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Sanctum by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWill Any Sanctuary Stand? With both the Naked Horde and the Survivor Army destroyed, Zed and Murphy make their preparations and head to College Station to do their small part in salvaging humanity’s future. But the post-virus world isn’t kind to humans or their plans and nothing they find on their journey is what they expected... -
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The End by Charlie Higson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe end is coming.The sickness struck everyone sixteen and older. First it twisted their minds; next it ravaged their bodies. Now the sickos—crazed and hungry for young flesh—are gathered in the center of London, lying in wait.It’s time for all of the survivors—kids spread out across the city—to unite... -
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The Hunted by Charlie Higson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Hunted is Charlie Higson's sixth terrifying installment in the thrilling The Enemy series. The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - Crazed and hungry The others had promised that the countryside would be safer than the city. They were wrong...Categorized as:
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![The Sacrifice by Charlie Higson]()
The Sacrifice by Charlie Higson
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe sickness destroyed everyone over the age of fourteen. All across London diseased adults are waiting, hungry predators with rotten flesh and ravaged minds.Small Sam and his unlikely ally, The Kid, have survived. They’re safe with Ed and his friends at the Tower of London, but Sam is desperate to find his sister.Their search for Ella means Sam and The Kid must cross the forbidden zone...Categorized as:
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![The Fear by Charlie Higson]()
The Fear by Charlie Higson
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe sickness struck everyone sixteen and over. Mothers and fathers, older brothers, sisters, and best friends. No one escaped its touch. And now children across London are being hunted by ferocious grown-ups who are hungry, bloodthirsty, and not giving up... -
![The Dead by Charlie Higson]()
The Dead by Charlie Higson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Dead is the second book in Charlie Higson's jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens.Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive. A terrible disease is striking everyone over the age of fourteen. Death walks the streets. Nowhere is safe... -
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The Fallen by Charlie Higson
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe Fallen by Charlie Higson is the fifth awesome book in The Enemy series. First the sickness rotted the adults' minds. Then their bodies. Now they stalk the streets, hunting human flesh. The Holloway crew are survivors. They've fought their way across London and made it to the Natural History Museum alive - just. But the fight will never end while the Enemy lives, unless there's another way.. -
![Rolling Thunder by Dirk Patton, Jeffrey Kafer]()
Rolling Thunder by Dirk Patton, Jeffrey Kafer
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the eagerly anticipated third installment of the high octane V Plague series the stakes are raised as millions of infected threaten John's escape plan. As the group fights to survive they begin encountering more of the smarter infected and other survivors that are taking full advantage of the chaos to prey on their fellow humans... -
![Well Fed by Keith C. Blackmore]()
Well Fed by Keith C. Blackmore
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWar pigs. Road savages. And the crumbling asphalt of the open highway. After nearly four years, the zombie epidemic has almost burnt itself out. Gus’s new life on a communal farm is peaceful. The daily routine of policing the fields is rarely disrupted by straying undead. His drinking binges are over. Long days have thrown time over the memories of Annapolis. But this will all change... -
![Are You Scared, Darth Vader? by Adam Rex]()
Are You Scared, Darth Vader? by Adam Rex
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's midnight and the moon is full, but Darth Vader isn't scared. OF COURSE I AM NOT SCARED. Nothing can scare Lord Vader! CORRECT. Not monsters or witches or ghosts, and especially not the dark. So what is Darth Vader scared of? Read on in Adam Rex's hilarious and spooky Star Wars tale to find out! YOU WILL LEARN NOTHING... -
![Escape From The Center Of The Earth by Greig Beck]()
Escape From The Center Of The Earth by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEscape from the Center of the Earth is the final edition of the blockbusting Center Earth trilogy, closing with a mind-bending climax.'Help me, it’s Ally. Please help me.'A ghostly, sobbing voice is detected from the depths of Russia’s Kola super deep borehole – 9 miles down. A Russian team is dispatched in a desperate rescue mission to find the woman... -
![Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry]()
Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn the gripping conclusion to the action-packed standard bearer (Booklist) of zombie series, the threat of death is given new life.Benny Imura and his friends have found the jet and Sanctuary, but neither is what they expected. Instead of a refuge, Sanctuary is a hospice, and the soldiers who flew the plane seem to be little more than bureaucrats who have given up hope for humanity's future...Categorized as:
