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"Two families flee extreme weather in India and come together on a mountaintop"--Provided by publisher.

Anwuli Okwudili goes by AO, initials representing both her given name and her nickname for herself, Artificial Organism. She was born with missing limbs and a horrible car accident years later led her to get various body argumentations in order to survive. One day at the local market AO is attacked, and she finds herself forced on the run with a Fulani herdsman named DNA. But with their world under constant surveillance by drones and other technologies, being able to disappear is almost impossible. They soon discover the truth about AO's implants and embark on a dangerous mission to take down the people who control everything in their country, the Ultimate Corporation.

"Alif had exciting summer plans: working on her father's archaeological dig site in the desert with four close friends . . . and a very cute research assistant. Then the sandstorm hit. Their camp wiped away, Alif and the others find themselves lost on the sands, seemingly doomed . . . until they find the oasis. It has everything they need: food, water, and shade--and mysterious ruins that hide a deadly secret. As reality begins to shift around them, they question what's real and what's a mirage. The answers turn Alif and her friends against each other, and they begin to wonder if they've truly been saved"--OCLC.

Curator Safia al-Maaz and her friend and museum benefactor Lady Kara Kensington, team up with archaeologist Omaha Dunn and government operative Painter Crowe on a perilous expedition to the Arabian desert in search of the lost city of Ubar and the source of the antimatter used to destroy the antiquities branch of a London museum.

Curator Safia al-Maaz and her friend and museum benefactor Lady Kara Kensington, team up with archaeologist Omaha Dunn and government operative Painter Crowe on a perilous expedition to the Arabian desert in search of the lost city of Ubar and the source of the antimatter used to destroy the antiquities branch of a London museum.