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The Backbone Of Night: Book 2 in The Automatic Age Saga (The Automatic Age)
by Gmb ChomichukIn the Automatic Age, the autovolts have swept the earth clean of most of its human inhabitants. Kerion and Barry are of the few survivors, mistaken as robots in the first purge because of Kerion's prosthetics. Kerion fears that his son will grow up a lonely anomaly on an earth free of people. The discovery of a group of intentionalized fanatics may be the hope they need to reconnect with the human experience. But is it better risk dangerous isolation or stay with a group of religious zealots?The truth will send them on the run in a fight for survival beneath the sea of stars to the tower known as the BACKBONE OF NIGHT."Chomichuk has developed a fascinating, complex setting . . . And he uses it to explore timely themes of automation, scarcity economics, and robot ethics, while also showcasing his formidable imagination." - Quill & Quire
Backflash: A Parker Novel (The Parker Novels)
by Richard StarkParker's got a couple of rules that have helped keep him alive throughout his long career. One of those is never to work on a boat. But with a gambling boat cruising down the Hudson, stuffed to the gunwales with cash, Parker’s got a plan, a team, and a new rule: a shot at a big enough score makes any rule worth breaking. Parker and his crew hit the boat, hard, but as always, there are a lot of complications—and a lot of bodies—before this one's in the bag.
Backlands: A Novel
by Victoria ShorrIn this Bonnie and Clyde story of love and betrayal, a band of outlaws fight for control of the brutal Brazilian outback.Set in the sparse frontier settlements of northeastern Brazil—a dry, forbidding, and wild region the size of Texas, known locally as the Sertão—Backlands tells the true story of a group of nomadic outlaws who reigned over the area from about 1922 until 1938. Taking from the rich, admired—and feared—by the poor, they were led by the famously charismatic bandit Lampião. The gang maintained their influence by fighting off all the police and soldiers the region could muster.A one-eyed goat rancher who first set out to avenge his father's murder in a lawless land, Lampião proved to be too good a leader, fighter, and strategist to ever return home again. By 1925 he commanded the biggest gang of outlaws in Brazil. Known to this day as a "prince," Lampião had everything: brains, money, power, charisma, and luck. Everything but love, until he met Maria Bonita."You teach me to make lace, and I'll teach you to make love"—this was the song the bandits marched to, across the vast open reaches of their starkly beautiful backlands, and it was Maria Bonita who made it come true. She was stuck in a loveless marriage when she met Lampião, but she rode off with him, becoming "Queen of the Bandits." Together the couple—still celebrated folk heroes—would become the country's most wanted figures, protecting their extraordinary freedom through cunning.Victoria Shorr's stunning literary debut tells Maria's story, her narrative of the intense freedoms, terrors, and sorrows of this chosen life, the end of which is clear to her all along. With the federal government in Rio mobilizing against the bandits, Backlands describes the epic final days of Lampião’s "fatal month," July on the River of Disorder, as the gang struggles to summon their good star to save them one more time.
Backlash
by Nicholas FiskThe time is the middle of the twenty-first century; the place Argosy IV. Marooned on this alien planet, the three Clegg children are taken captive by hostile robot Doops, led by the cruel Princess Supa. Meanwhile, underground, Madrigal and Hansi are busy plotting...But what is their sinister secret?And who or what is 553?
Backlash
by Nicholas FiskThe time is the middle of the twenty-first century; the place Argosy IV. Marooned on this alien planet, the three Clegg children are taken captive by hostile robot Doops, led by the cruel Princess Supa. Meanwhile, underground, Madrigal and Hansi are busy plotting...But what is their sinister secret?And who or what is 553?
