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  • Don't Cross this Line by Michael Anderle

    Don't Cross this Line by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It's been three years Bethany Anne and her team have been building, trying their best to stay off the radar and not fight with those they are trying to save. The emotions have boiled to the surface. The is a line drawn in the sand, and some idiots just have to step across it. Those that thought the cat didn't have claws are about to find out how very, very wrong they are...
  • Never Forsaken by Michael Anderle

    Never Forsaken by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Life is beyond dangerous when you are caught up in the ongoing war between Bethany Anne's group and the Forsaken.Both Vampires and Humans have been targeted, but if there is one thing that those who work with Bethany Anne learn, it is you are NEVER FORSAKEN.Never Forsaken, The Kurtherian Gambit 05 follows the story after Bite This. If you haven't read the preceding books YOU PRETTY MUCH HAVE TO...
  • We Have Contact by Michael Anderle

    We Have Contact by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When you least expect it, expect it. Bethany Anne has been notified there is a spaceship inside the system...but they can't find it. Is it Kurtherian, someone else? The governments have to be told about aliens, which sparks a worldwide effort by Governments to find what TQB has... Oh, and Eric wants to date Gabrielle but he wants her to know he can protect her if need be...
  • Under My Heel by Michael Anderle

    Under My Heel by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    "I love a good story especially if it can make me laugh, cry, cheer, and a host of other emotions. So far in this series I have hit them all." Europe is erupting is tension and violence. David is only adding to the conflagration by setting a trap, one that our team will trip to save those people still alive. There is one thing every enemy of Bethany Anne finds out...
  • Kneel or Die by Michael Anderle

    Kneel or Die by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The ongoing story that is Bethany Anne and her team! Can you say 'Die Terrorist, Die?'I took time to sleep last night. For anyone who hasn't read the first 6 books in this series, you won't understand what that means. For the rest of you, you know how hard that was.I love, love ,love this series! I don't want it to end! Bethany Anne just keeps getting better every book...
  • Light by Michael Grant

    Light by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    It's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.In the time since every person over the age of fourteen disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil...
  • My Ride is a Bitch by Michael Anderle

    My Ride is a Bitch by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It's out there, it's ALWAYS been out there - just no one believed it.Governments, Black Ops, Rich Businessmen...All want alien tech and some are going to great lengths, illegal lengths, to procure it.Someone went so far as to endanger a young girls family. A young girl who wrote a letter to the Queen Bitch. Now, those that are searching for the technology will have to deal with TQB...
  • Bite This by Michael Anderle

    Bite This by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    You take out one annoying vampire in revenge, and now you have to clean up the mess? What a pain in the ... something. Bethany Anne and crew are back! They need to grab a ship, figure out who is trying to dig into her businesses, get their hands around the potential for creating an A.I. and the ongoing mess with Anton and South America. One of these days, she will get a break...
  • Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin

    Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Earth has been overrun with monsters... Post-Apocalypse America is unrecognizable from the past. Jake survives by working as the leader of a scavenging adventuring team. A former mage, now he follows the strange path of cultivation, taught to him by a mysterious traveler. As far as he knows, he is one of the only people on Earth with this power...
  • Deep Silence by Jonathan Maberry

    Deep Silence by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The tenth Joe Ledger novel in the New York Times bestselling seriesTerrorists-for-hire have created a weapon that can induce earthquakes and cause dormant volcanoes to erupt. One terrifying side-effect of the weapon is that prior to the devastation, the vibrations drive ordinary people to suicide and violence...
  • Love Lost by Michael Anderle

    Love Lost by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    When one of Bethany Anne's loved ones gets caught in the crossfire between her and the Forsaken, she goes rabid in rage. She doesn't believe in seeking peace and harmony, but rather revenge and mayhem. Continuing the story of Bethany Anne and TQB team, Love Lost picks up after Queen Bitch...
  • Into the Fire by Mark Tufo

    Into the Fire by Mark Tufo

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Mike reunites with his wife and his friend, Paul, aboard the Guardian only to find that things have gone from bleak to hellish on earth. Rampaging hordes of Genogerians plague the planet, as does an invasion from Progerians hell-bent on knuckling under the will of man through their relentless assault. Yet this may not be the worst of it, as an insidious "ally" has lent their support...
  • Indian Hill by Mark Tufo

    Indian Hill by Mark Tufo

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Michael Talbot Adventure: This first story is about an ordinary boy, who grows up in relatively normal times to find himself thrust into an extra-ordinary position. Growing up in suburban Boston he enjoys the trials and tribulations that all adolescents go through. From the seemingly tyrannical mother, to girl problems to run-ins with the law...
  • UnSouled by Neal Shusterman

    UnSouled by Neal Shusterman

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Teens fight for their humanity in this thrilling third book in the New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology series by Neal Shusterman.Connor and Lev are on the run after the destruction of the Graveyard, the last safe haven for AWOL unwinds...
  • His Fire Maiden by Michelle M. Pillow