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![Red Hammer by Dirk Patton]()
Red Hammer by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn old enemy rises, revealing plots within plots as the survivors struggle to reach safety and find the missing. Those infected by the virus are getting smarter and deadlier. As the world continues to crumble, some are lost while new dangers appear at every turn. In the most sweeping story so far in the Voodoo Plague series, Red Hammer ratchets up the danger and intensity... -
![Horde by Ann Aguirre]()
Horde by Ann Aguirre
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsThe epic conclusion to the USA Today bestselling trilogy.The horde is coming.Salvation is surrounded, monsters at the gates, and this time, they're not going away. When Deuce, Fade, Stalker and Tegan set out, the odds are against them. But the odds have been stacked against Deuce from the moment she was born. She might not be a Huntress anymore, but she doesn't run... -
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![Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith]()
Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsAfter their parents are lost in an accident, thirteen-year old twins Grace and Marty are whisked away to live with their Uncle Wolfe-an uncle that they didn't even know they had! The intimidating Uncle Wolfe is an anthropologist who has dedicated his life to finding cryptids, mysterious creatures believed to be long extinct...Categorized as:
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![Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry]()
Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsReeling from the tragic events of Dust & Decay, Benny Imura and his friends plunge deep into the zombie-infested wastelands of the great Rot & Ruin. Benny, Nix, Lilah and Chong journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America, searching for the jet they saw in the skies months ago. If that jet exists then humanity itself must have survived…somewhere...Categorized as:
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![Return to the Lost World by Greig Beck]()
Return to the Lost World by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt was true – it was all true – and we were never meant to be there. In December 2018, Ben Cartwright, former Special Forces soldier, and a team of naive explorers, followed the clues left by his ancestor to a hidden plateau in the middle of the Amazon jungle. It was said that once every 10 years, a secret pathway was revealed to a world long since gone... -
![Chupacabra by Roland Smith]()
Chupacabra by Roland Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMonsters of legend come to life! The third thrilling title in Roland Smith's popular Cryptid Hunters series.A mysterious creature, a missing girl, and danger at every turn . . .CHUPACABRA, the riveting sequel to TENTACLES and CRYPTID HUNTERS, reunites Marty and his unusual uncle, cryptozoologist Travis Wolfe, as they search the world for Wolfe's daughter, Grace...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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Outpost by Ann Aguirre
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsDeuce’s whole world has changed.Down below, she was considered an adult. Now, topside in a town called Salvation, she’s a brat in need of training in the eyes of the townsfolk. She doesn't fit in with the other girls: Deuce only knows how to fight.To make matters worse, her Hunter partner, Fade, keeps Deuce at a distance... -
![Sarazen's Fury by Isabel Wroth]()
Sarazen's Fury by Isabel Wroth
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings-YOU ARE NOT ALONE. With Tarek away on a hunting trip, and T’mai gone off to round up more of the uncovered conspirators, Brennaugh is the only one qualified to provide assistance when an entire squadron of his best men go missing on S4. Four days. He should have only been gone for four days. He gave his word. -PLEASE DON’T LET GO... -
![Sludgment Day by John Kloepfer, Steve Wolfhard]()
Sludgment Day by John Kloepfer, Steve Wolfhard
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe maul of America!It’s been two days since a zombie virus turned Zack Clarke’s parents, neighbors, and most of the country into brain-munching fiends... -
![Mist City by Sam Sisavath]()
Mist City by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA new storyline... A new hero... Same deadly universe... A SHOOTER WITHOUT A TARGET. The man who calls himself John Smith once had a reason to fight: He was committed to a crusade he was willing to kill and die for. Trained by one of the best gunmen alive, Smith’s natural instincts with a handgun were honed to almost perfection... -
![Aftermath by Devon C. Ford]()
Aftermath by Devon C. Ford
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe undead horde can’t be stopped. Only contained. The virus has spread from the shores of England to the rest of Europe... -
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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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![Cost of Survival by Walt Browning, Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Cost of Survival by Walt Browning, Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFear does not stop death. It stops life. John Eric Carver and Shrek have fought their way through a viral apocalypse and into the aftermath. Working with fifty other survivors in the remote mountains outside of San Diego, they have created a community safe from the monsters called Variants... -
