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BOYFRIENDS WITH GIRFRIENDS, 2012 – Alex Sanchez



Four teens explore the fluidity of love, sexuality, and identity in this acclaimed novel from Alex Sanchez, now in paperback. Sergio is bisexual, but his only real relationship was with a girl. Lance has always known he was gay, but he’s never had a real boyfriend. When the two of them meet, they have an instant connection—but will it be enough to overcome their differences?

Allie’s been in a relationship with a guy for the last two years—but when she meets Kimiko, she can’t get her out of her mind. Does this mean she’s gay? Or bi? Kimiko, falling hard for Allie, is willing to stick around and help Allie figure it out.
Boyfriends with Girlfriends is Alex Sanchez at his best, writing with a sensitive hand to portray four very real teens striving to find their places in the world—and with each other.

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EMERALD CITY DREAMER - Luna Lindsey



Emerald City Dreamer is a story about faerie hunters set in Seattle, WA. Their secret organization focuses on recruiting, research, and seeks out enemies. Jina also plays in a band, and when someone begins to follow her, she suspects a faerie has found her. Meanwhile, her friend Sandy struggles with alcoholism as a result of her trauma. She has to make the right decisions, even though her obsession keeps her from seeing the truth.

Ezra is a teenage boy who thinks he is a demon. He is actually a troll, but with no one to teach him, he feels scared and alone. He has been adopted by a fringe sect of Christian wanderers, and he worries what they will think if they discover his true nature.
Jett was once a goddess.
Now she is an elf in the modern world who searches the city for lost faeries to protect. When she learns that a group of faerie hunters have set up shop near her house of misfits, she vows to destroy them at any cost. Little does she know that the dreamer she just fell in love with is one of them.


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FRISKY BUSINESS - Clodagh Murhpy 2012




Romy Fitzgerald always planned to go the conventional route: boyfriend, marriage, children. Motherhood via cupboard sex at a costume party with a stranger dressed as Darth Vader didn't feature on her to-do list. But when she gives birth to her son Luke nine months later, he turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to her. As Luke gets older however, Romy knows that at some point she's going to have to tell him about his father. Trouble is, she never found out 'Darth's' real name. But when an old flame arrives back in her life, the plot thickens. Kit Masterson was always 'the one who got away' and now he's back from New York and seems intent on playing happy families with Romy and Luke. But Kit has his own secrets to hide ...As Romy begins to wonder if she'll ever find her mystery man from the party, she learns that in real life secrets rarely stay hidden, especially when it comes to love. But will Romy find her dark knight or will she be left to raise Luke (Han) solo?

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MARS, THE BRINGER OF WAR - Geore P. Sanders, 2012



John Mars is the oldest astronaut in the fleet and the commander of Challenger II. His latest assignment from NASA is a top-secret shuttle mission to the moon to investigate a mysterious signal. What he finds is an alien robot that murders his crew and destroys the source of that signal - a deep-space probe. When John returns to Earth without his crew, the probe, or any evidence of what really happened on his mission, NASA forces him into retirement.
Humiliated and disgraced, John takes a job as a pilot for a commercial airline, unaware that his experience on the moon has marked him more than psychologically: in the battle to save his crew and himself, John Mars was injected with an alien tracking device.

John, Anna and the rest of his group arrive on a Sel planet used for wargames, where alien life forms are pitted against one another - and the Sels - in death battles. One by one, John Mars' small group of survivors succumb to the Sels. But a larger problem looms for Mars - even if he can survive the Sel wargames, how could he ever get back home and warn Earth of impending invasion and assimilation into the Sel Empire?

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NECROPHOBIA - Zombie Apocalypse - Jack Hamlyn (1, 2)



An ordinary summer's day. The grass is green, the flowers are blooming. All is right with the world. Then the dead start rising. From cemetery and mortuary, funeral home and morgue, they flood into the streets until every town and city is infested with walking corpses, blank-eyed eating machines that exist to take down the living. The world is a graveyard. And when you have a family to protect, it's more than survival. It's war.



Nightmare, New York. From Manhattan to the Bronx, Queens to Brooklyn, a hellzone of the walking dead, crazed survivalists, and deranged cults. One man will stand against them. One man will fight them street to street. He'll do anything to find his friends and his son. There's no pit he won't crawl
through. No enemy he will not face. And God help anyone who gets in his way.

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THE LAST GOOD MAN - A.J. Kazinski, 2012



In Beijing, a monk collapses in his chamber, dead. A fiery mark—a tattoo? A burn?—spreads across his back and down his spine. In Mumbai, a beloved economist, a man who served the poor, dies suddenly. His corpse reveals the same symbol. Similar deaths are reported around the world—the victims all humanitarians,
all with the same death mark. In Venice, an enterprising Italian policeman links the deaths, tracing the evidence. Who is killing good people around the world?
In Copenhagen, police are preparing for a world climate summit when they receive the Interpol alert. The task falls to veteran detective Niels Bentzon: Find the “good people” of Denmark and warn them. But Bentzon is a man who is trained to see the worst in humanity, not the good. One by one, people are crossed off his list. He senses their secrets and wrongdoings.
Just as Bentzon is ready to give up, he meets Hannah Lund, a brilliant astrophysicist mourning the death of her son and the implosion of her marriage. With Hannah’s help, Bentzon begins to piece together the puzzle of these far-flung deaths. A pattern emerges. It is, they realize, a perfectly executed plan of murder. There have been thirty-four deaths—two more to come if the legend is true. And the time is now.

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THE MAMMOTH BOOK of SF Wars - Ian Watson&Whates, 2012





Over the past 100 years the technology of war has advanced enormously in destructive power. So what will future wars be like? And what will cause them: religion, politics, resources, refugees, or advanced weaponry itself? Watson and Whates present a collection of gripping SF stories which explores a daunting gamut of possible future conflicts: nuclear tactics and enhanced soldiery, terrorism and cyberware, intelligent robotic machines and even war with aliens.

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THE POWER OF HABIT - Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Charles Duhigg, 2012



A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.

Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly imperceptible pattern—and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year. An untested CEO takes over one of the largest companies in America.
His first order of business is attacking a single pattern among his employees—how they approach worker safety—and soon the firm, Alcoa, becomes the top performer in the Dow Jones.

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YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES 13 – Karl Eward Wagner



A good introduction to Wagners's stories for new readers and an excellent collection of his tales into volume one of a a two volume set for his long time fans. A number of these stories have been out of print for a while or scattered about in various books / magazines, so it's great to have a collection to revisit old favorites and capture a couple tales you probably missed. While he also wrote numerous fantasy / sword & sorcery stories, these are primarily more modern style horror stories, so they might not appeal to fantasy readers. The hardback volume also contains a couple B/W illustrations by JK Potter - illustrations that are usually not available in paperback / trade paper editions.

A very nice addition to your library.

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((Young Adult/Urban Fanstasy/Fantasy-SF General, Modern Pshsychology, Horror)


Read, enjoy and seed!

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