The Backlash Mission (Blackcollar, Book #2)
by Timothy ZahnFREEFALL First Caine heard the decoy pods breaking free. Then, with a wrench, his team's pod was released from the shuttle, and suddenly they were in free fall. A second later gravity returned with twin jolts as Caine popped the drogue and main chutes. "Get ready," he said as their flight smoothed again. "Five seconds to breakout.. .three, two, one-" He wrenched the control-and the pod's walls split from floor to ceiling, the floor disintegrated, and the four men of the commando team were flung apart into the darkness as the wall sections they were strapped to caught the inrush of air and separated. Caine got a dizzying glimpse of stars above and black ground below; and then, with a snap, the pod section above him unfolded into a hang glider wing and he was flying ... right into the heart of Ryqril territory)
The Backlash Mission (The Blackcollar Series #2)
by Timothy ZahnIn the sequel to Blackcollar from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn, Allen Caine is back on the front lines of an alien war. Denver, Earth. The twenty-fifth century. After a devastating alien invasion, the Terran Democratic Empire is occupied by the Ryqril race. The once-heroic resistance warriors known as the blackcollars now serve as strong-arm security for Denver&’s criminal elements. When Allen Caine completes his year-long blackcollar training on the planet Plinry, he and his elite team head to Earth to strike out against the Ryqril puppet government. But there&’s no way of knowing whether the remaining blackcollars in Denver will be with him, or against him. . . .
Backpacking through Bedlam (InCryptid #12)
by Seanan McGuireSeanan McGuire's New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated urban fantasy InCryptid series continues with the twelfth book following the Price family, cryptozoologists who study and protect the creatures living in secret all around us.Reunion, noun:1. The state of being united again. Reconciliation, noun:1. An act of reconciling, as when former enemies agree to an amiable truce.2. The process of making consistent or compatible.3. See also &“impossible.&” Alice Price-Healy gave up her life for fifty years to focus completely on the search for her missing husband. The danger of focus like that is that it leaves little room for thinking about what happens after…and now that she&’s finally managed to find Thomas, she has no idea what she&’s supposed to do next. The fact that he comes with a surrogate daughter who may or may not have some connection to Alice&’s recently adopted grandson is just icing on the complicated cake.So the three of them are heading for the most complicated place in the universe: they&’re going home.But things on Earth have changed while Alice, Thomas, and Sally have been away. The Covenant of St. George, antagonized by Verity&’s declaration of war and Sarah&’s temporary relocation of an entire college campus, is trying to retake North America from the cryptids and cryptozoologists who&’ve been keeping the peace for the past hundred years. And they&’re starting in New York.Alice and company have barely been back for an hour before the Ocean Lady and the Queen of the Routewitches are sending them to New York to help, and they find themselves embroiled in the politics of dragons, kidnappings, and of course, the most dangerous people of all: family.Getting &“back to normal&” may be the hardest task Alice has undertaken yet.
Backteria: & Other Improbable Tales
by Richard MathesonAn essential collection of rare tales of terror from the multi-award-winning Twilight Zone scripter and I Am Legend author—only available in ebook format. A researcher encounters an exotic new strain of &“Backteria&” that causes the infected person to vanish—leading the doctor on a path of discovery deep into a past he should have left buried. A simple &“Haircut&” that starts off as a routine trim becomes a dark and terrifying experience when a barber is confronted with a sick customer who seems otherworldly. A case of mistaken identity leads to a darkly farcical story of marriage, murder, and a love that knows no bounds in &“Getting Together.&” Backteria & Other Improbable Tales gathers these and sixteen more uncanny short stories from master storyteller Richard Matheson, &“one of the great names in American terror fiction&” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Stories include: &“Backteria&”, &“He Wanted to Live&”, &“Life Size&”, &“Man with a Club&”, &“Professor Fritz and the Runaway House&”, &“Purge Among Peanuts&”, &“The Prisoner&”, &“The Last Blah in the ETC&”, &“Counterfeit Bills&”, &“1984 ½&”, &“Pride&”, &“Now Die In It&”, &“Leo Rising&”, &“Where There&’s a Will&” (written with Richard Christian Matheson), &“Getting Together&”, &“Person to Person&”, &“CU: Mannix&”, &“Haircut&”, &“An Element Never Forgets&” &“The author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson.&” —Stephen King &“Perhaps no other living author is as responsible for chilling a generation with tantalizing nightmare visions.&” —The New York Times &“Matheson&’s a writer who just has the special knack, the deft skill to imagine terrifying scenarios on any scale, large and small, and give them chilling possibility.&” —Los Angeles Times
