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The Time Hunters and the Spear of Fate by Carl Ashmore
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'The Time Hunters and the Spear of Fate’ is the third book in the bestselling Time Hunters saga.It’s Christmas time and Becky and Joe Mellor have returned to Bowen Hall to attend the annual GITT Christmas Party – ‘The Enchantment Beneath the Sea Dance.’ However, when the party comes to a sudden, terrifying end, they are pitched into a quest for the all-powerful Spear of Fate...Categorized as:
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![The Redemption of Michael Hollister by Shawn Inmon]()
The Redemption of Michael Hollister by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAll Michael Hollister wanted was death. What he got was time travel. Convicted of murder, and with nothing left to live for, Michael commits suicide in his jail cell in 1977, then opens his eyes in 1966, in his eight year old body, all memories of his previous life intact. His first thoughts are of the dark intentions of his father...Categorized as:
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![Shadow Children (Boxed Set): Among the Hidden; Among the Impostors; Among the Betrayed; Among the Barons by Margaret Peterson Haddix]()
Shadow Children (Boxed Set): Among the Hidden; Among the Impostors; Among the Betrayed; Among the Barons by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsImagine a world where families are allowed only two children. Illegal third children -- shadow children -- must live in hiding. If they are discovered, there is only one punishment: Death... -
![The Ancestor by Lee Matthew Goldberg]()
The Ancestor by Lee Matthew Goldberg
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA man wakes up in present-day Alaskan wilderness with no idea who he is, nothing on him save an empty journal with the date 1898 and a mirror. He sees another man hunting nearby, astounded that they look exactly alike... -
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![The Ruins 4 by T.W. Piperbrook]()
The Ruins 4 by T.W. Piperbrook
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEscape at what cost? Trapped in a new horror, the survivors struggle to regain their freedom... -
![The Testaments by Margaret Atwood]()
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsMore than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order... -
![The Emancipation of Veronica McAllister by Shawn Inmon]()
The Emancipation of Veronica McAllister by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTime Travel with a twist! Veronica McAllister died in 2018. She immediately opened her eyes again in 1958, all memories of her previous life intact. She goes from old age, pants suits, and a cane, to poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and Buddy Holly. At the end of her first life, Veronica said she “wasn’t any good at life... -
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The Trials of Koli by M.R. Carey
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Trials of Koli is the second novel in M R. Carey’s breathtakingly original Rampart trilogy, set in a strange and deadly world of our own making.Beyond the walls of Koli’s small village lies a fearsome landscape filled with choker trees, vicious beasts and shunned men. As an exile, Koli’s been forced to journey out into this mysterious, hostile world. But he heard a story, once...Categorized as:
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![Deadbreak by Jorge Sánchez]()
Deadbreak by Jorge Sánchez
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt's been three long years since Deadbreak. That's what everyone's calling it – the day the dead rose. Every day since then Jeremiah Reid has had one goal: to make his way to his daughter. It's a new world out there and no one is safe. People are meaner, cities are in ruin, supplies are scarce. If he’s going to have a chance he’ll need his wits, a little bit of luck, and lots of ammo... -
![The Ruins Book 2 by T.W. Piperbrook]()
The Ruins Book 2 by T.W. Piperbrook
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWho will survive The Arches?A place of recovery has become a place of death as one survivor's worsening illness puts three in danger... -
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The Ruins Book 3 by T.W. Piperbrook
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew Threats Await in the SouthHaving endured the battle of The Arches, the remaining survivors journey in a new direction, hoping to find salvation... -
![Contamination: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Series by T.W. Piperbrook]()
Contamination: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Series by T.W. Piperbrook
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Best-Selling Post-Apocalyptic Series, Contamination - The complete series Books 0-7, available for the first time in one special box set! Over 1,200 pages of reading! The infection has begun, ravaging the American Southwest and leaving chaos in its wake. In this new world, there will be no last meal, no dying wish. The only reward left is to survive another day.. -
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Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock by Neil Gaiman
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThousands of years ago, Time Lords built a Prison for the Kin. They made it utterly impregnable and unreachable. As long as Time Lords existed, the Kin would be trapped forever and the universe would be safe. They had planned for everything… everything, that is, other than the Time War and the fall of Gallifrey...Categorized as:
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![Prepared by Courtney Konstantin]()
Prepared by Courtney Konstantin
