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Action-Adventure: Adult Books Read a book from the list, or one of your own choosing
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The Future
by Naomi Alderman
While a few billionaires lead the world to certain doom, Martha Einkorn, working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything, and Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, when their paths unexpectedly cross, work together to prevent the cataclysmic end of civilization.
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Doom Breaker vol. 1
by Blue-Deep
Zephyr is the last human fighting evil in a world abandoned by the gods, but then he is killed by the Demon Lord, Tartarus. Zephyr, however, is reincarnated and sent 10 years into the past to try to save humanity. Can he finally have his revenge against Tartarus and save the woman he loves, or is he doomed to repeat the past?
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The Blonde Identity
by Ally Carter
Waking up in Paris with no memory of who she is, a young woman discovers she's the identical twin of a rogue spy and, to stay alive, must team up with a very grouchy, very sexy, very secret agent to unravel a deadly conspiracy and clear her sister's name.
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The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
by S. A. Chakraborty
While trying to settle into a life of piety, motherhood and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural, Amina al-Sirafi, one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, is offered a job she cannot refuse, but soon discovers this final chance at glory comes with a high price—her soul.
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I Will Find You
by Harlan Coben
Receiving evidence that his son might still be alive, an innocent father convicted of murdering his own child breaks out of prison to uncover the truth.
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Argylle
by Elly Conway
A CIA spymaster, Frances Coffey, must prevent a Russian magnate from restoring his nation to greatness and setting in motion a chain of events that will take the world to the edge of war and chaos.
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James
by Percival Everett
Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
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Crow Mary
by Kathleen Grissom
Married to a white fur trader in 1872, a Crow Native woman has her journey to Saskatchewan interrupted when she steals two guns and saves five Nakota women who were kidnapped by drunken whiskey traders, setting off a culture war.
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Nettle & Bone
by T. Kingfisher
To save her sister and topple a throne, Marra is offered the tools she needs if she completes three seemingly impossible tasks with the help of a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother and an enigmatic gravewitch and her fowl familiar.
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The Bad Weather Friend
by Dean R. Koontz
When he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée and his favorite chair, Benny Catspaw gets a strange inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of– a seven-foot-tall self-described“bad weather friend” named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world.
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The Ascent
by Adam Plantinga
When a security system malfunction in a maximum-security prison releases a horde of prisoners, ex-cop Kurt Argento must help a small band of staff and civilians, including the governor's daughter, make their way through six floors of the most dangerous convicts in Missouri to safety.
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Wild and Distant Seas
by Tara Karr Roberts
An outsider in Nantucket's small, close-knit community in 1849, Evangeline Hussey, after her husband is lost at sea, makes choices that ripple through generations, across continents and into the depths of the ocean as she and her descendants seek to chart their own futures.
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Pinquickle's Folly
by R. A. Salvatore
Returning to his signature world of Corona, introducing a dynamic new part of the southern coast, a fantasy author brings together a ragtag crew of Xoconi, dwarven Powrie pirates and human sailors—once enemies, now fierce friends with a common enemy and the spark of rebellion.
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Quests Aside
by Brian Schirmer
A skeleton, an apprentice mage, and an exiled princess walk into a bar... for another shift at Quests Aside, the local watering hole run by once legendary, now retired, adventurer Barrow. When the King privately explains that he plans to shut the place down, Barrow must find a way to hold onto his business, the friendships, and the family he's built around it.
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The Collector
by Daniel Silva
The #1 New York Times best-selling author returns with a tale of high stakes international intrigue—starring Gabriel Allon.
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Dark Spaces : Wildfire
by Scott Snyder
Six weeks into the slow burn of the historic Arroyo Fire, a crew of women from an inmate firefighting program are risking everything on the frontlines when their newest recruit--a white-collar convict with a deep network of shady dealers--discovers they're mere miles from her crooked former associate's abandoned mansion. When she proposes a plan to abandon their duties and hunt for riches under cover of smoke and ash, the team must decide if they're ready to jeopardize their one sure path back to normalcy for a shot at a score that would truly change their lives...but is this a flicker of fortune or a deadly trap?
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The Lost Tomb
by Douglas J. Preston
From the haunted country of Italy to the largest tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God presents extraordinary and enthralling true stories of Egyptian burial chambers, lost treasure, mysterious murders, strange crimes and more.
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