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title: The Day After Never - Purgatory Road (Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Thriller - Book 2)
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Rika Redeemed: A Tale of Mercenaries, Cyborgs, and Mechanized Infantry (Aeon 14: Rika's Marauders Book 2)

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<p class="description">John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place. So: we fight. To defend Earth (a target for our new enemies, should we let them get close enough) and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has gone on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force, which shields the home planet from too much knowledge of the situation. What's known to everybody is that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve your time at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine-and what he will become is far stranger.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.</p>


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<b>THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS. FOR THE LAST TIME.</b><br>A season of endings has begun. <br> It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. <br> It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. <br> It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. <br> This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. <br><p><b>A new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin.</b>


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<p>The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF+s toughest operations. They+re young, they+re fast and strong, and they+re totally without normal human qualms.The universe is a dangerous place for humanity-and it+s about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF+s biggest military secrets. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did.Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers-a superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin+s DNA, whose brain is uniquely able to access Boutin+s electronic memories. But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given over to the Ghost Brigades.At first Jared is a perfect soldier, but as memories surface, he begins to intuit the reasons for Boutin+s betrayal. As Jared desperately hunts for his -father,+ he must also come to grips with his own choices. Time is running out: the alliance is preparing its offensive, and some of them plan worse things than humanity+s mere military defeat . . . .</p><p>**</p>


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<p>On a quiet night in the world of Evanna, two hunters watch a star fall from the sky. Only, it is not a star. It is a goddess.</p> <p>The Lady of the Wind has fled the heavenly realm of Anu, and the powers that pursue her will not let her go lightly.</p> <p>Lucky for her, the hunters with whom she has found refuge are more than they seem.</p> <p>Gods and humans have always had a rather violent history.</p>


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<div><p><strong>View our feature on Christopher Golden's <em>Waking Nightmares</em>.</strong></p><p>Peter Octavian, once a vampire, now a powerful mage, has been living a quiet life in San Francisco. But when the barrier that used to prevent demons and monsters from entering the world have fallen, Octavian is compelled to do what he can to hold back the darkness.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>'The pacing is always pedal-to-the-floor, the main characters are larger than life and the demons and other assorted monstrosities give Lovecraft's Cthulu mythos a run for their money' Barnes &amp; Noble Online 'Something wicked this way comes in Christopher Golden's WAKING NIGHTMARES. An intriguing thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat, it highlights the nightmare that has been unleashed in Hawthorne and which the police are ill-equipped to handle. In a race against time, Keomany and Peter, along with several other secondary characters, must discover the source before Hawthorne is consumed and the terror spreads beyond the town limits to the rest of the world. Readers get glimpses into several lives as they are affected by the circumstances and must piece together the puzzle along with Peter and Keomany to determine the nature of the threat. A thrilling page-turner, WAKING NIGHTMARES is a great addition to the spring/summer reading collection' Romance Reviews Today ' A thrilling horror tale' scifibulletin.com 'Whether a reader has been waiting for Peter Octavian's return or just wants a good horror adventure, WAKING NIGHTMARES is a satisfying read' assignmentx.com </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Christopher Golden</strong> is the author of more than twenty novels, including the critically-acclaimed <strong>Strangewood</strong>, and six nonfiction projects. He has worked in the comic book field for both Marvel and Dark Horse, and his short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He received the Bram Stoker Award for his nonfiction work, <strong>Cut: Horror Writers on Horror Film</strong>. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two sons. Visit his website at www.christophergolden.com</p></div>


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<p class="description">Jillian Talbot has it all: a beautiful home in New York’s Greenwich Village, a string of bestselling suspense novels, a handsome and adoring lover.<br><br>She has something else, too. A silent stalker. A secret admirer who sends her pink, heart-shaped messages—with an unmistakable threat in blood-red letters. His motives are as cryptic as the name he goes by: Valentine. But his intentions are deadly clear. He has stalked other women in the past, and he has killed them. Now he’s ready to add Jill to his list, to carry out the punishment he has chosen for her, retribution for a long-ago crime that only he remembers. For Valentine, vengeance will be complete.<br><br>For Jill Talbot, the terror has just begun. Wherever she runs, he will find her. And soon she will meet him on his terrible day of judgment. His triumphant day. Her darkest day.<br><br><br></p>


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<p>&#147;The sustained comedy in this hilarious novel is equaled only by its heart, and the myriad ways there are for it to break. I love this book. Michael Poore writes like an angel.&#148;<p>&#8212;Daniel Wallace, author of <i>Big Fish</i><p>John Scratch, the Devil himself, is the protagonist in this stunningly imaginative, sharp, funny, and tender novel, as he tricks, teases, and prods America to greatness in the hope of luring his lost love back down to Earth from Heaven. <i>Up Pops the Devil</i> is fiction with humor and heart, the kind of hilarious, off-beat, and original reading experience that fans of Chris Moore, Joe Hill, Chuck Palahniuk, and Jim Shepard would sell their souls for&#8212;a brilliant blending of the occult and the outrageous starring the anti-hero of anti-heroes, the one and only Prince of Darkness.


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<p>"As original as it is affecting . . . left me genuinely creeped out, unsettled, and shaken. An existentially frightening book."<br><b>&#8212;Paul Tremblay, author of <i>Survivor Song</i></b><br>"Hold on, this isn't a ride, it's a slide, and it doesn't care whether you're ready or not."<br><b>&#8212;Stephen Graham Jones, author of <i>The Only Good Indians</i></b><br><b><br>A widower battles his grief, rage, and the mysterious evil inhabiting his home smart speaker, in this mesmerizing horror thriller from Gus Moreno.</b><br>It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't interest Thiago, but Vera thought it would be a bit of fun for them amidst all the strange occurrences happening in the condo. It made things worse. The cold spots and scratching in the walls were weird enough, but peculiar packages started showing up at the house&#8212;who ordered industrial lye? Then there was the eerie music at odd hours, Thiago waking up to Itza...


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More than a hundred years ago, a king declared that all geniuses, scientists and inventors were abominations, save for those willing to become his Conventioneers. His edict spread like wildfire through the kingdoms, and drove the hunted into the arms of the secret societies, the Tub and the Fare.

