March 2017 list by Holly Whistler
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Before This Is Over
by Amanda Hickie
A regular suburban mom discovers how far she’ll go to keep her family safe after a deadly virus sweeping the world traps them in their home as the water and power supplies are cut and food grows scarce.
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Hekla's Children
by James Brogden
When one of four missing children returns starved, terrified and with no memory of where she’s been, teacher Nathan Brooks begins having terrifying visions of the students and soon discovers that he is the only thing keeping a terrible evil at bay.
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Change Agent
by Daniel Suarez
Drugged and abducted while standing on a crowded train platform, Kenneth Durand, an Interpol agent working against black-market labs that perform illegal embryo augmentation, awakens to discover he has been genetically transformed into his most wanted suspect. By the best-selling author of Daemon.
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Tender: Stories
by Sofia Samatar
The first collection of short fiction from a rising star whose stories have been anthologized in the first two volumes of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series and nominated for many awards. Some of Samatar’s weird and tender fabulations spring from her life and her literary studies; some spring from the world, some from the void.
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American War
by Omar El Akkad
A first novel by an award-winning journalist depicts a second American Civil War and devastating plague in the late 21st century that 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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Waking Gods
by Sylvain Neuvel
A sequel to Sleeping Giants finds an elite physicist investigating the nature of what appears to be a giant metal hand found decades earlier deep underground, a mystery that leads to the greatest discovery of the millennium and the appearance of a world-changing technology.
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The Wanderers
by Meg Howrey
Auditioning for the first-ever mission to Mars, three astronauts share experiences that push the boundary between the real and surreal while irrevocably changing their relationships and familial bonds.
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