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Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 52 ratingsHarrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station.She answered the Emperor's call.She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.In victory, her world has turned to ash... -
![We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the First Season by K.C. Wayland]()
We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the First Season by K.C. Wayland
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis exciting audio drama is based on an immensely popular podcast that has received hundreds of positive reviews and has had over four million downloads--and counting. For Army Reserve soldier Michael Cross, the world as he knows it ends in an instant. One minute he's in college, and the next rioters are roaming the highway around him, breaking into cars and literally tearing people apart... -
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Epilogue by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings...Categorized as:
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![The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe]()
The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second installment of the Devoured Worlds trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counter-revolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet... -
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![The Savage Night by P.T. Hylton, Jonathan Benecke]()
The Savage Night by P.T. Hylton, Jonathan Benecke
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNight is coming for Alex. Danger from the vampires below. Turmoil in the city above. Nowhere is safe and every day is a battle. As Alex struggles to become the leader her team needs, she must contend with new allies and old enemies to have any chance of saving the city she loves. Nothing the Ground Mission Team has faced so far can prepare them for what's next... -
![The Endless King by Dave Rudden]()
The Endless King by Dave Rudden
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe final book in the award-winning Knights of the Borrowed Dark trilogy, perfect for fans of Skulduggery Pleasant.'You have no idea what real war is . . . but I'm afraid you're going to find out.'There's nothing like an apocalypse to kick off the school year.Denizen Hardwick has travelled to Daybreak, the ancestral home of the Order of the Borrowed Dark, to continue his training as a knight... -
![Still of Night by Jonathan Maberry]()
Still of Night by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dead rose. We fell. But not everyone thinks the war for survival is over. Heroes rise in times of crisis, and STILL OF NIGHT tells their stories… DAHLIA -a bullied high school girl with a love for edged weapons goes from victim to powerful leader as the zombie apocalypse sweeps through her world... -
![Broken Sky: #03 by Chris Wooding]()
Broken Sky: #03 by Chris Wooding
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKia and Ryushi are trapped in a realm beyond their comprehension. All they can rely on is their courage and trust in one another. As danger mounts they must stay strong, for in their young hands lies the fate of the world...Categorized as:
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![Shatter Me. Le novelle vol. 2 by Tahereh Mafi]()
Shatter Me. Le novelle vol. 2 by Tahereh Mafi
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLe esplosive rivelazioni di Defy Me hanno lasciato i lettori sconvolti e alla disperata ricerca di risposte. Grazie alla novella Reveal Me, avranno l’opportunità di tornare nell’universo di Shatter Me e di scoprire attraverso la voce di Kenji cos’è accaduto tra lui e Nazeera prima dell’incredibile finale di Imagine Me... -
![Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate The Magic of Reading & Writing YA by Emily X.R. Pan, Nova Ren Suma]()
Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate The Magic of Reading & Writing YA by Emily X.R. Pan, Nova Ren Suma
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThirteen Short Stories from Bold New YA Voices & Writing Advice from YA IconsCreated by New York Times bestselling authors Emily X. R. Pan and Nova Ren Suma, Foreshadow is so much more than a short story collection...Categorized as:
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![The Murk by Robert Lettrick]()
The Murk by Robert Lettrick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the Okefenokee Swamp grows a rare and beautiful flower with a power unlike any other. Many have tried to claim it-no one has come out alive. But fourteen-year-old Piper Canfield is desperate, and this flower may be her only chance to keep a promise she made a long time ago.Accompanied by her little brother, Creeper, her friend Tad, and two local guides, Piper embarks on the quest of a lifetime... -
![The Fire Sisters: Brilliant Darkness, Book 3 by A.G. Henley]()
The Fire Sisters: Brilliant Darkness, Book 3 by A.G. Henley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsComing September 25, 2015! Read the final book in the bestselling Brilliant Darkness series.Fennel and Peree are finally together and safe from the Scourge in the protected village of Koolkuna. But on the day of their partnering ceremony the children of the village are stolen away—Fenn’s loyal companion, Kora, among them... -
![Lake Ephemeral by Anya Allyn]()
Lake Ephemeral by Anya Allyn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSix children without memories of their early years can never leave the valley that gave them life.Seven manors surround Lake Ephemeral, and their residents are hiding terrifying secrets. Seraphin Ferón was first brought to the valley of Lake Ephemeral as an eleven-year-old orphan, to meet a mother she’d never known she had... -