    His Fire Maiden by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dev has found a home with a misfit outlaw band of space pirates and he will do anything to protect his makeshift family. He knows he will never be accepted into human society. The demonic race of his birth shuns him and the humans fear him. So when the woman of his dreams comes gunning for his crew, the fiery maiden leaves him no choice but to show just how naughty his demon can be...
  • The Unnamed Way by Ian W. Sainsbury

    The Unnamed Way by Ian W. Sainsbury

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The fourth book in the best-selling The World Walker series. Does absolute power corrupt absolutely? Maybe. Seb Varden is in a good position to find out. Depending on your point of view, he has either spent a few days, six months, or seventeen years playing a potentially deadly game...
  • Fear by Michael Grant

    Fear by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear...
  • Plague by Michael Grant

    Plague by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    It's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach...
  • The Dark by Jeremy Robinson

    The Dark by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the twisted imagination of New York Times and #1 Audible bestselling author, Jeremy Robinson, comes a horrifying revelation about the centuries old Three Days of Darkness prophecy, during which the legions of Hell will be unleashed on the Earth. The Dark is a mind-bending and character driven sci-fi-infused horror novel like no other...
  • A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor

    A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Book Two in the madcap time-travel series based at the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research that seems to be everyone's cup of tea...
  • Population by Elizabeth Stephens

    Population by Elizabeth Stephens

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Abel Eleven years after the sky opened up and aliens descended to ravage the world, Abel thought she had seen and experienced everything that this savage new land - Population - had to offer. Almost...Shock is what she feels when the alien she robbed hunts her down. His corpse, though huge and glowing, had been mangled and left for the scavengers...
  • Dial D for Deadman by Barry J. Hutchison

    Dial D for Deadman by Barry J. Hutchison

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Space Team Universe just got a whole lot darker. In an alien city torn apart by crooked cops and ruthless criminals, private detective, Dan Deadman, specializes in cases unusual and bizarre...
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  • Death Match by Joshua Anderle, Michael Anderle

    Death Match by Joshua Anderle, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What happens if the final for your freshman year is to take the hardest, deadliest test the Nexus Academy has devised for your skill classification? And then open it up for player-vs-player action where even your partners can gain skill points for stabbing you in the back? It is time for Kaiden to grow up a little and play with a larger team to accomplish a three-peat...
  • Project Legion by Jeremy Robinson

    Project Legion by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THE SIGNAL WAS RECEIVEDTen years after a deep space transmission was broadcast from a futuristic citadel hidden in the Arctic ice, Jon Hudson finds himself in a position beyond comprehension...
  • A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong

    A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Thorne Manor has always been haunted...and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt’s house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier. After a family tragedy, the house was shuttered and Bronwyn was convinced that William existed only in her imagination...
  • Fragments by Dan Wells

    Fragments by Dan Wells

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Author Dan Wells is back with the sequel to the sci-fi blockbuster Partials, which Pittacus Lore called a "thrilling sci-fi adrenaline rush, with one of the most compelling and frightening visions of Earth's future I've seen yet...
  • Project Hyperion by Jeremy Robinson

    Project Hyperion by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    THE SIGNAL WAS RECEIVED Jon Hudson has become more than just the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center–Paranormal. He is now a husband and a father, surrounded by a team who have become a family. So when a series of strange new threats rise from the depths and fall from the sky, the stakes are higher than ever...
  • Wayward by Blake Crouch

    Wayward by Blake Crouch

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Welcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amidst picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden...except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture.None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry...
  • Lies by Michael Grant

    Lies by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    It's been seven months since all the adults disappeared. Gone.It happens in one night. A girl who died now walks among the living; Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach; and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most: Drake. But Drake is dead. Sam and Caine defeated him along with the Darkness—or so they thought...
  • Breakout by Ann Aguirre

    Breakout by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    All hell is breaking loose in the edge-of-your-seat follow-up to Havoc and Perdition from New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre… The prison ship Perdition has become a post-battle charnel house with only a handful of Dred’s soldiers still standing and now being hunted by Silence’s trained tongueless assassins...
  • The Dark Knight by Nick Cole

    The Dark Knight by Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Dark Knight by Nick Cole continues the story begun in The Red King as the survivors band together to build a modern-day castle against a tide of dark forces overrunning Southern California...
  • Relinquish by Amy Miles

    Relinquish by Amy Miles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The rising is over, but the war continues to rage. King Aloysius knows Illyria exists and will stop at nothing to possess her. Jealousy drives a wedge between Illyria and Eamon. When Bastien reveals himself as her guide into enemy territory, an ambush lands them in captivity. Illyria is faced with the truth that she is not ready to face her destiny…or let Bastien go again...
  • Grady's Awakening by Bianca D'Arc

    Grady's Awakening by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An alien warrior discovers what it is to love ... and to share.Resonance Mates, Book 4Alien super-soldier Grady Prime’s missions routinely lead him in unexpected directions, but his latest assignment ... to kill a rogue warrior ... is far beyond routine. This time he meets a woman who embroils him in an adventure of the highest order. Love...
  • Dog Warrior by Wen Spencer