Decades later, having taken control of the remains of the crushed Fare, a young Marcus Pieman followed up on rumors of a homeless, teenage Abominator in his city. When the scared Nikolas Klaus looked up at Marcus for the first time, a tremendous bond was forged, but would he truly adopt Marcus’ cause? 

A betrayal leads Tee to a showdown with her greatest foe. Who breaks and who lays bleeding in the middle of nowhere?

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<p><strong>If you die in a dream, you die in real iife -- that used to be a myth!</strong><br /><br />Howell Warren hasn't seen another human face for over five years. If he did, that person could die at any time. This is the world of the Sleeping Sickness.<br /><br />As the world recovers from a devastating Solar Flare, society is just getting back on track when a strange phenomena begins. Voilent dreams are coming true all over the world. Those featured in the dreams are killed in real life showing terrible injuries like those in the dreams. No one is safe, because no one can control their dreams.<br /><br />The more worried people become, the more likely they are to have bad thoughts at night. It's only a matter of time before you kill someone. At least that was how it was until everyone started wearing masks and disguises and people began to forget the faces of everyone they ever knew.<br /><br />In this new world, the re-emerging internet is filled with rumour and fear. Howell Warren hates living behind a mask. His new love, Catherine -- many cities away -- feels the same. Their one hope of a 'normal' life is to travel over dangerous, still mostly lawless terrain to make it to the city of Asitwas, a place where everyone lives as before and the only time people wear masks is at Halloween.<br /><br />Can they mananage to meet and cross hostile terrain to make their dreams come true. Or will the lawless world or the Sleeping Sickness get to them first?<br /><br /><strong>If you liked 'A Quiet Place,' 'The Silence' or 'Birdbox' you'll love this Speculative Horror from E.P Douglas</strong></p>


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<p>In the aftermath of his mentor's death, grad student Adler is left to piece together and clean up the project she left behind: an adaptive and increasingly malevolent artificial intelligence, kept locked in a virtual "box" that's no longer quite enough to keep him in check.</p><p> </p><p>As he tries to manage the AI and continue Dr. Kent's research, Adler soon discovers her sociopathic creation is determined to escape his enclosure to wreak havoc on the outside world.</p>


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<p><b>Featuring boardroom intrigue, masquerade balls, gondola chases, street gangs, and shapeshifting mages, <i>The Justice in Revenge</i> sees Buc and Eld turning from pirates to politics and facing the deadliest mystery of their career.</b><br>The island nation of Servenza is a land of flint and steel, sail and gearwork, of gods both Dead and sleeping. It is a society where the wealthy few rule the impoverished many. <br>Determined to change that, former street-rat Buc, along with Eld, the ex-soldier who has been her partner in crime-solving, have claimed seats on the board of the powerful Kanados Trading Company. Buc plans to destroy the nobility from within&#8212;which is much harder than she expected. <br>Stymied by boardroom politics and dodging mages at every turn, Buc and Eld find a potential patron in the Doga, ruler of Servenza. The deal: by the night of the Masquerade, unmask whoever has been attempting to assassinate the Doga, thereby earning her support in the halls...


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<div><p>Her faith, unshakable… and her aim is true.  </p>
<p>The legends of fairytales descend upon Issaquah, Washington from Seattle in response to the report of demon activity. They find themselves under attack by an archer with uncanny aim and unnatural speed and agility.  </p>
<p>The group’s beta wolf, Amanda Danes, finds herself in pursuit of a legend. Robyn of Locksley. The fabled Robin Hood of Nottingham.  </p>
<p>Robyn joins forces with the Avatars of the mortal realm to face Styche the Trickster and stop his plan of unleashing Hell on Earth.  </p>
<p>Victory always has a cost.</p>
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<p>An ancient cover up, a dangerous legacy and the search for the most powerful object.</p><p>A three-thousand-year old magical coin, the disappearance of an old man, fanatical neo-Nazis, and the hunt by Interpol, merge in this gripping story of an ancient cover up, and the transition of an ordinary man into the guardian of the most powerful coin on earth.</p><p>High school teacher Nik Zosimos, leads an uncomplicated life until he receives a cryptic phone message from his grandfather, Iasos. He hurries to his grandfather's finding him relaxed and pleased to see him. A few beers later, Nik leaves his grandfather's place, stupefied and astounded. Iasos has a secret, one that dates back to the time of Herakles.</p><p>But that was just a myth, wasn't it?</p><p>If you like Dan Brown and Wilbur Smith books or enjoys action, fast-past dramatic shows similar to National Treasure and The Librarians, then you'll love The Guardian's Legacy. Award-winning author of Historical...


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<p>Protect. Fight. Destroy. </p> <p><b>Protect your people.</b></p> <p>The endless rotstorm rages over the ruins of the Ferron Empire. Floré would never let the slavers of the Empire rise again. As a warrior of the Stormguard Commandos, she wrought horrors in the rotstorm to protect her people. She did her duty and left the bloodshed behind.</p> <p><b>Fight for your family.</b><br>Floré's peace is shattered when blazing orbs of light cut through the night sky and descend on her village. Her daughter is abducted and Floré is forced into a chase across a land of twisted monsters and ancient gods. She must pursue the mysterious orbs, whose presence could herald the return of the Empire she spent her entire life fighting.</p> <p><b>Destroy your enemies.</b><br>Now, Floré must take up the role she swore to put aside and become the weapon the Stormguard trained her to be, to save not only her daughter, but her people . . .</p> <p>Read this action-packed and unique fantasy adventure from...


