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Charlie, a divorced substitute teacher, inherits his estranged uncle's parking-garage business and finds it is a front for a supervillain's empire, complete with a volcano lair, unionised dolphins and very intelligent cats.
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Dial A for Aunties
When Meddelin Chan accidentally kills her blind date, her meddling mother and three aunties help her hide the body, which ends up in a cooler at the extravagant island wedding their family business is running.
Mickey7
Mickey Barnes is the Expendable on a colony mission to the ice world Niflheim: when a job kills him he is regrown from backup, until his seventh body makes it home from a supposed death and finds Mickey8 already in his bed.
The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
A man wakes in a field in what looks like medieval England with no memory and a guidebook for travellers, and tries to work out who he is before the people chasing him catch up.
Lock In
Twenty-five years after a virus left millions locked inside their bodies and walking the world in robot bodies, Chris Shane, a locked-in FBI rookie, and his partner investigate a murder whose suspect may have been carrying someone else's mind.
Get Shorty
Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, goes to Los Angeles to collect from a man who faked his own death, meets a producer of schlock horror films who also owes money, and decides he could make movies himself.
Old Man's War
On his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins the Colonial Defense Forces, which give him a young, enhanced body in exchange for leaving Earth for ever and fighting humanity's wars across the stars.
One for the Money
Laid off from selling lingerie, Stephanie Plum of Trenton, New Jersey, talks her cousin Vinnie into hiring her as a bounty hunter, and her first skip is Joe Morelli, a cop wanted for murder who seduced and dumped her when they were teenagers.
Dr. No
A mathematics professor whose specialty is nothing is hired by a billionaire who wants to become a Bond villain and needs help stealing the nothing kept in Fort Knox.
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Four strangers swindled out of a million dollars by the same con man team up for an elaborate scheme to get it back.
Steelheart
Ten years after a burst in the sky gave ordinary people superpowers and made them tyrants, David, who saw Steelheart, the invincible ruler of Newcago, bleed on the day he killed David's father, sets out to join the Reckoners, who assassinate Epics.
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Ned Henry, an Oxford time traveller suffering from time-lag after too many jumps hunting a Victorian vase called the bishop's bird stump, is sent to recover in 1888, in a rowing boat on the Thames.
Awaken Online: Catharsis
Jason, a bullied high school student, logs into a new virtual-reality game and takes the path of a necromancer, playing the villain.