![Ultimate Attack by Michael P. Spradlin]()
Ultimate Attack by Michael P. Spradlin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe action-packed series by Michael P. Spradlin returns. Each book covers a genetically engineered superpredator wreacking havoc on the environment. It's all come to this. Dr. Catalyst has had enough of Emmet Doyle's meddling... -
![The Feral Children: Animals by David A. Simpson, Wesley R. Norris]()
The Feral Children: Animals by David A. Simpson, Wesley R. Norris
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe bears were hungry and the panther was pacing her cage. It was supposed to be a fun field trip to the wild animal safari. It became a nightmare of blood. The zombie virus spread like wildfire and by noon, they were alone. Safe inside the fences, a group of school kids are the only survivors. Like the animals, they’ve lived their whole lives being cared for and fed, pampered and loved... -
![The Seaquel by Mo O'Hara]()
The Seaquel by Mo O'Hara
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Tom's big brother decides to become an Evil Scientist, his first experiment involves dunking Frankie the goldfish into toxic green gunk. Tom knows that there is only one thing to do: Zap the fish with a battery and bring him back to life! But there's something weird about the new Frankie. He's now a BIG FAT ZOMBIE GOLDFISH with hypnotic powers . . -
![The Devil's Shallows by Debra Castaneda]()
The Devil's Shallows by Debra Castaneda
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEight miles of mystery. One night of terror.Residents trapped in a remote neighborhood confront the unimaginable in this horror novel from award-winning author Debra Castaneda.The salt marsh at Devil’s Landing is home to a terrifying urban legend.Adam Gray knows the old stories about the Slough Devil, the missing children, and the mutilated animals... -
![Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton]()
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 85 ratingsAn astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . -
![The Forsaken by Erica Stevens]()
The Forsaken by Erica Stevens
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 13 ratings***Note*** This book is the third compilation of a serial story and therefore does not have a conclusion. This is not a survivalist story.New friendships will be forged, answers will be found, and lives will be lost as the survivors journey deeper into unfamiliar and treacherous areas... -
![Rising from the Depths by Tiffany Roberts]()
Rising from the Depths by Tiffany Roberts
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTwo years after a bloody battle nearly tore his people apart, Kronus finds himself plagued with guilt and without a place to truly call home. And when he saves a blue-eyed human from a razorback, his world is once again turned upside-down. Though he once opposed relations with her kind, he is undeniably drawn to Eva’s pain, loss, and inner strength... -
![Heart of the Deep by Tiffany Roberts]()
Heart of the Deep by Tiffany Roberts
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHIS HUNTRESS AND HIS HEART Larkin has spent almost a year hunting the monstrous kraken in the hope that they knew the whereabouts of her missing brother. Her efforts finally come to fruition when she and the other rangers capture three of the beasts — but the reality is nothing like the stories they’ve been told, and the kraken are not the monsters she expected... -
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![The Enemy by Charlie Higson]()
The Enemy by Charlie Higson
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsCharlie Higson's The Enemy is the first in a jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive. When the sickness came, every parent, police officer, politician - every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry... -
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Tentacles by Roland Smith
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMarty and Grace are living with their Uncle Wolfe, a scientist fascinated by cryptids - creatures that appear in myths but haven't been proven to exist. The twins join Wolfe on a journey, on a huge (and possibly haunted) ship, in search of a rare giant squid... -
![The Void by Greig Beck]()
The Void by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSomething has traveled for a billion years to find us - and now it has. In space, Commander Mitch Granger and his crew are nearing the end of their scientific mission - along with their covert satellite photography for the military. As they prepare for reentry, an unknown object emerges from the void; the name given to deep, dark space. The object proves impossible to evade... -
![Behemoth Island by Jake Bible]()
Behemoth Island by Jake Bible
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRunning from the world, their ship crippled, their supplies dangerously low, Team Grendel follow Ballantine’s lead to a promised paradise. A place where they can hide and regroup, rest and plan the next step in their lives. If only life were so simple...Categorized as:
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![Out of This World by Douglas E. Richards]()
Out of This World by Douglas E. Richards
