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Ciara Fay makes a split second decision to leave her marriage, driving away with her daughters and nowhere safe to land.
Nesting
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Contemporary Fiction
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Ciara Fay makes a split second decision to leave her marriage, driving away with her daughters and nowhere safe to land. As she navigates fear, doubt, and a fragile new community, she must learn to trust her own reality. A tense, compassionate debut by Roisín O’Donnell about emotional abuse, resilience, and choosing freedom. Longlisted for the Women’s Prize.
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In this beautiful, urgent, and ultimately uplifting novel by a rising Irish literary star comes a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over. On a bright spring afternoon, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes off the clothesline, she straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that home is no longer safe—and that this time, when she leaves, she must stay away. On the surface, she has a perfect life: her sometimes kind and attentive husband, Ryan, is a good provider from a nice family, and they have another baby on the way. But he also monitors Ciara's every move, flies into unpredictable rages where he convinces her she can do nothing right, and has isolated her from work, friends, and her beloved family. Was fleeing the right thing to do? With no job and no support, Ciara struggles to provide a sense of normalcy for her little girls. Facing a broken housing system, they move into a hotel room on a floor reserved for women like her, eating takeout, washing their clothes in the bathroom sink, and building a community with the other residents. Ryan, meanwhile, wages a relentless campaign to win her back, and Ciara wavers. He never hit her, after all, and don't the girls need a stable home? Suspenseful and all-consuming, Roisín O'Donnell’s extraordinary debut creates a devastating portrait of gaslighting and emotional abuse. Ultimately, Nesting is a triumphant story about self-determination, family, and resilience. Longlisted for the Women's Prize • An Instant Bestseller in Ireland and the UK
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Murdered at the altar, a fallen princess strikes a dangerous bargain with the god of death.
The Deathless One
Romantasy
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Murdered at the altar, a fallen princess strikes a dangerous bargain with the god of death. Revenge, resurrection, and forbidden desire collide as loyalty to her people wars with temptation. The Deathless One blends dark fantasy and romance with mythic stakes. An Instant USA TODAY bestseller with 4.3 stars on Amazon and nearly 3,000 Goodreads ratings.
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Former soldier Lax VanDunn wants nothing more to do with the empire that bought him as a child and shaped him into a weapon.
Starship Salvager
Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Former soldier Lax VanDunn wants nothing more to do with the empire that bought him as a child and shaped him into a weapon. Salvaging abandoned spacecraft offers a rough kind of freedom—until an ancient warship turns up carrying a secret that could break the Paragon empire’s grip on the galaxy. Expect military space opera, a high-stakes salvage mission, and one extremely reluctant hero.
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War rages between the stars. A ruthless empire crushes all resistance. And one ex-soldier will decide the fate of humanity…
The Paragon empire reduces cities to dust and devastates entire planets. Independent star systems fall one by one… until none remain. Fear keeps the population obedient, but rebels and outlaws hide in the shadows.
After decades of fighting, Lax VanDunn is free. Sold to the Paragon military as a child and shaped into a perfect soldier, war is the only life he’s ever known. When he’s released from the army at last, he swears he’s never going back.
Now, Lax works as a salvager, raiding abandoned spacecraft. When an ancient warship is discovered floating in deep space, Lax realizes it contains a priceless secret that could shatter the Paragon’s grip on the galaxy.
Lax never wanted to be a hero. But the Paragon took everything from him—and now he has a chance to strike back. Can he plan an impossible heist, and lead an inexperienced crew through the ship’s lethal defences? Or will the Paragon snatch away his prize—and humanity’s last chance of freedom?
An absolutely thrilling science-fiction adventure of tension, intrigue and hard-hitting action, Starship Salvager is perfect for fans of James S.A. Corey, Marko Kloos and Craig Alanson.
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Good for readers who like military space opera with alien relics, underdog rebellions, family-driven stakes, and a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,400 Amazon reviewers.
