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  Odin's Spear

  Skyla Dawn Cameron

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  ALL’S FAIR IN SIBLING RIVALRY AND WAR. 
  After nearly losing her family and her life, Olivia Talbot is trying to leave the world of artifact hunting behind. But an adrenaline junkie unsuited for a 9 to 5 job can’t hide herself forever, especially when deadly operative Dale West comes knocking with off-book work for his covert organization. 
  It’ll be “easy”, West says—just a trip to the museum. But a deranged former soldier is seeking to reunite the pieces of Gungnir—spear of the Norse god Odin—which is capable of starting war, and this job is much bigger than anyone has let on. 
  Followed by the dogged son of a tabloid mogul, competing with her archeologist older brother, and still struggling to trust West against her better judgement, Livi will venture into an ancient underwater city in the Mediterranean to stop the dawn of a new war. But the spear of a god has plans for them all, and power not even she might be able to withstand.

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  Dragon Rising

  Talia Beckett

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  Is the truth worth dying for? What if no one believes the truth anyway? 
   
   
   
  While some of the dragons in Detaris are adjusting to having a new red dragon around, others aren't. They hound Scarlet no matter what she wants to try and do. 
   
   
   
  If she doesn't put an end to it soon, she's going to wind up injured, or worse. 
   
   
   
  Her supporters are insistent that Scarlet take the reins of the greatest realm in the world. 
   
   
   
  She still isn't sure. She wants to be left alone to get to know her new family, but more and more dragons are popping up with half-truths and selfish agendas. 
   
   
   
  Can Scarlet prove her lineage, power, and capability before it's too late? Or will she be betrayed at every turn? 
   
   
   
  The world is still in denial of the approaching danger. Can Scarlet do what's needed and unite them against the common enemy?

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  Meena’s Story - Flight to Freedom

  Swapna Gupta

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  Based on true events around the India-Pakistan partition in 1947, the book traces the life of a young English woman and her Muslim husband. From the husband's death in Pakistan, the story becomes her daughter Meena's recollection of the traumatic death and her own personal struggles and challenges in India and finally in Canada.

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  The Sleeper Awakes

  H. G. Wells

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  "He went to sleep a commoner and woke up the master of the world."
  
  In 1897, a man named Graham falls into a profound trance that lasts for 203 years. When he finally awakens in the year 2100, he discovers that his modest bank account has grown through the power of compound interest into the greatest fortune in history. He is now the "Sleeper," the legal owner of half the world. But while he slept, a shadowy "White Council" has ruled in his name, turning London into a tiered megacity of technological marvels and crushing inequality. Thrust into the heart of a violent revolution led by the charismatic Ostrog, Graham must decide if he is a savior, a puppet, or a tyrant.
  
  The Birth of the Megacity: Wells' vision of the future is startlingly modern. He imagines a world of "Aeropiles" (flying machines), kinetic advertising, and a globalized economy. The London of 2100 is a city-state where the natural world has been paved over, and the population is controlled through sensory stimulation and the "Labour Company"—a corporate entity that has effectively re-established slavery through debt.
  
  A Prophecy of Revolution: Unlike Wells' more optimistic utopias, The Sleeper Awakes is a gritty exploration of power. It examines how populist movements can be co-opted by new dictators and how the "working man" is often traded from one master to another. Graham's journey from a bewildered Victorian to a revolutionary leader is a gripping study in the responsibility of wealth and the difficulty of true liberation.
  
  Witness the dawn of the corporate dystopia. Purchase "The Sleeper Awakes" today and see the future that H.G. Wells feared.

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  The Sunless Countries

  Karl Schroeder

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  The Sunless Countries is the fourth novel in the Virga series of hard science fiction space opera adventures In an ocean of weightless air where sunlight has never been seen, only the running lights of the city of Pacquaea glitter in the dark. One woman, Leal Hieronyma Maspeth, lives and dreams of love among the gaslit streets and cafés. And somewhere in the abyss of wind and twisted cloud through which Pacquaea eternally falls, a great voice has begun speaking. As its cold words reach from space to the city walls—and as outlying towns and travelers' ships start to mysteriously disappear—only Leal has the courage to try to understand the message thundering from the distance. Even the city's most famous and exotic visitor, the sun lighter and hero named Hayden Griffin, refuses to turn aside from his commission to build a new sun for a foreign nation. He will not become the hero that Leal knows the city needs; so it is up to her to listen, and ultimately reply, to the voice of the worldwasp—because an astonishing disaster threatens Virga.

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  Find the Jinn

  Maz Maddox

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  Wilde Contract Killing and Fish Training, how can I help you? 
   
   
   
  Murder contract? Piece of cake. Find a jinn? No problem. 
   
   
   
  New necromancy powers while being followed by an unwanted vampire bodyguard? Not so much. 
   
   
   
  Trained to handle even the fiercest undead, Dallas Wilde took out a powerful necromancer without breaking a sweat. Okay, that's a lie—there was tons of sweat, but he was victorious all the same. 
   
   
   
  Unfortunately, killing a necromancer comes with some repercussions. Broody, annoying, vampire repercussions and new abilities to resurrect the dead. 
   
   
   
  Can Dallas navigate his blood-sucking bodyguard, new powers, feelings for his attractive client and still handle his contract in time to pay his very, very late rent—all while trying not to get super murdered in the process? 
   
   
   
  Let's hope so.

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