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Descriptosaurus: Fantasy

By: Alison Wilcox

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Descriptosaurus: Fantasy builds on the vocabulary and descriptive phrases introduced in the original bestselling Descriptosaurus and within the context of fantasy develops the structure and use of the words and phrases to promote colourful, cinematic writing. This essential guide will enable children to take their writing to the next level. It incorporates the essential skills and creative devices that are used in other genres while extending to themes of battle, sieges, magic and mystery to unleash children’s imaginations. This new system also provides a contextualised alternative to textbook grammar and will assist children in acquiring, understanding and applying the grammar required to improve their writing, both creative and technical.

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1317511026

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9781317511021

Descriptosaurus: Ghost Stories

By: Alison Wilcox

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Descriptosaurus: Ghost Stories

By: Alison Wilcox

Descriptosaurus: Ghost Stories builds on the vocabulary and descriptive phrases introduced in the original bestselling Descriptosaurus and, within the context of ghost stories, develops the structure and use of the words and phrases to promote colourful cinematic writing. This essential guide will enable children to take their writing to the next level, combine their descriptions of setting and character and show how the two interact. Children can then experiment with their own ghost stories, armed with the skills, techniques and vocabulary necessary to describe their ghostly scenes in a way that allows the reader to feel the characters’ fear and visualise the source of their terror within the setting. This new system also provides a contextualised alternative to grammar textbooks and will assist children in acquiring, understanding and applying the grammar they will need to improve their writing, both creative and technical.

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1317510933

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9781317510932

Philosopher's Daughters

By: Alison Booth

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Philosopher's Daughters

By: Alison Booth

A tale of two very different sisters whose 1890s voyage from London into remote outback Australia becomes a journey of self-discovery, set against a landscape of wild beauty and savage dispossession. London in 1891: Harriet Cameron is a talented young artist whose mother died when she was barely five. She and her beloved sister Sarah were brought up by their father, radical thinker James Cameron. After adventurer Henry Vincent arrives on the scene, the sisters' lives are changed forever. Sarah, the beauty of the family, marries Henry and embarks on a voyage to Australia. Harriet, intensely missing Sarah, must decide whether to help her father with his life's work or to devote herself to painting. When James Cameron dies unexpectedly, Harriet is overwhelmed by grief. Seeking distraction, she follows Sarah to Australia, and afterwards into the outback, where she is alienated by the casual violence and great injustices of outback life. Her rejuvenation begins with her friendship with an Aboriginal stockman and her growing love for the landscape. But this fragile happiness is soon threatened by murders at a nearby cattle station and by a menacing station hand who is seeking revenge.

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eBook Partnership

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1913227758

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9781913227753

The Naming

The First Book of Pellinor

By: Alison Croggon

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The Naming

The First Book of Pellinor

By: Alison Croggon

An epic fantasy in the Tolkien tradition, with a strong girl hero. . . . I couldn’t put it down!" – Tamora Pierce Maerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child when her family is destroyed in war. She doesn’t yet know she has inherited a powerful gift, one that marks her as a member of the noble School of Pellinor and enables her to see the world as no other can. It is only when she is discovered by Cadvan, one of the great Bards of Lirigon, that her true identity and extraordinary destiny unfold. Now, she and her mysterious teacher must embark on a treacherous, uncertain journey through a time and place where the forces of darkness wield an otherworldly terror. The first book in a projected quartet, Alison Croggon’s epic about Maerad and her remarkable yet dangerous gift is a beautiful, unforgettable tale. Presented as a new translation of an ancient text, The Naming evokes the rich and complex landscape of Annar, a legendary world just waiting to be discovered.

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Candlewick Press

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0763652512

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9780763652517

Beijing

From Imperial Capital to Olympic City

By: Lillian M. Li,Alison Dray-Novey,Haili Kong

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Beijing

From Imperial Capital to Olympic City

By: Lillian M. Li,Alison Dray-Novey,Haili Kong

Chronicles the history of Beijing from its earliest days to the twenty-first century, discussing how economic growth as well as preparations for the 2008 Olympics have affected the city.

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Macmillan

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0230605273

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9780230605275

History of Europe From the Commencement of the French Revolution In 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons In 1815

Vol. IV

By: Archibald Alison

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History of Europe From the Commencement of the French Revolution In 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons In 1815

Vol. IV

By: Archibald Alison

Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.

