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1) 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
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Tomorrow, the funk descends on Manhattan, a noxious cloud which separates the island from the rest of the world and mutates the population. Some generations on, the surviving population exists amid the rubble of modernity, wearing our cast-off clothing, worshipping celebrities as dim gods and using emojis in place or written language. The Island exists in a state of uneasy peace, with each neighborhood an independent fiefdom, protecting itself with...
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic. Veris Thorn -- the only one to ever enter the forest and survive -- is forced to go back inside to retrieve the tyrant's missing children. Inside await traps and trickery, ancient monsters, and hauntings of the past"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 1914 England, eighteen-year-old American Clara lies about her age and citizenship to land a coveted spot on an Antarctic expedition, but when the crew is marooned on an ice floe, Clara's mission to advance the women's suffrage movement takes a back seat to survival.
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Estranged friends Dean and Bethan meet after five years apart when they are drawn to a network of caves on a remote Arctic island. Bethan and her friends are environmental activists, determined to protect the land. But Dean's group's exploitation of rare earth minerals deep in the caves unleashes an horrific contagion that has rested frozen and undisturbed for many millennia. Fleeing the terrors emerging from the caves, Dean and Bethan and their rival...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves to lure ships into the rocks. When the Council watch lays...
7) Past crimes
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Earth+. The year is 2037, and nearly all human interactions have migrated to the virtual world. Now, true crime fans don't just listen to podcasts or watch documentaries -- they participate in hyper-realistic simulations and hunt for clues to solve the most famous and gruesome crimes in history. Criminal entertainment is a multibillion-dollar industry, and at the forefront is Past Crimes: known by its millions of fans as the Disneyland...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The first drops start to fall when Quinn spies the body. With no reception and nothing but an empty road for miles, does she stop to help or keep driving to safety? Back at the iconic country pub where Quinn works, Andrea is sandbagging the place in preparation for heavy rains. Alone with her sleeping son in the back room, she reluctantly lets a biker in to wait out the storm. Out on the wet roads, tensions arise among four backpackers on their way...
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The battle against the fifth-floor golem boss begins with a bang! Titanic limbs snatch and stomp at the small party of elites Kirito and Asuna hastily brought together, threatening to eviscerate the players long before they get their hands on the flag they came for...Will their risky plan succeed? Or will rushing to complete the floor end in the worst of all ways--dead friends, a war between the guilds, and halted progress toward escaping the game?!"--...
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"--
12) Powerful
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Now alone, Adena learns the streets of Loot by herself and meets a mysterious Elite named Kai Azer who harbors a dangerous ability, but their love is quickly interrupted when Adena becomes Paedyn's seamstress for the Purging Trials.
13) The kill factor
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A contestant on a brand-new game show offering young criminals the chance at freedom and a cash prize by winning over viewers, Emerson desperately needs the money to save her family, but little does she know that winning is her only chance at survival because losing means death.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When Dahlia Weathersby's sister disappears on what should have been a simple day hike, Dahlia immediately heads deep into the Colorado Rockies to find her. Knowing she'll never survive the mountains alone, she convinces the local hermit -- adorably grouchy survival expert Winston Dane -- to be her guide. All it takes is a good helping of Dahlia's charm...and just the teeniest bit of blackmail...before she's got all six-foot-something of him wrapped...
15) The alone time
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Fiona and Violet Seng were just children when their family's Cessna crash-landed in the Washington wilderness, claiming the lives of their parents. For twelve harrowing weeks, the girls fended for themselves before being rescued. Twenty-five years later, they're still trying to move on from the trauma. Fiona repurposes it into controversial works of art. Violet has battled addiction and failed relationships to finally progress toward normalcy as...
16) The lady he lost
Author
Series
Lucky ladies of London volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lieutenant Eli Williams was supposed to be dead. In the two years since his shipwreck, his friends and family mourned him, his brother spent his savings, and his fiancé́ married someone else. So, when he turns up in the middle of the London social season, he quickly becomes the talk of the town. All Eli wants is to set his life back in order and reconnect with Jane Bishop, a friend who has always meant so much more to him, before returning to sea....
17) Las indignas
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Nadie le dice que no a la Hermana Superior. Nadie que quiera seguir viva. El mundo como lo conocemos ha desaparecido después del gran apagón y de varias crisis climáticas. Apenas hay animales ni naturaleza y pocas personas han sobrevivido. Varias mujeres llegaron a una suerte de convento buscando refugio y han sido captadas por una secta religiosa. Una de ellas cuenta esta historia, escrita a escondidas noche tras noche para que alguien sepa todo...
Author
Publisher
Skybound Comet, an imprint of Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"All Alea has ever known is life in the Outpost. Long before she was born, the Outpost crash-landed on an uninhabitable frozen planet that was never meant to support humanity...and yet, life has gone on. School, friends, the fights every Friday night--there's plenty to distract her, yet Alea's sure there's something else out there. And when tragedy strikes, Alea vows to uncover the truth...even if it upends her world forever."
19) Deliverance
Author
Series
Hell divers volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Left for dead on the nightmarish surface of the planet, Commander Michael Everhart and his team of Hell Divers barely escape with their lives aboard a new airship called Deliverance. After learning that Xavier "X" Rodriguez may still be alive, they mount a rescue mission for the long-lost hero. In the skies, the Hive is falling apart, but Captain Jordan is more determined than ever to keep humanity in their outdated lifeboat. He will do whatever it...
20) Hell divers
Author
Series
Hell divers volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to Earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers--men and women who risk their lives by skydiving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need. When...
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