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<p><b><i>The Freedom Race</i>, Lucinda Roy's explosive first foray into speculative fiction, is poignant blend of subjugation, resistance, and hope.</b><br>In the aftermath of a cataclysmic civil war known as the Sequel, ideological divisions among the states have hardened. In the Homestead Territories, an alliance of plantation-inspired holdings, Black labor is imported from the Cradle, and Biracial "Muleseeds" are bred.<br>Raised in captivity on Planting 437, kitchen-seed Jellybean "Ji-ji" Lottermule knows there is only one way fto escape. She must enter the annual Freedom Race as a runner.<br>Ji-ji and her friends must exhume a survival story rooted in the collective memory of a kidnapped people and conjure the voices of the dead to light their way home.<br>At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</p>


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<p><i>I had a body once before. I didn't always love it. I knew the skin as my limit, and there were times I longed to leave it.</i><br><i>I knew better than to wish for this.</i><br>This is the story of Yun. It's the story of Adam.<br>Two young people. A familiar chase.<br>But this is not a love story.<br>It's a story of revenge, transformation, survival.<br><i><br>Feel something, the body commands. Feel this.<br>But it's a phantom . . . I go untouched.</i><br><i>They want their body back.</i><br>Who are we, if we lose hold of the body?<br>What might we become?<br><i>The Airways</i> shifts between Sydney and Beijing, unsettling the boundaries of gender and power, consent and rage, self and other, and even life and death. <br>A powerful, inventive, and immersive novel from award-winning author Jennifer Mills.</p>


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<b>From the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table, comes an anthology of gender-bent, race-bent, LGBTQIA+ inclusive retellings.&#160;Featuring stories by:</b><br><b>Alexander Chee &bull; Preeti Chhibber &bull; Roshani Chokshi &bull; Sive Doyle &bull; Maria Dahvana Headley &bull; Ausma Zehanat Khan &bull; Daniel M. Lavery &bull; Ken Liu &bull; Sarah MacLean &bull; Silvia Moreno-Garcia &bull; Jessica Plummer &bull; Anthony Rapp &bull; Waubgeshig Rice &bull; Alex Segura &bull; Nisi Shawl &bull; S. Zainab Williams</b><br>&#160;<br><b>A <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Summer Reads pick!</b><br>Here you&rsquo;ll find the Lady of the Lake reimagined as an albino Ugandan sorceress and the Lady of Shalott as a wealthy, isolated woman in futuristic Mexico City; you'll see Excalibur rediscovered as a baseball bat that grants a washed-up minor leaguer a fresh shot at glory and as a lost ceremonial drum that returns to a young First Nations boy the power and...


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<p><b>An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels.</b><br><br>One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of <i>King Lear</i>. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, <i>Station Eleven</i> tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral...


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"An ambitious first novel full of the mysteries, histories and rituals of a Tennessee town. Full of nightmarish imagery wrapped in elegant prose, this is a strong debut." <b>&#8212;John Langan, author of <i>Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies</i></b><br> Deep in the heat and silence of rural Tennessee, down an untraveled road, sits the forgotten town of Three Summers. Mere miles away, on an overgrown river island, stands the house that once presided over the grand plantation of Angel's Landing, moss-draped, decrepit. Waiting. <br> Failing crime writer Bradley Ellison and former prostitute Missy Holiday are drawn to this place, fleeing a world turned against them. For Brad, it is work&#8212;he must find a compelling story before the true-crime magazine he writes for judges him expendable. For Missy, it is recuperation&#8212;four years at "the club" have left her drained. <br> But the price of peace is high, and soon Brad and Missy discover that something hides behind the...


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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Swamplandia!, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, an imaginative and haunting novella about an insomnia epidemic set in the near future.    	A crisis has swept America. Hundreds of thousands have lost the ability to sleep. Enter the Slumber Corps, an organization that urges healthy dreamers to donate sleep to an insomniac. Under the wealthy and enigmatic Storch brothers the Corps&rsquo; reach has grown, with outposts in every major US city. Trish Edgewater, whose sister Dori was one of the first victims of the lethal insomnia, has spent the past seven years recruiting for the Corps. But Trish&rsquo;s faith in the organization and in her own motives begins to falter when she is confronted by &ldquo;Baby A,&rdquo; the first universal sleep donor, and the mysterious &ldquo;Donor Y.&rdquo;    	Sleep Donation&nbsp;explores a world facing the end of sleep as we know it, where &ldquo;Night Worlds&rdquo; offer black market remedies to the desperate and sleep deprived, and where even the act of making a gift is not as simple as it appears.


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<p><b>The first in an all new fantasy series from USA TODAY Bestseller, David Dalglish</b><p><br><p>Six islands float high above the Endless Ocean, where humanity's final remnants are locked in brutal civil war.<p><br>Their parents slain in battle, twins Kael and Brenna Skyborn are training to be Seraphim, elite soldiers of aerial combat who wield elements of ice, fire, stone and lightning. <br>When the invasion comes, they will take to the skies, and claim their vengeance.<br><p><b>Seraphim</b><p><li><i>Skyborn</i></li><li><i>Fireborn</i></li><li><i>Shadowborn</i></li><p><br><p>For more from David Dalglish, check out: <p><br><p><b>Shadowdance</b><br><li><i>A Dance of Cloaks</i></li><li><i>A Dance of Blades</i></li><li><i>A Dance of Mirrors</i></li><li><i>A Dance of Shadows</i></li><li><i>A Dance of Ghosts</i></li><li><i>A Dance of Chaos</i></li>


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<p><strong>When math meets aftermath, all Hell will break loose.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>A near-death experience gives Dalton McGovern an epiphany-through a combination of computer programming and neurotechnology, he will create a virtual afterlife. With support from his unflappable but flighty twin sister and his stoic and secretive ex-boyfriend, he gets the University of Liverpool to green light the project.</p><p><br></p><p>However, when his work catches the interest of an unconventional Pope and a nasty spirit attached to an unrepentant murderer, control of the project starts slipping from his hands. It turns out Dalton's unleashed something far more significant on the world than even he thought.</p><p><br></p><p>Dalton may not have merely created an afterworld-he may have ended this one.</p>


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<p><strong>He is the FBI's only paranormalist. She is a television medium. Together they are more than the supernatural world bargained for.</strong></p><p><br>Jordan Blake is the FBI's only paranormalist, a position that costs him more than a little credibility with the other agents. Throw in his girlfriend Megan Tolliver, the darling, and impulsive, host of the top cable paranormal show, "America's Medium", and he doesn't stand a chance of ever being taken seriously. But that doesn't stop them from turning to him when they come across something that the natural world can't explain, such as the mysterious death of a coed in Richmond Virginia. They sent Jordan up to just consult on her autopsy, but her spirit begs him to dig further. With Megan's help, they uncover a ring of evil that spreads up to the highest reaches of government, and cost several young women their lives to keep them silent. Together the hunt down those responsible and try to stay out of the way of their only...


