Greg Tremblay
1) Scythe
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Arc of a scythe volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (gleaned) by professional reapers (scythes). Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythe's apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation they must learn the art of killing and come to understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe's apprentice. And when it becomes clear that the...
2) Thunderhead
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Arc of a scythe volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
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Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
3) The toll
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Arc of a scythe volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
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"Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder"--
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From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the weather forecast, the people who built it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planet. The weather is the foundation of our daily lives. It's a staple of small talk, the app on our smartphones, and often the first thing we check each morning. Yet behind these quotidian interactions is one of the most expansive machines human beings have ever...
5) Blame
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"From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott BLAME The crash that killed him...Two years ago, Jane Norton crashed her car on a lonely road, killing her friend David and leaving her with amnesia. At first, everyone was sympathetic. Then they found Jane's note: I wish we were dead together. A girl to blame... From that day the town turned against her. But even now Jane is filled with questions: Why were they on that road? Why was she with David?...
6) Gleanings
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
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A collection of stories that span the time when humans live in a world without hunger, disease, or death and Scythes act as the living instruments of population control.
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Harry Evans has edited everything from the urgent files of battlefield reporters to the complex thought processes of Henry Kissinger. He's even been knighted for his services to journalism. In DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?, he brings his indispensable insight to us all in his definite guide to writing well. The right words are oxygen to our ideas, but the digital era, with all of its TTYL, LMK, and WTF, has been cutting off that oxygen flow. The compulsion...
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One summer day, Grace Fairchild, the beautiful young wife of real estate mogul Alistair Calloway, vanished from the family's lake house without a trace, leaving behind her seven-year old daughter, Charlie, and a slew of unanswered questions.Years later, 17-year-old Charlie still struggles with the dark legacy of her family name and the mystery surrounding her mother. Determined to finally let go of the past, she throws herself into life at Knollwood,...
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Accelerati trilogy volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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"It is up to Nick Slate to find the last of Nikola Tesla's powerful inventions--or face devastating consequences"--
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Many soon-to-be graduates are worried about their future. They stress about whether they'll find a job, if it will be fulfilling, whether they will earn enough to pay off their student loans, and whether they will fail and disappoint their families. Young people need to learn many things that colleges don't teach, including how to behave professionally, how to collaborate, how to be life-long learners, and how to be resourceful, resilient, and ethical....
12) Purpose & desire: what makes something "alive" and why modern Darwinism has failed to explain it
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"SUNY professor, biologist, and physiologist J. Scott Turner argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is--and only an openness to the qualities of "purpose and desire" will move the field forward. Turner surveys the history of evolutionary thought, identifying "purpose and desire" as the keys to a coherent science of life and its evolution. In Purpose and Desire,...
13) Edison's alley
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Accelerati trilogy volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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"Nick and his friends race against their foes to retrieve more pieces of Tesla's free energy transmitter, only to see them fall into the hands of the Accelerati's shadowy leader"--
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The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), by Anthony Hope, is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania who resembles the monarch is persuaded to act as...
15) Cabal of Lies
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Cabal - a secret political clique or faction.
The sheer amount of interests involved in crimes both mundane and ground breaking are obfuscating the most heinous in society who attack Jia and Erik from the shadows.
How do you find those hiding in the shad
16) Deception of Age
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The technology from eons ago empowers monsters among humanity. Erik and Jia are balancing the needs of the UTC, their team, and their own future. Will they be able to provide peace for Erik's team and yet not bring down the UTC, causing pain to the very people they died to protect? Humans can strive to understand alien technology, but there is always a price. Mistakes happen. Can those sacrificing to build their version of humanity's future complete...
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James Hart, with a tough-as-nails exterior and an aching emptiness inside, does not want to go home. Yet when James receives a postcard from his mother, Birdie Mae, informing him of his father's death, he bites the bullet and returns to the rural and stagnant town of Crystal Springs, Florida, a place where dreams are born to die. James is too late for Orville's funeral, but just in time to become ensnared in the deadly repercussions of his younger...
18) Fire and Granite
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The heat is growing from the inside, but danger is building on the outside. Judge Andrew Phillips runs a tight ship in his courtroom. He's tough, and when he hands down a sentence, he expects to be obeyed. So when a fugitive named Harper escapes and threatens his life, Andrew isn't keen on twenty-four/seven protection… especially not from Deputy Clay Brown. They have a past, one that could cause problems in their careers. But with Clay assigned...
19) Dirty Bites
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Danger. Desire. Loss. Love.
In every story, there are a thousand more bound up and waiting to be told; here are just a few from the Cole McGinnis Mysteries.
As a heartfelt thank you to the readers who fell in love with Cole McGinnis, Kim Jae-Min and the rest of the cast, Rhys Ford takes us on an adventure in this collection of stories and vignettes. In this ebook and audiobook set, Jae shares his heart as he learns to see, to love, and to accept...
20) One Dark Future
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Another planet closer to Earth than Erik's moon gives up its secrets, providing Erik and Jia with clues that could lead to the answer to one of the questions he has been searching for.
What was hidden on that small moon that his people were killed for?
Along with the clues, an unexpected question pops up.
Could an unfriendly but extinct species of alien not be extinct, as presumed?
Both want the truth-but is the effort to reveal the truth good for...