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Planesrunner (Everness, Book One)<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Multiple-award-winning author making his YA debut.<\/p>\n There is not one you. There are many yous. There is not one world. There are many worlds. Ours is one of billions of parallel earths.<\/p>\n When Everett Singh’s scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves young Everett a mysterious app on his computer. Suddenly, this fourteen-year-old has become the owner of the most valuable object in the multiverse\u2014the Infundibulum\u2014the map of all the parallel earths, and there are dark forces in the Ten Known Worlds who will stop at nothing to get it. They’ve got power, authority, and the might of ten planets\u2014some of them more technologically advanced than our Earth\u2014at their fingertips. He’s got wits, intelligence, and a knack for Indian cooking.<\/p>\n To keep the Infundibulum safe, Everett must trick his way through the Heisenberg Gate his dad helped build and go on the run in a parallel Earth. But to rescue his Dad from Charlotte Villiers and the sinister Order, this Planesrunner’s going to need friends. Friends like Captain Anastasia Sixsmyth, her adopted daughter Sen, and the crew of the airship Everness.<\/p>\n Can they rescue Everett’s father and get the Infundibulum to safety? The game is afoot!<\/p>\n \n Dearly, Departed<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Love can never die.<\/p>\n Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid\u2019s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead\u2014or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie? <\/p>\n The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria\u2014a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country\u2019s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible\u2014until she\u2019s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses. <\/p>\n But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she\u2019s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting \u201cThe Laz,\u201d a fatal virus that raises the dead\u2014and hell along with them. Hardly ideal circumstances. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble . . . and dead. But as is the case with the rest of his special undead unit, luck and modern science have enabled Bram to hold on to his mind, his manners, and his body parts. And when his bond of trust with Nora turns to tenderness, there\u2019s no turning back. Eventually, they know, the disease will win, separating the star-crossed lovers forever. But until then, beating or not, their hearts will have what they desire.<\/p>\n In Dearly, Departed<\/span>, romance meets walking-dead thriller, spawning a madly imaginative novel of rip-roaring adventure, spine-tingling suspense, and macabre comedy that forever redefines the concept of undying love.<\/p>\n \n The Death Cure (Maze Runner Trilogy)<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Thomas knows that Wicked can’t be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they’ve collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission. It’s up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test.<\/p>\n What Wicked doesn’t know is that something’s happened that no Trial or Variable could have foreseen. Thomas has remembered far more than they think. And he knows that he can’t believe a word of what Wicked says.<\/p>\n The time for lies is over. But the truth is more dangerous than Thomas could ever imagine.<\/p>\n Will anyone survive the Death Cure?<\/p>\n \n The Restoration Game<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n NOMINATED FOR THE BSFA AWARD IN BEST NOVEL CATEGORY<\/p>\n There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know\u2014she was born there. In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organizers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual spaces of an online game? Lucy, who works for a start-up games company in Edinburgh, has a project that almost seems made for the job: a game inspired by The Krassniad<\/span>, an epic folk tale concocted by Lucy’s mother, Amanda, who studied there in the 1980s. Lucy knows Amanda is a spook. She knows her great-grandmother Eugenie also visited the country in the 1930s and met the man who originally collected Krassnian folklore, and who perished in Stalin’s terror. As Lucy digs up details about her birthplace to slot into the game, she finds the open secrets of her family’s past, the darker secrets of Krassnia’s past\u2014and hints about the crucial role she is destined to play in The Restoration Game…<\/p>\n Combining international intrigue with cutting-edge philosophical speculation, romance with adventure, and online gaming with real-life consequences, The Restoration Game<\/span> delivers as science fiction and as a sharp take on our present world from the viewpoint of a complex, engaging heroine who has to fight her way through a maze of political and family manipulation to take control of her own life.<\/p>\n \nPart I<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. Planesrunner (Everness, Book One) by Ian McDonald Cover by John Picacio Promo copy: Multiple-award-winning author making his YA debut. There is not one you. 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\nby Ian McDonald
\nCover by John Picacio<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51gAlcsYDBL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nby Lia Habel
\nCover by David Stevenson<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/512UH0FDiQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nby James Dashner
\nCover by Philip Straub<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51eo5wTT3BL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg\"){kind=icon}
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\nby Ken Macleod
\nCover by Stephan Martiniere<\/span><\/p>\n