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1) Meridian
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Arclight volume 2
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"When Marina stumbled out of the Dark, she had no memory of how she survived the parasitic Fade who had demolished the world. No memory of where she came from or who her family was. Now she knows: she's one of the Fade, and she shouldn't even be human"--
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She dominates the court. He defends all in need of protection. Will they ace their path to a future forever?
Aurora Meridian refuses to be beaten again. Held back by an ankle injury and fighting to return to the top of the circuit, the tennis superstar finally has her eyes set on a major win. And she isn't about to let death threats stand in her way, especially when her security detail comes in the form of a super-sexy hunk.
Mason Stone won't get...
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25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
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One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
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4) Ex Meridian
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Take a man and strip him of his ability to feel compassion, empathy, remorse, or any of the emotions that make him human, but leave the ones that ignite rage and aggression and you have the perfect killing machine-now imagine two of them.
Code names Ex and Meridian are synonymous for 'guaranteed death' to international terrorists. Two broken men from the same crooked streets, recruited into an unsanctioned government program that few know about....
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The war rages on in the next installment of the first-ever official YA series based on the megahit Halo video games!
It's been three months since the colony world of Meridian was invaded by the alien alliance known as the Covenant. Under the close watch of the military, Evie, Dorian, Saskia, and Victor have been put into an accelerated training program with ONI, the Office of Naval Intelligence. And to the teens' surprise, ONI has a mission for them:...
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Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner recounts the remarkable career of Major John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of the Southwest Indian tribes. This classic work is a penetrating and insightful study of the Powell's career, from the beginning of the Powell Survey, in which Powell and his men famously became the first to descend the Colorado River, to...
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A user-friendly guide to ASMR-the stress-reducing, sleep-inducing, tingly sensation you have to try!- featuring step-by-step instructions on ASMR best practices for home and professional use alike.
The calming feeling when someone gently brushes your hair. The deep comfort and connection you feel when a friend whispers in your ear. The tingly sensation experienced from the personal attention of a hairdresser, a clinician, or even watching and listening...
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Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism—an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history.
The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing...
The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing...
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In this remarkable Sci-Fi Fantasy tale by author Kira Cul'tofay, ancient darkness has begun to wage a war against the realm of Fairie that threatens to bleed across dimensions to Earth. Can a handful of displaced, magic-altered humans, with superhero-like abilities and a ragtag group of elven creatures prevent both worlds from falling? Characters from the Earth Mages storyline, as well as Royal Seasons, join with some newcomers to take on the vile...
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Like your sci-fi books with a new twist? In the near future, Earth is changed by the introduction of chaotic magical energy. Over the course of 30 years, some humans have developed extraordinary and transformational abilities.
Welcome to Sun Under Stone! Now, in 2059, these individuals have been grouped together with other strange creatures by the united world government and drafted to fight supernatural forces that threaten to destroy our altered...
11) Fates Idle Star
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Like your science fiction fantasy-adventure books with an amazing twist? In the near future, life on Earth is transformed by the introduction of chaotic magical energy. Over the course of 30 years, some humans have developed extraordinary abilities. A year has passed for the team of magic-altered humans and their strange companions. 2060 brings even more changes and challenges to the lives of these heroes. While some teammates grow closer together,...
12) Stella Maris
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Passenger novels volume 2
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The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
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"An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In The Lost World of the Old Ones, David Roberts expands and updates the research from his 1996 classic, In Search of the Old Ones. As he elucidates startling archaeological breakthroughs, Roberts also recounts his past twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock-art...
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"Hubert Humphrey, a fallen hero and a dying man, rose on rickety legs to approach the podium of the Philadelphia Convention Hall, his pulpit for the commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania. He clutched a sheaf of paper with his speech for the occasion, typed and double-spaced by an assistant from his extemporaneous dictation, and then marked up in pencil by Humphrey himself. A note on the first page, circled to draw particular attention,...
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From the New York Times reporter whose beat is culture and ideas comes a fascinating, revelatory, and timely social history of the concept of middle age. For the first time ever, the middle-aged make up the biggest, richest, and most influential segment of the country, yet the history of middle age has remained largely untold. This important and immensely readable book finally fills the gap.In Our Prime is a biography of the idea of middle age from...
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"An impressive debut. Emotionally honest with lyricism and charm to spare, Nyani Nkrumah's Wade in the Water depicts in riveting detail a racially charged Mississippi town, the secrets it holds, and the precious heart and soul of a young girl deserving love."—Diane McKinney-Whetstone, author of Our Gen and Tumbling
"Fearless. . . . Vividly bring[s] to life rural 1980s Mississippi."—People
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...17) Dreamlands
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A collection of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's short stories, including Prime Meridian and The Return of the Sorcerers or the Diamond Heart.
Prime Meridian is a novella set in a near-future Mexico City, where Amelia, an ex-university student scraping by with menial jobs, dreams of going to Mars and starting over. When she gets pulled back into the orbit of a wealthy ex-boyfriend and all of his broken promises, Amelia must decide if she will take the chance...
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Don't miss the first-ever young adult fiction novel based on the megahit Halo video game series!
Saskia, Dorian, Evie, and Victor aren't exactly friends at their small high school on the middle-of-nowhere colony world of Meridian. Each has their own problems, from absent parents to supporting their family, getting into a good college to making the next hit holo-film. But those problems were nothing next to the threat now facing their world: The alien...
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The sword, cut the sky, and broke the heaven! Tang Yi, whose meridians were abolished, endured for three years. Three years later, it was a blockbuster! Enemies? I'll kill you all! There are all kinds of roads between heaven and earth. The myriad avenues are all around me, and I vowed to crawl at my feet on this day!
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Did you ever wonder how acupuncture works? This book strips away the mystery. Each acupuncture point has unique functions, which are explained in plain English for the non-acupuncturist.
How to do acupressure effectively to treat yourself. This book explains which points are the best to treat different ailments. Acupuncture treats pain, stress, fatigue, emotional disorders, insomnia, digestive problems, and many internal disorders.
Acupuncturists...