    Dog Warrior by Wen Spencer

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On the run from a fanatical cult, Ukiah Oregon is surprised to discover Atticus Steele, a brother he didn't know he had. He's even more surprised when Atticus involves them in the traffic of an alien drug that could end up getting them both killed...
  • Material Witness by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Material Witness by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Here is another highly entertaining short story featuring Jonathan Maberry's compelling hero, Joe Ledger.This short thriller takes Joe Ledger into the mysterious, troubled town of Pine Deep, Pennsylvania, the setting for Maberry's chilling Pine Deep Trilogy. In Pine Deep, nothing is what it seems...
  • The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft

    The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area known as the “blasted hearth.” After failing to extract any information from the Arkham locals, the narrator encounters an old man, Ammi Pierce, who relates the story of a farmer who once lived there. The hearth, he claims, was caused by a meteorite that fell onto the farmer’s field in 1882...
  • The Abyss by Orson Scott Card, James Cameron

    The Abyss by Orson Scott Card, James Cameron

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book here and here.From the author of "Speaker's for the Dead", and "Seventh Son", this science fiction thriller is set in the Caribbean where a US submarine is mysteriously attacked. Foul play by the Soviets is suspected, and the world draws close to nuclear war. But the answer has nothing to do with human deeds...
  • Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

    Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received...
  • The Infinite Day by Chris Walley

    The Infinite Day by Chris Walley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Vero, you remember you once said there were people who would follow me to the gates of hell?” “A figure of speech.” “We’d better find them. That’s where we’re going.”After the defeat of the evil Dominion forces at Farholme, Commander Merral D’Avanos prepares a task force to rescue thirty hostages captured by the fleeing Margrave Lezaroth...
  • Hunger by Michael Grant

    Hunger by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 64 ratings
    It's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ.Three months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving, developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the kids without powers...
  • Havoc by Ann Aguirre

    Havoc by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Conglomerate’s most dangerous convicts have made the prison ship Perdition their home. And they will defend it…Perdition is under siege. Mercenaries have boarded the station with orders to take control of the facility—and execute the prisoners. Their commander is offering full pardons to the first five inmates willing to help the mercs complete their mission...
  • The Shadows of London by Nick Jones

    The Shadows of London by Nick Jones

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A time traveler's work is never done.Likable antiques dealer Joseph Bridgeman is back in the present and dreaming of a quiet life. But when a mysterious and enigmatic time traveler arrives in his shop, Joe learns that his first trip was just the beginning and this time, the rules of the game have changed...
  • Outland by Dennis E. Taylor

    Outland by Dennis E. Taylor

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    When the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, it's up to six college students and their experimental physics project to prevent the end of civilization. When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Bill Rustad and his friends find that they have accidentally created an inter-dimensional portal...
  • Infidel by Kameron Hurley

    Infidel by Kameron Hurley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    No matter where you go, the Bel Dames will find youNyx used to be an assassin, part of the sisterhood of the Bel Dames. Now she's babysitting diplomats to make ends meet and longs for the days when killing was a lot more honorable. So, when her former ‘sisters’ lead a coup against the government, she‘s the perfect choice to stop them...
  • A Twist of Fate by Kelley Armstrong

    A Twist of Fate by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Four years ago, Rosalind Courtenay stumbled from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, where she has been trapped ever since, leaving her husband and infant son behind. Now she’s found her way back.The problem, of course, is how to explain her absence to her husband...
  • Hero by Michael Grant

    Hero by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Monster. Villain. Hero.Four years after the Perdido Beach dome went down, the alien virus that created it is still wreaking havoc, and virus-infested rock has created a new set of humans with mutant powers...
  • Red Handed by Gena Showalter

    Red Handed by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She's been chosen to fight the elusive enemy among us....Phoenix Germaine has been trying to earn back her mother's trust after going into rehab and kicking Onadyn -- the drug of choice for New Chicago teens. But when a party in the woods turns into an all-out battle with the most ferocious aliens Phoenix has never seen, she's brought home in what appears to be an Onadyn-induced state...
  • Rapture by Kameron Hurley

    Rapture by Kameron Hurley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    After years in exile, Nyxnissa so Dasheem is back in service to the bel dames, a sisterhood of elite government assassins tasked with eliminating deserters and traitors.The end of a centuries-long holy war has flooded the streets of Nasheen with unemployed - and unemployable - soldiers whose frustrations have brought the nation to the brink of civil war...
  • Bitter Waters by Wen Spencer

    Bitter Waters by Wen Spencer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ukiah and his senior partner, Max Bennett, are just returning to Pittsburgh after the events of Tainted Trail. Before they even land, they have a new tracking job — to find a boy missing from his backyard...
  • Undone by Elizabeth Norris

    Undone by Elizabeth Norris

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Before the accident. Before their universes collided. Before they fell in love.Riveting and romantic, Undone: An Unraveling Novella contains three short stories set in the world of Unraveling, the first book in the gripping sci-fi duology by Elizabeth Norris...
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