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On the wild Oregon coast, tucked between the mountains and the sea, stands Siren Song, home to a group of women known as The Colony. Their aunt hoped the isolated lodge would be a sanctuary, a place where she could protect them and their special gifts. But nowhere is safe from the man who has marked them for death. The note pinned to the dead body found on the remote beach has no name, just Ravinia Rutledge's phone number and the words Next of Kin....
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Eight months into a surrogate pregnancy for her sister, Kristina, Detective Savannah Dunbar just wants to wrap up paperwork before taking medical leave. But her department's investigation into a brutal double homicide has suddenly become much more complex--and personal. And now there are disturbing rumors about a place known as the Colony, its matriarch, and a long history of bitter secrets.
3) Revolution
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The only way sixteen-year-old Aine and his true Other Kyer can be together is to escape the Colony with its Code, its pills, and its constant monitoring. Breaking out of the Colony was hard enough, but living outside of its protective walls proves to be even harder. The boys have been raised to believe all life outside the Colony was destroyed by the last war. However, Aine soon discovers this is a lie. On their first day of freedom, they meet Sinda,...
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If a utopian colony really exists fathoms below the surface of the Pacific ocean, could it be a place for Cynthia to escape her hellish life in 22nd century America?
It's 2130, the air is full of choking smog and radiation, and former solider Cynthia spends her days (and nights) in a lonely office slaving away as a corporate lawyer for the Alliance, a combination government and business organization that runs most of the world. When she stumbles into...
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In the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay stands a mysterious lodge. Some call it the Colony; others whisper that it's a cult. To the women who live there, it's a refuge. But a killer knows their secrets - and will make sure they never feel safe again . . .
WICKED GAME
Twenty years after Becca Hudson's friend, Jessie, vanished from St. Elizabeth's high school, a body is unearthed on school grounds. Far from solving the mystery, the discovery...
6) Singularity
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Elise is one of the first generation of settlers on humankind's first interstellar colony on Gliese 832(c). Forced evolution has put her society in a place where digital and physical realities are nearly indistinct. Yet, after encountering refugees from another settlement, Elise finds herself questioning the comfort she has known. She sets out on an adventure entangling her with both one of the youngest people in the new world and an old enemy.
7) Rebellion
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Sixteen year old Aine lives in the Colony, and his whole life was decided before he was born. In two years he will marry the girl next door, Brin, who was assigned as his Other at birth. Then he will be given a position in the Colony's workforce that best suits his talents. Each night he takes four pills, like everyone else in the Colony, and he knows the pills keep them safe and their world in order. Everything is fine. Perfect, in fact. Until Aine...
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Los vampiros existen entre nosotros.
Pueden ser tu vecino, tu mejor amigo, el maestro de tu hijo, ...
Alteran su apariencia envejecida en función de la cantidad de sangre que consumen. Se mudan a una nueva zona, beben mucha sangre y parecen jóvenes.
Lentamente limitan la ingesta de sangre y la edad, justo frente a nuestros ojos desprevenidos. Después de décadas, fingen su muerte, se mueven y lo hacen una y otra vez.
La mayoría vive...
9) Colony
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A much hyped television program encourages the world to select volunteers by popular vote to colonize an alien world. A breakneck paced space program will choose a final destination midflight. A miscalculation forces the ship's only conscious crew member to take drastic action to avoid disaster, placing the care for the one thousand human lives in the hands of a machine intelligence not meant for the job. Too far from home for radio contact, with...
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This collection combines both books in J. Tomas's successful gay dystopian YA romance, The Colony:Rebellion: In the Colony, Aine's life was decided at birth. The girl next door is his Other, whom he will marry one day. As long as he continues to take his pills, life will be good and he will be safe. But when he accidentally drops one, he learns he has feelings for Kyer, his best friend. Another boy. Revolution: Aine and Kyer escaped the Colony, but...
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She is the descendant of a powerful bloodline, destined to wed another. He is a loyal pack member, fated to serve, Shay Mallory knows nothing of her shifter heritage. The strange auras and voices were only scary stories whispered by her father before he disappeared. What she does know is that something has always been missing in her life. So when Jason Stratton, a compelling stranger, comes to town, offering her protection and something more, Shay...
12) Phylogeny
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Guy Moon is a pirate given a second chance. He is exiled to a paradise colony world sixteen light-years away with ten million other souls. While they slept, time moved on. The machines meant to serve them are now in charge. While the machines seem bengin, they pressure the new arrivals by stages to join a bizarre hive mind. As old friends slip away, Guy discovers allies to overthrow their machine masters and reclaim their world.
13) First Contact
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Located on the western coast of Africa, the nation of Mauritania has a deep history stretching back as far as the pharaohs of Egypt. Yet, something new is happening in the Saharan nation. Something extraordinary.
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When her boss saddles her with the task of planning a suitable celebration for the Colony's one-year anniversary, Rana settles for an ancient American tradition: Thanksgiving. There's just one problem…what's a turkey, and where can she get one?Byron fled Earth in the wake of tragedy. Now, he will do anything to protect his new farm in space – including fight aliens. No matter how attractive they might be.Can a cowboy and an alien set aside their...
16) Quant
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SOME UNEXPECTED HELP WITH THE SINGLE-PLANET PROBLEM
Billionaire industrialist Ted Burke understands that humanity has always balanced on the edge of a knife. A single planetary cataclysm could wipe out the human race. As long as humanity only occupies one planet, the danger exists.
Computer genius Bernd Decker understands it, too. Together, Burke and Decker come up with a daring plan to send human colonies out to multiple other planets. Not least...
17) Arcadia
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THEY WERE ON THEIR OWN
In September 2245, the artificial intelligence known as Janice Quant dropped 100,000 colonists and their supplies in the subtropical zone of the planet they named Arcadia.
One of the colonist groups was the Chen-Jasic group, composed of thirty-one American suburbanites and thirty-one Chinese peasants. They formed an alliance, then solidified it into a family, acting in the best interests of the group.
The Chen-Jasic family...
18) Galactic Survey
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They found Hyperspace. Now what?
Chen JieMin hypothesized the existence of hyperspace. The government of Arcadia put a project together to build a hyperspace probe. Chen ChaoLi managed the project to build a successful probe and transition it there and back.
But hyperspace is still just a curiosity, no more. Unless they can figure out a means of propulsion in hyperspace, it is a purely academic exercise.
Even with a means of propulsion, Where will...
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Just when Alya's life couldn't get any more complicated, there's a serial killer on the moon. And he's only killing Geeps.
Can Alya keep her secret and still protect her friends?
And who is the shadowy figure killing off anyone with mutated genes? Could it be someone Alya knows?
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Iva's family forced her to join the Colony, to keep her apart from the man she'd fallen in love with. What they didn't know was that he was going to the Colony, too…But when Iva wakes up from stasis, there's no sign of him. With the help of the Intergalactic Dating Agency, she hopes to find him…only to be kidnapped by an alien.An alien who wants her to pretend to be his wife, or he'll get kicked out of the Colony.Iva doesn't mind a bit of role...
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