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsShe thought she was prepared for the end of the world… until it actually came.Alex Duncan is a mother, a sister— and the daughter of a doomsday prepper... -
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![Blackout by Boyd Craven]()
Blackout by Boyd Craven
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWestley Flagg isn’t your usual lawbreaker. He’s a poacher, a moonshiner and a prepper, out of necessity. Despite trying to live on the straight and narrow, he knows the law can turn things on you in a heartbeat. When Wes has to come up with money for his Grandpa’s surgery, he gets involved with an unsavory group... -
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Alamo by Craig DiLouie, Stephen Knight
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDuring the long retreat out of Philadelphia, First Battalion arrives at High Point Special Facility, the Alamo of the U.S. government. Lt. Colonel Lee secures the fort built around the facility but learns of an outbreak in the underground bunker, where the U.S. government is hiding. The President has been infected...Categorized as:
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![The Lure of Infinity by Stan C. Smith]()
The Lure of Infinity by Stan C. Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome worlds are better left alone.Infinity Fowler has been fighting all her life. As a child, she had to fight for survival. Then she fought professionally. But when humans obtained the technology to bridge to alternate versions of Earth, she saw a chance for a new life. She signed up to become a bridger—an elite fighter and survival expert who protects tourists bridging to alternate worlds...Categorized as:
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![The Longest Night by Lindsey Pogue]()
The Longest Night by Lindsey Pogue
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlaska can be a bleak and dangerous place, especially in the dead of winter. But when hair-raising whispers about an outbreak reach the small harbor town of Whitely, the townspeople face a new, unfathomable fear— the virus is coming for them.Sophie thought life was complicated when she had teen pregnancy and her squeaky-clean reputation as the mayor’s daughter to worry about...Categorized as:
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![At the End of the World by Charles E. Gannon]()
At the End of the World by Charles E. Gannon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA NEW NOVEL IN JOHN RINGO'S BEST-SELLING BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES BY NEBULA- AND DRAGON AWARD–NOMINATED AUTHOR CHARLES E. GANNONCASTAWAYS IN A ZOMBIE PLAGUE Six kids ranging from suburban geeks to street-smart pariahs. A British captain who rarely talks and never smiles. All on the 70-foot pilot house ketch Crosscurrent Voyager, bound on a senior summer cruise to adventure and serious fun...Categorized as:
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![How We Became Wicked by Alexander Yates]()
How We Became Wicked by Alexander Yates
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA plague, called Wicked, is pulsing through the world; and in its wake, it’s dividing the population into thirds:The WICKED: Already infected by the droves of Singers, the ultraviolet mosquito-like insects who carry the plague, the Wicked roam the world freely. They don’t want for much—only to maim and dismember you. But don’t worry: They always ask politely first... -
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The Human Son by Adrian J. Walker
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSolaris Spring 2020 Lead Title from critically acclaimed author, Adrian J. Walker A startling, emotional, beautiful (and at times funny) book – one that feels like the best sort of science fiction, a book that should be enjoyed widely, a book that speaks of what it is to be human, a parent, and a child.It is 500 years in the future and Earth is no longer populated by humans... -
![The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver by Shawn Inmon]()
The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAll Thomas Weaver wanted was death. What he got was time travel. Thomas Weaver, haunted by a teenage tragedy, lived a wasted life. He closed his eyes for what he believed was the last time in 2016, but opened them again in his teenage bedroom and body in 1976. Now a middle-aged man in his teenage body, he sets out to fix everything he did wrong in his first life... -
![Harvest by Frank Tayell]()
Harvest by Frank Tayell
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA castle can be made safe from the undead, but not from the people inside the walls. It is eight months since the outbreak. In the anarchy and chaos that came with the undead, civilisation was destroyed. In the wars that followed, the planet was nearly ruined. Billions died. Only a few thousand survived. Fifty people have found refuge in the Tower of London...Categorized as:
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The Breaking by Daniel Greene
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dead have been ravaging the planet for months. Both the East and the West coasts of the United States have collapsed and the U.S. military is in full retreat. All their attempts to stem the tide of the dead have failed.Former Counterterrorism Agent Mark Steele and his fellow survivors have been bushwhacked in the West Virginia hills...Categorized as:
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![The Boy from Tomorrow by Camille DeAngelis]()
The Boy from Tomorrow by Camille DeAngelis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover the middle-grade debut Kirkus Reviews calls “spellbinding” by an award-winning author Booklist says “has crafted a definite winner.” Josie and Alec both live at 444 Sparrow Street. They sleep in the same room, but they’ve never laid eyes on each other. They are twelve years old and a hundred years apart...Categorized as:
