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Bad Science
Ben GoldacreHow do we know if a treatment works, or if something causes cancer? Can the claims of homeopaths ever be as true—or as interesting—as the improbable research into the...
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The Frontiers Saga: Episodes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Ryk BrownEPISODE 1.1: " CV-01"A world recovering from a devastating plague…A brutal enemy threatening invasion…A young man seeking to escape the shadow of his father…A ship manned by a crew o...
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Heir Apparent: A Short Story
Daniel SuarezMeet Sonny, the most popular and professional nurse's aide at Brookside Nursing Home. Always willing to listen or to put a smile on a resident's face. Sonny is also an...
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Artemis
Andy WeirEver had a bad day? Try having one on the moon...'Fascinating' Tim Peake, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ask an AstronautWELCOME TO ARTEMIS. The first city on the moon....
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
George R.R. MartinAlmost a century before A GAME OF THRONES, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros…In an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and recollections of the last dr...
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Fight and Flight (Magic 2.0, #4)
Scott MeyerMartin and his friends discovered that their world is computer-generated and that by altering the code, they could alter reality. They traveled back in time to Medieval England to live...
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Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
Terry PratchettThis is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly....
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Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
Terry PratchettBeing trained by the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to him by fate. He inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi...
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Change Agent
Daniel SuarezNew York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself.On a...
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Birdsong
Sebastian FaulksPublished to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As...
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
David ShaferThree young adults grapple with the usual thirty-something problems—boredom, authenticity, an omnipotent online oligarchy—in David Shafer's darkly comic debut novel.The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and medi...
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Fate of the Jedi: Outcast (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi, #1)
Aaron AllstonTHE NEXT CHAPTER IN THE EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY OF THE STAR WARS GALAXY BEGINS HERE. . . .After a violent civil war and the devastation wrought by the now-fallen Darth Caedus, the Galactic...
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Neverwhere
Neil GaimanUnder the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black velvet....
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An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0, #3)
Scott MeyerEver since Martin Banks and his fellow computer geeks discovered that reality is just a computer program to be happily hacked, they’ve been jaunting back and forth through time, po...
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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
Neil GaimanIn the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion... and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a...
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Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0, #2)
Scott MeyerThe adventures of an American hacker in Medieval England continue as Martin Banks takes his next step on the journey toward mastering his reality-altering powers and fulfilling his destiny.A...
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Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
William GibsonAlternate cover for ISBN: 9780441569595Case was the sharpest data thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance...
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Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0, #1)
Scott MeyerMartin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, thanks to reality being nothing more than a computer program. With every use...
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
David KushnerMasters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And...
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Lock In (Lock In, #1)
John ScalziNot too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for...
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Cross Stitch (Outlander, #1)
Diana GabaldonAn alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found hereIn 1945, Claire is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in Scotland. Innocently, she...
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The Medusa Chronicles
Stephen BaxterFollowing an accident that almost cost him his life, Howard Falcon was not so much saved as he was converted, through the use of prosthetics, into something faster, stronger and...
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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
Kevin D. MitnickKevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world's biggest companies, and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster,...
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The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)
David Lagercrantz13 hours and 22 minutes Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return She is the girl with the dragon tattoo—a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of...
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The Lost (Stargate Atlantis, #17)
Jo GrahamReeling from the terrible events of Homecoming: Stargate Atlantis, the team are doing whatever it takes to find their lost crew - even if it means turning to their enemies...
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Homecoming (Stargate Atlantis, #16)
Jo GrahamThe first of a six book series set after the end of Stargate Atlantis's final season, Homecoming sees Atlantis return to the Pegasus Galaxy. But the situation in Pegasus has...
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The Rats (Rats, #1)
James HerbertFor millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. But now for the first time - suddenly, shockingly, horribly - the balance of power had shifted and the...
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A Dance with Dragons 2: After the Feast (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5, Part 2 of 2)
George R.R. MartinThis is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780007466078.The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance.In King’s Landing the Queen Regent, Cersei Lannister, awaits trial, abandoned by al...
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Seveneves
Neal StephensonWhat would happen if the world were ending?A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach7 hrs and 59 minsAn oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.For two thousand years, cadavers (some willingly, some unwittingly) have been involved in science's...
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Mary RoachSpace is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration...
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I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People
Jenny MollenBy the actress, writer, and one of the funniest women on Twitter, an outrageous, hysterical memoir of acting on impulse, plotting elaborate hoaxes, and refusing to acknowledge boundaries in any...
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Aurora
Kim Stanley RobinsonA major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, AURORA tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system.Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told,...
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amok
Sebastian FitzekThis was supposed to be the last day of her life. Renowned criminal psychologist Ira Samin can no longer bear the feelings of guilt inspired by her eldest daughter's death...
