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1) Timeline
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A Yale history professor travels back in time to 15th century France and gets stuck, unable to return to the present. His colleagues organize a rescue and on landing in France become involved in the Hundred Years War.
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2021 Hugo Award Winner for Best Graphic Story or Comic
The follow-up to #1 New York Times Bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, comes Octavia E. Butlerâs groundbreaking dystopian novel
In this graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butlerâs Parable of the Sower by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, the author
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Sparrow novels (Mary Doria Russell) volume 2
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1998.
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A tale of missionary work in space featuring Emilio Sandoz, a Jesuit priest on the planet Rakhat. He becomes involved in a revolt by the enslaved Runa against the ruling kangaroo-like Jana'ata. A sequel to The Sparrow.
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At the Dawn of Man, a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith that is alien to their surroundings. A hominid discovers the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. The bone is tossed in the air and it's a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development only to imply that man hasn't advanced very far at all psychologically. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to the...
9) CUSP
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2005.
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A mysterious entity plots to control human evolution by taking over CUSP, the powerful supercomputer designed to run on the software of the human mind.
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2004.
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After crashing his car in 1939, Naval Airman Perry Nelson awakens to find the radically different world of 2086, one marked by a United Europe, the destruction of Manhattan island by two helicopters in 2003, and other changes in the economy, legal system, and the relationships between men and women, in a remarkable, long-lost first novel by the late master of speculative fiction.
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Offering a much-needed head's up and a major head-start for your future success; this forward-thinking book guides you through tomorrow's hottest trends to help you emotionally connect with customers; engage employees; adjust your business strategy for a global marketplace; and more. --
14) Gradisil
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2007.
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An epic space opera of family revenge and the birth of a nation. A new breed of adventurer has slipped the bonds of gravity and begun a fresh life in orbit, free from interference by government, free from the petty concerns of earth.
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2016.
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"In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, The Accidental Superpower will be a much discussed, contrarian and eye-opening assessment of American power. In The Accidental Superpower international strategist Peter Zeihan examines how geography, combined with demography and energy independence, will pave the way for one of the great turning points in history, and one in which America reasserts its global dominance. No...
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2021.
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For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of the modern world. Their insular existence―controversial, difficult, but Edenic―is upended when the ambitious young developer Maya...
18) Private citizens
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[2016]
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Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads, this is the story of four whip-smart friends torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it, and who--though estranged--stagger through the Bay Area, always washing up in each other's lives.
20) The storm before the calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond
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[2020]
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"The master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years focuses on the United States, predicting how the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of American government, foreign policy, economics, and culture"--
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