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"When mankind's attempts to control nature backfire, Texas descends into a wasteland. Storms rage and ravenous beasts roam the Outer Grid. The only safe havens rest inside the tech-obsessed domed cities. But when her parents are murdered inside the Plex City dome, seventeen-year-old Juniper Conway wants revenge. Ties to her extended family threaten to pull her back as she runs from city to city. The Plex is endangering its citizens by legalizing a...
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Movie Time Video
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Hindi
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"The Song of Scorpions" narrates the journey of Nooran, a tribal woman, who learns the art of scorpion singing from her grandmother Zubaida. Despite facing tragedy and rejection from her village, Nooran receives a marriage proposal from Aadam (Irrfan Khan), a camel trader who admires her voice. However, her marriage is soon marred by another unfortunate event, prompting Nooran to seek vengeance for the wrongs done to her.
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Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"Laura está en peligro: algo siniestro la acosa desde su pasado. Y no puede saber si existe o no porque su mente difumina los contornos de la realidad, invadida por alucinaciones constantes que la envuelven como una telaraña. En compañía de Julián y Alejandro, dos pacientes de las sesiones de terapia a las que ella también asiste para tratar su patología, Laura luchará por escapar de ese peligro que cada vez va haciéndose más real. Con la...
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Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon's The Deep in this high-octane post-climate disaster novella written by Nommo Award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa Off the coast of West Africa, decades after the dangerous rise of the Atlantic Ocean, the region's survivors live inside five partially submerged, kilometers-high towers originally created as a playground for the wealthy. Now the towers' most affluent rule...
6) The outfit
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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"You know how it is. You hit us. We hit you." Career thief Earl Macklin pays no mind to the mobster's threat. He intends to put a big hurt on an L.A crime outfit. He, his girlfriend, and his partner will avenge the murder of Macklin's brother by cutting down gangland operations bit by violent bit.
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Lock Down Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"In the streets there are many savages, but the man known as 40 is unlike any other. 40 is cool headed but beastly and after coming home from a stint in jail and finding out that Skalez, his childhood friend has been brutally murdered, 40 is in full goon mode as he searches for the identity of his homie's killer. While 40 was away, BJ, a young hitta has taken Newport, Virginia by surprise. The audacious baby-faced drug dealer is making power moves...
8) First light
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Night's edge (Kerin) volume 2
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"It's been nine months since the catastrophe in Tucson sent Mia fleeing from her home. But she's not running away from the darkness--she's running toward it, obsessively pursuing the man who gave her mother a thirst for blood and destroyed their lives. But when Mia finds the monsters she's been hunting and infiltrates a secret network of fugitives, she discovers she might have been their prey all along. To escape their clutches, she'll have to reckon...
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Datura
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Unlicensed P.I. Billie Levine is trying to bank some extra cash, so she picks up hours working as a process server for another investigative firm. Mindless and mostly 9 to 5, Billie is content to simply hand over court documents until during a routine stakeout, she stumbles upon the corpse of an elderly man, an art collector with ties to Nazi Germany. Compared to Billie, the dead man has it easy. Billie is feeling on edge lately. Maybe it's because...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Whitney knows what death looks like. Since she was seven, she's seen it hover over strangers' heads in dark, rippling clouds. Sometimes she can save people from the darkness. Sometimes she can't. But she's never questioned if she should try. Until the unthinkable happens--and a person she saves becomes the perpetrator of a horrific school shooting. Now Whitney will do anything to escape the memory of last year's tragedy and the guilt that gnaws at...
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Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Eighteen-year-old Jerusalem, a fearless Saint with demigod powers, joins the Union Army seeking revenge against the vampire who enslaved her family, but in order to find success, she finds herself reluctantly teaming up with Alexei, a handsome Union vampire she can't help but fall for.
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Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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To keep the devil at bay, her beauty-obsessed kingdom sacrifices unattractive children to hell's entrance every season, prompting plain, poor, plus-sized, autistic Alesta to travel to the very depths of hell to avenge her best friend's death and stop the sacrifices forever.
"Plain, poor, plus-size, and autistic, Alesta grew up trying to convince her beauty-obsessed kingdom that she's too useful to be sacrificed. Their god blessed their island Soladisa...