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Deadland: Untold Stories of Alice in Deadland by Mainak Dhar
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe latest thriller in the bestselling Alice in Deadland series. In the Amazon.com bestselling Alice in Deadland series, we meet a fifteen-year-old girl called Alice living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland ravaged by undead Biters. Alice follows a bunny-eared Biter down a hole, triggering an adventure that forever changes her life and that of everyone in the Deadland...Categorized as:
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![Collapse by Mark Lukens]()
Collapse by Mark Lukens
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt started with rumors of a plague that turned people into flesh-eating predators. The governments of the world and the media tried to suppress it, but little by little the truth got out. The economy had been in a free-fall, banks closed, protests turned into riots, people began hoarding and panicking. And then on a Friday morning, the collapse came... -
![Hunting The Snark by Mainak Dhar]()
Hunting The Snark by Mainak Dhar
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA thrilling new adventure in the bestselling Alice in Deadland series.It has now been close to two years since Alice followed a bunny eared Biter down a hole, triggering off events that changed her life and that of everyone in the Deadland.The Central Committee has been overthrown in Shanghai and the people of the Mainland freed from its tyranny...Categorized as:
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![The Last She by H.J. Nelson]()
The Last She by H.J. Nelson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAra . . . I made a mistake, we all did . . . go back to the beginning . . . it’s not too late.As the only female to survive the devastating virus, Ara hasn’t seen another human in months―not since her father disappeared. The plague has swept away humanity, and Ara’s world is desolate, haunted by the ghosts of her former life. Her mother. Her sister... -
![System Overclocked 3 by Randi Darren]()
System Overclocked 3 by Randi Darren
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWrench is a Fixer.Someone born to maintain, fix, and correct any and every issue that could go wrong in the Habitat that he lives in. To make sure he and his fellow humans can remain on display and entertain their owners as any good human pet would.Or at least, that’s what he was born to be... -
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Rebirth by Keary Taylor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne week ago I thought I knew exactly how I was going to spend the rest of my life: looking at the gray walls of a prison cell. Figuring out how to survive the apocalypse wasn’t something I’d planned for. Yet here I was, getting a second chance at the end of the world.Rebirth is the 10,000 word prequel to the novel Eden... -
![Drsný spasitel by Miroslav Žamboch]()
Drsný spasitel by Miroslav Žamboch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStoletí válek mezi lidmi a bytostmi z Druhé strany reality změnilo svět. Možná je to jen zvláštní muž bez paměti, možná démon, netvor s okem nadaným vlastní zlověstnou inteligencí, který hledá odpověď na otázku, kdo vlastně je... -
![Dead South by Zach Bohannon]()
Dead South by Zach Bohannon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe dead can't bury the truth...Three years after an incurable virus spread and turned a majority of the population into mindless and cannibalistic creatures, the world is a barren place. Society is broken, and most who remain have banded together in small camps and communities.Jon South is not like most other survivors... -
![Hunters of the Lost City by Kali Wallace]()
Hunters of the Lost City by Kali Wallace
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsPacked with shocking twists, frightening monsters, and dark magic, this is a page-turning fantasy adventure for middle-grade fans of Holly Black and Tamora Pierce.Twelve-year-old Octavia grew up believing the town of Vittoria was the only one left in the world...Categorized as:
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![L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 by David Farland, Anne McCaffrey]()
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 by David Farland, Anne McCaffrey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou are about to meet: YOUR NEXT FAVORITE AUTHOR. The 33rd edition of Writers of the Future may be the best new book yet! Brand-new adventure through space, time and possibility. Along the way new authors will introduce you to fascinating characters... -
![Writers of the Future Volume 31 by L. Ron Hubbard, Kevin A. Anderson]()
Writers of the Future Volume 31 by L. Ron Hubbard, Kevin A. Anderson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe future is here…the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field... -
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![Vampire Uprising by Marcus Pelegrimas]()
Vampire Uprising by Marcus Pelegrimas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Pelegrimas has done the impossible—come up with a fresh and exciting twist on vampire lore.”—Ed Gorman, New York Times bestselling co-author of Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: City of Night“Twilight fans hungering for more vampire/werewolf drama can look forward to Skinners... -