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![The Nothing Within by Andy Giesler]()
The Nothing Within by Andy Giesler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRoot is... different.Though raised in a fearful society that reveres tradition and conformity, she’s irreverent, outspoken, and deeply curious. Her blindness sets her even further apart.Centuries after the Reckoning, a global biotech plague, savage chimeras still threaten human survival. After Root hears a voice that no one else can hear, she flees into the wilderness... -
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Devil's Pocket by John Dixon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe follow-up to the critically acclaimed Phoenix Island, which reads like "Lord of the Flies meets Wolverine and Cool Hand Luke" (F. Paul Wilson, creator of Repairman Jack) and inspired the CBS TV show Intelligence.With a chip in his head and hundreds more throughout his body, sixteen-year-old Carl Freeman was turned from an orphan with impulse control issues into a super-soldier... -
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Mr. Was by Pete Hautman
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis involving tale of destiny, passion, and death takes teenager Jack Lund from the mysterious town of Memory, Minnesota, to the steamy jungle of World War II Guadalcanal to the sterile walls of a secret government asylum--all because of a strange metal door that changes the lives of all who pass over its threshold...Categorized as:
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Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight by Robert Shearman, Paul McGann
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratings’Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring...But something must be stirring. Something hidden in the shadows. Something which kills the servants of an old Edwardian mansion in the most brutal and macabre manner possible. Exactly on the chiming of the hour, every hour, as the grandfather clock ticks on towards midnight... -
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State of Nature by Ryan Winfield
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Ryan Winfield, a thrilling tale of friendship, betrayal, and adventure.The final chapter...After leaving the Isle of Man, Aubrey and Jimmy return to the Foundation to confront Hannah about her betrayal and to free the people of Holocene II only to find themselves facing new and more difficult challenges in a world where nothing is as it seems...Categorized as:
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![The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen]()
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsHannah thinks tonight Passover Seder will be the same as always. But this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past. Only she knows the horrors that await... -
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The Ruins by T.W. Piperbrook
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSequel series to the Last Survivors seriesDanger Lurks In The RuinsThree survivors travel the ruins of a collapsed society, sifting through the rusted relics of the Ancients’ civilization as they search for a better future, hoping to escape the horrors of the past. But among those treasures lurks danger.And what they discover might be worse than what they left behind... -
![Survive the Chaos by Grace Hamilton]()
Survive the Chaos by Grace Hamilton
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen the lights go out, anarchy reigns supreme. After Austin Merryman’s wife died, he and his fourteen-year-old daughter left home to travel the country in an old RV. But the comfort and renewal they sought soon descends into chaos—even before the EMP hits... -
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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsRay Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928... -
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![Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard]()
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China.Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a deep strength greater than all the events that surround him.Shanghai, 1941 — a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor...Categorized as:
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![Primordia: In Search of the Lost World by Greig Beck, Sean Mangan]()
Primordia: In Search of the Lost World by Greig Beck, Sean Mangan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBen Cartwright, former soldier, home to mourn the loss of his father stumbles upon cryptic letters from the past between author, Arthur Conan Doyle and his great, great grandfather who vanished while exploring the Amazon jungle in 1908...Categorized as:
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![Doctor Who: Dead Air by James Goss, David Tennant]()
Doctor Who: Dead Air by James Goss, David Tennant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHello, Im the Doctor. And, if you can hear this, then one of us is going to die.At the bottom of the sea, in the wreck of a floating radio station, a lost recording has been discovered. After careful restoration, it is played for the first timeto reveal something incredible. It is the voice of the Doctor, broadcasting from Radio Bravo in 1966...Categorized as:
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![Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist]()
Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLife out here is hard. So you have to be harder.Willie has always survived. No matter what life in Glory, Texas, has thrown at her. The sickness that swept through the state and turned most living creatures into terrifying shakes. Her own mother succumbing to the disease. Her father disappearing into saloons and gambling and liquor. Willie survives...Categorized as:
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![Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden]()
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsWhen Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hideously wrong — their families are gone. Gradually they begin to comprehend that their country has been invaded and everyone in their town has been taken prisoner...Categorized as:
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![The Seeker's Keys by Christina L. Rozelle]()
The Seeker's Keys by Christina L. Rozelle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Where is The Wall?” I asked my father one night while he brushed my hair. “Somewhere east . . . And you’re going to find it one day, I know you are. I hear,” he whispered, “there’s an underground passageway that leads straight there.” Joy Montgomery’s life has never been as it seems. She knows this now...Categorized as:
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![H.G. Wells: Six Novels by H.G. Wells, Michael A. Cramer]()
H.G. Wells: Six Novels by H.G. Wells, Michael A. Cramer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe was the first to popularize the concept of time travel. He disturbed - and fascinated - us with a frightening doctor's island. He wrote of an invisible man, of men on the moon, and of a war of the worlds. He has influenced countless other writers, artists, and even scientists. H. G...Categorized as:
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![Zomblog: Snoe by T.W. Brown]()
Zomblog: Snoe by T.W. Brown
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt has been almost twenty years since the dead rose... Snoe Gainey has grown up in a world where the walking dead are simply a part of life. Raised by her adoptive mother, she has spent her entire life trying to distance herself from the legacy left by her mother... -
![Doctor Who: Plague City by Jonathan Morris]()
Doctor Who: Plague City by Jonathan Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"We should leave. We definitely should leave. But... chatty ghosts!"The year is 1645, and Edinburgh is in the grip of the worst plague in its history. Nobody knows who will be the next to succumb - nobody except the Night Doctor, a masked figure that stalks the streets, seeking out those who will not live to see another day.But death is not the end...Categorized as:
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![Doctor Who: Twelve Angels Weeping by Dave Rudden]()
Doctor Who: Twelve Angels Weeping by Dave Rudden
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwelve extraordinary Doctor Who stories, each featuring a monstrous villain from the Doctor Who world.On every planet that has existed or will exist, there is a winter...Many of the peoples of Old Earth celebrated a winter festival. A time to huddle together against the cold; a time to celebrate being half-way out of the dark...Categorized as:
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![Unidentified by Michael McBride, Joe Hempel]()
Unidentified by Michael McBride, Joe Hempel
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFour teenagers awaken in a scorched cornfield with no memory of how they got there. All they know is that there were five of them when they found the carcass of the mutilated cow.Forty years later, Eric Devlin sends a cryptic email to the other three survivors: I remember everything... -
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The Night Children by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsPresenting a new Escape from Furnace story, “The Night Children,” by Alexander Gordon Smith.It is December 1944 and Europe is still gripped by war. In the densely forested mountains of Belgium one of the conflict’s most brutal battles is raging... -
![Impossible Things by Connie Willis]()
Impossible Things by Connie Willis
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinner of six Nebula and two Hugo awards for her fiction, Connie Willis is acclaimed for her gifted imagination and bold invention. Here are eleven of her finest stories, surprising tales in which the impossible becomes real, the real becomes impossible, and strangeness lurks at every turn...Categorized as:
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![The Monster War by Alan Gratz]()
The Monster War by Alan Gratz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Monster War is the third book in the action-packed, steampunk League of Seven series by acclaimed author Alan Gratz.Having discovered the monstrous secret of his origins, Archie Dent is no longer certain that he is worthy to be a member of the League of Seven. But with new enemies to face, he realizes that he may not have the luxury of questioning his destiny... -
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Angel Down by Daniel Kraus
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe critically acclaimed author of the “crazily enjoyable” (The New York Times) Whalefall returns with an immersive, cinematic novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that could hold the key to ending the war... -
![The Country Under Heaven by Frederic S. Durbin]()
The Country Under Heaven by Frederic S. Durbin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLouis L’Amour meets H.P. Lovecraft in this thrilling western epic about a former Civil War soldier following enigmatic visions that started coming to him after he survived one of the war's bloodiest battles . . .Set in the 1880s, the story follows Ovid Vesper, a former Union soldier who has been having enigmatic visions after an explosion at the Battle of Antietam...Categorized as:
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