Buried Starship
Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Buried Starship follows veteran Marine Jace Hawthorne as he smuggles outlawed medical tech under alien Overlord rule, only to uncover ancient technology that could challenge their empire after his family is imprisoned. Good for readers who like military space opera with alien relics, underdog rebellions, family-driven stakes, and a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,400 Amazon reviewers.
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Some ships are meant to stay buried.
Veteran Marine Jace Hawthorne thought his warfighting days were over when humanity fell to the alien Overlords.
Now he smuggles outlawed medical tech under the Overlords’ oppressive rule, doing whatever it takes to keep his family safe and alive. But when a routine job leads him to a remote space station blasted to ruins, Jace uncovers a secret the Overlords tried to erase after the war: evidence of ancient alien technology powerful enough to challenge their empire.
The Overlords move fast. His family is imprisoned. Jace is marked for elimination.
Hunted across the stars, Jace follows a trail of shattered clues to a long-buried starship with unimaginable power—a dangerous alien relic from a forgotten war. A ship that could change everything.
To save his family—and humanity’s future—Jace must choose:
keep running… or risk everything to awaken what was meant to stay buried.
He knows one thing for certain. The Overlords messed with the wrong Marine.
Buried Starship is the explosive first book in the Shadow of War series. If you love military space opera with mysterious spaceships, alien technology, underdog rebellions, and heroes forged in the fires of war, you’ll be riveted by this tale of humanity’s fight for survival—perfect for fans of J.N. Chaney, M.R. Forbes, and Red Rising.
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Desperate to escape a dead end life, Ryck Lysander enlists in the Federation Marine Corps and discovers the uniform demands everything he has.
Federation Marine: Recruit
Sci-Fi · Galactic Empire · Military Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Desperate to escape a dead end life, Ryck Lysander enlists in the Federation Marine Corps and discovers the uniform demands everything he has. Brutal training pushes him past his limits as failure carries a deadly cost. A grounded military science fiction origin story about discipline, sacrifice, and earning a place among the stars by Jonathan P. Brazee.
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Previously published as “United Federation Marine Corps”, now updated and re-edited.
What would you do to change your life? How far would you go? How hard would you fight?
Rather than work his bones into dust toiling away on a barren world, Ryck Lysander chooses to enlist in the Federation Marine Corps.
But as he quickly finds out, this path isn't just a job. . . it's a calling. . . and not everyone is suited to wear the uniform.
Like millions before him, Ryck will need to develop discipline, endurance, and strength as he’s pushed to the very limit of what he can do, all to earn his ticket off a baren world and into the stars.
But the price of failure won't just mean going home to work the dirt fields. . . it could cost him his very life.
The time to stand is now, and Ryck will need every ounce of willpower to become what the galaxy needs. . .
He must become a Federation Marine.
From USA Today Bestseller Jonathan P. Brazee comes an epic military scifi series that is sure to draw you in and never let go. If you're a fan of Sentenced to War, Old Man's War, or Starship Troopers, this is the series for you.
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A good pick for readers who like space mysteries, missing expeditions, wormhole travel, and ensemble science fiction.
Ethos
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Three centuries after Earth’s first interstellar expedition vanished, its colony ship reappears near Saturn with no crew aboard, sending Captain Calvin Brooks and a new team back through the Link to search for the lost Ethos colony, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,700 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like space mysteries, missing expeditions, wormhole travel, and ensemble science fiction.
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Ethos was mankind’s greatest hope. Until the Link closed.
On the 300th anniversary of Earth’s first expedition to another solar system, the original colony ship miraculously appears near Saturn. But the crew of Excursion One is nowhere to be found. All that’s left is a broken android, and a string of clues.
Captain Calvin Brooks, a hero from the Solar Wars, spends his days trying to forget the past on Link Station, until he’s thrust into danger when he’s asked to pilot the decayed ship back through the wormhole to search for the Ethos colony.
Jane Vanderbilt is the world’s most renowned historian on the revamped Excursion One mission, and her connection to the crew runs deep. Jane is added to the team by a mysterious astrophysicist, loyal to the Diplomats.