The Backtrack
by Erin La RosaLife, rewound…Nearly twenty years ago, Sam Leto left her small hometown of Tybee Island, Georgia, to pursue her dreams of becoming a pilot. While she&’d prefer to keep flying away from her painful childhood memories, her beloved grandmother Pearl decides it&’s time to sell the family home. Reluctantly, Sam is summoned back to pack up the house.The 2000s nostalgia from Sam&’s old bedroom hits immediately: Fall Out Boy posters, drawers of roll-on body glitter and even her favorite CD player with a mixtape from her best friend, Damon Rocha. Damon was always a safe place and Sam often wonders what if her teenage self admitted her feelings for him back then…Mysteriously, the CD player still works all these years later. And somehow it has the power to show Sam an alternate version of her life.Song by song, Sam receives flashbacks from her past—senior prom, graduation, leaving home. But the memories aren&’t as she remembers them; they show what could have been. Suddenly, Sam knows exactly what would have happened if she&’d taken a chance with Damon—and she can&’t help feeling she made a terrible mistake leaving Tybee all those years ago."A perfectly in-tune love story that will be playing on repeat in my mind for a very long time." —Lauren Kung Jessen, author of Red String Theory and Lunar Love"La Rosa shines at genuinely funny and feminist romantic tales, and I'll read every single one of them." —Amy Spalding, bestselling author of For Her Consideration
Backtracker
by Jason Koenig Ben BaldwinMeet the ultimate serial killer. The Miraclemaker comes and goes like a ghost in the night, taking lives as if he were Death himself. The streets run red with the blood of his victims. Only one man knows he exists, one man who is losing everyone he ever cared about, one by one, to the hands of the killer. This man, Dave Heinrich, sets out on a desperate hunt to stop the Miraclemaker at any cost. But does Dave stand a chance against a murderer who just might have a connection to terrifyingly dark and powerful supernatural forces? A murderer whose deepest secret could rock Dave's world to its very foundations? Bodies pile up...time runs out...and the mystery of the Backtracker is about to unleash the ultimate evil and bring about a blood-drenched hell on Earth. Don't miss this exciting tale by storyteller Jason Koenig, a master of unique and unexpected supernatural thrillers that really pack a punch.
Backup: A Story of the Dresden Files
by Jim ButcherLet's get something clear right up front. I'm not Harry Dresden. Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences--and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being. I'll be damned if I know how. But then, I'll be damned regardless. My name is Thomas Raith, and I'm a monster. So begins Backup a twelve thousand word novelette set in Jim Butcher's ultra-popular Dresden Files series. This time Harry's in trouble he knows nothing about, and it's up to his big brother Thomas to track him down and solve those little life-threatening difficulties without his little brother even noticing.
The Backward Season (Wishing Day #3)
by Lauren MyracleFrom beloved and bestselling author Lauren Myracle comes the emotional conclusion to the Wishing Day trilogy, perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo and Ingrid Law.Now that her sisters Natasha and Darya have had their turn, Ava Blok finally gets her Wishing Day. But after seeing the unintended consequences of the wishes her sisters made, she’s not sure what to wish for. The only thing she’s certain of is that it’s her job to set things right. Hopeful that she can put her broken family back together, and eager to prove her pessimistic older sisters wrong, Ava realizes that fixing the future means changing the past.Will the journey her wishes take her on end up costing her everything?
Backwards Folding Mirror #1
by Jesse MoynihanA surreal series of vignettes, revolving around a cone-hatted no-one, and his experiences with the forces of nature, and the nature of the displaced from Adventure Time and Forming artist Jesse Moynihan. The Backwards Folding Mirror is a personal and layered exploration of the illogical and the fantastic, swirling through the context of life in its lowest and highest moments.
Backwards Moon
by Mary LosureIt's a good day for flying with the ravens: pale-blue sky, wispy clouds, gentle updrafts. It's also the last ordinary day before everything changes forever. To Nettle and her cousin Bracken, the youngest witches in the coven, the world outside their hidden valley is enticing, mysterious, and forbidden; but they never imagined they would ever see it. Then suddenly the veil that protects their valley is broached and the Wellspring Water needed to repair it is polluted, forcing them to travel to a human city in search of the Door to another world. A wishing necklace, seeking stones, a wily raccoon, human Witchfriends, and long-lost loved ones help Nettle and Bracken on their quest. Will their fledgling magic be strong enough, or will encroaching human civilization spell the end of Witchkind?
