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  Judgement Seed - Human Extinction

  Christopher Allen

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  A year after a devastating global meteor shower, botanist Dr. Elena Vasquez discovers something extraordinary in an Amazon impact crater: an impossibly beautiful alien flower with shimmering, otherworldly petals and an intoxicating fragrance. These "Astraflora" begin appearing worldwide, captivating humanity with their ethereal beauty and becoming a global obsession. 
  Marcus Chen, a San Francisco florist, becomes one of the first victims of what the flowers truly are—a sophisticated alien intelligence using beauty as a weapon. The Astraflora's golden pollen contains microscopic spores that infiltrate human nervous systems, causing rapid-onset dementia that transforms victims into zombie-like "Hollows" before their bodies explosively release millions more spores. 
  Despite warnings from Elena and CDC epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Williams, the world remains enchanted by the flowers until it's too late. The Astraflora spread exponentially through cultivation and natural dispersal, triggering a pandemic that collapses human civilization within months. Only one percent of humanity proves genetically immune to the spores' effects. 
  The immune survivors, led by Elena's research group, retreat to remote sanctuaries as cities fall silent and nature begins reclaiming the Earth. The Hollows become gardeners of the alien flowers, tending vast carpets of Astraflora that transform the planet's ecology. Over decades, the survivors learn that the aliens aren't destroyers but cosmic gardeners—an ancient intelligence that travels between worlds, helping species transcend their limitations or removing those that threaten planetary health. 
  Fifty years later, humanity has adapted to coexist with the Astraflora consciousness, developing symbiotic relationships that enhance human capabilities. Two centuries on, Earth has become a living paradise where humans and aliens form a hybrid consciousness, eventually making contact with a galactic network of similarly transformed worlds.

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  Operation White Out - A Mac...

  Robert G. Williscroft

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  Offers the closest literary approximation to real submarine experience during the Cold War. 
  “I was mesmerized by this remarkable tale of derring-do.”— Captain George W. Jackson USN (Ret.) 
  Recovering from his Operation Arctic Sting injuries, USS Teuthis Executive Officer Mac McDowell is tasked with laying acoustic arrays in the southern Atlantic and off Thurston Island, Western Antarctica. Teuthis tangles with Argentine subs in the south Atlantic, then confronts a ChiCom sub off Thurston Island. Mac and his team experience serious setbacks at the hands of the ChiComs while installing a relay transmitter on a nearby mountain peak. Teuthis discovers an underwater oil operation off Thurston Island and is tasked with escorting a Taiwanese sub and underwater tanker under the cover of the largest military marine exercise since World War II: PacEx89. Teuthis is attacked by a Chinese Han-class sub and a previously unknown North Korean AIP sub despite the protection provided by three U.S. fast-attack subs. Will Mac and Teuthis complete their mission, or will they finally meet their watery graves on the Pacific Ocean abyssal plain? 

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  Family Secrets

  Beth Farrar

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  What would you do to keep your family safe? 
   
   
   
  Widowed genealogist Ellie McLellan has spent years healing her ravished heart by carefully constructing a new and quiet life away from the hungry glare of the paparazzi. She now fills her days with genealogical research for various clients, safe in the small town of Percyville, Quebec. 
   
   
   
  Until her bid to save a child's life is caught on camera and ambitious tabloid reporter Diane Cooper recognizes her. Turns out Ellie is not safe at all. 
   
   
   
  With Diane sniffing around for dirt and her "big break" story, Ellie learns a dark family secret with the power to destroy the only family she has left—and the first tentative relationship she's dared to believe in since that fateful day she lost everything. 
   
   
   
  To protect her family, Ellie must follow every clue and use every skill she possesses in her race to stay ahead of the ruthless Diane and learn the truth about the genealogical mystery she has stumbled upon. 
   
   
   
  No more hiding. This time, Ellie will fight.

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  The Boscombe Valley Mystery -...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Inspector Lestrade asks for Holmes's help after Charles McCarthy is murdered, and his son, James, is implicated. McCarthy, and another local landowner, John Turner, are both Australian expatriates, and Lestrade was originally engaged by Turner's daughter, Alice, who believes James is innocent. Holmes interviews James, and then inspects the scene of the murder, deducing a third man was present. Realising Holmes has solved the case, Turner confesses to the crime, revealing that McCarthy was blackmailing him due to Turner's criminal past. Holmes does not reveal the crime, but secures James's release because of the presence of a third person at the crime scene.

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  Pennies From Heaven

  James P. Blaylock

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  Jerry Larkin discovers an age-old secret buried beneath the foundation of the house that he and his wife Jane, an avid reader of ghost stories, bought six months ago in the idyllic town of Old Orange in southern California. 
   
  Jane Larkin, whose MacArthur grant led to the creation of public gardens and a farmers market in the town’s central park, works against time to save what she has built as a 100-year storm moves in off the coast.   
   
  Lettie Phibbs, a strange librarian whose Antiquity Center holds the secrets to the hidden history of Old Orange, inserts herself into the Larkin’s lives, growing increasingly eccentric and menacing, as unpredictable as the storm itself.

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  Her Dying Day

  Mindy Carlson

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  Aspiring filmmaker June Masterson has high hopes for her first documentary, the true story of the disappearance of famed mystery author Greer Larkin. June learned about the vanishing at age fourteen, locked down on her family’s isolated commune. Now, the deeper she digs into the project, the darker the story gets.
  
  Everyone has a theory. Greer’s mother, Blanche, and her best friend, Rachel, believe that Greer’s fiancé, Jonathan, is the culprit. Greer’s agent is convinced that Greer committed suicide after a debilitating bout of writer’s block. And Jonathan claims it was either Greer’s controlling mother or Rachel, whose attachment to Greer went way beyond friendship.
  
  In desperation, Rachel gives June a suitcase full of Greer’s most personal writings in hopes of finding proof against Jonathan. Then Rachel turns up dead. As June pores over Greer’s writings, she makes a devastating discovery that could finally reveal the truth about the author’s fate. But now, June finds herself in the sights of a killer who’ll stop at nothing to keep their darkest secret

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