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  Psion: Book 1

  Psion

  by Joan D. Vinge

  When first published, readers young and old eagerly devoured the tale of a street-hardened survivor named Cat, a half-human, half-alien orphan telepath. Named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Cat’s story has been continued by Hugo-award winning and international best-selling author Joan D. Vinge with the very popular  Catspaw and Dreamfall . Now, 25 years later, this special anniversary edition of Psion ... (more)
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  Psion: Book 3

  Dreamfall

  by Joan D. Vinge

  Cat, the halfbreed telepath hero of Catspaw and Psion , joins a research team on Refuge, homeworld of his mother's people, the Hydrans. Immediately, he finds trouble when he helps a Hydran woman escape human pursuers. The decimated Hydran population of Refuge is confined to a bleak "homeland," by a huge corporate state, Tau Biotech. Tau also controls Refuge's one unique natural resource, "Dreamfall." The... (more)
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  Psion: Book 2

  Catspaw

  by Joan D. Vinge

  CAT: Street Punk, Psion, Telepath, Survivor. . . Kidnapped by an interstellar corporation and dragged to Earth, Cat is forced to use his skills to protect those he most hates, those who most hate him . . . . The taMings. A cyber-augmented, DNA-incestuous clan of such wealth and power that their family arguments change the destiny of worlds. Now one taMing is a killer's target. But which? And who would dare? ... (more)
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  Noughts and Crosses: Book 3

  Knife Edge

  by Malorie Blackman

  This thought-provoking and often provocative look at racism is a sequel to the award-winning Noughts & Crosses . For fourteen years, Sephy, a singer, struggles to raise her mixed-race child in an apartheid society, telling Callie Rose very little about her father, and trying to make her mark in the music business where she also has to deal with prejudice. But suddenly and dramatically, Callie discovers the... (more)
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  Frankenstein

  or, The Modern Prometheus

  by Mary Shelley

  A monster assembled by an eccentric scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
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  Noughts and Crosses: Book 4

  Checkmate

  by Malorie Blackman

  Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a Nought father in a society where the pale-skinned Noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father, but as Rose grows up she becomes determined to find out more about her parentage. As Rose takes her first steps... (more)
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  The Hunger Games: Book 2

  Catching Fire

  by Suzanne Collins

  SPARKS ARE IGNITING.FLAMES ARE SPREADING.AND THE CAPITOL WANTS REVENGE. Katniss is threatened to make a show for the President that she did not make fun of the capitol.Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and... (more)
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  Noughts and Crosses: Book 5

  Double Cross

  by Malorie Blackman

  Everyone assumes the bomb that killed Callie Rose's grandmother was the work of a nought terrorist. But Callie Rose knows the truth - and her fear of the past leaves her afraid for her future. She is also very frightened that Jude McGregor- her uncle- is still alive, and waiting to get his revenge. Her bestfriend Tobey, is worried about his own future. As a nought boy at an exclusive school, Tobey hopes to keep... (more)
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  Divergent: Book 1

  Divergent

  by Veronica Roth

  In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the... (more)
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  Thursday Next: Book 1

  The Eyre Affair

  by Jasper Fforde

  Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously: it's a bibliophile's dream. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant Baconians heckle performances of Hamlet and forging Byronic verse is a punishable... (more)
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  The Handmaid's Tale

  by Margaret Atwood

  In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets in which signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant because, in an age of declining... (more)
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  Thursday Next: Book 4

  Something Rotten

  by Jasper Fforde

  Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the Chronoguard. It's... (more)
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  Thursday Next: Book 2

  Lost in a Good Book

  by Jasper Fforde

  Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinister Goliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt out of the poem in which Thursday trapped him, and it will do... (more)
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  Dark Angel: Book 3

  After the Dark

  by Max Allan Collins

  Secrets and betrayals, as the saga of Dark Angel continues! In a chaotic world where the lines between good and evil often blur, and violent anarchy and brutal repression become commonplace, secrets can be deadly. So when Max discovers a shattering truth that Logan has kept concealed from her for years, the betrayal threatens the very essence of their trust. Yet when Logan is kidnapped, all questions of truth... (more)
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  Dark Angel: Book 2

  Skin Game

  by Max Allan Collins

  The saga of Dark Angel continues! Someone is killing normal humans in the fog-enshrouded city of Seattle. The murders are brutal and grisly, but inside Terminal City they barely cause a ripple of concern. The transgenics who live there have problems of their own. In an area under siege by the oppressive arm of the police, the transgenics must protect their fledgling colony against the outside world—a world that... (more)