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In the race to save one of their own, Sigma Force must wrestle with the deepest spiritual mysteries of mankind in this mind-expanding adventure from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, told with his trademark blend of cutting edge science, historical mystery, and pulse-pounding action. Arriving home on Christmas Eve, Commander Gray Pierce discovers his house ransacked, his pregnant lover missing, and his best friend's wife, Kat, unconscious on the kitchen floor.

Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name-and spawned a new genre, the technothriller-the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.

Eva and the Padre must risk their lives to rebel against one creature's well-intended quest: the annihilation of her own kind.

Hot-headed pilot Janlin Kavanagh volunteers for a desperate mission with an untested jumpship prototype.

** IBBY Canada 2022 Honor List ** Dans un monde ravagé qui court à sa perte, les êtres humains ont perdu la capacité de rêver. Seuls les peuples autochtones ont su préserver cette faculté dont le secret réside dans la moelle de leurs os. Frenchie, un jeune Métis, fuit la ville pour échapper aux hommes désespérés qui traquent les Autochtones comme des animaux afin d’obtenir la précieuse substance. Déjà, sa famille est tombée entre leurs mains. Aux côtés de ses compagnons de voyage, il progresse vers le nord pour gagner la terre de ses ancêtres et assurer la survie des siens.

Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this dramatically popular book. George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police, a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities- will and people live tepid lives by rote. Winston Smith, the hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death, he knows there is no hope for him.

On a Caribbean island, we meet Felix Hoenikker, a physicist and one of the fathers of the atomic bomb. He makes another discovery, that of "ice-nine" a substance that can turn the whole world into a block of ice.

A collection of short stories by the acclaimed science fiction writer.

The stunning sequel to Maria Dahvana Headley's critically acclaimed Magonia tells the story of one girl who must make an impossible choice between two families, two homes-and two versions of herself. Aza Ray is back on earth. Her boyfriend, Jason, is overjoyed. Her family is healed. She's living a normal life, or as normal as it can be if you've spent the past year dying, waking up on a sky ship, and discovering that your song can change the world. As in, not normal. Part of Aza still yearns for the clouds, no matter how much she loves the people on the ground.

Don't leave Earth without this hilarious international bestseller about the end of the world and the happy-go-lucky days that follow ... about the worst Thursday that ever happened and why the Universe is a lot safer if you bring a towel.