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The Twilight Journals by Stephenie Meyer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Twilight Journals set includes four gorgeous journals packaged in a collectible keepsake tin, inspired by Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn... -
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The Unnamed Way by Ian W. Sainsbury
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe 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... -
![Dark Light by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz]()
Dark Light by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsReporter Sierra McIntyre's stories on Crystal City's ghost hunters—and their mysterious guild—have earned her tabloid a bit of respect. It helps that she has her incredible intuition to fall back on. Especially when she interviews Ghost Hunter Guild Boss John Fontana about the disappearances of retired, homeless hunters...Categorized as:
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![The Empathetic Life of Rebecca Wright by Shawn Inmon]()
The Empathetic Life of Rebecca Wright by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the outside, Rebecca Wright had an enviable life, and she enjoyed that envy. She had a beautiful house, handsome husband, and a no-limit credit card. What she didn't have was empathy. But, it's never too late in Middle Falls. A lesson that isn't learned in one lifetime can be learned in the next, or the next. Rebecca may need every chance she can get... -
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![First Steps by David Burke]()
First Steps by David Burke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBoredom was killing Jay, not in a dramatic way but in the life of stifled potential way. He wanted more out of life.Then without any warning he found himself part of an experiment without so much as the courtesy of a how do you do... -
![Second Chance by Heather Brewer, Z Brewer]()
Second Chance by Heather Brewer, Z Brewer
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCompanion to the New York Times bestselling series The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod...It’s time for him to prove himself as a Slayer. A killer is on the loose in New York City, but the Slayer Society knows that this isn’t any normal predator…This is something supernatural.Now Joss McMillan must use all of his strength and skill to save the innocent people of New York... -
![The Kill by L.J. Smith]()
The Kill by L.J. Smith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe bestselling author of The Vampire Diaries now completes her terrifying romantic horror trilogy. Before disappearing into the Shadow World, Julian takes Jenny Thornton's boyfriend and cousin. To get them back, she must go on a treasure hunt. To lose means paying the devil himself. Consumer sweepstakes... -
![The Unholy Deception by L.A. Marzulli]()
The Unholy Deception by L.A. Marzulli
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratings'The Cadre' claims to have Christ's body preserved and hidden in an ancient tomb.For journalist Art 'Mac' Mackenzie, the scenario smacks of an alien agenda. He determines to unearth the truth at any cost. But the Cadre doesn't surrender its secrets easily... -
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Strangers by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsSix strangers are unaccountably seized by nightmares, attacks of fear, and bouts of uncharacteristic behavior. The six begin to seek each other out as puzzling photographs and messages arrive, indicating that the cause may lie in a forgotten weekend stay at an isolated Nevada motel. Koontz has topped a fine roster of horror and suspense novels with an almost unbearably suspenseful page-turner... -
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Mystify the Magician by Katherine Applegate
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.Christopher, Jalil, April, David, and Senna thought they’d seen it all. Especially after “visiting” Neptune’s watery world and then ultimately finding themselves in Atlantis... -
![Do You Realize? by Kevin A. Kuhn]()
Do You Realize? by Kevin A. Kuhn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGeorge is a middle-management, middle-class, middle-aged guy who hates his job and struggles to stay connected to his wife and teenage children. Most guys might end up with a steamy affair and a flashy car for their midlife crisis, but George gets a quirky, philosophical physics professor named Shiloh... -
![Salamanca by Dean Francis Alfar]()
Salamanca by Dean Francis Alfar
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDean Alfar's first novel is about the sorcery wrought by love, lust, and literature, by friendship, family, and the Filipino nation... -
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Arianna Rose: The Gathering by Jennifer Martucci, Christopher Martucci
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReeling from loss and the sudden appearance of her supernatural powers, Arianna Rose is drawn to a new town and sets about starting over.She quickly learns, however, that peace has no place in her life, and that the town she’s moved to is the center of an evil uprising so great, it it threatens the very fabric of her existence... -
![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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![Refuge Book 1- Night of the Blood Sky by Jeremy Bishop, Jeremy Robinson]()