Luke Dalton is haunted by tragedy. He works the mines on Mars, while the loss of his family constantly weighs on him. The Deniers have other plans. Luke’s enlisted for duty by the Diplomat’s enemy. His mission: learn what really happened on Ethos.
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When crystalline warships overwhelm humanity’s defenses, Colonel Mateo Larra must hold a fragile trans galactic base against an enemy that consumes entire civilizations.
Forward Command
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Military Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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When crystalline warships overwhelm humanity’s defenses, Colonel Mateo Larra must hold a fragile trans galactic base against an enemy that consumes entire civilizations. With untested pilots, hidden spies, and an unstoppable living force advancing, survival rests on strategy and resolve. A high intensity military science fiction thriller where one station stands between humanity and extinction.
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Eighty missiles. Twelve get through. Barely a scratch.
When crystalline warships emerge from nowhere above Joint Base Sagittarius Arch, Colonel Mateo Larra discovers humanity’s weapons are nearly useless. The Kin’s living vessels absorb punishment that would vaporize a battleship, while their energy weapons carve through Coalition shields like tissue paper.
But the Kin are just slaves to something far deadlier… the Home, a moon-sized organism that has devoured civilizations for millennia. It doesn’t want resources or territory.
It wants biological material.
Outgunned and isolated in a hostile galaxy, Larra must defend humanity’s first trans-galactic base with whatever he has: untested pilots, civilian volunteers, and a sheer stubborn refusal to die. While mysterious six-armed aliens watch from the shadows and League spies work within, the Colonel faces an enemy that has never known defeat.
One space station. One wormhole. One chance to stop an unstoppable force.
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A failed expedition in Antarctica sends disgraced scientist Alexander Hawke through a hidden gateway to the stars.
The First Peacemaker
Sci-Fi · Galactic Empire · Space Opera
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A failed expedition in Antarctica sends disgraced scientist Alexander Hawke through a hidden gateway to the stars. Recruited into an alien civil war where nothing is what it seems, Alexander must rely on wit and nerve to survive. A high concept science fiction adventure where saving a strange new world may be his only way home.
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Deep inside Antarctica lies a mystery. The forgotten pathway to the stars.
Rejected scientist Alexander Hawke is down to his last chance. Brilliant but sheltered, every banker in New York has refused to finance his ideas.
Enter the Russian—charming, dangerous, and offering an Antarctic expedition that promises answers to all of his questions.
Now, Alexander stands at the edge of a bottomless chasm. With a helpful shove from his foreign benefactor, he plunges into adventure.
Landing in darkness, Alexander finds a portal to destiny—weirder than New York, colder than Russia, and filled with the ruins of an empire that once spanned the galaxy.
Armed with his wits, he’ll set forth on the journey of a lifetime, recruited by aliens for a civil war in which the good side is bad, the bad side is good, and somehow, Alexander ends up square in the middle.
And his only way home is to save the world.
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A phone number in an old comic book pulls Mark Allen out of an arcade and into an interstellar war.
1-800-STARSHIP
Sci-Fi · Galactic Empire · Space Opera
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A phone number in an old comic book pulls Mark Allen out of an arcade and into an interstellar war. Trained by a mysterious recruiter, he enters a galaxy obsessed with Earth’s 1980s culture and threatened by an unseen enemy. A fast paced sci fi adventure packed with aliens, starships, and nostalgic fun from J.N. Chaney.
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CALL NOW. BECOME A NOVA SLINGER TODAY.
Those are the words Mark Allen reads inside an old 80s comic book buried in the back of his uncle's retro 80s arcade.
Between playing Galaga and Pac-Man, he decides to pick up the phone and give it a call, only to discover that the number still works.
It doesn't take long before an old man shows up at his doorstep, dressed in strange clothes, driving a Delorean, and calling himself "The Recruiter". Mark thinks he's won a prize from some old contest… but the reality is far stranger.
The old man has come to take Mark to a faraway space station—to train him for an impossible fight against an enemy that threatens everything.
Because, as it turns out, the comic book is real. And so is the war.
