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Children of Ruin

Children of Time, Book 2

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Humans and Portiid spiders investigate a lost terraforming mission where uplifted octopuses and an invasive alien intelligence have created a dangerous new problem of communication.

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Children of Strife

A Children of Time Novel

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Scientist Alis, mantis-shrimp captain Cato, and the AI Kern search a rediscovered terraforming outpost after the rest of their crew vanishes, exposing a refuge shaped by old vanity and new danger.

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Children of Time

Children of Time, Book 1

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Humanity's last ark approaches a terraformed world where uplifted spiders have built a civilization, forcing two evolutionary histories toward contact, conflict, and an uncertain shared future.

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Congo

A Novel

By Michael Crichton

After a Congo expedition is destroyed near the lost city of Zinj, a new team enters the rainforest with Amy, a gorilla who communicates through signs and may hold the key to the ruins' violent guardians.

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Contact

A Novel

By Carl Sagan

Radio astronomer Ellie Arroway helps identify a signal from Vega whose mathematical structure forces scientists, governments, and religious leaders to decide what evidence of another intelligence would demand from humanity.

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Cosmos

A Personal Voyage

By Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan connects astronomy, scientific history, and human curiosity in an accessible account of how people investigate the universe.

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Daggerbound

Swordheart Book 2

By T. Kingfisher

Learned Edmund leaves the Temple of the Many-Armed God with an old sword that releases the Dervish, an immortal fighter bound to enchanted steel, in the second Swordheart novel.

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Daughter of Crows

The Academy of Kindness, Book 1

By Mark Lawrence

Rue survived an academy built to turn girls into instruments of vengeance. Years later, a new threat forces her to confront the training, loyalties, and buried history she thought she had escaped.

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David Copperfield

A Novel

By Charles Dickens

David Copperfield looks back on a life shaped by childhood loss, cruelty, friendship, work, love, and the gradual discovery of what maturity asks him to understand about himself and others.

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Dead Beat

The Dresden Files, Book 7

By Jim Butcher

Blackmailed into finding a dangerous book of necromantic secrets, Harry Dresden races through Halloween-night Chicago while rival practitioners gather for a ritual with catastrophic stakes.

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Dear Debbie

A Psychological Thriller

By Freida McFadden

Dear Debbie centers on an advice columnist whose family pressures, neighborhood grievances, and increasingly extreme retaliation drive a darkly comic domestic revenge story.

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Death of the Author

A Novel

By Nnedi Okorafor

After losing her university job and facing another rejection, Zelu writes a far-future robot epic that transforms her career while complicating her relationships, identity, and control over her own story.

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Deception Point

A Thriller

By Dan Brown

Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton is sent to verify a NASA discovery buried in Arctic ice, only to uncover scientific fraud, political manipulation, and killers determined to protect the deception.

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Cover of Deep EndContemporary Romance · Sports Romance

Deep End

A Novel

By Ali Hazelwood

Scarlett “Vandy” Vandermeer and Lukas Blomqvist negotiate an explicit BDSM relationship amid Olympic-level training pressure and real emotional fallout.

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Deep Navigation

A Collection

By Alastair Reynolds

This collection gathers early and previously scattered Reynolds stories, moving from Antarctic isolation and ecological games to alien rescue, deep-time revenge, and Revelation Space side tales.

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Digital Fortress

A Thriller

By Dan Brown

NSA cryptographer Susan Fletcher confronts an apparently unbreakable code that threatens the agency's surveillance power, forcing her to question secrecy, loyalty, and who controls digital privacy.

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Disclosure

A Novel

By Michael Crichton

Technology executive Tom Sanders is accused of sexual harassment by his new boss and former lover, forcing him to defend his career while uncovering a larger corporate plan behind the allegation.

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