Refuge Book 1- Night of the Blood Sky by Jeremy Bishop, Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRebecca Rule is the sheriff of Refuge, New Hampshire. Her biggest concern is the rowdy summertime revelers making their way up from Massachusetts and New York. With most of the town’s residents in neighboring Ashland, for the 4th of July fireworks show, Refuge is quiet. That is, until the Baptist Church’s bell starts ringing—on its own... -
![The Ice Limit by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child]()
The Ice Limit by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsBillionaire Palmer Lloyd is accustomed to getting what he wants--and what he wants for his new museum is the largest meteorite on earth. Unfortunately for Lloyd, it's buried on an inhospitable Chilean island just north of the Ice Limit in the most brutal, unforgiving seas in the world... -
![The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension by Earl Mac Rauch]()
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension by Earl Mac Rauch
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse." -- Buckaroo Banzai Buckaroo Banzai. A strange, elusive figure, his name whispered in barrooms and boardrooms, his advice sought by pashas and presidents, his exploits recounted in movies, novels, and comic books that seem somehow more real than life itself. Buckaroo Banzai... -
![Inside the Illusion by Katherine Applegate]()
Inside the Illusion by Katherine Applegate
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSenna. She is the reason David, Christopher, April, and Jalil even know about Everworld. She is the one who they've been chasing all over this strange parallel world to get some answers. To show them how to get home again. To get back to the real world. So now it's her turn to tell her side of the story. To explain why she dragged her friends into a world of winged horses and wizards...Categorized as:
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![The Siberian Incident by Greig Beck]()
The Siberian Incident by Greig Beck
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratings100,000 years ago the object hit the lake at the deepest point, quickly sinking into its mile-deep stygian darkness. The sheets of ice closed, time moved on, and the land forgot.But over the centuries, legends grew of people vanishing, of strange, deformed animals, and of an unexplained luminescence down in the lake depths... -
![Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization by Greg Keyes, Ната Гриценко]()
Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization by Greg Keyes, Ната Гриценко
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe official novelization of the summer blockbuster Godzilla: King of the Monsters , the latest film in the MonsterVerseTM franchise, starring Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, with Ken Watanabe and Ziyi Zhang... -
![The Change by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate]()
The Change by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTobias has pretty much gotten used to his life. He's a red-tailed hawk with the mind of a kid. It was weird when he first got trapped in morph. But now it's almost okay. After all, how many kids actually get the chance to fly?Now Tobias is about to make a very special choice. A choice that the other Animorphs and Ax know nothing about. And it could mean the difference between being a hawk. . -
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Gateway to the Gods by Katherine Applegate
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMost of us probably won't get the chance to travel to a parallel universe. Won't have the opportunity to encounter wizards, dragons, aliens, and mythological gods. But if what April, Jalil, David, and Christopher have had to experience is any indication of what another world might be like, perhaps not going there isn't such a bad thing...Categorized as:
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![Entertain the End by K.A. Applegate]()
Entertain the End by K.A. Applegate
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.April, David, Christopher, and Jalil have come to the end of the line. Senna, their only passage back to the real world, is gone. And she’s definitely not coming back... -
![Brave the Betrayal by Katherine Applegate]()
Brave the Betrayal by Katherine Applegate
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDavid, Christopher, Jalil and April have a new mission, to get to Egypt to seek out the person who may be able to help fulfill their promise to the Coo-Hatch. But first they need to get through the Hetwan lines surrounding Mount Olympus and survive the African savanna...Categorized as:
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![Understand the Unknown by Katherine Applegate]()
Understand the Unknown by Katherine Applegate
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.There are some things that you know you’ll never do. And though you may dream of riding a winged horse, or speaking to a dragon, you pretty much know it isn’t going to happen... -
![Discover the Destroyer by Katherine Applegate]()
Discover the Destroyer by Katherine Applegate
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThere is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.Senna. The one and only reason David, Christopher, April and Jalil find themselves in a place that is magical and terrifying and wonderful all at once...Categorized as:
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![Fear the Fantastic by Katherine Applegate]()
Fear the Fantastic by Katherine Applegate