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3385131928

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9783385131927

Change Is Possible

Reflections on the History of Global Health

By: William H. Foege,Paul Elish,Alison T. Hoover,Madison Gabriella Lee,Deborah Chen Tseng,Kiera Chan

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Change Is Possible

Reflections on the History of Global Health

By: William H. Foege,Paul Elish,Alison T. Hoover,Madison Gabriella Lee,Deborah Chen Tseng,Kiera Chan

A groundbreaking new history of global health from one of the greatest leaders in the field. In Change Is Possible, public health legend William H. Foege and five coauthors chronicle the failures and successes of global health through the modern age, including the massive impacts of colonialism, religious groups, philanthropies, politics, NGOs, and more. Foege, who has served in local, national, and international public health contexts—including as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—is uniquely qualified to reflect on the history of global health. He and his Rollins School of Public Health coauthors explain why colonialism has been the greatest disaster for global health, whereas military medicine may have been its greatest asset. From the rapid development of NGOs to the impact of pharmaceutical companies over the last 35 years to the hybrid programs that are now responsible for innovative contributions, the authors discuss multiple impacts on global health. In chapters with coauthors Paul Elish, Alison T. Hoover, Madison Gabriella Lee, Deborah Chen Tseng, and Kiera Chan, Foege explores additional essential topics such as the legacy of colonialism in global health, early philanthropy versus new philanthropy, and how to promote positive change. Foege also shares critical lessons from the smallpox campaign—a disease he helped eradicate—and how these historical lessons can be applied in global health work today. The book's research and reflections make this an essential book for students and readers interested in global health. In a narrative that is both deeply personal and universal, Foege shares lessons learned and personal experiences that craft a strikingly new history of global health.

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JHU Press

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1421450437

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9781421450438

Mine Towns

Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country

By: Alison K. Hoagland

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Mine Towns

Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country

By: Alison K. Hoagland

During the nineteenth century, the Keweenaw Peninsula of Northern Michigan was the site of America’s first mineral land rush as companies hastened to profit from the region’s vast copper deposits. In order to lure workers to such a remote location—and work long hours in dangerous conditions—companies offered not just competitive wages but also helped provide the very infrastructure of town life in the form of affordable housing, schools, health-care facilities, and churches. The first working-class history of domestic life in Copper Country company towns during the boom years of 1890 to 1918, Alison K. Hoagland’sMine Townsinvestigates how the architecture of a company town revealed the paternal relationship that existed between company managers and workers—a relationship that both parties turned to their own advantage. The story of Joseph and Antonia Putrich, immigrants from Croatia, punctuates and illustrates the realities of life in a booming company town. While company managers provided housing as a way to develop and control a stable workforce, workers often rejected this domestic ideal and used homes as an economic resource, taking in boarders to help generate further income. Focusing on how the exchange between company managers and a largely immigrant workforce took the form of negotiation rather than a top-down system, Hoagland examines surviving buildings and uses Copper Country’s built environment to map this remarkable connection between a company and its workers at the height of Michigan’s largest land rush.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452915245

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9781452915241

Funding the Future

Philanthropy's Influence on American Higher Education

By: Alison R. Bernstein

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Funding the Future

Philanthropy's Influence on American Higher Education

By: Alison R. Bernstein

In an era of declining state support for colleges and universities, the role of private philanthropy in helping to shape the future direction of higher education has become even more crucial and significant than in the past. Knowing about philanthropy’s historic influence on higher education and what philanthropy currently prioritizes is now virtually a prerequisite for presidents and academic leaders in both public and private institutions. This book discusses the complex relationship of philanthropy to higher education both in historic perspective and in the present. It is not a primer on how to write a successful grant. Rather, it provides a road map for understanding philanthropy’s influence on American higher education. It will be of interest to academic leaders, advancement professionals, students of higher education and philanthropy, and others concerned with the future of colleges and universities.

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R&L Education

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1475804083

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9781475804089

The Celys and Their World

An English Merchant Family of the Fifteenth Century

By: Alison Hanham

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The Celys and Their World

An English Merchant Family of the Fifteenth Century

By: Alison Hanham

A richly detailed study of the Cely family and its activities as staplers and ship-owners.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521520126

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9780521520126

Tuai

A Traveller in Two Worlds

By: Alison Jones,Kuni Kaa Jenkins

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Tuai

A Traveller in Two Worlds

By: Alison Jones,Kuni Kaa Jenkins

In early 1817 Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from the Bay of Islands, set off for England. He was one of a number of Māori who, after encountering European explorers, traders and missionaries in New Zealand, seized opportunities to travel beyond their familiar shores to Australia, England and Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They sought new knowledge, useful goods and technologies, and a mutually benefi cial relationship with the people they knew as Pākehā. On his epic journey Tuai would visit exotic foreign ports, mix with teeming crowds in the huge metropolis of London, and witness the marvels of industrialisation at the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire. With his lively travelling companion Tītere, he would attend fashionable gatherings and sit for his portrait. He shared his deep understanding of Māori language and culture. And his missionary friends did their best to convert him to Christianity. But on returning to his Māori world in 1819, Tuai found there were difficult choices to be made. His plan to integrate new European knowledge and relationships into his Ngare Raumati community was to be challenged by the rapidly shifting politics of the Bay of Islands. With sympathy and insight, Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins uncover the remarkable story of one of the first Māori travellers to Europe.