Now, Mark enters a galaxy full of countless species and alien cultures, and each of them has somehow heard of Pretty in Pink, The Goonies, and Star Wars. When and how did Earth's culture find its way to the rest of the galaxy? And why did it all stop in the late 1980s?
Adventure is calling. Join the fight and save the universe today!
From the author of Backyard Starship comes a brand new adventure filled with aliens, arcades, and starships. Thrilling, insanely fun, and full of engrossing characters, 1-800-STARSHIP keeps its eyes on the future and its heart in the past.
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Stranded follows ex-soldier Evan after a colony transport explodes, leaving him and xenobiologist Anya on a hostile planet where alien relics point to a larger conspiracy, with a…
Stranded
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Stranded follows ex-soldier Evan after a colony transport explodes, leaving him and xenobiologist Anya on a hostile planet where alien relics point to a larger conspiracy, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 6,900 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for space opera fans who like survival stories, alien worlds, mysterious technology, and interstellar intrigue.
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Shipwrecked on a distant planet. Mysterious alien relics. His fresh start just turned into an interstellar conspiracy.
After an undercover investigation goes bad, ex-soldier Evan hopes to forge a new life on a remote colony world. But when the transport ship explodes in orbit, his plans for a peaceful early retirement go out the airlock.
He crash-lands with a small group of settlers, away from the target site and with limited resources. Unable to call for help off-world, Evan and the mission's xenobiologist Anya race for survival in the dangerous wilds—until they realize they aren’t alone on the planet.
Evan’s investigative instincts tell him that nothing about this colony mission going awry is an accident. When evidence points to an ancient alien starship hidden somewhere on the planet, he realizes that solving the mystery will be the biggest case of his life.
Can Evan survive the hostile planet long enough to uncover the truth?
Stranded is the thrilling first installment in the Starship of the Ancients series. If you like suspenseful space adventures with dynamic characters, alien worlds, and escalating interstellar intrigue, then you'll love this riveting new space opera by author A.K. DuBoff, creator of the Cadicle Universe.
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A missing teenager is found murdered in the wilderness, shattering a quiet rural community.
Black Dog
Mystery · Thriller · Police Procedural
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A missing teenager is found murdered in the wilderness, shattering a quiet rural community. Forced together on their first case, two clashing detectives must uncover a killer hiding in plain sight. Known for its bleak atmosphere and sharp character dynamics, Black Dog has earned 4.0 stars on Amazon and more than 6,000 Goodreads ratings.
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Who killed Laura Vernon?
The helicopters are halted. The dogs are called off. The search for beautiful, teenaged Laura Vernon is over. Her body is found, mutilated, in the forest.
When he takes on the case, Ben Cooper is paired with a new partner: Diane Fry, a woman as tenacious as she is alluring. The two detectives are like fire and gasoline. But they must learn to work together to apprehend a killer who is hiding in plain sight.
This relentless, atmospheric thriller is perfect for readers of New York Times bestselling authors Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson, and for viewers of the hit TV series The Killing.
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As climate disaster and political paralysis reshape America, a diverse cast of lives becomes dangerously intertwined.
The Deluge
Dystopian · Mystery · Sci-Fi · Thriller
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As climate disaster and political paralysis reshape America, a diverse cast of lives becomes dangerously intertwined. Scientists, activists, and extremists face impossible choices as collapse accelerates and fragile hope emerges. Widely acclaimed as prophetic and unforgettable, The Deluge is a New York Times Notable Book with 4.5 stars on Amazon and over 6,000 Goodreads ratings.
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A New York Times Notable Book
“This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.” —Stephen King
From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.
In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters—a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.
From the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles, the Midwest to Washington, DC, their intertwined odysseys unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as they summon courage, galvanize a nation, fall to their own fear, and find wild hope in the face of staggering odds. As their stories hurtle toward a spectacular climax, each faces a reckoning: what will they sacrifice to salvage humanity’s last chance at a future? A singular achievement, The Deluge is a once-in-a-generation novel that meets the moment as few works of art ever have.
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