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A Stray Pup, A Second Chance, and a Killer on the Loose�Wagtail�s About to Get Wild!


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A Hacker, an Undercover Mission, and a Love Worth Fighting For.


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Shaken, Stirred, and Unexpectedly in Love�Can They Mix Business with Pleasure?


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As London's high society watches their every move, can these two brilliant minds find the formula for true love?


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Chocolate, Second Chances, and a Love Too Sweet to Let Go.


Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler

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Also by Octavia E. Butler:

Adulthood Rites, March 2023
Trade Size / e-Book / audiobook
Fledgling, November 2022
Paperback / e-Book
Imago, January 2022
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook (reprint)
Adulthood Rites, September 2021
Paperback / e-Book
Dawn, April 2021
Trade Size / e-Book / audiobook
Patternmaster, January 2021
Paperback / e-Book
Parable of the Talents, August 2019
Paperback
Wild Seed, July 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Mind of My Mind, July 2012
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Wastelands, January 2008
Paperback
Fledgling, September 2005
Hardcover
Kindred, February 2004
Trade Size (reprint)
Parable of the Talents, November 2001
Paperback (reprint)
Dawn, April 2001
Paperback (reprint)
Wild Seed, February 1999
Paperback (reprint)
Patternmaster, May 1997
Paperback (reprint)
Adulthood Rites, April 1997
Paperback
Imago, April 1997
Paperback (reprint)
Parable of the Sower, February 1995
Paperback (reprint)
Mind of My Mind, August 1994
Paperback (reprint)

Adulthood Rites
Octavia E. Butler

Lilith's Brood
Grand Central Publishing
March 2023
On Sale: March 28, 2023
Featuring: Lilith lyapo
ISBN: 1538753723
EAN: 9781538753729
Kindle: B0BZHT44V8
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Paperback (September 2021)

Science Fiction

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower: After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or is doomed to self-destruction.

In the future, nuclear war has destroyed nearly all humankind. An alien race intervenes, saving the small group of survivors from certain death. But their salvation comes at a cost.

The Oankali are able to read and mutate genetic code, and they use these skills for their own survival, interbreeding with new species to constantly adapt and evolve. They value the intelligence they see in humankind but also know that the species—rigidly bound to destructive social hierarchies—is destined for failure. They are determined that the only way forward is for the two races to produce a new hybrid species—and they will not tolerate rebellion.

Akin looks like an ordinary human child. But as the first true human-alien hybrid, he is born understanding language, then starts to form sentences at two months old. He can see at a molecular level and kill with a touch. More powerful than any human or Oankali, he will be the architect of both races' future. But before he can carry this new species into the stars, Akin must reconcile with his own heritage in a world already torn in two.

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