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The bestselling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time.
Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall-an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the rising seas outside and are a constant threat. Failure will...
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"One of the most intriguing future cities in years." -Charlie Jane Anders
"Simmers with menace and heartache, suspense and wonder." -Ann Leckie
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After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The...
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City where we once lived books volume 1
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In a near future where climate change has severely affected weather and agriculture, the North End of an unnamed city has long been abandoned in favor of the neighboring South End. Aside from the scavengers steadily stripping the empty city to its bones, only a few thousand people remain, content to live quietly among the crumbling metropolis. Many, like the narrator, are there to try to escape the demons of their past. He spends his time observing...
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It's New York City, an all-animal world. Alfonzo, a moody alpaca, and his friend Mitchell, a sociable llama, both work at City Hall. As they embark on an unlikely mission to expose the city's corrupt system, they encounter the Sea Equality Revolutionary Front, who are either a group of dangerous radicals or an inspiring liberation movement.
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Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, Flight Behavior tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive
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A billionaire has an idea for reversing global warmig, but will it work? And what will the consequences for the planet be? A disparate group of characters from around the globe fight to solve the problem of global warming, but some of their ideas may be worse than climate change itself.
12) The deluge
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In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to a colorful cast of characters, including a brazen young activist who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.
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The novel "The Rooftop Garden" is about Nabila, a researcher who studies seaweed in warming oceans, and Matthew, her childhood friend. Even at a young age, their childhood experiences reveal how their lives are diverging. Matthew's dissatisfaction with life as an adult leads him to join a group of young men who are angry at society.
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"In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple"--rovided by publisher.
17) A winter grave
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When the body of missing investigative reporter George Younger is discovered on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven, veteran Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to investigate the murder, but has more than the case on his agenda.
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