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Bridget Williams Books

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0947518819

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9780947518813

Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Alison Stone

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Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Alison Stone

Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. The aim of this book is to put them back on the map. It introduces twelve women philosophers - Mary Shepherd, Harriet Martineau, Ada Lovelace, George Eliot, Frances Power Cobbe, Helena Blavatsky, Julia Wedgwood, Victoria Welby, Arabella Buckley, Annie Besant, Vernon Lee, and Constance Naden. Alison Stone looks at their views on naturalism, philosophy of mind, evolution, morality and religion, and progress in history. She shows how these women interacted and developed their philosophical views in conversation with one another, not only with their male contemporaries. The rich print and periodical culture of the period enabled these women to publish philosophy in forms accessible to a general readership, despite the restrictions women faced, such as having limited or no access to university education. Stone explains how these women became excluded from the history of philosophy because there was a cultural shift at the end of the nineteenth century towards specialised forms of philosophical writing, which depended on academic credentials that were still largely unavailable to women.

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Oxford University Press

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0192874713

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9780192874719

Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense March 2017 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Shirlee McCoy,Alison Stone,Lisa Phillips

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Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense March 2017 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Shirlee McCoy,Alison Stone,Lisa Phillips

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. MISTAKEN IDENTITY Mission: Rescue by Shirlee McCoy When Trinity Miller’s attacked by a man who believes she’s Mason Gains’s girlfriend, the former army pilot turned reclusive prosthetic maker is forced from seclusion to rescue her. But the assailant won’t stop targeting her—unless Mason gives up information on one of his clients. PLAIN SANCTUARY by Alison Stone Running her new Amish community bed-and-breakfast, Heather Miller believes she’s finally safe from her violent ex-husband—until he escapes from prison to come after her. Now her only hope of survival is relying on US Marshal Zach Walker for protection. SECURITY DETAIL Secret Service Agents by Lisa Phillips A mobster is after former president’s daughter Kayla Harris, and she’s not sure why. But undercover Secret Service agent Conner Thorne’s determined to find out…and save her life.

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1488019037

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9781488019036

The Calling

By: Alison Bruce

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The Calling

By: Alison Bruce

Bruce is doing for Cambridge what Colin Dexter did for Oxford with Inspector Morse' Daily Mail Kaye Whiting went to buy a birthday present and didn't come back. She isn't dead, or physically injured. But she is alone and very, very scared. Fifty miles away in Cambridge town centre a deeply disturbed young woman is standing by a payphone. She knows she often feels compelled to do harmful things and is driven by a desire to make a call. DC Gary Goodhew is one of the detectives assigned to find Kaye and when her body is discovered the only clue to the potential murderer is a woman's voice on his answerphone saying, 'Kaye isn't the first and won't be the last...' Praise for Cambridge Blue: 'Menacing and insidious, this is a great novel' R J Ellory 'A fast-paced gritty tale guaranteed to have you hooked from beginning to end' Cambridgeshire Pride 'A gripping tale of murder and mystery' Cambridge Style

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C & R Crime

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1849017859

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A Perfect Marriage

By: Alison Booth

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A Perfect Marriage

By: Alison Booth

When is it time to let go of the past? Sally Lachlan has a secret that has haunted her for a decade, is it now time to let it go? A chance meeting with the charismatic geneticist, Anthony Blake, reawakens Sally's desire for love. But as she finally lets down her guard, her daughter, Charlie, shows signs of wishing to know more about her father and what really happened all those years ago. Both the past and the future are places Sally prefers not to think about, but if she wants to move towards a new love, she will first have to come to terms with her previous marriage. Only then will she be able to be honest with Charlie . . . and herself. A story of love and loss, A Perfect Marriage is also a heart-warming tale of redemption, new hopes and fresh beginnings, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty. Reader reviews 'A compelling story about love, family and secrets' Linda Green, Books of All Kinds 'My favourite book of the year so far' Joy Corkery, Joyful Antidotes Book Reviews 'Immensely readable psychological drama' Nicola Smith, Short Books & Scribes 'A beautiful, intricate story of female friendships' Sheri, NetGalley reviewer 'The writing is sublime . . . simply masterful' Amy, NetGalley reviewer

