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1) Germinal
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Rougon-Macquart volume 13
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Originally published in serial form in 1884 to 1885, "Germinal" is Émile Zola's realistic depiction of the coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s. In this faithful translation from the original French by Havelock Ellis, the story centers on Étienne Lantier, a young migrant worker who arrives at the coalmining town of Montsou in search of work. Set against a backdrop of extreme poverty and oppression, "Germinal" is the story of the idealistic...
2) Erewhon
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Erewhon series volume 1
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A utopian classic with a rich legacy–influencing authors from Huxley to Herbert and beyond–Erewhon satirizes Victorian society with biting insight still relevant today.
When Higgs, a young traveler, stumbles upon the beautiful land of Erewhon, he soon discovers that its seemingly ideal culture is founded upon bizarre, unsettling beliefs. Crime is a sickness, while sickness is a crime; the greatest scholarly achievement is unreason, and all machines...
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The plague of frogs has ended, but earth will never be the same, and the fractured B.P.R.D. struggles to battle dangerous monsters and humans alike, from a trailer-park cult to a Russian town ravaged by a zombie-like virus. Guy Davis's final B.P.R.D. story sets the stage for Tyler Crook's (Harrow County) backwoods-horror debut, as Liz Sherman hides from a world that she helped push toward armageddon, and Abe Sapien is shot down by a girl who's seen...
4) 1984
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Perhaps no other novel in this century has had a greater impact upon the way we think and talk about our world than George Orwell's classic, 1984. "Big Brother," "doublespeak," and "the thought police" have become part of our everyday lexicon, and the term "Orwellian" has become a familiar adjective for any situation-real or imagined-where conformity is compulsory and where someone always seems to be watching.
Orwell's novel also has the distinction...
5) Deliverance
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Hana is Greater. It's a future she never envisioned for herself, but she's not about to ignore the opportunity she's been given--the opportunity to find answers about her Mom, Jamie, and Fischer. This could be an opportunity to tell others the truth about God and uncover the secrets the Great Supreme has been keeping from their small, struggling nation. When Hana's search brings her to the mysterious prison she's only heard of in rumors, the desire...
6) Vanquished
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When Hana's mom is diagnosed with the mutation, she confesses to Hana she doesn't know what will happen if she dies. Fischer, a medic at the hospital, implies there is Someone who can help but religion's been outlawed. Hana embarks on a dangerous journey, seeking the answers Fischer insists are available. But when the truth is uncovered, will Hana stick to what she's been taught? Or will she join the rebellion and take a stand against an oppressive...
7) Redeemer
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In this final chapter of the Enslaved series, Hana is faced not only with a new life, but an entirely new way of thinking. Unexpected friends give insight into who the Greaters truly are. Deciding what to do with this information sends Hana on what may be her very last journey. Ever.
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Daisy Ogami holds the key to a dying future's salvation. Powerful interests will stop at nothing to obtain Daisy, but her android bodyguard will do anything to protect her...and the promise of a brighter day. Collects Lone Wolf 2100: Shadow on Saplings; Lone Wolf 2100: The Language of Chaos; and Lone Wolf 2100: Pattern Storm. Reimagining the classic manga, produced in association with creator Kazuo Koike. Dark Horse editions of the original Lone Wolf...
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Geiger volume 1
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"series premiere
It all starts here! The critically acclaimed teamof storytellers geoff johns and garyfrank(Geiger: Ground zero, doomsday clock) Return to the nuclear wasteland of their bestselling geiger for an all-new ongoing series starring the violent and unpredictable glowing Man
Leaving his home behind, tariq geiger now walks the radioactive roads of the former united stateswith his two-headed wolf Barneybut as his enemies doggedly pursue him,...
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Kanopy Streaming
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An apocalyptic roar of a movie, Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying The last of England is a lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. One of Jarman's most experimental and overwhelming works, he has Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) stalk through the remnants of industrial England, encountering visions of fascistic slaughter and sacrifice. These nightmares are cut together with his family's idyllic home movies,...