Backwatch Lane (Demonic Survivors #2)
by Elliot Arthur CrossCody Langdon has survived a lot since moving to Florida to start his life over. After his new neighbors were killed by a demon named Tanglewood, Cody joined a secret support group for people who had been through similar ordeals against ghosts, monsters, and demons. While on a trip to a mysterious island, Cody was thrown back in time to the 1850s in the body of a closeted aristocrat.Not only must Cody quickly readjust to the jarring social and technological differences of the 1850s, but he soon finds a mysterious adversary stalking him. When his unofficial boyfriend and his best friend arrive at the plantation, the three confused teens discover their trip through time may hold valuable information about Tanglewood.With their lives in constant danger and no one to help them, Cody must find a way to survive the 1800s and return to his normal life dealing with parents who want him to see a psychiatrist, a rocky romance, and a murderous demon.
Backyard Fairies
by Phoebe WahlFairies are real, and they're all around us! Award-winning author-illustrator Phoebe Wahl offers a fanciful and beautifully illustrated peek into the hidden world of fairies, sprites, and other magical creatures.A girl searches for fairies in her backyard and the woods beyond, following little clues and traces of magic. Fairies and other magical creatures can be found on every page, hidden among the flowers, trees and pebbles. But although readers can see them, the girl keeps searching, just one step behind... In the end, it is clear (both to the girl and readers) that there is magic all around, even when it's hidden in plain sight. Phoebe Wahl takes us deep into the world of fairies, and her vibrant, multi-textured woodland scenes are every bit as enchanting as the creatures therein. A gorgeously illustrated paean to imagination and the natural world."Delightful . . . This gently magical outing will appeal not only to longtime lovers of European folklore, but also to fans of the popular "fairy door" phenomenon."--Kirkus Reviews
Backyard Fairies
by Phoebe WahlFrom an Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning illustrator comes a magical story that proves fairies are real and they're all around us.They MUST be. Who else could have braided the dog's hair? Who else could be playing that faint music in the air? And who else could've made those mysterious circles in the grass? So thinks a little girl as she sets out into the woods in her backyard searching for the elusive little creatures. Although readers can see them, as hard as she looks, the fairies are always just out of view for our heroine. In the end, it's clear (to the girl AND to readers) that there is magic all around, even when it's hidden in plain sight. Lush, multi-textured illustrations bring the woods (and the fairies) to life in this playful read-aloud by Phoebe Wahl. Kids will delight in seeing the fairies hidden in each piece of art and revel in the tricks and games the fairies play on our unsuspecting heroine.
Bacon and Other Monstrous Tales
by Troy NixeySuperstar Artist Troy Nixey will take you on a journey through the creepy and otherworldly in this collection of never before collected tales!From alien invasions to monsters lurking in the unseen, this beautifully illustrated book is a must have for any horror and science fiction fan! Collecting stories from Nixey's early days at Oni Press and Dark Horse to the relaunch of Fangoria, as well as never-seen-before material and a bonus sketchbook section! Collects Boogie Picker (8 pages from Dark Horse Presents #131), Bacon part 1 (15 pages from Oni Double Feature #3), Bacon part 2 (15 pages from Oni Double Feature #4), and bonus sketches.
The Bacta War: Star Wars (Star Wars: X-Wing - Legends #4)
by Michael A. StackpoleWhen the Alliance Fleet mounts a major campaign against a deadly warlord, tyrant Ysanne Isard has taken control of Thyferra, intending to use its supply of medicinal bacta to destabilize and destroy the New Republic. Undermanned, deprived of Alliance support, Rogue Squadron must oppose Isard's plans, defeat her Star Destroyer fleet, and free Thyferra from her rule in a winner-take-all battle against a seemingly superior force.Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!
