Aeon Rising: The Apocalypse Begins – Matthew Mather

An apocalyptic supernova flashes over the South Pole. A mysterious mission sent deep into the Amazon. The story of one family’s struggle to reunite…

Max Carver, a down-on-his-luck truck driver and Army vet, joins a rescue mission into Brazil. The target is a utopian tech village, the Colony, hidden in the rainforest and run by a charismatic genius. Max’s pregnant wife, Talisha Carver, is the NSA analyst who intercepted encrypted Colony messages signaling a mysterious impending event.

Dr. Xin Rou is a Chinese researcher working at the IceCube neutrino experiment at the South Pole. On lucky days a single flash might signal the passage of a ghostly interstellar particle. Suddenly, IceCube’s entire array lights up. A million detectors at once. Which is impossible. The Antarctic sky is clear and calm—but she is already running for the door.

Because the world is about to end. But the mystery only just begins…

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Dragonskull: Curse of the Orcs – Jonathan Moeller

A perilous quest. A haunted forest. Even the bravest knight might never return…

Gareth Arban knows he must stop the sorceress Azalmora from seizing the Dragonskull, a legendary relic of power.

But to catch Azalmora, Gareth must first cross the Qazaluuskan Forest, a land of dark magic and monsters.

But even the orcs who dwell within the forest are amenable to bargains.

And the cost of their bargains might be the lives of Gareth and his friends…

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The Spider: Scourge of the Scorpion (The Wild Adventures of The Spider #3) – Will Murray

Men called the Scorpion the “Deathless One.” Rumored to be immortal, he controlled the Order of the Purple Eyes, a slave army of purple-eyed criminals who periodically emerged to wreak havoc on mankind during times of social upheaval. His goal: To bring New York City under scorpionic subjugation.

When a mysterious comatose patient is abducted from his hospital room, a baffling chain of events is triggered, one that brings millionaire criminologist Richard Wentworth into the case—and in conflict with the Scorpion’s old nemesis—The Skull Killer!

Will the Deathless One succeed in erecting his barbaric City of the Scorpion upon the smoking ruins of modern Manhattan?

Not if The Spider has any say in the struggle. But how can the Master of Men fight the Purple Eyes Cult when his beloved Nita van Sloan has been turned against him while his chief aides lie stricken with incurable lockjaw––victims of the lethal sting of the Scorpion?

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Unfinished (First of the Blade # 5) – D. K. Holmberg

The sacred temples have fallen. A new sacred swordmaster must rise.

The sacred temples have been destroyed and neither the Leier or the Koral are safe in their traditional lands any longer.

When the Sul’toral continue their attack on the Leier homeland using enchantments and deadly creatures, she must find a way to lead her people to safety.

She suspects Timo’s involvement but the truth is much worse. What she learns upends all she’s known about sorcery and those who wield it.

When neither her mastery of the sacred patterns or her newly gifted Porapeth magic is enough, Imogen must find a way to be more than a sacred swordmaster, or all her people will be destroyed.

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Planet B (Architects of the Apocalypse, #1) – Jasper T. Scott

2069: Earth is dying and society is on the brink of collapse.

We are out of time to save the planet. All that’s left is to watch the world burn, but the apocalypse is about to take an unexpected twist.

Alice Rice has discovered the impossible: a potentially habitable world in close proximity to Earth. The media is calling it Planet B.

People are disappearing.

Detective Layla Bester was about to marry the love of her life when she learned that he slept with her best friend. Now, she’s alone and starting over in the once great city of New York. But the world has more than enough troubles to make hers feel small, and a new one has just been added: people are vanishing, and no one knows where they’re being taken.

And a war is brewing.

Meanwhile, Billionaire Preston Baylor is leading the race to reach Planet B, but competing space programs are heating up political tensions and driving superpowers ever closer to war.

Climatologist Bruce Gordon believes an incomprehensibly powerful species sent Planet B to us, but who are our mysterious saviors, why are they hiding, and what do they want? As time goes by, it becomes clear that even if their intentions were good, our own self-destructive natures could be all it takes to wipe us out.

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Captain Trader Helmsman Spy (Fall of the Censor #4) – Karl K. Gallagher

Niko Landry needs to infiltrate the Censorate to find a weakness before it launches its next assault. The Censor bans maps of hyperspace, forcing freighters to find their way by word of mouth.

He and his crew will pretend to be ordinary traders while finding out all the secrets they can. Any mistake could leave them broke . . . or executed.