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<p>Evil is the consequence of an individual&apos;s own struggles against non-existence...</p><p>Ancient monsters of destruction rise from emerging rifts that dot the landscape, pushing cities and the known civilization to their downfall. As her homeland falls into chaos around her and political intrigues arise, Eos&#8212;a celestial healer with a thrice-split soul&#8212;battles to mitigate the consequences of her ever-increasing powers to help close the rifts connecting her world to an unknown, dangerous underworld. When an angel with a claim on her arrives, demanding what he's owed, she must tap into her newly discovered lineage to find a way to escape him.</p><p>Erigenia, the parasite on Eos' soul, has severed her link to Eos in a reckless bid for independence. Scavenging for resources to maintain her decaying form and ensure her immortality, she slowly begins to descend little by little into the darkness of non-existence. Yet, as her magic begins to fade, Erigenia finds herself...


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<p><strong>"Like Whitehead's The Intuitionist, Alyssa Cole's When No One Is Watching or Zakiya Dalila Harris' The Other Black Girl, Reprieve straddles genres in the best possible way. . . . Sure to spark conversation and debate at book clubs across the land." &#8211;LOS ANGELES TIMES</strong></p><p><strong>"An eventual American classic that is unrelenting in its beauty and incisive cultural critique." &#8211; KIESE LAYMON</strong></p><p><strong>Recommended by Los Angeles Times &#8226; Esquire &#8226; O Quarterly &#8226; Boston Globe &#8226; Harper's Bazaar &#8226; Shondaland &#8226; The Millions &#8226; Crimereads &#8226; XTRA</strong> <strong>&#8226; Tor &#8226; Literary Hub &#8226; and more!</strong></p><p><strong>A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killing that takes place in a full-contact haunted escape room&#8212;a provocative exploration of capitalism, hate politics, racial fetishism, and our obsession with fear as...


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<b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Bird Box</i> and <i>Malorie,</i> Josh Malerman, comes the legend of a strange new monster unlike any other in horror.</b> <br>&#160; <br>There's something strange about Walter Kopple's farm. At first it seems to be his grandson, who cruelly murders one of Walter's pigs in an act of seemingly senseless violence. But then the rumors begin&mdash;people in town whisper that Walter's grandson heard a voice that commanded him to kill.&#160;<br>And that the voice belongs to a most peculiar creature: Walter's pig,&#160;Pearl. Walter is not sure what to believe. He knows that he's always been afraid of the strangely malevolent&#160;Pearl. But as madness and paranoia grip the town and the townspeople descend on Walter's farm with violent wrath, they begin to discover that true evil wears a human face. <i> <br> </i><b>Previously published as <i>On This, the Day of the Pig</i></b><i><br></i>


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<p><strong>The eagerly anticipated conclusion to the Peaceforgers trilogy</strong></p> <p>After all they've sacrificed and the lines they've crossed to keep the planet from becoming a literal dystopia, Katja and her surviving allies aren't sure they&#8212;or the human race&#8212;will survive 2050. At least not with their free will intact.</p> <p>Battered and betrayed, they make their plans. But the Peaceforgers have plans of their own and fewer and fewer reasons to hold back.</p> <p>As the list of casualties grows...As the number of invaded minds and infected bodies soars...As the stakes become increasingly grim and the Peaceforgers escalate their attacks...As the very elements and assets she depends on most are turned against her...Katja realizes it might take more than clever code to win this one.</p> <p>It turns out the future actually can get darker. And the facts keep pointing towards one solution. Want to save the light? <strong>Hack your humanity.</strong></p>


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<b>Hawai&lsquo;i author Chris McKinney&rsquo;s first entry in a brilliant new sci-fi noir trilogy explores the sordid past of a murdered scientist, deified in death, through the eyes of a man who once committed unspeakable crimes for her.</b> <br> <b><br> </b>2150: An unnamed police detective receives a message from Akira Kimura, the preeminent scientist and living legend who vanquished a world-ending meteor thirty years ago. As Akira&rsquo;s former head of security&mdash;and perhaps her only friend&mdash;he is one of the few who knows of the sacrifices that were necessary for her to complete Ascalon, the cosmic ray that neutralized the global threat. Ascalon's Scar remains emblazoned in the sky, a permanent reminder of humanity&rsquo;s close call with extinction. <br> When he arrives at Akira&rsquo;s home and finds her methodically dismembered, he must dig into their shared past&mdash;with the help of a mysterious synesthesia that no one else knows he has&mdash;to find her...


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<p><strong>From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates comes the fourth book in the all-new WORLD'S SCARIEST LEGENDS series. For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Creepypastas.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>A cave-diving expedition on a mysterious island goes horribly wrong for a renowned marine biologist and his fellow divers when they become hunted by a deadly breed of predators that until then had only been known in myths and legends.</p><p><br></p><p>Although in a series, this is a STAND-ALONE novel. For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Richard Laymon, Bentley Little, as well as other horror and mystery authors such as Dan Simmons, Jack Ketchum, Robert McCammon, Brian Keene, Darcy Coates, Amy Cross, Jeff Strand, Ambrose Ibsen, Jeremy Robinson, Nick Cutter, Blake Crouch, Joe Hill, Iain Rob Wright, Jeff Menapace, Matt Shaw, Heather Graham, Jack Kilborn, James Herbert. We hope you enjoy!</p>