11) Magic Fate
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Bree's brother, her only remaining family, has been kidnapped. She's racing against the clock to find him before he ends up in the Grey Area, the land of no return.
Nikolas tries to protect her, but his castle can only hold her for so long.
As a new protector for humans, can she protect herself?
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The Magic Blood Trilogy (The Bree Somner Chronicles Books 1-3)
MAGIC BLOOD – PART 1
She's on a mission…
Betrayed by her ex who broke her heart and her trust, Bree Somner is focusing her energies on taking care of her family, surviving, and protecting humans from vampires, trolls and demons in the new droid-controlled world.
After finding out she's half mage, Bree's got to hide her identity from witch hunters and the state while she proves...
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The fight in the Zombies dominated the world goes on. The Survivors on the Hanson Farm work on a new future. Tabea McTire, the leader, hurries to other people in the vicinity to help. Her young friend Clarisse Stevens learns the love, but also problems, and Trouble with the adults. She goes with her friends on dangerous expeditions and cruises to Granby. The living dead are a serious threat, but nothing in comparison to a group of brutal Outlaws,...
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This is a story of Moloch's cultural evolution from dystopia to utopia. Corruption, oppression, cronyism, wars, coups, revolutions, destabilization, regime changes, greed, economic pillaging, financial chicanery and exploitation were the norm. People were weary and afraid. In democratic countries people were easily persuaded to approve the creation of a Global agency dedicated to the eradication of terrible conspiracies.The Guild of Unrelenting Truth...
15) Timeless Visions
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Imagine a world where time isn't just a passing constant, but an all-consuming god, who created smaller worlds governed by time guardians. A young girl who's at the center of it all, playing a role that even she couldn't have imagined! Jennene Lynn Hauser, a feisty, intelligent brunette finds herself in a world where she's a prophet, seeing not just the past, present, and future, but multiple time orbs.
Where she comes from and how she's able to...
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The heroes of these stories are people lost in time and space, who try to understand the reality around them, to discern the layers of the outside world and peel them off. With new and unusual perspectives, philosophical consultations, often anti-utopian narratives and a mystic, ritualistic style, the author seeks to penetrate the depths of life, going beyond accepted conventions in his depiction of the world as well as the things and people it contains....
17) Revenge
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Live together, die together ...
Three years after the end of The Tube Riders: Exile, the Governor is preparing for war with Europe. Within Mega Britain's cities, pockets of rebels fight and die in the name of Marta Banks, brave leader of the surviving Tube Riders.
The Tube Riders themselves though, have disappeared. With their trail gone cold, the Governor and his deadly Huntsmen have no way to find them.
That is, until the day the Governor recovers...
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Book 2 of the Seventieth Week Chronicles is work of fiction that picks up the story moments after John Doe and Techie part ways at the end of the fictional portion of Book 1: The Making of a Martyr. It is a fast-paced action story of Techie living on the run, eventually being reunited with John for one last mission. It is a dystopian world where nothing can be taken for granted, few can be trusted, and where the reader is introduced to the beasts...
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For good or ill, the future has begun.
After the outbreak came the nuclear war. The blasts killed millions. Chaos followed. Most of those unlucky enough not to succumb to starvation and disease joined the ranks of the living dead.
Fleeing the impossible nightmare, ten thousand, from nations across the Atlantic seaboard, found refuge on the Welsh island of Anglesey. There, they should have been safe. There, they should have been able to rebuild....
20) Survivor's Eyes
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With mankind on the edge of extinction, can our humanity survive? Or is civilisation just a thin, fragile veneer, masking our animal nature?
In the ruins of our society, a lonely, bitter man ekes out an existence, shying away from all human contact. He struggles with starvation and ever-present mortal danger. However, his greatest battle is to try and retain some vestige of the civilised man he once was, even if that means living alone.
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