinary gift: she cannot be killed. Not by humans, not by the elements, not by Death himself. She is the one soul Death doesn't recognize. The one soul he cannot pry free from her flesh. Nor can he ignore the unsettling desire he has for her. And the longer she tries to...
11) Famine
Author
Series
Four horsemen (Laura Thalassa) volume 3
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ana da Silva always assumed she'd die young, she just never expected it to be at the hands of Famine, the haunting immortal who once spared her life so many years ago. But if the horseman remembers her at all, he must not care, for when she comes face to face with him for the second time in her life, she's stabbed and left for dead. Only, she doesn't quite die. If there's one thing Famine is good at, it's cruelty. And how these blighted bastards...
12) War
Author
Series
Four horsemen (Laura Thalassa) volume 2
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The day Jerusalem falls, Miriam Elmahdy knows her life is over. Houses are burning, the streets run red with blood, and a traitorous army is massacring every last resident. There is no surviving this, especially not once Miriam catches the eye of War himself. But when the massive and terrifying horseman corners Miriam, he calls her his wife, and instead of killing her, he takes her back to his camp. Now Miriam faces a terrifying future, one where...
13) Pestilence
Author
Series
Four horsemen (Laura Thalassa) volume 1
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Pestilence, the first of the horsemen, comes for Sara Burn's town, one thing is certain: everyone she knows and loves is marked for death. Unless, of course, the angelic-looking horseman is stopped, which is exactly what Sara has in mind when she shoots the unholy beast off his steed. Too bad no one told her Pestilence can't be killed. Alive and furious, the horseman takes Sara prisoner, determined to make her suffer for impeding his mission....
Author
Publisher
Origen
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Desde las polvorientas calles de Jerusalén hasta los pasillos oscuros del Kremlin en Moscú, La Marca lleva a los lectores por un emocionante viaje a través de la historia, la religión y la política, con una combinación perfecta entre acción, suspenso y misterio que mantienen la tensión hasta el final del libro. La Marca es una novela intrigante donde las páginas pasan volando, ya que entrelaza los sucesos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial con...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Year 2150: Eight years after the murder of Akira Kimura, Water City's renowned scientist and anointed "God," the nameless antihero who once risked everything to find Akira's killer is no longer a detective, but a stay-at-home dad. While his wife climbs the corporate ladder of the Water City Police Department, he raises his now nine-year-old daughter and occasionally takes the odd job as a bounty hunter. Water City's domestic bliss is threatened when...
Author
Series
Alex Wise volume 1
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Alex leads the charge against the forces of evil as he tries to stop the Four Horsemen from taking over the world.
Author
Series
Moon apocalyptic novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When a community of Anishinabe people, with their natural resources dwindling, needs to find a new home, Evan Whitesky leads a dangerous mission back to their ancestral home in the Great Lakes region, during which they encounter other survivors, some who thrive on violence"--
18) Exordia
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Anna Sinjari -- refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker -- has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. Enter Ssrin, a many-headed serpent alien who is on the run from her own past. Ssrin and Anna are inexorably, dangerously drawn to each other...While humanity reels from disaster, Anna must join a small team of civilians, soldiers, and scientists to investigate a mysterious broadcast and unknowable horror. If...
19) Ghosts
Author
Series
Hell divers volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier "X" Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home. Michael Everhart -- the boy once known as Tin -- has grown into a man and the commander of Hell Diver Raptor Team. While Michael dives to help keep the Hive in the air, Captain Leon Jordan rules with an iron fist at the helm of the ship. But unrest stirs under his strict leadership as a prophecy of hope sweeps...
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