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Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl--the fortieth prisoner--sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes -- literally -- when he is yanked "upstairs" and informed he has been given an opportunity to be educated at the ship's university alongside the elite. Overwhelmed and alone, the boy forms a bond with the woman he comes to know as "the professor," a weary idealist and descendent of the Chained who has spent her career...
Author
Publisher
Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers. He should refuse...
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Stellaxis operatives 06 and 22 have escaped. Years ago, they survived a corporate civil war; Stellaxis kidnapped and modified them into celebrity supersoldiers. But 06 and 22 have finally broken free from their barracks. They flee into a strange city they barely remember, trying to remain anonymous while their faces appear on billboards. It will be an expensive disaster for the director of the supersoldier program if word gets out about the escaped...
6) The ascent
Author
Publisher
GCP, Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can't let injustice go-and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism. If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage. When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he's brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be the governor's daughter, is about to take a tour of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times -bestselling author of Friday Black , about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. "A new and necessary American voice." -- Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A year after forest fires sweep through the town of Crow Valley and claim the life of Dale Jepson-karaoke legend, local prison guard, and "all-around good guy"-the community holds a karaoke competition. But when a convicted arsonist escapes from nearby Crow Valley Correctional, the residents learn there's more on the line than a trip to the National Karaoke Championships. Marriages are at stake, jobs are jeopardized, sobrieties threatened, and second...
Author
Series
Finley O'Sullivan novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Legal investigator Finley O'Sullivan searches for evidence the police overlooked, wading through secrets, lies, and betrayal to find answers. With the unsolved murder of her husband still very much on her mind, Finley must confront her own personal trauma on a daily basis. Lies are part of her livelihood, but they're also the reason she can't get justice for the man she loved. When a man imprisoned for murder recants his confession, claiming he cleaned...
10) 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...
11) 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
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The pain woke him up. He was grateful for it. The train had stopped and somewhere, up above them, the drone of aircraft engines filled the night sky. He could almost remember her smile ... It must be the morphine ... He had managed not to think about her for months now. 1944. Paul Brandt, a soldier in the German army, returns wounded and ashamed from the bloody chaos of the Eastern front to find his village home much changed and existing in the dark...
Series
Tsugumi Project volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After stumbling upon the journal of a former prisoner, Leon and Doudou glean some clues about the location of the mysterious Toratsugumi. Now, they set their sights on a place called Sado--a place that seem to call up distant memories and complicated emotions in Tsugumi. As Tsugumi wrestles with her past, she comes under attack by a swarm of flying monkeys. A hulking, female "clothed thing"--the same one that Leon previous fought and nearly blinded-drives...
Series
Tsugumi Project volume 2
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Condemned prisoner Leon continues his journey through the ruins of Tokyo in search of TORATSUGUMI, a mysterious weapon from ages past. Though mutated monsters lurk around every corner, Leon never thinks twice about abandoning his mission; it is his only hope of seeing his wife and child again. Fortunately for Leon, not everyone in Old Japan is out to kill him. He now has two unlikely allies in the form of Tsugumi, a bird-legged girl with inhuman strength,...
Series
Tsugumi Project volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Enter a land of monsters and buried secrets. A land once known as...Japan. More than two centuries have passed since Japan was devastated by nuclear war. Cut off from the world, the island is now a place of terror and mysteries: wonders of science some believe best forgotten, monuments to a bygone era of human decadence, and irradiated monsters ready to tear apart any humans foolish enough to set foot there. After being wrenched from his family and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
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"All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink-a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor-understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: Acquired Savant Syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower-he can solve puzzles, calculate equations, and see patterns in ways ordinary people can't. But his condition has also...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An electric, locked-room suspense thriller set in the remote Scottish Highlands, where icy temperatures and a terrible blizzard prevent any ideas of escape--from a brilliant new voice in crime fiction. One bitterly cold February night at the remote MacKinnon Hotel, Remie Yorke begins her last shift at the front desk as the snow begins to fall. She has booked a one-way flight for the next day--and she's never coming back to Scotland. Or so she thinks....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins México, S.A
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Una novela escrita a ritmo de rock, con guiños a los clásicos de terror y una vuelta de tuerca que te llevará a un sitio del que quizás nunca puedas, o quieras, salir. Damián huye de dos asesinos que lo persiguen en una solitaria carretera en el desierto. Logra eludirlos pero su automóvil se está quedando sin gasolina. A la distancia descubre un hotel que por fuera parece abandonado. Llama a la puerta y lo recibe Mercedes, una hermosa rubia...
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