On a late spring day, the United States of America is hit with a biological terror attack that brings the nation to her knees. The virus is deadly and highly contagious. It spreads like wildfire, infecting, and killing almost everyone it hits.
In order to prevent the worldwide spread of the disease and for the preservation of all mankind, the United States of America is shut down. Quarantined from and by the rest of the world for a period of five years or until a cure is found.
In the interest of the human race, those who remain inside the isolated United States are forgotten and left to fend for themselves until the quarantine is lifted.
This is a journal documentation of just a few of those survivors, those abandoned and left behind to witness the end of the once Greatest Nation in the World, the United States of America
Adult, Thriller, Science Fiction,
Written by Jacqueline Druga
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Jamie wants to be a halfskin. Her life has become dull and pointless. If she had more biomites—the synthetic stems cells that promise hope and healing—she could take control of her life. But Jamie’s body is already 49.9% biomites. The rest is clay-her God—given organic cells. Anymore biomites and she becomes a halfskin. And halfskins are shut down. But there is a way. Black market biomites, called “nixes,” can’t be detected by the government. She’d have to sacrifice her clay, but nixes can make her halfskin without anyone knowing. But first, she has to find them. Nix Richards can help. He’s the first halfskin to escape the government, and Jamie has something he wants.
Adult, Thriller, Science Fiction, Techno
Written by Tony Bertauski
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This volume is the third and concluding book in the military science fiction trilogy THE PACIFICATION OF EARTH. It recounts the adventures of a young ex-Marine in unifying the globe and initiating essential population, pollution, and governing reforms.
He defeats a Chinese thrust for fertile land via Mongolia, fights off insurrections and attempted assassinations, and finds love.
Adult, Thriller, Futuristic, Political
Written by Dean Warren
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Eric Stark is not insane. At least, he doesn’t think so. He wishes everyone in Dust, Texas, felt the same way. A new friendship emerges after the new kid, Kyle Barrett, moves to town. Eric reluctantly reveals his secret. Is it a curse or a gift? He isn’t certain, but with Kyle by his side he finds the courage to seek the truth. They soon realize that something sinister is descending on the residents of Dust. Is it caused by Eric’s phantoms or is it something else? Is it connected to the mysterious death of hundreds of townspeople over sixty years ago? One thing is certain-only Eric and Kyle can save them.
Young Adult, Paranormal, Science-Fiction
Written by Shea Norwood
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The exploitation of helpless simians by a wicked pharmaceutical company comes to an end when their genetically-altered research subjects escape, and the tables are turned on the human species that had too long exploited the creatures that share the planet with them. In this award-winning and terrifying science fiction novel, Thomas Weston envisions a future when the time of the people of today’s world comes to an end, and earth moves on to the next cycle of evolution.
Adult, Science-Fiction
Written by Thomas Weston
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All 17-year-old David really wants is to fly under life’s radar. In a typical cold winter day in Montana he does something extraordinary: he rescues smart, funny, gorgeous good-girl Lucy Peterson from drowning in a freezing lake. As their friendship grows, David realizes that risking his life was the easy part. His friendship with a girl who is different from him in every imaginable way forces David to challenge himself and those around him. He must face the abuse of his past and the uncertainty of his future as he struggles to keep Lucy by his side.
Headphones Award Winner
Young Adult, Romance/Coming of Age
Written by Aurora Smith
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Copying Eisenhower’s example in the Cold War, Bjorn leads an American army to Europe’s defense. In early spring, the Moslems cross the Bosphorus into Europe and throw back part of Bjorn’s army. He fights a series of battles, including one involving an Achiever-led insurrection.
Betrayals and attempted assassinations deepen the fog of war.
Adult, Political/Military Thriller
Written by Dean Warren
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Foster’s friend Kevin tells him about a bully who has recently been expelled from his school. A boy by the name of Barlow Aldwin Derrick Darden, aka B.A.D.D. When Foster opens up his locker to find it full of someone else’s belongings, he goes to his teacher, who introduces him to the new boy who just transferred to his school - B.A.D.D!