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe latest from Douglas E. Richards, New York Times bestselling author of WIRED, its sequel AMPED, and THE CURE, Out of This World is a wildly entertaining science fiction/fantasy adventure for kids and adults alike. Ages 9 to adultTo save their parents they will have to travel to unknown worlds. Too bad the natives on each world all seem to want them dead . . -
![Abominable by Alan Nayes]()
Abominable by Alan Nayes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA mysterious unidentifiable object is discovered buried deep in an isolated glacier in Alaska’s rugged Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is composed of materials unknown to science and the mystery only deepens when the large unidentified object is determined to be twenty-eight thousand years old. Who left it there so many thousands of years ago? Why? Dr... -
![Rise of the Dead by Jeremy Dyson, John R. Crosthwaite]()
Rise of the Dead by Jeremy Dyson, John R. Crosthwaite
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBlake was never one for taking chances. He lived in a world of statistics and probabilities where everything could be controlled. That world disappeared the day the dead got up and began attacking the living. Now he must struggle to survive and to make sense of a new and chaotic world that is quickly spiraling out of control... -
![Outage Super Boxed Set: Books 1-5 Plus Epilogue by T.W. Piperbrook]()
Outage Super Boxed Set: Books 1-5 Plus Epilogue by T.W. Piperbrook
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFOR A LIMITED TIME, SAVE 50% OFF BUYING THE BOOKS INDIVIDUALLY! OVER 500 5-STAR REVIEWS ACROSS THE SERIES! ____________________________________________ Contains: *Outage *Outage 2: The Awakening *Outage 3: Vengeance *Outage 4: The Reckoning *Outage 5: The Change *EPILOGUE STORY Control ABOUT OUTAGE:When an early snow ravages the small town of Plainfield, the residents are stripped of heat,... -
![Megalodon: Bloodbath by Michael R. Cole]()
Megalodon: Bloodbath by Michael R. Cole
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA series of bizarre occurrences suddenly plague the island of Cielo Nublado. A dead whale washes ashore riddled with enormous bite marks. A fishing charter is reported missing, jet skiers vanish, and a yacht is found mysteriously ravaged after some kind of enormous impact.Chief of Police Nico Medrano tries to investigate the matter... -
![Jim's First Day by Joseph Zuko]()
Jim's First Day by Joseph Zuko
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn a day like any other, Jim Blackmore finds himself at ground zero of the zombie apocalypse. He is forced to run a blood-soaked gauntlet through a city overrun by an insurmountable horde of the dead in a desperate attempt to reach his wife and two small children. As he fights to get home he discovers that the living are just as dangerous as the dead... -
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![Blood is Red by Scott Sigler]()
Blood is Red by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA collection of eight horror stories created by New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler, author of Infected, Contagious and Ancestor. This eBook-only title features seven tales from Scott's six years of free audiobook podcasts, including the Parsec Award-winning "Red Man," plus the brand-new novella "Hunter Hunterson & Sons... -
![Flux by Jeremy Robinson]()
Flux by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor Owen McCoy, a typical day on the job as head of security for Synergy, a research company conducting mysterious experiments, is boring at best. And that's the way he likes it. Patrolling the Appalachian mountainside, where his now deceased father taught him how to hunt, is relaxing and connects him to the past.But today is not a typical day on the job... -
![Material Witness by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter]()
Material Witness by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHere 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... -
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Deep, Dark by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis chilling short story is the prequel to The Dragon Factory, the second installment in Maberry's action-packed Joe Ledger novels.Before Baltimore cop Joe Ledger goes up against two competing groups of geneticists looking to continue the master-race program in The Dragon Factory, he must battle another foe using human test subjects for his sinister plans... -
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Absolution by Jeff Olah
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmazon Bestselling Post-Apocalyptic Series The End of the World was Only the Beginning. What would YOU do? In Book 8 (ABSOLUTION), the longest installment of the series, our group of survivors are lost.Reeling from the sudden demise of one of their own, and attempting to put a stop to the destruction wrought by Marcus Goodwin, Mason must avoid becoming a victim himself...Categorized as:
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![Mountain Man by Keith C. Blackmore]()
Mountain Man by Keith C. Blackmore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAugustus Berry lives a day-to-day existence comprised of waking up, getting drunk, and preparing for the inevitable day when “they” will come up the side of his mountain and penetrate his fortress. Living on the outskirts of a city and scavenging for whatever supplies remain after civilization died two years ago, Gus knows that every time he goes down into undead suburbia could be his last...
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