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1) Iron gold
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Red rising novels volume 4
Red rising saga volume 4
Red Rising trilogy volume 4
Thorndike Press large print core
Red rising saga volume 4
Red Rising trilogy volume 4
Thorndike Press large print core
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A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society, and abolish the color-coded caste system. But the Rising has shattered everything, and brought endless war. New foes emerge to threaten what has been earned, and throughout the worlds other destinies entwine with Darrow's to change his fate forever. A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp, and achieves for herself a new life she could...
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"Station Eleven meets The Martian in this brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them--and their families--changed forever In an age of space exploration, we search to find ourselves. In four years Prime Space will put the first humans on Mars. Helen Kane, Yoshi Tanaka, and Sergei Kuznetsov...
3) Morning star
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Red rising novels volume 3
Red rising saga volume 3
Red Rising trilogy volume 3
Thorndike Press large print core
Red rising saga volume 3
Red Rising trilogy volume 3
Thorndike Press large print core
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"Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating conclusion to the Red Rising Trilogy: Morning Star. Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to...
4) Golden son
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Red rising novels volume 2
Red Rising trilogy volume 2
Red rising saga volume 2
Thorndike Press large print core
Red Rising trilogy volume 2
Red rising saga volume 2
Thorndike Press large print core
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"With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown's genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work...
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Pennsylvania, 1997. Part of a clandestine division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Shannon Moss is assigned to the murder of a Navy SEAL's family. She learns that the SEAL was an astronaut aboard a spaceship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows firsthand the mental trauma of time travel, and believes it has triggered this violence. Traveling ahead in time, she discovers it's not only a family's fate that hinges on her...
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"Midwife Clara Perry is accustomed to comforting her pregnant patients, calming fathers-to-be as they anxiously await the birth of their children, and ensuring the babies she delivers come safely into the world. But when Clara's life takes a nosedive, she realizes she hasn't been tending to her own needs and does something drastic: she runs away and starts over again in a place where no one knows her or the mess she's left behind in West Virginia....
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"The first book of the triumphant and epic four-part conclusion to the Shannara series, from one of the all-time masters of fantasy. The Four Lands has been at peace for generations, but now a mysterious army of invaders is cutting a bloody swathe across a remote region of the land. No one knows who they are, where they come from, or what they are after--and most seem content to ignore these disturbing events. The only people who sense a greater,...