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Armada
Ernest ClineZack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he’s spent his life co...
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Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)
Terry PratchettA sourcerer is born in Discworld: a wizard so powerful that he makes all other magicians look like a bunch of fools in pointy hats. Now, suddenly, Discworld is brought...
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Redshirts
John ScalziEnsign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It’s a prestige posting, and Andrew is th...
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall MunroeFrom the creator of the wildly popular webcomic "xkcd" comes this hilarious and informative book of answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions of people visit...
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Written in the Blood (The String Diaries, #2)
Stephen Lloyd JonesThe new, enthralling supernatural thriller from Stephen Lloyd Jones, following his highly acclaimed debut THE STRING DIARIES.High in the mountains of the Swiss Alps Leah Wilde is about to...
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Allegiance: Star Wars
Timothy ZahnNever before has the incendiary mix of action, politics, and intrigue that has become Timothy Zahn’s trademark, been mmore evident that in this new Star Wars epic. On the he...
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Star Wars: Crucible
Troy DenningHan Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and Luke Skywalker return in an all-new Star Wars adventure, which will challenge them in ways they never expected—and forever alter their understanding of li...
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A Clockwork Orange
Anthony BurgessA vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by...
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Six Degrees of Assassination
M.J. ArlidgeOn a sullen, cloudy July day ten years since 7/7, the happy, confident and optimistic British Prime Minister is visiting a charity in East London. It's just two months after the...
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Mercy Kill (Star Wars: X-Wing, #10)
Aaron AllstonThe intrepid spies, pilots, and sharpshooters of Wraith Squadron are back in an all-new Star Wars adventure, which transpires just after the events of the Fate of the Jedi series! T...
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The Martian
Andy WeirSix days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first men to walk on the surface of Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first man to die there....
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The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
Lemony SnicketWritten by: Lemony SnicketNarrated by: Tim CurryLength: 2 hrs and 50 mins Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1Unabridged AudiobookRelease Date:06-07-05Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers LimitedI am sorry to tell...
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Zero Day
Mark E. RussinovichAn airliner’s controls abruptly fail mid-flight over the Atlantic. An oil tanker runs aground in Japan when its navigational system suddenly stops dead. Hospitals everywhere have to abandon their co...
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Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Invincible
Troy DenningNo war can last forever. Now, in the long and punishing battle between the defiant champions of the New Jedi Order and the juggernaut that is the Galactic Alliance, the...
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Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Revelation
Karen TravissDuring this savage civil war, all efforts to end Jacen Solo’s tyranny of the Galactic Alliance have failed. Now, with Jacen approaching the height of his dark powers, no on...
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Fury (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, #7)
Aaron AllstonFighting alongside the Corellian rebels, Han and Leia are locked in a war against their son Jacen, who grows more powerful and more dangerous with each passing day. Nothing can...
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Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Inferno
Troy DenningLuke Skywalker wanted to unify the Jedi order and bring peace to the universe. Instead his wife, Mara, lies dead at the hands of an unknown assassin, his wayward nephew...
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Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice: Book 5
Karen TravissCivil war rages as the Galactic Alliance–led by Cal Omas and the Jedi forces of Luke Skywalker–battles a confederation of breakaway planets that rally to the side of rebe...
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Exile (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, #4)
Aaron AllstonIn the Stars Wars galaxy, evil is on the move as the Galactic Alliance and Jedi order battle forces seen and unseen, from rampant internal treachery to the nightmare of...
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Mostly Harmless (Elite: Dangerous #8)
Kate RussellWritten by Kate Russell under official license from the creators of, and based in the vast universe of, the seminal space trading computer game Elite: Dangerous. Commander Angel Rose, forced...
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Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Tempest: Book 3
Troy DenningForty years after the Battle of Yavin a dangerous new era in the Star Wars epic begins–the revelations are shocking, the stakes desperate, and the enemy everywhere. As civil wa...
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Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines: Book 2
Karen TravissA new era of exciting adventures and shocking revelations continues to unfold, as the legendary Star Wars saga sweeps forward into astonishing new territory.Civil war looms as the fledgling...
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Betrayal (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, #1)
Aaron AllstonThis is the era of Luke Skywalker’s legacy: the Jedi Master has unified the order into a cohesive group of powerful Jedi Knights. But as the new era begins, pl...
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed CatmullFrom Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, the Academy Award–winning studio behind Inside Out and Toy Story, comes an incisive book about cr...
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David Jason: The Autobiography
David JasonThe long-awaited autobiography of one of Britain's best-loved actors.Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his early...
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Honor Among Thieves: Star Wars Legends
James S.A. CoreyNebula and Hugo Award nominees Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck—writing as James S. A. Corey—make their Star Wars debut in this brand-new epic adventure featuring Han Solo, Luke Skyw...
