Vikas Adam
1) Sky's end
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Above the black volume 1
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English
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"Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades"--
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2023.
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"San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective--but his business hasn't exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his offices above the Ruby, Andy wants to kick him out. But the job...
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Rep Ro Khanna offers a revolutionary roadmap to facing America's digital divide. In Khanna's vision, "just as people can move to technology, technology can move to people. People need not be compelled to move from one place to another to reap the benefits offered by technological progress" (from the foreword by Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics).
In the digital age, unequal access to technology is one of the most pressing issues facing the...
4) Ghosting 101
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Author's Note: This story takes place between Heart of Malice (Alice Worth Book 1) and Heart of Fire (Book 2).
There's no handbook for dealing with death, including your own. No one knows that better than longtime ghost Malcolm, sidekick of mage private investigator Alice Worth. When Malcolm crosses paths with a recently deceased man with no memory of how he ended up that way, he reluctantly agrees to help the confused ghost solve the mystery of...
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Seventeen-year-old Tennessee Russo's life is imploding. His boyfriend has been cheating on him, and all his friends know about it. Worse, they expect him to just accept his ex's new relationship and make nice. So when his father, a famous archaeologist and reality show celebrity whom he hasn't seen in two years, shows up unexpectedly and offers to take him on an adventure, Tennessee only has a few choices:
1. Stay, mope, regret it forever.
2. Go,...
6) Beholder
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From Ryan La Sala, author of the tantalizingly twisted The Honeys and riotously imaginative Reverie, comes a chilling new contemporary fable about art, aesthetic obsession, and the gaze that peers back at us from behind our reflections.
No one survived the party at the penthouse. Except Athan.
Athanasios "Athan" Bakirtzis has made it far in life relying on his charm and good looks, even securing an invitation to a mysterious penthouse soiree for...
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Every century, the dungeon awakens and drags people from different worlds into a fight for their survival. Parth, a pro boxer, is one of the summoned hundred, displaced by the dungeon's latest awakening. After achieving the highest synchronization rate on record with a powerful magical artifact, he is thrust into the dungeon with a team of other isekai'd artifact wielders. He will fight men, beasts, and monsters, seeing just how far he can go. But...
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
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Unabridged
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English
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With the plot against them foiled and the city of Qi-Katai in safe hands, newlywed and tentative lovers Velasin and Caethari have just begun to test the waters of their relationship. But the wider political ramifications of their marriage are still playing out across two nations, and all too soon, they're summoned north to Tithena's capital city, Qi-Xihan, to present themselves to its monarch. With Caethari newly invested as his grandmother's heir...