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThere is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.No one knows what it’s like to be Christopher, David, April, Jalil, or even Senna. Living part of their lives in Everworld and the other in the real world...Categorized as:
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![Realm of the Reaper by Katherine Applegate]()
Realm of the Reaper by Katherine Applegate
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThere is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.Things have gotten way beyond weird. First April, Jalil, David, and Christopher end up in Everworld... -
![Realm of the Reaper by Katherine Applegate]()
Realm of the Reaper by Katherine Applegate
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThere is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.Things have gotten way beyond weird. First April, Jalil, David, and Christopher end up in Everworld... -
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Invasive Species by Joseph Wallace
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere can only be one dominant life form on Earth. In the remote African wilderness, a rainforest is dying. But something else has come to life: A newly evolved predator that has survived the depredations of mankind, only to emerge from its natural habitat faster, stronger, and deadlier than anything humanity has ever faced.And it is no longer man... -
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Deep Storm by Lincoln Child
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsTwelve-thousand feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean . . .scientists are excavating the most extraordinary undersea discovery ever made. But is it the greatest archaeological find in history—or the most terrifying?Former naval doctor Peter Crane is urgently summoned to a remote oil platform in the North Atlantic to help diagnose a bizarre medical condition spreading through the rig... -
![Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey by Jonathan Maberry, Hillary Huber]()
Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey by Jonathan Maberry, Hillary Huber
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first anthology of original short stories featuring the confluence of two iconic properties, as the Predators seek the ultimate prey: the Xenomorphs from AlienThe ultimate hunters, the Predators, are pitted against their ultimate prey, the Xenomorphs, with humans caught in the middle! Taking place on Earth and in distant space, these tales have been crafted by a who's who of today's most... -
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The Hollower by Mary SanGiovanni
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Hollower's sole purpose is to stalk, to torment and to drive its victims to their deaths. It can sense each victim's weaknesses, change its appearance and strike however it will hurt the most. Dave Kohler is about to fall prey to The Hollower... -
![Land of Loss by Katherine Applegate]()
Land of Loss by Katherine Applegate
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThere is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.David, Jalil, April, and Christopher have been pulled into a world that defies everything they once believed...Categorized as:
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![The Secret by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate]()
The Secret by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThere's something pretty weird going on in the woods behind Cassie's house. The place where Ax and Tobias call home. It seems the Yeerks have figured out one very important thing: Andalites cannot survive without a feeding ground. Visser Three knows the "Andalite bandits" don't feed where he does, so there can only be one other place... -
![Warrior: Monster Slayer by Sam Ryder]()
Warrior: Monster Slayer by Sam Ryder
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSlay monsters. Bed goddesses. Level up.Rule the world.Sam Ryder's life already sucks and it's about to get worse when he's fired from his dead-end job as a programmer. He's about to head home to escape into his favorite RPG, Alien Civilization, when he's offered a thrill-ride on a death machine (AKA motorcycle) by a gorgeous woman straight out of one of his games... -
![Interlopers by Alan Dean Foster]()
Interlopers by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUpset stomachs. The collapse of civilizations. Nervous breakdowns. Blame them on a twist of fate, but archaeologist Cody Westcott knows differently. Something is causing these random acts of badness. Something ancient, something evil, something...hungry. We are not alone, but we're about to wish we were... -
![Genesis Code by Eliza Green]()
Genesis Code by Eliza Green
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA hunter seeking revenge. An alien dying to stop him. Could a government conspiracy put them both six feet under?Investigator Bill Taggart will stop at nothing to find his missing wife. But standing between him and the truth is a secretive alien species on a distant planet... -
![White Space by Ilsa J. Bick]()
White Space by Ilsa J. Bick
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the tradition of Memento and Inception comes a thrilling and scary young adult novel about blurred reality where characters in a story find that a deadly and horrifying world exists in the space between the written lines...
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