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<div><p>A compelling alternate history novel by the breakout author of WW II era alternate history <em>Himmler’s War</em> and <em>Rising Sun.</em> </p><p>The British win the American Revolutionary War, and a desperate Washington and the American founders must make a last stand in an enclave called Liberty. </p><p>In 1781, George Washington's attempt to trap the British under Cornwallis at Yorktown ends catastrophically when the French fleet is destroyed in the Battle of the Capes. The revolution collapses, and the British begin a bloody reign of terror. A group of rebels flees westward and sets up a colony near what is now Chicago. They call it Liberty. The British, looking to finish what they started, send a very large force under Burgoyne to destroy them. Burgoyne is desperate for redemption and the Americans are equally desperate to survive. </p><p>Had the Battle of the Capes gone differently, a changed, darker, New World would have been forced into existence. But even under those dire circumstances, Liberty may still find a way! </p><p><strong>About Robert Conroy's <em>Rising Sun</em>:<br></strong>“Conroy extrapolates a new and militarily plausible direction for WWII . . . A thrilling adventure.”—<em>Booklist<br></em><br><strong>About Robert Conroy’s <em>Himmler’s War</em>:</strong><br>“[Conroy] adds a personal touch to alternate history by describing events through the eyes of fictional characters serving on the front lines. VERDICT: Historical accuracy in the midst of creative speculation makes this piece of alternate history believable.”–<em>Library Journal</em> </p><p><strong>About *Red Inferno: 1945</strong><em><br>“An ensemble cast of fictional characters. . . and historical figures powers the meticulously researched story line with diverse accounts of the horrors of war, making this an appealing read for fans of history and alternate history alike.”—</em>Publishers Weekly* </p><p>“[E]ngrossing and grimly plausible. . .the suspense holds up literally to the last page.”—<em>Booklist</em> </p><p><strong>About *1945:</strong><em><br>“ moving and thought-provoking. . .”—</em>Publishers Weekly* </p><p>“Realistic. . .”—<em>Booklist</em> </p><p><strong>About <em>1942</em>:</strong><br>“. . .fans of Tom Clancy and Agent Jack Bauer should find a lot to like here.”—<em>Publishers Weekly</em> </p><p>“A significant writer of alternate history turns here to the popular topic of Pearl Harbor, producing. . . this rousing historical action tale.”—<em>Booklist</em> </p><p>“A high-explosive what-if, with full-blooded characters.”—John Birmingham, bestselling author of <em>Without Warning</em> </p><p><strong>About *1901:</strong><em><br>“. . .cleverly conceived. . .Conroy tells a solid what-if historical.”—</em>Publishers Weekly* </p><p>“. . . likely to please both military history and alternative history buffs.”—<em>Booklist</em></p><p>**</p></div>


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<p>Alastair Seiver is completely incapable of using magic&#8212;or so he thinks. But when he comes across an ancient ring, something deep inside him awakens. And with that, he becomes connected to a long-forgotten prophecy about the creation of the world. The night his school&#8212;Rokerth Academy&#8212;is attacked, he learns that he is a target of dark forces from the nearby kingdom of Tenebrae, which thrusts Alastair from his uneventful life into one wrought with danger. With the help of his friends, he must outrun and outwit these enemies until he is strong enough to fight them, all while discovering that nearly nothing about his life is as it seemed.</p>


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Book II of the Rephaim series, Haze, is riveting and action-packed, with sassy lead characters, whip-smart humour and a thrilling storyline that keeps you coming back for more.

Gaby Winters’ nightmares have stopped but she still can’t remember her old life. Still can’t quite believe she is one of the Rephaim—the wingless half-angels who can shift from place to place, country to country, in the blink of an eye. That she was once the Rephaim’s best fighter. That demons exist. That Rafa has stayed.

But most of all, she can’t quite believe that her twin brother, Jude, might be alive.

And Gaby can’t explain the hesitancy that sidetracks the search for him, infuriates Rafa, and sends them, again, into the darkest danger.

Paula Weston lives in Brisbane with her husband, a retired greyhound and a moody cockatiel. Haze is the second book in the Rephaim series. Shadows is the first. 

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<p>It's a small room in an old house, but it's cheap. For Laren Tolley, still reeling after a bad breakup, it's perfect. Who cares if there are rumors that it's haunted? Her unfortunately-hot landlord and new roommate, Casey, assures her that ghosts aren't real.</p><p><br>Casey Holland can fix anything&#8212; the fact that they've even made the Harrington house habitable proves it. But the power keeps going out, no matter how many times they repair outlets or replace fuses.</p><p><br>With the power outages and unexplained phenomena piling up, Laren is getting scared. And Casey doesn't believe in ghosts, so Laren will have to do something herself&#8212; or risk losing her new home.</p><p><br>HARRINGTON HOUSE is a ghost story of approximately 20,000 words.</p>


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<p><strong>Evil comes in beautiful forms</strong><br /><br />Lawrence Karrier is the first to see the beauty while out on his morning run.&nbsp; A solitary thin cloud&nbsp;drifting down&nbsp;from the mountains and settling into the lake, like nothing he has ever seen before. Later in the day as the local factory empties&nbsp;and the bar&nbsp;fills up, the spectacle of a hundred such clouds against the evening sky&nbsp;beguiles the whole town.<br /><br />That is until someone is unfortunate enough to touch one.<br /><br />After a night of horror, the people of Gossamer Falls have to pick up the pieces and try to move on. What will they do with the now rock hard cloud formations strewn all over the place?&nbsp; And what of the white liquid that seems to rush around inside each one? Tourist season is almost upon them and without the dollars that brings the town is&nbsp;doomed.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br />When townspeople start acting very&nbsp;strange, things begin to&nbsp;get very much worse for everyone.<br /><br /><strong>Buy Now to see if Gossamer Falls can survive!</strong></p>


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<p><strong>Free will is a relic of the past. Souls have a prewritten path to heaven. If they miss it, they are doomed to roam the lost realm of limbo as splinters of their former selves or worse&#8212;as demons. </strong></p><p> </p><p>Their only hope is the reaper Alames, whose own soul shattered when her celestial lover, Balthos, usurped their creators to make them gods. In her absence, he builds a pantheon of monsters and tricks the mortals, whom he blames for his grief, into worshiping him. But when a new generation defies Balthos's law, Alames's splinters appear among them. </p><p> </p><p>Brilliant physicist Ally longs for progress and innovation, but the Council controlling her nation strips the "Mad Princess" of power. Pregnant and uncertain, the unrivaled Captain Se'azana abandons her career for the false promises of love. The starving serf Richard makes a deal with a Fae demon to save his son. And teenage rebel Vana trades her guitar for a blade when faced with ruthless...