The bully terrorizes the school by stealing, taunting the students, disrupting the class, and finally vandalizing cars. Foster is no fighter but chooses not to stand by and allow his school to be victimized by B.A.D.D.
Young Reader, Coming of Age
Written by Jil Ross
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A century later, the Farr family continues to thrive. A new generation of wolves walks the Earth with Zed as their leader. From the depths of space arrives an army of aliens with superior technology and a massive power-armored force of troops. Their goal: to take the Earth and make it their own.
Now only the Farr family and their allies in the world of the supernatural can save the human race from being utterly destroyed. It’s werewolves vs. aliens in this action-filled tale of war and interplanetary conquest.
Adult, Fantasy/Horror/Vampire/Werewolf
Written by Eric S. Brown
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Set in contemporary Alaska, Canada and New York State, Eternal Hunt is a supernatural thriller based on Iroquois legends.
While trapped in a month-long storm in the Alaskan wilderness, Logan Longstride’s cousin and blood brother, Caleb, becomes a cannibal to survive. Cannibalism opens Caleb’s soul up to a vile Indian spirit known as a Wendigo, which possesses him.
After the storm lifts, Logan is the first on the scene to find his cousin. But all he finds is death at the hands of the vicious man-eating Wendigo that Caleb has become.
A near-death vision shows Logan he has been chosen by his tribe’s spirits to take up the knife and hunt the Wendigo.
Along the way, Logan is recruited into a secret government organization that monitors supernatural beings. With the combination of their high-tech weapons and his own Indian spirit powers, Logan struggles with his desire to save his blood brother and the knowledge that the cannibalistic Wendigo Spirit inhabiting Caleb’s body must be stopped at any cost.
Adult, Fantasy/Horror/Werewolf
Written by Lucas McWilliams
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Biomites are artificial stem cells that can replace any cell in your body. No more kidney failure, no severed spines or blood disease. No cancer. Pharmaceuticals become obsolete. With each dose of biomites, we become stronger, we become smarter and prettier.
We become better. At what point are we no longer human?
Nix Richards nearly died in a car accident when he was young. Biomites saved his life. Ten years later, he’s not so lucky. The Halfskin Laws decree a human composed of 50% biomites is no longer human. Halfskins have no legal rights and will have their biomites shutdown. It’s not called murder, merely deactivation.
Cali Richards has been Nix’s legal guardian since their parents died. She has lost far too many people in her life to let the government take Nix. She is a nanobiometric engineer and will discover how to hide him. But even brilliance can succumb to the pressure of suffering. And technology can’t cure insanity.
Cali and Nix keep a slippery grip on reality as they elude a maniacal federal agent dedicated to saving humanity from what he calls “The Biomite Plague”?
Adult, Techno-thriller
Written by Tony Bertauski
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Raising four boys alone is not task. Widower Joe Slagel works hard, provides a stable home with lots of love and just the right amount of discipline.
But boys will be boys. And when their fifth (and latest) potential stepmother packs up and leaves without notice, Joe realizes it is time to bring in a professional.
Enter Sergeant Ethel Pletcher. Not only does she tower over the boys in size, but her huge heart takes over the house and their lives, as well. Sgt. Pletcher proves that the Slagel boys aren't really all that bad, they just need someone that understands them. And, at times, a peacekeeper.
Young Reader, Coming of Age
Written by Jacqueline Druga
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Moments before midnight on New Year’s Eve, Danny D’Argenio suffers a massive heart attack and dies. There in the delicate space between life and death, he is given a special gift.
Reunited with his deceased father, he is given the opportunity to see what his life would have been like had he been granted the wish to change some of his life choices.
His journey is a priceless, eye-opening experience... all while getting the precious chance to spend one more day with the father he adored on earth.
Adult, Fantasy/Spiritual/Afterlife
Written by Jacqueline Druga
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