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Chris HadfieldColonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss...
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The String Diaries
Stephen Lloyd JonesA jumble of entries, written in different hands, different languages, and different times. They tell of a rumour. A shadow. A killer.The only interest that Oxford Professor Charles Meredith...
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A Dance with Dragons 1: Dreams and Dust (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5, Part 1 of 2)
George R.R. MartinIn the aftermath of a colossal battle, new threats are emerging from every direction.Tyrion Lannister, having killed his father, and wrongfully accused of killing his nephew, King Joffrey, has...
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Influx
Daniel SuarezWhat if our civilization is more advanced than we know?The New York Times bestselling author of Daemon imagines a world in which decades of technological advances have been suppressed...
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Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
Iain M. BanksThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for...
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Six Years
Harlan CobenSix years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career...
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max BrooksThe Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across...
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Kenobi: Star Wars
John Jackson MillerNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe Republic has fallen. Sith Lords rule the galaxy. Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi has lost everything . . . Everything but hope. Tatooine—a harsh desert world where farmers toil in...
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Fallen Heroes (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, #5)
Dafydd ab HughWhen a troop of alien warriors demands the return of an imprisoned comrade -- a prisoner no one on Deep Space NineTM knows anything about -- Commander Benjamin Sisko has...
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Pathways (Star Trek Voyager)
Jeri TaylorIn her acclaimed novel Mosaic, Jeri Taylor explored the previously unrevealed past of Captain Kathryn Janeway. Now, Pathways traces the winding roads that have led Janeway's fellow officers and closest...
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Death Troopers
Joe SchreiberWhen the Imperial prison barge Purge–temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves–breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space,...
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The Last Command (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #3)
Timothy ZahnThe embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnants of the Imperial forces and driven the Rebels back with an abominable technology recovered...
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Dark Force Rising (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #2)
Timothy ZahnThe dying Empire's most cunning and ruthless warlord—Grand Admiral Thrawn—has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New Repu...
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Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
Timothy ZahnAlternate Cover Edition can be found here.It is a time of renewal, five years after the destruction of the Death Star and the defeat of Darth Vader and the...
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Kill Decision
Daniel SuarezUnmanned weaponized drones already exist—they’re widely used by America in our war efforts in the Middle East. In Kill Decision, bestselling author Daniel Suarez takes that fact and the...
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A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
George R.R. MartinThe Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne.The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. The...
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Snow Crash
Neal StephensonOnly once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison - a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson...
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A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3, Part 2 of 2)
George R.R. MartinThe Starks are scattered.Robb Stark may be King in the North, but he must bend to the will of the old tyrant Walder Frey if he is to hold...
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Mort (Discworld, #4)
Terry PratchettDeath comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job.Henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an...
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A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3.1)
George R.R. MartinWinter approaches Westeros like an angry beast.The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud. In the northern wastes, a horde of hungry, savage people steeped in the...
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Equal Rites (Discworld, #3)
Terry PratchettEqual Rites is the third in Terry Pratchett's phenomenally successful Discworld series. The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was...
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The Light Fantastic (Discworld #2)
Terry Pratchett'What shall we do?' said Twoflower.'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival.When the very fabric of time and...
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A World Out of Time (State Series, Book 1)
Larry Niven[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]A terrific ride through time and space--and into unimaginable peril!After more than two hundred years as a corpsicle, Jaybee...
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Star Wars: Millennium Falcon
James LucenoTwo years have passed since Jacen Solo, seduced by the dark side and reanointed as the brutal Sith Lord Darth Caedus, died at the hands of his twin sister, Jaina,...
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The Ringworld Engineers (Ringworld Series, Book 2)(Library Edition)
Larry Niven[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.]An ALA Best Book for Young Adults[Read by Paul Michael Garcia]It's been twenty years since the quixotic and...
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Steve Jobs
Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson's worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family...
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Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)
Larry NivenWelcome to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. Ninety-three million miles in radius - the equivalent of one Earth orbit or 600 miles long - 1,000 meters thick, and...
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Ready Player One
Ernest ClineIt's the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS,...
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Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Michael J. FoxThere are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about...
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Diamond Tears
Victoria HarazimKain is a troubled young man, lead astray by the death of his parents at an early age.Now one of the world's most formidable contract killers he sits comfortably...
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Stephen Fry Does The Knowledge
Stephen FryStephen Fry presents this intriguing programme charting the history of knowledge, how technology changes our relationship with it, and how we know what we know.Knowledge. The Google generation thinks...
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A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
George R.R. MartinA comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are...
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
George R.R. MartinLong ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing....