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SUMMARY: Packed with hard-core action written by battle-savvy combat veterans, the explosive Starfist series has become hugely popular across America. Now the saga of the courageous Marines continues in Flashfire, as the 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) ventures to the edge of Human Space to fight a number of enemies . . . some on their own side.Tensions erupt between the Confederation and several frontier worlds when civilians are shot dead at an army base on the planet Ravenette. Enraged, the Ravenette government and nine neighboring planets form a coalition, and their first act of secession is to overrun Ravenette’s Confederation garrison. With the armed forces of ten worlds seizing the brutal upper hand, the embattled troops need help–now–and they need it bad.Enter the Marines of the 34th FIST. As the nearest ready-to-deploy unit, the team is sent to Ravenette with orders to hold the line until reinforcements arrive. The upcoming operation promises to be no picnic, for while sophisticates may ridicule the backward ways of the uncouth frontier folk, no one scoffs at their fighting ability.Charlie Bass doesn’t mince words for his men in Company L’s third platoon. Two army divisions–perhaps thirty thousand soldiers–are being overwhelmed, and somebody expects a thousand Marines to save the day. As pompous Confederation generals wreak even more havoc than the enemy, there are those who call the mission suicide . . . but not the Marines. Of course it sounds hopeless, but for Marines like Charlie Bass and the rest of the 34th FIST, accomplishing the impossible comes with the territory.From the Hardcover edition.


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<p><strong>War looms on the horizon. Can a young woman caught between family and country keep her loved ones alive?</strong></p> <p>China, 1853. Jin Soling's divided loyalties rest on a knife's edge. Paired with Chen Chang-wei, her former betrothed, Soling works as a physician in a secret factory building automatons to march on the empire's battleground cities. Though Soling and Chang-wei's bond has grown stronger, the strain of serving a country in turmoil threatens to tear them apart. </p> <p>From a dangerous smuggling run in pirate-infested waters to a dramatic confrontation in the winding streets of Shanghai, Soling learns that the greatest danger might not come from foreign invaders, but from forces inside their borders.</p> <p>Will Soling sacrifice her life and love to an empire that has forgotten its own people?</p> <p>The Rebellion Engines is the mind-blowing conclusion to the Gunpowder Chronicles steampunk fantasy trilogy. If you like sinister political intrigue,...


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<p><strong>A mysterious stranger. A murderous ambush and a sinister plot in the deep desert.</strong></p><p><br>Alissa returns home from university, still haunted by the death of her sister and a restlessness that keeps drawing her back into the great sand sea of Irithen, the dangerous heart of a remote province on a distant planet.</p><p>Her attempt to save the life of the young and charismatic Talin throws her into a whirlwind of hidden agendas and a ruthless military attack.<br>Only her mental and physical skills can keep her alive in this vast expanse of sand, heat, enormous lizards and poisonous scorpions.</p><p><br>Learning to fly a giant condor before it kills her would help as well.<br> </p><p><strong>Duneflyer is the first book in the Stormweaver series, the far-future fantasy epic by Jay Aspen.</strong></p>


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<p>Royce Falco is scheduled for execution in the Hayworth Penitentiary. </p><p>His usual confidence to slip from such situations is crushed when a mysterious visitor brings news that his demise has been orchestrated, but also brings an offer to alter his fate... the decision will come at a price. </p><p>Dread sets in as Royce's last midnight approaches in the reputably haunted prison, because at 5 o'clock they take him to the gallows post. </p>


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<p>In the quiet suburb of Harting Farms, the weekly crime blotter usually consists of graffiti or the occasional bout of mailbox baseball. But in the fall of 1993, children begin vanishing and one is found dead. Newspapers call him the Piper because he has come to take the children away. But there are darker names for him, too . . .<BR>Vowing to stop the Piper's reign of terror, five boys take up the search. Their teenage pledge turns into a journey of self-discovery . . . and a journey into the darkness of their own hometown. On the twilit streets of Harting Farms, everyone is a suspect. And any of the boys might be the Piper's next victim.


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<p><br><strong>A brutal abduction. A merciless interstellar plot. Can Calandra and Xttra fight deceit and assassins to reveal the dreadful truth?</strong></p><p><br>The scars Calandra Menankar carries go well beyond her amputated arm. After surviving a disastrous first contact with Earth, she wants nothing more than to avoid space travel and enjoy a quiet life with her husband. But her dreams shatter when her soulmate disappears at the hands of an unknown assailant.</p><p> </p><p>Master pilot Xttra Oogan is haunted by the deaths of his former crew. So he leaps at the chance to purge his guilt when the Stellar Guard dispatches him to capture a dangerous thief and saboteur. But when he discovers a diabolical frame-up, he's abducted and dragged back to the nightmarish blue planet.</p><p> </p><p>With no idea what became of her beloved, Calandra's determination to uncover hidden agendas puts her in an enemy's crosshairs. And to find his way home and save his people, Xttra's only hope...


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<p><strong>Something sweet&#8212;and terrifying&#8212;is coming to Cider Hollow.</strong><br>It has been years since pie witch Reese last saw her candy witch aunt. So when Aunt Kit arrives in a flurry of foul weather, Reese knows something is up. Then Kit disappears during the worst deep freeze Cider Hollow has ever seen. And ice is just the beginning of the crazy and dangerous weather plaguing the town.<br>To make matters worse, Reese's boyfriend, Prince Forrest, is confronted by a seemingly unsolvable mystery and the local Fae&#8212;who claim Reese is more than she seems. But they leave Reese and Forrest with more questions than answers... and a warning to stay away from the forest by the cranberry bog.<br>With time running out to save her aunt, questions no one will answer, and still no clue what brought Aunt Kit to Cider Hollow, Reese's hands are full. If they can't stop whatever it is plaguing the town, everyone will be destroyed.<br>Do they dare cross the Fae to do what...