![Fibble: The Fourth Circle of Heck by Dale E. Basye]()
Fibble: The Fourth Circle of Heck by Dale E. Basye
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith more dark humor and zany silliness, Dale E. Basye returns to Heck for his most over-the-top (the Big Top, that is) adventure yet.When Marlo Fauster claims she has switched souls with her brother, she gets sent straight to Fibble, the circle of Heck reserved for liars. But it's true—Milton and Marlo have switched places, and Marlo finds herself trapped in Milton's gross, gangly body... -
![Rise of the Undead by Shane Carrow]()
Rise of the Undead by Shane Carrow
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew Year's Day: midsummer in Australia. In Perth, twin brothers Aaron and Matt have graduated high school and are enjoying their last few months of summer holidays before adulthood - while on the other side of the country, something has fallen from the sky, heralding the dawn of a new age... -
![The Last to Fall by Glynn James]()
The Last to Fall by Glynn James
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1926 Joseph Dean was just getting ready to hang himself when the man named Joshua stepped into his cafe and changed his life.He made Joe an offer - one that would mean travelling through the door to another world to find something that had been lost for nearly two hundred years.Joe would discover a lot more than that in the years that followed... -
![Snivel: The Fifth Circle of Heck by Dale E. Basye]()
Snivel: The Fifth Circle of Heck by Dale E. Basye
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDale E. Basye sends Milton and Marlo to Snivel, the circle reserved for crybabies, for their latest hilarious escapade in Heck. Snivel is a camp—a bummer camp—a dismal place where it's always raining, and Unhappy Campers are besieged by swarms of strange mosquitoes that suck the color right out of them. Soon the Fausters discover that some Unhappy Campers have been disappearing... -
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Chasm by Stephen Laws
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the ordinary town of Edmonville a tremor hits, followed by a second devastating tremor, then darkness. The next morning, the survivors discover that most of the town has disappeared into an enormous crevasse.As they struggle to survive, one by one people start to disappear without trace... -
![The Warrior by Joseph Delaney]()
The Warrior by Joseph Delaney
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter everything Leif has been through in Arena 13, it’s finally time for him to fulfil his destiny and accompany his father’s people beyond the barrier that imprisons all mankind.Meanwhile, Kwin, the girl he loves, is making waves in the arena as the first woman ever to grace its fighting floor... -
![The Queen of Sinister by Mark Chadbourn]()
The Queen of Sinister by Mark Chadbourn
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe plague came without warning. Nothing could stop its progress: notmedicines, not prayer. The first sign of the disease is black spotsat the base of the fingers; an agonising death quickly follows. Butthis is no ordinary disease .. -
![Tentacles and Teeth by Ariele Sieling]()
Tentacles and Teeth by Ariele Sieling
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe apocalypse wasn't what anyone expected--no rising flood waters, no zombies, no nuclear bombs. Instead, monsters. Their sudden invasion left the world in shatters, and now, decades later, all that's left of human civilization are a few nomadic bands struggling to survive off the land. Askari was born to this world, and lives, fights, and survives alongside the community that raised her...Categorized as:
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![To the End of the World by José Ignacio Valenzuela]()
To the End of the World by José Ignacio Valenzuela
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA captivating story bound to leave you breathless from internationally acclaimed author Jose Ignacio Valenzuela. When Angela receives an eerie text message from her estranged, best-friend Patricia, her heart stops. Something is off and Angela knows it... -
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![Meridian Six by Jaye Wells]()
Meridian Six by Jaye Wells
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMeridian Six remembers the days before the Troika enslaved humans. She also remembers her mother, a freedom fighter murdered in the final battle between humans and vampires. But it is her mother's final words that have haunted her: Red means life.In the years since her mother's death, she has been used as both a propaganda tool and a blood slave by the Troika...Categorized as:
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![Lord of the Trees by Philip José Farmer]()
Lord of the Trees by Philip José Farmer
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeath will come to me as to every man. But until that moment I will live as if I were the strongest of all living thingsHe is James Cloamby, Viscount Grandrith. The one and only. The white monkey of the jungle. Slayer of wild beasts and righter of wrongs. Last of the wild men. Lord of the trees. Pristine spirit of darkest Africa... -
![The Narrowing Path by David J. Normoyle]()
The Narrowing Path by David J. Normoyle
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOut of over a hundred teenage boys, only six will be found worthy by the leaders of the great families; the rest will perish, one way or another.Not only is thirteen-year-old Bowe Bellanger younger and weaker than the rest, he has no family to support him. He is expected to die on the very first day of the Narrowing Path... -
