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The lost girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim FuA group of young girls descend on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest. One day, they set off on an overnight kayaking trip to a nearby island, but before the night is over, they find themselves stranded, with no adults to help them survive or guide them home. The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore traces these five girls—Nita, Kayla, Isabel, Dina, and Siobhan—through and beyond this fateful trip.
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The imam of Tawi-Tawi by Ian HamiltonIn the latest novel in the bestselling Ava Lee series, Ava is contracted by a senator in the Philippines to quietly investigate a college on an island province that he suspects is training terrorists. While working with a CIA agent to uncover an international plot, horrific in size and scope, Ava's judgement and morals are tested like never before.
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The boat peopleby Sharon BalaFor readers of Khaled Hosseini and Chris Cleave, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism.
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Bonus Reads: CanLit Sci-Fi
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Hominids by Robert J. SawyerThe first volume of a new trilogy, the Neanderthal Parallax, focuses on a parallel world in which neanderthals, rather than homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligent species, until a dangerous scientific experiment traps a neanderthal physicist on Earth.
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Oryx and Crakeby Margaret AtwoodSnowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride.
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American war by Omar El AkkadA second American Civil War and devastating plague in the late 21st century forces a family into a camp for displaced people, where a young woman is befriended by a mysterious functionary who would transform her into a living weapon.
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Neuromancer by William GibsonCase had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employers crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.
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