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<p><strong>A mother's furtive search for her lost child. A narrow path through a darkling forest. A silver locket burned and forgotten. A young girl thrust into a twilight world races against time to raise the legendary stone army to avert the destruction of all reality. </strong></p><p> </p><p>Eridul, a land beyond our own, a magical place frozen in perpetual twilight and yearning to be set free from a struggle that has spanned generations.</p><p>Charlie, an eleven year old girl, unexpectedly finds herself pulled into this strange world from the safety of her own comfy bed and thrust to the center of a war for power and control that threatens to destroy all reality.</p><p> </p><p>Charlie's absence in the real world is soon discovered by a devious building manager who contrives to tear Charlie's family apart. While her adoptive aunt hunts for her in futility through the dilapidated and dangerous public housing tower in which they live, Charlie deepens newly formed friendships with...


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<p>Adrian Holloway's life is turned upside down after receiving a disquieting phone call.   </p>
<p>His sister and niece have gone missing, and his mother is in shambles.  </p>
<p>Something malicious is lurking in his old hometown. Children are going missing and their mothers are turning up dead. People are afraid to go out. Rumors spread from house to house. Blood. Ritual murder. Sacrifice and mutilation.  </p>
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<p><strong>Grimluk is an orc with one purpose: hunting demons.</strong><br>In Grimluk's profession, sometimes you find the next job, and sometimes the next job finds you. After a demon knight attacks him on the highway, he's pushed to the decaying town of Dunvich. Grimluk arrives just in time for a festival, joining several other outsiders as guests of honor. The smiling, friendly faces and hospitality seem good to be true, setting him on an instinctive investigation to find out if there's more going on.<br>What he discovers is more than he expected. Dunvich contains secrets that could alter the course of the continent if left unchecked. Secrets that drag Grimluk into a fight for survival. As the hunter becomes the hunted, will a quick gun and a sharp knife win the day? Or will survival be the luxury Grimluk can't afford if he wants to stop the coming darkness from spreading?<br>One thing's for sure: he's got a job to do.<br>Can be read as a standalone. Contains strong language,...


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<p><B>In the second book of Django Wexler's epic fantasy trilogy about two siblings divided by magic and revolution, Gyre must travel across the Splinter Kingdoms to rally the rebels to his side, while his sister Maya uncovers the secrets of a powerful artifact that could change everything.</B><BR />Gyre finally sees a way to overthrow the all-powerful Twilight Order. But he'll have to gain the alliance of both the ghouls and the human rebels to the south in order to even stand have a chance. And uniting them won't be so simple.<BR />His sister Maya is still a soldier of the Order. But after clashing with her brother, she isn't so certain where her loyalties lie. Chasing the origins of a mysterious artifact to a long-lost library, she just might find the answers she's looking for.<BR /><B>Burning Blade &amp; Silver Eye</B><BR /><I>Ashes of the Sun</I><BR /><I>Blood of the Chosen</I><BR /><B>"Fantasy at its finest." &#8212;Nicholas Eames, on <I>Ashes of the Sun</I></B>


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<p><strong>She wanted purpose. She got dark magic and war.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Claire Emerson is adrift. After a lifetime as a wife, mother, and grandma, she never saw divorce or loneliness coming and is desperate for some sense of purpose. But when her sixtieth birthday brings a snarky gargoyle, an annoyingly sexy wolf shifter, and an unknown magical calling, she thinks she's losing the only thing she has left: her sanity.</p><p> </p><p>Refusing to believe she's the powerful defender of humankind her so-called protectors claim, Claire attempts a return to her safe life... only to have her powers ignite when she's attacked by dark supernatural creatures. And without the training she was supposed to have received, she has no idea how she'll defeat sinister mages plotting her demise.</p><p> </p><p>Can Claire overcome creaky joints and major hot flashes in time to save the world &#8211; and her own life?</p>


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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Tyler Ballard was in prison when his son created a dreamworld called Foreverland, a place so boundless and spellbinding that no one ever wanted to leave. Or did. Now his son is dead, his wife is comatose and Tyler is still imprisoned.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;" /><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">But he planned it that way.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;" /><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">The final piece of his vision falls into place when Alessandra Diosa investigates the crimes of Foreverland. Tyler will use her to create a new dimension of reality beyond anything his son ever imagined&mdash;a Foreverland for the entire world.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;" /><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Danny, living outside of Spain since escaping the very first Foreverland, begins receiving mysterious clues that lead him to Cyn. They are both Foreverland survivors, but they have more in common than survival. They become pieces of another grand plan, one designed to stop Tyler Ballard. No one knows who is sending the clues, but some suspect Reed, another Foreverland survivor. Reed, however, is dead.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;" /><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Everyone will make one last trip back to Foreverland to find out who sent them. And why.&nbsp;</span></p>


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<p>A reluctant King haunted by his father's actions.</p><p>A Druid girl haunted by her bloody childhood.</p><p>And an impossible quest to save their country...</p><p> </p><p><strong>Gripping and action-packed, A Legacy of Darkness is an adrenaline-filled, high fantasy of sword and sorcery, mythical creatures, and a charming cast of characters, perfect for fans of Cinda Williams Chima and Holly Black.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Darkness spreads through the kingdom of Asterion. Shaye Wistari witnesses it with her own eyes as she returns home from across the sea. Fearful of the monsters lurking in the waters to the East, she must revisit the bloody memories of her childhood.</p><p> </p><p>When the newly crowned King tracks her down to enlist her help, she learns only she, the last of the Druid line, can save the country she has tried to leave behind.</p><p>Paired with the son of the man who slaughtered her people and stole her magic, she sets off on an impossible quest to save the...