![أرض زيكولا by عمرو عبدالحميد]()
أرض زيكولا by عمرو عبدالحميد
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsهل جرّبت أن تتعامل بعملة مختلفة عن العملات الورقية .. ليست معدنية وليست ذهبية ...الثروة هنا من نوع آخر ... لن تدفع مالاً لتأخذ ..بل ستدفع من ذكائك ..ستدفع من وحدات عقلك... ولكن انتبه فـ للثروة حدود ...فهنا المفلس لا يعامل باحتقار أو يُهان كما يحدث في عالمك .. بل يتعرض للموت .. احذر .. فأنت . -
![Outbreak by Mark Clodi, Mike Keleman]()
Outbreak by Mark Clodi, Mike Keleman
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt was the start of another ordinary day at the office for Max, he was emailing a friend when one of his other early morning co-workers called for his help, someone was having a heart attack. Rushing to the aid of his fallen co-worker Max knew one thing, it wasn't a heart attack. Heart attack victims didn't bleed and didn't start chewing on anyone they could catch either... -
![Hell on Mars by J.Z. Foster, Justin M. Woodward]()
Hell on Mars by J.Z. Foster, Justin M. Woodward
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Sci-fi Space HorrorSomething went wrong in the Mars Felicity Station. A gate to another reality was opened, and a mysterious alien plague threatens humanity.After communications with the station are cut, the crew of the Perihelion is sent to find out what happened. Outmatched and unprepared, they’re forced to make war on this new enemy and rescue what remains of the survivors... -
![Typhoon by Wesley Chu]()
Typhoon by Wesley Chu
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this white-knuckled and high-stakes thriller, set in the expansive world of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead series, three different people in China—a rural farmer, an urban military veteran, and an American student—are caught in the typhoon of undead as chaos sweeps over the most populous country in Asia... -
![Rifts by Kevin Siembieda]()
Rifts by Kevin Siembieda
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRifts is a multi-genre role-playing game that captures the elements of magic and the supernatural along with science fiction and high technology. It spans countless dimensions making anything and everything possible...Categorized as:
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![The Shadow Stone by Richard Baker]()
The Shadow Stone by Richard Baker
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAccosted by bullies on a forest trail, Aeron had no way of knowing that the confrontation would change his life forever. Accused of a crime for which he bears no blame, he is pursued deep into the forests of the Maerchwood...Categorized as:
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![Bestial by William D. Carl]()
Bestial by William D. Carl
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeneath the dim light of a full moon, the population of Cincinnati mutates into huge, snarling monsters that devour everyone they see, acting upon their most base and bestial desires. Planes fall from the sky. Highways are clogged with abandoned cars, and buildings explode and topple. The city burns... -
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![Armageddon House by Michael Griffin]()
Armageddon House by Michael Griffin
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUtopia. Four people living together deep underground in a subterranean facility. All their needs provided for. Food, water, medicine. A swimming pool; a gym; a bar. Except none of them can recall exactly how they came to be there, or what they are supposed to do. Dystopia. Where are the others? There must have been others. It's a huge facility, after all. It must be some sort of experiment... -
![The Sunset Warrior by Eric Van Lustbader]()
The Sunset Warrior by Eric Van Lustbader
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsRonin called no man master.He was the finest swordsman of the Freehold, as sharp and deadly as his blade. Yet as the ancient city faltered, Ronin alone refused to pledge himself to any of the powerful Saardin who ruled the crumbling underground world of levels.But now dark magic was loose in the world... -
![Vagabonds of Gor by John Norman]()
Vagabonds of Gor by John Norman
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the continental war matters proceed apace, to the advantage of Cos. Cabot, and his friend, Marcus, of Ar's Station, who have been spying for Ar in the Cosian encampments, now seek the long-inert forces of Ar, to report acquired intelligence to their commander, Saphronicus, who proves to be of the treasonous party of Ar. Cabot and Marcus are placed under arrest, as spies... -
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![The Atomic Sea: Volume One by Jack Conner]()
The Atomic Sea: Volume One by Jack Conner
Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsEpic adventure in a strange world by bestselling author Jack Conner. A thousand years ago, the sea began to change, and the change spread. Now the boiling, toxic, lightning-wreathed Atomic Sea has encompassed every ocean on the planet, and the creatures that live in it have become mutated and unnatural...Categorized as:
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![The Hollow People by Brian Keaney]()
The Hollow People by Brian Keaney
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn the island of Tarnagar is an asylum where you can be locked up for dreaming. Dante works in the kitchen and Bea is the privileged daughter of doctors. When their worlds collide, they are forced to confront the extraordinary evil lurking behind Dr Sigmundus, the ruler of their nation...
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