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Title: The Passage: A Novel Author: Justin Cronin Series: Passage Trilogy #01 Format: Kindle/Audiobook Pages: 785 Release Date: June 8, 2010 Publisher: Ballantine Books Source: personal copy Read the back of the book “It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.” First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a
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Title: Uglies Author: Scott Westerfeld Series: Uglies Trilogy #01 Format: Paperback Pages: 432 Release Date: 2005 Publisher: Scholastic Trade Source: personal copy Read the back of the book Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. Not for her license — for turning pretty. In Tally’s world, your sixteenth birthday brings an
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Title: Santa Olivia Author: Jacqueline Carey Series: Santa Olivia #01 Format: Paperback Pages: 341 Release Date: May 29, 2009 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Source: personal copy Read the back of the book Lushly written with rich and vivid characters, SANTA OLIVIA is Jacqueline Carey’s take on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth. Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated,
Read moreTitle: Reliquary Author: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Series: Pendergast #02 Format: Kindle Pages: 480 (2012 total – 5,449) Word Count: 130,431 (2012 total – 1,505,414) Release Date: July 15, 1998 Publisher: Tor Books Categories: science fiction, thriller Source: personal copy Rating: 3 out of 5 Back of the book: Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by
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