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81) Counterweight
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 160 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company's monomaniacal endeavor to build the world's first space elevator--from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown. On the fictional island of Patusan--and much to the ire of the Patusan natives--the Korean conglomerate...
82) Bone music
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Rowe spent the first seven years of her life in the hands of the only parents she knew--a pair of serial killers who murdered her mother and tried to shape Charlotte in their own twisted image. If only the nightmare had ended when she was rescued. Instead, her real father exploited her tabloid-ready story for fame and profit--until Charlotte finally broke free from her ghoulish past and fled. Just when she thinks she has buried her personal...
Author
Series
Dirty money novel volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 256 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After tragedy strikes, Shane hovers on the edge of being consumed by darkness. He will fight for the woman he loves. He will destroy his enemy. He will not back down. As shocking twists, dark secrets, and explosive betrayals within the Brandon family come to the light, Shane must fight harder than ever before. Every thread weaves a dangerous web. Emily and Derek. Brandon Senior. Maggie and her affair. The leader of the dangerous cartel who's wedged...
85) The hollow dead
Author
Series
Gravekeeper volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Keira first woke alone in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: that she could speak with the dead, helping them move on from the mortal world, and that sinister mask-wearing men were hunting her. She had no idea what she'd done to earn their hatred or what dangerous secrets she may have uncovered. Until now. Peeling back layer upon layer of the mystery surrounding her origins, Keira has finally learned that the strange masked men...
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that just might be in reach. On a warm March night in 2083,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A college grad with the six-figure debt to prove it, Ethan Block views San Francisco as the place to be. Yet his job at hot new dating app DateDate is a far cry from what he envisioned. Instead of making the world a better place, he reviews flagged photo queues, overworked and stressed out. But that's about to change. Reeling from a breakup, Ethan decides to view his algorithmically matched soulmate on DateDate. He overrides the system and clicks...
Author
Series
8th continent volume 4
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016].
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rick and Evie Lane have finally built their dream city on the 8th continent. But the Lanes soon find out that Mastercorp doesn't give up quite so easily. The totally terrifying corporation has a few nasty tricks up its top-secret sleeves, including a weapon with astonishing powers -- and eight tentacles. Now it's Lanes vs. Mastercorp in an all-out war that will take Rick and Evie from the murkiest depths of the ocean to the steamiest parts of the...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Three thirty-somethings band together and form "Dear Diary," an underground organization aimed at fighting "The Committee," an international group of industrialists and media moguls who want to privatize all online information.
90) Run: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marc Bowman is an in-demand hired gun, a computer consultant for AmeriTel, the huge technical corporation where his wife Carolyn happens to work as a high-powered executive. Then, one morning, AmeriTel unceremoniously fires Marc with no notice and no cause. Furious, Marc turns to Carolyn for an explanation--and is stunned when she sides with her employer. Suddenly, things are happening in Marc's life that he can't explain; strange men are following...
Author
Series
Corporation wars volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ken MacLeod concludes the Corporation Wars trilogy in this action-packed science fiction adventure told against a backdrop of interstellar drone warfare, virtual reality, and an A.I. revolution. The enemy is out in the open. The Reaction has seized control of a resource-rich moon. Now it's enslaving conscious robots and luring the Corporations into lucrative deals. Taransay is out in the jungle. Her friends are inside a smart boulder on the slope...
Author
Series
Dirty money novel volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 285 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shane Brandon has been pushed to the brink, torn between his corrupt family and his explosive, all-consuming desire for Emily Stevens, who he now knows is not who, and what, she seems. Has he trusted the wrong person? Will she, not his brother Derek, be the ultimate destruction of his family Empire. Emily tries to run from Shane, but he will stop her, confront her, force her to reveal all--one hot touch and kiss, at a time--under every intimate detail...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ken MacLeod continues the Corporation Wars trilogy in this action-packed science fiction adventure told against a backdrop of interstellar drone warfare, virtual reality, and an A.I. revolution. And the ultimate pay-off is DH-17, an Earth-like planet hundreds of light years from human habitation. Ruthless corporations vie over the prize remotely, and war is in full swing. But soldiers recruited to fight in the extremities of deep space come with their...
95) Firebreak
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side....
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (584 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Leverage follows a team of expert thieves that take down corrupt corporations in elaborate high-tech schemes. Insurance investigator Nate Ford exposed scams and recovered stolen items worth millions. But his life hit the skids when his insurance company allowed his ailing 8-year-old son to die. Years later, Nate gets even as the leader of a specialized team of thieves, computer experts and con artists that right corporate and governmental injustices...
99) Blood echo
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped and raised by serial killers, Charlotte Rowe suffered an ordeal that made her infamous. Everyone in the world knew who she was. But no one in the world has any idea what she's become... Charlotte is an experiment. And a weapon. Enabled by a superpower drug, she's partnered with a shadowy pharmaceutical company to hunt down and eliminate society's most depraved human predators. But her latest mission goes off the rails in a horrifying way....
100) War, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Turaqistan is a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. vice-president. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show producer in order to pull off his current hit. He has to do all this while maintaining his...