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eBook Partnership

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1839783850

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Guardians Of The Crown Complete Collection/By The Sword/The King's Man/Exile's Return

By: Alison Stuart

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Guardians Of The Crown Complete Collection/By The Sword/The King's Man/Exile's Return

By: Alison Stuart

From award–winning author Alison Stuart comes a stirring historical trilogy about soldiers, spies, and the strong women that love them. By The Sword England 1650. In the aftermath of the execution of the King, England totters once more on the brink of civil war. Kate Ashley finds her loyalty to the Parliamentary cause tested when she inherits responsibility for the estate of the Royalist Thornton family. Jonathan Thornton, exiled and hunted for his loyalty to the King's cause now returns to England to garner support for the young King. Finding Kate in his family home, he sees in her a chance at a life he doesn't deserve. But love is fragile in the face of history. What hope can one soldier and one woman hold in times like these? The King's Man London 1654: Kit Lovell is a disillusioned Royalist who passes his time cheating at cards, living off his wealthy and attractive mistress and plotting the death of Oliver Cromwell. Penniless and friendless, Thamsine Granville has lost everything. Terrified, in pain and alone, she hurls a piece of brick at the coach of Oliver Cromwell and earns herself an immediate death sentence. Only the quick thinking of a stranger saves her. Far from the bored, benevolent rescuer that he seems, Kit plunges Thamsine into his world of espionage and betrayal – a world that has no room for falling in love. Torn between Thamsine and loyalty to his King, Kit's carefully constructed web of lies begins to unravel. He must make one last desperate gamble – the cost of which might be his life. Exile's Return England, 1659: Following the death of Cromwell, a new king is poised to ascend the throne of England. Imprisoned, exiled and tortured, fugitive Daniel Lovell returns to England, determined to kill the man who murdered his father. But his plans for revenge must wait, as the King has one last mission for him. Agnes Fletcher's lover is dead, and when his two orphaned children are torn from her care by their scheming guardian, she embarks on a perilous journey to save them. She didn't plan on meeting the infamous Daniel Lovell. Thrown together with separate quests – and competing obligations – Daniel and Agnes make their way from London to the English countryside, danger at every turn. Will they find the peace they crave, or will their fledgling love be a final casualty of war?

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HarperCollins Australia

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1489241507

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9781489241504

Alison Balter's Mastering Microsoft Access 2000 Development

By: Alison Balter

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Alison Balter's Mastering Microsoft Access 2000 Development

By: Alison Balter

What Alison's book offers over most or all of the other books on the market is that Alison is able to take a highly technical topic and present it in a manner that is easy to comprehend. It is a book that the reader will often want to read from cover to cover, but it can also act as an excellent reference. The CD includes all source code from the book, sample databases, and complete applications.

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Sams Publishing

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0672314843

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9780672314841

The Beloved

By: Alison Rattle

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The Beloved

By: Alison Rattle

Escape from a bullying mother takes one young woman to an even more dangerous place. Alice Angel has known only a life of rules, restriction and punishments as she strays from the rigid path of Victorian proprietary that her mother has set out for her. A constant disappointment to all but her doting father, she longs for the day that she might break free from the stifling atmosphere of her mother's rule. After a chance encounter with a charming stranger, and a final incident with her family that sees her condemned to the madhouse, Alice sees her opportunity to run and grasps it with both hands. She escapes to join the Agapemonites in their Abode of Love, where ex-Reverend Henry Prince rules his isolated colony of women as their Beloved. Prince ignites a passion in Alice that she never knew existed, and she dares to think she might be free at last. But as Alice becomes more deeply drawn into the life of Prince's strange religious sect, secrets are revealed that seem to hint at a darker nature lurking behind the man's charm. Instead of freedom, is Alice in fact more trapped, alone and in danger than ever before?

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Hot Key Books

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1471403807

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9781471403804

Forever People

By: Alison Lyke

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Forever People

By: Alison Lyke

High concept, thought-inducing sci-fi." –TaleFlick, April 2019 Top Pick Welcome to Zeta City, where the whole world goes to die. Here, the Node System uploads the minds of the dying so they can spend eternity in a digital Promised Land. But, this cyber heaven is causing hell on earth for the living because the System forces them to earn Points to buy data in the afterlife. Camille is a salty mercenary out to hoard as many Points as possible by exploiting the dying with illegal technology. She's on the hunt for Toy, a rebel leader who uploaded lethal technology to her own brain in an attempt to wipe out everyone’s Node Points. Camille goes to increasingly dangerous lengths in pursuit of Toy. She soon finds that the Node is full of warm reunions with loved ones and otherworldly creations. It’s also full of lies.

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Black Rose Writing

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1684332400

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