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In South Africa, the future looks promising. In the bustling coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming, thanks to the genetic engineering industry, which has found a welcome home there. But, there are significant challenges to overcome. It's up to a young Zulu girl powerful enough to destroy her entire township, a queer teen plagued with the ability to control minds, a pop diva with serious daddy issues, and a politician with even more serious mommy issues to band together to ensure there's a future left to worry about.

Getting to know your father after sixteen years of estrangement doesn't happen on one road trip. But as Tal spends more time with Julian and his family, she begins to untangle her parents' secret past, and discovers a part of herself she never recognized before.

Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. When the autopsy of Matilda's sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death and her mother's suicide some quarter-century before, Aster retraces her mother's footsteps. There may be a way off the ship--if she's willing to fight for it.

A good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers fight for galactic freedom.

Cordelia Vorkosigan stands ready to spin her life in a new direction, and Oliver Jole finds himself caught up in her web of plans. Wills and expectations collide in this sparkling science fiction social comedy, as the impact of galactic technology on the range of the possible changes all the old rules.

There are six left. They're in hiding ... but their legacies are developing, and soon they'll be equipped to fight. They caught Number One, Number Two, and Number Three. They tried to catch Number Four--and failed. Number Seven is ready to fight.

Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad. As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land.

Joey Harker never wanted to be a leader. But he's the one everyone is looking to now that FrostNight looms, and he'll have to step up if he has any hope of saving InterWorld, the Multiverse, and everything in between.

In an effort to eradicate humans, a race of intelligent ants is transforming surface animals into high-functioning two-legged killers. Former house cat turned war hero Mort(e) begins a journey that will take him from the remaining human strongholds to the heart of the Colony.

This collection includes all three novels in the epic Southern Reach trilogy. Dive into the mysteries of Area X, a remote and lush terrain that has inexplicably sequestered itself from civilization. Twelve expeditions have gone in, and not a single member of any of them has remained unchanged by the experience, for better or worse.