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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The residents of Garrett Island are part of a visionary experiment. Their cars have been sent to the mainland and now, for one month, they've got self-driving vehicles called Arrivals. With a simple voice command, an Arrival will take you wherever you want to go, and because these cars are networked and aware of each other, road mishaps are a thing of the past. As the world's press arrives for a glimpse of this driverless future, islander and single...
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Herder volunteers to journey into the dangerous world of the Nether to destroy Herobrine's poisonous XP and is accidentally infected, Gameknight and his friends are forced to make a terrible choice.
With the destruction of the infected Ender Dragon, the monster kings were forced to retreat. Herobrine's poisonous XP has been captured in an obsidian box and sealed tightly. Gameknight999 and his friends know that the obsidian box will have to be...
Author
Series
Joe Ledger novels volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"On opening day of the new baseball season, a small model-kit airplane flies down from the stands and buzzes the mound, where a decorated veteran pilot is about to throw out the first ball. The toy plane is an exact replica of the one flown by the war hero. Everyone laughs, thinking it a good prank or a publicity stunt. Until it explodes, killing dozens. Seconds later a swarm of killer drones descend upon the panicked crowd, each one carrying a powerful...
Series
Wild cards volume 27
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As the alien Xenovirus reaches Britain, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, now gifted with extraordinary longevity, joins with Alan Turing to set up a special organization, the Order of the Silver Helix, to outmaneuver the terrifying mutations of the virus in Britain.
Series
Wild cards volume 28
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The next anthology in George R.R. Martin's ongoing Wild Cards alternate-history series, Three Kings. In the aftermath of World War II, the Earth's population was devastated by an alien virus. Those who survived were changed forever. Some, known as jokers, were cursed with bizarre mental and physical mutations; others, granted superhuman abilities, became the lucky few known as aces. Queen Margaret, who came to the English throne after the death of...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A terrorist breach of the computer systems of the three most powerful navies is about to set them on a collision course for World War III. Rafiq Roshed is one of the most wanted men in the world. A terrorist with a virulent grudge against the West, he's disappeared into North Korea where he quietly launches cyber sneak attacks in service of Kim Jong-un. But now he's about to unleash his virtual masterpiece--a computer virus that, once inserted into...
Series
Night of the living cat volume 3
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"EVEN VILLAINS ARE PRECIOUS (WHEN THEY BECOME CATS). The world has fallen under the long shadow of a cat apocalypse. Mankind has been overwhelmed by the power of their fearsome floof, turning into cats one after another. Those few survivors who remain live in a world on the precipice of total collapse. In a new age where cats are everything, is there any future for what's left of mankind?! The absurd tale of kitty-cat armageddon continues!"--
48) Toxic game
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan takes readers into the hot zone in this pulse-pounding GhostWalker novel. On a rescue mission in the heart of the Indonesian jungle, Dr. Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team need to extract the wounded as quickly as possible--or risk spreading a deadly virus unleashed by a terrorist cell. When Draden gets infected he forces his team to leave him behind. He won't risk exposing anyone else. He...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Diana O'Toole tiene la vida calculada al milímetro: se casará a los treinta, tendrá hijos a los treinta y cinco y se mudará a los suburbios de la ciudad de Nueva York. Todavía no está comprometida, pero sabe que su novio, Finn, un residente de cirugía, está a punto de proponerle matrimonio en su próxima escapada romántica a las islas Galápagos. ¡Justo antes de su trigésimo cumpleaños! Sin embargo, la vida le tiene reservado otro destino...
50) La firma de Dios
Author
Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Mañana. Un nuevo virus asola la población mundial. Su comportamiento, que parece responder a una voluntad consciente, no tarda en hacer añicos el paradigma de la ciencia. Es el principio de una crisis que cuestionará todo lo que creemos saber sobre la naturaleza y cambiará el mundo para siempre. El reconocido guionista y escritor José Antonio Pérez Ledo, creador de algunos de los pódcast más escuchados, como El gran apagón y Guerra 3, ha...
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