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Lightning
Dean KoontzThe first time the lightning strikes Laura Shane is born...The second time it strikes the terror starts... though eight-year-old Laura is saved by a mysterious stranger from the perverted...
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
J.R.R. TolkienIn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry,...
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Moon
James HerbertHe had fled from the terrors of his past, finding refuge in the quietness of the island. And for a time he lived in peace. Until the sightings began, visions...
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Nerd Do Well: A Small Boys Journey to Becoming a Big Kid
Simon PeggThe unique life story of one of the most talented and inventive comedians, star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Star Trek.Zombies in North London, death cults...
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The Mote in God's Eye
Larry NivenIn 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson Drive. Intelligent beings are finally found from the Mote, an isolated star in a thick...
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The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
Stephen FryThirteen years ago, Moab Is My Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge best seller. In the years since, Stephen...
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METAtropolis: Cascadia
Jay LakeIt's the 2070s. The United States is no longer united, and the breakaway territory of Cascadia in the Pacific Northwest has created its own myths and realities. In this sequel...
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Strangers
Dean Koontz“The plot twists ingeniously...an engaging, often chilling book.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA writer in California. A doctor in Boston. A motel owner and his employee in Nevada. A prie...
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
Stieg LarssonThe stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling trilogy.Lisbeth Salander - the heart of Larsson's two previous novels - lies in critical condition, a bullet wound...
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Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)
Daniel SuarezThe propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon, the "Greatest. Techno-thriller. Period."**William O'Brien, former director of cybersecurity and communications systems policy at the White House2009 saw...
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Daemon (Daemon, #1)
Daniel SuarezTechnology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of...
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The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium #2)
Stieg LarssonThe ExposeMillenium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging...
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Lucifer's Hammer
Larry NivenThe gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into...
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)
Stieg LarssonHarriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mi...
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey NeffeneggerNew York Times BestsellerToday Show Book Club SelectionAudrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who...
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Humble Pie
Gordon RamsayEveryone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his real story! This is Gordon Ramsay's autobiography -- the first time...
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The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
Ben MezrichThe high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard...
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Under the Dome
Stephen KingUnder the Dome is the story of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine which is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible...
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The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time
David A. ViseMoscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, "change the world" through a powerful search engine that would...
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Dear Fatty
Dawn FrenchDawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, wtih a career that has spanned nearly three decades, encompassing a vast and brilliant array of characters. Loved...
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The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
Alistair UrquhartAlistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he...
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Losing My Virginity
Richard BransonThis is the bestselling autobiography of iconic entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, featuring his take on his latest business ventures, personal achievements and intrepid adventures. You’ll discover how Sir Richard is...
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Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf, #1)
Grant Naylor8 hours, 15 minutesNominated for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2008.When Lister got drunk, he really got drunk!After celebrating his birthday with a Monopoly-board pub crawl around London, he came...
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The Colour of Magic (Discworld, #1)
Terry PratchettAlternate Cover Editions can be found here, and hereOn a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's...
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Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur
Richard BransonThe biggest business publication of 2009 — Branson's business secrets now in paperback.In Business Stripped Bare , Sir Richard Branson shares the inside track on his life in business and reveals the in...
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The Hippopotamus
Stephen Fry"I’ve suffered for my art, now it’s your turn.” So begins the tale of Ted Wallace, unaffectionately known as the Hippopotamus. Failed poet, failed theater critic, failed father and hu...
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Moab Is My Washpot
Stephen FryMoab is my Washpot is in turns funny, shocking, tender, delicious, sad, lyrical, bruisingly frank and addictively readable.Stephen Fry's bestselling memoir tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles...
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Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
Alan AldaA memoir by one of the most acclaimed actors of our time. alda seems defined more by his struggles, intellectual pursuits and general sense of wonder than by fame or...
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iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
Jeffrey S. YoungLightning never strikes twice, but Steve Jobs has, transforming modern culture first with the Macintosh and the iPod. He is the most interesting character of the digital age. This book...
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iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
Steve WozniakThe mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand...
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned
Alan AldaHe’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting...
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
Douglas AdamsAt last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"Seconds before the Earth is demolished...
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Macbeth
William ShakespeareOne night on the heath, the brave and respected general Macbeth encounters three witches who foretell that he will become king of Scotland. At first sceptical, he’s urged on by...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
Mildred D. TaylorWhy is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white gi...
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The Road Ahead
Bill GatesThe pioneering founder of Microsoft presents a visionary, jargon-free look at how the tools and emerging technologies of the future--especially the "Information Highway"--will transform the way we live and...
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Delta-v (Delta-v, #1)
Daniel SuarezWhen itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a mistake. But Tighe's unique skill set makes him a...