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<p>The future can be a dangerous place when you changed the past....</p><p>15 minutes is all the Rewind Agency gives a person when they travel to the past, but for Lara Crane it&rsquo;s enough for her to race through the city, find her mother, and stop her from being killed in a mugging that happened over ten years ago.</p><p>But the story she&rsquo;s been told all her life is a lie. When Lara takes a bullet meant for her mother, her future changes forever. A new house, new friends and a new boyfriend turns Lara&rsquo;s life upside down. She thinks if she can save her father from prison, reunite him with her mother, everything will be fine.</p><p>15 Minutes is an edgy high octane YA thriller where the people Lara trusts change in an instant. She is in a timeline she doesn&#39;t understand, and is about to make one fatal mistake as she faces an enemy so familiar, he&rsquo;s family.</p>


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<p><b>After a decade, acclaimed science fiction master John Scalzi returns to the galaxy of the Old Man's War series with the long awaited seventh book, <i>The Shattering Peace</i></b><br>THE PEACE IS SHATTERING<br>For a decade, peace has reigned in interstellar space. A tripartite agreement between the Colonial Union, the Earth, and the alien Conclave has kept the forces of war at bay, even when some would have preferred to return to the fighting and struggle of former times. For now, more sensible heads have prevailed &#8211; and have even championed unity.<br>But now, there is a new force that threatens the hard-maintained peace: The Consu, the most advanced intelligent species humans have ever met, are on the cusp of a species-defining civil war. This war is between Consu factions... but nothing the Consu ever do is just about them. The Colonial Union, the Earth and the Conclave have been unwillingly dragged into the conflict, in the most surprising of ways.<br>Gretchen...


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<div><p>Retail</p><p>Hugo-award winning author, John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man's War universe with <em>The End of All Things</em>, the direct sequel to 2013's <em>The Human Division</em><br>Humans expanded into space...only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement...for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more.</p><p>Now the Colonial Union is living on borrowed time-a couple of decades at most, before the ranks of the Colonial Defense Forces are depleted and the struggling human colonies are vulnerable to the alien species who have been waiting for the first sign of weakness, to drive humanity to ruin. And there's another problem: A group, lurking in the darkness of space, playing human and alien against each other-and against their own kind -for their own unknown reasons.</p><p>In this collapsing universe, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson and the Colonial Union diplomats he works with race against the clock to discover who is behind attacks on the Union and on alien races, to seek peace with a suspicious, angry Earth, and keep humanity's union intact...or else risk oblivion, and extinction-and the end of all things.</p><p>**</p></div>


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<div><p>Following the events of <em>The Last Colony</em>, John Scalzi tells the story of the fight to maintain the unity of the human race.<br></p><p>The people of Earth now know that the human Colonial Union has kept them ignorant of the dangerous universe around them. For generations the CU had defended humanity against hostile aliens, deliberately keeping Earth an ignorant backwater and a source of military recruits. Now the CU’s secrets are known to all. Other alien races have come on the scene and formed a new alliance—an alliance against the Colonial Union. And they’ve invited the people of Earth to join them. For a shaken and betrayed Earth, the choice isn't obvious or easy.<br></p><p>Against such possibilities, managing the survival of the Colonial Union won’t be easy, either. It will take diplomatic finesse, political cunning…and a brilliant “B Team,” centered on the resourceful Lieutenant Harry Wilson, that can be deployed to deal with the unpredictable and unexpected things the universe throws at you when you’re struggling to preserve the unity of the human race.<br></p><p>Being published online from January to April 2013 as a three-month digital serial, <em>The Human Division</em> will appear as a full-length novel of the Old Man’s War universe, plus—for the first time in print—the first tale of Lieutenant Harry Wilson, and a coda that wasn’t part of the digital serialization.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>“If anyone stands at the core of the American science fiction tradition at the moment, it is Scalzi.”<br>—<em>The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</em>, Third Edition<br></p><p>“John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today.”<br>—Joe Hill, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of *Heart-Shaped Box<br></p><p><em>“All the heart and smarts I've come to expect from Scalzi.... Run, don't walk, and get another copy for your kids while you're at it.”<br>—Cory Doctorow on </em>Zoe's Tale<br></p><p><em>“Heartstopping in its absolute rightness.”<br>—</em>RT Book Reviews<em>, Top Pick! on </em>The Last Colony<br></p><p><em>“Astonishingly proficient.”<br>—</em>Publishers Weekly<em>, starred review on </em>Old Man's War *</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>JOHN SCALZI is the author of several SF novels including his massively succesful debut <em>Old Man’s War</em> and the <em>New York Times</em> bestsellers <em>The Last Colony,</em> <em>Fuzzy Nation, </em>and <em>Redshirts.</em> He is a winner of science fiction’s John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and he won the Hugo Award for <em>Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded,</em> a collection of essays from his popular blog The Whatever (whatever.scalzi.com). He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter. </p></div>


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<div><p><strong>The shattering conclusion t<strong><em>*</em>*o the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed bestselling trilogy that began with </strong><em>The Fifth Season</em>, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016, and <em>The Obelisk Gate</em>, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2017.</strong>  </p><p>The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.</p><p>Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. </p><p>For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.</p><p>**THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.  </p><p><em><em>"Extraordinary." - </em>New York Times</em> on <em>The Fifth Season</em></p><p><strong>The Broken Earth</strong></p><p><em>The Fifth Season</em></p><p><em>The Obelisk Gate</em></p><p><em>The Stone Sky</em></p><p>For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out:</p><p><strong>The Inheritance Trilogy</strong></p><p><em>The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms</em></p><p><em>The Broken Kingdoms</em></p><p><em>The Kingdom of Gods</em></p><p><em>The Inheritance Trilogy</em> (omnibus edition)</p><p><em>Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych </em>(e-only short fiction)</p><p><em>The Awakened Kingdom</em> (e-only novella)</p><p><strong>Dreamblood Duology</strong></p><p><em>The Killing Moon</em></p><p><em>The Shadowed Sun</em></p><p><em>The Dreamblood Duology </em>(omnibus)</p><p>





















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<p>"Intricate and extraordinary." - <i>New York Times </i>on<i> The Fifth Season </i>(A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book of 2015)<br><b>The second novel in a new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin.</b><p><br><p>THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. <p><br><p>The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. <p><br><p>Essun &#8212; once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger &#8212; has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever.<br> Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power - and her choices will break the world.<br><p><br><p><br><p><br><p><br><p>For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out:<br><b>The Inheritance Trilogy </b><br><i>The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms</i><br><i>The Broken Kingdoms</i><br><i>The Kingdom of Gods</i><br><i>The...


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