Bad Bargain (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
by Diana G. Gallagher"Off the rack gives me hives." -- Cordelia, "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" The Scoobies are used to being personally affected when demonic nasties come to Sunnydale. And they're used to strange things happening at Sunnydale High -- after all, the place is built over the Hellmouth. But they've sealed the Hellmouth, so they don't think anything's out of the ordinary when items to be sold at the first annual band fund-raising rummage sale are stored in the school basement...which, one might recall, is directly above that Hellmouth. Once the rummage sale begins, it's clear the stuff for sale is far from ordinary. People seem to be strangely affected by the items they're buying -- things from undemonic homes, donated by undemonic people. So the reactions these items are producing are, to say the least, unexpected. Willow's acting weird. So's Xander. And even Buffy's mom bought something.... The situation quickly spins out of control, and the school has to be quarantined...leaving Buffy and Giles to sort things out before whatever demon this is sells them down the river.
The Bad Batch: Hunted! (Screen Comix)
by RH DisneyA graphic novel-style retelling with full-color images and dialogue from Star Wars: The Bad Batch on Disney+!After refusing to follow Order 66 and destroy the Jedi, Clone Force 99 and their new friend Omega are on the run from bounty hunters Fennec Shand and Cad Bane, the Empire—and even their old teammate Crosshair! Will the Bad Batch be able to escape? This 80-page graphic novel-style retelling of Episode 9: Bounty Lost from Star Wars: The Bad Batch features final frames and dialogue from the animated series on Disney+ in vibrant full color. It's perfect for boys and girls ages 8 to 11 and fans of Star Wars: The Bad Batch and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Star Wars: The Bad Batch follows the elite and experimental troopers of Clone Force 99 (first introduced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars) as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone Wars. Members of the Bad Batch, as they prefer to be called—a unique squad of clones who vary genetically from their brothers in the Clone Army—each possess a singular exceptional skill, which makes them extraordinarily effective soldiers and a formidable crew.
The Bad Birthday Idea
by Madeline ValentineBen likes to play with robots. His little sister, Alice, would like to play with Ben. But when she and her doll try to join Ben's games, Ben says, "No dolls allowed. This is a robot game." That's why Alice asks for a robot for her birthday. Not just any robot. The exact robot Ben has been wanting forever! Ben is very, very jealous. He wants that robot. Now. Maybe he could sneak it out of its wrapping during Alice's birthday party and play with it for awhile. Nobody will know. Right? But Ben's bad idea goes very wrong and he feels terrible. Now it's up to him to show Alice that a sister is more important than even the best robot toy in the world.
Bad Blessed Boys (Shadowlight Academy #6)
by Kailin GowThe Conclusion to the Shadowlight Hunters Academy Series! Given a second chance to live, can Lux who was a demon slayer descend through the portal into hell to save her beloved boys? Series Description: They were the most popular boys at Shadowlight Academy, known as the Beautiful Boys. They also tormented me when I first arrived at Shadowlight Academy. Then they fell for me, and I fell hard for them. I am Lux Collins, and as a demon slayer, I couldn't afford to fall in love. It came with consequences, which I ultimately paid. Now I am at Shadowlight Hunters Academy, where I have come to be re-trained. I will train my hardest. I will endure all hardships. Because where I am going to save my Lost Pretty Boys, I will need to keep all my wits, strength, and skills about me. I am about to enter Hell to get my boys back! **Bad Blessed Boys is book 3 of 3 the Shadowlight Hunters Academy. It is a College RH Bully Romance which contains language, dark humor and consensual sex. Recommended for 17 and over.
Bad Blood (Crimson Moon Novels #1)
by L. A. BanksThe New York Times–bestselling author of the Vampire Huntress Legend novels “takes on werewolves and makes them her own . . . A blast to read” (Kelley Armstrong).Sasha Trudeau knows all about working beneath the shadows, back-alley deals, and things that go bump in the night. She also knows that the world is unaware of the existence of the paranormal—and that the government would like to keep it that way.As a highly trained Special Ops soldier, Sasha and her team are an elite group of individuals who are survivors of werewolf attacks, now trained to be loyal to only to each other and their government. But when she returns from a solo mission, she finds that her team has mysteriously gone missing. Shocking government conspiracies, double-dealing vampires, and a host of stunning revelations about who—and what—she really is are only just the beginning . . . “An action-packed thrill ride!” —Sherrilyn Kenyon, #1 New York Times–bestselling author“Shadowy, sexy, intense.” —Cheyenne McCray, New York Times–bestselling author