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Mariana by Susanna Kearsley
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the winner of the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, this mesmerizing, suspenseful, and richly atmospheric tale of time travel draws us into the heart of a heroine we won't soon forget...The first time Julia Beckett saw Greywethers she was only five, but she knew that it was her house. And now that she’s at last become its owner, she suspects that she was drawn there for a reason...Categorized as:
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The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsSet 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... -
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I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsRobert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn...Categorized as:
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The Goblin Reservation by Clifford D. Simak
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFirst-class entertainment (The Sunday Times) from a classic SF author. En route to an interplanetary research mission, a scientist is abducted by a strange, shadowy race of aliens and taken to a previously uncharted planet, a storehouse of information that would be invaluable--even to an Earth so advanced that time travel allows goblins, dinosaurs, even Shakespeare to coexist...Categorized as:
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![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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In the Walls of Eryx (Fantasy and Horror Classics): With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis early work by H. P. Lovecraft was originally published in 1939. Born in 1890 in Rhode Island, USA, Lovecraft began writing at a very young age, quickly developing a deep and abiding interest in science...Categorized as:
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The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsGeneral Matsika's children steal out of the house on a forbidden adventure--and disappear. In Zimbabwe, in the year 2194, the children's parents call in Africa's most unusual detectives--the Ear, the Eye and the Arm--who have powers far beyond those of other human beings... -
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The Eye in the Pyramid by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIt was a deadly mistake. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. Now his offices have been bombed, he's missing, and the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise New York detective...Categorized as:
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Timekeeper by Alexandra Monir
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen Philip Walker appears as a new student in Michele Windsor's high school class, she is floored. He is the love she thought she lost forever when they said goodbye during her time travels last century. Overjoyed that they can resume the relationship they had a lifetime ago, Michele eagerly approaches him and discovers the unthinkable: he doesn't remember her...Categorized as:
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Others See Us by William Sleator
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen an accidental dunking in toxic waste gives sixteen-year-old Jared the ability to read minds, he discovers horrifying secrets about family members during a summer reunion. Reprint. SLJ...Categorized as:
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Timeless by Alexandra Monir
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen tragedy strikes Michele Windsor's family, she is forced to move from Los Angeles to New York City to live with the wealthy, aristocratic grandparents she has never met...Categorized as:
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The Visitor by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIf someone told you Earth was under a silent attack, there's a good chance you'd think they were pretty strange. If that same person said Earth's only means of defense depends on the actions and powers of five kids, you'd probably start to look for a quick exit. Guess what? It's all true.Rachel and her friends knew they were in for some pretty strange stuff from the very beginning...Categorized as:
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The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe year is 1919.The McNaughton Corporation is the pinnacle of American industry. They built the guns that won the Great War before it even began. They built the airships that tie the world together. And, above all, they built Evesden-a shining metropolis, the best that the world has to offer.But something is rotten at the heart of the city... -
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The Explosionist by Jenny Davidson
Rated: 3.49 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Explosionist (formerly known as Dynamite No. 1) is the story of a 15-year-old girl growing up in an alternate version of 1930s Edinburgh. There, the legacy of Napoleon's victory a century earlier at Waterloo is a standoff between a totalitarian Federation of European States and a group of independent northern countries called the New Hanseatic League... -
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Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFor Jeff Johnston, a young historical researcher for a Civil War novelist, reality is redefined on a bitter cold night near the close of a lingering winter. He meets Annie, an intense and lovely young woman suffering from vivid, intense nightmares. Haunted by the dreamer and her unrelenting dreams, Jeff leads Annie on an emotional odyssey through the heartland of the Civil War in search of a cure... -
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The X-Files: Whirlwind by Charles L. Grant
Rated: 3.41 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsSerial killers come in all shapes and sizes, but this one is particularly puzzling.There's no pattern to the mutilated bodies that have been showing up in Albuquerque: both sexes, all races, ages, ethnic groups. There is no evidence of rape or ritual. Only one thing connects the victims. They were the victims of a natural disaster... -
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The X-Files: Goblins by Charles L. Grant
Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOpening the X-Files...Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI. The agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line.Their job: investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. The cases the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there... -
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Ronin by Frank Miller
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"His brutal yet elegant noir renderings, pulpy yet eloquent scripting, and thoroughly uncompromising attitude make [Frank Miller] one of the most distinctive voices in comics."-- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY RONIN is the acclaimed epic by Frank Miller, the visionary writer/artist of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, 300 and Sin City...Categorized as:
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Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1926. New York. The Roaring Twenties. Jazz. Flappers. Prohibition. Coal-powered cars. America is in the midst of a cold war with a British Empire that has only just buried Queen Victoria, her life artificially preserved to the age of 107...
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